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For a number of years in the 1970s '80s, Joan Ingpen was one of the most influential figures on the American opera scene. As artistic administrative director and assistant manager at the Metropolitan Opera, she was a kind of one-woman central casting office, widely acknowledged as one of the most astute voice experts in the world. Today, living in low-key retirement in the British seaside town of Brighton, the eighty-nine-year-old Ingpen retains most of the faculties for which she was once famed: in the words of one former colleague, "She had an acuity, a hard-edged diamond brain." Now, though she occasionally attends opera, she is more likely to visit the theater; new ...