Maureen Lehane obituary

Opera singer and music educationist behind the Great Elm festival in SomersetThe mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane, who has died aged 78, graced the stages of Europe and America for little more than two decades, though she was a firm favourite with both critics and audiences during that period, especially in Handelian opera. After her early retirement in the late 1970s, she put her formidable talents and energies to use in the field of music education via the Jackdaws Music Education Trust, which in ...

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