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This website covers a period of one hundred
years Dutch art of singing. With biographies, lists of recordings,
CD's and photos of Dutch opera- and concert-singers. Music fragments
and links to other sites that pay special attention to these
subjects. Also in this continuous growing collection: biographies
of the conductors of the Concertgebouw Orchestra - Willem Kes,
Willem Mengelberg, Eduard van Beinum and Bernard Haitink - and
a number of my favourite singers from abroad.
The main part on this site contains
the period from before 1965, the year on which the 'Nederlandse
Opera' ceased to exist as an ensemble opera. This site is established
in 2001 with biographies of only 4 singers: the sopranos Jo Vincent,
Elly Ameling and Gré Brouwenstijn and the contralto Aafje
Heynis. Meanwhile the number of biographies is more than 200
and the number of visitors exceed the milestone of one million.
Also on this site some pages devoted to a few of my favourite
'singers from abroad': Richard Tauber, Joseph Schmidt, Feodor
Chaliapine, Marian Anderson, Magda Olivero and Kathleen Ferrier.
Summary -
with links - of latest updates/ additions of the last months.
Easy for returning visitors
- 11-07-2008 - John
van Kesteren, tenor (1921-2008), John van Kesteren died on
11 July 2008
- 28-06-2008 - The
high C, page renewed and extended
- 25-06-2008 - Michel
(Machiel) Gobets, tenor (1905-1945), biography brought up
to date and extended
- 17-05-2008 - Marjanne
Kweksilber, soprano (1944-2008), biography extended
- 03-04-2008 - Theodora
Versteegh, contralto, biography extended and 1 new CD released
- 01-01-2008 - Sophia
van Sante, mezzo soprano (1925-2007), biography extended
- 08-02-2008 - Jules
Moes, tenor(1880-1962), 1 new CD released
With the founding of the new label DD
Records an unique and extended collection of CD's
is released of Dutch singers of the past area. A collection that
will be extended regular. Voices of singers, which before I started
this site, where mainly unknown to me, but many of them belong
now to my personal favourites.
24
CD's with
Dutch singers now released on the new label DD Records
3 CD's with mezzo soprano Julia
Culp, 2 CD's with contralto Maartje Offers, 1 CD with soprano
Jo Vincent, 1 CD with soprano Hélène Cals, 2 CD's
with baritone Cornelis Bronsgeest, 1 CD with baritone Theo Baylé,
1 CD with baritone Thom Denijs and 1 CD with tenor Jacques Urlus.
Currently added 3 compilation CD's - at page DD
Records cd's 2 - of various
Dutch singers: Holland I, Holland II and Holland III and CD's
with Jules Moes (ten.), Nan Merriman (mezzo sopr.) and Theodora
Versteegh (contralto). All recordings are from the period 1902-1953.
The majorite of the recordings are first CD releases and most
of them also are never released on LP before. |
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