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Claire Black of the Scotsman meets American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Milano (click the link for the full article): Pop stars, soap stars, Big Brother contestants – it seems that anyone can now be a diva as long as they behave badly enou (read full article)
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg may have been an accidental sex symbol, but sex symbol he most certainly was. Just ask Jane Birkin, Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot, all of whom played a major role in his rich and colourful l (read full article)
Danielle de Niese’s new album Diva is released on Decca on 12 July. (read full article)
I’ve just bought the Runnicles/BBCSO Tristan und Isolde. I played the Liebestod and was surprised and annoyed at the burst of applause and cheers at the end. I know it’s a recording of a live-in-front-of-an-audience concert, but I feel that keep (read full article)
Anneliese Rothenberger as Lulu Anneliese Rothenberger, an internationally known German soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1960s, died on Monday in Switzerland. As befits a diva, her exact age had long been shrouded in obs (read full article)
The re-opening of one of the world’s leading opera houses helped to kick off Argentina’s 200th birthday celebrations on Monday, as the curtain was raised at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires for the first time in almost four years. An audience o (read full article)
Lena Horne & Cab Calloway In a 60-year career, Lena Horne , who has died aged 92, broke down numerous racial barriers. In the 1940s, she was one of the first black singers with a major white band, the first to perform at the famous Copacabana nig (read full article)
Es war, als hätt der Himmel Die Erde still geküßt, Daß sie im Blütenschimmer Von ihm nun träumen müßt. Die Luft ging durch die Felder, Die Ähren wogten sacht, Es rauschten leis die Wälder, So sternklar war die Nacht. Und meine Seele spannt (read full article)
Eliza Carthy in concert at the Union Chapel in London. The set included songs from her album Anglicana, nominated for Album of the Year at the Radio 3 Awards for World Music in 2008. (read full article)
I must say, having listened recently to Benjamin Britten’s recording of The Dream of Gerontius that like cholesterol there is good and bad vibrato. Yvonne Minton (what a beautiful voice) represents the good creative use of vibrato whereas Peter Pe (read full article)
Soprano Renée Fleming has learned “a completely different style of singing” for a forthcoming pop album, which features covers of Muse, Arcade Fire, and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. “This album is NOT a crossover,” the American singer insi (read full article)
Herbert Von Karajan is quoted as saying that Gidon Kremer was, for him, the greatest violinist he ever worked with. (Well, until Anne-Sophie Mutter arrived on the scene.) I haven’t heard him a great deal but, although he can undoubtedly play with (read full article)
The singer Kate McGarrigle died of clear cell sarcoma on Monday at home in Montreal, aged 63. With her sister Anna she formed the acclaimed and influential folk duo the McGarrigle Sisters. McGarrigle was the former wife of singer Loudon Wainwright I (read full article)
Last Saturday, Camille O’Sullivan stood on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall in front of 5,000 people. She wore a black strapless dress, fishnet stockings, and red sequinned shoes. She sang five songs, shook her dark hair loose over her should (read full article)
They are celebrated as great vocalists, but can the likes of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits really sing? Neil McCormick writes in the Daily Telegraph: Bob Dylan: “A voice like sand and glue” in Bowie’s memorable phrase. Contrary to what many of his c (read full article)
The only pig in Afghanistan Wagner’s music has long been easiest to take in “bleeding chunks”, and indeed in chunks which are purely orchestral, from which that is to say the singers are excluded. The reason for the popularity of such chunks is (read full article)
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