Heather Harper was born in Belfast and was one of the great British voices of the postwar era. Although she spent much of her professional life in London, her career...
Read MoreSometime, I get caught in a groove. For the past few weeks, this has been French mélodie, or French Art Songs. I had posted Dame Maggie Teyte in 2022, and...
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 MoreI haven't posted anything by Tebaldi in a long time, and so I decided to bring her back for an encore. Here is a copy of the orignial posting made...
Read MoreI'm not going to write anything about this clip other than to say that this is why opera fanatics love opera. This is Donizetti's Maria Stuarda sung in English. The...
Read MoreZinka Milanov was a marvel. In her prime she was considered the most significant spinto soprano of her day, a singer who possessed an instrument capable of pristine top tones...
Read MoreHere we have Jo (Johanna) Vincent, the most famous Dutch singer of the first half of the 20th century. She was not an opera singer. She was rather a recitalist...
Read MoreThe following is a duet, a wildly popular duet, from Wagner's opera "Lohengrin". As can happen in Wagner, the story is a bit complicated, and I have inserted a synopsis...
Read More"Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen", one of Mahler's so-called Rückert lieder, is Mahler's finest song. I have been told that the word "Weltschmerz" or "world pain" is used much...
Read MoreI'm going to try to post this rather quickly as I haven't posted for a little while. Rather than do a lot of interpretation, I will give some biographical information...
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