Everyone has their own opinion about the best recording of the Strauss Four Last Songs. I’m partial to the Schwarzkopf recordings. I discovered the songs while watching “The Year of Living Dangerously” and they have never failed to calm me[more...]

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Over the years I have been hosting the Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts first at WYSO and now at Dayton Public Radio, my feelings about opera as an art form have undergone a significant change.Early on I assumed that if I[more...]

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