FEBRUARY ISSUE (issue currently being updated, please return later as well)

NEW!! Jan Neckers reviews a new lavishly illustrated book on the world of operetta issued along a new exhibition on the art form in Vienna.

(Bettty Fischer, operetta singer)

NEW!! Contributing editor Charles Mintzer has rediscovered the Russian tenor-Stage director VLADIMIR ROSING and reviews the interesting 1993 biography of Rosing and the dvd documentary produced by his son on the early part of his life in Russia and the Ukraine.

(photos Rosing/Williams courtesy Charles Mintzer)

BREAKING NEWS : American soprano CAMILLA WILLIAMS died from cancer on 29 January. Click here for an obituary.

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BREAKING NEWS : American soprano PATRICIA NEWAY died at age 92 in her home in Vermont, click here to read more.

( photos courtesy Charles Mintzer)

BREAKING NEWS : the world famous Flemish mezzo RITA GORR passed away in Spain. May she rest in peace. A tribute will follow asap

RIP: the Austrian soprano RUTHILDE BOESCH died on January 20 in Vienna, click here to read more about her

(photo courtesy Charles Mintzer)

PAAVO BERGLUND DIED ON JANUARY 25. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.

NEW : A two CD set celebrating the career of Mexican soprano IRMA GONZALES.

(photo courtsey Charles Mintzer coll.)

BREAKING NEWS :

Dutch musician GUSTAV LEONHARDT died on Monday 16 January in Amsterdam

Previously unmentioned: pianist Martin ISEPP died last December 25 in London.

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The famous pianist Alexis WEISSENBERG died on January 8 in Lugano.

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The Dutch-German operetta star JOHANNES HEESTERS died at age 108 in a German hospital. Read more about him here.

(Heesters just before he left for Germany in 1936 and THE photo which would follow him for the rest of his life : visiting Dachau in 1941 and Heesters at his very debut during his years in Antwerp, coll. ed