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Episode 360. Ben Luxon: King of Crossover
Benjamin Luxon, the esteemed Cornish baritone who died at the age of 87 last July, had one of the most wide-ranging repertoires of any singer of the...
Episode 359. Get to Know Hugo Hasslo
The earliest selection on last week’s Elisabeth Söderström episode featured the soprano at 24 singing the title role of Madama Butterfly....
Episode 358. Elisabeth Söderström Revisited
There are very few singers that mean more to me than does Elisabeth Söderström. I was first made aware of her at the tender age of ten, when I became...
Episode 357. Faust auf Deutsch
Today I offer three different recordings of excerpts, sung in German, from Charles Gounod’s opera Faust, which was known in the day in Germany...
Episode 356. Get to Know Irina Arkhipova
Directly after the disastrous November election in the United States, I compiled a setlist for two episodes self-explanitorially entitled “Mezzos...
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