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1996 Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90

1994 Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85

1994 Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84

1994 Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86

1993 Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54

1993 Arleen Auger, U.S. soprano (Matthaus Passion), dies at 53

1992 Dorothy Kirsten, U.S. soprano, dies from stroke at 82

1992 Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies

1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies

1989 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91

1976 Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88

1976 Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71

1967 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85

1965 Jeanette MacDonald, soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63

1963 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies

1962 Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67

1961 Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at 93

1952 Gianna Rolandi, New York City, soprano, Der Rosenkavalier

1952 Ashley Putnam, born in New York City, soprano, New York City Opera 1978

1950 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies

1949 Rosalind Plowright, British soprano, Aida, Senta

1949 Emma Kirkby, British soprano

1948 Leona Mitchell, Enid Oklahoma, soprano, Musetta-La Boheme

1948 Kathleen Battle, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, soprano, Shephard-Tannhauser

1948 Catherine Malfitano, born in New York City, soprano, Metropolitan Opera

1948 Kathleen Battle, U.S. soprano, Tannhauser

1947 Felicity Lott, English soprano, We come to the river

1947 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74

1947 Grace Moore, U.S. soprano/actress (1 Night of Life), dies at 45

1947 Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45

1946 Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano, New York City Opera

1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, born in Gisborne, New Zealand, operatic soprano, Don Giovanni

1943 Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven, Connecticut, soprano, Walter Naumberg Prize

1942 Sheila Armstrong, soprano

1941 Margaret Price, Tredegar Wales, soprano, Pamlina-Die Zauberflote

1940 Martina Arroyo, New York City, soprano

1939 Lucia Popp, Uhorska Ves Czechoslovakia, soprano, Die Zauberflote

1939 Benita Valente, Delano California, soprano, Pamina-Die Zauberflote

1939 Joyce Arleen Auger, U.S. soprano, Mozart/Matthaus Passion

1938 Jane Manning, soprano

1938 Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto, soprano, Salome

1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano, Victor-Victoria

1937 Martina Arroyo, New York City, opera soprano, New York Met

1936 Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano, Die Walkure

1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano, Salome, Lulu

1935 Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano, Madame Butterfly

1934 Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano, Violetta-La Traviata

1933 Montserrat Caballe, born in Barcelona, Spain, soprano, Mimi-La Boheme

1933 Elisabeth S "Elly" Belder-Ameling, Dutch soprano

1933 Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano, Ilya-Idomeneo

1931 Joan Carlyle, British soprano

1931 Nellie Melba, [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies

1930 Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg, West Virginia, soprano, New York City Opera

1930 Heather Harper, soprano

1930 Roberta Peters, New York City, operatic soprano, New York Met

1929 Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], born in Brooklyn, New York, soprano

1929 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies

1929 Regine Crespin, Marseilles France, operatic soprano

1928 Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano, Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54

1928 Judith Raskin, born in New York City, soprano, Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro

1928 Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera

1927 Teresa Stich-Randall, U.S. soprano, Vienna State Opera

1927 Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano, Omar Khayyam

1927 Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Mississippi, opera soprano, Porgy and Bess

1926 Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano, Met Opera

1926 Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, soprano, Madama Butterfly

1926 Marguerite Piazza, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, operatic soprano, Young Broadway

1926 Evelyn Lear, [Shulman], born in Brooklyn, New York, soprano

1925 Mattiwilda Dobbs, born in Atlanta, Georgia, soprano

1925 Patrice Munsel, Spokane, Washington soprano, Patrice Munsel Show

1924 Victoria de los Angeles, Spain, soprano, Mimi-La Boheme

1924 Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport, Connecticut, operatic soprano, Gilda-Rigoletto

1922 Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano

1920 Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano, Interrupted Melody

1919 Patricia Neway, born in Brooklyn, New York, soprano, Consul, Maria Golovia

1919 Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76

1918 Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano, Elektra, Salome

1918 Astrid Varnay, born in Stockholm, Sweden, soprano, Met Opera 1941-56

1916 Eleanor Steber, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, soprano, Metropolitan Opera-1940

1915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano, Der Rosenkavalier

1915 Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair, New Jersey, soprano, Time to Sing, Chevy Show

1913 Licia Albanese, born in Bari, Italy, operatic soprano, New York Met Opera

1913 Ljuba Welitsch, born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano, Nedda-Pagliacci

1913 Martha Modl, German singer/soprano, Wagner

1912 Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano

1910 Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts

1910 Sylvia Fisher, soprano, Albert Herring Opera

1909 Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano, Venus-Tannhauser

1909 Herva Nelli, soprano

1908 Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano, Ljublama Opera 1927

1907 Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, /President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68

1907 Nadine Conner, California, soprano, Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute

1906 Gwen Catley, British soprano

1904 Lily Pons, born in Draguignan, France, soprano diva, Hitting a New High

1902 Bidu Sayao, Niteroi Brazil, soprano, Mimia-La Boheme

1901 Grace Moore, U.S., soprano, One Night to Live

1899 Helen Traubel, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soprano, Sieglinde in Walkure, Nightclubs

1898 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano, Matthaus Passion

1895 Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano, Wagner

1892 Eva Turner, British soprano

1889 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies

1888 Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano, Fidello

1887 Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67

1882 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano, Cave of the Winds

1882 Geraldine Farrar, U.S. soprano/actress, Story of American Singer

1873 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano, Rigoletto

1872 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director

1868 Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna, Dutch Opera

1859 Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano, Peach Melba

1843 Adelina Patti, born in Madrid, Spain, opera soprano, Lucio

1841 Pauline Lucca, soprano

1840 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano

1822 Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano

1820 Jenny Lind, Sweden, soprano/nightingale, Agathe-Freischutz

1798 Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano



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