FROM ROME: From December 2009 until March 2023, the late Giuseppe Pennisi sent us regular reports from the Italian opera and classical music scene.
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Wilma Lipp, the operatic soprano, was born in Vienna on 26 April 1925. She sang with the Vienna State Opera from 1945 and also appeared at Covent Garden in the fifties.
She died on 26 January 2019, aged ninety-three.