Helen Watts had a really special contralto voice. She was in the same league as Kathleen Ferrier and Maureen Forrester. Her voice was very rich and sonorous at the same...
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Sometimes, I like to post several performances of the same Lied. In this case, I am posting Wolfe's setting of Goethe's poem "Kennst du das Land". The three singers whom...
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Louise Homer was an American opera singer, one of the leading operatic contraltos of the first quarter of the 20th century. In 1895 she married the composer Sidney Homer. After...
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Sigrid Onégin was a Franco-German operatic dramatic contralto who enjoyed a major international career prior to World War II. She was celebrated for the richness of its tone, its flexibility,...
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There is not very much on the internet about this singer. Although she was a famous concert artist and a very famous teacher, there is just not much information about...
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Ruth Michaelis had a very long career with the Munich Opera. Her main stage roles were Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Marthe in Faust, by Charles Gounod, Suzuki in Madama...
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Aafje Heynes started her musical life early, singing at her father's harmonium from the age of four. She auditioned for teacher Jo Immink with an arrangement of the "Pilgrims' Chorus"...
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I 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...
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Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen I have done a posting very similar to this one before, and I am repeating myself, but with different performers. This particular Lied merits...
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I do not think that Olszewska was a contralto, much in the same way that I don't think that Marian Anderson was a contralto, although both of them are in...
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