The most glorious singing on this

planet..Note "Eravante possente" and later the pppp on "Oh,ora soave" double

attack.I used to collapse over the

standees rail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 2:18pm EDT

Marcello and I have discussed  the "old school" and he is an example...I miss him so much!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:37am EDT

GOD sings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It has been so long and comments cannot be placed here. I really am dying to know how my podcasts are..Could someone or two or more write me at Placido21@aol.com.

 

I want to please you!!!   Love  Charlie

Category:general -- posted at: 8:39am EDT

Looking at coming Met season, I

would prefer Mari!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:32am EDT

   Adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:30am EDT

Darling Virginia, at 93, is at a fine

facility in Florida. My beloved!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:24am EDT

The great NY La Puma Opera from the 60's. We got hysterical most of

the time.  That tenor really had a

GREAT passaggio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 8:22am EDT

  I know Stephen  over 10 yrs.Here is this nice guy at the start of his

career!   Glad he made it!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 8:18am EDT

(in key) and do not try to tell me

there is ANYTHING today like this!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:15am EDT

Incredibly famous lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:12am EDT

Massenet re-wrote the opera

for this great man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:59am EDT

  She got better and better...Glorious!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:57am EDT

Rise sat at her desk and as if "in a trance"

spoke of Lehmann's Eva...and it ended up

they did Rosenkavalier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:54am EDT

If I could see but ONE soprano from the past

it would be Lehmann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:52am EDT

Mirella got better and better....GLORIOUS

voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:48am EDT

First Met telecast..At one time we really

hated her doing heavy roles.....but she has

emerged as the LAST of the really special

divas in the Muzio,Favero,Soviero,Zeani

tradition. Phrasing,emotion, love of the line.

Look Zinka and Renata had some BADDD top notes.

Even in heavier roles, she did more than anyone

does today.... BRAVA!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 8:55am EDT

One of my TOP favorite Caruso

recordings. No one matches him!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 3:27am EDT

  fEB.25, 1873  Died in 1921 at 48.

  TRAGEDY!!!!! iMAGINE IF HE LIVED 20

MORE YRS..tapes!!!!!

 

  tO ME, HE IS A VOCAL god!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 3:23am EDT

My buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   (and he reads my

Facebook posts)

Category:general -- posted at: 9:38pm EDT

     LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:35pm EDT

  My favorite singer of today...and so sweet!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:30pm EDT

A few years ago Pyotr introduced

me to Kiepura's SON..It was so nice!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:44pm EDT

Two of my friends take AMBIEN.One

awoke to see he had made a pie;

the other found she had made

scrambled eggs.

If I start,could I find myself in

the street doing the Abigaille

cbaaletta like Mancini????

Category:general -- posted at: 11:41pm EDT

  Can anyone here do this better???

Category:general -- posted at: 11:37pm EDT

  One of my all-time loves. Meier

had a GREAT voice..should have been even

better known. I did make some tapes for

her madre…...

Category:general -- posted at: 11:32pm EDT

Eileen Farrell here is a sensation!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:29pm EDT

I was there in 1964..Farrell was amazing!

(So was Tucker).Listen to her "Bada."

She was born 2/13/29...Never wanted to

do a complete Ring..our loss!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:27pm EDT

Piotr is my favorite singer today!

This is last week..Encore!!! He is

the sweetest, nicest guy!!!! I

want to bring him more CD's..but the

luggage would be too heavy!!!!!!!!!

I have seen them ALL...He is way up there!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 4:55pm EDT

    Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Thanks for your wonderful support!

 

                     Love Charlie...

Category:general -- posted at: 2:47pm EDT

Met let him go too soon. GREAT MAN!

Category:general -- posted at: 2:42pm EDT

Early Price just a sensation...like Farewell....

before she got her mannerisms..but GREAT!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 2:39pm EDT

  Farewell.Sounds like a KID....Sensational...but

she did have strange mannerisms that made me

crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 2:37pm EDT

She did stuff like this in opera sometimes...

Made me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 2:35pm EDT

Phenomenal voice that also could do strange mannerisms that made me

crazy!!!!!  An enigma!!!!  2/10/1927

Category:general -- posted at: 2:32pm EDT

Cesare Siepi..a vocal GOD!!!!

2/10/23..Dumb Met let me go too soon.

Category:general -- posted at: 2:29pm EDT

My darling Marisa Galvany (one of her

fake names!!)  Buddies forever,

and GREAT singer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 4:25pm EDT

Camarena Met BIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 1:20pm EDT

For the 88th time I saw my favorite

singer, Zinka Milanov, make her farewell.

She still sounded gorgeous at 60. I will

never forget her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:45pm EDT

Well, not to loudly!!!! She is in a

beautiful facility in Florida.Bless her!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:41pm EDT

I simply adore this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:38pm EDT

Can anyone here do this???????

Category:general -- posted at: 9:37pm EDT

ADORE THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one

today sings like this

Category:general -- posted at: 9:33pm EDT

TRAGEDY!!!!! Died at only 49. 

Following her style we had Favero,

Zeani, Albanese, Soviero,Scotto,

Carteri (her letter is fabulous also)

 

Category:general -- posted at: 9:31pm EDT

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ahora otro

tenor magnifico..Dios Mio!

Camarena,Villazon,Flores….y ahora

otro de un future magnifico!!!!

Y  ACUTI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:26am EDT

I hope you enjoy this wonderful new

tenor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   El mundo ahora tiene muchos

tenores hispanoamericanos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:20am EDT

Luscious voice..He is not bad here!!!!!!

 

You know in opera I hate him but fine here....

Category:general -- posted at: 9:45am EDT

  I saw the Baum museum. It is a

cardboard box in Dusseldorf.....

Category:general -- posted at: 11:08am EDT

Carnegie Hall.We were in first row.

She looked down, winked..and then...…...

Category:general -- posted at: 10:56am EDT

   More of the great lady!!!!!! I called

every birthday.I am "calling" you now..

Category:general -- posted at: 10:51am EDT

Her Met debut 1/31/55. I FROZE

from 6:00 A.M. Her first line ended

with "soave" and we all said, "Zinka who???"

Not really..but imagine Zinka, Renata,

Stella in the same season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:35am EDT

In opera history, who else could combine

volume and beauty.We used to run after the limo as she yelled CIAO out the window. One

night I got impaled on a fire hydrant and

almost became a castrato senza coglioni!!!!

I called you every birthday and I am "calling"

you NOW.  GOD BLESS my Renata!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 10:27am EDT

On last "amore" my friend hit me in

the ribs....he got scared at the sound!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:21am EDT

"TRE ASSI" live SCARED US!!!!

Top started to get flat..so what!

I cannot hold back my tears!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:19am EDT

She rose from the chair on "Ma" and

then when she got to "E MIO" it was a

WAGNERIAN sound...Note the little

"breath" before the "ma". MIO DIO!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:16am EDT

Last note is closest to the way she

sounded live.    Wagnerian

volume, like a jet plane!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:09am EDT

My darling friend Renata Tebaldi

made our lives so happy. I miss

that wonderful great Renata,

whose Desdemona debut was 1/31/55. and when we met

her on 2/1, we did not know

it was her birthday. NO ONE

made us happier.Her shows

were events of LOVE!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 10:02am EDT

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