Record of the Week 2 — Teatro Nuovo

May 27, 2019 May 27, 2019/ Guest User

Trivia

 

View fullsize

40 - Trivia
Sutherland and Fischer-Dieskau

May 05, 2019 May 05, 2019/ Guest User

Strings, Attached Two weeks back we ventured the first purely instrumental recording in this series, asking what might be learned from a long-ago string quartet playing a scherzo in a way that seemed to reflect some kind of special info

39 - Strings, Attached
Various string quartets

April 29, 2019 April 29, 2019/ Guest User

Contralto Every community in the English-speaking world has annual Messiah performances at one level or another, and so hundreds of living singers, maybe thousands, have learned and performed the contralto aria “O thou that tellest goo

38 - Contralto
Louise Homer and other contraltos

April 19, 2019 April 19, 2019/ Guest User

37 - Special info
The Klingler String Quartet

March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019/ Guest User

Strength and Adversity Albert Vaguet (1865-1943) showed talent from early youth but had a hard road before he could make a living from it. He was born working-class in Elbeuf, lost his mother at ten, and had to join his father as a day-l

36 - Strength and Adversity
Albert Vaguet

March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019/ Guest User

A Tenor for Christmas What opera company isn’t hoping for one right now? A good tenor is a gift any day of the year. In the tradition of revisiting Christmas favorites as the holiday approaches, here is one from the early period we empha

35 - A Tenor for Christmas
Evan Williams

March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019/ Guest User

They Could Do That Edoardo Garbin (1865-1943) was a Paduan tenor with a long and busy career, successful enough to be counted definitely as a leading artist of his generation, but not quite starry enough to be a reference-point in Italia

34 - They Could Do That
Edoardo Garbin

March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019/ Guest User

What Does She See In Him?

View fullsize

33 - What Does She See In Him?
Mario Laurenti

March 04, 2019 March 04, 2019/ Guest User

Make the movie already! A Florentine girl is smitten with the theater at age eleven upon seeing the great actor Tommaso Salvini. She has a voice; opera calls her. By sixteen she is a sensuous beauty courted on every side and - more impo

32 - Make the movie already!
Medea Mei-Figner

February 27, 2019 February 27, 2019/ Guest User

The Oldest Voice Note: This week’s post is longer than usual, because its subject gets more interesting the farther you look into it - history buffs, enjoy!

31 - The Oldest Voice
Peter Schram