Waxing Poetic A Century of Great Moments in Recorded Opera and Song

The golden moments on record or broadcast or video or in live performance have been those in which a singer has revealed something new, wonderful, and suddenly inevitable about a character: Something that changes one's view of the operatic moment and, perhaps, life. Green presents a memoir and a consideration of some of those moments when performance became revelation, when one was for a time the possessor of a part of the genius. (Part one of two)