Other opera singers who also excel(led) at art song:
Victoria de los Angeles Janet Baker Gerard Souzay Regine Crespin Barbara Bonney Christa Ludwig Lucia Popp Feodor Chaliapin Thomas Allen Thomas Hampson Dmitri Hvorostovsky Lotte Lehmann Anne Sofie von Otter Jose van Dam Dawn Upshaw Arleen Auger Elisabeth Schumann Alexander Kipnis Boris Christoff Sarah Walker Robert Tear Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Angelika Kirschlager
Then there are many singers who are/were temperamentally "wrong" for art song - or, indeed, for anything but opera (and perhaps operetta or zarzuela and the occasional big symphonic work like Verdi's Requiem or Beethoven's 9th), and who, for the most part, realise(d) this. Similarly, there are/were singers who never ventured into the opera house, but stuck almost exclusively to the recital hall (or recital hall and concert hall, singing symphonic song cycles and oratorio solos in the latter). Jan DeGaetani, Elly Ameling, Heinrich Schlusnus, Gervase Elwes - all names that come to mind as being exclusively non-operatic.
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----- We're sitting in the opera house; We're waiting for the curtain to arise With wonders for our eyes, A feeling of expectancy, A certain kind of ecstasy, Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's.
- Charles Ives
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