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Trumix.com listings available of Premiere Opera Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Carlo Bergonzi- Che gelida manina- 1960 live!! The great Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi gives us a benchmark performance of the famous aria from Puccini's La Boheme, "Che gelida manina." Bergonzi sings this aria in key, with a magnificent high C to cap it off, and the most gorgeous of legatos and phrasing and dynamics. Truly one of the greatest tenors ever. This and all podcasts can also be found at www.premiereopera.com   Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tucker- newly discovered Canadian Operatic Concert- 1972 Here are five selections from a recently discovered operatic concert that the great tenor, Richard Tucker, sang with the Winnipeg Symphony in March of 1972. Tucker greatness was ageless, and the voice is still in it's warm golden form. He was about 60 years old here, and sounds like a tenor about half that age. He sings arias here from Ballo, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Pagliacci, and Leoncavallo's Mattinata. Also sung, but not on the recording, were arias from L'Africana, Cavalleria Rusticana, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romeo scenes- Costello, Shin- sent privately A few wonderful excerpts from Stephen's great performance of Romeo last night!!! Enjoy!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tucker as SAMSON- Phila. 1970 Tucker came late to Samson, performing it for the first time in Phila. in 1970, and then doing a run at the Met in 1971-2 with Bumbry. I found him thrilling in this role, and dramatically, it was one of his finest. Here the Jewish leader rallies his troops, in French, but as a great Cantor just the same!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tucker- Thine Alone- from Eileen by V. Herbert Here is an early (1949) recording of Richard Tucker, singing the gorgeous "Thine Alone" from the operetta "Eileen" by Victor Herbert. This is one of my 3 or 4 favorite Tucker recordings. He sings with such beauty and clarity, and makes the high tessitura sound easy, and, just for good measure, he transposes the second verse up a half tone, to make the high tessitura virtually impossible, but, again, Tucker makes it sound easy. For me, this is as gorgeous as it gets!! &nb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacNeil- Ernani scenes- Act 3- Buenos Aires 1963 In my opinion these selections from Verdi's Ernani, as sung by the great Cornell MacNeil, defies description. Words cannot do it justice. Just listen and be amazed!! And no, we don't have any baritones who sing like this anymore. We only had big Mac!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MEFISTOFELE- Di Stefano- complete as recorded 1959 Here is every note that the great tenor, Giuseppe Di Stefano recorded in the studio of Boito's Mefistofele in the summer of 1959, along with Renata Tebaldi and Cesare Siepi, with Tullio Serafin conducting. Only the scene with Elena is not recorded, thereby preventing commercial release. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IRIS- live 1956- Petrella, Di Stefano!! Amazing singing by both Petrella and Di Stefano. This is good, old "giving" Italian singing at its best. I just received this fine sounding copy, and wanted to share it with you, to further remember the great Pippo!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jose Carreras- first American recital- 3 selections Jose Carreras sang his first ever American recital in Carmel, California on October 14, 1975. I was there and he was wonderful. Here he sings a beautiful aria from Rossini's Pietra del Paragone, Tosti's Ideale, and Puccini's Nessun Dorma! Bravo, Jose!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Siboney- name the voice!! Name this tenor singing Siboney! If you can guess who it is, you're really good at voices! Hint: he is a tenor of today who is singing leading tenor roles in the major opera houses of the world!!Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Di Stefano at 22- Una furtiva lagrima In one of his earliest performances, here is Giuseppe Di Stefano at the age of only 22, singing a beautiful Una furtiva lagrima from Elisir d'Amore. The sheer beauty is simply overwhelming.   Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Butterfly love duet- Di Stefano & de los Angeles- 1954 Here is prime Di Stefano and de los Angeles in the famous and beautiful love duet from Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Ardently and beautifully sung by both artists, this is a treat for the ear.   Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IRIS- Giuseppe Di Stefano & Rosanna Carteri- 1956 This magnificent scene from Mascagn's rarely performed "Iris" contains some of the greatest singing that Di Stefano ever committed to disc. The music is of the greatest difficulity for the tenor. Nothing is above an A natural, but so much of the music is between F and A natural as to make it a virtually unsingable tessitura. However, Di Stefano conquers, and had a great triumph on this opera when it was revived in Italy in 1956, the same year as this recording. His voice is r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giuseppe Di Stefano- Non piangere Liu- Turandot As requested, here is Giuseppe Di Stefano in his gorgeous rendtiion of "Non piangere Liu" from Puccini's Turandot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giuseppe Di Stefano- Core 'ngrato Every Italian or Italianate tenor worth his salt sang "Core 'ngrato" but nobody sang it like Di Stefano. The gorgeous tone (just listen to the first two words, "Cateri, Cateri" and you will melt) combined with the passion and love of singing is unsurpassed by any tenor ever. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In loving memory- Di Stefano- Santa Lucia luntan- 1954 There are so many recordings to remember Di Stefano by, but I think this one particular recording of a beautiful Italian song says it all. Adddio a Pippo, e grazie per sempre!!   Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SLEALE! FORZA- TUCKER & MERRILL 1965 Here is the great Sleale scene from Verdi's La Forza del Destino. Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill sang together often in Forza, and this is a thrilling rendition of this scene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steber, Tucker- Don Carlo final scene Two great American artists, soprano Eleanor Steber and tenor Richard Tucker, bring us a beautiful rendition of the gorgeous final duet from Verdi's Don Carlo. Steber and Tucker also had the same voice teacher, tenor Paul Althouse! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stignani, Di Stefano- Favorita duet- RAI 1952 Two all time greats of the Italian opera stage, mezzo Ebe Stignani and tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano join forces to sing this beatiful music from Donizetti's La Favorita. Stignani had already been singing for almost 30, but sounds fresh and youg, and Di Stefano really was a fresh voiced, young singer in 1952!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MARIO FILLIPESCHI- Nessun Dorma, Di Quella Pira!! 1955 Squillo to burn!! Not a gorgeous voice, but one of great excitement and squillo!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carteri/Bergonzi- Butterfly love duet 1/30/60 In a rare RAI concert from January 30, 1960, soprano Rosana Carteri and tenor Carlo Bergonzi joing magnificent forces in this thrilling version of the geat love duet from Puccini's love duet, capped by a joint high C that is held forver, and ever!! Grande!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website de los Angeles- Micaela's aria from Carmen!! Victoria de los Angeles sang very few performances as Micaela in her illustrious career, so we are indeed fortunate to have a sample of what she sounded like. From a performance in the mid 50's, she sings perhaps the definitive version of this beautiful aria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleale scene- Forza- del Monaco, Bastianini- 1956 The exciting "Sleale" scene from Verdi's La Forza del Destino, as performed by Mario del Monaco and Ettore Bastianini, makes for incredibly thrilling listening. This scene was often omitted from performanes 40 or 50 years ago, due it's very demanding music for the tenor. del Monaco is at his best, as is the Italian baritone, Ettore Bastianin. Together they sing this scene with great slancio!!   Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tucker/Price- Butterfly act 1- excerpts Richard Tucker, in his second recording of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, sings the opening arias of this beautiful music with a combination of great vocal beauty, legato, and soaring ease in the many top notes. Price sings as glorious an entrance as I have ever heard Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PIPPO!!! Che gelida manina- 1956 The great Giuseppe Di Stefano lavishes his golden voice on the famous aria, Che gelida manina, from La Boheme. To listen is to revel in this incredible sound!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bjoerling, Wunderlich, Vickers- 3 more tenors! Three more tenors sing for us. Jussi Bjoerling sings an astoundingly gorgeous Amor ti vieta, from a 1957 recital, followed by the beautiful voice of Fritz Wunderlich, singing Dies Bildnis from Zauberflote, and Jon Vickers sings an interesting, non-Italianate Celeste Aida! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jose Carreras- Core 'ngrato & Santa Lucia Luntana- 1980 The beauty of Jose Carreras' voice is heard in these wonderful Italian song. His Core 'ngrato is full of fire and passion, and his Santa Lucia Luntana is meltingly gorgeous, with lovely high soft tones. Golden singing by any standard!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website del Monaco- L'amico Fritz, Werther, Lohengrin- 1948-52 The young Mario del Monaco, in some of his earliest recordings, sings arias from L'amico Fritz, Werther, and Lohengrin. He sings everything in his native Italian, and his voice and "ring" seem like young miracles of sound!