Sunday, July 24, 2011

Joseph Schmidt: A Great Tenor And A Terrible Tragedy

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Joseph Schmidt was born in 1904, in Davydivka, a small town in Austria-Hungary, now a part of Ukraine. Born into a musical family, he showed...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Set Svanholm: The Many Sides of a Great Musician

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Today it is my great pleasure to present another in our series of guest commentators, Dr.Marie-Louise Rodén, whose photo appears to the left...
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Salvatore Baccaloni: The Best of The Buffos

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Not all famous opera singers are tragic heroes or heroines, or archetypal gods and goddesses. Neither are they matinee-idol heartthrobs or p...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Sara Scuderi: I Lived For Art!

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Sara Scuderi was born in Sicily in 1906. Her debut was in 1925, at the tender age of 19, in Novara, playing no less a part than Leonora, in ...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Alessandro Bonci: A Bel Canto Master

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Alessandro Bonci was born in Cesena, in the Italian historical district of Romagna, in 1870. Apprenticed in youth to a shoemaker, he showed ...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Emma Calvé: Opera's First Femme Fatale

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Emma Calvé was born in 1858, in Aveyron. She spent her childhood in Spain, but moved to Paris with her mother after her parents separated....
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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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