Mourning for a Wagner soprano, 64
RIPThe outstanding dramatic soprano Laura De Souza has died, her agent reports.
A Brazilian, she was a member of the Staatstheater Kassel ensemble from 1991 to 1997 and of the Deutsches Nationalteather Weimar from 1997 to 1998 before embarking on an international career and becoming a public favourite in Rio de Janeiro.
She obtained a PhD with a thesis on ”Yoga and singing voice: application of Yoga techniques in vocal pedagogy’.
I would guess that, being a Brazilian and working as a regular member of German opera houses, that was already an international career.
As to then becoming a public favorite in Rio, she would not have been the first to reach fame at home only after starting a career abroad.
As the old saying goes, home saints make no miracles.
And a prophet is not welcome in his or her own country.