The legendary and beloved Italian tenor died earlier today. He was 90.
The prolific American conductor and composer died earlier today in Virginia.
The legendary conductor, mainstay of New York City Opera for 35 years, has died, says @nprclassical.
Italian conductor Claudio Abbado, former musical director of La Scala, has died at the age of 80.
Operetta and film star Marta Eggerth died yesterday in New York. She was 101.
Robert W. Wilson, the American hedge fund manager and former chairman of New York City Opera, has died, an apparent suicide.
Finnish bass-baritone Tom Krause died Thursday. He was 79.
The celebrated opera director and filmmaker died today of lung cancer in Paris. He was 68.
The American mezzo-soprano, director, filmmaker and teacher Regina Resnik has died.
The American contralto, who created the title role in Menotti’s The Medium and introduced the song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” died May 18. She was 92.
The silver-voiced teen star of film musicals of the 1930s and 1940s died earlier this week.
The glamorous and beloved mezzo-soprano died yesterday. She was 99.
The soprano and political dissident of the postwar Soviet Union died yesterday in Moscow. She was 86.
The elegant Swiss-born soprano has died at 93.
Soprano, television personality and fundraiser Marguerite Piazza died yesterday.
American soprano Evelyn Lear died quietly earlier this evening at at Brooke Grove nursing center in Sandy Spring, Maryland. She was 86.
Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau died earlier today near Starnberg in Bavaria.
La Cieca has just heard that Herbert Breslin died this morning in Paris.
The comprimario tenor, veteran of 2,928 performances at the Met, died earlier today. He was 82.
Legendary soprano Sena Jurinac, one of the most beloved artists at the Vienna State Opera, died yesterday. She was 90. [via AP]
Tenor Salvatore Licitra died earlier today after nine days in a coma following a motorcycle accident. He was 43. [La repubblica]
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, humanitarian and Democrat Agnes Varis died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. Besides her advocacy of prescription-drug reform and financial support of the Jazz Foundation of America, she was a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera, where her projects included the Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rush Tickets Program and the underwriting…
La Cieca has just heard that the great American baritone Cornell MacNeil died earlier today. He was 88.
The great Welsh soprano, superb interpreter of Mozart, Verdi and Lieder, died earlier today. She was 69. [Washington Post]
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