For Olga Peretyatko, the past year has seen a dizzying series of debuts that have thrust the 33-year-old Russian soprano into sudden prominence. [...] she's in New York to face critics and audiences at the Metropolitan Opera, singing a touchstone role of the bel canto repertory, the madness-prone Elvira in Vincenzo Bellini's "I Puritani." When she signed a Met contract in 2009, her debut was to be as the Fiakermilli, a stratospherically challenging but small role in Richard Strauss' "Arabella." How does Peretyatko, who exudes robust good humor and self-confidence, approach portraying one of the most emotionally fragile heroines in all of opera? The last time the Met revived "I Puritani," in 2006, it starred another dark-haired Russian beauty, Anna Netrebko, who famously improvised during her mad scene by lying on her back at the front of the stage and singing with her head and arms dangling over the orchestra pit. Peretyatko started singing professionally in the chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre in St.
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