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We were delighted to see Virginia Opera given appropriate credit for helping the career of Renee Fleming at the crucial moment when she said giving up entirely was "only months away. Although no one else was offering her roles, we offered her three roles in quick succession: Frasquita; Belle, the female lead in Thea Musgrave's A Christmas Carol--both in 1986--and her very first Pamina in 1988. All three at the very beginning of her stunning and well-deserved career! Houston's surprise breakthrough ...