Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, shot to fame in 1951 when she appeared as the Countess Almaviva in Glyndebourne's glamorous new production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, directed by Carl Ebert. Though still young enough to be deemed a novice – this was her British debut – she rose gloriously to the role, but expectations that she would repeat it at the Edinburgh Festival later that summer were dashed when an inferior Glyndebourne Don Giovanni, with a different roster of female voices, was brought instead to the King's Theatre by the Festival's director Rudolf Bing.
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Lisa Della Casa
Soprano;
Born: February 2, 1919; Died: December 10, 2012.
Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, shot to fame in 1951 when she appeared as the Countess Almaviva in Glyndebourne's glamorous new production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, directed by Carl Ebert. Though still young enough to be deemed a novice – this was her British debut – she rose gloriously to the role, but expectations that she would repeat it at the Edinburgh Festival later that summer were dashed when an inferior Glyndebourne Don Giovanni, with a different roster of female voices, was brought instead to the King's Theatre by the Festival's director Rudolf Bing.
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