Singers and Performances

Here are links to individual singer websites as well as YouTube videos of great singers.

Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

This guy used to beat me at NATS every year when I was an undergraduate.  Now I don't feel so bad...count the high C's in this aria!



Patricia Racette, soprano

I saw Ms. Racette sing all three leading soprano roles in Puccini's Il Trittico at the Met last year.  Outstanding singer/actress.

Jonas Kaufman, tenor

Kaufman is currently taking the opera world by storm.  His rich, baritonal color is rare in a tenor.  Here he sings the famous Flower Song from Carmen.



Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

My favorite mezzo singing Reynaldo Hahn's A Chloris.



Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano

Wow.  Perhaps the best Rossini mezzo singing right now...




Nathan Gunn, baritone

A great example of an opera singer "crossing over" into musical theater.  Although, these Rodgers and Hammerstein roles were written for classically trained singers.