Mentally deranged Bonisolli stays on the high C and then when people applaud and others try to interrupt, he says that Puccini wrote a pause there. The man was a PIG and I hate him!!!!!!!

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Beverly's D at the end of the "Vivi,ingrato" ranks as one of my greatest thrills!!!!!! Live, you held your breath!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:59pm EDT

  Our 1970 Bolena with Galvany holding the D 5 hrs.and a new guy named Sam Ramey. I was Rochefort. I am the only person who could look down her throat while she sang high D and E flat!!!! Who would know Sam would become one of the all-time greats.

Category:general -- posted at: 5:51pm EDT

  What a thrill to remember my meeting Sam in 1970 and then singing with him in Bolena,Barbiere, and Hoffmann. Great guy!!!!!!

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

  I met Sam at our first Bolena rehearsal in 1970. He has been one of the great singers of our time. Love to him!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:45pm EDT

  We love Javier...not just the high notes, but the incredible musicality. He is a special guy!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:39pm EDT

  I once told Ricky Di Giuseppe how I loved his high E flat in Coq d'or..He replied, "HIGH E natural!!" So now Michael shows off his fabulous top!!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:35pm EDT

George Gershwin allowed only Afro-Americans in Porgy and Bess. That is a shame, because, from the GRAVE, next season at the Met, the new Porgy will be presented. Well, Mari actually sings this as if she were in the grave. Bless her. She tries so hard.

Category:general -- posted at: 5:27pm EDT

One of my all-time favorite commercial recordings!!!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:24pm EDT

Here is Virginia in the Console aria.She remains of the greatest singers in my life, and a dear friend.

Category:general -- posted at: 5:22pm EDT

She created this role, and following this are two more versions of the aria.

Category:general -- posted at: 5:20pm EDT

Piccolo Marat with Borso and my sister,Virginia..and a loud prompter. They have no verismo sopranos today to do this.     Beautiful work!!!

Category:general -- posted at: 5:17pm EDT

  Of all the tenors I never saw live, here is one of them,along with Caruso,Thill,Anselmi, and Masini,

Category:general -- posted at: 5:11pm EDT

  Saw him on Paris visit in 1976..Gorgeous voice..never came to Met.....Beautiful voice!!!!!

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

  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

  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


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