SINGER X IN Y RECITAL

After Metropolitan Opera soprano Deborah Voigt cancelled her performance with the Y Music Society (which presents only one singer each season on its Carnegie Music Hall recital series) untested soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian filled in to take her place. The 25-year-old Canadian “is much in the news, in fact, as she will make her New York operatic debut this week in a concert version of Herold’s rarely-heard ‘Zampa.'” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette