Great Opera Singers

Luisa Tetrazzini was born in 1871, in Florence. She began to sing as a small child, and was trained at the Instituto Musicale in Florenc...

Ancient recordings provide a kind of evidence of the past that is at once fascinating and problematical. When written words alone are evid...

The contralto Louise Homer was one of the most popular of the Met regulars in the earliest years of the twentieth century. She was born L...

I have had the good fortune lately to become more acquainted with the singing of a brilliant young tenor, Charles Castronovo, who is showi...

On-going arguments about who was/is the greatest opera tenor, soprano, alto, bass, baritone and so on are part of the frustration but also t...

[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 ...