The following is a duet, a wildly popular duet, from Wagner's opera "Lohengrin". As can happen in Wagner, the story is a bit complicated, and I have inserted a synopsis...
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I am going to do something a little different in this post. I have put various performers side by side singing lieder in the past, but I have never done...
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Friederich Schorr Schorr was born in Nagyvarád in Hungary and intended to become a lawyer. His father was a renowned Jewish cantor who had a first-class baritone voice himself. His...
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After studying law and serving as an officer in WWI, Janssen studied with Oskar Daniel and made his late debut at the Berlin State Opera in 1922 as Herod in...
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Verdi's Requiem is one of the greatest works ever written. I know of no better recording than the one that is referenced here. Besides the soloists, who were all in...
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