Dramatic Soprano

Since 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...

This 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...

This was a great voice. Please keep in mind that the bigger the voice, the harder it is to record. You will have to listen through the crackles and the...

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...

Ljuba 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,...

I had done a posting about Göta Ljungberg several years ago, and the media attached to the post somehow became disconnected. I am reposting Gôta Ljungberg because she was an...

Two of the greatest dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century were born in Sweden a century ago, within a few weeks of each other. The first to arrive was Astrid...

Francis Poulenc, (born Jan. 7, 1899, Paris, France—died Jan. 30, 1963, Paris), composer who made an important contribution to French music in the decades after World War I and whose...

It has been too long since I have devoted a posting to Callas. Therefore, here is a posting devoted to Callas. I think that she was one of the greatest...