Rita Streich

Acting

Born: 1920-12-18 · Barnaul, Altai Governorate [now Altai Krai], Russia

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 w…