Dec.1943 - Mar.2002

Vienna, Austria (APA), 20 March 2002 - the great Swedish tenor Gösta Winbergh is dead.  The 58-year-old singer was found dead Sunday in his rented flat -- of an apparent heart attack, according to Austrian television ORF2.  Winbergh was seen on Sunday as Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera.  The last great role of Winbergh's in Vienna was the Tristan in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. 

Click here for the complete article in German.

(Editor's note:  Mr. Winbergh was heard in Los Angeles Opera's Lohengrin this past September to huge critical acclaims.  To this writer, Mr. Winbergh's Lohengrin revealed the dramatic ardor and lyrical grace that are rarely encountered in Wagner singing today.  The full review by Mark Swed, "A Lyrical Lohengrin", appeared in Los Angeles Times.)

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