I have hesitated in the past to post something sung by Birgit Nilsson. This is because she had an enormous voice, and enormous voices are notoriously difficult to record. However,...
Read MoreToday, 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...
Read MoreNicolai Gedda, a Swedish-born singer who was one of the most renowned lyric tenors of the 20th century and performed dozens of roles on the world’s leading opera stages. From...
Read MoreI posted Alfredo Kraus a few years ago, and I am posting him again because he is a wonderful example of "singing on the breath". To understand what this phrase...
Read MoreIch 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...
Read MoreThere is unfortunately not much biographical available about Dinh Gilly. I will provide as much detail as I have been able to find below. Gilly was a wonderful Baritone, who...
Read MoreOne of the nice things about this blog is that I get to find mostly forgotten singers and hear them for the first time. I "discover" a lot of singers...
Read MoreEver on the hunt for good, expressive singing, I came across Jean Panel, who, in his time, was a very well known French tenor. I would have liked to use...
Read MoreGiovanni Martinelli ranks among the greatest tenors of the 20th century, and perhaps came to be the true Caruso-successor after Caruso’s death in 1921. He had a very distinct sound,...
Read MoreBorn in Yorkshire in 1933, the famed English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker never had a formal musical education. Coming from a far from affluent family, she left school to work in...
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