For any of the mortals interpret even any of the traviata notes is entirely unimaginable. That ability is only available to a few who, based on a few essays and a lot of virtuosity, make one of Verdi’s masterpieces a gift for the ears. Although, yes, sometimes those essays do not occur and one has to put on the skin of Violetta Valéry, learn the lyrics, the movements and, ultimately, the entire opera In just seven hours. And that is precisely what happened to Soprano Zaragozana Sabina Puértolas this Sunday in one of the most important squares in the country: the Real Theater.
It was any Sunday, when this soprano, from Farlete de Corazón, born in Zaragoza and raised in Tafalla, received a call at the precise moment in which she was making her suitcase to go to New York with her husband. The Soprano Holder, Nadine Sierra, had been forced to cancel her pass for Sunday when she felt indisposed and needed another Violetta Valéry. “The Real Theater is my house, I feel a huge love every time I go there, I know workers, technicians, makeup artists … Whenever they need me I will be there,” says Puértolas.
At 12.00 he entered through the door of the Royal Theater and, then, the countdown began. At 19.30 there was one more pass from this Traviata with the scenic direction of Willy Decker that culminates this Wednesday after 18 functions with great public success in the Real. “I made a little musical with the assistant of the orchestra director. Then they put me on stage and tried the movements a bit. At 16.30 I could eat a little because it is true that I had been with a coffee in my body all day, I followed a little scenic trials, which we lacked the last act and then, at half past five, they started putting on makeup. While they made me up I saw a little on you entire production to set the movements and then I already left, “Sabina recalls still excited.
And it is not for less, because that unexpected performance resulted in an eternal ovation (almost three minutes) that stood up to the entire royal theater, workers included and that made Sabina Puértolas could only excite himself unable to do that bis that the public asked for. “When they applauded me at the end of the Aria then I knew for the press and for the criticism that a bis had asked me but I did not find out. My mind was completely blank. That feeling of having come there … I was, and I think I continue to be, completely exhausted.
Without too much time to think at this time and still “a little in shock”, Puértolas took that Violetta Valéry with which he already debuted in 2001. “It was not the first time that I did a jumping of this type. It also touched me in the Covent Garden with Rigoletto who warned me at the last moment and I took a plane at six in the morning. There is a video of mine. Ovation of the public because I am I don’t believe it, “he says.
This opportunity came to him when he had been at home for a few days. After two months in Trieste with Rigoletto, the soprano was in Oviedo doing Marina. “Everything is coincidences and it has been something that I will never forget. It has been incredible and I felt super wrapped and accompanied by the team, I never were alone,” he ends.
