Like Mark Twain, reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. In 2015, legendary Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda became the subject of a death hoax that sent panic and despair rippling through the opera-loving community. Alas, today is no hoax. Gedda has died at the age of 91. One of the most widely-recorded tenors in history, he made his final opera recording in 2003 at 77 years-old. R.I.P.

https://www.francemusique.fr/opera/nicolai-gedda-est-32119

A devil-may-care Gedda as Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini