What do you think about the expert choice of the BBC Music Magazine 20 greatest sopranos of all time ?

The BBC Music Magazine 20 Greatest Sopranos of all time are:
1. Maria Callas [1923-1977]
2. Joan Sutherland [b1926]
3. Victoria De Los Angeles [1923-2005]
4. Leontyne Price [b1927]
5. Birgit Nilsson [1918-2005]
6. Montserrat Caballé [b1933]
7. Lucia Popp [1939-1993]
8. Margaret Price [b1941]
9. Kirsten Flagstad [1895-1962]
10. Emma Kirkby [b1949]
11. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [1915-2006]
12. Regine Crespin [b1927]
13. Galina Vishnevskaya [b1926]
14. Gundula Janowitz [b1937]
15. Karita Mattila [b1960…

ROYAL LONDON seeks new opera lyrics by TWITTER

This morning's news included the item that:
The London Royal Opera is asking its fans and members to write in opera
The sequences must be in 140-words-each (the base max per Tweet)
These are to be TWEETED in to the OPERA website.

I really want to know what you all think of THIS ONE.

I am reminded of Noel Coward's song that only
MAD DOGS and ENGLISHMEN
go out in the nnon day sun.

English Conductor Downes & wife die in Swiss suicide clinic

this is more a news item than a discussion, per se, but we should all realize and question:
for all the suicides in GRAND OPERA, is it not nearly an appropos Final Scene....

may they rest in Peace
AL

English Conductor Downes & wife die in Swiss suicide clinic

The Associated Press, July 14, 2009

LONDON (AP) -- British conductor Edward Downes, a longtime stalwart at the Royal Opera and maestro of the first-ever performance at Sydney's iconic Opera House, has died with his wife at an…

The great composers of opera.

Let's begin with the worlds greatest composer, Mozart, God gave Mozart the special talent of a god. No man had the genius of Mozart when it comes to the composition of music. His operas are the worlds best.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, but then part of the Holy Roman Empire. His only sibling to survive past birth was Maria Anna (1751–1829), calle…

The Met, the American Opera Gem

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director.

The Metropolitan Opera is America's largest classical music organization, and annually presents some 220 opera performances. The home of the company, the Metropolitan Opera House, is considered by many to be one of the premier opera stages in the world, and is among the larges…