Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak has enough vocal beauty and charisma on-stage to be called a superstar. Critics have praised not just the resplendence of her coloratura voice but her accuracy and dramatic skills. She commands a technique that allows her to negotiate the challenging tessitura of Mozart's "Come scoglio" and has the flexibility and delicacy to render Donizetti's "Regnava nel silenzio" with melting beauty. By her early thirties, she had appeared at most of the major opera houses, including the Met, Covent Garden, Vienna State, La Scala, and many others. Kurzak has sung ...