Big singer back on song

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Big singer back on song

http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/big-singer-back-on-song/2006/07/10/1152383648779.html

Before and after ... Deborah Voigt. Photos: Termine and AP

July 10, 2006 - 9:57AM

A soprano fired by the Royal Opera House in London because of her weight has been rehired after undergoing stomach surgery and losing 61 kg - the equivalent of two Kylie Minogues.

Deborah Voigt, one of the world's top opera singers, lost her part in Strauss' Ariadne on Naxos in 2004 because the Royal Opera House decided a slimmer singer would be better.

She now has a contract to return to the role in the 2007-2008 season, a Royal Opera spokeswoman said, although the house does not officially announce its casts so far in advance.

"She's very, very excited," said her spokesman Albert Imperato, in New York.

"She's just definitely felt like, 'I've not had a chance to really build my career in London, it's a major opera capital.' It was very sad for her that she didn't get a chance to do Ariadne originally."

Voigt had been scheduled to play the lead in the Royal Opera House's summer 2004 production of Ariadne on Naxos, but the casting director had selected a black evening dress for the part and believed Voigt would not look right in it, the opera house said at the time.

Voigt had gastric bypass surgery in June 2004. When she disclosed it the following March, she said she had worn size 30 clothes at her heaviest and her goal was a size 12.

Imperato said he did not know how much she had weighed before the surgery, but that she had lost 61 kg since.

"She had decided on doing this procedure completely based on her health concerns, it was something she had thought about for many, many years, long before the little black dress," he said.

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I posted this on Monday; it has just shown up this morning. That is weird, what did the CIA want with it all that time? Thanks for sending thru eventually guys.

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