Top 10 sopranos

[verismissimo]

... And whoever this is.

Don't think it's Callas, kea.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm afraid I don't listen to post-1800 opera often enough to know most of the well-known sopranos. The vibrato-heavy operatic style puts me off.

A couple that come to mind are Emma Kirkby and Montserrat Figueras. And whoever this is.

Refreshing. The opposite end of the scale from Gwyneth Jones and Helen Field.

[doversoul1]

I'm afraid I don't listen to post-1800 opera often enough to know most of the well-known sopranos. The vibrato-heavy operatic style puts me off.

A couple that come to mind are Emma Kirkby and Montserrat Figueras. And whoever this is.

Same here but not because I don’t like post-1800 singing. I haven’t yet got to know it.

Elin Manahan Thomas
Nuria Rial
Veronique Gens
Karina Gauvin

By the way, your link doesn’t work.

[kea]

Same here but not because I don’t like post-1800 singing. I haven’t yet got to know it.

I doubt I know enough of it either—I'm sure there are singers who can make operatic style work, I've just been turned off by some who couldn't.

By the way, your link doesn’t work.

It should if you refresh. It's someone from Les Arts Florissants singing Charpentier, but I haven't been able to figure out who.

[jean]

Works for me - in all senses of the phrase!

[Barbirollians]

Am amazed at the lack of Callas support here . I am off to listen to her sensational 1950s recital of bel canto arias in disbelief.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/EMI/4768422

[hedgehog]

Same here but not because I don’t like post-1800 singing. I haven’t yet got to know it.


Veronique Gens

Not as a judgement on your other recommendations doversoul, but she is special (to me)!

[Richard Tarleton]

Elin Manahan Thomas

Off to hear her on Thursday in Cardiff, with Florilegium - Charpentier, Gluck and Mozart

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm astonished that I haven't mentioned Claron McFadden yet . (Nor Brenda Mitchell )

[ahinton]

I'm astonished that I haven't mentioned Claron McFadden yet . (Nor Brenda Mitchell )

I'm almost as surprised as you are! Two renowned sopraneyhoughs! That said, it was another soprano who, having performed BF's Études transcendentes almost a decade ago, responded to my question as to how it had gone (I could not attend personally) "it went well, thank you, but a very difficult piece...still recovering!!"...