If one is going to know something about opera in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, one must know something about Franco Corelli. Corelli was born in Ancona. Ancona is a...
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I am letting you hear the Libeslieder Walzer (both opus numbers) at your leisure. For me to have posted a translation of every song would have been madness (on my...
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Nicolai Gedda, a Swedish-born singer who was one of the most renowned lyric tenors of the 20th century and performed dozens of roles on the world’s leading opera stages. From...
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I posted Alfredo Kraus a few years ago, and I am posting him again because he is a wonderful example of "singing on the breath". To understand what this phrase...
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One of the nice things about this blog is that I get to find mostly forgotten singers and hear them for the first time. I "discover" a lot of singers...
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Ever on the hunt for good, expressive singing, I came across Jean Panel, who, in his time, was a very well known French tenor. I would have liked to use...
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Unfortunately, there is very little information on Lappas on the internet. He has become obscure. However, Lappas was regarded as one of the leading, internationally acclaimed Greek tenors of the...
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Louis Cazette, was born in 1887, and died April 29, 1922 in Paris. He made his debut 1920 at the Paris Opéra-Comique, and his career was very promising. He died...
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Richard Tucker was a leading tenor for the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years. Only two other star singers in the company's 90‐year history—Giovanni Martinelli, the tenor, and Antonio Scotti, the...
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In French song, the singer becomes a painter, describing a landscape, suggesting an emotion…One must use the entire palette of colors of the voice…” — Michel Sénéchal I think that...
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