Learning Resources
LA Opera On-Air Returns
After 18 months, Los Angeles Opera resumes radio broadcasts of it's opera productions Saturday mornings.
Click on the inset image to the left to go to the LA Opera On-Air website.
Sir Antonio Pappano
Musical Director, Royal Opera - Covent Garden
Anthony Pappano's Classical VoicesA series of four informative videos on opera and the different voice types deployed by composers. Maestro Pappano is a generous, humanistic and enlightened musicologist. He is also a great interviewer and his teaching piano attracts the world's greatest singers to share their knowledge with his audience.
Maestro Pappano has many other, shorter, videos with great content.
Understanding Squillo
How opera singers produce squillo and use it to soar above a thundering orchestra. Includes spectrographic images to illustrate the phenomenom.
Elizabeth Zharoff on Pavarotti squilloZharoff examines Parvarotti's singing technique to explain the shimmering tone (squillo) that made him a global superstar tenor.
Fred Plotkin
Mr. Plotkin is a distinguished opera expert, who hosts the YouTube channel, Fred Plotkin on Fridays, wherein he conducts interviews with opera singers and others. He also hosts a series for Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU. Please find his fabulous interview of the German soprano Diana Damrau there.
Mr. Plotkin is also gastronome, so don't be surprised if your searches lead you to musings on food. Additionally, he leads opera based tours. His recipes seem scrumptous.