The joinet winners of the Domingo family’s Operalia competition in Mumbai are US soprano Kathleen O’Mara and Chinese bass-baritone Le Bu (pictured).
The audience prize was shared by Azeri mezzo-soprano Elmina Hasan and English baritone Jack Lee.
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From our Finland correspondent: Sibelius wrote many songs including ‘Was it a Dream?’ and ‘The girl returned from meeting her lover’ for the soprano Ida Ekman who, on several accounts, he considered as the only […]
La Divina was born on December 2, 1923. In Manhattan, where else? Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos it said on the birth certificate. The post Maria Callas 101 appeared first on Slippedisc.
In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “You try lots of things,” […]
