Great Opera Singers

Tito Schipa (1888-1965) is perhaps unique in opera: he was a very popular operatic tenor, sang in all the major houses (with the exception ...

Fedora Barbieri was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1920. Encouraged by friends and family to develop the vocal talent she displayed as a child, ...

Roberto Alagna is still a relatively young, and certainly very popular French tenor, born in 1963 in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. His parent...

Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Beloved Contralto The great contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink was born Tina Rössler in the German- spea...

It is always a pleasure to be able to note the rise of brilliant young singers, and Nicholas Spanos is a case in point. It is the rise, or ...

Swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod really deserves mention here because of the great range of music he has sung, his extremely elegant singing, his ...

There is a tendency among opera buffs to speak of a "golden age" of opera singing, and most refer to the latter part of the 19th ...