In a 2008 interview he said that he considered Don Giovanni his "calling card" role.
He now considers Don Giovanni his calling-card role, having performed it to acclaim in Vienna, San Francisco and elsewhere.
Faris turned down the lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in "Just Friends," a bounce-card role ultimately played by Amy Smart, to take the part of Samantha James.
Greg Davis, tucked into a corner with a modular synthesizer and a laptop computer, filled a wild-card role David Tudor played in the premiere.
For some years now Mr. Kwiecien has been treating Mozart's Don Giovanni as his calling card role with international houses, including the Metropolitan Opera.
A hearty young Polish baritone and a terrific actor, Mr. Kwiecien, who considers Don Giovanni his calling-card role, was scheduled to sing it for the first time at the Met in this production.
Dawn Upshaw will sing Margarita Xirgu, one of her calling-card roles, in Osvaldo Golijov's "Ainadamar".
Next week he will be at Covent Garden performing one of his calling-card roles: the tragic clown Canio in Ruggiero Leoncavallo's indestructible shocker I Pagliacci.
Ms. Damrau, who has made Zerbinetta one of her calling-card roles, easily navigated the coloratura hurdles, trilling, embellishing and ascending the daunting heights with flexibility.
Having neatly bypassed the provinces, Ms. Borodina has spent the better part of the last decade purveying these calling-card roles to major operatic meccas, including the Met, Covent Garden, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Bastille, the San Francisco Opera and the Salzburg Festival.
Faris calls such parts "the girl," or "bounce-card roles," after the reflective sheet that softens the light around an actor, because the whole job is to giggle, simper, and coo.
