Russia mourns top chorus director
mainNatalia Popovich was chosen in 1981 by Yury Temirkanov to head the chorus of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theatre in what was then Leningrad.
After seven years she moved to Moscow, first as chorus chief at the Stanislavsky Theatre, then at the Novaya Opera.
Natalia died at the weekend, aged 73.
And how about the French tenor Michel Sénéchal who passed away yesterday?