Interview: Deborah Voigt

Opera star Deborah Voigt’s lauded singing career has been marked by personal heartbreak as well as alcohol and food addictions.

By Cheryl Pearl Sucher In Classical

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7th July, 2012

Interview

If you have viewed the trailer for the upcoming Metropolitan Opera Live HD season, you will have seen leading American dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt portraying one of her favourite roles – Minnie in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. Dressed in a long white nightgown and with blonde tresses flowing, Voigt ecstatically reaches for snowflakes falling from the sky, and the sky is indeed the limit for this amazing performer. She is in the midst of rehearsing and performing two of the four operas comprising Richard Wagner’s epic Ring des Niebelungen when we speak before what ...

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