Maria Müller was a dramatic soprano from the Sudetenland. She was a soprano who, in her time, was at the absolute peak of the young dramatic category. She had an...
Read MoreJarmila Novotná was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. She had beautiful tone production. The Czech government treated her as a national heroine and as its cultural...
Read MoreIn general, I hesitate to post singers this far back in time because the recordings are not good. However, in the case of Luisa Tetrazzini, the recordings have been remastered...
Read MoreTibbett was a very famous baritone. He was an opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone with large, deep, and...
Read MoreI didn't know this singer at all until I found him on youtube. Malaspina trained at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and in 1944 made his debut in...
Read MoreI am reposting this because it is wonderful. I have been in Callas withdrawal for quite a while, so this blog posting will be about her and about a very...
Read MoreLjuba Welitsch has been described as a meteor which flashed across the firmament of opera. Her major career was short, but when she was in her prime, just after WWII,...
Read MoreI made a post that included Aksel Schiølz in 2018. I decided to post him again after I listened to his Messiah and the Dichterliebe. Before his surgery (see below),...
Read MoreFerrucio Tagliavinni was an Italian tenor who sang in the 1940s and 1950s. He was considered the next great Italian tenor (after Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli), but he failed...
Read MoreI originally posted this in 2018. For some reason, I was thinking about this performance today, and I decided to repost it. This is the most beautiful version of the...
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