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 ...

ONE evening in 1941, upset because she had been given a part in “Die Fledermaus” that had no solos and was generally inferior, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf kicked one of her shoes through the cyclorama that ...

“Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,” by Alan Jefferson. Northeastern University Press, 304 pages, $29.95. Although she retired from the stage in the late 1960s, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf will always be the beautiful ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Recital (songs and arias by Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Wolf and others; George Reeves, piano; EMI, 2 CDs). As cherishable as she was on the operatic stage, there was always ...

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 ...

Famed soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, a 20th century legend who won global acclaim for her renditions of Mozart and Strauss, died Thursday at her home in western Austria, state television reported. She ...

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 ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the internationally renowned soprano who name was inseparably linked with Mozart, Schubert and Strauss in the second half of the 20th century, died Aug. 3, in the western ...

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has died aged 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 ...