Dr. ROSEMARY B. DESLOGE
New York
Desloge, a self-professed Broadway groupie and laryngologist in private practice, became one of the Great White Way’s vocal healers after successfully operating on a lead from Jersey Boys. Now, Tony and Emmy Award winners, tween talent and even royalty depend on her to troubleshoot their timbres. Desloge never skips a Broadway show (or backstage invite), but you won’t glean her patient list from the walls in her spa-like office. Only one picture — a bejeweled octogenarian beside the late Luciano Pavarotti — is on display. “That’s my grandmother, who at 80 became a Pavarotti groupie,” Desloge says with a laugh. Musical fandom clearly runs in the family. » 212-717-2700, desloge.md
Dr. ANTHONY F. JAHN
New York
During intermission, a famed New York Metropolitan Opera soprano was doubled over with cramps and experiencing shortness of breath. Jahn went into high gear with his bag of needles. After a 15-minute acupuncture treatment, the singer’s pain resolved, she was breathing normally and the show continued. “Technology does not make the accumulated clinical wisdom of other cultures irrelevant,” says Jahn. “Acupuncture can help singers quickly, with no side effects.” A Hungarian immigrant and former pianist, he satisfies his musical yen as one of the Met’s seven volunteer doctors in exchange for free house seats. » 212-262-4400, entsurg.com
Dr. Gwen S. Korovin
New York
Celine Dion was crestfallen when two Canadian ENTs told her she needed throat surgery. Seeking a final opinion, she met Korovin, a laryngologist in private practice. “I didn’t see the polyps that her other doctors claimed,” she recalls. “I just saw chronic swelling.” Korovin’s prescription: two weeks of the silent treatment. Dion emerged pitch-perfect and unscathed. “Had she gone through with the surgery, it could have ruined her voice,” she adds. Known for exhausting every option before resorting to the scalpel, Korovin has a client list that includes Hugh Jackman , Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga . » 212-879-6630
Dr. ROBERT T. SATALOFF
Philadelphia
In A Memoir, Patti LuPone describes how Sataloff “saved my voice.” Awaking from surgery, she heard “the sound of a baritone … singing a liturgy.” It was Sataloff: cantor, professional choir conductor and professor and chair of otolaryngology at Drexel University and chairman of The Voice Foundation. He always knew he would follow his father — a renowned ENT — into medicine, even though he could have snagged a record deal. Among his many talents, Sataloff has created more than 100 surgical instruments and innovated numerous operating techniques, such as implanting a singer’s own fat between vocal-fold membrane and scar tissue to create “a new, pliable layer.” » 215-545-3322, phillyent.com