I present to you nine artists whom I have come to know personally.I first "met" them as I attended performances they gave and felt that they were among the finest singers I had ever heard,and over the years a certain friendship has grown between us.The artists are:

Aprile Millo,Elizabeth Carron,Frank Guarrera,Olivia Stapp, Diana Soviero (See Video of Juliette Scene),Lucine Amara,Samuel Ramey,Marisa Galvany, and Virginia Zeani  (in photo)

The first in a series of selections by famous mezzos/contraltos:

Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Conchita Supervia(in photo), Sigrid Onegin,

Clara Butt, Zara Dolukhanova, Claudia Novikova, Kathleen Ferrier.

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Selections by Giulio Crimi, Bernardo De Muro, Aureliano Pertile (in photo as Cavaradossi) Giovanni Zenatello, Aroldo Lindi,Giuseppe Taccani,Roberto D'Allesio

 Extremely LOW-lights from Aida featuring sopranos Olive Middleton and Vassilka Petrova, as well as mezzo(?) Sylvia Sawyer.

  I think the guy in the photo would sound better!!!!!!!!!!!

The amazing Magda Olivero,( born  March 25,1910), a true "miracle" of  singing, in selections from concerts in Amsterdam from 1962,1968,and 1972.

   Recordings by seven baritones who excelled especially in the German Fach:

      Georg Hann,Michael Bohnen,Joel Berglund,Rudolf Bockelmann,

              Paul Schoeffler,Herman Prey, George London

   One of the most beautiful natural tenor voices that I and my fellow standees (1957) ever heard. I want more of you out there to come to appreciate this ravishing voice.

 In loving memory of some of the great artists who have passed away recently. Let us all celebrate their careers.

       Theodore Uppmann,Enrico Di Giuseppe,Piero Cappuccilli,

       James King, Robert Merrill, Alfredo Silipigni/Jerome Lo Monaco 

                               and Birgit Nilsson