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03.07.2025
Gabriel Bacquier was a leading 20th century baritone, especially in roles in his native French. He was noted for his sophisticated and natural
26.06.2025
André D'Arkor was a Belgian tenor who began his career in the mid twenties and sang publicly to about the end of World War II. He toured the
21.06.2025
Ansseau started his studies as a baritone but moved into the tenor repertoire, though always retaining a strong lower register that served hi
18.06.2025
Born in 1931 in Paris, he began to take singing lessons while he was working as a metal worker. He debuted at the Opéra Comique in 1958 as
14.06.2025
Born in Toulouse into a musical family, Mesplé was a keen pianist, and her studies were encouraged by her mother,
04.06.2025
Knoxville Summer of 1915 is based on an esaay/poem by James Agee. Ageer's pieceis a dreamy, conversational, almost improvisatory piece of pro
13.05.2025
Elisabetta Barbato was an Italian dramatic soprano. She starred in many theaters around the world, from the Colon in Buenos Aires to the Met
06.05.2025
Verdi was a man of great spirituality. But, after his childhood–when he walked three miles to church every Sunday morning, sometimes barefoot,
03.05.2025
During Panerai's career he would perform more than 150 works and would become one of the most important Verdi baritones of his generation in
26.04.2025
Renato Bruson is an Italian operatic baritone. Bruson is widely considered one of the most important Verdi baritones of the late 20th and
18.04.2025
Beethoven had very little time to compose the piece before its first performance and rushed to finish it in time. He even decided to use the
13.04.2025
At the beginning of 1943, while Béla Bartók was being treated in a New York hospital, he was visited by Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the
05.04.2025
Because of the large number of Italian tenors who enjoyed successful international careers in the period between the World Wars and in the
29.03.2025
The remarkable Russian-born American pianist, Shura (Alexander Isaakovich) Cherkassky, began piano training with his mother. While still a c
21.03.2025
Born in Germany, Goltz started her career at the State Opera in Dresden in 1936 but had her international breakthrough with a role
11.03.2025
Giuseppe Taddei, a distinguished Italian baritone who made his Metropolitan Opera debut to glowing notices in 1985 at the astonishing age of
07.03.2025
The Italian baritone, whose voice was at its splendid best during the 1940s, was not heard in London until September 1950, when he sang in Ote
04.03.2025
Piero Cappuccilli was the very epitome of all that is best in the tradition of Italian baritones. He proved that conclusively at Covent Garden
01.03.2025
Müller was born in Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) and trained first at the Prague Conservatory. Then she studied with Erik Schmedes and
21.02.2025
A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná was an internationally known opera
19.02.2025
Tibbett began his performing career as an actor and church singer in Los Angeles, where he studied voice with Basil Ruysdael. In 1923, after
Here we have Callas in excellent vocal shape and a cast of La Scala regulars: di Stefano, Panerai, Zaccaria, Zampieri, and Villa.
Ljuba Welitsch has been described as a meteor which flashed across the firmament of opera. Her major career was short, but when she was in h
Baritone, who studied at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma and made his debut in 1944 in Milan as Marcello in Puccini’s ‘’La Bohème’’.
In Florence, Tetrazzini studied with her sister Eva, a successful dramatic soprano, and at the conservatory, making her debut in 1895 as Inez
30.01.2025
Aksel Schiøtz was a Danish tenor and later baritone, who was considered one of Europe's leading lieder singers of the post-World War II per
21.01.2025
Leo Slezak was a world-famous Moravian tenor. He was associated in particular with Austrian opera as well as the title role in Verdi’s Otello
Sena Jurinac was one of the best-loved, most accomplished sopranos of her generation and a favourite at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden. Af
18.01.2025
The Sonata in E-flat major, K380, the last in Auernhammer’s series, opens with imperious tonic chords dropping from one octave
14.01.2025
Clara Petrella was an Italian operatic soprano, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, an outstanding singing-actress nicknamed
10.01.2025
Carosio, born in Genoa to a teacher/composer father, began singing in public at 14 and made her operatic debut at 16 as Lucia di Lammermoor a
02.01.2025
Josef Traxel was a highly exceptional tenor. He was a tall and imposing figure of a man and looked rather like a bass singer. Traxel had had
31.12.2024
Madame Butterfly, Tebaldi, Andrea Chénier, La mamma morta. This first link is to the love duet from Madame Butterfly. Just by coincidence,
Rudolf Lustig was born in 1906 in Vienna, where he studied with Hermine Geyer prior to beginning his career in 1933 at the National
17.12.2024
Cox was an American tenor, born in Gadsen, Alabama. After attending the Univ. of Ala. and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, he
15.12.2024
Toscanini became principally known for his readings of the operas of Verdi and the symphonies of Beethoven, and he gave remarkable performanc
04.12.2024
Fedora Barbieriwas one of the most celebrated Italian mezzo-sopranos of the postwar era. In addition to possessing a voice of formidable propo
The Vespers were composed in just two weeks, in early 1915. Like all traditional Russian church music, it is a cappella; instruments are not
27.11.2024
Valletti was born in Rome and studied privately until making his debut, as Alfredo, at Bari in 1947. He came to prominence when he sang Don
22.11.2024
Cossotto was hailed for her interpretations of the major mezzo and contralto roles from mid-19th-century Italian operas, particularly those