"Kostelnicka" Hildegard Behrens, left, and "Steva Buryja" David Kuebler, rehearse a scene of the opera "Jenufa" by composer Leos Janacek and director Bob Swaim, in Salzburg, Austria. Behrens, one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan. She was 72. Jonathan Friend, artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, said Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009 that Behrens felt unwell in Tokyo and went to the hospital and died of an aneurism. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha, File)
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