Publicist confirms soprano’s surgery
Deborah Voigt, the opera soprano who was fired from a London production last year for being overweight, underwent gastric bypass surgery, her publicist confirms.
Voigt, 44, reportedly had the surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York last June, months after she was fired from a production of Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” at Covent Garden in London because she could not fit into the costume for the title character.
She resumed performing seven weeks after the operation and has received positive reviews of her singing since then. She has lost about 100 pounds.
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