![]() “I think I have a future at playing villains, because I relished in her frustration - because I knew the payoff,” he joked. That’s because he was planning the proposal, Howard said. When the family got to San Francisco, Perez said Howard was acting strange, withdrawing from conversation and spending a lot of time on his phone. ![]() “I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, I need them here on the fifth, trust me,'” Howard laughed. He told ABC News he and Perez had been arranging for their families to see the show, but she wanted hers to come to an earlier performance, as Sunday was the final night of the run. Howard sang Angelotti, a role that kicks the plot into action. The San Francisco Examiner described Perez’s role debut as “meltingly beautiful.” It already would have been a momentous night for Perez: on top of opening San Francisco Opera’s season live and in-person since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered theater doors, Perez was singing the titular role of the Puccini masterpiece for the first time. Howard stood and picked her up in a twirling embrace. ![]() ![]() The audience roared as he got down on one knee, video from KQED’s Gabe Meline shows, and Perez jumped up and down before kissing him. She was “awestruck,” she said, and “it was one of those moments where my soul was just paying all attention to what he was saying.” “I didn’t have a clue about what was going on,” Perez told ABC News, adding that she thought Howard was just walking up to give her a hug. Howard asked Perez to marry him “in front of God, in front of my sisters and cousins, and most importantly in front of your mom and dad,” according to San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook. This time, though, they were tears of joy for a real-life couple.ĭuring curtain call at San Francisco Opera, bass Soloman Howard proposed to soprano Ailyn Perez to raucous cheers from the crowd. It’s not unusual for “Tosca” to end in tears.
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