Music: Hot Properties

Hot Properties

The opera world has a scorching hot star on its hands: Anna Netrebko, the 35-year-old soprano from Russia. Her face is plastered on every street corner of every opera capital. She is adored and panted after. Two summers ago, she created a sensation in Verdi’s Traviata at the Salzburg Festival. The next summer, they auctioned off the red couch on which she had reclined. That, my friends, is stardom.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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The opera world has a scorching hot star on its hands: Anna Netrebko, the 35-year-old soprano from Russia. Her face is plastered on every street corner of every opera capital. She is adored and panted after. Two summers ago, she created a sensation in Verdi’s Traviata at the Salzburg Festival. The next summer, they auctioned off the red couch on which she had reclined. That, my friends, is stardom.