Jim Beckerman
Might as well ask how many girls Mozart's Don Giovanni has in his little black book. "I couldn't tell you how many," says Amara, soprano emeritus at the Metropolitan Opera, and artistic director of New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera in Fort Lee.
Rather than enumerate them, as Mozart does in his famous "catalog aria," it might be easier just to name them.
"Well listen, I had to have 'Aida,' 'Tosca,' 'Forza,' " she says, thinking. "Also 'Trovatore,' 'Marriage of Figaro,' 'Così Fan Tutte,' 'Pagliacci,' 'Cavelleria Rusticana,' 'Butterfly'..."
