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Opera singer Rosalind Elias, who made Broadway debut at 81, dead at 90

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Rosalind Elias, a mezzo-soprano who at 24 began a 42-year association with the Metropolitan Opera but didn’t make her Broadway debut until she’d turned 81, died Sunday, May 3, in New York.

She was 90. Her death was reported by the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Opera News. No cause was given. Elias, though long known to opera devotees, was a newcomer to many in the Broadway audience when she played Heidi in the 2011 Kennedy Center production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” (the limited engagement revival premiered at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center prior to it transfer to Broadway’s Marquis Theatre).

Directed by Eric Schaeffer, the “Follies” revival featured a star-filled cast including, among others, Danny Burstein, Jan Maxwell, Elaine Paige,

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