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Rozhdestvensky was the kid of conductor Nikolai Anosov and soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya. A pupil in the Gnesin College of Music as well as the Moscow Conservatory college for kids, he came into the Conservatory in 1941 to review conducting along with his dad and piano with Lev Oborin. While still …

After beginning her career like a soprano, Felicity Palmer begun to attract the interest of several leading conductors and was assigned important roles for live show and recordings. Although interesting in works from the Baroque and Classical intervals, Palmer found evidence increasing stress in the very best register. This aspect …

Physically imposing and endowed with a big, relatively saturnine bass voice, Michael Langdon achieved excellence within a narrow, yet flavorful repertory. He was, at exactly the same time, both a ripe (but hardly ever overdrawn) Baron Ochs and a John Claggart (Billy Budd) chilling in destructive intent. Although missing the …