Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has died at 90, was a lyric soprano whose aristocratic purity of tone and attention to detail made her the supreme female exponent of the songs of Strauss and Wolf and ...

To lovers of art song who built record collections during the first flowering of the LP era, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) was the consummate interpreter to whom all other lyric sopranos were ...

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the internationally renowned soprano who name was inseparably linked with Mozart, Schubert and Strauss in the second half of the 20th century, died Aug. 3, in the western ...

Despite her wide popularity in the second half of the last century, the German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, born 100 years ago this month, always had voluble detractors. “Too arch” was the most ...

German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died Thursday at age 90. Along with Maria Callas, she was considered one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century. Washington Post critic Tim Page and ...

Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, whose fine-spun vocal tone and studied elegance made her one of the most important singers of the postwar decades, died Thursday at her home in Schruns, Austria. She was ...

French opera fans are wary of opera sung in foreign tongues: German, in particular, they think, is a language that sits uneasily in the throat. Nevertheless, when Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 46, ...

Until last week, Germany’s Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was known in the U.S. only by recordings—and by reports from Europe—of her lyric soprano. Last week Manhattan music lovers packed into Town Hall for ...

Note: This obituary has been altered. Originally, the Associated Press misreported the family ties between Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. VIENNA, Austria -- Famed soprano Elisabeth ...