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Linda Esther Gray |
13 Aug 2007 |
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 A glittering soprano career cut short.
Linda Esther Gray made her debut as Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme on the Glyndebourne stage at the tender age of 23. She continued to go from strength to strength and a glittering international career as a leading opera talent was unfolding. Making characters like Wagner’s Isolde her own she was described as “one of the most lyric of modern sopranos”, and was “expected to be the next Callas”. However a serious illness brought all her ambitions to a crashing halt, less than ten years later, when Linda lost her voice. This remarkable story is now the subject of her autobiography and Linda joins Jane to talk about being a singer with no instrument, how she managed to build up her life again and how she eventually rediscovered her voice.
"A Life Behind Curtains: A Singer’s Silent Sounds" by Linda Esther Gray is published by Green Oak Publishing, ISBN: 9780955550508 , available at the Glyndebourne Opera Shop, the Royal Opera House Shop Covent Garden - or through Linda's website.Linda Esther GrayDisclaimer
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