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Article: Bravo, Battle!(soprano Kathleen Battle)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Now fifty, soprano Kathleen Battle is sailing calmer seas, and though she has not been seen on an American operatic stage since 1994, she maintains a busy concert and recording schedule.
"Kathleen Battle seems to be the kind of singer who can do no wrong." That's what this reviewer wrote after a stunning Julius Caesar at New York's Metropolitan Opera House nearly ten years ago. And I would still stand by that statement for Battle's voice; it is a flawless instrument, with a sweetness and purity that have served the music of Bach and Mozart beautifully. Unfortunately, as she ascended the musical Olympus, Battle left in her wake a swarm of reports that, as a person, ...