Today, I am posting Virginia Zeani. She was a very famous and popular soprano. I am going to ask you to listen closely to her. She has a beautiful voice...
Read MoreI am posting 4 renditions of "Es gibt ein Reich", from Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos. I have done something like this in the past, but I thought that...
Read MoreHüsch had one of the most sheerly beautiful baritone voices in the history of recorded music; rounded, warm, easy in tone, perfectly focused without a trace of strain or wobble...
Read MoreOne of the really nice things about doing this blog is that I get to discover wonderful artists by accident. This posting is about Nicolae Herlea, a Romanian baritone whom...
Read MoreFrancesco Maria Bonini (1865 – January 11, 1930) was an Italian baritone who had a major international opera career from 1896 through 1927. He was one of the first wave...
Read MoreGiangiacomo Guelfi, initially studied law at the University of Florence. He subsequently enrolled at the Centro Lirico in Florence, where he was a pupil of the celebrated baritones Titta Ruffo...
Read MoreMario Ancona was a very special singer during the latter part of the 19th century and the beginning part of the 20th century. The thing that I would point out...
Read MoreI have done something like this in the past where I have posted several people singing the same aria. This time, I will post only two sopranos: Maria Callas and...
Read MoreElisabeth 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...
Read MoreMario Filippeschi was a spinto/dramatico Italian tenor. He was very well known for the ringing sound at the top of his register ("lo squillo" in Italian). As I remark below,...
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