Here's what Christine Goerke did when she finished her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in nearly five years: She came out for her solo bow — and promptly burst into tears.
The opera was Richard Strauss' monumental fable "Die Frau ohne Schatten," ("The Woman Without a Shadow") and Goerke was cast in a notoriously difficult dramatic soprano role, the discontented Dyer's Wife.
When she emerged for her curtain call, the audience erupted into a sustained frenzy of cheering and foot-stomping the likes of which has rarely been heard at the Met in recent years. Goerke stood as if in disbelief, then put her hands up to cover her face.
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