Remembering the artists we lost in 2024 including sopranos Lucine Amara, Jodie Devos, and Wilhelmenia Fernandez, contralto Ewa Podleś, tenors Howard Crook, Steve Davislim, and Eric Tappy, and baritones Siegfried Lorenz and Benjamin Luxon.
2024 In Memoriam
Jodie Devos (Photo: Marco Borggreve)
Playlist
Giacomo Puccini: “Quando me’n vo'” from La bohème
Lucine Amara, soprano
RCA Victor Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham, soprano
Gioachino Rossini: “Non temer d’un basso affetto” from Maometto II
Ewa Podleś, contralto
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Pier Giorgio Morandi
Giuseppe Verdi: “Morrò, ma prima in grazia” from Un ballo in maschera
Christine Weidinger, soprano
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra/Richard Auldon Clark
Umberto Giordano: “Come un bel dì di maggio” from Andrea Chénier
Lando Bartolini, tenor
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra/Támas Pál
Alfredo Catalani: “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana” from La Wally
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, soprano
London Symphony Orchestrta/Vladimir Cosma
Claudio Monteverdi: “Saliam cantand’ al cielo” from L’Orfeo
Eric Tappy, tenor
Gino Quilico, baritone
Lyon Opera Orchestra/Michel Corboz
George Frideric Handel: “Pastorello d’un povero armento” from Rodelinda
Steve Davislim, tenor
Il Complesso Baroccco/Alan Curtis
Jean-Philippe Rameau: “L’amour triomphe” from Pygmalion
Howard Crook, tenor
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
Ivor Gurney: In Flanders
George Butterworth: “Loveliest of Trees” from Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
David Willison, piano
Hugo Wolf: Verborgenheit
Siegfried Lorenz, baritone
Norman Shelter, piano
Jacques Offenbach: “Conduisez-moi vers celui que j’adore” from Robinson Crusoë
Jodie Devos, soprano
Munich Radio Orchestra/Laurent Campellone
Germaine Tailleferre: Tu mi chamas
Jodie Devos, soprano
Nicolas Kruger, piano
