Celebrated opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died Aug. 3 at her home in Schruns, Austria, at age 90. No cause of death was given. By Billboard Staff Celebrated opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died ...

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has died aged 90, was one of the most distinguished and influential singers of the 20th century, rightly described by her husband, the record producer Walter Legge, as ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, an opera luminary celebrated as one of the finest coloratura sopranos of her generation but whose early membership in the Nazi Party long haunted her reputation, died Aug. 3 ...

Despite her wide popularity in the second half of the last century, the German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, born 100 years ago this month, always had voluble detractors. “Too arch” was the most ...

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has died aged 90, was a lyric soprano whose aristocratic purity of tone and attention to detail made her the supreme female exponent of the songs of Strauss and Wolf ...

German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, one of the most beloved and accomplished opera and concert singers of the post-World War II generation and a pre-eminent lieder singer whose international ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, born on 9 December 1915, performed in her first opera in 1928 and went on to become one of the 20th-century’s most acclaimed sopranos. In the week that marks the centenary of ...

German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died Thursday at age 90. Along with Maria Callas, she was considered one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century. Washington Post critic Tim Page and ...

ONE evening in 1941, upset because she had been given a part in “Die Fledermaus” that had no solos and was generally inferior, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf kicked one of her shoes through the cyclorama that ...