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...
Read MoreGiannini 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...
Read MoreRenata 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...
Read MoreGalina Vishnevskaya, (Galina Pavlovna Ivanova), Russian soprano (born Oct. 25, 1926, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. (now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died Dec. 11, 2012, Moscow, Russia),was a leading soprano at the Bolshoi Theatre...
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 MoreMadeleine Grey’s legacy of recordings is small but significant.
Anna Moffo was an American lyric soprano (born June 27, 1932, Wayne, Pa.—died March 10, 2006, New York, N.Y.), whose glamor, radiant beauty onstage, and warm voice made her a...
Read MoreElenor Steber was a great lyric soprano. She commissioned a piece from Samuel Barber, one of the most famous American composers of the 20th century. And Barber wrote Knoxville Summer...
Read MoreIt can be said, and I will say it, that Richard Strauss was the last great German Romantic composer. These works, the Four Last Songs, were his last to be...
Read MoreElisabeth Schumann was an extremely famous German-American soprano who came to this country to be a faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia just before the outbreak...
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