Renata Babak (February 4, 1934 in Kharkiv, Ukraine – December 31, 2003 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was a Ukrainian mezzo-soprano who defected to America from the Bolshoi Opera in 1973. "Soviet Opera Singer is Defector" Galveston Daily News (June 18, 1975): 9. via Newspapers.com
Babak died in December 2003 from pancreatic cancer at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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