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A New Voice.(mezzo-soprano Jan Curtis deals with stroke to return to singing)

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| October 01, 2001 | CHIN, WAYMAN | COPYRIGHT 2001 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

From the time she began her career, in Boston in the late 1960s, mezzo-soprano Jan Curtis was considered an artist of deep communicative power, with a voice of dark, lustrous beauty. Curtis's work in opera was particularly impressive, and her appearances with major companies throughout the country displayed that rare gift for turning it on vocally and dramatically in equal measure. Whatever the role -- Prince Orlofsky, Carmen, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, the Marquise of Berkenfield in La Fille du Regiment -- Curtis was always captivating. There seemed to be nothing she couldn't handle.

But life isn't art. While in her late thirties, as she was scoring a ...

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