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Prologue

Chronology

 

Sopranos

Mezzo sopranos

Altos

 

Tenors

Baritones

Basses

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 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.

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.

Summary - with links - of latest updates/ additions of the last months. Easy for returning visitors

• 03-04-2008 - Theodora Versteegh, contralto, 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
• 28-10-2007 - Gerry de Groot, sopraan (1924-1975), biography extended
• 06-10-2007 - DD Records - Dutch Divas Records - pagina 2, 3 new CD's: Holland I, II & III
• 16-09-2007 - Julia Culp, mezzo soprano - (1880-1970), the third CD of this world-famous Lieder singer is now released

Conductors

Singers fr.abroad

Belgian singers

 

DD Records CD's

Order CD's

 

Compilation CD's

The high C

 

Reactions

Sources

Links

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 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.