Episode 453. Out of Commission SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Next up in my series of Countermelody “vacation episodes,” here’s the…
Episode 452. Out of the Office SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Hello, fans and listeners! I am “Óut of the Office”…
Episode 450. Onelia Fineschi Sings the Undoing of Women SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Onelia Fineschi (1921 – 2004) was one…
Episode 448. Get to Know Germaine Cernay SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s featured artist is, I hope, a name that…
Episode 444. Renata Scotto: Casta Diva SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode serves numerous purposes: first, as a belated tribute…
Episode 439. Grace Bumbry, Proud Soprano [Studio Edition] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM As we hurtle toward the third anniversary (in…
Episode 429. A Smattering of Sopranos SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode reveals and celebrates the opera queen in me:…
Episode 426. Teresa Stratas [Season Seven Premiere] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I wanted to start off the year (and the…
Episode 415. Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM As I sat yesterday pondering all my friends, family,…
Episode 414. Sass Returns! SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Every hundred or so episodes, I feel compelled to pay a return…
Episode Episode 413. Get to Know Geraint Evans SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This past September 19th, we observed the anniversary…
Episode 412. Luciano and Mirella Go Home Again SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today some real meat and potatoes Italian opera.…
Episode 410. Magda Olivero Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM If we have to live in a world of extremes, I…
Episode 406. Dan’s Belated Birthday Gals (Soprano Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The last of my festive potpourri episodes for…
Episode 405. Rescue Mission (Belated Birthday Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode is the latest installment in my series…
Episode 404. Dan’s Belated Birthday Boys (Baritone Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A brand-new episode today inaugurating a series of…
Episode 403. Roberta Alexander In Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s is an episode I never dreamed I would have…
Episode 402. Ina Souez Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The extraordinary Ina Souez (1903 – 1992), was one of the…
Episode 394. Valletti Revisited (French Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM More than two years and nearly two hundred episodes ago,…
Episode 388. Sopranos en détresse, Part Deux SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A few months ago I published the first of…
Episode 387. Zauberwelt der Oper (Black Diva Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I’m on holiday this week, but it would…
Episode 386. David Rendall in Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On 21 July, the opera world lost one of its…
Episode 383. Get to Know Carol Smith SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM If the exceptional Illinois-born contralto Carol Smith (20 February…
Episode 378. Rescue Mission III (Friends Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Even after I publish a Countermelody episode on a…
Episode 375. Gilda Cruz-Romo In Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Back in December I published my first episode honoring the…