Deborah Voigt - Recordings

Recordings

Voigt has made a number of recordings which include two solo compact discs. She is on the live recording of the Vienna State Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde for Deutsche Grammophon (2003). In a 2001 interview with Associated Press, however, Voigt expressed that she was unlucky with recording because of unexpected cancellations and postponements. The opportunities of cooperation with high profile musicians could have made her a major prima donna more quickly. She had a chance to work with Luciano Pavarotti in a televised production of Verdi's La forza del destino in 1997. However, the performance did not take place since Pavarotti did not master his role. Later the same year, Voigt was cast to sing for a new recording of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde under the direction of Sir Georg Solti. Before it proceeded, Solti suddenly died of a heart attack.

In April, 2001, The Metropolitan Opera intended to broadcast a taping of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos in which Voigt sang the title role. However, it was put off until 2003, for co-star Natalie Dessay. She felt frustration over the fact that every recording plan for Ariadne had been delayed or stopped for five years until late 2001. Finally, Voigt presented her Ariadne in a 2001 recording released by Deutsche Grammophon in which Natalie Dessay, Anne Sofie von Otter and Ben Heppner co-starred. Although Giuseppe Sinopoli, who directed the recording, suddenly died of a heart attack in April 2001, the recording was finished before his death. Voigt said that if he had not participated in the project, she doubts she could have ever recorded Ariadne. In the end, her long struggle paid off and turned out to have a bright side since the album was mentioned as one of the "Top Classical Recordings of 2001" according to the New York Times.