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 follow-up, again featuring sopranos en dtresse in whic

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 label. The release promises a variety of excerpts that

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 who were both valued recitalists as well as composers! I

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 lived from 1927 to 2012, and spent the majority of

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 career singing the music of Bach with the legendary Bach A

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 this episode a try, anyway, for it focuses on her work as

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 story a number of different strands come together. The

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

So many great singing artists lost to the world of late! Almost a month ago now, the great Welsh tenor Stuart Burrows (07 February 1933 – 29 June 2025) left this mortal coil at the age of 92. Burrows was an artist of extraordinary technique, eleganc