Because we American expats in Germany often celebrate Thanksgiving on the weekend after our compatriots in the US, I offer you today a second Thanksgiving episode, this one featuring the extraordinary

If you, like many of us, are struggling to find things to be grateful for this Thanksgiving, I have put together an episode featuring a national (and international) treasure, the exquisite soprano Rob

As a supplement to my ongoing series on great contraltos, and as a contrast to another outstanding Czech singer, soprano Hana Jank, recently featured on the podcast, I have been actively planning for

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