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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Thu May 31, 2001  6:35 pm
Subject:  Favourite singers


Well, my complete list is on my website, but here are the top 5 in each
category for me at the moment:

SOPRANOS
Eileen Farrell
Ileana Cotrubas
Maria Callas
Nathalie Dessay
Frances Alda

MEZZOS
Christa Ludwig
Giulietta Simionata
Rita Gorr
Suzanne Mentzer
Irina Arkhipova

CONTRALTOS
Ewa Podles
Louise Homer
Margarete Matzenauer
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Olive Fremstad (before she defected to the sopranos)

COUNTERTENORS
Brian Asawa
Drew Minter
Andreas Scholl
David Daniels
Dominique Visse

TENORS
Neil Shicoff (surprise, surprise)
Vladimir Atlantov
Placido Domingo
Antonio Cortis
Joseph Schmidt

BARITONES
Thomas Allen
Sherrill Milnes
Lawrence Tibbett
Andrej Hiolski
Gabriel Bacquier

BASSES (incl. BASS-BARITONES)
Rene Pape
Jose van Dam
Marcel Journet
Robert Lloyd
Jose Mardones

MUSICAL THEATRE
Julie Andrews
Alfred Drake
Gordon McCrae
Audra McDonald
Bernadette Peters

POP MUSIC (incl. country)
Patsy Cline
Jim Reeves
Freddy Mercury
John Denver
Annie Haslam

KM
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NEIL SHICOFF, TENORE SUPREMO
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html

My Own Website
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html

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+ but I also sing hymns with my mind. +
+ - 1 Corinthians 14:15 +
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