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Placido Domingo- Boheme 1967 & Carmen 1968 The young Domingo sings a warmly vocalised Boheme aria from 1967, and a very moving Flower Song from Carmen in 1968. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mefistofele Prison Scene-Tebaldi, Di Stefano, Siepi 1959 The great prison scene, or the death of Margherita, as it is called in the score, of Boito's Mefistofele, is one of my very favorite scenes in all of opera. As sung by three of the geatest voices of the 20th century, it is  irresistible This excerpt starts after the L'altra notte aria, so to fit in the space allowed. Tebaldi, Di Stefano, and Siepi are unequaled in this music. Enjoy!! Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beniamino Gigli- Una furtiva lagrima- 1927 The great, great Beniamino Gigli sings what I consider to be the definitive recording of Una furtiva lagrima. This was recorded in 1927, when Gigli was at the very pinnicle of his great powers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Franco Corelli- two Neopolitan Songs live 1968 The great Franco Corelli doing one of the many things that he did best: singing Italian canzoni. Here are "I te vurria vasa" & "Cor 'ngrato" from a live concert given in 1968. Amazing!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leontyne Price- Depuis le jour- 1968 From a gala concert, the great Leontyne Price sings a ravishing Depuis le jour from Louise. It's one of the most gorgeous things I have ever heard!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery baritone sings Largo al factotum in English This is a great baritone, who never, as far as I know, sang the role of Figaro in Barbiere. He did, however, sing the big aria, in English, at a gala concert. Here he is. Please name the voice, and tell us what you think of this performance!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martha aria- Richard Tucker- 1961 in English The great Richard Tucker gives his all in this thrilling rendition of the famous tenor aria from Martha. He sings it here in English, in a 1961 revival. At the final performance of the run, he sang this in the Italian that Met audiences were used to from his great predecessors , Caruso and Gigli!! I know. I was there!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery duet Name the opera, and name the singers, if you can!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gigli at 60! Quanto e bella Remarkable freshness of voice and joy of singing, the great Gigli give a lesson in sweet tenor singing in this beautiful aria from Elisir d'amore!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O Don Fatale- mystery mezzo!! You're good if you can name the mezzo singing the great aria from Verdi's Don Carlo, O don fatale! She is featured on many live performance recordings, but recorded very little commercially. BTW, although there is no audience, this is from a live performance done in a radio studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bergonzi goes crazy- Pazzo son Carlo Bergonzi, well known for his great taste among Italian tenors, throws all caution to the wind, and delivers a Pazzo son that even outdoes Gigli and Tucker when it comes to sobbing, and emphasizing certain words for effect. It's great, and I love it!!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lombardi Trio- Gigli/Rethberg/Pinza- 1930 It doesn't get much better than this, ever in recorded history. The combination of Gigli/Rethberg/Pinza is certainly more than Golden Age. It is one of the greatest operatic recordings ever made. Listen to Gigli singing the two  high B naturals along with Rethberg, and both singers holding the notes to make it more exciting. The notes are written for the soprano, but not for the tenor. Caruso also sings these B's on his recording of this trio. This one's for the ages!! Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Lombardi Trio-della Chiesa, Peerce, Moscona-Toscanini 1943 Here is the gorgeous trio from Verdi's I Lombardi, taken from a live broadcast of 1//31/43, with Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony, and soloists Vivian della Chiesa, Jan Peerce, and Nicola Moscona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O mio rimorso- name the voice Name this tenor singing the cabaletta, O mio rimorso, from Verdi's La Traviata! