The latest issue of Opera News heralds the return of Kathleen Battle, that supernaturally gifted American soprano who raised the fine art of singing into the ether in the '70s and '80s.

With dazzling technique, crystalline plush voice, and radiant stage presence, Battle embodied all true aspects of the perfect lyric soprano. She was a wiz at Mozart, Handel, Rossini, Donizetti; as Sophie, she flew over Strauss's Rosenkavalier as if on wings.

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