>From Seattle Opera:

   Seattle-Glynn Ross, Seattle Opera's first general director,
   died today, Thursday, July 21, 2005, in Tucson, Arizona, of
   complications resulting from a stroke.  He was 90 years old.

   Able to operate on a shoestring, Ross was well known for his
   audacious undertakings in the world of opera.  He presented a
   new rock opera Tommy, featuring Bette Midler, by the WHO; the
   world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's opera Of Mice and Men; the
   world premiere of Pasatieri's opera Black Widow; and a new
   production of Wagner's mammoth four-opera Ring des Nibelungen-shocking
   and impressing an opera world that couldn't believe a regional
   company in the United States, much less in Seattle, could undertake
   and succeed in presenting the most challenging work in all opera.

Janos Gereben/SF
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