Soprano

Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin (September 1886 – November 22 , 1961) was a French soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta and classical song recitals during an international career that...

I haven't posted in a while because I have moved across the country, and this blog was not high on my priority list.  We have rented a house, and we...

I have sworn to myself never to discuss a living singer on this blog, but I am making an exception this time.  Renée Fleming, who is a world-renowned singer, sings...

Schubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and male voice of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music by Franz Schubert.  These are some of the last pieces...

Claudia Muzio was one of the great singers of the 20th century, and she had a profound influence on Maria Callas.  She died quite young, too young to have made...

As promised, here is Mme Ljuba Welitsch singing the final scene of Salome. There never was and never has been a Soprano who so engaged her public in large lyric...

Stich-Randall is unusual in that she came from the Hartford Connecticut area and made her career in Europe, mainly in Vienna. She was also a principal singer at the festival...

Introduction Ljuba Welitsch has been described as a meteor which flashed across the firmament of opera.  Her major career was short, but when she was in her prime, just after...