Leslie Rubinstein (Pueblo, CO, June 21, 1939 — Glenview, IL, September 22, 2007) was an American
music critic and
journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...
. She was a regular contributor to ''
Opera News'' magazine from the mid-1970s through the 1990s. Her first article with the magazine was about stand-by singers at the
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...
in 1975. Some of her other work for the magazine included featured stories on
Luciano Pavarotti,
Jan Peerce,
Eleanor Steber
Eleanor Steber (July 17, 1914October 3, 1990) was an American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States.
Biography
Eleanor ...
and the filming of
Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film '' The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...
's ''
Carmen''.
References
1939 births
2007 deaths
American music critics
American women journalists
American women music critics
People from Pueblo, Colorado
Women writers about music
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
21st-century American women
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