J. O'Young - 12/16/00 22:45:28
My Email:hauser@dnai.com

Comments:
Would be interested in being on a mailing list (weekly) which would give the next week's broadcast schedule

olsavsky - 10/30/00 18:52:03
My Email:olsa99@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: corelli
Your Favorite Opera: tosca
Your Favorite Composer: verdi

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olsavsky - 10/30/00 18:51:17
My Email:olsa99@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: dom9ingo
Your Favorite Opera: tosca
Your Favorite Composer: verdi

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Caruso - 10/24/00 13:21:12
My Email:tuxcrew@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: Ramey/Callas
Your Favorite Opera: Tosca
Your Favorite Composer: Donizetti

Comments:
more opera, more opera, more opera...

tenor 2 - 08/22/00 18:25:19
My Email:indian41@dynasty.net
Your Favorite Singer: jussi bjoerling
Your Favorite Opera: aida
Your Favorite Composer: puccini

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Roberto Legarre - 08/19/00 20:42:04
My Email:robertolegarre@movi.com.ar
Your Favorite Singer: M.Callas
Your Favorite Opera: La Boheme
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini-Verdi

Comments:
I am a new operistic listening, y like it very much.

Marie Gloria - 08/17/00 22:57:07
My Email:lolaflamenca@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Singer: Joanne Sutherland
Your Favorite Opera: Aida, Lakmé, Butterfly
Your Favorite Composer: Undecided, yet

Comments:
Too bad people think that Opera is for snobs. They are missing so much!!! Once you know the stories, the period, the composer, the singers, you listen to opera with new "eyes". Kids should study opera (starting at first grade), just as they teach History, Math, etc. There is so much beauty and peace in opera. Maybe it would make a difference in the way people interact with one ano

Hildred Wiggs - 08/05/00 03:17:06
My Email:JosFred123@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: Frank Sinatra
Your Favorite Opera: Song: My Funny Valentine
Your Favorite Composer: Handel

Comments:
I love your site, even though I don't love opera...yet! I'm very proud of YOU!!

L. Semrau - 08/03/00 14:32:11
My Email:l.semrau@preiserrecords.at
Your Favorite Singer: Ponselle/Björling
Your Favorite Opera: La Gioconda
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
So do they or don´t they exist - the "Don Giovanni" excerpts with Pinza, Ponselle, Schipa, etc. under Serafin. And what about the Callas/Björling "Trovatore" from Chicago ? Congratulations to your site from Vienna

Mary Morrison - 07/30/00 04:00:45
My Email:mizblue55@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: Pavarotti/Bartoli
Your Favorite Opera: La Boheme
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini/verdi

Comments:
I have too many favorites to mention! Would love to E-mail with other opera-lovers..hard to find them in the south!

Peter - 06/13/00 17:53:13
My Email:spacetospace@goplay.com

Comments:
I have a Lp copy of Otello recorded in England with Placido Domingo and others. Can anyone tell me how much it's worth? more info about it is listed on the Yahoo Auction site under records Otello

Connie Young - 05/10/00 17:18:29
My Email:WYoung2077@aol.com
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
I need a video of Tosca as performed at Lincoln Center in Washington, D.C. It was presented on TV with Beverly Sills as moderator. If you can help, please let me know.

James E Yarbrough - 05/07/00 21:19:17
My Email:sirjey@netscape.net
Your Favorite Singer: Tibaldi/Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Turandot
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
Is there a book available of all opera singers with a small synoposis about each? Are there any collection recordings of baritones? Are there any collection recordings of tenor/baritone duets? Is ther a complete listing of operas on video without havin to go through many links? I'm new to the internet and find it difficult sometimes, I'd like a single source. Many thanks.

William A. Grosso - 04/29/00 16:39:36
My Email:grosso9396@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

Comments:
Aureliano Pertile, Gino Bechi, Gina Cigna, Marilyn Horne, Beniamino Gigli, Igor Gorin and on and on.

