Anna Netrebko in Manon / photo by Bill Cooper/Covent Garden
Thanks to an awesome site maintained by Opera Glass, there’s a compendium of fan pages for many of the world’s best loved opera singers, past and present.
(Yes, and before you get on my case for using “who do you love” in the title, I’m patently aware that it should be “whom do you love?”–I taught English for ten years. Merely trying to tap into a titular Bo Diddley vibe.)
Anyhoo, I love the Opera Glass page of fan pages! It’s given me insights to opera singers I’d never heard of. And I’m having a ball exploring different artists and their pages. And learning a lot in the process.
The following list gives links to fan pages providing information about famous opera people, mostly singers. For a list of Web pages provided by opera people themselves, see Opera People. (That’s also a fun list!)
- Roberto Alagna, tenor: uno – due
- Maurizio Alessandrini, tenor
- Belén Amparán, mezzo-soprano
- Mario Ancona (1860 – 1931), baritone
- June Anderson, Soprano
- Marian Anderson (1897 – 1993), contralto
- Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano
- Francisco Araiza, tenor: uno – due
- Constantina Araújo (1922-1966), soprano: uno – due
- Fides Asensio, soprano
- Agnes Ayres, soprano
- Renata Babak, mezzo-soprano
- Vicent Ballester (1887 – 1927), baritone
- Agnes Baltsa, mezzo soprano: uno – due
- Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
- Ettore Bastianini, baritone
- Kathleen Battle, soprano
- Hildegard Behrens, soprano
- Paavo Berglund, conductor
- Jussi Björling (1907 – 1960), tenor: uno – due – tre
- Rockwell Blake, tenor
- Andrea Bocelli, tenor: uno – due – tre
- Alessandro Bonci (1870 – 1940), tenor
- Lucrezia Bori (1887 – 1960), soprano
- June Bronhill, coloratura soprano
- Stuart Burrows, tenor
- Maria Callas (1923 – 1977), soprano: uno – due – tre
- José Carreras, tenor: uno – due – tre
- Enrico Caruso (1873 – 1921), tenor: uno – due
- Kathleen Cassello, soprano
- Anita Cerquetti, soprano: uno – due
- Feodor Chaliapin (1873 – 1938), bass
- Aris Christofellis, sopranist
- Alfredo Colosimo, tenor
- Franco Corelli, tenor: uno – due
- Ileana Cotrubas, soprano
- José Cura, tenor
- Francesco Daddi (1864 – 1945), tenor
- Tracy Dahl, coloratura soprano
- José van Dam, bass-baritone
- Giuseppe De Luca (1876 – 1950), baritone
- Mario Del Monaco (1915 – 1982), tenor
- Mariella Devia, soprano
- Justino Diaz, bass-baritone
- Giuseppe Di Stefano , tenor
- Plácido Domingo, tenor, conductor: uno – due
- Jane Eaglen, soprano
- Kallen Esperian, soprano
- Geraldine Farrar (1882 – 1967), soprano
- Adam Fischer, conductor
- Juan Diego Flórez, tenor: uno – due
- Mirella Freni, soprano
- Barbara Frittoli, soprano
- Elizabeth Futral, soprano
- Lesley Garrett, soprano
- Nicolai Gedda, tenor: uno – due – tre
- Leyla Gencer, soprano: uno – due
- Angela Gheorghiu, soprano
- Beniamino Gigli (1890 – 1957), tenor: uno – due
- Gail Gilmore, soprano
- Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
- Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano
- Edita Gruberova, coloratura soprano: uno – due
- Jerry Hadley, tenor
- Catherine Hayes (1825 – 1861), soprano
- Hartmut Haenchen, conductor
- Friedrich Haider, conductor
- Barbara Hendricks, soprano
- Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
- J. A. Huddleston (1799 – 1865), guitarist and arranger
- Louise Homer (1871 – 1947), contralto
- Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
- Jorma Hynninen, baritone
- Mark Janicello, tenor
- Dame Gwyneth Jones, soprano
- Marcel Journet (1870 – 1933), bass
- Jochen Kowalski, countertenor: uno – due – tre
- Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
- Charles Kullman (1903 – 1983), tenor
- Mario Lanza (1921 – 1959), tenor: uno – due – tre
- Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano
- Cynthia Lawrence, soprano
- Frida Leider (1888 – 1975), soprano
- Lotte Lehmann (1888 – 1976), soprano
- Pavel Lisitsian, baritone
- Giuseppe de Luca (1876 – 1950), baritone
- Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano: uno – due
- Catherine Malfitano, soprano
- Janis Martin, dramatic soprano
- Giovanni Martinelli (1885 – 1969), tenor
- Karita Mattila, soprano: uno – due
- Dorothy Maynor (1910 – 1996), soprano
- John McCormack (1884 – 1943), tenor: uno – due
- Lois McDonall, soprano
- Sylvia McNair, soprano
- Nellie Melba (1861 – 1931), soprano
- Lauritz Melchior, heldentenor
- Robert Merrill, baritone
- Chris Merritt, tenor
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 – 1864), composer
- Zinka Milanov (1906 – 1989), soprano
- Aprile Millo, soprano
- Sherrill Milnes, baritone
- Anna Moffo, soprano
- Kurt Moll, bass
- Grace Moore, soprano
- Adelaide Negri, dramatic coloratura soprano
- Anna Netrebko, soprano
- Birgit Nilsson, soprano
- Lillian Nordica (1857 – 1914), soprano
- Jessye Norman, soprano
- Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano, contralto
- Kevin Oldham, composer
- Magda Olivero, soprano: uno – due
- John O’Sullivan (1877 – 1905), tenor
- Mark Padmore, haute-contre
- Lina Pagliughi (1907 – 1980), coloratura soprano
- Julius Patzak (1898-1974), tenor, conductor
- Valentin Peytchinov, bass
- Nino Piccaluga (1890 – 1973), tenor
- Pol Plançon (1851 – 1914), basso cantante
- Rosa Ponselle (1897 – 1981), soprano
- Frank Porretta III, tenor
- Leontyne Price, soprano
- Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
- Louis Quilico (1925 – 2000), baritone
- Ruggero Raimondi, bass
- Samuel Ramey, bass
- György Györiványi Ráth, conductor
- Mark Reizen, bass
- Elizabeth Rethberg (1894 – 1976), soprano
- Titta Ruffo (1877 – 1953), baritone
- Leonie Rysanek (1926 – 1998), soprano
- Giuseppe Sabbatini, tenor
- Aulis Sallinen, composer
- Matti Salminen, bass
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, composer
- Sylvia Sass, soprano
- Tito Schipa (1889 – 1965), tenor
- Josef Schmidt (1904 – 1942), tenor
- Gabriele Schnaut, soprano
- Rudolf Schock (1915 – 1986), tenor
- Andreas Scholl, countertenor
- Friedrich Schorr (1888 – 1953), baritone
- Peter Schreier, tenor, conductor: uno – due
- Erwin Schrott, bass
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861 – 1936), contralto
- Antonio Scotti (1886 – 1936), baritone
- Renata Scotto, soprano
- Meta Seinemeyer (1895 – 1929), soprano
- Marcella Sembrich (1858 – 1935), soprano: uno – due
- Neil Shicoff, tenor
- George Shirley, tenor
- Hugh Smith, tenor
- Diana Soviero, soprano
- Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano: uno – due
- Riccardo Stracciari (1875 – 1955), baritone
- Teresa Stratas, soprano
- Cheryl Studer, soprano
- Joan Sutherland, Soprano
- Peter Svensson, Heldentenor
- Carlo Tagliabue (1898 – 1978), baritone
- Jeffrey Tate, conductor
- Richard Tauber (1891 – 1948), tenor
- Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano: uno – due – tre
- Renata Tebaldi, soprano: uno – due
- Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone: uno – due
- Luisa Tetrazzini (1871 – 1940), soprano
- Georges Thill (1897 – 1984), tenor: uno – due
- Tatiana Troyanos (1938 – 1993), mezzo-soprano: uno – due
- Carol Vaness, soprano
- Alain Vanzo, tenor
- Astrid Varnay, soprano
- Kyra Vayne, soprano
- Franz Völker (1899-1965), tenor
- Dario Volonte, tenor
- Richard Wagner, composer
- Anthony Warlow, baritone
- Leonard Warren (1911 – 1960), baritone: uno – due
- Gösta Winbergh, tenor
- Chon Wolson, soprano
- Fritz Wunderlich (1930 – 1966), tenor: uno – due
- Dolora Zajick, mezzo-soprano
- Riccardo Zandonai (1883 – 1944), composer
- Virginia Zeani, soprano
- Teresa Zylis-Gara, soprano
