*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Soprano Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest dramatic sopranos of her generation, has died at 72 in Tokyo, the result of an ...

For nearly a decade, those two warring soprano queens, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi, have dominated the world of European (and U.S.) opera, leaving other postwar singers to peep about to ...