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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Pembridge College has wasted no time in filling the organ bench lately vacated by Anna Lapwood. The new director of music is to be Luke Fitzgerald, assistant director at Coventry Cathedral. He says: ‘Big shoes […]
Robert Kahn Robert Kahn, Robert Schumann, Erich Korngold, Paul Hindemith; Florian Störtz, Aleksandra Myslek; City Music Foundation at Tallow Chandlers’ HallReviewed 16 December 2024 Forbidden by the Nazis and forced to feel to England in […]
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