29 Oct 2007

One Voice for Innocence and Experience

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/music/28midg.html?ref=music

By ANNE MIDGETTE [NY Times, 28 October 2007]

PAMINA is soft, gentle and lovely; the Queen of the Night is angular, cold and brilliant. Yet the German soprano Diana Damrau is to sing both of these roles, the female leads in Mozart’s “Zauberflöte,” at the Metropolitan Opera within two months.