NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lili Chookasian, a renowned contralto who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for more than two decades and taught at the Yale School of Music, has died at her home in Connecticut. She was 90. Chookasian, who died on Tuesday, enjoyed a long career that included 290 performances with The Metropolitan Opera from 1962 through 1986, and she appeared with many of the world’s major conductors, symphony orchestras, opera and recording companies
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Renowned contralto Lili Chookasian dies, age 90
