Thank you for visiting Operanostalgia. What is this channel about? Well, the name says it all. We will remember classically trained singers from the past. Operanostalgia aims to offer only recordings which are not available anywhere else and are thus for the first time available on the www. The recordings come from the record collection of Rudi van den Bulck (Flanders). During half a century this collection was enlarged by exchanging recordings, gifts etc. by the late Frans Meesters (tenor of the KVO -Royal Flemish Opera - in Antwerp), the late Frans van Dijk (a passionate music enthusiast and collector (Eersel/Netherlands), Charles Mintzer (Brooklyn, USA), Jan Neckers and the late Marcel Maes(Flanders), John Humbley (Chelles/France) and Jean-Luc Weil (Germany) We have no problem with you downloading our material but please have the decency to acknowdledge the source. We put much time and effort in this channel.
My late teacher Anthony Frisell directed at the New Orleans Opera around that time and spoke highly of Poleri. To me his sound shares similarities with Tucker’s.
ik heb nog niet gevonden hoe ik dat alles kan beluisteren rudy maar dat komt nog wel al gevonden rudy prachtig probeer nog meer van de kameropera te pakken te krijgen
A phenomenal artist. Do you by chance have her performance of her singing Brunnhildes immolation scene from the mid 80s? I can't find it on youtube anywhere....
de foto "don juan" is feitelijk Jan Stroobants als Don Carlos in Forza del Destino toen hij verbonden was in Freiburg 1967 wel een zware rol voor een lyrische bariton ... ik heb me ooit laten vertellen dat hij zelfs een Scarpia zou gezongen hebben maar ja dat scheen toen de mode in Duitsland : zware partijen "lyrisch" bezetten Fisher Dieskau heeft ooit in Berlin de Pizarro gezongen
Je ne connaissais pas Michèle le Bris personnellement mais j ai connu son mari et sa fille chez qui j ai travailler l année dernière . J ai appris a aimé l opéra grâce a son mari qui n écoute qu elle tous les jours et qui la pleure encore .
I first heard Schicoff in London ina performance of Hoffman with Remy and it was an expierience that has remained in my memory since I have never seen a Hoffman since in case it would not measure up to that of the mid eightys in Covent Garden.
This is a church cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1730 called "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" BWV51. Performed by Kathleen Battle soprano, with Wynton Marsalis, trumpet.
What a beautiful tenor. I only heard him live a couple times. It is said he was almost sick from having to step on the stage, and it affected his career...
Henry Blackmon is your uncle? A lovely man, I took singing lessons with him. He was a kind, patient teacher and thoroughly inspirational. And such a beautiful singer.
Thank you for sharing this. I just very recently discovered her. Would love to hear the entire "Consul" if you have the opportunity. Several great singers in that performance from 1952. I have tried to learn more about the baritone Leon Combé who plays her husband in The Consul.
SONO RINALDO IL FIGLIO DI BRUNO PREVEDI.....GRAZIE ....MI FATE RIVIVERE I MOMENTI PIU BELLI CHE MIO PADRE HA SAPUTO OFFRIRE CON LA SUA SPLENDIDA VOCE AGLI APPASSIONATI DI TUTTO IL MONDO.... DIZIONE PRESENZA SCENICA SERIETA PROFESSINALE D ALTRI TEMPI..... MODESTIA SOPRATUTTO.....GRAZIE ANCORA
I'm an old Hungarian lady from a small (former communist) country and we didn't have much information about anything, so the same with the art (opera). I loved the opera since I was a little girl, through my family where music played a very important role. When I was 15 years old, my mother got tickets for two opera performances at la Scala (Milano), when she was on a business trip to Italy, and she took me along. This was the first time that I had a chance to know and hear several biggest voices in the world, like Corelli, Di Stefano (just to mention the tenors), and I was in awe, I didn't know whether it was real or I was dreaming. And not to talk about la Scala the Opera house, that for me was a dream. I was not able to concentrate on anything I felt I was dreaming. Any way, you can imagine, a girl of 15, and on the stage Franco Corelli (I never heard of him before), so I immediately fell in love with him, silly girl. After that I learned about other opera stars, women and men, and I was listening to opera day and night (on our old radio and records that I bought in Italy. So my knowledge of the super opera stars was limited, but I was happy for what I had. Much later I came to USA , and when computers came into fashion (really the most important thing, not for me), and I got one, but much later I learned about RU-vid, so when I understood what it was, I stopped to use my gramophone, and here I had a big choice who to listen to, so I got to listen to many great opera singers, many I never heard about. One of these was Bruno Prevedi. I listened a few times and I was in awe listening carefully how he was saying the words - so clearly and nice - his beautiful effortless singing - I love such a voice - and his sweetness singing the words, and above all his tenderness, that totally captivated me. I get tears in my eyes listening to Bruno Prevedi (I still know some Italian, I studied in Italy for a year when I was 24 years old, and I loved there every minute - it was in Bari). So now, well, Corelli is still my greatest memory, I listen to him daily, but since I discovered Prevedi, I listen to him often, almost every day, and I put him next to Corelli, Di Stefano, Del Monaco, Bergonzi and so many other great tenors - I like very much Giuseppe Campora, too. I think both Prevedi and Campora should always be mentioned along the four tenors I mentioned. The tenderness that one feel in Prevedi's singing, I would compare with Corelli.
