Past Performers - Singers
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - internationally famous New
Zealand opera singer, heard by an estimated 600 million
people around the world when she sang Handel's "Let the
Bright Seraphim" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales
and Lady Diana Spencer. Wikipedia |
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Teresa Berganza - Spanish opera singer
most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart,
and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity,
musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence. Wikipedia |
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Margaret Price - a Welsh soprano noted for "the
most beautiful, luminous voices ever to grace the opera and
concert stages" who got her
break with the Royal Opera House in 1962 when Teresa
Berganza cancelled a performance. Wikipedia
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - was one of the leading sopranos
of the post-World War II period, much admired for her
performances of Mozart, Strauss and Hugo Wolf. Wikipedia |
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Lucia Popp - a popular operatic soprano
from Slovakia. She began her career as a coloratura
soprano, and later moved into the lyric repertoire and then
the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas. Her career
included performances at Vienna State Opera, the
Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Wikipedia |
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Yvonne Kenny
- Australian opera
singer, particularly associated with the works of Handel.
2006 review "Yvonne Kenny is at that perfect time of her
career: old enough to be a living treasure but young enough
to be in superb voice". Musica
Viva | Her Own Web
Site
Gérard Souzay - was a French baritone
singer, regarded as one of the best interpreters of mélodie
(French art song) since Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.
Wikipedia |
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Peter Schreier - was one of the most
highly esteemed tenors of the twentieth century,
particularly in German lieder, oratorio, and cantata
performances as well as opera. Wikipedia
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Michael
Chance -
a
leading British countertenor, in worldwide demand for male
alto parts in opera, and as a recital, concert, and
recording artist. All
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John Mark Ainsley - a leading
British tenor especially associated with repertory from the
Classical era and earlier. Wikipedia
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Benjamin Luxon - a leading
British tenor especially associated with repertory from the
Classical era and earlier. Wikipedia
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Christopher Maltman - a
British baritone whose career began developing rapidly
around the turn of the millennium. All
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Olaf Bär - Since the
mid-'80s, Olaf Bär has been counted among the more
prominent German baritones of his generation. All
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