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Hong Song
Fanfair
Hong Song
Hong Song
When Hei-Kyung Hong floated into the garret in La Boheme last season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, she was a poet's dream. The silvertoned Korean soprano is not a typical sofa-size singer holding Mimi's tearstained muff with fat little fingers. She is fragile, alabaster-skinned. beautiful. As Despina this month at the Met, Hong mothballs the flowermaker's outfits to dispense coffee and advice to Fiordiligi and Dorabella in Mozart's Cost Fan Tutte. Those two featherheads may not always pay attention, but we will.
MANUELA HOELTERHOFF
