the ugly earring

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the queen of queens

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“It was a voice that made her The Queen of Queens in all of singing. Ponselle, almost more than any other singer, had the unique combination of voice and musical profundity to advance operatic interpretation by decades, simply by the sheer genius of her artistry…She is also among the most copied of any singer in history…She is an ideal, an almost mythical figure in opera singing. Whenever young singers ask whom they should pattern their singing after, I always respond, ‘Make a sincere study of the recordings of Rosa Ponselle.’ To every young singer in any age–ours, or some distant one–this will always be excellent advice.”

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

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January 22, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Posted in opera, rosa ponselle

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