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 397. Anna Reynolds Sings Bach and Mahler

Episode 397. Anna Reynolds Sings Bach and Mahler SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM As many of you know, my beloved mother…

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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 392. Ernst Kozub Revisited [Verdi Edition]

Episode 392. Ernst Kozub Revisited [Verdi Edition] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Since posting a tribute to German heldentenor Ernst Kozub…

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Episode 391. Ben Bagley’s Three-Dollar Bills [Porter and Hart Edition]

Episode 391. Ben Bagley’s Three-Dollar Bills [Porter and Hart Edition] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Two months ago I posted an…

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Episode 389. Rescue Mission (Operatic Duets Edition)

Episode 389. Rescue Mission (Operatic Duets Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I have spent the past week planning forthcoming episodes…

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Episode 388. Sopranos en détresse, Part Deux

Episode 388. Sopranos en détresse, Part Deux SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A few months ago I published the first of…

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Episode 387. Zauberwelt der Oper (Black Diva Edition)

Episode 387. Zauberwelt der Oper (Black Diva Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I’m on holiday this week, but it would…

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Episode 384. Vera Little Revisited

Episode 384. Vera Little Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On June 3, 2024, the Berlin Senate’s Department of Culture installed…

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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 381. I Got a Name (Pride Edition)

Episode 381. I Got a Name (Pride Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM At first blush, this episode may look a…

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Episode 378. Rescue Mission III

Episode 378. Rescue Mission III (Friends Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Even after I publish a Countermelody episode on a…

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Episode 377. Joan Caplan Memorial Tribute

Episode 377. Joan Caplan Memorial Tribute SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This past April, my former voice teacher and treasured friend…

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Episode 375. Gilda Cruz-Romo In Memoriam

Episode 375. Gilda Cruz-Romo In Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Back in December I published my first episode honoring the…

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Episode 374. Maureen Lehane Sings Bach

Episode 374. Maureen Lehane Sings Bach SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode offers music of consolation, sung divinely. On a…

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Episode 373. Carol Neblett: Girl of the Golden West

Episode 373. Carol Neblett: Girl of the Golden West SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today is the day that the United…

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Episode 371. Margherita Roberti @ 100

Episode 371. Margherita Roberti @ 100 (with August Ventura) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM One hundred years ago today, Margaret Jean…

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Episode 365. Flying Down to Rio

Episode 365. Flying Down to Rio (Latin American Orchestral Song II) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today is the second part…

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Episode 363. Orchestral Song of Latin America, Part 1

Episode 363. Orchestral Song of Latin America, Part 1 SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A few weeks ago I had the…

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Episode 357. Faust auf Deutsch

Episode 357. Faust auf Deutsch SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today I offer three different recordings of excerpts, sung in German,…

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Episode 356. Get to Know Irina Arkhipova

Episode 356. Get to Know Irina Arkhipova SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Directly after the disastrous November election in the United…

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Episode 355. John Wustman (Honor Your Mentors I)

Episode 355. John Wustman (Honor Your Mentors I) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I have been reminded over and over again…

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Episode 354. Get to Know April Cantelo

Episode 354. Get to Know April Cantelo SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Only recently have I become fully aware of the…

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Episode 351. Schubert in Not-German

Episode 351. Schubert in Not-German SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I have been fascinated for years by operas performed in the…

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Episode 349. Lenten Melody

Episode 349. Lenten Melody SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I’ve already done a Lententide episode devoted to contraltos singing the music…

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