Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf dies, aged 90
Aged 90 makes it dificult for me to grieve. And there is that difficult Nazi past. And every UK obituary will mention she
entered British folklore when, asked to appear on Desert Island Discs, she chose eight of her own recordings.
A great great singer 'arguably the greatest soprano of the postwar years' says the Guardian. Difficult to argue against. I do feel that sopranos are dropping like flies - in the past year or so we've lost Renata Tebaldi, Victoria de los Angeles and Birgit Nillson.
I shall have to decide what to play in tribute.
The increasingly dumbed-down BBC website carries nothing but does have some gossip about some forgotten pop star. shrug
Update: The BBC manages to put the story up only two hours after the Guardian; at the time I read, it's the fourth most read story - Soprano Schwarzkopf dies aged 90
