Opera Singers Maria Radner, Oleg Bryjak Among A320 Crash Victims - Reports

Opera singers Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner allegedly died in the Germanwings A320 plane crash, after performing in Wagner's "Siegrfied" in Barcelona.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The director of Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Christoph Meyer, has confirmed the information.

"The German Dusseldorf/Duisburg Opera mourns bass-baritone Oleg Bryjak. He is one of the victims of flight U49525 [crash]," Gonne Garling, a journalist working for the Bild German newspaper, wrote on his Twitter page on Tuesday.

Born in Kazakhstan, Bryjak, 54, became an ensemble member of the Dusseldorf opera for the 1996-1997 season.

Bryjak's opera colleague Radner, 34, was on board the A320 plane along with her husband and their baby. Their death was confirmed by Barcelona opera theater Gran Teatre del Liceu, where Radner and Bryjak performed a few days earlier.

Flags are lowered at the Barcelona opera theater.

Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in a remote mountain region in southern France on Tuesday morning. According to French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies, none of the 144 passengers and six crew members survived.

The plane was en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. French President Francois Hollande said that most of the people on board A320 were German, Spanish and Turkish nationals.