Record of the Week — Teatro Nuovo

Record of the Week — Teatro Nuovo

January 31, 2019 January 31, 2019/ Guest User

Charisma At the dawn of the twentieth century the Italian publisher Edoardo Sonzogno - upstart rival of the venerable Casa Ricordi - arranged an unparalleled publicity stunt. The new opera of Sonzogno’s star composer Pietro Mascagni woul

30 - Charisma
Giuseppe Anselmi

January 29, 2019 January 29, 2019/ Guest User

Do Try This at Home

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29 - Do Try This at Home
Emma Calvé

January 06, 2019 January 06, 2019/ Guest User

28 - Traditional?
Various tenors

December 11, 2018 December 11, 2018/ Guest User

O doux nom Gilda’s “Caro nome” in Rigoletto is a delightful aria that can easily become excruciating. It’s on the delicate side, naturally enough: a young girl in her first crush, musing on the boyfriend’s name in the Bel Canto languag

27 - O doux nom
Alice Verlet

December 04, 2018 December 04, 2018/ Guest User

26 - Pioneer
Ferruccio Giannini and family

December 02, 2018 December 02, 2018/ Guest User

Head Voice and the Heroic Tenor

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25 - Head Voice and the Heroic Tenor
Jacques Urlus

November 05, 2018 November 05, 2018/ Guest User

The Tears We Do Not Weep One of the better bits of operatic poetry is found in Massenet’s Werther, simple verses expressing the simple insight that unwept tears fall inwards and afflict the heart. The heroine Charlotte sings them to he

24 - The Tears We Do Not Weep
Marie Delna and Jeanne Marié de L’Isle

October 30, 2018 October 30, 2018/ Guest User

Die beiden Grenadiere

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23 - Die beiden Grenadiere
Georg Henschel

October 22, 2018 October 22, 2018/ Guest User

The Sound of Kisses

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22 - The Sound of Kisses
Fernando de Lucia

October 10, 2018 October 10, 2018/ Guest User

21 - Meanwhile back in Paris…
Hippolyte Belhomme, André Gresse, Paul Aumonier

October 09, 2018 October 09, 2018/ Guest User

Indecision A young man whose voice sounds promising for opera and reaches easily up to A-flat or A eventually faces a choice. Will he aim to conquer the next few risky semitones (and the necessary stamina/comfort/maneuverability in the p

20 - Indecision
Oreste Mieli

September 05, 2018 September 05, 2018/ Guest User

19 - “By God, It Can’t Be Done”
John McCormack

June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018/ Guest User

Verdi’s Bass

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18 - Verdi’s Bass
Francesco Navarini

June 11, 2018 June 11, 2018/ Guest User

Sounds like Elektra to me…

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17 - Sounds like Elektra to me…
Marie Gutheil-Schoder

June 04, 2018 June 04, 2018/ Guest User

What’s in a Trill? That question is asked fairly often by singers who don’t spontaneously find their way to the answer. On most instruments, it’s very clear what’s being done. On the piano, you are simply putting down two fingers alterna

16 - What’s in a Trill?
Frances Alda

May 28, 2018 May 28, 2018/ Guest User

By the rules

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15 - By the rules
Meyrianne Héglon

May 14, 2018 May 14, 2018/ Guest User

What Would We Do Without The Cantors?

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13 - What Would We Do Without The Cantors?
Selmar Cerini

December 31, 2015 December 31, 2015/ Guest User

The Oldest Voice Note: This week’s post is longer than usual, because its subject gets more interesting the farther you look into it - history buffs, enjoy!

The Oldest Voice

December 31, 2015 December 31, 2015/ Guest User

Make the movie already! A Florentine girl is smitten with the theater at age eleven upon seeing the great actor Tommaso Salvini. She has a voice; opera calls her. By sixteen she is a sensuous beauty courted on every side and - more impo

Make the movie already!

December 31, 2015 December 31, 2015/ Guest User

A Tenor for Christmas What opera company isn’t hoping for one right now? A good tenor is a gift any day of the year. In the tradition of revisiting Christmas favorites as the holiday approaches, here is one from the early period we empha

A Tenor for Christmas