British soprano Pauline Tinsley died on May 11 at the age of 93. She was born near Manchester, in Wigan, England, in March 1928 and studied at the Northern College of Music before heading to in London, where she made her debut in 1961 with the Philopera at London’s St. Pancras Town Hall. In the 60s she was part of {…}
Philadelphia Classical Music Community member Ghenady Meirson passed away after a fierce battle with cancer. Meirson was born in Odessa, Ukraine and graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied piano with Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski and accompanying with Vladimir Sokoloff. In 1982, Meirson wrote “Do Sing in Russian,” which {…}
(Credit: https://jamesprimosch.com/biography/) James Primosch, composer, producer, and pianist, passed away on April 26, 2021, at the age of 65. Primosch was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1956 and studied at Cleveland State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. He was an active pianist and studied jazz piano and worked as a liturgical musician with leading artists and ensembles {…}
Paul Kellogg, former general and artistic director of the New York Opera and Glimmerglass Opera, passed away on April 28, 2021 at age 84, at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown. Kellogg seemed destined for the arts from the start as his parents were also linked to art: his father worked at 20th Century Fox while his mother was a notable pianist. {…}
Baritone Theodore Lambrinos has died at the age of 85 due to the COVID-19 pneumonia complications on March 29 in Brooklyn. The baritone appeared on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, and was a regular performer with the New York Grand Opera Company, where he performed roles in such operas as “Nabucco” and “La Bohème,” among others. Lambrinos was born {…}
Tenor Corneliu Murgu passed away at age 72 after a successful career as a singer and as General Manager of the Timisoara National Opera in Romania. Murgu began his musical studies in Timisoara, his hometown, before traveling to Italy to study in Florence where he obtained the diploma of “Maestro Di Canto.” He then had classical training with Marcello Del {…}
Opera singer and voice teacher Eileen Schauler Charone passed away at her home in Millburn on April 21, 2021. She was 92. Schauler was born in New Jersey in 1928 and throughout her career was admired for her presence on stage, her committed acting, and her emotional and expressive singing. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she made her New {…}
Italian soprano Lucia Naviglio died on April 11 in Bari, due to COVID-19-related complications. She was 63. She had been hospitalized, much like her husband and mother-in-law, who also died of COVID-19 earlier that week. She famously managed to kickstart her career by singing “In questa reggia” from “Turandot” without knowing how to read music. Famed composer Nino Rota, who {…}
(Credit: © Willy Saeger) Famed dramatic mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig has passed away at the age of 93. Ludwig was born in Berlin in a musical family. She made her operatic debut right after WWII in 1946 in Johan Strauss’ operetta “Die Fledermaus” at the Oper Frankfurt. She became a member of the ensemble of the Staatstheater Darmstadt in 1952. In {…}
Swiss musician and composer Rudolf Kelterborn passed away on March 24, 2021 in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland. He was 89. Kelterborn was born on September 3, 1931 and would go on to study in Basel, Detmolo, Salzburg, and Zurich, among others, with such composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burtfhard, Günter Bialas, and Wolfgang Fortner. Throughout his long career, he served {…}
Welsh baritone Eric Roberts has died. The baritone began his singing career studying Fine Arts at Manchester University before gaining a scholarship to study singing at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He made his professional debut as Papageno in “The Magic Flute” with the Welsh National Opera and returned as Guglielmo in “Così fan tutte.” He would also perform {…}