Claudia Pinza has passed away at 92. The famed teacher and soprano died at the Allegheny General Hospital due to respiratory failure following a series of strokes. The daughter of the famed opera star and Broadway singer Ezio Pinza, Claudia Pinza taught voice at the Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh. Before taking on her role as a teacher, Pinza was {…}
The international mezzo Ameral Gunson died on Friday night of cancer, her husband has reported. Gunson studied singing at London´s Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Walter Gruner before joining the BBC Singers where she continued her studies with Otakar Krauss. She quickly established a successful and varied solo career once she left the BBC singers and went on {…}
Last Thursday, the honored and beloved conductor Jiří Bělohlávek passed away at the age of 71 after a long battle with an illness. He was in the midst of a five-year contract that he had just recently renewed with the Czech Philharmonic. The Prague native spent most of the early years of his career in Czechoslovakia. In 1970 he won the {…}
Christopher Charles Roselli, a well-established professor of music who worked with hundreds of students to achieve their goals on Broadway, passed away at the age of 55 years old on May 18, 2017. Roselli was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to David and Frances Roselli. Unsure of what he wanted to do originally, after much deliberation he decided to {…}
Barbra Smith Conrad, the world-renowned opera singer, passed away on May 22 at the age of 79. The cause still unknown, but a cousin of Conrad declared that she had advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Conrad, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, sang at the most esteemed stages across the globe, from New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna State Opera. At the age of {…}
Dennis Wilgenhof has died at the age of 44. The Dutch bass was found dead on Tuesday at a hotel in Maastricht, where he taught at the local academy. According to early reports, the singer suffered a heart attack. He was a member of the soloist’s ensemble of Oper Köln and Staatstheater Wiesbaden and he sang numerous leading roles including Osmin {…}
Soprano Eliane Lubin has passed away after fighting cancer at the age of 79. The soprano passed away on May 1st after six months of treatment for a brain tumor. Born in 1938, Lublin made her professional debut in the 1960s where she performed in Monte-Carlo and at the Aix-en-Provence festival. After performing the role of Sister Constance in Poulenc’s {…}
Dorothy Dorow has passed away at the age of 86. The English soprano died on April 15 after a lengthy career mastering the works of contemporary music. The soprano debuted in London in 1958 and went on to sing numerous world premiered, including works from György Ligeti, Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Dallapiccola, Sylvano Bussotti and Luigi Nono. Throughout her career was {…}
German soprano Agnes Giebel has passed away. The soprano’s family announced that Giebel had died on on April 24 at the age of 95. Born in Heerlen, Netherlands, she studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Her career began in 1947 and quickly became a fixture with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Otto Klemperer and the Leipzig Thomanerchor with Günter Ramin. {…}
Bruce Brewer has passed away at the age of 75. The tenor, born in San Antonio, Texas on October 12, 1941, passed away in his sleep at Sainte Anne, St. Fraimbault in Lassay-Les-Chateaux, France, on March 6, 2017. The tenor went on to make his stage debut in 1970 and performed on such stages as the Covent Garden, La Scala, Florence, {…}
Endrik Wottirch has died at the age of 53. The Wiener Volksoper announced the news that he suffered a heart attack. Wottrich was born in Celle, Germany and went on to earn a diploma in violin studies at Juilliard and became a member of the Berlin Staatsoper through the 1990s. He would make his stage debut in 1992 as Cassio in {…}
