Contributors

John Ardoin was the author of The Callas Legacy, Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes, The Furtwängler Record, the editor of The Philadelphia Orchestra: A Century of Music as well as the author of the CD-set Callas: The Voice, The Story. For many years the music critic for The Dallas Morning News, he wrote for myriad publications and appeared regularly on Met Opera intermission features. Forthcoming is his book Valery Gergiev and the Kirov.

Robert Connolly has written for Opera News, Opera, Stereo Review and Film Comment and has translated a number of books from Italian to English.

Cantor Don Goldberg hosted an opera program on station WRHU. He sang for several years in the Met and New York City Opera choruses and performed lead roles with a number of small companies. He is the cantor of Temple Beth Shalom of Amityville and has contributed to Opera News and The Record Collector.

Brian Morgan is Artistic Director of Opera Quotannis (New York City) and former Artistic Director of The New Opera Theatre (New Orleans). His book, Strange Child of Chaos: Norman Treigle, was published by iUniverse.

Joe Pearce is President of the Vocal Record Collectors’ Society and a contributor to The Opera Quarterly and The Record Collector.

Bert Wechsler was a regular contributor to High Performance Review. A former singer, actor and director, he was editor of Music Journal and has written for the International Dictionary of Opera, Opera News, Video Review, High Fidelity and the New York Daily News, among many other newspapers and magazines. He co-authored a Lawrence Tibbett biography published by Amadeus Press.

Rosina Wolf’s repertoire ranged from Carmen to the Queen of the Night to Butterfly, Salome, Isolde, Brünnhilde and Norma. She performed Nelly in the world premiere of the fourth version of Bellini’s Adelson e Salvini, at New York’s The Town Hall, in 1972. (Stefan Zucker was the Salvini.) In 1976 she appeared with him on RAI, Italian state television, in music from Puritani.

Stefan Zucker is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the world's highest tenor." He was editor of Opera Fanatic magazine, hosts the radio program "Opera Fanatic" and the film of that name, appears in the film Bella Figura, also known as Müssen Sänger dick sein (with Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Anthony Tommasini and Deborah Voigt), talks and sings in the film series The Tenors of the 78 Era and has lectured on the history of singing at the Mannes College of Music and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of The Origins of Modern Tenor Singing (Bel Canto Society, 1997) and more than 650 articles and reviews in International Dictionary of Opera, Opera News, American Record Guide, The Opera Quarterly, Professione musica, Globe & Mail and many other publications as well as on the Bel Canto Society Web site.

Click here to see Stefan discuss Slezak and Schmidt.