Lyric Soprano

This has to be one of my favorite arias. It is also very difficult to sing. I am posting Irmgard Seefried singing "Ruhe sanft" as well as two other sopranos...

Maria Stader is a favorite singer of mine. I was delighted to find this recording of her singing a number of Schubert Lieder at the Prades Festival in 1953. They...

Once again, I have found a wonderful singer from the past. I had never heard of Rosa Pampanini. She was a lyric soprano who occasionally ventured into the spinto category...

Clara Petrella is another singer whom I didn't know. I found her by perusing the Internet. She had an enormous voice, with something like an explosion of sound occurring when...

Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano, known for her beauty and dramatic talent and the intimate timbre of her voice. I have selected Farrar because of her reputation. The recording...

It is said that Alma Gluck was the most popular American soprano of her time. The recordings that we have are old, and they go back to the beginning of...

Maria Cebotari was, like her colleague Ljuba Welitsch, a flash across the firmament of opera. She had a career that was cut short by cancer in 1949. The wonderful things...

Elisabeth Söderström was one of the great singers in the middle of the twentieth century. I did not write it as such, but her voice approached a dramatic soprano's in...