A Callas-era star is 95 today

A Callas-era star is 95 today

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norman lebrecht

October 21, 2020

Happy birthday to Virginia Zeani, one of few sopranos who could look Maria Callas in the eye and not blink first.

She created the role of  Blanche in Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmelites.

Zeani, a Romanian, lives nowadays in Palm Beach Florida and continues to teach privately.

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