Aida - Gina Cigna, Beniamino Gigli, Ebe Stignani, Tancredi Pasero - conductor-Victor De Sabata I would like to reiterate the purpose of this blog. If you listen to the posting...
Read MoreThis is going to be very tricky to do. I want to give you a youtube link of Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, who was a very great singer, and extremely well known...
Read MoreTo date, we have not touched on the Ring. Now, this is something that we must do. But before I really launch myself into it, you all need to know...
Read MoreBelieve it or not, this is a living artist. Evgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko (Евгений Евгеньевич Нестеренко, born January 8, 1938) is a Russian operatic bass. I have put two versions into this post: one by...
Read MoreI really hesitate to post these links. Some of you may hate me forever and never come back. I will try to be as diplomatic as I can be. I'm...
Read MoreKathleen Ferrier was a marvelous English contralto and a great artist. Bruno Walter, the esteemed conductor, said about her, "the greatest thing in music in my life has been to...
Read MoreRose Pauly was one of the great high dramatic sopranos. The file below is from Richard Strauss's Die Ägyptische Helena, which never entered the standard repertoire. Part of the reason...
Read MoreI’m not going to say too much about this. It speaks for itself. Tucker was called the American Caruso, and you can see why. When Anna Moffo was a young...
Read MoreThis is my favorite violinist. Besides the fact that he was a virtuoso, his tone was exquisite. I don't think that there is anyone alive today who can play like...
Read MoreAs promised, here is Mme Ljuba Welitsch singing the final scene of Salome. There never was and never has been a Soprano who so engaged her public in large lyric...
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