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No...not those Sopranos.....
The ones who sing the role in Opera.
Franz Liszt once aptly observed: “All music is an insane asylum, but opera as the wing for incurables.”
Well, seems there is a cure: death.
WQXR had a recent show about the most the top five ways sopranos die in opera....
WQXR - New York s Classical Music Radio Station
And....coming in at number 5....illness!
5. Among those who die of illness....
a. Mimi in "La bohème," by Giacomo Puccini, Mimì is overwhelmed by a coughing fit...dies of tuberculosis
b. Violetta in La Traviata," by Giuseppe Verdi....tuberculosis as a result of her life as a courtesan
The ones who sing the role in Opera.
Franz Liszt once aptly observed: “All music is an insane asylum, but opera as the wing for incurables.”
Well, seems there is a cure: death.
WQXR had a recent show about the most the top five ways sopranos die in opera....
WQXR - New York s Classical Music Radio Station
And....coming in at number 5....illness!
5. Among those who die of illness....
a. Mimi in "La bohème," by Giacomo Puccini, Mimì is overwhelmed by a coughing fit...dies of tuberculosis
b. Violetta in La Traviata," by Giuseppe Verdi....tuberculosis as a result of her life as a courtesan