Rosalind Elias, an American mezzo-soprano who created roles in a pair of Samuel Barber world premieres and made her Broadway debut at 81, has died.
She was 90. Elias had been slowed by congestive heart failure for the past six months, according to her manager, Robert Lombardo, but still attended the dress rehearsals at the Metropolitan Opera as recently as Feb.
28. She was admitted to Mount Sinai West Hospital on Thursday because of breathing problems. Coronavirus was ruled out, and she died Sunday, Lombardo said. “I feel we were all put on earth for a purpose and mine was singing,” Elias told The New York Times in 1984. “If I don’t get sick, I will always be in some aspect of theater.The thing I want never to be, is to be bored with my.