Death of an unlucky US soprano

Death of an unlucky US soprano

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norman lebrecht

March 08, 2020

The impressive soprano Elinor Ross died on March 6, aged 93.

Her radiant career was cut off when, after singing Aida at the Met in 1979, she woke the next morning with facial paralysis, diagnosed as a form of Bell’s Palsy.

She endured the loss with stoicism and warmth.

Obituary here.

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