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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Portuguese mezzo Cláudia Ribas (pictured) has won the 57th International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Second was UK mezzo Annabel Kennedy. Min Gyu Song from South Korea is the winner of the 13th edition […]
The Japanese Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki will direct the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists for the first time next month at St Martin-in-the-Fields, on June 19. The programme is taken from the 1725 cantatas. […]
The next director of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw is to be the stage designer Boris Kudlička, a regular participant in its productions for 30 years. Kudlička, 53, worked with outgoing director Mariusz Treliński […]
-5.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
