Tue, 26 December 2006
An interesting selection of scenes from Wagner operas sung by Non-German artists in various languages.Included are:
Mario DelMonaco, Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Nelly Melba, Josep Palet, Francisco Vignas, Cesar Vezzani, Paul Franz, Fernando de Lucia, Giuseppe de Luca, Mattia Battistini, Germaine Lubin, CloeElmo, Aureliano Pertile, Edward Johnson, Victoria de Los Angeles, Riccardo Stracciari, Emili Vendrell, and Ivan Koslowsky.
(85 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-26-00-18-57.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:42am EDT
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Mon, 18 December 2006
Part two of a tribute to the fine sopranos of today. Included are:
Karita Mattila(in photo), Edita Gruberova, Hei-Kyung Hong, Krassimira Stoyanova, Olga Guryakova, Anna Netrebko, Sumi Jo, Deborah Voigt, Rene Fleming, Natalie Dessay, Angela Gheorghiu, and Rebecca Evans.
(60 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-18-14-55-46.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 3:11pm EDT
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Mon, 18 December 2006
Part One of two in which we honor the wonderful divas of the present generation. Included here are selections by:
Vivica Genaux, Stephanie Blythe, Elina Garanca, Dolora Zajick, Maddalena Kozena, Susan Graham, Joyce di Donato, Judith Forst, Olga Borodina, Vesselina Kasarova, Ewa Podlés (in photo), Lisa Gasteen, Ruth Ann Swenson, Christina Gallardo-Domas, and Barbara Bonney
(62 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-18-02-36-42.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 2:54am EDT
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Sat, 16 December 2006
For some reason, my first Rigoletto "Si,vendetta" podcast was flawed, so I am repeating it. We have 11 versions:
Cappuccilli/Bonifaccio Quilico/Wise MacNeil/Gencer Tipton/Koeth Schlusnus/Berger MacNeil/Scotto Campolonghi/Callas MacNeil/Peters Warren/Peters Vargicova/Grundheber Milnes/Sutherland
(45 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-16-21-20-25.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:32pm EDT
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Sat, 16 December 2006
Selections from the Saint-Saens opera "Samson et Delilah featuring many fine singers,including:
Ezio Pinza, Robert Merrill, Rise Stevens, Dolora Zajick, Shirley Verrett, Oralia Dominguez, Rita Gorr, Christa Ludwig, Ebe Stignani, Giulietta Simionato, Fiorenza Cossotto, Jose Luccioni, Ramon Vinay, Jon Vickers, Robert Massard, Rene Maison, and Richard Tucker
(70 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-16-00-04-15.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:24am EDT
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Sun, 10 December 2006
In the Holiday Spirit, a selection of songs featuring some of the greatest artists in the world of music:
De Los Angeles, Schumann, Muzio, Schumann-Heink, Onegin,Thill, Schiotz, Tucker, Kussevitsky, Robeson, Maynor, Weede, D'Arkor, Tauber, Destinn,Gedda, Erb
(68 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-10-17-00-19.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 5:20pm EDT
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Sun, 10 December 2006
An exciting pot-pourri of sopranos of the past. Featured are:
Tetrazzini (in photo), Muzio, Ponselle, Cobelli, Bruna Rasa, Nordica, Patti, Neshdanova, Kurz, Hempel, Galvany, Jokl, Poli-Randaccio, Spani, Leider, Ljungberg, Austral, Scuderi, Arangi-Lombardi, De Hidalgo
(84 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-10-01-42-50.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 2:11am EDT
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Mon, 4 December 2006
Many selections in honor of Richard Tucker, for me, the greatest tenor I ever heard in live performance.
Andrea Chenier, Fanciulla Del West, Forza del Destino Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Ballo in Maschera, Floridante, La Juive, Turandot, Tosca, Luisa Miller, Manon Lescaut, Trovatore, and songs.
(75 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-12-04-13-46-09.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 2:08pm EDT
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Tue, 21 November 2006
Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, two of the greatest divas who ever graced an opera stage, singing the same material as a point of friendly comparison. Selections are from:
La Gioconda, Aida, Louise, Tosca, Mme.Butterfly, Tristan und Isolde, and Andrea Chenier.
(102 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-11-21-00-03-11.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:31am EDT
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Sat, 11 November 2006
There have been many great artists who appeared at the Salzburg Festival in the 30's and 40's, and in other theatres. Here is a pot-piurri that will present some of them to you.
Tiana Lemnitz,Lotte Lehmann, Maria Reining, Charles Kullmann, Koloman Von Pataky, Sigrid Onegin,Marcel Wittrisch, Alexander Kipnis, Michael Bohnen, Ludwig Weber, Selma Kurz, Julius Patzak, Hans Hotter, Dino Borgioli, Maria Cebotari, Ljuba Welitsch, Set Svanholm, and Alfred Piccaver.
(80 minutes)
Direct download: 2006-11-11-22-57-59.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:22pm EDT
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