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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

    Top 10 sopranos

    Personal tastes affect one's appreciation of singers far more than that of instrumentalist, simply because the singer is the instrument, rather than a technological attachment.

    My all-time personal favourites are:

    Lucia Popp
    Birgit Nilsson
    Renata Tebaldi
    Mirella Freni
    Teresa Cahill
    Kiri Te Kanawa
    Judith Howarth
    Montserrat Cabaille
    Norma Burrowes
    Kirsten Flagstad
    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 08-03-14, 21:38.
  • Petrushka
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    • Nov 2010
    • 12254

    #2
    Birgit Nilsson
    Lucia Popp
    Margaret Price
    Gundula Janowitz
    Elly Ameling
    Karita Mattila
    Kirsten Flagstad
    Sheila Armstrong
    Anne Schwanewilms
    Galina Vishnevskaya
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • pastoralguy
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      • Nov 2010
      • 7760

      #3
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas
      Maria Callas

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
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        • Nov 2010
        • 20570

        #4
        I might well have included a few from Petrushka's list: Flagstad, Price and Ameling. In fact, I'm going to make a substitution. There's no-one from Pastoralguy's list I want to include at present.

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        • pastoralguy
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          • Nov 2010
          • 7760

          #5
          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          I might well have included a few from Petrushka's list: Flagstad, Price and Ameling. In fact, I'm going to make a substitution. There's no-one from Pastoralguy's list I want to include at present.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #6
            Isobel Bailey
            Gundula Janowitz
            Tessa Bonner
            Jessye Norman
            Arleen Auger
            Kirsten Flagstad
            Jill Gomez
            Kirsten Flagstad
            Felicity Lott
            Martha Modl
            Lisa della Casa
            Jane Manning
            Piia Komsi
            Edith Matthis
            Marie Angel
            Lucia Popp
            Maria Callas
            Elly Ameling
            Kiri te Kanawa
            Barbara Hannigan
            Ruth Holton
            Elise Ross
            Anna Tomowa-Sintow
            Brigit Nilsson
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • antongould
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              • Nov 2010
              • 8785

              #7
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Isobel Bailey
              Gundula Janowitz
              Tessa Bonner
              Jessye Norman
              Arleen Auger
              Kirsten Flagstad
              Jill Gomez
              Kirsten Flagstad
              Felicity Lott
              Martha Modl
              Lisa della Casa
              Jane Manning
              Piia Komsi
              Edith Matthis
              Marie Angel
              Lucia Popp
              Maria Callas
              Elly Ameling
              Kiri te Kanawa
              Barbara Hannigan
              Ruth Holton
              Elise Ross
              Anna Tomowa-Sintow
              No Brigit then?

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #8
                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                No Brigit then?
                Blimey - you're quick! Ammended since you posted.

                AND, I forgot to add Mirella Freni!

                AND Elisabeth Soderstrom and Victoria de Los Angeles and Astrid Varnay and Regine Crespin (thanks, Madame S) and Suzanne Danco and Marnie Nixon and Jennie Tourel
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Madame Suggia
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                  • Sep 2012
                  • 189

                  #9
                  Maria Callas
                  Regine Crespin
                  Elisabeth Soderstrom
                  Lisa Della Casa
                  Galina Vishnevskaya
                  Lucia Popp
                  Victoria de Los Angeles
                  Astrid Varnay
                  Birgit Nilsson
                  Netania Davrath

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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20570

                    #10
                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Blimey - you're quick! Ammended since you posted.

                    AND, I forgot to add Mirella Freni!

                    AND Elisabeth Soderstrom and Victoria de Los Angeles and Astrid Varnay and Regine Crespin (thanks, Madame S) and Suzanne Danco and Marnie Nixon and Jennie Tourel
                    Hmm. I did suggest only 10. But Marni Nixon seems to be flavour of the moment.
                    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 08-03-14, 23:46.

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                    • Barbirollians
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 11697

                      #11
                      Leaving out Callas - like leaving Beethoven out of a list of top ten composers

                      Callas
                      Janowitz
                      Popp
                      Jurinac
                      della Casa
                      Caballe
                      Flagstad
                      Muzio
                      Stemme
                      de los Angeles

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                      • verismissimo
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2957

                        #12
                        Nellie Melba
                        Frances Alda
                        Elsa Stralia
                        Florence Austral
                        Margherita Grandi
                        Marjorie Lawrence
                        Sylvia Fisher
                        Joan Hammond
                        Elsie Morison
                        Joan Sutherland

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                        • Eine Alpensinfonie
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20570

                          #13
                          No-one seems to have included Florence Foster Jenkins yet.
                          Or Hayley Westenra, Charlotte Church or Kathryn Jenkins.

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                          • Rolmill
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 634

                            #14
                            In no particular order:

                            Leontyne Price
                            Victoria de los Angeles
                            Gundula Janowitz
                            Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
                            Lucia Popp
                            Renata Tebaldi
                            Felicity Lott
                            Emma Kirkby
                            Ellie Ameling
                            Rosa Ponselle

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              #15
                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Isobel Bailey
                              Gundula Janowitz
                              Tessa Bonner
                              Jessye Norman
                              Arleen Auger
                              Kirsten Flagstad
                              Jill Gomez
                              Kirsten Flagstad
                              Felicity Lott
                              Martha Modl
                              Lisa della Casa
                              Jane Manning
                              Piia Komsi
                              Edith Matthis
                              Marie Angel
                              Lucia Popp
                              Maria Callas
                              Elly Ameling
                              Kiri te Kanawa
                              Barbara Hannigan
                              Ruth Holton
                              Elise Ross
                              Anna Tomowa-Sintow
                              Brigit Nilsson
                              Some good choices there Ferney but you can't count!

                              Arleen Auger
                              Felicity Lott
                              Anne Schwanewilms
                              Kiri te Kanawa
                              Lesley Garrett
                              Barbara Bonney
                              Kate Royal
                              Dawn Upshaw
                              Joan Rodgers
                              Emma Kirkby

                              Plus a couple of mezzos

                              Alice Coote
                              Cecilia Bartoli

                              and assuming we are looking at classical for the main list

                              a few from pop/rock/jazz/musicals though some of these maybe are mezzos

                              Cheryl Bentyne
                              Marni Nixon
                              Linda Ronstadt
                              Judy Collins
                              Vikki Carr
                              Barbara Streisand
                              Mama Cass
                              Stacey Kent
                              Dianne Reeves
                              Sandy Denny

                              and Minnie Ripperton who is definitely not a mezzo.

                              Oh and I've missed off
                              Marti Webb
                              Julie Covington
                              Linda Thompson
                              Last edited by cloughie; 09-03-14, 10:16.

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