Delos Diary

In a serious world, a bit of press trivia is always refreshing.
Yesterday's paper posted an item from London… FLASH!
Deborah Voigt, great soprano star of the Met, has had her appearances with London's Royal Opera cancelled because she is too fat — 200 pounds plus — to sustain the illusion the director of a new production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos envisaged.
Obviously his concept of a svelte model-slender Ariadne is at odds with Voight's ample persona. Strangely enough, nobody at the Met seems to mind. In fact this very role has been one of her greatest successes in N.Y. Perhaps Met subscribers simply close their eyes and listen.
We are proud to announce that here at Delos we have no "fat" singers on the roster. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marina Domashenko, and Olga Guryakova all boast well-maintained, reasonably slender bodies. Even the great Ewa Podles', while not exactly thin, presents a very attractive figure onstage.
Buying Delos vocal recordings, therefore, means that you are not only getting great music and great singing, but also encouraging good hygiene. That's just about enough frivolity for the day.