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SOPRANOS

Julianne Baird

Inger Dam-Jensen

Schumann: "Spillemanden", Op.40 [Christen Stubbe Teglbjaerg]
Haydn: Die Schöpfung - "Mit Staunen härt das Wunderwerk" [Akademisk Orkester og Kor]
on YouTube

Lauren Flanigan

on YouTube

Miriam Gauci

on YouTube

Susan Gritton

Vivaldi: Sanctorum meritis, RV.620 (excerpt) [Abeillemusique]
on YouTube

Hei-Kyung Hong

on YouTube

Soile Isokoski

Rosemary Joshua

on YouTube

Ana Maria Martinez

NaxosMusic Spotlight
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Martinez as Donna Elvira) [NPR]
Mozart: Così fan tutte (Martinez as Dorabella) [NPR]
featured on Forum with Michael Krasny (30 November 2006) [KQED]
on YouTube

Claron McFadden

Adophe Sax: Paradiso (excerpt) (with Thomas Allen, orchestra and chorus) [Jacob Ter Veldhuis]
on YouTube

Christine Schäfer

on YouTube

JENNIFER WILSON

New Brunnhilde! Who Cares!
The End of the Great Big American Voice
Wagner: Siegfried - "Ewig war ich" [www.amural.com]
Interview [KUHF FM Houston]

MEZZO-SOPRANOS

Elina Garanča

Monica Groop

Allan Petersson: Six Songs (1935) - "(It becomes quiet when crows die)" [Markus Brylka]
Allan Petersson: 24 Barefootsongs - No. 24 [Markus Brylka]
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - "Voi che sapete" [Abeillemusique]

Magdalena Kožená

J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 208 - "Schlafe konnen sicher weiden" [Impresario]
J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243 - "Et exultavit" [Impresario]
J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 - "Laudamus Te" (also here) [Radio Prague]
Vitezslav Novak (arr.): Slovak Songs - "Nevydavaj sa ty" [Abeillemusique]
Radio Prague profile of Magdalena Kožená (22 October 2001)
Radio Prague profile of Magdalena Kožená and Marc Minkowski (1 March 2002)
on YouTube

Angelika Kirchschlager

Nicholas Maw: Sophie's Choice (Kirschlager as Sophie) [NPR]
on YouTube

Urszula Kryger

Margaret Lattimore

Rinat Shaham

Adriana Zabala

Adamo: "Things change, Jo" (Little Women) [Minnesota Public Radio]

CONTRALTOS

Sara Mingardo

on YouTube

Catherine Wyn-Rogers

COUNTERTENORS

Oleg Bezinskikh

Nicholas Clapton

Barry: The Intelligence Park - "L'onda dal mar divisa" [NMC Records]
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs - "Easter" [Summertown Choral Society]
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle - "Agnus Dei" [Summertown Choral Society]

David Daniels

Live at NPR: David Daniels & Craig Ogden (Performance Today, November 2002)
All Things Considered: Counter-tenor (22 November 2002) [NPR]
on YouTube

Iestyn Davies

on YouTube

Paul Esswood

J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 54 - "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" [Bach Cantatas Website]
Britten (arr.): "The Sally Gardens" [Nicholson Proud]
Purcell: "The Sparrow and the Gentle Dove" [Nicholson Proud]
on YouTube

Jeffrey Gall

Philippe Jaroussky

Virgin Classics mini site
ForumOpera Entretien avec Philippe Jaroussky (13 octobre 2002)
on YouTube

