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From the Voice Detective’s monthly Vodcast, The Voice Detective Show, to our monthly tribute articles to legendary singers, video shorts (aka `Snapshots’) and musical curiosities (aka `High Notes`), there’s plenty of regularly updated content for everyone to enjoy. 

Gina Cigna Drawing

GINA CIGNA, SOPRANO, MARCH 06, 1900

‘I always preferred temperament and interpretation to voice alone.’ A child of the nascent twentieth century, Gina Cigna was born on...

Drawing of Yellow Ladder

HN002 Composing songs in dreams

There is a less known tradition of composers receiving melodies and songs when dreaming. We can take two examples provided in...

Franco Corelli

FRANCO CORELLI, APRIL 8TH, 1921

the days before there were “Kings”, Franco Corelli was hailed “The Prince of Tenors”. There were good reasons for this epithet...

Beniamino Gigli

Beniamino Gigli, March 20th, 1890

Beniamino Gigli, whose surname translated into English means Lilies has his birthday today. Certainly his lirico-spinto voice was as perfect, sweet...

Dame Eva Turner

Dame Eva Turner, March 10, 1892

Remembering today the legendary British dramatic soprano, described by Arturo Toscanini as “a beautiful voice, beautiful pronunciation and beautiful appearance.” (1)...

Kiri Te Kanawa

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa March 6, 1944

Edit Column Today we celebrate Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: the beautiful, full, warm voiced lyric soprano associated and celebrated for her...

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