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleale duet- Bergonzi, Cappuccilli 1970 Here is the complete, uncut "Sleale" scene from Verdi's La Forza del Destino, as sung by those two paragons of Verdi style, tenor Carlo Bergonzi and baritone Piero Cappuccilli. The reason this duet was so often cut is mostly due is it's tremendously difficult tessitura, and dramatic outbursts by the tenor, Alvaro. He has at least 4 or 5 high Bb's, and two high B naturals near the end of the scene. And more A's and Ab's than I can count!! The conductor here is Lamberto Gardelli, wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faust trio- Peters, Peerce, Pinza 1953 From 1953, here is a rare recording of the final trio from Faust sung by a very young Roberta Peters, a very middle aged Jan Peerce, and a very old Ezio Pinza. This RCA 10" LP release was taken from the soundtrack of the Sol Hurok film biography, "Tonight we sing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I can't do the sum! (name the voice) Name the singer of this song. Hint: it's not Ethel Merman. She's a very famous opera singer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ah! Non giunge- Sonnambula- name the voice!! Here is a wonderful rendition of the florid ending of La Sonnambula, complete with an incredible sustained high F. Who is this mystery soprano?? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Villazon, Koch- Werther scene 1/28/08 Here is THE great scene from Act 3 of Massenet's Werther, starting with the great tenor aria, Pourquoi me revellier. Both Villazon and Koch give their all in this exciting scene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caballe- Arrigo! Ah, parli ancor- Vespri 1974- Queler, cond. The best of Caballe. The lady doesn't believe in breathing it appears. This is being posted thanks to a request just received from the conductor!! A thrilling performance!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VILLAZON- OPERATIC CONCERT- PARIS 1/28/08 Tenor Rolando Villazon sings an operatic concert in Paris on January 28 of this year. Presented here are four exertps. 1.  La dolcissima- Adriana 2.  L'anima stanca- Adriana 3.  Questa e quella- Rigoletto 4.  Quando le sera- Luisa Milller. Villazon sounds wonderful in these selections. I am sure you'll enjoy this podcast! Best wishes, Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vespri- two duets Caballe, Domingo, Bordoni Two great duets from the Barcelona performance of Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, from Barcelona in 1974, with Eve Queler conducting. First Domingo is joined by baritone Franco Bordoni in the exciting first tenor-baritone duet. This is followed by the soprano-tenor duet where Domingo is joined by Caballe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josef Schmidt- Die Tote Stadt aria Josef Schmidt sounds magnificent in this beautiful aria from Korngold's Die Tote Stadt. The recording dates from 1933. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soliloquy- Carousel- Robert Merrill 1955 From a recording of Carousel originally issued by RCA in 1955, the ever versatile Robert Merrill sings a glorious rendition of the great Soliloquy. Merrill was a great crossover artist long before there was such a word as crossover!! Great singing by any definition!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tosca quartet-Barlow/Tucker/Quilico/Rosen 1971 It was my thrill to share the stage with the above named singers. In this scene, I, as Sciarrone, enters to give Scarpia the bad news, and Tucker laughs at me!! And then sings some Bb's that literally made my ears hurt!! What a thrill and how lucky I was to sing in a performance with my idol, Richard Tucker!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tosca quartet-Barlow/Tucker.Quilico/Rosen 1971 It was my thrill to share the stage with the above named singers. In this scene, I, as Sciarrone, enters to give Scarpia the bad news, and Tucker laughs at me!! And then sings some Bb's that literally made my ears hurt!! What a thrill and how lucky I was to sing in a performance with my idol, Richard Tucker!!! This performance was given at Hofstra College in Hempstead, NY on December 29, 1971. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leontyne Price- D'amor- Trovatore 1971 The gorgeous voice of living legend Leontyne Price is heard at its pristine best is this rendition of the great aria from the last act of Verdi's Il Trovatore. This performance is from an operatic concert in 1971. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cornell MacNeil- Ernani aria 1975 Cornell MacNeil sings the great baritone aria from Verdi's Ernani in a recital in 1975. MacNeil had been stopping the show with this aria since he first sang this opera in the late 50's in Italy, and stole the show from the likes of Price and Corelli at the Met in the 60's! Listen to the absolutely inbelievable ending!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Siepi sings- what is this piece?? Cesare Siepi opened a 1975 recital with this piece, which is unfamiliar to me. I no longer have the program, and would appreciate it if somebody can identify this music for me. I believe it is from an early opera. Perhapa Monteverdi?? I really don't know. Please help me identify this selection. Siepi ends this on an incredible low D!!! Thanks, Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Otello- Si! Pel ciel- name the singers Name the Otello and Iago in this exciting performance of the Si! Pel Ciel duet from Act 2 of Verdi's Otello. Both had great fame in this opera!