To most unknown singers the chance never comes in a lifetime. But it came to short, plump-cheeked, 23-year-old Astrid Varnay—the chance to stride the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a big part.
Astrid Varnay, who died Monday in Munich at 88, was one of the greatest dramatic sopranos of the 20th century, and a leading singer at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Bayreuth Festival during the ...
Berlin - Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut, without rehearsal, in a nationally broadcast performance and went on to sing for half a century, has died.
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