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ernani
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« on: 02:18:37, 31-03-2007 »
BBC Music Magazine had a recent poll of 'top 20 sopranos'. Generally, I don't like this kind of thing, primarily because the focus tends to be on the past 20-30 years. But anyway, here's a space for those wonderful sopranos not included, or for those who tend to be marginalised. To start with:

Astrid Varnay
Zinka Milanov
Leonie Rysanek

Others, and why...
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« Reply #1 on: 09:16:08, 01-04-2007 »
As requested, the BBC Music mags list :

1 Callas
2 Sutherland
3 De Los Angeles
4 Price ( Leontyne )
5 Nilsson
6 Caballe
7 Popp
8 Price ( Margaret )
9 Flagstad
10 Kirkby
11 Schwarzkopf
12 Crespin
13 Vishnevskaya
14 Janowitz
15 Mattila
16 Schumann
17 Brewer
18 Tebaldi
19 Ponselle
20 Ameling
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MrYorick
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« Reply #2 on: 14:44:31, 01-04-2007 »
Rita Streich!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRYP_-L7uxA

 Smiley Smiley Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: 16:14:47, 01-04-2007 »
My post doesn't seem to make any sense now. It was posted in response to a now removed message asking what the list was !
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« Reply #4 on: 16:31:47, 01-04-2007 »
Sorry, BobbyZ, I removed it after writing something that was going to put me on the back foot and I couldn't be bothered arguing. Thanks for putting up the list I asked for, though.

Which soprano I prefer depends on what the music is. Callas and Kirkby don't sit easily together in the same list. But one soprano I always enjoy listening to, and I'm not saying she should be amongst the 20, rather meaningless as the list is, is Valerie Masterson.
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« Reply #5 on: 16:48:57, 01-04-2007 »
Ho Tony.  I totally agree with your choice of Masterson.  A charming and wonderful singer particularly in the French repertoire.  She was adored in Geneva in such roles as Mireille.  There are too many sopranos who are missing from that list and some who should not be there.  Ponselle is there, but where is Eva Turner the singer chosen by the old school of Italian sopranos as the prima donna with the greatest voice.
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John W
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« Reply #6 on: 18:07:50, 01-04-2007 »
And where is Amelita Galli-Curci Huh?

I only have original 78's by Amelita Galli-Curci but she must have had one of the sweetest voices at the heyday of the Met and the Victor recording studios 1916-1929.


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« Reply #7 on: 16:25:54, 02-04-2007 »
Quote from: BobbyZ on 09:16:08, 01-04-2007
As requested, the BBC Music mags list :

1 Callas
2 Sutherland
3 De Los Angeles
4 Price ( Leontyne )
5 Nilsson
6 Caballe
7 Popp
8 Price ( Margaret )
9 Flagstad
10 Kirkby
11 Schwarzkopf
12 Crespin
13 Vishnevskaya
14 Janowitz
15 Mattila
16 Schumann
17 Brewer
18 Tebaldi
19 Ponselle
20 Ameling


I wouldn't dispute any of those (and nice to see Christine Brewer making an appearance!), but the appeal of Gundula Janowitz continues to elude me.  She had a very frail, white-faced tone, which went very wobbly under the slightest pressure; and there is a strange vocal resemblance to Aled Jones! Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
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« Reply #8 on: 23:07:49, 02-04-2007 »
Ileana Cotrubas
Heard her many times at Covent Garden in the 70s and loved her beautiful voice and vulnerability.
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Martin
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« Reply #9 on: 23:37:44, 02-04-2007 »
Pauline Tinsley.

WNO brought her in at the very last minute once, years ago, to cover for an indisposed - can't remember who just now. She sang in a mixture of languages with real passion and dramatic spirit. Marvellous. (Wish I could remember which role now. Ho hum.)
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« Reply #10 on: 23:43:36, 02-04-2007 »
Quote from: Martin on 23:37:44, 02-04-2007
Pauline Tinsley.
Santuzza? This role immediately sprang to mind so I think I must have heard her sing Santuzza at Covent Garden. Struggling to find confirmation on the web. I'll ask my dad, he'll remember!
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