Year: 2016

Focus Features

Legendary voices in song

Before the advent of discography, songs were rarely included by opera singers in their repertoire but they made exception for folkloristic songs especially in Germany, Russia and England, which were deemed suitable for concerts and refined salons.

Articles

The aesthetics of Beniamino Gigli’s singing

A generation of the musical public grew up and had its taste shaped under the influence of Beniamino Gigli’s recordings; and among them a generation of young tenors blossomed under this same influence into artistic maturity…

Tenors

Miguel Fleta

The short, but brilliant career of the Spanish tenor Miguel …

Basses

Cesare Siepi

Cesare Siepi was born in Milan on February 10th 1923. …

Tenors

Joseph Calleja

[fancy_header3]Special: 4 tenors from Malta[/fancy_header3] Joseph Calleja was born in …