Great Opera Singers

[Dear readers: This is the first of what I hope will be several guest articles from our faithful and very knowledgeable correspondents. I...

For opera lovers of my generation, there was (and remains) a great admiration for the brilliant Swedish tenor Jussi Björling. He was, like ...

Croatian by birth (1906), Zinka Milanov made her initial debut in Solvenia in 1927, at the tender age of 21. She sang in local opera houses...

If there was ever a diva engulfed in near-mythological passions and controversies, it is surely Maria Callas. Hailed from early on in her c...

One of most gifted new stars of the Early Music revival, which is now becoming an ever more important part of the international opera scene ...

Dame Eva Turner is likely to be the greatest opera singer England ever produced. Her dramatic soprano voice was, at the height of her career...

It would be an impossible task to say of any one person that he or she possessed, in their prime, the most beautiful voice in the world, but...