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While American-born sopranos have already been making waves because the times of Lillian Nordica in the first 1900s, West Hartford, CN, local Teresa Stich-Randall might have been the first American soprano whose recognition overseas outstripped her reputation in the home. Stich-Randall researched voice in the Hartt College of Music, Columbia …

While her career was fairly short, Welitsch was a story in her own time, having a strikingly beautiful stage presence (and a determine she was by no means hesitant showing off to its best advantage onstage) and a powerfully-focused, though not really huge, voice. For most, her Salome hasn’t been …

Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Meyer enjoyed a complete and satisfying career through great intelligence and using a tone of voice of great, if nearly first-rate, quality. Her device, not large but relatively dark in coloration, was occasionally betrayed by an unequal and pronounced vibrato. However her stage existence was riveting more …

Zinka Milanov was probably one of the most renowned and beloved operatic sopranos from the mid-twentieth hundred years. An expert in the spinto repertoire (Verdi’s Aida, both Leonoras, Amelia, and Desdemona; Ponchielli’s Gioconda), she also excelled as Norma and in verismo jobs such as for example Tosca and Santuzza. Within …