Great Opera Singers

Leyla Gencer ( Ayşe Leyla Çeyrekgil)   was born in 1928 near Istanbul, the daughter of a Turkish father and Polish mother. Her mother wa...

Introductory Note [Before I can even begin to tell the story of Jozef Sterkens, I need, first and foremost, to publicly thank Pierre at J...

Lily Pons was born Alice Joséphine Pons near Cannes, in 1898.   Like Amelita Galli-Curci, another great coloratura soprano, she sho...

Renata Tebaldi:  She Lived For Art! Renata Tebaldi was born in Pesaro , in 1922.   The daughter of   musically gifted parents,   she ded...

Richard Crooks, A Brilliant American Tenor There are at least two American tenors who have not, in my opinion, received the general  ...

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

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...