Sixtus Beckmesser - 04/09/00 09:53:32
My Email:beckmesser2000@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Singer: Hans Hotter
Your Favorite Opera: Ring des Nibelungen
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner, Bach

Comments:
Hi! Great site! Any comments about the 1957 Knappertsbusch Ring? Does anybody here own this recording? I am desperately looking for it and do not know where one can buy it! Hojotoho!

Randy - 04/06/00 17:29:39
My Email:ontherock@mindspring.com

Comments:
I am 43 years old, but just "discovered" opera music within the last 30 days (strangely via a 2nd or 3rd viewing of Shawshank Redemption in which Andy plays a duet from Le Nozze de Figaro). I researched the song title, bought a highlights CD, and now I'm hooked. I listen to opera all the time. Since I am in a CD-acquiring mode, I have been looking for critical reviews of the best recordings. Your site is the best I've found. Looks like a LOT of time and effort went into it. Thanks for sharing your expertise with a novice. BRAVO! If you could provide a "Top 10 opera CDs" list to help get me started on my collection, I would appreciate it. I am particularly fond of some of the duets I have heard, e.g., "Viens, Malika" from Lakme and the previously mentioned "Conzenetta sul aria" ( p?).

Ragnar Soderlind - 04/06/00 09:04:48
My Email:rs@nmh.no
Your Favorite Singer: Trond Hallstein Moe
Your Favorite Opera: Olav Tryggvason
Your Favorite Composer: Soderlind

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Peter - 04/03/00 17:56:14
My Email:spacetospace@goplay.com

Comments:
You have an interesting site. Do you know of anyone who's looking to buy the Ottello Oprea on Lp. I have a box set that includes the 3 LPs and 16 page program. It's on the RCA Red Label. Thanks Peter

Donald C. Kapinos - 03/30/00 21:03:56
My Email:dArch1@juno.com
Your Favorite Singer: F. Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: G. Verdi

Comments:
Dear Sir: Can you recommend an opera video and a CD recording of Verdi's-"I Due Foscari". Can you locate a source that sells a libretto(Italian to English translation) of this opera? Thank you.

Norman Batterby - 03/25/00 16:02:26
My Email:nornan@legnano.freeserve.co.uk
Your Favorite Singer: deLuca (bar)
Your Favorite Opera: Lucia/Ring
Your Favorite Composer: Donizetti/Verdi/Wagner

Comments:
Agree comments re scarcity of quality singers today. Time they re-issued some of the old Cetras from the 50's. (Come on, Warner; your are sitting on a treasure chest).

Warren D. Flatter - 03/13/00 00:16:56
My Email:flatters@msn.com
Your Favorite Composer: Mozart

Comments:
I am new to opera and your site has been a real help to me. My daughter (8) loves Die Zauberflaute and we hope to get good quality recordings of many operas. Thank you!

Richter - 03/10/00 23:48:18
My Email:mbrichter@gmx.de
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini

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Sallie McKenna - 03/03/00 20:23:54
My Email:sjmcken@attglobal.net
Your Favorite Singer: Renee Fleming
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: R. Strauss

Comments:
Miskeyed my email on first try. Gives me a second chance to enter more of my "favorites" though..so that's fun.

Sallie McKenna - 03/03/00 20:02:32
My Email:sjmcken@attglobal.com
Your Favorite Singer: Jussi Bjorling
Your Favorite Opera: Pique Dame
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
Thanks for asking...but, just one choice for singer, opera, composer? Too-too-too difficult to choose just one ..and..my "favorite" moves around based on my recent exposure, although Jussi is forever.

John Cancelarich - 02/25/00 21:41:47
My Email:john;ouc@mfx.net
Your Favorite Opera: Don Giovanni
Your Favorite Composer: J.S. Bach

Comments:
I am new to this site and look forward to both using and participating in it. Thank you for the opportunity. JC

Donald C. Kapinos - 02/11/00 22:04:57
My Email:dArch1@juno.com
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

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Dear Mr. Riggs: Thank you for your input re. F. Corelli's 'Manon Lescaut' recordings. Do you happen to know if the following CD is available by F. Corelli:"Arie E Canti Religiosi"- EMI - 7243 5 68887 22 or EMI-QALP 10377 (1LP). Thank you.