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MYSTERY LUCIA SEXTET Name the four leading singers in this performance of the Sextet from Lucia. All were very well known, and three of the four had very long careers at the Met and other houses, and were super stars of their time. An unusual recording!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kurt Baum- Rosenkavalier- with high Db ending!!! Well, you asked for it, and here it is!! So what do you think??? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery soprano & tenor- Tosca duet Act 1 Name the two singers in this performance of the Act 1 duet from Puccini's Tosca! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolando Villazon returns- Werther/Manon Jan 5/18 2008 First we have the actual first notes sung in public by Villazon in many months, as he makes his first entrance in Werther on January 5,2008. The usually staid Viennese audience greets him with an ovation before he sings a note! Then we here him singing La Reve from Manon, on January 18, 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ya-aleh- Cantor Richard Tucker- from the Kol Nidre service Here is Richard Tucker officiating as Cantor for the Ya-aleh from the Kol Nidre service. I think this is incredible singing by any standard. The tremendous runs and leaps, musically, the trills, the tessitura, show why Tucker was such a great and celebrated Cantor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elinor Ross- In questa reggia- w. Tucker- 1968 Here is my tape of that great night in 1968, with Elinor Ross singing a great In questa reggia. She is absolutely thrilling. Tucker joins in at the end, and sings a totally blazing high C. Has to be heard to be believed!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website L'Africana scenes- Tucker/Stella 1972 Richard Tucker and Antonietta Stella sing excerpts from Meyerbeer's rarely performed opera, L'Africana in this 1972 performance. Tucker starts with a gorgeous "O Paradiso" followed by the rousing cabaletta, "Deh ch'io ritorni," with an incredible interpolated high B natural near the end. He brings down the house twice within 10 minutes. The long duet with Stella finds both singers in thrilling form. The tenor music is particularly high and for the most part, lyrical, wit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolando Villazon- 1/13/08- two selections from recital Here are two selections from the return recital of tenor Rolando Villazon. He first sings Massenet's "Ouvre tes yeux," followed by Tosti's "Ideale." Rolando's voice sounds as beautiful as ever! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RICHARD TUCKER- HIS GREATEST EVENING EVER!!! Richard Tucker sang a recital at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November of 1967 which still stands as the greatest evening of singing I have ever heard from any singer ever. The program is staggering in it's length and difficulty, and I knew I was in the presence of true greatness that night. He began the evening with a long and difficult Mozart concert aria, and ended the evening with Richard Rodgers "You'll never walk alone!"  In between he sang countless difficult arias ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacNeil/Scotto- Rigoletto- Si, vendetta! From Buenos Aires in the summer of 1968, here are Cornell MacNeil and Renata Scotto driving the audience to an absolute frenzy with their incredible singing to end Act 3, as I was brought up to learn, of Rigoletto. Their "Si, vendetta" duet is what legends are indeed made of! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website L'Amico Fritz- Cherry Duet- better sounding version The beautiful Cherry Duet from Mascagni's lovely "L'Amico Frirz is performed by a young tenor and soprano. Can you name the voices? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website L'Amico Fritz- Cherry Duet- Perez/Costello 2008 The gorgeous Cherry Duet from Mascagni's lovely "L'Amico Frirz is performed Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello in a concert given early this year. It is beautifully sung by the young soprano and tenor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verrano a te- Lucia-Scotto/Pavarotti 1967 Listen to the young Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti sing this beautiful duet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. In 1967, Scotto was a much bigger name than Pavarotti. Their singing is wonderful in this excerpt from an RAI broadcast of October 10, 1967. Francesco Molinari-Pradelli is the conductor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MILANOV SINGS FORZA- 2 ARIAS Zinka Milanov sings two great arias from Verdi's La Forza del Destino. Recorded in her very peak years, the Croatian soprano is simply magnificent in two arias from one of her greatest roles, that of Leonora in Forza. 1. Madre pietosa Vergine 2. Pace mio Dio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MILANOV SINGS! (IN ENGLISH!!!) The beautiful voice of Zinka Milanov is heard to wonderful effect in a song by Hageman, "Do not go my love." Simply gorgeous! