Goltz was a great Wagnerian voice. She was one of the most famous high dramatic sopranos of her time, and today, she is mostly forgotten. She was well known for...
Read MoreI decided to redo my posting of Gino Bechi because I found a duet with him and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi. Lauri-Volpi was a great Italian tenor. Gino Bechi was a Verdi...
Read MorePiero Cappuccilli was considered one of the finest baritones of his generation. He was enormously admired within the field of opera for his rich, and abundant voice, fine vocal technique,...
Read MoreMaria Müller was a dramatic soprano from the Sudetenland. She was a soprano who, in her time, was at the absolute peak of the young dramatic category. She had an...
Read MoreJarmila Novotná was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. She had beautiful tone production. The Czech government treated her as a national heroine and as its cultural...
Read MoreTibbett was a very famous baritone. He was an opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone with large, deep, and...
Read MoreI didn't know this singer at all until I found him on youtube. Malaspina trained at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and in 1944 made his debut in...
Read MoreI am reposting this because it is wonderful. I have been in Callas withdrawal for quite a while, so this blog posting will be about her and about a very...
Read MoreLjuba Welitsch has been described as a meteor which flashed across the firmament of opera. Her major career was short, but when she was in her prime, just after WWII,...
Read MoreI made a post that included Aksel Schiølz in 2018. I decided to post him again after I listened to his Messiah and the Dichterliebe. Before his surgery (see below),...
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