ArtCetera with John Sayers

I sang a lot in Munich, Germany. Here are some of the roles I sang, including a live performance of an aria from La Fanciulla del West and some other interesting things. Hope you enjoy.

Death is inevitable on the opera stage, some more dramatic than others. Opera’s most gripping last gasps: stabbings, suicides, consumption and asphyxiation or, maybe just a high Bb.  Scenes from Aida, Lulu and La Boheme.

Three romantic duets, from Romeo et Juliette, Lohengrin and La Boheme, for Valentine's Day. Enjoy!! 

As managing editor of the Eastsider, an arts and entertainment newspaper in the 1990s, I wrote many articles, reviews and opinion pieces. I took the best of these and created my book: Dateline Opera, Music, Theater. This program consists of three reviews from that book. A review of Three Penny Opera, Paul Robeson, a new musical, and the film Hilary and Jackie, about Jackie du Pre and her sister Hilary and the cellist's brilliant concert career ending early due to Multiple Sclerosis. A brilliant must see movie.

Tatiana Troyanos was a mezzosoprano of German and Greek parentage. After a difficult upbringing where she lived in State-run children's homes, she overcame her origins and became one of the Met's, and the world's, top mezzosopranos. Part of her early life was lived in the neighborhood torn down 25 years later to build Lincoln Center.

My life on the stage before and after opera. Songs from Carousel and Fiddler On the Roof. Enjoy!

An in-depth look into the life and music of Feodor Chaliapin, the great Russian Basso.

Hopefully there is not too much snow where you are. I'll be back next week Monday, Jan. 11 at 7 pm with new episodes of the Angry Tenor. Ciao!

Still moving. Here's just a little bit of New Year's music!

I will be off the air with a regular Angry Tenor until the middle of January. Here's a little bit of holiday music as my way of wishing you a happy holidays no matter which holiday you celebrate!