Episode 457. Ein Opernabend mit… Anna Tomowa-Sintow

Episode 457. Ein Opernabend mit… Anna Tomowa-Sintow SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode serves two purposes: First, I introduce my…

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Episode 447. Júlia Hamari in Song

Episode 447. Júlia Hamari in Song SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The rich-voiced and expressive Hungarian mezzo-soprano Júlia Hamari celebrated her…

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Episode 437. Get to Know Faye Robinson

Episode 437. Get to Know Faye Robinson SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s Black History Month episode serves also as a…

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Episode 433. Lois Marshall Revisited

Episode 433. Lois Marshall Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Yesterday, January 29th, was the 101st anniversary of the birth of…

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Episode 419. Wunderlich in Duet

Episode 419. Wunderlich in Duet SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Anytime I do an episode on Fritz Wunderlich, the sun breaks…

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Episode 415. Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition)

Episode 415. Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM As I sat yesterday pondering all my friends, family,…

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 366. Donald Gramm Revisited

Episode 366. Donald Gramm Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I’m going all out (literally) for this year’s Pride celebrations, especially…

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Episode 361. Russell Oberlin Revisited

Episode 361. Russell Oberlin Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I’ve been so lucky this week to cross paths with several…

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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 344. Mady Mesplé Revisited

Episode 344. Mady Mesplé Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This past March 7 would have been the 94th birthday of…

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Episode 343. Over-the-Top Sopranos, French Edition

Episode 343. Over-the-Top Sopranos, French Edition SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM As a follow-up to my Mezzos on the Verge series,…

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Episode 341. Robert Massard Revisited

Episode 341. Robert Massard Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A year and a half ago, I posted an episode on…

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Episode 330. Martina Arroyo in Duet

Episode 330. Martina Arroyo in Duet SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM What better way to start off this Black History Month…

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Episode 326. Paul Robeson Unchained

Episode 326. Paul Robeson Unchained SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today, Martin Luther King Day and the day before the reinauguration…

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Episode 315. Gilda Cruz-Romo

Episode 315. Gilda Cruz-Romo SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM While I was growing up, Gilda Cruz-Romo was a fixture on the…

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Episode 314. Yi-Kwei Sze Revisited

Episode 314. Yi-Kwei Sze Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM One of the great personal revelations for me in the early…

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