What is Verismo and who was Magda Olivero? First, let me say that no one can really agree what verismo is. Below is a "median" definition. I am going...
Read MoreAuch Kleine Dinge Before moving on from Wolf, there is one more Lied that I wanted to play for you. It is called "Auch kleine Dinge". It is the first...
Read MoreMy purpose here is to introduce Irmgard Seefried, who was an absolutely wonderful soprano. Here she is singing three Strauss songs to poetic texts. The first song, "Morgen" was written...
Read MoreLemishev was a very famous lyric tenor from a very poor area of Russia. He spent a good deal of time in Harbin, which was a Russian colony (really a...
Read MoreThis first link is to the love duet from Madame Butterfly. Just by coincidence, I have this recording somewhere. One thing to notice is that Tebaldi is nearly always in...
Read MoreAida - Gina Cigna, Beniamino Gigli, Ebe Stignani, Tancredi Pasero - conductor-Victor De Sabata I would like to reiterate the purpose of this blog. If you listen to the posting...
Read MoreThis is going to be very tricky to do. I want to give you a youtube link of Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, who was a very great singer, and extremely well known...
Read MoreBelieve it or not, this is a living artist. Evgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko (Евгений Евгеньевич Нестеренко, born January 8, 1938) is a Russian operatic bass. I have put two versions into this post: one by...
Read MoreI really hesitate to post these links. Some of you may hate me forever and never come back. I will try to be as diplomatic as I can be. I'm...
Read MoreKathleen Ferrier was a marvelous English contralto and a great artist. Bruno Walter, the esteemed conductor, said about her, "the greatest thing in music in my life has been to...
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