Opera remixed!

Check out this cool remix of soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and Delerium. What do you think? Cool or sell-out?

Canadian Singers - Adrienne Pieczonka

Here is a recording of Adrienne Pieczonka singing the aria Es gibt ein Reich from Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. Listen to the creamy line and her ease in accessing her middle and lower registers.

Synopsis:

In full despair from being left by her love Theseus, Ariadne describes the land of death to which she will go to escape her pains. She welcomes death, thinking that in the land of death she will find everything that she has been denied in life.

You can hear Adrienne in the Canadian Opera Company's production of Beethoven's Fidelio until February 24, 2009.

Canadian Singers - Teresa Stratas

Canadian opera singer Teresa Stratas is an icon! Here she is with Placido Domingo in Franco Zeffirelli's pivotal movie of La Traviata.






More information on Stratas:

Wikipedia
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Canada's Walk of Fame
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Canadian Singers - Fun listening for Reading Week!

I found this on YouTube and couldn't resist! Here is a post by baritonogaupo:

One of the hardest moments of Figaro's entrance aria from the Barber of Seville, what many consider to be the hardest baritone aria...perfect material for a cage match. Here we have 14 baritones attempting the infamous high A. This optional cadenza is left out by many baritones, including many great Figaros (Thomas Allen, for instance. Others hit the cadenza but omit the highest note (i.e. Robert Merrill). But here is a compilation of baritones with the guts and the balls to sing it all!In chronological order:

1. Riccardo Stracciari (1875-1955)
2. Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1956)
3. Leonard Warren (1911-1960)
4. Gino Bechi (1913-1993)
5. Tito Gobbi (1913-1984)
6. Rolando Panerai (b. 1924)
7. Nicolae Herlea (b. 1927)
8. Hermann Prey (1929-1998)
9. Sherrill Milnes (b. 1935)
10. Leo Nucci (b. 1942)
11. Thomas Hampson (b. 1955)
12. Dmitri Hvorostovsky (b. 1962)
13. Russell Braun (b. 1965)
14. Aaron St. Clair Nicholson
And last but not least:
15. Mario del Monaco (1915-1982) --this one is just for fun. No votes for him will count. (more) (less)