Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Recital (songs and arias by Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Wolf and others; George Reeves, piano; EMI, 2 CDs). As cherishable as she was on the operatic stage, there was always ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has died at 90, was a lyric soprano whose aristocratic purity of tone and attention to detail made her the supreme female exponent of the songs of Strauss and Wolf and ...

Although Elisabeth Schwarzkopf retired from the stage in 1979, at age 63, the famed German soprano retains a formidable presence in the music world, greatly admired by many and controversial to others ...

Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, whose fine-spun vocal tone and studied elegance made her one of the most important singers of the postwar decades, died Thursday at her home in Schruns, Austria. She was ...

The German lied is a highly perishable article--a gracious and intimate form of musical entertainment which, in the hands of singers less gifted than Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, rarely finds a congenial ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, whose luminous soprano voice and searing musical intelligence set standards for postwar singers of lieder and opera, has died. She was 90. Schwarzkopf died peacefully at her ...

ONE evening in 1941, upset because she had been given a part in “Die Fledermaus” that had no solos and was generally inferior, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf kicked one of her shoes through the cyclorama that ...