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This channel is dedicated to the music and singers that it features. Here you'll find performances of some of my favourite singers (see below), instrumental music and spoken word.

My favourite operas:
Norma, La Traviata, Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, Don Pasquale, La Fille du Régiment, I Puritani, Macbeth, Aida, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, Don Carlo, Medea, Tosca, Turandot, Manon, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Der Rosenkavalier... and many more, but I also love the classical lieder repertoire, the Spanish zarzuela, the German operetta and last but not least orchestral music: Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Dvorak, Bruch, Tschaikowsky.

My favourite singers of the past:
MARIA CALLAS (THE BEST!), Montserrat CABALLÉ, Victoria DE LOS ANGELES, Grace BUMBRY, Christa LUDWIG, Kiri te KANAWA, Edda MOSER, Felicity LOTT, Anna MOFFO, Gwyneth JONES, Lucia POPP, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the early (!) Joan Sutherland, Lotte Lehmann, Ileana Cotrubaş, Teresa Stich-Randall, Lisa della Casa, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Beverly SIlls, Leonie Rysanek, June Anderson, Gabriela Beňačková, Pilar Lorengar, Virginia Zeani, Luba Orgonasova, Julia Varady, Astrid Varnay, Tatiana Troyanos, Shirley Verrett, Teresa Berganza, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Carlo Bergonzi, Fritz Wunderlich, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Jerry Hadley, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario del Monaco, Wolfgang Windgassen, Tito Gobbi, Leo Nucci, Hermann Prey.

My favourite singers of today:
Diana DAMRAU, Renée FLEMING, Felicity LOTT, Genia KÜHMEIER, Natalie DESSAY, Elīna GARANČA, Joyce DiDONATO, Renée FLEMING, Daniela FALLY, Simone KERMES, Patrizia Ciofi, Elena Mosuc, Julia Kleiter, Karita Mattila, Véronique Gens, Ruth Ann Swenson, Annette Dasch, Dorothea Röschmann, Cecilia Bartoli, Juan Diego FLOREZ, Rolando VILLAZON, Jonas KAUFMANN, Piotr Beczala, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Erwin Schrott.

My favourite conductors:
Leonard BERNSTEIN (the greatest conductor of all times!),
Herbert von Karajan, Tullio Serafin, Victor de Sabata, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber.

My favourite solo instrumentalists:
Janine Jansen, Sol Gabetta, Itzak Perlman.