This posting is an indulgence to me, and since I'm the one posting, I'm going to indulge myself. You've heard of a murder of crows; well, this is a plethora...
Read MoreIn this posting, I am returning to the idea of a comparison of singers against one piece. I have decided to take a single Lied by Robert Schumann and present...
Read MoreThis introduction is essentially a copy from the Winterreise Part I posting. These are the last 12 songs that Schubert wrote. Schubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and...
Read MoreThis clip is 15 minutes long. It is the Immolation scene from Götterdämerung. I won't put anything else in this post because this performance is enough. It is the culmination...
Read MoreTito Schipa Tito Schipa was an extremely famous and talented light lyric tenor, or "tenore di grazia" in Italian. His voice was not large, but it was produced so well...
Read MoreSchubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and male voice of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music by Franz Schubert. These are some of the last pieces...
Read MoreI have two purposes in this posting. I would like to introduce Apollo Granforte, who was a great Verdi baritone, with marvelous placement, during the early and middle parts of...
Read MoreClaudia Muzio was one of the great singers of the 20th century, and she had a profound influence on Maria Callas. She died quite young, too young to have made...
Read MoreGigli was a marvelous lyric tenor. He was sometimes accused of being overly sentimental, and you may hear some of that when he is singing, but I don't mind it. ...
Read MoreElisabeth Grümmer was a wonderful soprano who sang at around the same time as Elisabeth Scwarzkopf, Lisa della Casa, Hilde Güden, Irmgard Seefriend, and Sena Jurinac. There seemed to be...
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