The host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday Afternoon Radio Broadcasts and longtime public radio personality died today of complications from ovarian cancer. She was 58.
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The celebrated Russian mezzo-soprano has died. She was 75.
The American mezzo-soprano and impresario died today in San Jose after a long illness. She was 89.
The legendary Italian soprano Magda Olivero has died.
La Cieca has just heard the sad news that the beloved soprano Licia Albanese died earlier this evening. She was 101.
The legendary and beloved Italian tenor died earlier today. He was 90.
The legendary conductor, mainstay of New York City Opera for 35 years, has died, says @nprclassical.
The Hartford Wagner Festival’s production of Das Rheingold has been canceled.
After nearly a half century on stage, San Diego Opera will cease operations after its current season, said Ian Campbell, the opera’s general and artistic director.
Impresario Gerard Mortier died earlier today of pancreatic cancer. He was 70.
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.
An auction of the meager remains of the bankrupt New York City Opera’s property musical instruments, some bits of scenery and costumes is scheduled for December 12.
La Cieca has just been informed that Deborah Voigt‘s engagement as Leonore in Fidelio at Liège has quietly disappeared from her website.
Serious opera fan and internet pioneer Mike Richter died earlier this week.
“Opera America, a service organization for opera companies, has expressed interest in purchasing City Opera’s thrift shop…”
The celebrated opera director and filmmaker died today of lung cancer in Paris. He was 68.
“New York City Opera, created 70 years ago as the ‘people’s opera,’ expects to file for bankruptcy protection on Oct. 2 and either liquidate in court or be sold to another institution, its lawyer said.”
“New York City Opera… will be forced to cancel most of its current season and all of its next season if it fails to raise $20 million by year’s end, company officials say.”
La Cieca is most unhappy indeed to hear that coloraturafan, the undisputed monarch of opera on YouTube, has had his “fourth or fifth” account on the service deleted.
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.
In a press release, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein at Düsseldorf has announced the cancellation of its controversial new production of Tannhäuser.
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