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That is an excellent list of singers to have seen, and I am quite jealous! A shame you missed Vickers and Nilsson. Do you think that the currently performing singers that you mentioned are the equals of those older stars or are they still not on the same level. Also, I am curious to hear about Placido Domingo. He always sounds a little bit pinched in his recordings, especially up high, and I was wondering if that was a product of the microphone or not. Thanks
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I began listening to live opera in the 70s and am in no doubt that I had access to far more great voices of a volume and beauty exceeding most of those today. Most of these I heard in London and New York (where I lived for four years) but I have lived elsewhere and travelled a fair bit, so have heard others elsewhere, too. My selection is inevitably random and subjective, but I especially recall Dame Janet Baker, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Montserrat Caballé, Mirella Freni, Valerie Masterson, Carol Neblett, José Carreras, Yuri Masurok, Fio
Message Thread Opera Singers of the Past - Noah Tunell October 28, 2024, 7:42 am
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