This page is for people who don’t believe that modern singers are the greatest that have ever lived. About the only thing common to old and new singers is that they know how to work an audience.

You may be an experienced singer or a beginner, or even just a listener, but you can learn a lot from a century of singing experience.

Nowadays performance on stage is more important than the ability to sing, but stage presence has always been vital.

How would you like to learn fifty things we used to know about singing and have since forgotten? Set yourself up with a century’s worth of advice from the world’s greatest singers for less than the price of a singing lesson. That’s not a mistake. Did you think singing lessons are free?

Don’t miss out on the valuable singing lessons of the great singers from the early years of recordings. We explore not only their implications on how to sing, but also their huge relevance to performance practice.

  • So who were these legendary singers of the past?
  • What changes came along?
  • What singing tips do they leave us?
  • Did these singers really learn to sing everything from Mozart to Puccini?
  • Was there a golden age of bel canto?
  • Where does the recent "early music movement" fit in?

We look at these older singers, and examine their way of singing. We also present testimonials from those who heard them live, and include the singers’ own views on their art.

They say that people who refuse to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. Experience is the best teacher, but if you can buy a century of experience for so little, that is even better.