Sean Bianco's Opera Lounge is having "Ring Month"

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2. Don't tell Sean. He collects recordings.

Listeners over his more than 20 years at CapRadio have sent him all kinds of recordings before monster financial mismanagement struck, and Sean's progran was canned. That's why he's on Live365 now.

https://www.mynspr.org/news/2023-10-01/audit-finds-capradio-mismanaged-funds-questions-stations-ability-to-pay-for-costly-downtown-projects

He really scrutinizes recordings, and I really don't know his criteria. Sometimes, he'll play one with really creaky sound, because of the artists involved.

Best advice he gives is to get good speakers. While many of us have good ears, many people put up with really inferior sound. Good speakers make a big difference but also point out flaws. I am constantly working the equalizers to get realistic concert sound. I found that Mister techie Herbert Von Karajan fiddled with the sound so that I can't equalize it.


Sean gives out his email address on the program if you care to communicate, or argue over the best Ring production.

I wonder if he had played the Solti version. I believe that almost all that he had played is archived.

https://www.capradio.org/classical/at-the-opera/

By special arrangement with the folks that killed his program. The archive abruptly ends in August 2023.

Take good care of those recordings.