David DQ Lee

on YouTube

Michael Maniaci

on YouTube

Bejun Mehta

Drew Minter

on YouTube

Derek Lee Ragin

on YouTube

Andreas Scholl

Decca Classics page
Handel: Serse - "Ombra mai fu" [Bo Yung Lee]
J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 - "Agnus Dei" [El Poder de la Palabra]
Handel: Saul - "O Lord, whose mercies numberless" [ A-Z]
Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV 621 - "Stabat mater dolorosa" [ A-Z]
Wigmore Hall, 18 January 2001 - Webcast, pt. 1 [KlassikAkzente]
Wigmore Hall, 18 January 2001 - Webcast, pt. 2 [KlassikAkzente]
Wigmore Hall, 18 January 2001 - Webcast, pt. 3 [KlassikAkzente]
Wigmore Hall, 18 January 2001 - Webcast, pt. 4 [KlassikAkzente]
National Public Radio: "Fresh Air" (28 September 2004) - Paste the following link into RealPlayer's "Open Location" line:rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net/real.npr.na-central/fa/20040928_fa_02.rm
NCRV A4 (Netherlands radio) interview: Countertenor Andreas Scholl (or here)
WNYC Soundcheck: Renegades in the Opera House (21 January 2005)
Bayerische Rundfunk: Interview about Scholl's pop music activities
Bayerische Rundfunk: Andreas Scholl goes pop
WNYC Soundcheck: Higher and Higher (16 September 2003)
BBC Radio 4: Front Row Arcadia interview (18 February 2004)
BBC Radio 4: Wayfaring Stranger interview (1 March 2002)
on YouTube

Gerald Thompson

Handel: Rinaldo - Venti turbini [Harwood Management]

Lawrence Zazzo

on YouTube

TENORS

Piotr Beczała

on YouTube

Yann Beuron

on YouTube

Joseph Calleja

Richard Croft

on YouTube

John Aler

on YouTube

Bülent Bezdüz

Misha Didyk

on YouTube

Paul Groves

Bellini: I Puritani - "Credeasi misera" (duet with Edita Gruberova) [OperaStudio.it]
on YouTube

JOSEPH KAISER

Philip Langridge

Britten: Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58 - "The Big Chariot" (WinMedia) (the same, MP3) [Chandos Records]
Finzi: Intimiations of Immortality - Waters on a sunny night (with chorus) [Boosey & Hawkes]
Rameau: Entrée de la muse Polymnie, from Les Boréades

Ilya Levinsky

Anatoly Mishchevsky

Mussorgsky: Sorichintsky Fair - "Suffering and grief" (with Vladimir Matorin) [Classical A-Z]

Mark Padmore

on YouTube

Nicholas Phan

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress - Here I stand...Since it is by merit [BBC]

Andrew Richards

on YouTube

Neil Shicoff

Finding Eléazar
Juilliard Alumni Reflections interview
Massenet: Werther (Shicoff as Werther) [NPR]
Verdi: Rigoletto - "Questa o quella" [Minnesota Public Radio]
Verdi: Rigoletto - "La donna e mobile" [Minnesota Public Radio]
Verdi: Rigoletto - "Bella figlia dell'amore" (with Edita Gruberova, Brigitte Fassbaender, and Renato Bruson) [Minnesota Public Radio]
on YouTube

Michael Spyres

on YouTube

BARITONES

Thomas Allen

Quilter: Seven Elizabethan Love Lyrics, Op. 12 - "Weep no more" [A-Z]
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore - "Venti scudi!" (with José Carreras) [Carreras Captures]
Schubert: "An Emma", D.113 [Abeillemusique]
Charles Kullman: "Smilin' through" [Abeillemusique]
Alan Murray: "Will you go with me?" [Abeillemusique]
on YouTube

Carlos Álvarez

on YouTube

Nathan Gunn

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

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From Puccini to Penne...
Traditional Russian: "Autumn breeze" [Abeillemusique]
De Curtis: "Canta pe' me" [Abeillemusique]
Verdi: Un Ballo in maschera - Alla vita che t'arride [Abeillemusique]
Interview [KUHF FM Houston]
Profile [RAI Radio 3]
Live at NPR [NPR]
on YouTube

Simon Keenlyside

Britten: Billy Budd - "Billy Budd, king of the birds...Farewell to you, old 'Rights o' Man'" [Boosey & Hawkes]
on YouTube

Gerard Kim

on YouTube

Anthony Michaels-Moore

Erwin Schrott

on YouTube

BASS-BARITONES & BASSES

Ferruccio Furlanetto

on YouTube

René Pape

Adrian Powter

on YouTube

Thomas Quasthoff

Bryn Terfel

Alexei Tikhomirov

on YouTube

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