SUMMER 2010 ISSUE (constantly updated)

Announcement

JUSSI BJORLING APPRECIATION SOCIETY (UK)
September 11th 2-5pm Swedenborg Hall £10 entry
Bloomsbury Way London WC1 (near Holborn tube)
Talk by John Steane on the UK career,and audio-visual presentation .
Tenor recital Anando Mukerjee w. piano Pavel Timofejevsky.
Launch of new 4 CD set of Bjorling, mainly US radio recitals
1937-1960 in new transfers on WHRA 6036

NEW !!! Operanostalgia is honoured to present a tribute to the late GIUSEPPE TADDEI written by Liliana Osses Adams. This great musician also writes about her years as a principal harpist with the Tehran Opera Roudaki Hall

(photo courtesy Liliana Osses Adams)

BREAKING NEWS : Anthony ROLFE JOHNSON- aged 69- passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer's in London on July 21.

BREAKING NEWS : Henk SMIT, the Dutch bass-baritone died in Paris from a stroke on July 17

BREAKING NEWS : the renowned conductor Charles MACKERRAS died in London on July 15, he was 84.

NEW!!! A biography of SAMUEL RAMEY has just been released by Baskerville, read our review

NEW !!!!! a book on tenor JONAS KAUFMANN has just been published. Read our review.

BREAKING NEWS: another legendary singer has left us, the great basso CESARE SIEPI born 1923 died on July 5th. RIP

ALSO NEW

A CD TRIBUTE TO RERI GRIST !!

(photo Charles Mintzer)

A musical biography of MARIA CALLAS has just been released by Amadeus press

The life story of Dutch soprano ANGELA CONA (1891-1984) has now been written in a de-luxe edition.

The Opéra National de Paris published a deluxe photobook with biographical notes by André Tubeuf

NEW!!! At last a book on Amilcare Ponchielli

New !!!! Luciano di Cave discusses electrical recordings of Violetta's act one aria (Italian only)

(courtesy Charles Mintzer)

!!!SEE THE EDITORIAL SECTION FOR A COMPLETE SURVEY OF THOSE WHO LEFT US !!!

(RIP Hanny Steffek)

(RIP Alfons Herwig, courtesy Manfred Krugmann)

(RIP Peter-Christophe Runge, courtesy Manfred Krugmann)