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| | Ernst Haefliger, 87, Opera Tenor - March 19, 2007 - The New York Sun |
 | | LUCERNE, Switzerland — Ernst Haefliger, the Swiss opera singer renowned for his oratorio and Lieder, died Saturday in the southeastern town of Davos, a Lucerne Festival spokeswoman said. |
 | | Haefliger died from acute heart failure, Barbara Higgs, spokeswoman for the yearly Lucerne music event, said yesterday. |
 | | A regular guest at the festivals of Salzburg in Austria, Glyndebourne in Britain, and Lucerne, Haefliger earned particular praise for his interpretation of the Evangelists in Bach's Passions, with the German Bach choir of München directed by Karl Richter, according to an appraisal by the Lucerne Festival. |
| www.nysun.com /obituaries/ernst-haefliger-87-opera-tenor/50716 (310 words) |
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