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Gallery of my favorite
      opera singers
  • basses (43)
    • ...alphabetical index
  • baritones (53)
    • ...alphabetical index
  • tenors (95)
    • ...alphabetical index
  • countertenors (7)
  • contraltos (11)
  • mezzo-sopranos (37)
    • ...alphabetical index
  • sopranos (158)
    • ...alphabetical index

  • in memoriam Montserrat Caballé
    April 12, 1933 -- October 6, 2018       

  • in memoriam Dmitri Hvorostovsky
    October 16, 1962 -- November 22, 2017       

  • in memoriam Nicolai Gedda
    July 11, 1925 -- January 8, 2017       

  • in memoriam Roberta Peters
    May 4, 1930 -- January 18, 2017       

  • in memoriam Russell Oberlin
    October 11, 1928 -- November 26, 2016       

  • in memoriam Mario Sereni
    March 25, 1928 -- July 24, 2015       

  • in memoriam Jon Vickers
    October 29, 1926 -- July 10, 2015       

  • in memoriam Anita Cerquetti
    April 13, 1931 -- October 11, 2014       

  • in memoriam Magda Olivero
    March 25, 1910 -- September 8, 2014       

  • in memoriam Licia Albanese
    July 22, 1913 -- August 15, 2014       

  • in memoriam Carlo Bergonzi
    July 13, 1924 -- July 25, 2014       

  • in memoriam Regina Resnik
    August 30, 1922 -- August 9, 2013

  • in memoriam Risë Stevens
    June 11, 1913 -- March 20, 2013

  • in memoriam Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    May 28, 1925 -- May 18, 2012

  • in memoriam Rita Gorr
    February 18, 1926 -- January 22, 2012

  • in memoriam Sena Jurinac
    October 24, 1921 -- November 22, 2011

  • in memoriam Cornell MacNeil
    September 24, 1922 -- July 15, 2011

  • in memoriam Georgio Tozzi
    January 8, 1923 -- May 30, 2011

  • in memoriam Shirley Verrett
    May 31, 1931 -- November 5, 2010

  • in memoriam Dame Joan Sutherland
    November 7, 1926 -- October 10, 2010

  • in memoriam Cesare Siepi,
    February 10, 1923 -- July 5, 2010

  • in memoriam Maureen Forrester,
    July 25, 1930 -- June 16, 2010

  • in memoriam Giulietta Simionato,
    May 12, 1910 -- May 5, 2010

  • in memoriam Giuseppe Di Stefano,
    July 24, 1921 -- March 3, 2008

  • in memoriam Luciano Pavarotti,
    October 12, 1935 -- September 6, 2007

  • in memoriam Jerry Hadley,
    June 16, 1952 -- July 18, 2007

  • in memoriam Régine Crespin,
    February 23, 1927 -- July 5, 2007

  • in memoriam Beverly Sills,
    May 25, 1929 -- July 2, 2007

  • in memoriam Astrid Varnay,
    April 25, 1918 -- September 4, 2006

  • in memoriam Léopold Simoneau,
    May 3, 1916 -- August 24, 2006

  • in memoriam Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
    December 9, 1915 -- August 3, 2006

  • in memoriam Anna Moffo,
    June 27, 1932 -- March 10, 2006

  • in memoriam Birgit Nilsson,
    May 17, 1918 -- December 25, 2005

  • in memoriam Piero Cappuccilli,
    November 9, 1929 -- July 12, 2005

  • in memoriam Victoria de los Angeles,
    November 1, 1923 -- January 15, 2005

  • in memoriam Renata Tebaldi,
    February 1, 1922 -- December 19, 2004

  • in memoriam Robert Merrill,
    June 4, 1917 -- October 23, 2004

  • in memoriam Nicolai Ghiaurov,
    September 13, 1929 -- June 2, 2004

  • in memoriam Franco Corelli,
    April 8, 1921 -- October 29, 2003

  • opera and flowers (13)
  • the stars on postage stamps (11)

  • opera death scenes (33)
  • the stars wearing pearls (47)   
  • the stars and food (8)   
  • the stars with their pets (26)   
  • the stars at the microphone (13)   
  • the stars in fur (58)   
  • the stars lighting up (26)   

  • For singers by role, click here: Canio, Duke, Rigoletto, Manrico, Otello, Rodolfo, Mario, Dick Johnson, Don José in Carmen, Boris, Violetta, Manon, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimi, Carmen, Lucia, Santuzza, and Azucena

    More of my favorite music people
  • opera composers (141)
  • other composers (1)
  • conductors (108)
  • composer and singing teacher (1)
  • pianists (30)
  • accompanist par excellence (1)
  • violinists (11)
  • cellists (2)
  • organists (2)
  • french horn virtuoso (1)
  • trumpeter (1)
  • announcer_extraordinaire (1)
  • opera director and designer (1)


  • in memoriam Fedora Barbieri,
    June 4, 1920 -- March 4, 2003
  • in memoriam Eileen Farrell,
    February 13, 1920 -- March 23, 2002
  • in memoriam Isaac Stern,
    July 21, 1920 -- September 22, 2001
  • in memoriam Gina Cigna,
    March 6, 1900 -- June 26, 2001
  • in memoriam Walter Berry,
    April 8, 1929 -- October 27, 2000
  • in memoriam Jean-Pierre Rampal,
    January 7, 1922 -- May 20, 2000

  • dishes named after musicians, and links to their recipes
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  • click here for food photos      

    • To see a recent article about Sunday Morning Opera in the Trenton Times, click here


    From 2005 to 2012 I honored individual singers on the program "Treasured Voices", and prepared audio promos for the shows. You can hear them by clicking here. Links to those promos are also included with each singer's photos to provide a sample of his or her voice.


    You are welcome to join my Sunday Morning Opera group on Facebook. Click here.



        

          
    Singing in the Collegiate Chorale, in New York City
         (I'm in the front row of the chorus)



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    (Started Feb. 10, 2016)


                                                                  
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