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Posted by Noah Tunell on October 30, 2024, 5:49 pm, in reply to "Opera Singers of the Past"
Thank you both for your informative and detailed responses; truly some wonderful performances. It is a bit of a downer that modern singers are not generally as good, but I think that is there is a silver lining for me in that I won’t have any better example to compare live performances to, so they will be less of a let down. Anyway, thank you for your time and your great work reviewing.
Noah 
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As someone who is just about to start my operagoing, I have a question for some of the older operagoers here, and I am only interested in answers based on live performances you have attended. I was wondering if the greats of the past (three tenors era and earlier if possible) were significantly better than modern stars live, as seems to be true from recordings. I know recordings are not the best indicator of how someone sounded live, and I really want to know if the difference between old stars and modern stars in a live performance is really as night and day as it seems. Thanks
-Noah
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Opera Singers of the Past - Noah Tunell October 28, 2024, 7:42 am
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