Elsa Dreisig, Jonas Kaufmann, and Malin Byström lead recent album releases.
The name Joseph Rumshinsky might ring a bell (or a shofar).
Polish singers are chameleons. They have to be.
An impresario with a hit on his hands—Emanuel Schikaneder, for instance, after the initial run of Die Zauberflöte—will crave nothing so much as an opportunity to hit the same bell.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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