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Maria Guleghina is speaking in don't-mess-with-me Russian--but not to me, on the other end of the phone. She must have been saying something along the lines of "Settle down! I've got to do this interview!" for she returns to flexible English to explain, "My family is here--they're too loud. But now we can talk."
This easy manner was not what I expected from the diva who reduced the audience thronging Lincoln Center Plaza to chilled silence during the Metropolitan Opera's 2002 closing-night video relay of Tosca. That was a high-profile evening, since it was widely thought to be the final Met appearance of Luciano Pavarotti's career, and it turned out to be the ...