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| Germanwings plane crash: two opera singers confirmed among dead | Germanwings plane crash: two opera singers confirmed among dead |
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| Two opera singers who had performed on stage in Barcelona were among the 150 people who died on the Greenwings flights which crashed in the southern Alps. | Two opera singers who had performed on stage in Barcelona were among the 150 people who died on the Greenwings flights which crashed in the southern Alps. |
| Oleg Bryjak, 54 and Maria Radner, 34, had performed in Richard Wagner’s Siegfried at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu on a series of dates which ended on Monday. | Oleg Bryjak, 54 and Maria Radner, 34, had performed in Richard Wagner’s Siegfried at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu on a series of dates which ended on Monday. |
| An opera house in Dusseldorf said Bryjak, who was a bass baritone, was one of the 150 people onboard the plane that crashed in the French Alps. | An opera house in Dusseldorf said Bryjak, who was a bass baritone, was one of the 150 people onboard the plane that crashed in the French Alps. |
| “We have lost a great performer and a great person in Oleg Bryjak. We are stunned,” Christoph Meyer, director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, said. | “We have lost a great performer and a great person in Oleg Bryjak. We are stunned,” Christoph Meyer, director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, said. |
| The Gran Teatre del Liceu confirmed that Radner, along with her husband and baby, was also among the dead. | The Gran Teatre del Liceu confirmed that Radner, along with her husband and baby, was also among the dead. |
| Bryjak had just performed as the character Alberich in Siegfried while Radner, who was an alto, played the role of Erda. | Bryjak had just performed as the character Alberich in Siegfried while Radner, who was an alto, played the role of Erda. |
| Bryjak was born in Kazakhstan when it was part of the former Soviet Union and had performed on opera stages including those in Paris, Zurich, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Sao Paolo and Tokyo, according to his website. His repertoire was said to include more than 30 operas. | Bryjak was born in Kazakhstan when it was part of the former Soviet Union and had performed on opera stages including those in Paris, Zurich, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Sao Paolo and Tokyo, according to his website. His repertoire was said to include more than 30 operas. |
| A biography on her management company’s website says Radner, who was born in Düsseldorf in Germany, made her debut in January 2012 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. | A biography on her management company’s website says Radner, who was born in Düsseldorf in Germany, made her debut in January 2012 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. |
| She had subsequently performed in Buenos Aires, Bonn, Rome, Geneva and Milan as well as the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London. She featured in Wagner’s Das Rheinhold,which was on BBC radio in 2012. |