Voci dell'Opera

This page is dedicated to wonderful female and male opera singers all around the world.

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Rosa Ponselle - Tchaikovsky: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, Op. 6 No. 6

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Maria Callas as La Traviata

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Christa Ludwig, Placido Domingo and Mirella Freni

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Tenor Mario del Monaco with Christmas presents

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Placido Domingo & Mirella Freni - Madama Butterfly

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Lydia Kovaleva - Tsar's Bride - V Novgorode (Marfa's aria)

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At the Opera house c.1920s

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 Svetlana Zakharova and Vladislav Lantratov in Lady of the Camellias 

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Who are your favourite ballerinas? Who do you love dancing with?

Ah, I love dancing with Svetlana Zakharova. She’s so perfect physically, and technically - so beautiful.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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“No acting method, no double, no mask. Just me.”

Interview with Jonas Kaufmann

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Karita Mattila as Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss (Royal Opera House, Junio 2014. Foto Catherine Ashmore)

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Joyce di Donato & Juan Diego Florez in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Metropolitan Opera 2013-2014

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The truth about Mozart’s music is that it is deeply emotional and full of passion. His music is dangerous and merry as is no other ever written.

Sir Simon Rattle (via classicalconditioning)

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Diana Damrau as La traviata, The Royal Opera © ROH / Catherine Ashmore 2014

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1. Thomas Allen as Lescaut Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon in The Royal Opera's Manon Lescaut, 1993

2. Kiri Te Kanawa as the Marschallin in The Royal Opera's Der Rosenkavalier, 1984

3. Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon in Manon Lescaut, 1983

4. Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon and Placido Domingo as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, 1983

5. Kiri Te Kanawa as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, 1981

6. Stuart Burrows as Alfredo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Violetta in The Royal Opera's La traviata, 1979

7. Kiri Te Kanawa as Tatyana and Gillian Knight as Olga in The Royal Opera's Eugene Onegin, 1976

8. Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Mimi in The Royal Opera's La bohème, 1976