{"id":19410,"date":"2025-11-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=19410"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:15:05","slug":"episode-415-our-feathered-friends-stage-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/episode-415-our-feathered-friends-stage-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 415. Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition)"},"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 415. Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1770-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=\"542\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fritzi-Massary-as-Rooster-1912.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fritzi-Massary-as-Rooster-1912.png 542w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fritzi-Massary-as-Rooster-1912-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Operetta star Fritzi Massary (not heard in today&#8217;s episode)<br>dressed, for some reason, as a rooster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I sat yesterday pondering all my friends, family, and compatriots celebrating Thanksgiving, my thoughts turned to the turkey, the traditional sacrificial creature for this event. And whatever the avian counterpart of a rabbit hole is, that\u2019s where my thoughts turned as I realized that a tribute to our feathered friends in general would make a nice, lightweight, potpourri episode as we once again hurtle into the final preparations for the holiday season. As my list of possible repertoire exploded, I decided to limit myself only to stage works in which a bird is somehow involved: as a character, as a symbol, as a metaphor, perhaps even as all three simultaneously. So, with composers ranging from Rameau to Sondheim, including such forgotten figures as Walter Braunfels, Victor Mass\u00e9, and F\u00e9licien David, I have put together a wonderful program that focuses particularly but not exclusively on the florid French repertoire, performed by such favorites as Reri Grist, James King, Ileana Cotrubas, Fritz Wunderlich, Sylvia Sass, and Mattiwilda Dobbs, bolstered by such relative newcomers to <em>Countermelody<\/em> as L\u00e9\u00efla Ben S\u00e9dira, Ninon Vallin, Janine Micheau, Harolyn Blackwell, Emma Calv\u00e9, Endrik Wottrich, Liz Callaway, and Flore Wend. In addition, I am particularly thrilled to present a sublime singer whom I\u2019d not yet encountered before yesterday: the British-Swedish songbird Jacqueline Delman, singing Granados!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Delman2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Delman2.png 514w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Delman2-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jacqueline Delman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ben-Sedira.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ben-Sedira.png 521w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ben-Sedira-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Charles Gounod, Michel Carr\u00e9 [after Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mistral]: O l\u00e9g\u00e8re hirondelle (<em>Mireille<\/em>). L\u00e9\u00efla Ben S\u00e9dira, Orchestra conducted by Maurice Frigara [1932]<\/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=\"768\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Antonia-Alexander.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Antonia-Alexander.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Antonia-Alexander-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jacques Offenbach, Jules Barbier [after ETA Hoffmann]: Elle a fui, la tourterelle (<em>Les contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/em>). Roberta Alexander [live New York 02.I.88]<\/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=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jill-Gomez-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jill-Gomez-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jill-Gomez-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jill-Gomez-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jill-Gomez.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>George Frideric Handel, John Gay: As when the dove laments her love (<em>Acis and Galatea<\/em>). Jill Gomez, Neville Marriner, Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields [1978]<\/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=\"618\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flore-Wend.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flore-Wend.png 618w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Flore-Wend-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jean-Philippe Rameau, Simon-Joseph Pellegrin [after Jean-Baptiste Racine]: Rossignols amoureux (<em>Hippolyte et Aricie<\/em>). Flore Wend, Orchestral ensemble conducted by Nadia Boulanger [1953]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Boulanger.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Boulanger.png 762w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Boulanger-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nadia Boulanger<\/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=\"590\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harolyn-Blackwell.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harolyn-Blackwell.png 590w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harolyn-Blackwell-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler [after Christopher Bond]: Green Finch and Linnet Bird (<em>Sweeney Todd<\/em>). Harolyn Blackwell, Paul Gemignani, American Theater Orchestra [live Carnegie Hall 10.VI.1992]<\/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=\"421\" height=\"842\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Calve.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19640\" style=\"width:577px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Calve.png 421w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Calve-150x300.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>F\u00e9licien David, Gabriel de Lurieu [n\u00e9 Joseph Gabriel], Sylvain Saint-\u00c9tienne: Charmant oiseau [Couplets de Mysoli] (<em>La Perle du Br\u00e9sil<\/em>). Emma Calv\u00e9, Darius Lyons, unknown pianist [1908]<\/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=\"570\" height=\"863\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vallin-Studied-Casual.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vallin-Studied-Casual.png 570w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vallin-Studied-Casual-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Victor Mass\u00e9, Jules Barbier, Michel Carr\u00e9: Au bord du chemin [Air du Rossignol] (<em>Les noces de Jeannette<\/em>). Ninon Vallin, Laurent Halet, Orchestre de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra-Comique, Paris [1922]<\/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=\"849\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micheau.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micheau.png 849w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micheau-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micheau-768x629.