Episode 414. Sass Returns!

Episode 414. Sass Returns! SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Every hundred or so episodes, I feel compelled to pay a return…

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Episode 413. Get to Know Geraint Evans

Episode Episode 413. Get to Know Geraint Evans SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This past September 19th, we observed the anniversary…

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Episode 411. Orchestral Song [International Edition]

Episode 411. Orchestral Song [International Edition] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM An old LP of Tōru Takemitsu’s Coral Island and a…

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Episode 410. Magda Olivero Revisited

Episode 410. Magda Olivero Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM If we have to live in a world of extremes, I…

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Episode 409. Arie antiche [Schirmer Edition]

Episode 409. Arie antiche [Schirmer Edition] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s potpourri episode is a special one for anyone who…

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Episode 408. Rachel Yakar, Artiste Lyrique Française

Episode 408. Rachel Yakar, Artiste Lyrique Française SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The great French soprano Rachel Yakar died on 24…

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Episode 407. Get to Know Eric Tappy

Episode 407. Get to Know Eric Tappy SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Swiss tenor Eric Tappy (19 May 1931 – 11…

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Episode 406. Dan’s Belated Birthday Gals (Soprano Edition)

Episode 406. Dan’s Belated Birthday Gals (Soprano Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The last of my festive potpourri episodes for…

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Episode 405. Rescue Mission (Belated Birthday Edition)

Episode 405. Rescue Mission (Belated Birthday Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode is the latest installment in my series…

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Episode 404. Dan’s Belated Birthday Boys (Baritone Edition)

Episode 404. Dan’s Belated Birthday Boys (Baritone Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A brand-new episode today inaugurating a series of…

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Episode 403. Roberta Alexander In Memoriam

Episode 403. Roberta Alexander In Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s is an episode I never dreamed I would have…

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Episode 402. Ina Souez Revisited

Episode 402. Ina Souez Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The extraordinary Ina Souez (1903 – 1992), was one of the…

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Episode 401. Sena Jurinac, Liedersängerin

Episode 401. Sena Jurinac, Liedersängerin SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On October 24, we observe the 104th birthday of the nonpareil…

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Episode 400. Meet Ilse Wolf

Episode 400. Meet Ilse Wolf SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM German-British soprano Ilse Wolf (07 June 1921 – 06 September 1999)…

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Episode 399. Eileen Farrell (Jane’s Divas II)

Episode 399. Eileen Farrell (Jane’s Divas II) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today, the day that we lay my beloved mother,…

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Episode 398. Leontyne Price (Jane’s Divas I)

Episode 398. Leontyne Price (Jane’s Divas I) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I tried at the end of last week to…

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Episode 396. Meet Shannon Bolin

Episode 396. Meet Shannon Bolin SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode celebrates a prime example of that rara avis, the…

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Episode 395. Hildegard Behrens, Liedersängerin

Episode 395. Hildegard Behrens, Liedersängerin SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today we celebrate the recorded legacy of Hildegard Behrens, but from…

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Episode 394. Valletti Revisited (French Edition)

Episode 394. Valletti Revisited (French Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM More than two years and nearly two hundred episodes ago,…

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Episode 393. George London in Song

Episode 393. George London in Song SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Even before the continuing acts of gun violence in the…

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Episode 390. Helen Donath Sings Richard Strauss

Episode 390. Helen Donath Sings Richard Strauss SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Beloved Countermelody favorite Helen Donath celebrated her 85th birthday…

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Episode 386. David Rendall in Memoriam

Episode 386. David Rendall in Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On 21 July, the opera world lost one of its…

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Episode 385. Classical Singer-Songwriters

Episode 385. Classical Singer-Songwriters SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM You’re all going to laugh at me, but that’s okay, cuz I’m…

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Episode 383. Get to Know Carol Smith

Episode 383. Get to Know Carol Smith SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM If the exceptional Illinois-born contralto Carol Smith (20 February…

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Episode 382. Eine Janowitzische Geburtstagfeier

Episode 382. Eine Janowitzische Geburtstagfeier SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM If you “get” Gundula Janowitz, then you really get her, and…

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