Great Opera Singers

The Opera Blog of Edmund St. Austell, celebrating great opera singers of the world, both past and present.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

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Leonid Sobinov:   A Great Russian Tenor And A Golden Career Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov ( Леонид Витальевич Собинов ) was born in 1...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Eugene Conley: An Excellent And Greatly Under-Rated Tenor

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I remember picking up a copy of Opera News some 50 years or so ago, and being struck by the title of its leading article.   It read, as b...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

ANNOUNCING A GREAT NEW SERGEI LEMESHEV WEBSITE!

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Natalia A.Bukanova Great news for Lemeshev fans!   It is a real pleasure for me to announce the recent launching of a truly exhaus...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Nicolai Gedda: An Epicure's Taste And A Great Favorite

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Nicolai Gedda was born in Stockholm in 1925.   He was from early youth bilingual in Swedish and Russian, and went on to learn important wo...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Robert Merrill: The Rolls-Royce of Baritones!

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The popular American baritone Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller) was born in 1919, or thereabouts, in Brooklyn, the son of Polish immigrants. Me...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Geraldine Farrar: Hollywood Glamour Comes To Opera

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Geraldine Farrar was born in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1882. She began studying music when she was a small child and was on the concert stag...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Beverly Sills: A Great American Soprano

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Beverly Sills, (Belle Miriam Silverman) was born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Ukrainian immigrants, and as a child Sills ...
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