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Although she's enjoyed a fruitful relationship with San Francisco Opera for years, many Americans first encountered Anna Netrebko in February 2002, when the raven-haired Russian soprano made her Met debut as Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace. Few in the audience will forget her intimate, ultimately heartbreaking waltz duets with Dmitri Hvorostovsky's equally glamorous Prince Andrei. It was an experience operagoers crave--the awed feeling of being in the right place at just the right time. It happened again two months later: when Netrebko launched into a sublimely voiced "O! quante volte" in Opera Company of Philadelphia's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, the Academy of Music ...