Celebrated tenor Spas Wenkoff has died at the age of 84. The opera star passed away on Monday (12Aug13) at his home in Bad Ischl, Austria, according to representatives from the Vienna State Opera.
Born in Bulgaria in 1928, Wenkoff worked as a lawyer before embarking on a career in music.
He took part in small operettas and went on to sing in Bulgaria and in East Germany.
He found fame performing pieces by famed German composer Richard Wagner and made his international breakthrough in a 1975 production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, taking on the male lead.
Wenkoff subsequently hit the stage with the Berlin State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera, among others.
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