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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Message received: The Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra mourns the loss of its honorary member Prof. Walther Schulz, the one on the morning of 9.7. has passed away peacefully. Walther Schulz was one of the most […]
Joana Carneiro & Gavan Ring Thomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, […]
The Labour Government has green-lighted a ready-made scheme giving disadvantaged children access to music in schools. Tory ministers had dithered for two years over giving it priority. Labour has, naturally, taken full credit for the […]
