Great Opera Singers

This edition of Great Opera Singers is a personal dedication to a fine gentleman and excellent singer you are not likely to have heard if...

Fernando De Lucia's generally accepted date of birth is 1860, in Naples. He studied voice at the Naples Music Conservatory and made his...

When she retired from opera in 1985, the great American coloratura soprano Roberta Peters had been a leading principal female singer at th...

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was born in 1926 in Leningrad. This was certainly not an auspicious time to be born in Russia, for a singer or ...

"Fritz"(Friedrich) Wunderlich was born in Kusel, in 1930, into a musical family. His mother was a violinist and his father a cho...

One of the curiosities of operatic musical nomenclature is the huge number of classifications created for the singing voice, compared to the...

Helen Traubel (1899-1972) was born in St. Louis. She studied singing and made her first appearances in St. Louis as a concert singer with t...