German opera singer Anneliese Rothenberger dead

She also had her own television show in Germany and appeared in numerous musical films. Rothenberger last sang publicly in the late 1980s before retiring after being diagnosed with bowel cancer.
She declined to launch a comeback after recovering, telling Stern magazine: "People said to me on the street, 'It's a shame you don't sing any more.
"I thought to myself that that was preferable to people saying, 'That old woman is still singing'."
Some sources give her age as 85.
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