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There already are two threads that include performer birthdays, but they haven't had any posts in awhile. Plus one is just for opera singers while the other includes composer birthdays which we already have a thread for. So I'm creating this thread which may be even more inclusive than the old...

Hi, I am looking for some singers who wish to collaborate on a piece like this. Here, I am using Vocaloid singers in the strings but I would like to combine my energies with other singers, and we can share our work on either's YouTube sites. This is the composition I am talking about: I...

Many great singers in opera have been less than convincing actors. Joan Sutherland was one who was more concerned with her vocals and stage presence than acting. As she told Susan Heller Anderson of the New York Times, "If you want to see a wonderful actress, you go to see a straight play. … You...

Let's not bother with who we like or dislike. For those who keep up with this kind of thing, who are the singers currently putting the bums on seats in opera houses around the world? Help me fill in the blanks and bring us all up to speed. Feel free to add. If you're able to rank the order...

Hi! I'd like to know what people think about great singers from the present and past who made it in spite of ugly or at least not beautiful basic timbres - and perhaps also about the not so greats that pop up in spite of this. I propose to beguin by skipping the classic example: la Divina.

Unlike most of you very likely I also like pop music and many pop singers have what I'd call a raspy sound. My voice hurts very quickly if I try to mimic this but they make whole careers with this sound. Singers with this sound include Aretha, Michael McDonald, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Durante...

Opera as an art form is great because it has been around for so long. There are so many operas and so many singers. For as long as there have been recordings there have been opera singers who have recorded them. From Caruso to today so many artist have been recorded live or in studio. And every...

I have many recordings both live and studio that I like very much. But not even many of my favorites are perfect. Not even those that are my choice for an opera. Usually there is room to improve, but in some cases I'm completely satisfied. Like the Callas Tosca from 1953. Of course stereo sound...

Who are your favorite Wagner singers for the various Wagner roles? Name as many roles and singer as you like? :tiphat:

Pretty straight forward-list your favorites and keep it current! MALE Christopher Purves (Baritone) René Pape (Bass) Bryn Terfel (Bass) Bejun Mehta (Countertenor) John Tomlinson (Bass) FEMALE Barbara Hannigan (Soprano) Deborah Kayser (Soprano)

First I have to admit that I don't speak Italian, French or German. But I can recognize if its done properly. There are singers who have perfect diction, so you can hear perfectly how they massacre the language. And then there are singers who do both well. I myself prefer good diction and if the...

one singer who comes to mind immediately for me is Samuel Ramey who, the more I think about it, is a freak of nature as far as male voices are concerned, possessing a bizarre combination of - the deep, resonant timbre and lower extension of a basso profundo - high notes which puts most spinto...

In the morning I had no thread ideas. Absolutely none. For a while I thought that, that was it. I have only been on the forum for one month and allready I have run out of ideas. Then I went for a walk and listened some Jonas Kaufmann. And then inspiration. In fact I got so many ideas, that I...

This can be singers from the past or present. It must be a role that they have never sung or, in the case of singers from the past, one which they may have sung but of which there is no recording available. I'm not sure if this thread has been done before but I did a quick search and I couldn't...

Today we have lyrical and dramatic tenors. We have coloratura sopranos. Long time ago you were just a tenor or a soprano, but of course even then you sing the material that suited you or transposed it to suit. But I'm not interested in this thread to discuss should we do that or not. But should...

There might all ready be a thread on this subject, but as they say, practice makes perfect! What era of recordings you listen to the most? I listen recordings all the way from the acoustic recordings to the present day. I know that there are members who prefer the acoustic recording era and so...

I always find it depressing when I see people in the internet or in everyday life who think that the above three are the only tenors in existance and compare them by their own parameters as if they knew what they are talking about. It gets tragicomical when some people say Paul Potts is better...

Should every opera singer sing them? Only men or women too? Who is your favorite interpreter? My personal opinion is that they are essential, especially for Italian singers. They require passion, so cold and analytic singers should avoid them. My favorite is Di Stefano for his passion, diction...

Sometimes when I listen to opera I'm so into it that I can't hear or see anything. Then there are times that opera is the perfect background music. Sometimes I have to sing along. Occasionally I just listen singers diction, how she or he sings and the singers technique. If I want to enjoy...