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Posted: 3/8/06 at 12:22am

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Bombshell

La Cieca hears that Audra McDonald will sing the role of Kitty Oppenheimer when the Met presents John Adams' Dr. Atomic in the 2008-2009 season. La McDonald, it will be remembered, premiered Kitty's aria "Easter Eve, 1945" in May 2004 with the New York Philharmonic under Adams' baton. The versatile songstress is currently in Houston preparing for the March 4 prima of a double bill of La Voix humaine and a new one-woman opera by John Michael LaChiusa entitled Send (who are you? I love you).