Selections from the "Opera Rara" catalogue. Featured are raritiesof Donizetti including scenes from:

Emilia di Liverpool, Som Sebastien de Portugal, L'Assedio di Calais,Gabriella di Vergy, Chiara e Serafina, Maria di Rudenz,Maria Padilla, Rosmonda D'Inghilterra, Ugo,Conte di Parigi,Alfredo Il Grande, and Zoraida di Granata.

 (79 min.)                                     

Here are 21 great artists of the past,all on commercial recordings. Isincerely hope you enjoy them and will "turn on" to some of theless familiar voices:

Emma Calve(pictured), Rosa Ponselle, Mafalda Favero, Tito Schipa,Beniamino Gigli, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Alfred Piccaver,Erna Berger, Tiana Lemnitz, Selma Kurz, Gilda Dalla Rizza,Lauritz Melchior, Bernardo de Muro, Adamo Didur, Lawrence Tibbett,Titta Ruffo, Heinrich Schlusnus, John McCormack,Emmy Destinn,Luisa Tetrazzini,Frances Alda.

                                        (79 minutes)

...and a special note of thanks for your wonderful responses to these,my  "labors of love." Our average audience is now over 900!!!!

   A podcast of 16 Aida act two finales,, featuring some of the greatest    artists who participated. I hope you enjoy this!!!!

                                  (83 minutes)

   If you can guess the 20 sopranos singing my favorite   opera aria (No cheating!!), you will be permitted to    run madly through my apartment with a giant shopping    cart and grab whatever you wish in one minute!

        I rarely get to play anything anyway so I will       not mind!          

  (78 minutes)

SO!  HOW DID YOU?  I HOPE YOU WILL ADDYOUR COMMENTS AND TELL US HOW MANYYOU GUESSED AND/OR WHICH ONES YOU LIKED MOST. I ASSUME MY COLLECTIONIS SAFE AT THE MOMENT BECAUSE NO ONEHAS WRITTEN ME THAT YOU WILL BEVISITING ME. (CHEATERS NOT WELCOME)

BY THE WAY...DO YOU WISH A VOLUME TWO??????

 Comparison of various versions of the Jewel Song and thefinal trio from Gounod's "Faust

   Photo: Renata Tebaldi as Marguerite

    (75 minutes)

Live highlights from great performances in Vienna in the 1930's and 1940's. Artists include:

Bjoerling, Roswaenge,Mazaroff, Gigli, Jeritza, Lehmann, Nemeth,Schumann, Kipnis, Nikolaidi, Kiepura, Piccaver,Sved, Runger, Nikolaidi, Voelker

                                   (58 minutes)

There was a glitch in the site and I could not corect my spelling of the word "sorry." I also forgot that Cheryl Studer, not Renee Fleming, is in the Susannah recording.

                                        Sincerely  Charlie

    The memorial tribute to the late Regine Crespin.Selections from:

Parsifal, Aida, Walkure, Troyens, Cavalleria, Dutchman, and                                 Les Nuits d'ete.

                             (64 minutes)

  In loving memory of the late Beverly Sills, I present a tribute to her magnificent career. Selections are from:

Norma,Aida,Semele,Roberto Devereux,Coq D'Or, Maria Stuarda,Lucia,Assedio di Corinto,Ballad of Baby Doe, Fille du Reggiment,    and Louise.

(84 minutes)

ACHTUNG!!!!!!

         If you are faint of heart and/or have digestive problems, I recommend you do NOT listen to these lowlites from a performance of Wagner's Die Walkure from the La Puma Company in the 1960's.

   Cast:   Olive Middleton (Sieglinde), Mario Leone (Wotan),              Walter Ulrich (Siegmund), Marjorie Brown (Brunh.)                        Conducted(?) by Ralph Zeitlin

                                   (56 glorious minutes)