Tag: #Opera
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Italian opera star Mirella Freni dies at 84
Rome, Feb 10 (AFP/APP): One of the great stars of Italian opera Mirella Freni, who as an infant shared a wet nurse with Luciano Pavarotti, died Sunday at the age of 84 following a long illness, media reports said. Born in 1935 in the northern town of Modena, Freni was a childhood friend of tenor…
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Legendary German tenor Peter Schreier dies aged 84
Frankfurt am Main, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): German singer and conductor Peter Schreier, widely regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century, has died at the age of 84 after a long illness, his family said. Schreier, one of the few international stars to emerge from former communist East Germany, passed away…
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Saira Peter to establish music academy for young female amateur singer of Gilgit-Balistan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9 (APP):Saira Peter, the first British Pakistani opera singer would establish a music academy for young female amateur singer of Gilgit-Baltistan. Talking to APP, she said that she had also opened a music academy for female in Karachi to train them in Sufi opera singing. She said she had also established a music…