19 Nov 2005

The Star It Was Made For Returns to Opera at the Met

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/arts/music/19dess.html

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI [NY Times, 19 November 2005]

The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" opened on Monday without the star for whom it was created: the French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay, who was to sing Juliette but was sidelined with a bad cold.