Death of two British singers
RIPWe have been informed of the death, aged 85 after a long illness, of the soprano Margaret Curphey, famed for singing Eva in Reginald Goodall’s English performances of Mastersingers at Sadlers Wells.
She also sang Sieglinde, Gutrune and Brunnhilde in Goodall’s Ring and was much admired on record. But colleagues felt she never received the international acclaim she deserved.
She retired to the Isle of Man in 1994 with her husband, the baritone Philip Summerscales.
We also hear that the tenor and historian Edmund Bohan has died aged 88 at Christchurch, New Zealand.
He was a stalwart of Kent Opera.
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