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website STEPHEN COSTELLO SINGS FAUST- London 1/5/08 Young tenor Stephen Costello sings Salut! demeure from Faust, from his very recent recital in London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website STILL WATER- ROBERT MERRILL 1951 From the film "Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick," the gorgeous voice of Robert Merrill is heard singing Still Water. This song is unfamiliar to me, but is very beautiful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mystery soprano Name the voice of this soprano heard in My Lord and Master, from The King and I, and the entire "bench" scene from Carousel, where she is joined by a mystery baritone!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vivian dell Chiesa/Robet Merrill-Somtimes I'm happy A very strange sounding duet, with Vivian della Chiesa and Robert Merrill!! To me, it sounds as if two men are singing!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RICHARD TUCKER SHOWS OFF!!! TROVATORE!! Listen to Richard Tucker as Manrico in 1969, at the Blossom May Festival, under the young James Levine. In particular, listen to what Tucker does at the end of the "Ah si, ben mio." Usually this scene is taxing enough, but this ending is spectacular. Tucker is in magnificent voice, in his 57th year. I'm sure you will enjoy this. Best wishes, Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taddei/Callas Nile duet- 1951 Dramatic Verdi singing at its finest is featured in this pairing of Maria Callas and baritone Giuseppe Taddei. This is the famous Mexico performance from 1951. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giuseppe Taddei/Alfredo Kraus- Pearfishers duet 1960 From RAI in 1960, a young Alfredo Kraus is joined by the great Italian baritone, Giuseppe Taddei in an Italian language verson of the beautiful Pearlfishers duet, with the "Italian ending," as recorded by such as Gigli'De Luca. This is lyrical singing at its best!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GIUSEPPE TADDEI- TRAVIATA WITH TEBALDI 1952 Here are the great singers, Renata Tebaldi and Giuseppe Taddei in the Garden Duet from Verdi's La Traviata. The performance is from San Carlo di Napoli and was given on January 17, 1952. Both great Italian singers were young and in their prime. This performance is quite rare and difficult to find. It is a treasure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MYSTERY SOPRANO IN VESPRI ARIA Name the voice! The beautiful "Arrigo, a parla ancor" sung in the original French in a remarkable performance!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery soprano & Tucker- Ballo duet 1973 Here is the magnificent love duet from Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.Our mystery soprano and Tucker deliver a thrilling and beautifully sung performance of this famous and difficult, capped with a great high C. Tucker, amazingly, was 60 years old at the time of this performance! Simply amazing!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BALLO LOVE DUET- MYSTERY SOPRANO & TUCKER 1973 Here is the magnificent love duet from Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.Cruz-Romo and Tucker deliver a thrilling and beautifully sung performance of this famous and difficult, capped with a great high C. Tucker, amazingly, was 60 years old at the time of this performance! Simply amazing!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BALLO LOVE DUET- NILSSON & TUCKEER Here is the magnificent love duet from Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Nilsson and Tucker deliver a thrilling and beautifully sung performance of this famous and difficult duet, capped with a great high C. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MILNES-LUISA MILLER ARIA & CABALETTA 1968 Here is the young Sherrill Milnes in 1968 singing Miller's aria and cabaletta from Verdi's Luisa Miller. After this, we hear the final two minutes of Act 1, with Tozzi, Tucker, Caballe, Milnes. Please leave your comments!   Best wishes, Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MANON LESCAUT- END OF ACT 2 & ACT 3 COMPLETE This great performance was given in Caracas in June of 1972. Tucker was 60, and Olivero was two or three years older than that!! They sing with the greatest passion imaginable, as they sound like the young lovers they are in the opera. This is the only time these two greats sang together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MANON LESCAUT- ACT 4- OLIVERO & TUCKER This great performance was given in Caracas in June of 1972. Tucker was 60, and Olivero was two or three years older than that!! They sing with the greatest passion imaginable, as they sound like the young lovers they are in the opera. This is the only time these two greats sang together. This historic performance was never broadcast. It is a wonderful, stereo house tape that Richard Tucker gave to me the day after he returned from Caracas.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RICHARD TUCKER- SOUND AN ALARM AND OTHERS!! The great Verdi/Puccini tenor, Richard Tucker, sings florid Handel as remarkably well as he sings anything else. The incredible Tucker ring is here for all to hear on this magnificent live concert from The Hollywood Bowl in 1951. He then sings two arias: O Paradiso and Addio allla Madre. Awesome!