During the first season of Countermelody I presented the great African American baritone Lawrence Winters in an episode which paired him with his contemporary Robert McFerrin. Today Winters (born Lawr

Today I present to you the American lyric tenor Frank Lopardo, who from 1984 through 2014 appeared in all the major opera houses of the world, celebrated particularly for his Mozart and Rossini roles.

I have been juggling a number of brand new episode ideas for the coming weeks, but when I discovered that Sunday April 7 was the birthday of Marvis Martin, one of my favorite sopranos, I put all those

Many of my listeners look forward with eager anticipation to my annual April Fools episodes, and todays packs a particularly powerful punch! A few months back my friend Thomas Bagwell, a perpetual f

I return to you with one final episode for the month of March, again focusing on Holy Week. In this case, I present to you art songs on contemplative, Biblical, even Lenten themes. Composers represent

Once again we have reached the climax of the penitential season of Lent, the most theologically significant week in the Christian calendar, namely Holy Week. Even for those who are not observant Chris

The French baritone Grard Souzay was born Grard Tisserand on 8 December 1918 and died in Antibes on 17 August 2004. This episode was one of my first episodes, originally posted in honor of his then

I was thrilled to discover a while back that the pianist, interviewer, and journalist Zsolt Bognr, who produces the video series Living the Classical Life, is a devoted fan of Countermelody. We recen

Todays segment in the Great Baritones division of my Listeners Favorites series is introduced by my friend, baritone Jeremy Osborne, like me an American expat in Berlin. In the nearly ten years that

(Leavin on a jet plane this afternoon, so posting a day or so early!) - It is a wonderful thing when friends share a favorite singer. Such is the case with my friend of long-standing, Julian Long (on