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It was a firing heard 'round the world.(The Week)(Deborah Voigt)(Brief Article)
* It was a firing heard 'round the world. The Royal Opera at Covent Garden gave Deborah Voigt the heave-ho on grounds that she was too fat. Who is Deborah Voigt? The great American soprano who is perhaps the finest Strauss singer in the world. From what role was she fired? That of the Prima Donna in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos--this is a role she owns. But the casting director, Peter Katona, wanted his soprano in a slinky cocktail dress, and that is not the amply proportioned Miss Voigt (who is a beauty, in her own way). Debbie, ...
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