Gianna Rolandi, who has died aged 68, was an American soprano who became known to British opera lovers in works by Mozart and Strauss; she made her European debut at Glyndebourne in 1981 as Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos under the baton of Simon Rattle, with one critic commenting favourably on the “remarkable capacity for expression in her voice”, …
