FAVORITE SINGERS:

If you would like to listen to great singing in the bel canto tradition,
here are some singers I much admire.
This is not an exhaustive list but just somewhere to start. Enjoy!
Sopranos

Luisa Tetrazzini
Mary Garden
Amelita Galli-Curci
Alma Gluck
Frida Leider
Lotte Lehmann
Kirsten Flagstad
Rosa Ponselle
Helen Traubel
Zinka Milanov
Dorothy Kirsten
Eleanor Steber
Birgit Nilsson
Eileen Farrell
Renata Tebaldi
Leonie Rysanek
Regine Crespin
Montserrat Caballe
Martina Arroyo
Teresa Stratas
Mezzo-Sopranos

Gladys Swarthout
Jennie Tourel
Ebe Stigniani
Regina Resnik
Christa Ludwig
Rosalind Elias
Teresa Berganza
Contraltos

Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Louise Homer
Maureen Forrester

 
 
Tenors

Enrico Caruso
Leo Slezak
John McCormack
Tito Schipa
Beniamino Gigli
Lauritz Melchior
Jan Peerce
Josef Schmidt
Jussi Bjoerling
Nicolai Gedda
Jon Vickers
Fritz Wunderlich
Luciano Pavarotti
Placido Domingo
Baritones

Tita Ruffo
Lawrence Tibbett
Leonard Warren
Herman Prey
Basses

Feodor Chaliapin
Ezio Pinza
George London
Cesare Siepi
Giorgio Tozzi
Norman Treigle
Walter Berry
Thomas Quasthoff

 

LINKS TO OTHER SINGING MASTERS:

OTHER LINKS:

 
The Modern Singing Master
           James E. Ford and Ariel Bybee, Scarecrow Press, 2002
Dictionary of Vocal Terminology
           Recital Publications, Inc. 1995
Essays on the Nature of Singing
         Recital Publications, Inc., 1992 
The Free Voice: A Guide to Natural Singing
           Joseph Patelson Music House, 1972
Bel Canto: Principles and Practices
            Joseph Patelson Music House, 1972
Voice: Psyche and Soma
         Joseph Patelson's Music House, 1975
Vocalist - North Carolina
Great Singers of The Past
Brahms RUles of Musical Composition
Ringsurf Vocal Studio Ring