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I discovered this video last year when I became obsessed with Freddie Mercury after the movie Bohemian Rhapsody came out. I watched every ...

This is the one and only Yvette Gilbert (1865-1944)  singing Madame Arthur as only she can.    Yvette  Guilbert was a French cabaret sing...

Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle Spirituals in Concert Two phenomenal singers. If you've never heard this concert before, you are...

Above is a short video taken at Josephine Lang's  Grave  with Josephine Lang's Lied "Scheideblick" (Parting Glance) he...

Pete Seeger 1919-2014 Voice of Freedom Voice of the Unions Voice of Civil Rights  Voice of the Rivers Voice of Justice V...

The wonderful English counter-tenor Alfred Deller, occupies a unique place in music of the 20th century.  He not only was an exquisite...

Mark Reizen, at 79  sings: Tchaikovsky, In the midst of the ball In the midst of the noisy ball, amid the anxious bustle of life, I ca...

I first met Beatrice Rippy in 1969 at the Third Street Music Settlement in New York City.  I was 14 years old and she...

Last year, I devoted a series of posts to the month of February called "Singer of Day" Month. This year, in keeping with the tradi...

My apologies for not having posted in the last several days. I will continue and try to caught up. Spanish composer, Jesús Guridi (1866-...

Here are 4 pieces since I didn't post yesterday and won't be able to post again for a couple of days. These four pieces will be for ...

Teresa Stratas is a beguiling performer and Youkali is a song equally as beguiling. This video is an excerpt from the film September Songs:...

Ahead of her time, like no other. She could sing anything. She was a phenomenon!

I love it when composers sing their own music, even when or especially because they don't have attractive instruments. There's som...

Just over a year ago, Hugues Cuenod died at the age of 108. I didn't get a chance to post his obituary at this site. This post is a bel...

Here's one in keeping with the theme of lesser known pieces. I don't know about you, but until my student brought this song to me, I...

Just minutes ago, Vice President Sulieman annouced that President Mubarak has stepped down! The people of Egypt have won their freedom f...

This performance is from Grieg's "Haugtussa, op 67 (The Mountain Maid), 8 songs in Norwegian. Swedish mezzo, Anne Sofie von Ott...

Brahms (1833-1897) wrote 196 art songs. This is one of his masterpieces. Fassbaender's recording was the one I listened to, many year...

Composed by Charles Dumont, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire, it was written in 1956, and is best known through its 1960 recording by the lege...

If you're an Aksel Schiøtz fan, this will be a treat. If you aren't you should be. Here he performs three Schubert Lieder- -Halt! ...

Fischer Dieskau is heard here singing the second song in Mahler's orchestral song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The text was w...

There is a great treasure trove of ravishingly beautiful Russian music written for the voice by composers such as Glinka, Musorgsky, Ra...

Pauline Viardot,1821-1910, daughter of Manuel Garcia, the famous tenor and vocal pedagogue, was a major figure in her time. She was fluent i...

I discovered this piece in my twenties. I was fascinated by Schubert's treatment of the text. The phrase "Du liebst mich nicht/ Yo...

In keeping with music from Latin America, listen to what is certainly considered a definitive performance of a beloved piece by Heitor Villa...

This is the first of Granados' Canciones Amatorias , Descúbrase el pensamiento, beautifully sung by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. There...

Let's keep the dream alive in all we do.

“I sing opera, but I am a musician,” she told The Sheboygan Press in 2004. “I teach too many crummy kids who think they’ve got to be opera s...

The great mezzo soprano and soprano Shirley Verrett died on Friday morning at the age of 79 of heart failure after several months of illness...

Mezzo soprano Giulietta Simionato died on Wednesday at her home in Rome. A thrilling singer of the 50's and 60's. She was featured i...