Golden Moments,Part One

 

Some of the most affecting scenes from various operas:

Walkure, Siegfried, Peter Grimes, Nozze di Figaro,
Saint of Bleecker Street, Elektra, Rosenkavalier,
Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Ariadne, Arabella,
Parsifal, and Porgy and Bess

(69 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-30-01-15-53.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:54am EDT

July Birthdays-4

Birthday tributes to four wonderful artists:

Apollo Granforte         7/29/1886

Ludwig Weber  (in photo)    7/29/1899

Gottlob Frick               7/28/06

Olga Borodina              7/29/63

                               (68 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-28-08-37-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:13am EDT

Mario Del Monaco tribute on his Birthday  7/27/15

 

A birthday tribute to the very great tenor, Mario del Monaco.
Included are selections from:

Aida, Carmen, Ernani, Andrea Chenier, Otello, Pagliacci,
Fanciulla, Turandot, Il Tabarro, Macbeth.

                                 (62 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-27-14-51-53.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:26pm EDT

C'est MAGNIFIQUE!!!   Regine Crespin.

 

A tribute to the magnificent Regine Crespin, one of the
finest divas in opera history. Selections from:

Walkure, Aida, Hoffmann, Dutchman, Troyens,
Carmen, Tosca, and several songs
 

(75 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-26-23-54-44.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:35am EDT

FIFTEEN DIVAS

FIFTEEN DIVAS:

Eugenia Burzio, Olympia Boronat, Maria Nemeth,
Dusolina Giannini, Germaine Martinelli, Rosetta Pampanini
Margarete Teschemacher, Gertrude Grob-Prandl,
Claudia Novikova, Rosanna Carteri, Ellen Faull,
Luisa Maragliano, Lois Marshall, Irene Jordan,
and Rebecca Evans

                           (57 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-26-06-23-47.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:55am EDT

Less-familiar Puccini Material

A podcast dedicated to some of the somewhat lesser-known Puccini
material. It includes some songs, a cantata for tenor, orchestral music,
and arias from Rondine,Edgar, Le Villi, and La Rondine, plus the
Berio ending from Turandot.

   (Photo: Puccini statue at Lucca)         (64 min.)

Direct download: 2006-07-25-08-34-41.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:11am EDT

Lucrezia Borgia

 

A series of scenes and arias from Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia,"
featuring some very fine artists such as:

Leyla Gencer, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, Mariella Devia,
Clara Butt, Tatiana Troyanos, Montserrat Caballe, Alain Vanzo,
Giuseppe Filianoti, Gaetano Scano, Jose Carreras, and
Bonaldo Giaiotti.

                              (52 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-22-21-37-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:03pm EDT

Birthdays for July ( No.3)

 A Happy Birthday tribute to Three Great Artists:

Herman Uhde  (July 20, 1914)

Licia Albanese  (July 2, 1913)

Susan Graham  (July 23, 1960)

Giuseppe Di Stefano  (July 24, 1921)

                             (77 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-20-10-25-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:08am EDT

VERISMO!!!

Scenes from mostly lesser-known operas in the "Verismo" style:

Iris, Risurrezione, L'Amico Fritz, Piccolo Marat, Gloria,
Loreley, Francesca da Rimini, L'Amore de Tre Re,
and the Leoncavallo Boheme.

 ( 72 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-19-18-52-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:32pm EDT

OVER THE TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A collection of material that illustrates how opera singers can sometimes
become so in love with their own voices, that they forget that the
composers would sock them in the mouth if they were alive.

 Also included are some rather delusional people who have cracked up
 even the most serious opera enthusiast.

Whether you like it or not, you cannot say this boring!!!!!!

PHOTO:  Tim Rogerson's painting, "Over the Top."

                                  (71 minutes)

Direct download: 2006-07-17-17-47-49.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:30pm EDT

A Birthday Tribute to the Great Eleanor Steber (Born July 17, 1914)

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)

Direct download: 2006-07-15-21-14-25.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:44pm EDT

"M'ami..m'ami!"  The Ballo Duet

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


Direct download: 2006-07-12-21-31-46.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:08pm EDT

July Birthdays- Part two

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)

Direct download: 2006-07-10-17-57-40.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:40pm EDT

The Aida Judgement Scene, Part One

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)

 

Direct download: 2006-07-08-02-03-41.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:49am EDT

Some Marvelous Verdi Trios

   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

Direct download: 2006-07-06-21-58-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:29pm EDT

You vant Petrova?? Vell, you got her!!!!

 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)

Direct download: 2006-07-03-22-19-35.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:22pm EDT

A Truly Remarkable Performance of Janacek's "Jenufa."

   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)

Direct download: 2006-07-02-17-48-53.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:14pm EDT

July Birthdays (Part One)

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)

Direct download: 2006-07-01-02-33-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:02am EDT

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