By MIKE SILVERMAN [AP, 8 April 2006]
NEW YORK — This will go down as the season Metropolitan Opera audiences fell in love with Anna Netrebko.
The Russian soprano, with voice and acting ability to match her raven-haired beauty, is currently romping through the company’s first production in a quarter-century of Donizetti’s sometimes-frothy, sometimes-poignant comic opera “Don Pasquale.”