That's not to say that there haven't been less-than-divine moments.

“I got a call in New York for a performance in San Francisco. The woman who was supposed to sing fell ill, so I came out, but I had no rehearsal on stage. My first entrance was fine, and as I went to leave the stage, I had to walk out of a door. When I stepped out, the light was very bright and I thought I was stepping out onto a landing. It was a stair and I fell, which was fine — that can happen, but I said, ‘oh, expletive.’ Part of the opera house heard and started giggling like mad. That was pretty bad.

“When I made my debut in Vienna, I was doing a role where I was playing a prima donna. My dressing room was upstairs on the stage, and to get down there was a little spiral staircase. I had this great mammoth dressing gown on with a big, long train. So, I come down the stairs and hear this giggling from the audience, and I thought, ‘What the hell was that?’ What had happened was that when I came downstairs, my dress stayed behind my upstairs. I didn't pull the train with me, so I flashed the entire left corner of the Vienna State Theater. That was pretty horrifying. But you learn — you only do that once.”

Voigt's 2005-06 schedule alone includes opera, concert and recital dates in Berlin, Barcelona, Dresden, Boston, Sante Fe, Valencia, Moscow, New York, Vienna, Minneapolis, Lucerne, Japan and Fullerton — she recently performed the inagural concert for the new Performing Arts Center. Backed and accompanied by the University Orchestra and Titan alumni and student performers, Voigt sang Broadway show tunes and arias, to the delight of the sold-out, black-tie audience.   continue »