Ten versions of the finale of the exciting Aida "Judgement Scene."

The artists featured include:

Giulietta Simionato (in photo), Fedora Barbieri, Rita Gorr,Elena Obratsova, Marisa Galvany, Fiorenza Cossotto,Barbro Ericson, Oralia Dominguez, Bruna Castagna, Shirley Verrett.

(83 chesty minutes)

   A podcast dedicated to the great trios written by the Master,   Giuseppe Verdi. I include trios from:

  Aida, Trovatore, I Lombardi and Jerusaleme, Attila, Nabucco,   Don Carlo, Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra, Ernani, and   La Forza del Destino.

                            (Not a bad "trio" in the photo.)

                                      60 minutes

 I just spoke to Zinka, who vishes you a happy Fourth of July, and she vants to tell you that since she is coaching Vassilka Petrova (I think she is dead)...Vell, she vants to see if it helped...So here are two arias she just recorded.

          Let me know your comments so I can tell her if she is a good teacher up there (or down there...) 

(8 delusional minutes of pleasure)

P.S. Birgit got very angry at me when I told her I spliced in the great Petrova high unnatural B that ends "La Mamma Morta' into her "In questa reggia." (I will someday podcast it)

   The Carnegie Hall audience goes totally ballistic at this   1988 OONY performance of Jenufa, starring the amazing   Leonie Rysanek, Gabriella Benackova, and Wieslaw Ochman

 (44 minutes)

Celebration of the birthdays of some important artists:

Peter Anders  7/1/08     Bianca Scaciatti  7/3/1894Birgitte Fassbaender  7/3/39 Herman Jadlowker 7/5/1877Willy Treffner  7/5/03  Matti Salminen 7/7/45Eberhard Waechter 7/9/29  Sergei Lemeshev 7/10/02Josephine Veasey 7/10/30  Ljuba Welitsch(photo) 7/10/13(53 minutes)

What true opera lover can resist our darling Olive Middleton,a cult figure at New York's (in)famous La Puma Opera in the 60's.( the 1960's).   So what if she sang about three tones flat and had no teeth? She was adored,as you will hear on this brief (Thank GOD) podcast 

 (15 glorious minutes)

  When Dorothy Kirsten passed away in 1992, we learned  she was actually about 9 years older than originally believed.   This is even more amazing,considering how fresh and clear   she sounded in 1974 and beyond.

The selections are from:  Thais, Fanciulla, Rondine, Butterfly, Louise, Tosca,La Rondine and she also sings Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over  Me." Kirsten had an uncanny  ability NOT to sound 'operatic' in pop music!

   (38 minutes)

Selections by 12 famous baritones:

Robert Merrill, Hugo Hasslo, Gabriel Bacquier,Theodore Uppman, Heinrich Schlusnus,Giuseppe Danise, Ettore Bastianini,Igor Gorin,Mattia Battistini, John Charles Thomas, Riccardo Stracciari, Pavel Lisitsian (in photo)(50 minutes)

Arias sung by 15 famous divas of the recent past:

Montserrat Caballe, Arlene Auger, Maria Callas,Kiri Te Kanawa, Virginia Zeani, Eda Moser,Maria Chiara, Regine Crespin, Renata Scotto,Catherine Malfitano, Margaret Price,Rene Fleming,Anita Cerquetti, Pilar Lorengar,Ileana Cotrubas 

(73 minutes)

 Arias as sung by one of the greatest divas in opera history.

  Included are arias from Traviata, Ballo, Sonnambula,  Les Huguenots, La Perle du Bresil, Semiramide, Vespri,  Rosalinda (Veracini), and the Proch Variations. 

                                   (37 minutes)