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Hours after I posted about Nicolai Gedda defying rumors of his death to celebrate his 90th birthday today, word emerges that we’ve lost Jon Vickers.
http://www.roh.org.uk/news/canadian-born-tenor-jon-vickers-dies
Here’s Vickers as Siegmund in the Todesverkündigung from “Die Walküre” (with Birgit Nilsson):
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