Taking a pause.

I talk about my experience with a poor Micaela and a cancelled flight. Oops! Also, my experience with John Crosby of the Santa Fe Opera and conflicts of interest with my home theater. My long , ongoing discussion with Beverly Sills when she tried to bring me back to the New York City Opera.

We've heard the men; here are the women. Soprano/Mezzo duets, even where one is playing a young man. Rosenkavalier, Le Nozze di Figaro,  Rossini's Zalmira and the famous flower duet from Lakme.  What more could you ask for. Enjoy!

Ah, yes, duets for two men. Tenor and baritone and a duet for two tenors. Enjoy La Forza del Destino, The Pearl Fishers, The Rakes Progress and a duet for two tenors from a Rossini opera, but I'm not going to tell you which one.

The beauty and high musicianship of operatic ensembles. Today we hear from Carmen, Rigoletto and Il Barbiere di Seviglia. Enjoy!

The deep and sonorous voice of the Bass in all its glory. Franz Josef Selig, Ivan Petrov, Boris Stokolov, Cesare Siepe, Alexander Pirogov  sing arias from Zauberfloette, La Sonambula, Nabucco, Eugene Onegin and  Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina. Good Listening!

Mezzosoprano arias as the fourth installment of beautiful arias.

As promised, after the tenor and the baritone comes the soprano. Here are three of the most beautiful soprano arias from Carmen, Zauberfloette and Tristan und Isolde.