Licitra’s family donate organs
The family of Salvatore Licitra have said they wish his organs to be used to help others. The body will be laid out on the stage of Teatro Vincenzo Bellini in Catania for mourners to visit and pay their last respects.
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Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra has died. He was 43.
Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra died today from head injuries he suffered nine days ago in an accident while riding his scooter in Sicily. Following the accident on 27 August near Ragusa, Licitra was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Catania where he was reported to be in a stable condition after surgery. He was not…
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British actor John Wood dies at 81
John Wood – who won a Tony award in 1976 and appeared in numerous films and TV dramas and appeared in films such The Madness of King George and Shadowlands – has died at the age of 81. Wood, who was made a CBE in 2007 for services to drama, won the Tony for his role in…
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Tom Aldredge, character actor, dies at 83
Tom Aldredge, an Emmy-winning actor who for five decades was ubiquitous on stage and screen, seen in everything from Sondheim to “The Sopranos,” died on Friday in Tampa, Fla. He was 83. “I knew at the beginning I was nobody’s leading man,” Aldredge told The New York Times in 1985, when he was 57 and…
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American baritone Cornell MacNeil dies at 88
The American baritone Cornell MacNeil died on July 15, he was 88. He was best known for his many Verdi roles. From 1959 to 1987, he sang 26 roles in more than 600 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, including more than 100 performances of Rigoletto. In a 2007 interview James Levine commented: The larger and more…
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Googie Withers dies at 94
Googie Withers, best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s railway thriller The Lady Vanishes, has died in Australia, aged 94. Her unusual name was an affectionate childhood nickname meaning “dove” given to her by an Indian nanny. She moved to Australia in 1958 after marrying Australian actor John McCallum, one of the creators of…
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Alessandra Ferri on working with Roland Petit
He was the greatest. Working with him I touched upon genius itself. He gave you the essence of a character in a single gesture, in an instant. A dancer was never the same after meeting him. Petit forced me to bring out the tiger that was inside me. I was almost 20 when I débuted in…
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Lord Harewood – cousin to the Queen and friend to Callas – has died at 88
George Harewood was an extraordinary powerhouse of a man, full of passion conveyed in his beautifully polished tones. The accent and comportment were entirely natural for George was a Lord: George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood. He was the eldest nephew of King George VI and was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, but the big thing in his…
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Roland Petit: 1924 – 2011
Roland Petit with his wife Zizi Jeanmaire after a performance of Carmen New York, October 1949
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Great French choreographer Roland Petit dies at 87
Great French choreographer and dancer Roland Petit died today in Geneva after a long illness. He was 87. The Paris Opera Ballet gave out the news earlier today. French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand said Petit was “one of the major choreographers of the 20th century”. “With his muse Renee Jeanmaire, or Zizi, with whom he formed…
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Helen Mirren pays tribute to the late Margaret Tyzack
“I have just heard that the acting profession has lost one of its finest, Margaret Tyzack, known as Maggie to all her fellow actors. I began my career on television with Maggie, playing to her Cousin Bette. Then a whole lifetime and many roles later, both hers and mine, we played together onstage in Phedre….
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Columbo star Peter Falk dies aged 83
Peter Falk, most famous for his role as TV’s scruffy detective, Columbo, has died at the age of 83. The actor died peacefully at home in Beverly Hills last night; he had been suffering from dementia for a number of years. Peter Falk won four Emmys for his cigar-chomping role in Columbo, which ended in 1977,…
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Pan’s People choreographer Flick Colby dies at 65
Flick Colby, a dancer and choreographer who helped make Top of the Pops troupe Pan’s People a national institution, has died at the age of 65. Colby co-founded the group, who, in the days before music videos, accompanied hits on the weekly TV show when artists could not perform. They first appeared in 1968 and spent eight…
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Grease star Jeff Conaway dies at 60
Grease star Jeff Conaway died today after a long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. The actor was taken off life support yesterday and passed away this morning at Encino Tarzana Medical Center. He was taken there unconscious on May 11 after an overdose and placed in a medically induced coma. Conaway had been treating himself with pain…
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Actress and impersonator Janet Brown dies at 87
Actress and comic Janet Brown, who was best known for impersonating former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died aged 87. Her agent said she died in her sleep at a nursing home in Hove, East Sussex, after a short illness. In a career beginning in the 1930s, she gained national TV fame in the 1970s and…
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Actor Edward Hardwicke dies at 78
Edward Hardwicke, who died on Monday aged 78, was best known on television for playing Dr Watson in a Sherlock Holmes series in the 1980s, but had already come to public attention in the 1970s series Colditz as the character based on the real-life war hero Pat Reid. Hardwicke had been suggested as the bumbling…