Donald C. Kapinos - 02/11/00 21:57:47

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manuel fernandes - 02/07/00 14:24:53
My Email:spfrge@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Singer: Pavarotti
Your Favorite Opera: La Bohem
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
Is there a book that would give a list of the Greatest Opera's ever composed? Based on quality not sales, or popularity. What would be the greatest dozen? Thank-you for a great site. Manuel

William K Shubert - 02/05/00 21:11:33
My Email:wks@ma.ultranet.com

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Donald C. Kapinos - 02/04/00 21:15:03
My Email:dArch1@juno.com
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
Very iteresting Web site! Did F. Corelli ever record any duets from Manon Lescaut-G. Pucinni?

GERMAN LOPEZ - 02/01/00 18:57:25
My Email:glopez@enap.cl
Your Favorite Singer: Jussi Bjorling
Your Favorite Opera: Il Trovatore
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I VISIT YOUR SITE AND I HOPE IT WILL BE ALL IT PROMISES!! LET ME KNOW IF YOU SEND CD ABROAD. HAPPY TO BE HERE

Larry Di Venere - 01/29/00 16:59:50
My Email:sciarone@mediaone.net
Your Favorite Singer: Luciano Pavarotti
Your Favorite Opera: La Boheme
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini

Comments:
It's difficult to pick "favorites" when one may have more than the above space allows. I realize that the Guestbook would be hard to read but thanks for the opportunity to join. Larry Di Venere sciarone ( I know it is spelled with 2 r's but also space constraints)

david solomon - 01/26/00 03:33:01
My Email:desolom@idt.net
Your Favorite Singer: Kasarova

Comments:
Hello!!!

Dr. Jane Susanna ENNIS - 01/22/00 16:19:14
My URL:http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/southbank/pottery/31/opera.html
My Email:j.ennis@gold.ac.uk
Your Favorite Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Your Favorite Opera: uh - can't decide!
Your Favorite Composer: see above!

Comments:
So glad to have found your page - pity we didn't meet before. It's very well-designed and interesting. Oh yes, as far as favourite singers are concerned - it was Vickers till he retired, and there isn't enough space to put in all my favourite operas. Please visit my opera page if you've time! http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/southbank/pottery/31/opera.html

Mary - 01/03/00 21:21:25
My Email:MaraschinoMary@yahoo.com

Comments:
I need help please! Many years ago, when I was much younger, I heard the most beautiful opera. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the beginning of the title, but it is __________ of the Carmelites. It is about a group of nuns who is beheaded. It is soooooo oo beautiful, and I desperately want to hear it again. If anyone is familiar with this opera, or knows the full name of it so that I can do a full search, please e-mail me! Thank you!

Sidney Romano dos Reis - 12/29/99 13:08:34
My Email:sidneyr@uol.com.br
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Turandot/Don Carlo
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini/Verdi

Comments:
Congratulations for your great site. I adore the link's pages. Give us more.

Michael Scura - 12/09/99 15:28:09
My Email:Mike.scura@aig.com
Your Favorite Singer: No one favorite.
Your Favorite Opera: Tristan und Isolde/ Parsifal
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner/ Beethoven/ Shostakovich

Comments:
You did a fabulous job last evening hosting the Helen Traubel program for WSNY. I've enjoyed your WSNY seminar presentations for years, especially the comparisons of different performers in the same musical excerpts. Even with a signal to noise ratio of 1 /88 the de Reszke excerpt (at the Lohengrin seminar) was wonderful; I hadn't realized any recordings of him existed. I hope you've heard the 1951 Bayreuth Gotterdammerung recently released for the first time. Knappertsbusch's performance gives new meaning to the phrase "raw elemental power". Act III is incredible, especially from the Funeral March on to the end. Varnay as never sounded better (sort of like Nilsson - except with warmth) and Weber is a wonderful Hagen. Thanks to the late John Culshaw for this one! I think your site is great; my curiosity has already been aroused about certain of the performances you've reviewed that I don't have ...

