Cast members of Mr. Schenk’s staging of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” during a dress rehearsal at the Met in 2009. Credit Ruby Washington/The New York Times.
Cast members of Mr. Schenk’s staging of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” during a dress rehearsal at the Met in 2009. Credit Ruby Washington/The New York Times.
Legend persists that the opera diva ruined her own voice for the sake of vanity and café society. But what she really sacrificed herself to was the music.
By Will Crutchfield
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Legend persists that the opera diva ruined her own voice for the sake of vanity and café society. But what she really sacrificed herself to was the music.
By Will Crutchfield
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...