Deborah Voigt's new problem: now that she looks the part, the soprano sounds troublingly tentative and colorless in Tosca.

New York | May 8, 2006| | Copyright

IF IT'S NOT too indelicate a way to put it, Deborah Voigt is now about as big as an opera star can get these days, one who can sing pretty much what she pleases in the world's leading houses. Her opulent, dramatic soprano was first admired in the operas of Richard Strauss, but she has hardly neglected the Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini repertory where the need is great and the competition slim. For a while, her weight problems seemed to garner as much publicity as her singing, but all that is in the past thanks to gastric-bypass surgery (surely a dangerous medical procedure for a ...

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