Sigrid Kehl started out as a mezzo at Leipzig Opera and upscaled to soprano, singing in all major Wagner productions for more than 35 years, from 1957 until the Wall came down.
Abroad, she sang in Naples, Bologna, Vienna, Prague, Moscow and Budapest.
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A letter has gone out from the Department of Education to presidents of colleges and music schools, outlawing positive discrimination for students of under-represented backgrounds. The key paragraph is this: The Department will no longer […]
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Warm hearted & with a twinkle in his eye: The Brook Street Band bring out the sense of enjoyment in the violin sonatas of Ipswich-based Joseph Gibbs")
