Great Opera Singers

Sicilian tenor Giuseppe Anselmi was born in 1876, and achieved a great reputation throughout Europe in the early years of the twentieth cent...

[Today I am pleased to offer to readers another in our series of guest commentaries, this one by Mr. Darren Seacliffe, from Singapore. Dar...

Dear Readers:   Today, unusually, I'd like to take a brief   break from the world of great opera singers, past and present, to celebra...

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...