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Charles Gounod, Jules Barbier, Michel Carr\u00e9 [after Giovanni Boccaccio]: Si le seigneur Horace veut un sourire&#8230; Si je suis belle encore (<em>La Colombe<\/em>). Janine Micheau, Tony Aubin, Orchestre Radio-Lyrique [live radio concert 05.VI.1947]<\/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=\"892\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Cotrubas.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Cotrubas.png 892w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Cotrubas-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Cotrubas-768x619.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Gherardini [after Th\u00e9odore Baudouin d\u2019Aubigny, Louis-Charles Caigniez]: Di piacer mi balza il cor&#8230; Tutto sorridere mi veggo intorno (<em>La gazza ladra<\/em>). Ileana Cotruba\u0219, Bruno Bartoletti, G\u00fcrzenich-Orchester K\u00f6ln [live Oper der Stadt K\u00f6ln 1987]<\/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=\"624\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fritz-in-Sweater.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fritz-in-Sweater.jpg 624w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fritz-in-Sweater-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Otto Nicolai, Salomon Hermann Mosenthal [after William Shakespeare]: Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain (<em>Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor<\/em>). Fritz Wunderlich, Robert Heger, Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper M\u00fcnchen [1962]<\/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=\"706\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sass-Curly-Wig-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sass-Curly-Wig-1.png 706w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sass-Curly-Wig-1-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ruggero Leoncavallo: O, che bel sole di mezz\u2019agosto&#8230; Stridono lass\u00f9 [Ballatella] (<em>Pagliacci<\/em>) [sung in Hungarian]. Sylvia Sass, Ervin Luk\u00e1cs, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra [1978 telecast]<\/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=\"511\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/King-Kaiser.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19633\" style=\"width:611px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/King-Kaiser.png 511w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/King-Kaiser-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Falke, du Wiedergefundener (<em>Die Frau ohne Schatten<\/em>). James King, Kurt Eichhorn, M\u00fcnchener Rundfunkorchester [24.VII.1968]<\/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=\"578\" height=\"794\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mattiwilda-Dobbs1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mattiwilda-Dobbs1.png 578w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mattiwilda-Dobbs1-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Vladimir Belsky [after Alexander Pushkin; English translation by Edward Agate]: Hymn to the Sun (<em>Le Coq d\u2019or<\/em>) [sung in English]. Mattiwilda Dobbs, Igor Markevitch, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden [live London 07.I.1954]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\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=\"536\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"19631\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Grist-Van-Vechten-4-with-fan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Grist-Van-Vechten-4-with-fan.jpg 536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Grist-Van-Vechten-4-with-fan-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Reri Grist photographed by Carl Van Vechten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"434\" height=\"599\" data-id=\"19630\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Loren-Driscoll.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Loren-Driscoll.jpg 434w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Loren-Driscoll-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Loren Driscoll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor Stravinsky, Stepan Mitusov [after Hans Christian Andersen]: First Appearance of the Nightingale (<em>\u0421\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0439<\/em> [The Nightingale]). Reri Grist, Loren Driscoll, Igor Stravinsky, Orchestra of the Opera Society of Washington, DC [1962]<\/p>\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=\"892\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jacqueline-Delman-892x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jacqueline-Delman-892x1024.png 892w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jacqueline-Delman-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jacqueline-Delman-768x881.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jacqueline-Delman.png 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enrique Granados, Fernando Periquet: La maja y el ruise\u00f1or (<em>Goyescas<\/em>). Jacqueline Delman, Vil\u00e9m Tausk\u00fd, BBC Concert Orchestra [unknown date]<\/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=\"1024\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Liz-Callaway.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Liz-Callaway.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Liz-Callaway-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Liz-Callaway-768x608.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stephen Schwartz, book by Joseph Stein [after Marcel Pagnol, Jean Giono]: Meadowlark (<em>The Baker\u2019s Wife<\/em>). 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Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM As I sat yesterday pondering all my friends, 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href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ileana Cotrubas<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jacqueline Delman<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jacques Offenbach<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">James King<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Janine Micheau<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jean Giono<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jean-Baptiste<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jean-Philippe Rameau<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jill Gomez<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">John Gay<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Joseph Gabriel<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Joseph Stein<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jules Barbier<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kurt Eichhorn<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">La gazza ladra<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">La Perle du Br\u00e9sil<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Laurent Halet<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le Coq d\u2019Or<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le Rossignol<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le\u00efla ben Sedira<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Les Contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Les noces de Jeannette<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Liz Callaway<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Loren