The Italian soprano Celestina Casapietra died this week in her homeland. After early successes in Milan she married the DDR conductor Herbert Kegel and became half of the regime’s operatic glamour couple.
In Berlin, she performed Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Elsa in Lohengrin and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, among many leading roles. Elsewhere she sang at Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Hamburg, Venice and Turin.
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