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JOHN CHARLES THOMAS IN SONG The great baritone voice of John Charles Thomas is heard here in his very prime, in songs recorded between 1931 & 1941. Thomas surely had one of the most magnificent voices ever. His opening song, My Hero, is one of the great baritone recordings I have ever heard. Enjoy this podcast. Here is the program: 1.  My Hero 2.  The Open Road 3.  The Lord's Prayer 4.  I Love Life 5. Ol' Man River 6. Home on the Range   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ROBERT MERRILL IN SONG If any singer had a more beautiful and natural voice than Robert Merrill, I have yet to here him or her. Merrill's way with these songs is simply magnificent, from the operatic type songs, such as The Lord's Prayer, and the more lyrical songs such as C'est magnifique. Merrill was and is the greatest.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA- 1973- TUCKER, ROSS This performance was given at the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia during the summer of 1973. Tucker was 60, and still singing this difficult role with thrilling ease. We present his part complete, with Elinor Ross as Santuzza, and Matteo Manuguerra as Alfio, and a surprise appearance by Frederica von Stade-Lola. The conductor is Lamberto Gardelli. This is thrilling singing!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GREATEST EVER LIVE HIGH C From Act 4 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker show us what great singing is all about. I have never heard two singers "give" as much as Tebaldi and Tucker do here, with the most thrilling high C imaginable in their great scene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website La Gioconda-Suliotis Tucker MacNeil Elias Buenos Aires 1966 This thrilling performance is from Buenos Aires in the summer of 1966. The cast gives its all, and the performance is "white-hot!" Tucker and MacNeil especially get huge audience approval, with their big voiced, gorgeous singing. These highlights are stunning! Cast: Gioconda-  Elena Suliotis Enzo- Richard Tucker Barnaba- Cornell MacNeil Laura- Rosalind Elias Alvise- Paolo Washington Bruno Bartoletti, con. This and all podcasts can be found at www.premiereopera.com   &nb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tucker as Alvaro in Forza w. Taddei, Cavelli In this Buenos Aires performance from 1961, Richard Tucker is heard in the complete role of Don Alvaro in Verdi's La Forza del Destino. It was one of Tucker's very greatest roles, and he is magnificent in this performance. He is joined by Giuseppe Taddei, Floriana Cavalli, and Plinio Clabassi. The "Sleale" scene was missing from this performance, so for this scene only, the role of Don Carlo is sung by Mario Sereni. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richad Tucker as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor The great American tenor, Richard Tucker, brings his golden voice to the music of Donizetti in this live performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Except for the Sextet, the entire role of Edgardo is presented here as performed. Tucker's Lucia is none other then Joan Sutherland! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chenier- Armiliato Dessi Sep 30 2007 Act 4 complete Act 4 complete from Andrea Chenier, with Fabio Armiliato and Daniela Dessi. This is exciting, thrilling singing. And the duet is sung in key! The first cast of this run in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago was Cura and Voight. In my opinion, this pairing of Armiliato and Dessi wins hands down, and I have heard both performances!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chenier- Armiliato Dessi Sep 30 2007 Here is a real Italianate Chenier, sung less than two weeks ago. Why don't we get this at the Met?? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tucker- Kol Nidre Service The solemn and haunting Kol Nidre service as offered by Cantor Richard Tucker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website La Boheme- Tucker/Kirsten/Bastianini Acts 1 & 3 scenes- live performance Scenes from a live performance of Puccini's La Boheme from 1957, featuring Richard Tucker, Dorothy Kirsten, and Ettore Bastianini. GOLDEN AGE!!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luciano Pavarotti Recital- complete- NYC 10/28/73 This early, complete Pavarotti recital finds the 38 year old tenor is truly magnificent form. He was on the verge of super stardom this year, 1973, with the recent triumph of the Met Fille in the very recent past. He generously gives us 22 selections, including encores. Viva Luciano, per sempre!!   Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giuseppe Di Stefano- The Glory of Italy This amazing radio concert, given in Mexico in 1950, stands as one of the supreme examples of tenor singing, any time, anywhere. Not just the best of Di Stefano, which it most certainly is, but the best of perhaps any tenor ever singing this music. The six songs have to be heard to be believed!!! !.  