Lisa della Casa, a Swiss-born soprano known for her sweet voice and exquisite elegance, has died at 93, the Vienna Opera announced Tuesday. The late English music critic Sir Neville Cardus reportedly ...

The Swiss soprano will be remembered especially for singing songs and operas by Richard Strauss, which fit her sweet and silvery voice like... Lisa Della Casa, a Swiss soprano acclaimed for her ...

Lisa Della Casa was one of the great generation of singers of the German repertory that dominated the operatic stage during the Forties and Fifties. Like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, she was strikingly ...

GENEVA (AP) — Famed for her beauty that matched her serene voice, Swiss-born diva Lisa Della Casa swept up crowds at opera houses of the past century with an elegant and radiant style that established ...

Ravishingly beautiful, with a limpid, silver-toned voice, the Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa was greatly admired as a Mozart singer, as the Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die ...

So captivating were her performances that one critic said audiences should go to her concerts twice, once to listen and once to look. She was born in Burgdorf, Switzerland. Her father encouraged her ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs – often regarded as the last flowering not just of the composer's long career but of romanticism in ...

Lisa Della Casa, a Swiss soprano acclaimed for her sensitive singing of Mozart and Richard Strauss, has died at age 93. The Vienna Staatsoper, where she had performed on more than 400 occasions, ...

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 ...