Deborah Voigt to Become a Pistol-Packin’ Annie
“Deborah Voigt, a leading dramatic soprano known for portraying Strauss and Wagner heroines, will be packing heat next summer in the title role of Irving Berlin’s ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival.”
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Deborah Voigt tames wild west in San Francisco Opera’s Fanciulla! “Winning” Minnie portrayal is hit as soprano adds important new role to repertoire, impressing critics with “radiant voice,” “theatrical vibrancy,” and “sensitivity to detail.”
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Diva Deborah Voigt helps celebrate centenary of Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West, making her title role debut this June in San Francisco before winter productions in New York and Chicago. America’s top dramatic soprano recently stole show as Wagner’s Senta at Metropolitan Opera, bringing “steely power and lyrical elegance” (New York Times) to The Flying Dutchman. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt gives house debut performance as Senta in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer beginning April 23 at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. While in New York, Voigt will host The Met: Live in HD broadcast of new production of Rossini’s Armida (Saturday, May 1). [ read more ]
Diva Deborah Voigt embodies operatic heroines far and wide in coming months, from Isolde in Barcelona and Ariadne in Zurich, to Senta in New York and Minnie in San Francisco. America’s top dramatic soprano makes her Zurich Opera debut singing Strauss next month, before returning to Met in April to star in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt joins an all-star line-up of presenters for Fifth Annual Opera News Awards Gala; Soprano has won in the past and now returns to present the award to Martina Arroyo. Presenters include mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, soprano Danielle de Niese, Tony Award-winning actress and singer Audra McDonald, and singer-songwriter Paul Simon. The 2009 Opera News Awards will take place at Gotham Hall in New York City on Thursday, November 19. [ read more ]
Lyric Opera opens season with glowing Tosca. “... Voigt brought both passion and restraint to her Floria Tosca, underlining her character’s flirtatiousness and jealousy in her scenes with Galouzine, and repulsion and horror when confronted by Morris. ...” — Associated Press, September 27, 2009 [ read article ]
Deborah Voigt’s Tosca at Lyric Opera of Chicago, opening September 26, tops John von Rhein’s list in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE of 10 must-see events for fall 2009.
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As Puccini Heroines Tosca and Girl of the Golden West, Diva Deborah Voigt Opens Chicago’s Opera Season and Closes San Francisco’s. America’s foremost dramatic soprano returns to the Metropolitan Opera in Strauss’s Elektra as Chrysothemis and in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman as Senta. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt Addresses University of South Carolina Graduates on Saturday, August 8. The renowned dramatic soprano will receive an honorary degree from USC, a Doctorate in Music (D.Mus.). [ read more ]
August 4, 2009: Veteran music critic Kyle MacMillan profiles Deborah Voigt in the Denver Post. Amongst the topics covered in his feature are the soprano’s future plans to sing Brünnhilde at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and her concert this week at the Aspen Music Music Festival. The complete feature can be read here: Reigning U.S. soprano Voigt debuts in Aspen.
Concert review: Soprano Voigt shines at Aspen festival
Rocky Mountain Diva: Now that Deborah Voigt is back in the U.S., it’s off to the cool of the Rocky Mountains, where she has engagements at the Aspen Music Festival (Aug 6) and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho (Aug 14 & 15). She makes her Aspen debut performing Wagner and Beethoven arias, and Strauss songs at the Festival’s 60th-anniversary concert on August 6 with David Zinman conducting. A week later she will perform with Idaho’s Sun Valley Summer Symphony, performing Wagner and Verdi on the 14th with conductor and music director Alasdair Neale, and narrating Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf for the Children’s Concert the following morning.
Deborah Voigt made her UK debut last week in an entirely new profession: Diva-journalist! Writing for London’s Guardian, Voigt considered the pros and cons of singing opera arias and roles on the concert stage vs. the opera stage. The article ran on Friday and can be viewed here: Concert v opera: a singer's view, The Guardian, June 12, 2009.
That night, Voigt received a standing ovation after she sang a program of opera arias at the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Deborah Voigt Spring 2009: Performance in Title Role of Gluck’s Rarely-Performed Alceste in Concert with New York’s Collegiate Chorale on May 26. Other upcoming engagements for star soprano include concerts in Reykjavik, Copenhagen, London, Berlin, and Paris; and Tours with Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, featuring signature Wagner and Strauss selections.
