It has been too long since I have devoted a posting to Callas. Therefore, here is a posting devoted to Callas. I think that she was one of the greatest...
Read MoreI was thinking about what to write today, and I decided to write about two of my favorite French singers - Irma Kolassi and Ninon Vallin. Vallin sang earlier in...
Read MoreOne of the most interesting aspects of Hotter's singing is its emphasis on legato. This is the connecting of one note to the next to make a musical phase. In...
Read MoreBastianini had a tragic life. At one point, he was the most renowned baritone in the opera world. And just a few years later, he suffered and died from cancer...
Read MoreI am letting you hear the Libeslieder Walzer (both opus numbers) at your leisure. For me to have posted a translation of every song would have been madness (on my...
Read MoreToday, I am posting Virginia Zeani. She was a very famous and popular soprano. I am going to ask you to listen closely to her. She has a beautiful voice...
Read MoreThere is a recording of Rachmaninoff playing the Third Piano Concerto in D Minor. I thought that I would be nice to hear and to contrast it with a different...
Read MoreI am posting 4 renditions of "Es gibt ein Reich", from Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos. I have done something like this in the past, but I thought that...
Read MoreHüsch had one of the most sheerly beautiful baritone voices in the history of recorded music; rounded, warm, easy in tone, perfectly focused without a trace of strain or wobble...
Read MoreOne of the really nice things about doing this blog is that I get to discover wonderful artists by accident. This posting is about Nicolae Herlea, a Romanian baritone whom...
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