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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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]
Conductor James Gaffigan got a couple of surprises while rehearsing Mozart’s opera in Edinburgh. Watch below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gaffigan (@james.gaffigan) The post How did Happy Birthday […]
We hear that Wasfi Kani at Grange Park Opera has engaged the orchestra of English National Opera for her forthcoming Ring cycle, which opens next summer with Rheingold. This is a brilliant swoop, employing an […]
