ARTICLES BEING VIEWED NOW:
- Intelligently Structured and Winningly Executed - Mike Wheeler is impressed by Fenella Humphreys and Martin Roscoe's Buxton Festival recital marking the centenary of the death of Gabriel Fauré
- February 2023 New Releases - Browse a large selection of new recordings
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- Spotlight. Musical Siblings - Gerald Fenech heartily recommends Isata Kanneh-Mason's new Mendelssohn album
THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL: Roderic Dunnett previews the 2024 edition of the UK's oldest music festival, 27 July until 4 August.
Czech mezzo Soňa Červená was born on 9 September 1925 in Prague, where she studied with Robert Rozner and Lydia Wegner-Salmowá and began singing with an operetta ensemble.
She worked at the opera house in Brno for three years, before her successful performance as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Prague National Theatre led to her performing the same role in Berlin the next year, then moving to the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, where she worked principally until the 1990s.
She appeared at on opera stages around the world, including Bayreuth, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Glyndebourne, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and Vienna State Opera.
Soňa Červená died in Prague on 7 May 2023, aged ninety-seven.