Fred Plotkin on Fridays: Kate Aldrich

Fred Plotkin, pleasure activist, and passionate opera expert, speaks each Friday with fascinating people in the music world. He is the author of Opera 101 and Classical Music 101 and leads opera symposia for New York Times Journeys. In this episode, Fred speaks with mezzo soprano Kate Aldrich.

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Great to see Kate here - I don't know how I missed this one "live." Mention of the Troyanos Santuzza . . . she was nuts the way she flung herself down those stairs, then grabbed her stomach/baby. The story of the day she died is one of the most moving "departures" from the earth I've ever read of. Handel, Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bellini, Strauss . . . Kate is that same kind of singer!
Then Christa Ludwig. Sigh. I'm in mezzo heaven!

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Dear Idagio why you don't have Rafael Krux in your streaming service?