Ed Baez - 11/22/99 23:46:08
My Email:glaube14@prodigy.net
Your Favorite Singer: Jussi Bjorling
Your Favorite Opera: Don Giovanni
Your Favorite Composer: Mozart

Comments:
Congratulations and thanks for your labor of love in publishing these reviews. Regarding La Boheme, how do you rate the 1998 (released 1999) Alagna/Gheorghiu recording?

José Carlos Neves Lopes - 11/16/99 18:17:49
My Email:jcnlour@uol.com.br
Your Favorite Singer: Crhista Ludwig/Elisabeth Scharzkopf
Your Favorite Opera: Macbeth
Your Favorite Composer: Mahler/Bach/Brahms/Verdi

Comments:
Your site is very good. Congratulations for that wonderful links

rosemary gilbert - 11/15/99 02:12:59
My Email:rosecgilb@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Turandot
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini

Comments:
Love your site. Am looking for CD's/tapes on M. Robin. Can't find any. Looking for info on Phil Trepea (I just know I'm murdering his name!) He had a radio show, Matinata, on WVIP in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York - - it was wonderful - - modern and classic arias, opera facts, trivia, etc. Wonder where he is now does he have a radio program (if so, where, maybe I can get it on the internet). Also, did anyone tape any of his shows? If so, would like to purchase them (or some). Thank you.

Mircea Cantacuzino - 11/02/99 11:34:45
My Email:ly-mo@zahav.net.il
Your Favorite Singer: Maria Callas
Your Favorite Opera: Don Carlos
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
It'a pitty that today aren't major or good opera singers. Perhaps there aren't good voice teachers ? One has to look at the 50's to 70's: Callas, Tebaldi, Freni, Moffo, Scotto, Gencer, de los Angeles, L. Price, Arroyo, Caballe etc. among the sopranos. Di Stefano, Del Monaco, Bergonzi, Corelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, Carreras, Gedda, Wunderlich, Vanzo, Bonisolli etc. among the tenors. Mezzos like Simionato, Bumbry, Verrett, Cossotto, Barbieri, Resnik, Horne, Berganza and many other baritones and basses. What o we have today? Singers that sing a year or two and have no good technique at all. What HAPPENS to old dear opera and and it's singers? Long live OPERA!

Michael - 10/29/99 10:21:14
My Email:spikey_100@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Singer: Placido Domingo
Your Favorite Opera: Nabucco
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

Comments:
Wonderfull website! Please continue!

Clay F. Barritt, M.D. - 10/29/99 01:57:30
My Email:ANUVOL@AOL.COM
Your Favorite Singer: There are too many to list one
Your Favorite Opera: The Ring
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner, Puccini, Mozart, Verdi

Comments:
So far, I'm glad I found you.

Clay F. Barritt, M.D. - 10/29/99 01:54:33
My Email:ANUVOL@AOL.COM
Your Favorite Singer: I have no one favorite
Your Favorite Opera: The Ring
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner, Puccini, Mozart, Verdi,etc.

Comments:
So farI'm glad I found you!

CLAY F. BARRITT, M.D. - 10/29/99 01:48:15
My Email:ANUVOL@AOL.COM
Your Favorite Singer: CAN'T BOIL IT DOWN TO ONE
Your Favorite Opera: THE RING
Your Favorite Composer: WAGNER

Comments:
SO FAR, I"M GLAD I FOUND YOU

George G. Topinges - 09/20/99 10:39:20
My Email:grabilltenor@webtv.net
Your Favorite Singer: Flagstad,Bjoerling,Gigli,Muzio
Your Favorite Opera: Norma
Your Favorite Composer: Bellini,Verdi,Puccini

