Graceful, clear-voiced and expressive, the soprano Mirella Freni, who has died aged 84, began her long operatic career in lighter roles, such as Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and above all as ...
Ms. Freni was acclaimed for her exquisite singing in lighter lyric roles. In midcareer she also dared to explore weightier ones. By Anthony Tommasini Mirella Freni, an exemplary Italian prima donna ...
“It's not enough to have a beautiful voice, it’s the depth of interpretation that is different.” In February this year the news broke of Mirella’s death. One of the finest sopranos in the great ...
The opera star excelled in roles by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. The opera world is mourning one of its finest singers, legendary soprano Mirella Freni. Freni, who would have turned 85 ...
Obituary: Mirella Freni, legendary Italian soprano who once sang in Carmen at the Edinburgh Festival
MIRELLA Freni, who has died aged 84, was one of the great lyric sopranos of her era. She sang roles in Mozart, Verdi and Puccini with consummate skill, making such characters as Susanna, in The ...
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