I liked the "good parts" in Antonio Nagore's vocally wildly inconsistent
Calaf at the SFO "Turandot" on Wednesday, and appreciated the fact that
he *looked* pretty good in this dramatically impossibly stupid role.
Compared with what Calaf has to do, even the not-so-bright Tamino looks
like a semi-viable hero.

So I started thinking about a contest for the title of D'oh!  The brothers
(or Barak himself?) in "Frau" are definitely in the running.  Alfredo?
Lohengrin?  Who's the Gomer Pyle of opera (and I don't mean necessarily
with Jim Nabors' voice)?

Janos Gereben/SF
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