Dessay has not been comfortable on the Metropolitan Opera stage recently.  In productions by a theater director who did not understand the opera form, her voice too was often challenged.  Now working with the great British opera director, Sir David McVicar, Dessay is at the top of her form.  During the run of Handel’s Giulio Cesere in New York she regularly practiced Iyengar yoga.  Her split pose imprecating Caesar, her drop to fixed-firm-flatback on the stage floor, all were as natural as her floated top notes and trills. Article