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Singing Actress
Between 1994 and 2013, Natalie Dessay was one of the most magnetic artists on the Met stage. Throwing herself wholly into every role she played, the fearless French soprano always saw herself as more than just a singer.
By Christopher Browner
Growing up, Natalie Dessay didn’t aspire to be an opera singer. “I consider myself more of an actress.
Natalie dessay opera singer
I wanted to become an actress when I was very young, but opera chose me,” she once reflected. “In some ways, it was easier for me to go on stage with my singing voice than to be only an actress.” It is fitting, then, that the French soprano’s performances were marked not only by her stratospheric high notes and pitch-perfect ornamentation, but also by her commitment to complete characterizations.
Whether portraying the tragic heroine of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor or the spitfire comedienne Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Dessay always used her vocal perfo