Comments:
I studied in Vienna at the Akadamie, Konservatorium, and Preyner Konservatorium. If I had the money, I would move to Vienna again. I dearly miss the Staatsoper Musikverein & Demels. In Europe sang in chorus with Arroyo, Hoeffgen, Dermota, Guthrie,the beau iful Gueden, Seefried, McCracken,Rubio, Patzak, Ludwig, Svanholm, Schoeffler,Windgassen, Fischer-Dieskau, Frick, Nilsson, etc. Would you please help me find recordings of my friend from student days Michael Theodore. He recorded for Intercord & Ariola-E rodisc. If you don't know his voice, you are in for a great surprise. Vielen Dank, Geo.

Rob Toonen - 08/24/99 09:41:46
My Email:rtoonen@speed.a2000.nl
Your Favorite Singer: Corelli/Di Stefano/Del Monaco
Your Favorite Opera: Andrea Chenier/Tosca/Salome
Your Favorite Composer: Puccini

Comments:
I like this site very much!! The book-section lacked IMO one book; Opera Rough Guide (matthew Boyden) from The Rough Guides. I enjoy this book very much

Donald C. Kapinos - 08/17/99 15:40:59
My Email:dArch1@juno.com
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Otello
Your Favorite Composer: G. Verdi

Comments:
Your Web site is very interesting indeed-a wealth of information for the Operaphile! I'll visit often. I am searching for an LP recording of: Puccini-Il Tabarro : L. Price, P. Domingo, S. Milnes; E. Leinsdorf-conductor-RCA Label. Look forward to hearing from you. Don Kapinos

Heinz Gelking - 08/08/99 00:22:57
My Email:heinz.gelking@debitel.net

Comments:
You've made a great site. I'm writing for a german hifi-magazine about classical music and I'm sure to visit your website once again, just to steal some ideas. May I invite you to visit www.image-hifi.com?

Alan J. Broder - 07/25/99 22:12:39
My Email:musikart@email.msn.com
Your Favorite Singer: Flagstad/Leider/Rysanek
Your Favorite Opera: Tristan and others
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner,Mozart,Bach,Beethoven

Comments:
A delightful trip into the world of Opera, which comprises only about 15% of my listening time.

Gigi Mitchell-Velasco - 07/16/99 00:18:51
My Email:Namenlose@aol.com
Your Favorite Singer: Christa Ludwig and me
Your Favorite Opera: Parsifal & Rosenkav...love them all actually!
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner,Strauss & Mahler (I know he didn't write an opera...oh well!)

Comments:
Try looking up the RCA recording of Parsifal live from the Wiener Staatsoper 1961 (Karajan) with CL sharing the Kundry with Hoengen. You will find a very strong sounding and AMAZING Ludwig Quite different from the Solti recording! I got ths recording in Europe. Interesting note: CL attributes her mother with teaching her this role and her mother attributes Karajan with teaching it to her....this is the second generation of Karajan's teaching... ...agree about your opinion of the Ludwig performace in the Solti recording but disagree about Solti "being no help" tho!

- 06/22/99 12:12:06

Comments:
PS: Go Sir G! Next step: a comprehensive list of the important recordings (i.e., not just recommended, but your expertese on those most likely to be found -- good or bad!)

Tim Fisher - 06/22/99 12:09:27
Your Favorite Singer: Melchstad or Flagchior
Your Favorite Opera: all 10 Wagner
Your Favorite Composer: Der Meister von Meistern: Richard the Great

Comments:
What! no Florence Foster J?!

harvey goodman - 06/03/99 21:33:21
My Email:hgoodman@innotts.co.uk
Your Favorite Singer: Franco Corelli
Your Favorite Opera: Don Carlo
Your Favorite Composer: Verdi

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Fred Sheppard - 05/26/99 20:05:09
My Email:fuzz@pdq.net
Your Favorite Singer: Leonie Rysanek
Your Favorite Opera: Elektra
Your Favorite Composer: Wagner

Comments: