Sissy and Max Strauss, who live just off Central Park West, are used to hearing great singers burst into impromptu song at one of their frequent gatherings for luminaries in the opera world. But they had never heard anything quite like the voice that suddenly launched into the “Habanera” from Carmen the other night. “It Read More
Although the CD bins are stuffed with the annual avalanche of Christmas recordings, my recommendations for last-minute stocking stuffers for classically minded friends are two new albums that feature female voices singing, well, like angels. Renée Fleming possesses what many vocal connoisseurs consider the most sumptuous soprano around-a judgment with which anyone who hears her Read More
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