by Barry Lenson | Apr 3, 2023 | Choral Music, Opera, Orchestral Music
PARMA Recordings is a highly adventurous and innovative music company headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. PARMA, which issues recordings on the Navona, Ravello, Ansonica, and Big Round Records labels, has very big plans for you and your listening ears. Thanks...
by Barry Lenson | Feb 27, 2023 | Pietro Mascagni
Why Did the Nazis Ban Mascagni’s Opera l’Amico Fritz? A new recording from the Dynamic label let’s you listen to this gentle pastoral opera by Pietro Mascagni and decide why the Nazis found it so objectionable What was Pietro Mascagni to do after the sensational...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 27, 2023 | Maria Jeritza
We have just learned that the mansion once owned by the late opera star Maria Jeritza (1887-1982) is now for sale in Newark, New Jersey for $699,000. Although the ads for the place state that the property is currently abandoned, we would not let that stop us. We would...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 18, 2023 | Christoph Poppen, Stuttgart Radio Choir, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It seems that every day brings news of some terrible, unsettling event in the world – everything from senseless bombings in Ukraine to crime sprees in our cities to blizzards and floods that cripple cities and take lives. How can we make sense of it all, find the...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 13, 2023 | William Warfield
I have been fortunate enough to have seen live performances by some of the greatest singers of the last century – artists like Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Robert Merrill, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Dolora Zajick and a...
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