Richard Tucker was unquestionably one of America’s greatest tenors. He was known as the American Caruso. As with many of his contemporaries, the Second World War gave him the opportunity...
Read MoreI have been posting some pianists, and while I am happy to do so, I begin to miss vocal music. So, as I wrote in the title, we are going...
Read MoreMafalda Favero enrolled at the Bologna Conservatory when she was seventeen, where she studied singing with Alessandro Vezzani and also attracted the attention of the composer Franco Alfano. At Cremona...
Read MoreHelen Francesca Traubel (June 16, 1899 – July 28, 1972) was was born in St. Louis and developed into one of the most famous American born Wagnerian sopranos in the...
Read MoreGiannini was a spinto (that is, pushed, in Italian) soprano whose sound is not really evident today, especially in the works of Verdi and Puccini. Giannini's singing is from another...
Read MoreConsidered among the finest Mozartean tenors of his day, Wunderlich embraced a wide repertory that expanded to included the works of Strauss, Schubert, Bach, and Mahler, and he left behind...
Read MoreI had a friend who once told me that Giulietta Simionato was an Italian institution. He was only exaggerating slightly. Giulietta Simionato (May 12, 1910 – May 5, 2010) was...
Read MoreMargarete Teschemacher was a very popular soprano in Germany. Considering the number of records that she made, there is little information available about her. I have ordered some British reference...
Read MoreSometimes, I select a singer who is little known today but who, in her time, was considered a great, great classical singer. Rosa Raisa (May 30 , 1893 – September...
Read MoreBefore introducing Régine Crespin, I want to describe what a Falcon soprano is. The term "Falcon" comes from Marie Cornélie Falcon, a French singer who lived from 1814–1897. Roles that...
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