Rita Streich

  • Known for: Actor
  • Date of birth: 1920. December 18.
  • Place of birth: Barnaul, Altai Governorate [now Altai Krai], Russia

Rita Streich (18 December 1920 – 20 March 1987) was one of the most admired and recorded lyric coloratura sopranos of the post-war period. Rita Streich was born in Barnaul, southern Siberia, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), to a German father who had been a prisoner o...

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