Santa Lucia 2.  Ay, ay, ay 3.  Core 'ngrato- UNBELIEVABLE!! 4.  Mamma mia, che vo sape 5.  Estrallita 6.  Tu che non chiagne Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sondra Radvanovsky- Lucrezia Borgia final scene- 2007 The wonderful Sondra Radvanovsky pulls out all the vocal fireworks in the demanding finale of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. To cap it off, she ends on an incredible high Eb!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Igor Gorin radio concert- December 10, 1945 The great Ukrainian baritone, Igor Gorin, is heard in his prime on this rare radio concert from December 10, 1945. The voice is gorgeous, and the tecnique is perfection. Gorin was born in the Ukraine in 1904, and I believe he became an American citizen in the 1940's, if not ealier. He made his one and only very belated appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1964, at 60 years of age, as Germont in Traviata. I was there, and the voice was still gorgeous and perfectly focused. It was not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tucker on raidio- 1945-1946- opera in English Here is the very young Richard Tucker in some of his first coast to coast radio appearances. These selections are taken from 1945-6, so this is how the great Tucker sounded when he first stepped foot on the stage of the old Met on January 25, 1945. His duet partners include Ribla, Lipton, and Weede. All selections are performaned in English, as was the custom of most of the opera concerts on radio in the mid 1940's.  The program follows: 1.  Aida- Nile duet- w. Gertrude Ribla- 194 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tucker on raidio- 1945-1946- opera in English Here is the very young Richard Tucker in some of his first coast to coast radio appearances. These selections are taken from 1945-6, so this is how the great Tucker sounded when he first stepped foot on the stage of the old Met on January 25, 1945. His duet partners include Ribla, Lipton, and Weede. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steber/Bjoerling Radio Concert Jan. 21, 1946 Eleanor Steber and Jussi Bjoerling join forces for a wonderful 30 minute radio concert from early 1946. Both were in their absolute prime, and they sing two duets, in addition to solo pieces. Truly great, and historical. All podcasts can also be found at www.premiereopera.com     Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Americana- Robert Merrill sings Patriotic Songs One of the very greatest voices America has ever produced was the great baritone, Robert Merrill. What better way to help celebrate the 4th of July than to here Robert Merrill sing the songs of America. Recorded in the 1970's, this was one of Merrill's last recordings, and one of his greatest!!  The selections are: 1.  Battle hymn of the republic 2.  America the beautiful 3.  Hoe down! 4.  Beautiful dreamer 5.  Oklahoma 6.  Mademoiselle from Armentieres 7. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beverly Sills- Suor Angelica- Senza Mamma to end of opera Beverly Sills as Suor Angelica, from "Senza Mamma" to end of the opera. With deepest sorrow, and in loving memory. Ed Rosen July 3, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cornell MacNeil- Ernani aria- spectacular The great Cornell MacNeil is heard here at his formidable best. His gorgeous singing of the great baritone aria from Act 3 of Verdi's Ernani is the stuff legends are made of. The audience at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires give him a tremendous ovation, as you will hear. Best,Ed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aldo Protti- Prologue to Pagliacci Aldo Protti was a fine Italian baritone with a warm, expressive voice. He made many complete recordings for London/Decca in the 1950's, and had at least a 40 year career.Here he sings the magnificent Pagliacci Prologue. I wish we had him today@@ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cappuccilli- Don Carlo- La morte di Rodrigo : Cappuccilli- Rodrigo's Death Scene The great Italian baritone, Piero Cappuccilli, sings the beautiful music Giuseppe Verdi wrote for the baritone's death scene in Don Carlo. This inlcudes two arias: the "Per me giunto" and "Io morro." Cappuccilli sings them with a wonderfully melting legato, and an unbelievable breath control. His Carlo is Jose Carreras, in this 1977 performance from La Scala, with Claudio Abbado conducting.         Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bergonzi sings Puccini : Bergonzi in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly The great Carlo Bergonzi is heard in the music of Giacomo Puccini. First is one of the most gorgeous recordings ever of Rodolfo's Che gelida manina, followed by excerpts from Madama Butterfly, also with Renata Tebaldi, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Enzo Sordello Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |