Arias as sung by the very great Eleanor Steber on the occasion
of her birthday. Selections from:

Frau, Ernani, Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Tosca,
Seraglio, Arabella, The Telephone, Mignon, Idomeneo,
and the "Alleluja" from the Esultate Jubilate

(55 minutes)

An exciting comparison podcast of various artists in
 the love duet from Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera."

Callas/Di Stefano                   Welitsch/Picchi
Castellani/Del Monaco            Milanov/Bjoerling
Nilsson/Tucker                      Crespin/Bergonzi
***Galvany/Molese

                               (76 minutes)

*** You have expressed interest in Galvany..so go to my Youtube site and see more Nabucco!!

                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAniKAKLw4c

Our second podcast dedicated to artists who celebrate birthdays
in the month of July:

July 11: 

            Mattiwilda Dobbs (1925)
            Nicolai Gedda  (1925) (in photo)
            Ludmilla Dvorakova (1923)
            Herman Prey     (1929)
            Ebe Stignani  (1903)

July 12:

            Kirsten Flagstad  (1895)
            Gloria Lane   (1925)

                                    (71 minutes)

Ten versions of the finale of the exciting Aida "Judgement Scene."

The artists featured include:

Giulietta Simionato (in photo), Fedora Barbieri, Rita Gorr,
Elena Obratsova, Marisa Galvany, Fiorenza Cossotto,
Barbro Ericson, Oralia Dominguez, Bruna Castagna,
Shirley Verrett.

(83 chesty minutes)

   A podcast dedicated to the great trios written by the Master,
   Giuseppe Verdi. I include trios from:

  Aida, Trovatore, I Lombardi and Jerusaleme, Attila, Nabucco,
   Don Carlo, Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra, Ernani, and
   La Forza del Destino.

                            (Not a bad "trio" in the photo.)

                                      60 minutes

 I just spoke to Zinka, who vishes you a happy Fourth of July, and she vants to tell you that since she is coaching Vassilka Petrova (I think she is dead)...Vell, she vants to see if it helped...So here are two arias she just recorded.

          Let me know your comments so I can tell her if she is a good teacher up there (or down there...) 

(8 delusional minutes of pleasure)

P.S. Birgit got very angry at me when I told her I spliced in the great Petrova high unnatural B that ends "La Mamma Morta' into her "In questa reggia." (I will someday podcast it)

   The Carnegie Hall audience goes totally ballistic at this
   1988 OONY performance of Jenufa, starring the amazing
   Leonie Rysanek, Gabriella Benackova, and Wieslaw Ochman

 (44 minutes)

Celebration of the birthdays of some important artists:

Peter Anders  7/1/08     Bianca Scaciatti  7/3/1894
Birgitte Fassbaender  7/3/39 Herman Jadlowker 7/5/1877
Willy Treffner  7/5/03  Matti Salminen 7/7/45
Eberhard Waechter 7/9/29  Sergei Lemeshev 7/10/02
Josephine Veasey 7/10/30  Ljuba Welitsch(photo) 7/10/13

(53 minutes)