Bianca Scacciati was unknown to me. However, she was an important dramatic soprano in Italy in the late 1920s to early 1930s. Her voice noted for its power, dark timbre,...
Read MoreMaria 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 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 MoreI posted this about 4 years ago, and I am reposting it because I want any viewers who didn't hear it 4 years ago to hear it now. I am...
Read MoreI won't make many comments on this post. The piece speaks for itself. This is a scene taken from a 1982 production of Maria Stuarda, sung in English at the...
Read MoreThe overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger is one of the great pieces of German Romantic Music. It is accessible whether or not you know the opera. This particular performance of...
Read MoreMozart's Don Giovanni is a very famous opera. Some say that it is the greatest opera ever written. It is about the adventures of the libertine Don Giovanni. I have...
Read MoreI realized that I have never posted the ending of Der Rosenkavalier. I am correcting that mistake here. I am posting two different performances; one from a 1933 recording, and...
Read MoreOh, yes, I've done it. I have steered myself back to vocal music, but I got caught in Wagner. What I am going to post is a very famous recording...
Read MoreGalina Vishnevskaya, (Galina Pavlovna Ivanova), Russian soprano (born Oct. 25, 1926, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. (now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died Dec. 11, 2012, Moscow, Russia),was a leading soprano at the Bolshoi Theatre...
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