Tenor Freddie de Tommaso, who at 28 became an overnight sensation nearly two years ago after stepping in for a star who had taken ill, is so in demand that he sometimes has to turn down roles.
This image released by the Santa Fe Opera shows British tenor Freddie de Tommaso as Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini's"Tosca'' at the Santa Fe Opera on Aug. 12, 2023. The opera was Puccini’s “Tosca,” and the tenor was then-28-year-old Freddie de Tommaso, jumping in at London’s Royal Opera House when the scheduled singer withdrew after Act 1 because of illness.
“So many people thought I was like an understudy or somebody they found walking down the street whistling ‘Tosca,’ and that wasn’t the case,” he recalled. In fact, he had been part of the second cast and was already scheduled to perform the role three nights later. “My first impression of his voice was that it was a robust but rough-hewn diamond of a baritone voice with a surprisingly easy top for one so young,” Wildman said. “He looked like a singer: big broad shoulders, barrel-chested, together with a very strong physique and a voice that matched.”
“So I kind of made a trifle of singers,” de Tommaso said, a joking reference to the traditional English dessert in which a chef embellishes sponge cake with whatever ingredients he likes, from fruit to jelly to custard to cream. And after his Met debut, he’ll be a frequent return visitor to the New York house. Peter Gelb, the company’s general manager, called him “part of a new wave of powerhouse tenors ... that we hope will become Met mainstays of the future.”
But sparingly. “These little bits of flesh, they can only take so much punishment for so long,” he said pointing to his vocal cords. “And if you’re singing the most dramatic parts like Otello, you can’t keep it up forever. I would quite like to sing until I’m 55 or 60.”
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