Sunday, April 10, 2011

An Opposing Guest Commentary On Modern Operatic Stage Direction: Are Directors The New Prima Donnas?

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It is a pleasure for me to welcome Natalie to these pages, for a second time. (Photo on left). Many readers will remember Natalie (known to ...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

A Guest Commentary On Modern Opera Stage Direction: Why the hump, Rigoletto?

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[I am pleased to present, for the second time in these pages, a commentary by "ChloeHannah." It was she, you may well recall, who ...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Luciano Pavarotti: The Artist And The Persona

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For reasons I am not quite sure of, there are three tenors I find it hard to write about: Caruso, Pavarotti and Domingo. I am not sure w...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Great Singers Unrecognized: Eric Cedergren

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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...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Fernando de Lucia: A Unique Window Onto 19th Century Vocalism

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Fernando De Lucia's generally accepted date of birth is 1860, in Naples. He studied voice at the Naples Music Conservatory and made his...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Roberta Peters: The American Nightingale

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When she retired from opera in 1985, the great American coloratura soprano Roberta Peters had been a leading principal female singer at th...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Galina Vishnevskaya: The Ultimate Survivor

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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 ...
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