Lionello Cecil or Lionel Cecil Sherwood, was born in Australia in 1893. He studied in Australia and in Italy. He was a lyric tenor who had good legato and whose...
Read MoreI am beginning to become repetitious. I had never heard of this tenor. This was a great voice, a true lyric tenor. The vocal production is wonderful. He sings off...
Read MoreOnce 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...
Read MoreSince the last posting was about the end of Twilight of the Gods, I thought that I'd do another Wagner posting. This time, it is Callas at the beginning of...
Read MoreYet again, I have found a singer whom I knew nothing about. She had a great voice and primarily sang in East Germany. I have only posted one aria -...
Read MoreThis is another singer whom I had never heard of, but whose voice was important in her native Italy. Mauti-Nunziata was a lirico-spinto soprano, with a large, expressive voice. We...
Read MoreI posted Giangiacomo Guelfi in 2023, but I came across this film from a television production of Tosca with him and Renata Tebaldi, and I suppose that I couldn't resist....
Read MoreOnce again, I present to you a tenor I hadn't heard of . Umberto Borsò was a dramatic tenor who sang in Europe and the Metropolitan Opera in the 50s...
Read MoreI must confess that I did not know who this singer was. However, upon listening to him, I was amazed. Here was a heroic tenor who had slipped from the...
Read MoreThere is not a lot of information about Maria Duchêne on the internet, but there are recordings of her. What there is to note is a large voice that is...
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