Singers of Renown (Classical)
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- Host: John Cargher
- For more than 30 years distinguished broadcaster John Cargher has presented this popular program with great singers of the world. With an aim to broaden the horizons of music lovers John selects popular arias, and lesser known works – creating a rich program of the world's great classical singers.
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Saturday 28thJune 2008
Sat, Jun 28
SINGERS OF RENOWN ENCORE SERIES with JOHN CARGHER "A CENTURY OF SINGERS, 1901-2000" The final program featuring singers who influenced the art of singing during the 20th century
Saturday 21st June 2008
Sat, Jun 21
SINGERS OF RENOWN ENCORE SERIES with JOHN CARGHER "A CENTURY OF SINGERS, 1901-2000" The third of four programs featuring singers who influenced the art of singing during the 20th century
Saturday 14th June 2008
Sat, Jun 14
SINGERS OF RENOWN ENCORE SERIES with JOHN CARGHER "A CENTURY OF SINGERS, 1901-2000" The second of four programs featuring singers who influenced the art of singing during the 20th century
Saturday 7th June 2008
Sat, Jun 7
SINGERS OF RENOWN ENCORE SERIES with JOHN CARGHER "A CENTURY OF SINGERS, 1901-2000" The first of four programs featuring singers who influenced the art of singing during the 20th century
Saturday 31 May 2008
Sat, May 31
Saturday 24 May 2008
Sat, May 24
Saturday 17 May 2008
Sat, May 17
Saturday 10 May 2008
Sat, May 10
Saturday 3 May 2008
Sat, May 3
Saturday 26th April 2008
Sat, Apr 26
John Cargher has regularly been asked how he came by his love of music and his special appreciation of the human voice, and, how he managed to learn so much about it to keep presenting SINGERS OF RENOWN for so many years? In this final SINGERS OF REOWN before his retirement, John reveals a lifetime of events and experiences that have turned what was a hobby of many years into a full-time profession
Saturday 19th April 2008
Sat, Apr 19
SINGERS OF RENOWN'S 42nd ANNIVERSARY On April 17th, 1966, John Cargher introduced the first of what was intended to be a thirteen-week series of programs with the title "Singers of Renown"
Saturday 12th April 2008
Sat, Apr 12
John Cargher is still away due to ill health and unable to present a new program today
Saturday 5th April 2008
Sat, Apr 5
With John Cargher still away due ill health, he's asked that today's program be a repeat of his Special RICHARD TAUBER 1891 - 1948 Tauber was a singer of opera, operetta, lieder and popular songs
Saturday 29th March 2008
Sat, Mar 29
As John Cargher is still unwell, we're repeating his Special "The Glorious Failures" - the stories behind nine operas by nine different composers, all of which failed when first performed
Saturday 22nd March 2008
Sat, Mar 22
As John Cargher is still away and unwell, we're repeating a program first broadcast in June last year
Saturday 15th March 2008
Sat, Mar 15
As John Cargher is unwell at present, we're repeating a program first broadcast in May last year
Saturday 8th March 2008
Sat, Mar 8
As John Cargher is on sick leave at present, we're repeating one of his particularly intriguing Specials - AND THEY ALL DIED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Saturday 1st March 2008
Sat, Mar 1
Singers include tenor Richard Crooks with an aria from Puccini's "Tosca", the American soprano Ruth Ann Swenson with an aria from Bellini's "I Puritani", baritone G?rard Souzay singing Coppelius' Aria from "The Tales of Hoffmann" by Offenbach, Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Tauber and a surprise offering by musical scholar Michael Aspinall
Saturday 23rd February 2008
Sat, Feb 23
Singers include the Italian tenor Ferrucio Tagliavini singing a Creole song in Spanish, the Finnish bass Kim Borg with Gremin's Aria from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and the New Zealand soprano Frances Alda singing the Gavotte from "Manon" by Massenet
Saturday 16th February 2008
Sat, Feb 16
Singers include tenors Helge Roswaenge and Alfredo Kraus, sopranos Majella Cullagh and Jeanette MacDonald, mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett and baritone Giuseppe Taddei
Saturday 9th February 2008
Sat, Feb 9
Singers include Beniamino Gigli, Maria Callas, Titta Ruffo and Erich Kunz; also the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko singing "Song to the Moon" from Dvorak's "Rusalka"
Saturday 2nd February 2008
Sat, Feb 2
Following Radio National Summer programs of Singers of Renown Opera Specials, this week John Cargher presents the first of his new programs for 2008
Saturday 26th January 2008
Sat, Jan 26
John Cargher presents his final Opera Special this month - "LA BOH?ME" by Giacomo Puccini & Ruggero Leoncavallo
Saturday 19th January 2008
Sat, Jan 19
John Cargher presents his Opera Special - "LES HUGUENOTS" by the German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer
Saturday 12th January 2008
Sat, Jan 12
John Cargher presents his Opera Special - "THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT" by Donizetti
Saturday 5th January 2008
Sat, Jan 5
For his first program of the New Year, John Cargher presents an Opera Special -"DIE FLEDERMAUS" by Johann Strauss
Saturday 29th December 2007
Sat, Dec 29
Saturday 22nd December 2007
Sat, Dec 22
John Cargher presents a program for Christmas with singers Richard Tucker, Anna Moffo, Peter Anders, Salli Terri, Elisabeth Schumann and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Saturday 15th December 2007
Sat, Dec 15
Singers include tenors David Lloyd and Walter Widdop, sopranos R?gine Crespin and Eileen Farrell, the baritone Hermann Prey, and singing the duet "Ah, c'est l'amour" from Lakm? by Delibes, are Natalie Dessay and Gregory Kunde
Saturday 8th December 2007
Sat, Dec 8
Singers include tenors Dino Borgioli and Nicolai Gedda, sopranos Elisabeth Schumann and Anneliese Rothenberger and Marilyn Horne with Ernesto Palacio singing a duet from "Tancredi" by Rossini
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