On April 21, soprano Renate Holm died at the age of 90. Born in Berlin on August 10, 1931, the soprano decided to become an opera singer at age 12, when she saw a film version of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Maria Cebotari. In 1943, women with children were evacuated from the bombed-out center of Berlin, and her family was {…}