Of all the tributes pouring out to honor the late soprano Hildegard Behrens, perhaps the most moving in its appreciation of this artist comes from writer Germaine Greer in Britain’s Guardian:
There is no chance that I will see a Brünnhilde…
As a tribute to the late soprano Hildegard Behrens, who died August 16 in Tokyo, the Sirius satellite radio system’s Metropolitan Opera channel will broadcast an historic 1989 performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre.
It can be heard on August 27 starting…
Behrens as Brunnhilde
Soprano Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest dramatic sopranos of her generation, has died at 72 in Tokyo, the result of an apparent aneurysm.
Behrens (February 9, 1937 – August 18, 2009) was a remarkable performer, with an amazing…
