Early 20th Century Opera Singers: Their Voices and Recordings from 1900–1949 Revised and Expanded Print Edition

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Over 700 Internet links to click on and more than 200 hours of performances
The first of its kind, the printed book enables you to listen to and see the world-famous opera singers at the moment you are reading about them by using a PDF you put on any smart device that can mount the PDF we provide to you--like your iPhone or Android cellphone! Learn about the singers' specific skills from a three-books opera author, himself a trained professional singer and performer.

There are over 700 Internet links you can click on as you read so you immediately hear and see what’s being discussed. There are more than 200 hours of performances by the performers that Limansky tells you about—their biographies, history, performances, and both the praise for and the shortcomings of their voices that Limansky describes in technical detail.

Historical recordings by opera singers offer great rewards to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike.

Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is so important. He analyzes and describes the merits and shortcomings of the recordings of previous generations of singers with those of the present. He evaluates the technical singing qualities and abilities of each artist. Using the YouTube links he provides, you can hear and judge these things for yourself.

Having the embedded links to click on enables the reader to discern Limansky’s comparisons of style and technique, and his descriptions of the differing vocal qualities among the famous performers he discusses. The author points out what to look for in these differences, both good and bad. (On occasion, the most famous are not the best!)

He recounts how record collecting has changed greatly through the decades due to technological advance.

With emphasis on today's student and collector, Limansky provides information about where, how, and on what labels given recordings can be found and provides the histories of the labels on which these past artists recorded. He discusses printed resources that offer even more information. Beginners will find much of interest in this far-ranging text.