The Saturday audience at the Met for L'Elisir d’Amore (and radio listeners) had an unexpected treat when Juan Diego Flórez encored his rapturously received Una furtiva lagrima (complete with bonus high notes).
The Met whipped out a detailed press release so quickly one might almost imagine the whole thing was planned in advance to ginger up the 20 year old production on its final outing (a new production is in the works for next season). From this we learn that JDF also gave the last Met encore, in 2008.
Fortunately some miscreant had a recording device to hand, so we can watch as well as listen to both iterations.
