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Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" is one of the most popular operas in the world. However, most people don't realize that the Lucia di Lammermoor s...

Alexander Pushkin, poet, playwright, novelist, and arguably one of the greatest artists in Russian history. He died at the age of 37 during a dual ...

Here's a short biography of the English poet Thomas Chatterton who was recognized as a genius only after his suicide at the age of 17

The Ride of the Valkyries from Richard Wagner's "Die Walkure" conducted by Bernard Haitink

Gerhilde: Anita Soldh

Helmwige: Ruth Falcon

Waltraute:...

"O heilige Gotter" from Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung"

Brunnhilde: Eva Marton

Siegfried: Siegfried Jerusalem

Conductor: Bernard Haitink

1963 recording of "Serbami ognor si fido" from Rossini's "Semiramide"

Semiramide: Joan Sutherland

Arsace: Marilyn Horne

Conductor: Richard Boynge

Live 1976 recording of "The Miserere" from Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore"

Leonora: Cristina Deutekom

Manrico: Juan Lloveras

Conducted by Christo...

"A vos jeux, mes amis" or "Ophelia's Mad Scene" from Ambroise Thomas' operatic version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

Ophelia: Dame Joan Sutherland

C...

Si, Vendetta, Tremenda Vendetta, from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.

Rigoletto: Cornell MacNeil

Gilda: Reri Grist

Conductor: Francesco Molinari Prad...