Sad news: Death of a modernist soprano
mainIn the brae new world of the 1960s, not many opera singers were prepared to risk their precious cords on Webern, Ligeti, Boulez and Busotti.
Liliana Poli, one of the bravest of the brave, died today in Florence, aged 81.
‘What Cathy Berberian was among mezzos, Liliana Poli was among sopranos,’ writes a colleague.
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