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I'm going to have so much fun tomorrow! I found more names of early opera singers, including some English and Welsh ones, as well as a few who worked with the great Italians. Right now, my collection consists of the following. Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, John McCormack, Louis Graveure, Richard Tauber, and Tito Schipa. I'm looking for their contemporaries. But I also think that I will relax and listen to some more operettas, as I miss them. It's just that finding them in English and performed with dialogue is extremely difficult. It's the same with opera, of course, but in that case, I'm mostly enjoying the voices.
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@Georg Tuparev I sincerely thank you for this! I mostly focus on tenors, as a matter of personal taste, but I certainly will learn about baritones and basses as well, so I will start with Chaliapin, Christoff, and Gobi. Barring contraltos who are difficult to find, my focus has almost exclusively been on men, though I have listened to a few suppranos to briefly compare modern and older styles. That said, Freni is too young for me to add to my list, as I try to stay with those who either started in acoustic recordings and moved to electric or who died before it was invented. The exception to this is Simoneau. I think the modern changes began in the 1950's, though I could be wrong, being very new to all of this.
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#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Italian opera singer Mirella Freni has died at age 84. Freni’s manager said the famed soprano who enthralled audiences for half a century died Sunday at her home in Modena, Italy, from a degenerative muscular disease and a series of strokes. Freni was the last in a line of Italian sopranos who prompted ovations with their entrances alone.
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