{"id":18294,"date":"2025-08-11T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=18294"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:41:31","slug":"episode-384-vera-little-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/episode-384-vera-little-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 384. Vera Little Revisited"},"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 384. Vera Little Revisited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1643-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-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-756x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-768x1040.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-1134x1536.jpg 1134w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little.jpg 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 3, 2024, the Berlin Senate\u2019s Department of Culture installed a memorial plaque in honor of African American contralto and Deutsche Oper star Vera Little at her former residence. Little, who lived from 1927 to 2012, and spent the majority of her adult life in Berlin, was a dazzlingly gifted singing actress who sang everything from <em>bel canto<\/em> to Carmen to creating two roles in operas by Hans Werner Henze. This episode makes use of newly-acquired recordings of Little singing Carmen and Dame Quickly in <em>Falstaff<\/em>. We also sample the work of Little\u2019s extraordinarily gifted brother, the tragically short-lived jazz trumpeter Booker Little, as well as several excerpts (read by your host) from <em>Tears in My Eyes<\/em>, published in 1978, the first of Vera Little\u2019s several published books of memoirs and poetry. The episode concludes with the majority of Little\u2019s 1957 single solo recording, <strong><em>Twelve Spirituals<\/em><\/strong>, on Decca Records, containing arrangements by Harry Burleigh, William Dawson, and Hall Johnson accompanied by Domincan-French pianist Andr\u00e8s Wheatley.<\/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-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18613\" style=\"width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Postcard.jpg 364w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Postcard-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Traditional Spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh: Oh, What a Beautiful City. Vera Little, Andr\u00e8s Wheatley [1957]<\/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=\"740\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Parisian-Headshot-740x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Parisian-Headshot-740x1024.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Parisian-Headshot-217x300.jpeg 217w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Parisian-Headshot-768x1063.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Parisian-Headshot.jpeg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy [after Prosper M\u00e9rim\u00e9e; Italian translation by Achille de Lauzi\u00e8res]: Invan per evitar [En vain pour \u00e9viter] (<em>Carmen<\/em>). Vera Little, Aldo Bertocci, Mario Rossi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI [05.IX.59]<\/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 is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Booker-Little.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18599\" style=\"width:588px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Booker-Little.jpg 525w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Booker-Little-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Booker Little<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, William Engvick: Who Can I Turn To? Booker Little, Tommy Flanagan, Scott Le Faro, Roy Haymes [1960]<\/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=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jeri-Southern-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jeri-Southern-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jeri-Southern-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jeri-Southern-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jeri-Southern.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jeri Southern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, William Engvick: Who Can I Turn To? Jeri Southern, Dave Barbour Trio [1954]<\/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=\"603\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Carmen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Carmen.png 603w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Carmen-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy [after Prosper M\u00e9rim\u00e9e; Italian translation by Achille de Lauzi\u00e8res]: from <em>Carmen <\/em>[sung in Italian]. Vera Little, Aldo Bertocci, Mario Sereni, Mario Rossi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI [live Torino 05.IX.59]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lass\u00f9, lass\u00f9, n\u2019andremmo insiem [Non, tu ne m\u2019aimes pas&#8230; L\u00e0-bas, l\u00e0-bas, dans la montagne]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Se tu m&#8217;ami, Carmen [Si tu m&#8217;aimes, Carmen]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pi\u00f9 non m\u2019ama il tuo cor [Tu ne m\u2019aimes donc plus?]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"847\" data-id=\"18604\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aldo-Bertocci.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aldo-Bertocci.png 579w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aldo-Bertocci-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aldo Bertocci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"18603\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mario-Sereni.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mario-Sereni.jpg 627w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mario-Sereni-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mario Sereni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hans Werner Henze, Ingeborg Bachmann [after Wilhelm Hauff]: Hu, kaltes Land \u2013 und Leute gaffen (<em>Der junge Lord<\/em>). Vera Little, Christoph von Dohn\u00e1nyi, Orchester und Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin [1968]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ingeborg-Bachmann-and-Henze.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18616\" style=\"width:576px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ingeborg-Bachmann-and-Henze.jpg 500w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ingeborg-Bachmann-and-Henze-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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=\"909\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-in-Die-Bassariden.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-in-Die-Bassariden.png 909w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-in-Die-Bassariden-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-in-Die-Bassariden-768x527.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Loren Driscoll and Vera Little in <em>Die Bassariden<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hans Werner Henze, W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman [after Euripides; German version by Helmut Reinold, Maria Bosse-Sporleder]: O Gaia! O Gaia! O Gaia! (<em>Die Bassariden<\/em>). Vera Little, Peter Lagger, Christoph von Dohn\u00e1nyi, Wiener Philharmoniker [live Salzburg 06.VIII.66]<\/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=\"532\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-tough-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-tough-1.png 532w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-tough-1-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Igor Stravinsky, W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman [after William Hogarth]: from <strong><em>The Rake\u2019s Progress <\/em><\/strong>[sung in German]. Vera Little, Anneliese Rothenberger, Waldemar Kmentt, Oscar Danon, Wiener Philharmoniker [live Wien 14.III.65]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Liebling! Muss ich denn in Ewigkeit hier drin sein?&#8230; War es denn wirklich? [My love, am I to remain in here forever?&#8230; Could it then have been known?]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wie ich schon sagte, trugen beide [As I was saying both brothers wore moustaches]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"806\" data-id=\"18611\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kmentt.