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Deborah Voigt’s Exclusive Interview with Budd Mishkin on NY-1’s Popular Interview Show, One On 1, Is Now Available on the Web:
One On 1: Opera Soprano Deborah Voigt
Interviewed during preparations for the Met Opera’s 125th Anniversary Gala – in which she sang parts of two operas she has not yet performed with her home company (Wagner’s Siegfried and Strauss’s Rosenkavalier) – Deborah Voigt talks informally with NY-1’s Budd Mishkin about her career and personal life. Voigt is also seen at a backstage costume fitting and working with voice students. Brief shots from several of her famous Met performances are shown, including Isolde, Helen in The Egyptian Helen, and the Met Gala Siegfried. She even gave NY-1 access to photos from her album, so there are photos of the young Debbie in an early stage show and with her family. [ story and video ]
Soprano Deborah Voigt sings excerpts from Wagner and Strauss roles she’s not yet sung in New York at the Met Opera’s 125th Anniversary Gala on March 15. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt Conquers Chicago: Her First Hometown Performance in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Is a “Triumph,” “Truly Remarkable,” “Incandescent.”
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Deborah Voigt, opera’s leading dramatic soprano, performs her first hometown Isolde, beginning January 27 at Lyric Opera of Chicago. These are Voigt’s first performances of this iconic Wagner role since singing it opposite five different Tristans at the Metropolitan Opera last March. [ read more ] [ reviews ]
Deborah Voigt’s Met Isolde listed in New York magazine’s Top Ten Classical Events of 2008. “Cold-and-flu season kept Ben Heppner as Tristan and Deborah Voigt as Isolde from singing together until the last performance in the Met’s run. But when the sneezing stopped, that night proved worth the wait. Both singers breathed and phrased in such miraculous sympathy that it almost seemed as if they had prepped together for a joint comeback.” [New York magazine, Top Ten Classical Events of 2008, December 7, 2008]
NEWSFLASH: Deborah Voigt's return to Covent Garden in June 2008 was selected as one of the great moments of the year in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of MORE magazine. And yes, that's Michelle Obama, our incoming First Lady, on the same page as Debbie (p. 124): both women who 'rocked the world' in 2008.
Deborah Voigt will sing traditional and popular holiday favorites in concert at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, December 16. Voigt’s first holiday concert in New York since 2003 is also first holiday concert she’s given at Carnegie Hall. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt jump-starts her new season on September 24 with her first American performance as Ponchielli’s ballad-singing La Gioconda, with her home company in New York City. Gioconda is Voigt’s 15th role at the Met, and one of seven major roles she will perform on three continents this season. 2008-09 will also feature her in a star turn at Carnegie Hall just in time for the holiday season and several recitals. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt opens 2008-09 Season at New York's Metropolitan Opera, singing title role in Ponchielli’s verismo tragedy La Gioconda; other Met Appearances include hosting international high-def simulcast of Strauss’s Salome, and gala celebrating company’s 125th Anniversary and Domingo’s 40th Met Season.
In December, Voigt gives Orange County duo-concert with great American songstress Barbara Cook and headlines her own holiday concert at Carnegie Hall.
Chicago audiences to experience Voigt’s first hometown Isoldes at Lyric Opera beginning January 27. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt reigns over London as Ariadne at the Royal Opera House and makes international headlines. [ read more ]
Deborah Voigt’s Isolde performances in Metropolitan Opera’s star-crossed revival of Wagner’s Tristan hit high note over weekend. The current run of the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde has already been one for the history books. The performances, which feature Deborah Voigt in her Met role debut as Isolde, have been plagued by illness and scenery malfunction, but the production miraculously came together on Saturday when opera lovers heard and saw Ms. Voigt and her latest Tristan, Robert Dean Smith – the third Tristan in four performances, following Ben Heppner’s original withdrawal from the production shortly before opening night – soar to the rarefied heights demanded by this famously taxing masterpiece. [ more ]
Read New York Times article (3.24.08)
Read New York Times review (3.30.08)
Deborah Voigt with Susan Graham at the Opera News Awards, January 2008. [ more photos ]
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Voigt's Most Taxing Role Yet
Joel Lobenthal, New York Sun, March 10, 2008
On March 10th Deborah Voigt makes “her Metropolitan Opera debut as Wagner’s torturously sublimated and then cataclysmically released romantic heroine [Isolde]. This is only Ms. Voigt’s second time singing the role. ...
“Ms. Voigt said that it is, perhaps above all, the length of the heroic Wagnerian roles that makes them so daunting, so taxing, so treacherous to try too early in a career. ‘It takes a long time for singers to learn how to pace themselves,’ she said. Yet Wagner supplies dynamic peaks and valleys that make it possible. ‘We have our idea in our heads that it’s a huge orchestra and you have to scream, scream, scream, scream, scream. And that’s really not the case. There are many moments of lyricism.’” [ read full article ]
Deborah Voigt gives her company debut as Wagner’s Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera, March 10. Voigt also returns to Carnegie Hall in March for performances of Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Barber’s Andromache’s Farewell with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. [ more ]