Driscoll<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lothar Zagroszek<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Louis-Charles Caigniez<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Marcel Pagnol<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mattiwilda Dobbs<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Maurice Frigara<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Michel Carr\u00e9<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mireille<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Nadia Boulanger<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Neville Marriner<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ninon Vallin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Otto Nicolai<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pagliacci<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Paul Gemignani<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Racine<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Reri Grist<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Richard Strauss<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ritt Henn<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Robert Heger<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ron Tierno<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ruggero Leoncavallo<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Salomon Hermann Mosenthal<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Simon-Joseph Pellegrin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Stepan Mitusov<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Stephen Schwartz<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Stephen Sondheim<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sweeney Todd<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sylvain Saint-\u00c9tienne<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sylvia Sass<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">The Baker\u2019s Wife<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">The Golden Cockerel<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">The Nightingale<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Th\u00e9odore Baudouin d\u2019Aubigny<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tony Aubin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Victor Mass\u00e9<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Vilem Tausky<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Walter Braunfels<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">William Shakespeare<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/verismo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">\u0421\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0439<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Acis and Galatea<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alex Rybeck<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alexander Pushkin<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Aristophanes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Bruno Bartoletti<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Charles Gounod<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Darius Lyons<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Die Frau ohne Schatten<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Die V\u00f6gel<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Edward Agate<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Edward Bond<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Emma Calv\u00e9<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Endrik Wottrich<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Enrique Granados<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ervin Luk\u00e1cs<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">ETA Hoffmann<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">F\u00e9licien David<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Fernando Periquet<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Flore Wend<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mistral<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Fritz Wunderlich<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gabriel de Lurieu<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">George Frideric Handel<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gioachino Rossini<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Giovanni Boccaccio<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Giovanni Gherardini<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Granados<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hans Christian Andersen<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Harolyn Blackwell<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hellen Kwon<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hippolyte et Aricie<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hugh Wheeler<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hugo von Hofmannsthal<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Igor Markevitch<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Igor Stravinsky<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ileana Cotrubas<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jacqueline Delman<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jacques Offenbach<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">James King<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Janine Micheau<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jean Giono<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jean-Baptiste<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jean-Philippe Rameau<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jill Gomez<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">John Gay<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Joseph Gabriel<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Joseph Stein<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jules Barbier<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kurt Eichhorn<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">La gazza ladra<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">La Perle du Br\u00e9sil<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Laurent Halet<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le Coq d\u2019Or<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le Rossignol<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le\u00efla ben Sedira<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Les Contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Les noces de Jeannette<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Liz Callaway<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Loren Driscoll<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lothar Zagroszek<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Louis-Charles Caigniez<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Marcel Pagnol<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mattiwilda Dobbs<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Maurice Frigara<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Michel Carr\u00e9<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mireille<\/span>","<span 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