{"id":17025,"date":"2025-04-15T00:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=17025"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:25:54","slug":"episode-350-young-singers-i-admire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/episode-350-young-singers-i-admire\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 350. Young Singers I Admire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 350. Young Singers I Admire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1498-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7e5fce0a wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Rachael-Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Rachael-Wilson.jpg 700w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Rachael-Wilson-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rachael Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we celebrate 350 episodes of <em>Countermelody<\/em> since the inception of the podcast in the fall of 2019. Given that this is a momentous occasion (probably mostly to me, just for sticking with this thing!), I wanted to do something special today. For some time I have been promising an episode on Young Singers I Admire. This is different than the usual <em>Countermelody <\/em>fare because I almost always focus on great singers of the past. The world of the \u201copera singer\u201d is very different today than when I was trying to carve out a professional career as a countertenor more than 30 years ago. I would say the huge difference is the way that social media has become such a prominent tool in shaping and maintaining a career. Even today, however, it is possible to do <em>both <\/em>of these things, to be a singer primarily focused on her technique and expressing the integrity of the music, as well as focusing on their marketing and their identity, whether that be queerness, Blackness, glamour, physical fitness, or <em>whatever<\/em>. Every single singer I feature today displays a solid and viable vocal technique and a profound connection to the music that they are singing while also, in most cases, deftly managing their online presence. Listen to these young singers and see if you don\u2019t agree: sopranos Lisette Oropesa, Sabine Devieilhe, Nicole Car, and Vera-Lotte B\u00f6cker; contralto Jasmin White; mezzo-soprano Rachael Wilson; baritone Huw Montague Rendall; and countertenor Maayan Licht. Midway through constructing this episode, I realized that I had enough material for two episodes, so a pendant to this episode will be published next Easter Monday. It thrills me to celebrate these young artists: all possessors of gorgeous voices, fine technique, superb communicative powers, and a much, much better sense of entrepreneurship than I <em>ever<\/em> had!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Maayan-Licht2-1600x1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>George Frideric Handel [libretto after Silvio Stampiglia]: Ombra mai fu (<em>Serse<\/em>). Maayan Licht, Sexteto IBF [Pablo Guijarro, Caterina Coma, Jos\u00e9 Alvarado, Dariusz Wasiota, Daniel Oyarzabal] [live Gran Canaria IX.24]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Huw.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Huw.png 542w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Huw-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Erich Korngold, Paul Schott [pseudonym for Erich Korngold, Julius Korngold, after Georges Rodenbach]: Mein Sehnen, mein W\u00e4hnen (<em>Die tote Stadt<\/em>). Huw Montague Rendall, Ben Glassberg, Orchestre de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Rouen Haute-Normandie [2024]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sabine-D-1024x667.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sabine-D-1024x667.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sabine-D-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sabine-D-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sabine-D.png 1213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>L\u00e9o Delibes, Edmond Gondinet, Philippe Gille [after Th\u00e9odore Pavie, Pierre Loti]: Air des clochettes (<em>Lakm\u00e9<\/em>). Sabine Devieilhe, Rapha\u00ebl Pichon, Pygmalion [live Paris, Op\u00e9ra-Comique, Fall 2022]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine-1600x1066.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-Reine.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyotr Il\u2019yich Tchaikovsky, Modest Tchaikovsky [after Aleksandr Pushkin]: Podrugi milie (<em>Pique-Dame<\/em>). Jasmin White, Gary Matthewman [live Queen Sonja Singing Competition, Norway VIII.23]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-White.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-White.png 640w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jasmin-White-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Margaret Bonds, Countee Cullen: To a Brown Girl Dead. Jasmin White, Philippe Riga [live Festival de l\u2019\u00c9t\u00e9 Mosan, Belgium 16.VII.23]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RWilson-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RWilson-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RWilson-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RWilson-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RWilson.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Carl Maria von Weber, James Planch\u00e9 [translated Theodor Hell]: Arabien, mein Heimatland (<em>Oberon<\/em>). Rachael Wilson, Ivor Bolton, Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper [live M\u00fcnchen 2017]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"955\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vera-Lotte.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vera-Lotte.png 599w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vera-Lotte-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Robert Stolz, Fritz Gr\u00fcnbaum, Wilhelm Sterk: Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein (<em>Der Favorit<\/em>). Vera-Lotte B\u00f6cker, Dalibor Karvay, Dirk Kaftan, Wiener Symphoniker [live Wien VI.23]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Nicole-Car.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Nicole-Car.png 560w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Nicole-Car-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Jaroslav Kvapil: M\u011bs\u00ed\u010dku na nebi hlubok\u00e9m (<em>Rusalka<\/em>). Nicole Car, Andrea Molino, Opera Australia Orchestra [2016]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lisette.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lisette.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lisette-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gonzalo Roig, Agustin Rodr\u00edguez, Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1nchez-Arcilla [after Cirilo Villaverde]: Salida de Cecilia (<em>Cecilia Vald\u00e9s<\/em>). Lisette Oropesa, \u00d3liver D\u00edaz, Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica de Madrid, Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid [2024]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Stoyanova.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Stoyanova.jpg 638w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Stoyanova-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>George Frideric Handel [libretto after Silvio Stampiglia]: Ombra mai fu (<em>Serse<\/em>). Krassimira Stoyanova, Mario Hosen, Chamber Ensemble of the Orchestra of La Scala, Milano [live Varna 29.IV.24]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 350. 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