Bio: Rita Streich (18 December 1920 – 20 March 1987) was one of the most admired and recorded lyric coloratura sopranos of the post-war period.
Rita Streich was born in Barnaul, southern Siberia, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), to a German father who had been a prisoner of war there, and a Russian mother
Born: Sat, Dec 18 1920
Birthplace: Barnaul, Altai Governorate [now Altai Krai], Russia