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kmentt.png 769w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kmentt-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Waldemar Kmentt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"607\" height=\"815\" data-id=\"18612\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Rothenberger.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Rothenberger.png 607w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Rothenberger-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anneliese Rothenberger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\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=\"742\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-1113x1536.jpg 1113w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-1484x2048.jpg 1484w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size-1600x2208.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Little-Full-Size.jpg 1855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gaetano Donizetti, Felice Romani: from <strong><em>Anna Bolena<\/em><\/strong> (sung in German). Vera Little, Karl Ridderbusch, Alberto Erede, Orchester des Westdeutscher Rundfunk K\u00f6ln [live 16.XII.67].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oh qual parlar fu il suo!&#8230; Tremate voi?&#8230; Tutta in voi la luce mia&#8230; Anna pure amor m\u2019offria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ah, Sire! Il mio rimorso mi guida al vostro pi\u00e8\u2026 Per questa fiamma indomita<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"506\" data-id=\"18608\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ridderbusch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ridderbusch.jpg 387w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ridderbusch-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"18609\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Erede.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Erede.jpg 536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Erede-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Little-in-Recording-Studio-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Little-in-Recording-Studio-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Little-in-Recording-Studio-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Little-in-Recording-Studio-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Little-in-Recording-Studio.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito [after William Shakespeare]: Reverenza! (<em>Falstaff<\/em>). Vera Little, [Some German Baritone], Lorin Maazel, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin [live Tokyo 29.III.70]<\/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=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Vera Little: <em>Tears in My Eyes <\/em>(published 1978). 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Vera Little, Andr\u00e8s Wheatley [Decca Records, published 1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Robert McGimsey: Sweet Little Jesus Boy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hall Johnson (arr.): My Good Lord Done Been Here<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William L. Dawson (arr.): Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William L. Dawson (arr.): Talk About a Child That Do Love Jesus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harry T. Burleigh (arr.): Sinner, Please Don\u2019t Let this Harvest Pass<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harry T. Burleigh (arr.): Deep River<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harry T. Burleigh (arr.): Ride On, King Jesus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Andres-Wheatley.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Andres-Wheatley.png 622w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Andres-Wheatley-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andr\u00e8s Wheatley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Boris-Blacher-and-Vera-Little-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Boris-Blacher-and-Vera-Little-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Boris-Blacher-and-Vera-Little-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Boris-Blacher-and-Vera-Little-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Boris-Blacher-and-Vera-Little.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Boris Blacher, Vera Little<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Gedenktafel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Gedenktafel.jpg 870w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Gedenktafel-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Vera-Gedenktafel-768x619.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 384. Vera Little Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On June 3, 2024, the Berlin Senate\u2019s Department of Culture installed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[420,1626,1701,7296,7295,2891,5823,2399,6551,5137,1072,5806,1263,2260,808,2329,3272,6119,2806,4980],"tags":[4551,4157,8088,1961,6172,1028,476,77,8082,351,2731,3150,8081,3349,6546,416,5222,376,1772,207,966,2720,1347,6547,3672,3348,6255,8087,1610,3673,6548,2293,8089,6542,8086,4633,621,8085,8084,8090,6545,3151,8083,6171,6550,2733,5133,6549,1962,8080,2600],"class_list":["post-18294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-american-opera-singers","category-african-american-singers","category-bel-canto","category-black-history-month","category-black-history-month-2025","category-comic-relief","category-forgotten-divas","category-great-baritones","category-great-contraltos","category-great-tenors","category-in-memoriam","category-listeners-favorites","category-mezzo-madness","category-music-for-a-world-in-crisis","category-needle-drop","category-opera-in-translation","category-singers-of-color","category-spirituals","category-twentieth-century-music","category-twentieth-century-opera","tag-achille-de-lauzieres","tag-alberto-erede","tag-aldo-bertocci","tag-alec-wilder","tag-andres-wheatley","tag-anna-bolena","tag-anneliese-rothenberger","tag-arrigo-boito","tag-booker-little","tag-carmen","tag-chester-kallman","tag-christoph-von-dohnanyi","tag-dave-barbour","tag-der-junge-lord","tag-die-bassariden","tag-falstaff","tag-felice-romani","tag-gaetano-donizetti","tag-george-bizet","tag-giuseppe-verdi","tag-hall-johnson","tag-hans-werner-henze","tag-harry-t-burleigh","tag-helmut-reinold","tag-henri-meilhac","tag-ingeborg-bachmann","tag-jeri-southern","tag-karl-ridderbusch","tag-lorin-maazel","tag-ludovic-halevy","tag-maria-bosse-sporleder","tag-mario-rossi","tag-mario-sereni","tag-oscar-danon","tag-peter-lagger","tag-prosper-merimee","tag-robert-macgimsey","tag-roy-haymes","tag-scott-le-faro","tag-tears-in-my-eyes","tag-the-bassarids","tag-the-rakes-progress","tag-tommy-flanagan","tag-vera-little","tag-vera-little-augustithis","tag-w-h-auden","tag-waldemar-kmentt","tag-wilhelm-hauff","tag-william-engvick","tag-william-l-dawson","tag-william-shakespeare"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tears-in-My-Eyes-photo-300x225.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/african-american-opera-singers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">African American Opera Singers<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/african-american-singers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">African American Singers<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/bel-canto\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Bel Canto<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/black-history-month\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Black History Month<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/black-history-month-2025\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Black History Month 2025<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/comic-relief\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Comic Relief<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/forgotten-divas\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Forgotten Divas<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/great-baritones\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Great Baritones<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/great-contraltos\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Great Contraltos<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/great-tenors\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Great Tenors<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/in-memoriam\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">In Memoriam<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/listeners-favorites\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Listeners&#039; 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