Envelope, please…
La Cieca has just learned that the winner of the 2006 Richard Tucker Award is tenor Lawrence Brownlee. Career Grants will go to Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano), Jordan Bisch (bass), Quinn Kelsey (baritone), Dimitri Pittas (tenor) and Gerald Thompson (countertenor). Sarah Tucker Study Grant winners include Stephen Costello, Ann McMahon Quintero and Trever Scheunemann.
Yeah, it sucks. It’s the bottoms that always have the biggest cocks. What a waste.
Get This: Joan and Placido’s Hoffmann was the first Opera cd I ever bought. Even after all these years, it’s still one of my favorites. especially because of Gabriel Bacquier.
What a way to start!
My first opera LP was LA TRAVIATA with Moffo, Tucker and Merrill.
My intorduction to opera and Maria was her recording with Gobbi of Rigoletto–it changed my life!!
Not surprised callasorphan – wonderful stuff! Gobbi was a great artist and a wonderfully warm human being apparently – in real life the nice guy but onstage no one played bad guys better.