16 May 2006

Delectable talent elevates this elixir

http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-secfirst4742578may16,0,6558420.story

BY MARION LIGNANA ROSENBERG [Newsday, 16 May 2006]

Remember this name: Giuseppe Filianoti. The Italian tenor's Metropolitan Opera debut last fall in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" whipped up more genuine, word-of-mouth excitement than any of the season's more ballyhooed events.