Galina 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...
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Here 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...
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Madeleine 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...
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Elenor 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...
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It 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...
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Elisabeth 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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Bidu Sayao was a Brazilian soprano whose gossamer voice and vivacious personality made her one of the most popular stars of the Metropolitan Opera from the late 1930's through the...
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Der Rosenkavalier – the Presentation of the Rose, Tiana Lemnitz (Octavian), Maria Cerbotari (Sophie)
This is the Presentation of the Rose from the 2nd Act of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. It is a wonderful recording with two singers in their prime. I did a fairly...
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Teresa Stich-Randall was an American soprano who spent most of her career in Europe, especially in Vienna. She became a Kammersängerin, which is an Austrian title of honor for singers....
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