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Episode 196. Grace Bumbry In Memoriam

Posted May 11, 2023 • 01:29:28

This past week the world of opera was plunged in mourning at the news of the death of the unique, the irreplaceable Grace Bumbry (04 January 1937 –...

Episode 195. Forgotten Broadway III

Posted May 4, 2023 • 01:35:15

Last summer, I produced a miniseries of episodes on Countermelody entitled “Forgotten Broadway,” the third and final segment of which was...

Episode 194. Great Mozart Tenors

Posted April 28, 2023 • 02:08:35

Today’s is a mammoth episode, one of my longest ever, so I suggest you listen to it in easily digestible segments. It’s mammoth because it’s a...

Episode 193. Alexander Kipnis

Posted April 21, 2023 • 01:34:53

If I were to indulge in the foolish task of dubbing certain artists the “Greatest Ever,” I would have little hesitation in naming Ukrainian-American...

Episode 192. Virginia Zeani: The Soul of the Voice

Posted April 14, 2023 • 01:38:12

A number of significant classical and opera singers have died in this calendar year, and this episode pays tribute to three of them. First, James Bowman,...