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Maria Fołtyn has passed away

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Maria Fołtyn has passed away

Maria Fołtyn – an outstanding opera singer and director – passed away on 2 December 2012. 

She was an avid popularizer of Stanisław Moniuszko’s music, the founder and long-standing director of the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition. She died at 88 in a Warsaw hospital after a long and difficult illness. 

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