{"id":26498,"date":"2015-03-24T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2015-03-24T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:14:39","slug":"breaking-news-plane-crash-takes-the-life-of-two-opera-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/03\/24\/breaking-news-plane-crash-takes-the-life-of-two-opera-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS | Plane Crash Takes the Life of Two Opera Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26499\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26499 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/Maria-Radner.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Radner\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/Maria-Radner.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/Maria-Radner-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/Maria-Radner-676x1024.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German contralto, Maria Radner Photo: IAAC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We just received word that German contralto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ia-ac.com\/MariaRadner\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Radner<\/a>, along with her husband and baby, were among the 150 victims of the plane crash in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, an opera house in Duesseldorf also confirmed\u00a0bass baritone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olegbryjak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oleg Bryjak<\/a> was on the plane which crashed on its way from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona confirmed that both Radner and Bryjak had performed in its production of Richard Wagner&#8217;s &#8220;Siegfried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toronto opera lovers might recall Radner performed Stravinsky&#8217;s Nightingale at the Canadian Opera Company in 2009. She was scheduled\u00a0to perform the role of Erda at the COC&#8217;s\u00a0upcoming \u00a0production of Wagner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coc.ca\/PerformancesAndTickets\/1516Season\/Siegfried.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Seigfried<\/em><\/a>\u00a0next January, with Christine Goerke as Br\u00fcnnhilde.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus confirmed that the Airbus A320\u00a0aircraft\u00a0was 24 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the victims of this horrific tragedy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just received word that German contralto Maria Radner along with her husband and baby, were among the 150 victims of the plane crash in the French Alps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,39,43],"tags":[5353,5354],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/Maria-Radner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-6To","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26506,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions\/26506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}