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OK, so he didn’t lead a country or challenge anyone to “tear down that wall.” But, in his own realm, Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling is every bit as loved and lionized as Ronald Reagan is in his.

Operavore keeps its finger on the pulse of the international opera scene. We offer news bulletins from the around the globe, previews of new recordings, and interviews with the players and ...

Keats said, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." What about those that are half-heard? Those inspire the imagination. The Swedish lyric tenor Jussi Björling died in 1960 at the ...

One of the English classical-music magazines — I can’t remember which one, but it’s one of the those that glues a CD to its cover — recently ranked, in order, the top 100 singers of the century. The ...

In the final months of the war, an ill and deeply depressed Elgar was taken off to Sussex by his doting wife Caroline Alice to a small cottage in Fittleworth. Here, in an astonishing bout of ...

In Stockholm, they're rather less bashful. Under the banner 'Welcome to my home town' they trumpet the folk they feel you must know. I'm not sure, though, that the local news anchor or the radio ...

Swedish tenor Jussi Björling was a global opera star for much of the 20th century. Now officials in his hometown of Borlänge municipality say they will close a museum dedicated to him due to lack of ...

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