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 ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Freni, who has died aged 84, was sometimes called “the last primadonna”. She was a childhood ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Mirella Freni, an exemplary Italian prima donna for nearly 50 years, whose voice was ideally suited to lighter lyric roles but maintained its bloom even as she took on weightier, more dramatic ...

Mirella Freni, whose lyrical voice and bravura performances in “Carmen,” “La Boheme” and “The Marriage of Figaro” throughout a 50-year career made her one of the world’s most beloved operatic sopranos ...

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