I have spent the past week planning forthcoming episodes and last night I realized I had to throw together something for this weekends episode. When this happens, it can often result in a very ecle

A few months ago I published the first of a series of episodes honoring Over the Top Sopranos, which presented French repertoire performed by a batch of supremely distressed divas. And today is a fo

Im on holiday this week, but it would be most unGundlachian of me not to provide an episode to sustain my listeners in my absence. I recently purchased a mammoth 13-LP set on the Concert Hall Society

On 21 July, the opera world lost one of its finest tenors, David Rendall, at the age of 76. Rendall began his career in the mid-seventies as a lyric tenore di grazia specializing in bel canto and in t

Youre all going to laugh at me, but thats okay, cuz Im Im the one laughing hardest! I had planned an easy-peasy episode for yesterday, one which focused on two great 20th century bass-baritones wh

On June 3, 2024, the Berlin Senate's Department of Culture installed a memorial plaque in honor of African American contralto and Deutsche Oper star Vera Little at her former residence. Little, who li

If the exceptional Illinois-born contralto Carol Smith (20 February 1926 06 June 2021) has previously escaped your notice, now is the perfect opportunity to get to know her better. She began her car

If you get Gundula Janowitz, then you really get her, and this birthday tribute will be a delectable treat. If, however, you dont get her, or dont think that you get her, you might want to give th

At first blush, this episode may look a bit slapdash, but it actually reflects very much where I am at this moment. Its got a bit more of a narrative than most of my episodes do, and somehow in this

The esteemed, indeed beloved, German baritone Hermann Prey died seventeen years ago already on July 22, 1998. I want to remember him today by celebrating a cornerstone of his repertoire: the music of