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Sunday Morning Opera on WPRB

If you are an opera fan, this is worth checking out and supporting. Sandy is presenting a potpourri of the great singers this morning until 10 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. Call (609) 258-1033 or go to pledge.wprb.com.

SUNDAY MORNING OPERA WITH SANDY

Description:

This program is heard from 5:30-10AM on WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey, 103.3 FM. There is a complete opera each week,and after the opera, if there is time remaining, we celebrate the birthday of a composer or singer. You can also listen online at http://www.wprb.com/

The host and producer is Sandy Steiglitz

Posted on October 16 at 8:01am:

I hope that you will join me for Sunday Morning Opera on October 18th. It’s membership drive time on WPRB. This Sunday morning is our annual membership drive show and we’ll be broadcasting segments devoted to artists that you suggested:Jussi Bjoerling, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Sherrill Milnes, Grace Bumbry, Renata Scotto, Mario Sereni, Hermann Prey, and many others.

Tune in, enjoy, and call with your pledge. A contribution in any amount helps to support WPRB, a unique and diverse outlet that
gives its volunteer hosts complete artistic freedom, and allows me to present a complete, uncut opera every week throughout the year. We’ll have 12 special opera thank-you gifts, first-come first-served, plus a schedule of premiums at various levels. I’ll be looking forward to hearing from you!

The phone number is (609) 258-1033. You can pledge online at pledge.wprb.com. I’ll be starting the program at 5:30 AM ET.
THANKS!!

#wprb75

October 18, 2015
Mario Del Monaco Tenor Remembered

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mario del Monaco, born in Florence in 1915. There were some who thought he was the greatest tenor – maybe even the greatest singer – ever. Others found his voice monochromatic and too consistently “tutta forza.” Some claimed his acting could be histrionic. (Like that’s an exceptional quality in a tenor!) He did have the ability to incite near-hysteria in an audience.

Here he is singing “E lucevan le stelle”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjDb4KtydLM

And in an interview from 1957:

Del Monaco died in 1982. You don’t really seem to hear that much about him anymore.

July 27, 2015
Jon Vickers Marathon Today on WKCR

24-hour marathon in honor of the late Jon Vickers today on WKCR-FM, the radio station of Columbia University. Listen in New York at 89.9 or online at wkcr.org.

https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/jon-vickers-memorial-broadcast

July 12, 2015
Nicolai Gedda Still Alive at 90

As was the case with Mark Twain, reports of the death of Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda were greatly exaggerated. Gedda was reported to have passed in May. In the Age of Social Media, the news swept opera lovers like a pandemic, only to be retracted the next day when it was reported that Gedda was indeed alive and well.

It must have been a shock to the artist to find news of his demise posted all over the internet. Yet how many of us will be so lucky as to be able to eavesdrop on the kind comments and tributes delivered on our own passing?

Nicolai Gedda on his 90th birthday is doubly blessed, to have lived a good life and to have survived a good death.

Happy birthday, N.G.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wmhp1PkaYQ

July 11, 2015
Jon Vickers Dies Opera Loses a Titan

Hours after I posted about Nicolai Gedda defying rumors of his death to celebrate his 90th birthday today, word emerges that we’ve lost Jon Vickers.

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/canadian-born-tenor-jon-vickers-dies

Here’s Vickers as Siegmund in the Todesverkündigung from “Die Walküre” (with Birgit Nilsson):

July 11, 2015

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