Happy Birthday Nelly...still can sing!!!!    3/31/52......

Category:general -- posted at: 10:48am EDT

OLD SCHOOL!!!!! Lovely, darling singer and one of the greats (not that the Met cares).I had to study three hours to learn to spell her name.

Category:general -- posted at: 10:46am EDT

In Newark, New Jersey at 23:11 :Loris,ove sei" I thought I was going to collapse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I can't "call" you today...but you "call" me forever.

Category:general -- posted at: 8:50am EDT

  I just cannot believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:42pm EDT

  Zinka may be my favorite singer, but maybe Magda in another way, has to be someone I treasure more!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:31pm EDT

  Her caretaker said she could sing around the house at 100!!!!!!  God bless her.

Category:general -- posted at: 7:16pm EDT

  Piangero per sempre!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:13pm EDT

  She was once told, "Do not quit your day job." The basic quality is not like a Tebaldi but her singing emerges as the most gorgeous in its emotion and love for music. She is for me, a miracle!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:08pm EDT

Magda....the miracle of opera. Oh, by the way, the Tosca selection is MY TAPE, and the ovation was cut...it lasted forever!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:05pm EDT

I cannot call you as I did on every birthday, but you will always be enshrined in my heart as the MIRACLE of opera.

Category:general -- posted at: 7:01pm EDT

One of the rare singers who reminds us of what we do not have anymore.....

Category:general -- posted at: 4:45am EDT

Ivan Koslovsky   3/24/1900   Slightly nuts!

Category:general -- posted at: 4:44am EDT

When I told Dolora (3/24/52) she is a throwback to the great past, she had me do a master class for her students.I played good old stuff. When I asked her what it was like to sing the glorious Amneris, she said, "I just want to get the notes out!!"   Amazing woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 4:42am EDT

  Truly superb tenor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 1:05pm EDT

Melchior had a birthday this week. This guy is a sensation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:28am EDT

  My adored Martha Moedl. Flawed in some ways but one of the most exciting singers ever. Olivia Stapp saw a "voiceless Isolde" in Europe once and audience went crazy...Unforgettable lady.

Category:general -- posted at: 10:14am EDT

Rudy Park and my friend Aprile! This is what we do not hear today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

   Mamma Mia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:08am EDT

DISCOVERY!!!!!!  Rudy Park!!!

 I saw Mario and Franco each 40 times...this guy is OLD SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 10:06am EDT

I saw a fabulous one and she had bronchitis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:13am EDT

I did not know of this.....for Diana's Mar.19 birthday and my buddy Sam...…….

Category:general -- posted at: 5:47pm EDT

Since the days of Favero,Muzio,Zeani,Olivero,Scotto...we have had NO ONE like what Diana does..NO ONE!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:29pm EDT

Not only does Diana Soviero and my mother have Mar.19 birthdays, but tenor Alberto Cupido celebrates. What a coincidence!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:17pm EDT

Soviero sat on my couch and I said, "I have a Violetta you might like." She said, "Oh..she might study with me." I then played Mari Lynn and Diana almost fell on the floor. I love the word "Muttatta.

Category:general -- posted at: 9:15pm EDT

Mar.19...My darling Diana Soviero, one of the greatest singers, and MY MOTHER, one of the greatest mothers celebrate birthdays!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 9:12pm EDT

  Could be, and top was great but NOT BAUM EVERY NIGHT!!! His wife came out of the stage door after he was boooed and said, "I am Il Trovatore, not Milanov." She screamed. "You're all a bunch of faggots!!!"   Gee, she must have been in the standing room.

He is now coaching Tamagno,Martinelli, and Al Jolson.

Category:general -- posted at: 7:36pm EDT

  WE HATED HIM!!!! Well, if Tucker or Mario were not there, he was reliable. Ugly voice.....I had to see him with Zinka Lord knows how much. Yes,he was reliable, but in those days, the rosters were small as compared to today, and singers stayed at the Met a lot. He is good in Lohengrin scene w.Traubel..more Germanic..Had fabulous high C...that is all!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:31pm EDT

  Fun with Christa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:11pm EDT

    THRILLING STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 6:58pm EDT

In 1966 Ludwig, ex-husband Berry, King,Rysanek,Dalis, under Boehm gave what I consider the greatest all-around show in my LIFE!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 6:45pm EDT

  Dyer's wife in Frau probably greatest single performance of a role by a singer in my life!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 6:42pm EDT

Stella and a tenor I adored, with his gorgeous voice matching hers. She loved to cry a lot!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 6:39pm EDT

  I almost forgot about Zinka as Stella opened her mouth as Aida in 1956. GREAT lady!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 6:36pm EDT

Turns 90. Imagine to have Milanov,Tebaldi,Stella on roster in 1956. She and Bergonzi debut I will never forget..and I adored her luscious rich gorgeous voice.

Category:general -- posted at: 6:34pm EDT

She had her flaws...but NUTS FOR HER.We gave a party in 1972 after Attila..All other divas photos taken down.Kabaiwanska came in New Years Eve.and said, "What is ths, a SHRINE????"

Category:general -- posted at: 5:52pm EDT

LAST APPEARANCE....SO SAD!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:10pm EDT

  I love the Mehta/Valencia

RING.... Innovative!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 5:07pm EDT

Ivan Koslovsky  3/11/1900. I love very subtle singers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:04pm EDT

3/10/1892  Ages ago a friend brought me a 78 of Eva Turner..Who???? I went nuts!!!!! Nilsson might have not been able to cover her!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:01pm EDT

  When dear Larry Brownlee sang this for his Met audition, the place went nuts....Here is another example of a superb lyric tenor with great range and technique! Bravo to him!!!!!

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

  I thought Stefan Zucker was the world's highest tenor..OH NO!!!!!!

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

Jamie Barton, the ghost of Ebe Stignani,and the great mezzos of the past!!!!!

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

Claudia Novikova  3/9/1895 is a real CHARMER!!!  Special lady!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:43pm EDT

  Our new HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:38pm EDT

BIS for the great Javier Camarena!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:35pm EDT

  Piotr gets a BIS!!!!! Love that guy!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:33pm EDT

Clara Petrella (and Mario) is really so wild!!!! Wonderful example of the kind of singing we no longer have.They want it "pretty."

Category:general -- posted at: 7:25pm EDT

We called the great Giorgio Tozzi 

"Signor Legato." Fabulous basso.

Category:general -- posted at: 7:21pm EDT

Jamie Barton is one of a handful of singers today who is "old school." A truly great voice and lovely lady!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 7:19pm EDT

Sam Ramey,who inherited his roles,

told me as a young student how he

saw this skinny guy in a rehearsal, open up this HUGE voice. One of the all-time greatest singing-actors!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:32am EDT

  The great Treigle and Rudel born on a Mar.6. I asked Di Giuseppe about his high e flat..He said, "E natural"  Treigle one of the greatest singers ever. Sam Ramey No.1!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 10:26am EDT

Love Saioa Hernandez. Of course, the Met is so dumb they probably will not get her!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Category:general -- posted at: 11:34am EDT

Margarete Teschemacher 3/3/1903.

Great voice with another favorite singer!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:30am EDT

Lucine saved so many shows she became  a "house soprano" which was

often a negative....but a great sound!   Happy Birthday!

(and those xxxxx rated jokes!)

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

Lucine told me (I was there) how

Monteux had to hold the dream roll

after this trio since we went NUTS!

Bless her!!!   Still has voice!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 11:22am EDT

Met 1972 Bing Gala. I sat there as

if I had never heard her before and

could not BELIEVE any human

throat could produce those sounds!

Category:general -- posted at: 10:43am EDT

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