Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has died at 90, was a lyric soprano whose aristocratic purity of tone and attention to detail made her the supreme female exponent of the songs of Strauss and Wolf and ...

The years were not kind to soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who died yesterday at the age of 90. When she retired in the mid-1970s, she was an all-but-universally-adored diva -- a beautiful and ...

To lovers of art song who built record collections during the first flowering of the LP era, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) was the consummate interpreter to whom all other lyric sopranos were ...

Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, whose fine-spun vocal tone and studied elegance made her one of the most important singers of the postwar decades, died Thursday at her home in Schruns, Austria. She was ...

One of the great sopranos of the 20th century, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died in her sleep at her home in Austria on August 3. She was 90 years of age. The myriad ways in which she employed her remarkably ...

German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died Thursday at age 90. Along with Maria Callas, she was considered one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century. Washington Post critic Tim Page and ...

French opera fans are wary of opera sung in foreign tongues: German, in particular, they think, is a language that sits uneasily in the throat. Nevertheless, when Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 46, ...

Note: This obituary has been altered. Originally, the Associated Press misreported the family ties between Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. VIENNA, Austria -- Famed soprano Elisabeth ...

The meticulously elegant German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf looked like a “cleaning woman” when she wasn’t on stage. An equally celebrated soprano, Joan Sutherland, was really “pretty dopey” if you ...

Of the many great classical singers since World War II, there are comparatively few whose voices are recognizable almost by a single note. Like Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and the late ...