"If Sunday's stellar recital by soprano Leah Crocetto has a moral, it might be that it's never too late to begin.The appearance by Crocetto, a lavishly gifted Adler Fellow who is getting her career under way at age 30, gave new meaning to the title of the Schwabacher Debut Recitals series. This was, as San Francisco Opera Center chief Sheri Greenawald pointed out, a true debut - the singer's first recital of any kind.There was evidence of that fact here and there, as well as a hint that Crocetto's large and dramatically purposed voice may be better suited to the operatic stage than to the close-fitting confines of the recital. But there was no mistaking the presence of a profound and still burgeoning vocal gift, as well as a degree of artistic canniness that should stand her in good stead.Crocetto's program, accompanied in Temple Emanu-El's Martin Meyer Sanctuary by pianist Mark Morash, was both demanding and unconventional, including some out-of-the-way repertoire, a new work written for the occasion by a friend, and a concluding set of Gershwin and Porter standards."
A singer to watch. The setlist was indeed strange. The Liszt piece--"Three Sonnets by Petrarch"--I have never even heard of; I'll have to track down a recording of his songs.
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