Jagde’s expressive voice beautifully complements Racette’s soprano and Luisotti’s lyrical orchestra. Tenor Brian Jagde is perfect as Pinkerton, Cio-Cio San’s jilting lover. (Did Puccini’s tenors have lunch breaks written into their contracts?) His wedding-night duet with Racette, “Viene la sera,” is a thing of beauty, and he projects just the right cocky charisma in Pinkerton’s “Yankee vagabond” song, “Dovunque al mondo,” to rationalize Cio-Cio-San falling for his blarney.” “Brian Jagde offers the same frustration as his most recent SFO performance as Cavaradossi: a tenor who unleashes a gorgeous Domingoesque lirico spinto and then proceeds to disappear. belatedly realizing the pain he has caused, Pinkerton bids a poignant farewell to his past happiness here in the aria, “Addio fiorito asil,” robustly sung by Brian Jagde.ī– James Roy MacBean There ensues Puccini’s famous love duet, sung beautifully here by Patricia Racette and Brian Jagde. When he sings of Butterfly’s beauty and grace, he seems genuinely captivated by his delicate wisp of a geisha girl. But Jagde’s boyish good looks and his robust, ringing tenor have great appeal. Think of GIs in Vietnam or US sailors carousing with teenage bar girls in the prostitution dens surrounding the US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines. “Brian Jagde portrays Pinkerton in this opening scene as a typically brash young American serviceman insensitive to the foreign culture in which he finds himself. The magical duet that ends the first act was a revelation, the voices soaring and blending in what is as much a depiction of the act of love to come as Wagner’s famed similar scene in “Tristan.” But, can the boy act? Well, he manages to make Pinkerton seem both shallow and sincere at the same time. Good tenors are hard to come by and, with his strong, true voice and good looks, this one looks to have a major career ahead of him. Racette was in good company, with Brian Jagde providing a full-throated, tall and handsome Pinkerton.
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His full lyric tenor stems from his training with San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and Adler Fellows.”
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But for the trusting Butterfly – who gives up family, social acceptance and sheds her religious convictions for the god of her husband – Jagde is the ideal package.
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His character, of course, is the ultimate cad, the definition of the Ugly American. “Tenor Brian Jagde is simply a dream come true as “Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton”. “Jagde has emerged as first rate Puccini tenor, possessing the spinto weight expected of Pinkerton or a Cavaradossi as well as the lyrical beauty to do justice to Puccini’s richly melodic score.” Tenor Brian Jagde is simply a dream come true as “Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton”.