Soprano

Capriccio:  Mondscheinmusik und Letze Szene Capriccio had its premiere at the Munich, National Theater, 1942.   It was Richard Strauss’s final opera, and it is a sophisticated “conversation piece for music”...

This 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...

Elisabeth 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...

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...

My 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...

This 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...

This 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...