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Her brilliant career: Deborah Voigt returns to the Met this season as Cassandre in the company's new Les Troyens. She may well be the most important dramatic soprano to come along in years--but is opera stardom everything she fantasized it would be? (Cover Story).(Cover Story)

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Deborah Voigt is doing her best to give the impression that she has nerves of steel. It is March 2002, and she is backstage in her dressing room at Avery Fisher Hall. In one hour she will step onstage and sing a concert of excerpts from Tristan und Isolde with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, yet this is the time that she's chosen to give an interview. Obviously, she doesn't suffer from performance anxiety to any great extent, and she admits that she can't quite understand people who do. "I never had nerve problems that were really paralyzing," she says. "I think that's so uninteresting. It would be so much more interesting if I said I was retching over this in ...

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