Janine Micheau
Antonio Magini Coletti
Blanche Thebom
Emma Calvé
Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Claudia Muzio
Gafni Miklos
Gertrude Kappel
Johan Botha
As a boy, Thill had a powerful voice and on being called into the French Army in 1916 he entertained his fellow soldiers in my own way, with lots of enthusiasm and little technique. After two years of study he went to Naples in 1921 and studied with Fernando De Lucia. In later years, while waiting to go on stage, he would regularly muse what would De Lucia think He made his professional debut in 1924 and went on to continued success in a long career.
David Badridze
Melanie Kurt
Giuseppe Valdengo
Giuseppe Giacomini
Miguel Villabella
Selma Kurz
Nicolae Herlea
Artists

Biographies

  • Harry Secombe

    Harry Secombe

    Music played a big part in Harry Secombe’s life, from his childhood in Swansea when he was a choirboy at St Stephen’s, Danygraig, although he never had a singing lesson until 1952. He got his first break during the war, taking part in many concert …

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  • Giuseppe Campora

    Giuseppe Campora

    Giuseppe Campora excelled in the lyrical Italian repertory during the 50’s and performed frequently at the Met, where he became one of Rudolf Bing’s preferred voices. Born in Tortona, Italy, on 30 September 1923, tenor Giuseppe Campora made his professional operatic debut when stepping in …

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Articles, Interviews & Memories

  • Gigli

    Beniamino Gigli: The Record of Prejudice

    During the controversial period in his career, in the years leading up to and immediately following World War II, Beniamino Gigli was, above all, the most international of Italian singers, in both his personal orientation and in his arrangement of his itineraries. In effect, Gigli …

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  • Soprano Angel Joy Blue is Liu in San Diego Opera's TURANDOT

    Sitting down with Angel Joy Blue

    Soprano Angel Joy Blue is singing the role of the young slave girl Liù in the San Diego Opera production of Turandot on February 24 and 27, and March 2 and 4, 2018. Lise Lindstrom sings the title role of Turandot and Carl Tanner sings …

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Focus Feature

Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

Le postillon de Lonjumeau 1836

The history of opera is littered with shipwrecks which sail with great success when first launched only to sink into oblivion for one reason or another. Some are lost forever and some are re-floated only to sail out briefly before returning to dry-dock. It seems that ‘Le Postillon de Lonjumeau’ has become something of a pleasure boat which is only given the odd cruise in its home waters of France, kept afloat almost solely by its famous tenor aria of the same title. It is an aria full of verve, humour, melody requiring great vocal skill.

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