An exciting compilation of scenes from Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," featuring:

  Richard Tucker, Mario del Monaco, Franco Corelli,  Helge Roswaenge, Jussi Bjoerling, Carlo Bergonzi,   Licia Albanese, Diana Soviero, Marilyn Horne,  Hilde Scheppan, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Merrill,  Leonard Warren, Ettore Bastianini, Frank Guarrera,Giovanni Martinelli(in photo)  Manuel Lanza, andTeresa Stratas

(66 min.)

Great Singers of the "Germanic" School. Included are:

Frieda Leider (in photo), Margarita Perras, Alexander Kipnis,Lotte Lehmann, Tiana Lemnitz, Friedrich Schorr, Maria Ivogun,Johanna Gadski, Franz Voelker, Marcel Wittrisch,Wilhelm Hesch,Maria Olzewska, Lauritz Melchior, Maria Cebotari,Richard Tauber,Gerhard Huesch, Elizabeth Schumann

                                     (78 minutes)

Marisa Galvany, one of the most exciting artists, in a podcastfeaturing material from Aida,Norma,Tosca,Traviata, andAnna Bolena.

          This is a re-doing of a previous Galvany podcast, with       the deletion of three items, but the narration remains the        same, so references to Macbeth, Ernani, and the Aida         "Ritorna Vincitor"  are to be ignored.

                  Let me know all is now well!!!!!!!!!

Still another "adventure" into some of the unusual happeningsin the opera world. Fun for opera gatherings!!!!!  ENJOY!!!

                                 (54 minutes)

Songs, Arias, and opera scenes, as performed by the greatPavel Lisitsian, possessive of one of the most beautifulbaritone voices in opera history. (All material announced)

                                   (78 minutes)

Volume One of a compilation of some of the funniest,most bizarre, most unusual happenings in opera. I do hopeyou enjoy this podcast, and will request another.

I strongly recommend you go to:                              http://www.collup.com   

             Donald Collup has prepared four fabulous volumes of these "oddities" and I think you might want to purchase one or more of  them.

(70 min.)

The second part of the celebration of the great Verdi, with the finales of:

      Macbeth ( 2 versions), Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Trovatore,      Traviata, Vespri Siciliani, Simon Boccanegra, Ballo in Maschera,      Forza del Destino, Don Carlo, Aida, Otello, and Falstaff

      (All casts announced)         (71 minutes)

The first of a two-part celebration of the great GiuseppeVerdi's genius, featuring the finale of almost all his works.

Included here are the finales of:  Nabucco, I Lombardi, Gerusalemme, Ernani, I Due Foscari,  Giovanna D'Arco, Alzira, Attila, I Masnadieri, Il Corsaro,   La Battaglia di Legnano, Stiffelio, and Aroldo.

               (Cast details announced)     ( 62 minutes)

The beautiful aria of Prince Yeletsky in act two of Tchaikowsky's "Pique Dame" as sung by:

Dmitri Hvorostovsky(in photo), Hugo Hasslo, Bernd Weikl,William Walker, Pavel Lisitsian, Ettore Bastianini,Heinrich Schlusnus, Vladimir Chernov, Nikola Mitic,Andrei Fedosoyev, and Hans Herman Nissen.

                             (53 minutes)

Birgit Nilsson as Elektra from her firstperformance in role (1965) to her lastin 1982. A great lady!!

(67 minutes)