Like few female singers, she shaped the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in a very special way. Now the American soprano Karan Armstrong died at the age of 79.
The soprano and chamber singer Karan Armstrong is dead. The American died on Tuesday at the age of 79 in Spain, as the Deutsche Oper in Berlin confirmed on Wednesday, citing close friends and family.
The “BZ” reported that Armstrong had died in a hospital in Marbella.
“Karan Armstrong has helped shape the Deutsche Oper Berlin like few female singers for almost four decades,” wrote the opera in an obituary. After that, she performed 24 different roles on more than 400 evenings.
Born in the small town of Havre in the US state of Montana, Armstrong studied soprano with the German-American opera singer Charlotte Lehmann in the USA. After her operatic debut in San Francisco in 1965, she first appeared in Europe in the 1970s. She got to know the director Götz Friedrich during a production of “Salome” in Stuttgart. Armstrong married the future director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and went to Berlin with him.
The couple was considered a rare artistic symbiosis until Friedrich’s death in 2000. From the opera’s point of view, Armstrong was “the ideal artist for her husband’s directorial theater”, whose repertoire was not limited to Strauss and Wagner, but also included operas by composers such as Berg, Korngold, Poulenc, Shostakovich and Kurt Weill.
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