One of the great stars of Italian opera Mirella Freni, who as an infant shared a wet nurse with Luciano Pavarotti, died Sunday at the age of 84 following a long illness, media reports said. Born in ...

Mirella Freni, one of the greatest singers of all time, has died at the age of 84. Freni was a singer I returned to time and time again. By the time I was getting into opera in the early 1990s, Freni ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mirella Freni, an Italian soprano whose ...

Mirella Freni passed away on February 9th 2020. She was 84 years old. Freni was an Italian operatic soprano who had a career of 50 years and appeared at major international opera houses. She received ...

In this clip from Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” Freni sings Susanna’s Act IV aria. GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of Mirella Freni, one of the preeminent lyric sopranos of her generation ...