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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D102728168
Weekend Edition Saturday, April 4, 2009 - Opera can touch
the heart, stir the soul and soothe the savage breast -
yes, that is the correct quote. To do all of those things
and more, there's a new collection of opera called The
Record of Singing: a pair of box sets, 10 CDs each, covering
the history of recorded opera from 1899 to the present.
As NPR's classical music producer - and an opera fanatic -
I took Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon on a brief,
chronological guided tour. (You can hear the singers we
discussed on the left-hand side of this page.) We began
with the earliest recording in the set, a scratchy-sounding
rendition of the aria "C'est l'histoire amoureuse," by
American soprano Ellen Beach Yaw in 1899. ...
Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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