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CURRENT ISSUE

January 2009
vol 73, no. 7
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THE SEVENTH ANNUAL DIVA ISSUE: LEONIE RYSANEK
Great Expectations: The Recording Industry's New Divas
The Bewitching Art of Patricia Brooks
The Swallow Returns: La Rondine at the Met
Reunion: Leona Mitchell
Sound Bites: Angela Meade
The Best CDs and DVDs of the Year

Unforgettable

For more than four decades, Leonie Rysanek was one of opera's true international stars, with admirers all over the world — but no audience loved her more than her fans at the Metropolitan Opera. IRA SIFF remembers the great soprano's incandescent spell.

The Sound of Silence

Until illness brought a premature end to her career, Patricia Brooks was one of the wonders of the New York City Opera roster. HOWARD KISSEL pays tribute to the remarkable art of a great American singer.

Puccini Without Tears

This season, the Metropolitan Opera is presenting La Rondine for the first time in more than seventy years. JAMES C. WHITSON looks at the unusual history of Puccini's bittersweet romance — the closest thing the composer ever wrote to an operetta.

Solo Strategy

In the glory days of the classical recording industry, rising divas were often introduced to the public with lavishly produced solo albums. A few lucky singers are still promoted that way, but in the present market's tight-budget atmosphere, some artists have become more involved in creating their own opportunities to be heard. WILLIAM V. MADISON listens in.