(Credit: Shirley Suarez) Famed pianist Helmut Deutsch will be releasing a new memoir that focuses on his experiences as an accompanist. “Memoir of an Accompanist” will be released by Kahn & Averill in Autumn 2020 in an English-language translation Richard Stokes, a Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music. The book details Deutsch’s career, which has spanned over {…}
(Credit:Marecllogiordani.com/Carol Friedman While there was a lot to celebrate in 2019, there was also a lot to mourn. The final year of the decade brought about the end of the lives of many notable figures of the opera world. Here is a look at some of the many figures we lost this year. Jessye Norman The renowned soprano passed at {…}
Opera singer and conductor Peter Schreier, who won fame at the Salzburg festival and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, has died in Dresden, Germany. The tenor, who was 84, died on Wednesday on Dec. 25, 2019. Schreier was born July 29, 1935 in Meissen, Saxony, Germany when he spent his first years in the small village of Gauernitz, where his father was {…}