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Playboy Gunter Sachs kills himself aged 78
Gunter Sachs – the German-born billionaire, art collector and former husband of Brigitte Bardot – has killed himself at the age of 78. He shot himself at his chalet in the Swiss resort of Gstaad on Saturday. A grandson of car manufacturer Adam Opel, Sachs’s wealth helped him to become him a prominent member of…
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Arthur Laurents, playwright and director, dies at 93
Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway’s landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, and created one of Hollywood’s most well-known romances, The Way We Were, died yesterday in his home in Manhattan. He was 93. Laurents once described writers as “the chosen people” and said he…
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Tenor Vincenzo La Scola dies at 53
Vincenzo La Scola, an Italian tenor known internationally as both an opera singer and a crossover artist, died on April 15 in Turkey, where he was giving a master class, from a heart attack. He was 53. His manager, Silvana Sintow-Behrens said on her website: It is with shock and greatest sadness that we must…
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Welsh tenor, Robert Tear, dies aged 72
Welsh tenor Robert Tear has died today aged 72. He made his final singing performance at the Royal Opera House, as the emperor in Turandot, in 2009. Tear, who was born in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, started as a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge. Fellow tenor Ian Bostridge said Tear had “cast iron technique”…
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Hugh Martin, composer of the Meet Me in St Louis score, dies aged 96
Hugh Martin, the songwriter who enlivened the Judy Garland movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis” with an indelibly melodic trio of evergreen songs — “The Trolley Song,” “The Boy Next Door” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” — died March 11 in California. He was 96. A talented lyricist as well as a…
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My memories of Jane Russell – a down-to-earth gal: June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011
Jane Russell and I had little in common, but we shared the same birthday, which we both agreed was the best possible day to have a birthday, June 21. When I worked with her, briefly, she joked about the advantages of being a Gemini. She was very quietly spoken, though her make-up was a little…
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Annie Girardot, grande dame of French cinema, remembered for Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers”, has died aged 79
Annie Girardot, the perky, gravely-voiced actress who became one of France’s most acclaimed stars, has died. She was 79. Girardot had suffered since 2006 from Alzheimer’s disease and died today in a Paris hospital. With an enthusiastic nature that never seemed to fail, Girardot captured the hearts of French lovers of cinema and theatre. Former Culture…
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Mel Brooks actor Kenneth Mars dies at 75
Kenneth Mars, a Mel Brooks collaborator who played a Hitler-worshipping playwright in “The Producers” and an earnest police inspector with a malfunctioning artificial arm in “Young Frankenstein“, has died at 75. Mars had been on Broadway and appeared in several hit TV shows (“Get Smart”, “Gunsmoke”) when he was cast as the Hitler-worshiping playwright in…
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On The Town star Betty Garrett has died at 91
Betty Garrett, perhaps most remembered as Frank Sinatra’s wise-cracking taxi driver sweetheart in MGM’s “On The Town” died yesterday after a short illness. Garrett, who had a great comic talent, as well as being able to sing and dance, was part of the MGM family during the golden years of musicals. She made “On The…
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Maria Schneider, star of Last Tango in Paris, dies in Paris at 58
French actress Maria Schneider, most famous for her role as Marlon Brando‘s lover in “Last Tango in Paris,” has died aged 58. Le Figaro newspaper quoted her family as saying she had died yesterday morning in Paris after a long illness. The daughter of French actor Daniel Gelin and a Parisian bookshop owner, Schneider was…
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English film composer John Barry has died at 77
Although best known for his Bond music (Federico Fellini said that Goldfinger was his favourite music for film), he wrote almost one hundred film scores, and some of his best music wasn’t for the Bond series at all. He won Oscars for 1969’s The Lion in Winter, 1985’s Out of Africa and 1991’s Dancing with Wolves. His…
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Welsh soprano Dame Margaret Price has died aged 69
Dame Margaret Price, possessor of one of the world’s most beautiful soprano voices, has died from heart failure at the age of 69. She passed away yesterday morning at her home near Cardigan, Ceredigion. She was born into a musical family in Blackwood, Monmouthshire. In her youth, she rarely competed at Eisteddfodau but dreamt instead…
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Jill Haworth, the Original Sally in ‘Cabaret,’ Dies at 65
Jill Haworth, a British-born film ingénue in the 1960s who made her only Broadway appearance as the original Sally Bowles in “Cabaret,” died Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 65. A petite, strikingly pretty blonde (she wore a dark wig on Broadway), Ms. Haworth was just 14 when she was signed to appear,…
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Anna Anni, costume designer for Orson Welles and Franco Zeffirelli, has died at 84
After designing costumes for two Orson Welles projects in 1953, Anna Anni worked for more than 50 years at the top. Maria Callas, Monserrat Caballè, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Carla Fracci, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Magnani, Valentina Cortese e Fanny Ardant all wore her costumes. A designer obsessed with detail, and one of the first to rediscover techniques for creating…
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