Peter Hofmann – from Wagner to Phantom – dies at 66
German tenor Peter Hofmann, who became famous for his performances of Richard Wagner operas, died Tuesday. He was 66. The Rheinische Post newspaper quoted his brother Fritz Hofmann saying he died at a hospital in Wunsiedel in Bavaria. The mass-circulation newspaper Bild also reported Hofmann’s death after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. “Peter Hofmann,…