Let’s play Guess the Voice. Test your memory as we hear multiple versions of this most famous of operatic arias sung by eleven tenors of past and present.

Nilsson was quite simply one of the twentieth century’s most outstanding interpreters of Wagner and Strauss. Along with those composers we will also hear her as Puccini’s Turandot as well as a song by Sibelius.

Unexpected indeed as this program offers unusual if not bizarre recordings such as Fritz Wunderlich singing Granada in German, a tribute to Julia Child sung to the aria Casta Diva from Bellini’s Norma and much more.

Larry offers a retrospective on this superb American soprano with an aria from Ariadne auf Naxos as well as songs of Poulenc and Duparc plus Amazing Grace and a spiritual.

There was a time when operagoers expected to hear operas in their own language. Who knew? This program offers the Rigoletto Quartet in German, the Pearl Fishers duet in Italian, Die Walkure in French and much more.

Spanish light opera is heard in zarzuela selections. A bullfight, castanets and more are heard in colorful melodies sung by Montserrat Caballe, Placido Domingo, Victoria de los Angeles and Conchita Supervia among others.

Nine songs by the master are heard today including one with Strauss himself accompanying. Among the song interpreters are Jussi Bjoerling, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Placido Domingo, Lisa Della Casa, Jonas Kaufmann, Elisabeth Schumann, Gerhard Husch, Hilde Gueden and Heinrich Schlusnus.

The claws come out in three operatic catfights from Adriana Lecouvreur, Aida and La Gioconda. Winners and losers are Renata Scotto, Elena Obratzova, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Montserrat Caballe and Shirley Verrett.

Perhaps some French onion soup, bread and a glass of wine will help celebrate the holiday with arias from French opera performed by Bryan Hymel, Lily Pons, Piotr Beczala and Diana Damrau as well as a song sung by Thomas Hampson.

Easy listening today as we hear songs of Broadway and movies along with a recording by Gershwin himself. The ‘’Who’s Who” of singers include Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Jane Froman.