Lyric Coloratura Soprano

This was a great voice. Wilma Lipp started out as a coloratura soprano, and, as she got older, she added heavier roles. She was an Austrian operatic soprano and voice...

I discovered Judith Beckmann while looking on YouTube. I knew nothing about her previously. When I first heard her, I said to myself, "this is a real voice". I think...

From time to time, I look up names of singers and then go online to see if they have any performances on YouTube. This was the case with Lotte Schädle,...

Yvonne Gall was a very well known and well regarded soprano of her time. She made her operatic debut at the Paris Opéra in 1908 as Mathilde, and remained on...

Géori Boué was an important French soprano during the post WWII period. She had a bright sound, which probably carried very well in the halls in which she sang. In...

Toti Dal Monte was one of the great sopranos of the nineteen twenties and thirties. Miss Dal Monte, whose real name was Antonietta Meneghelli, sang at the Metropolitan Opera in...

Today, I am posting someone who could be called a "forgotten singer". In most writing about her, Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi is referred to as a light lyric soprano, and from her...

This singer is a marvel, and she is still singing today.  Her name is Mariella Devia, and she is 72 years.  I think that she devotes most of her time...

Oh, this was such a pain in the neck. This particular aria has been attributed to J.S. Bach, but it was really written by Heinrich Stötzel, and it is from...