Soprano found dead after morbid Facebook post
mainThe Rumanian soprano Roxana Briban has died in Bucharest, aged 39, apparently a suicide.
Away from Bucharest, she sang in Vienna, Berlin, Toulouse and Amsterdam. Her husband said she had fallen into depression after being dropped last year by the Rumanian National Opera.
On the day of her death, she posted on her facebook site a clip of Verdi’s Traviata in which she, as Violetta, dies of a wasting disease.
And here’s Roxana singing in La Traviata
Roxana Briban – “Anima mia !” Terzetto IL TROVATORE -Verdi http://t.co/tp8TnV9 via @youtube
So very, very tragic.
It seems even sadder that a singer commits suicide. My heart goes out to her family.