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Singer Leonard Warren died after performing in the opera La forza del destino at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He had sung Don Carlo's act III aria, which begins Morir, tremenda cosa ("to die, a momentous thing"), when he started coughing and gasping. He fell face first to the ground and it was revealed he had died of a massive heart attack.
Name Age Date Location Cause of death Mike Gaborno Manic Hispanic: 51: January 4, 2017: Liver cancer Johnny Dick Fanny Adams, Wild Cherries: 73: January 6, 2017: Sylvester Potts
In 1979, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Senta in The Flying Dutchman, in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production, opposite José van Dam. [ 7 ] She sang with the Met until 1993, in such operas as Tosca , La bohème , Un ballo in maschera (with Carlo Bergonzi ), Don Giovanni , Manon Lescaut , Falstaff (with Giuseppe Taddei ), [ 8 ] and La ...
This year has featured a lot of heartbreaking celebrity deaths. In 2017, we lost some incredibly beloved musicians like Tom Petty, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, former "Partridge Family" star ...
Barbara Smith Conrad (August 11, 1937 – May 22, 2017) was an American opera singer. [1] A mezzo-soprano, she performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Nacional in Venezuela, and many others. She was also an educator, co-directing the Wagner Theater Program, which she co-founded, and maintaining a private studio as well ...
A local obituary states simply that Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez-Smith, 75, who died Feb. 2, was a special education teacher at Tates Creek Elementary School and a member of Main Street Baptist ...
Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but did not limit herself to that voice type.
“You could write an opera about her — about someone who made an indelible impression in her 20s and 30s, and by the time she was 40 was finished as a singer. It’s a truly operatic story.”