Maria Capuana was a prominent Italian mezzo-soprano with an international opera career in the first half of the 20th century. She was known for her rich, dark-timbred voice and expressive...
Read MoreI seem to be lost in Rachmaninoff lately. I'm posting the Rachmaninoff preludes played by Constance Keene. Keene was a wonderful pianist and teacher, and her recording of the Rachmaninoff...
Read MoreLionello Cecil or Lionel Cecil Sherwood, was born in Australia in 1893. He studied in Australia and in Italy. He was a lyric tenor who had good legato and whose...
Read MoreI am beginning to become repetitious. I had never heard of this tenor. This was a great voice, a true lyric tenor. The vocal production is wonderful. He sings off...
Read MoreMy local orchestra is performing Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances this year, and I thought that I would do a posting of it. The performance below is with Kirill Kondrashin, conducting the...
Read MoreOnce again, I have found a wonderful singer from the past. I had never heard of Rosa Pampanini. She was a lyric soprano who occasionally ventured into the spinto category...
Read MoreI seem to be on a Wagner kick. I can't believe that I haven't posted this before. This is the quintet in Act III of Wagner's Die Meistersinger of Nurnberg....
Read MoreSince the last posting was about the end of Twilight of the Gods, I thought that I'd do another Wagner posting. This time, it is Callas at the beginning of...
Read MoreYet again, I have found a singer whom I knew nothing about. She had a great voice and primarily sang in East Germany. I have only posted one aria -...
Read MoreThis is another singer whom I had never heard of, but whose voice was important in her native Italy. Mauti-Nunziata was a lirico-spinto soprano, with a large, expressive voice. We...
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