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A US soprano who walked out on the Met

A US soprano who walked out on the Met

The death has been communicated of Christine Weidinger who, on the advice of Marilyn Horne, quit a string of roles at the Metropolitan Opera to become a company member in Stuttgart Oper and then at Bielefeld. Here, she became a specialist in bel canto.

She returned to the Met in 1992, after an absence of 16 years, in Rossini’s Semiramide.

Christine Weidinger died of brain cancer on August 24 at the age of 78.

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