I am taking a short break before posting the final in my Mexican Opera Singers miniseries to bring you a compilation episode that is sure to get your blood flowing. Ive entitled it Mezzos on the Ver

In the first year of Countermelody I posted a tribute to to the Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Four years later, that great artist is still with us, and, today, i

Today (for what I hope are obvious reasons) begins a short Countermelody series on a few of the greatest singers that Mexico, our neighbor to the south, has gifted to the world. Contralto Oralia Domn

Before I traveled to my home state of Wisconsin this week, I had prepared an episode to post this weekend, but in my navet, I had not anticipated the catastrophe that happened to my country, and to

As the United States faces its most momentous and contentious election since at least 1968, lets turn for today to our neighbors to the North to become acquainted with one of their cultural icons: th

Something a little outside of the normal scope of Countermelody for todays episode: - Earlier this year I published a bonus episode on the fascinating singer/songwriter Benard Ighner (1945-2017) and

Two years ago for Halloween, I presented the first of my Haunted Opera House episodes. At the time, I had such a plethora of creepy musical material that I produced a bonus episode of material that

Since Christa Ludwigs death more than three and a half years ago, her reputation has only increased. A significant portion of that reputation rests on her prowess as a singer of Lieder, a repertoire

Episode 300 of Countermelody is upon us, and I have chosen today to bring you the German-American soprano Helen Donath in all her glory, performing Lieder of both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Sch

Remember the summer of 2020? The good old days of lockdown? That was the first summer that I was producing Countermelody, and during that time I tried to inject a little levity into the podcast by doi