South African-born Wagnerian soprano Elizabeth Connell, who had a great career in England, died on Saturday, aged 65. There’s a nice obituary in the Telegraph.
UPDATE: Reader Michael Johnson wrote to say that Connell sand the Kostelnica in the Canadian Opera Company’s 1982 production of Leos Janácek’s Jenufa.
What better way to go than with a diva-mocking Farewell Song, which Connell commissioned from English composer Betty Roe two years ago:
http://youtu.be/XjM5_vrrUSM
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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