Soprano

Today, I am posting Virginia Zeani. She was a very famous and popular soprano. I am going to ask you to listen closely to her. She has a beautiful voice...

I am posting 4 renditions of "Es gibt ein Reich", from Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos. I have done something like this in the past, but I thought that...

Oda Slobodskaya was a singer who was never properly appreciated. She left Russia and lived abroad at a time when knowledge of and demand for Russian music were far less...

This week, I have decided to focus on French Art Song, or mélodie in French. Teyte, the spelling of whose name she changed from the original "Tate" to "Teyte" so...

After my recent excursion into instrumental music, I decided to return to vocal music with one of my favorite sopranos, Lotte Lehmann. She, like many singers of her time, is...

I wanted to post Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, but I had a hard time finding a singer whom I thought could do it justice. So many recording are out of tune. I...

Mafalda Favero enrolled at the Bologna Conservatory when she was seventeen, where she studied singing with Alessandro Vezzani and also attracted the attention of the composer Franco Alfano. At Cremona...

Giannini was a spinto (that is, pushed, in Italian) soprano whose sound is not really evident today, especially in the works of Verdi and Puccini. Giannini's singing is from another...

Renata Tebaldi was an Italian operatic soprano, a star at both Milan’s La Scala and New York City’s Metropolitan Opera. Tebaldi received her early musical training from her mother, a...