Funny Singers' names

[Charlie]

When we were young and insane opera lovers (now we are
OLD and insane), we would invent all kinds of opera games and spent countless
hours, as we froze our googies off on the standee line, trying to distract
ourselves from that icy-cold weather (the season began in November in those
days,you know.) One of the things a dear friend managed to do was to look up,in
an opera encyclopedia, some really hilarious names of genuine opera singers.
Here are some, for your edification and entertainment:

Rudolf Rock
Jutta Meifarth (not "your farth")
Gerhard Hinderjock
Luisa Malagrida (I have a tape of her Met debut,
and her voice DID sound like what her name means.)
Kurt Wehofschitz
Leopold Clam
Pyotr Varlaamovich Amairanashvili
Albrecht Meyerolbersleben

Renata Fack
Wilma Funken
Emmy Funk
Maria Fuchs

(The above four sound like what you think of
when you listen to Charlotte Church)

This next group are positively obscene:

Egmont Koch
Walter Kocks
Ingvar Kroch
Fritz Zipper

(Well,at least Herr Zipper afforded some "closure")

Then we have some truly "sexy" names:

Enzo Titta
Bjarne Buntz
Violet Tester
Maria Cherry

...and some wonderfully "operatic" ones:

Salvatore Gioja
Alfredo Allegro

and a crazy Russian:
Yuri Dementiev

HAVE FUN!!!! Charlie
My best, Charlie. Check out my website dedicated to the wonderful world
of opera, and request my huge free catalogue of live opera tapes.

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[Wotan99]

I saw one topic heading and I guessed wrong-but I knew who had to write this
one.

Why not skip the post and go right to the ad.

Insanity can sometimes have a grandeur-and has frequenly gone hand in hand with
genius-but as R. Lowell once said-let's not romanticize imbalances in brain
chemistry-but what we see here-juvenile humor, repitition, fan groupiness
posing as knowledge, nostalgia without perspective, sleaze, tatoos-and the rest
of that stuff are only indications of the the end of the end of an art form,
the tail end, but nothing so interesting as insanity

[Matthew B. Tepper]

wot...@aol.com (Wotan99) wrote in
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So what are your nominees for funny singers' names? Mine is Leif Roar.

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[GRNDPADAVE]

>From: oy兀earthlink.net (Matthew B. Tepper)
>Date: 05/12/2001 12:34 PM Central Daylight Time
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>wot...@aol.com (Wotan99) wrote in
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>So what are your nominees for funny singers' names? Mine is Leif Roar.
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>Matthew B. Tepper:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here are some of my favorite names:

Willi-Domgraf Fassbaender
Aksel Schiotz
Wilhelmina Schroeder-Devrient
Vladimiro Ganzarolli
Moishe Oyshe
Lubomir Vichegonov
Kolomon von Pataky
Aulikii Rautawaara
Heinrich Schlussnus

==G/P Dave

[Andre Edouard]

What have we here? Another diatribe from the Wicked Ogre of the
North?
You're quite right, it needn't be interesting [you're not] which
leads one to ask, is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
You've an odd fascination with Charlie, 99...very odd.
The problem, Neanderthal, is the art form surviving you. Should it
survive you'll only find someone else, or something, to bitch about.
But, W99 doesn't approve of me either. A mutual admiration society.
Tough Shit, Wotan.
AndreEdouard

[Charlie]

>hy not skip the post and go right to the ad.
>
>Insanity can sometimes have a

AREN'T YOU SWEEEEET! I get so much nice mail..but it is so important in life to
"mix" the nice stuff with the garbage....I suggest you try Viagra for your
problems..you cannot stand that I am popular and this sticks in your craw......
CH

[Charlie]

You better not respond to my "funny" post..because the crab-apple Wotan will
start telling you that you are immature..or whatever..... Poor thing..he has no
life.CH

[Charlie]

Wotan actually in secret sends me porno photos of himself...I THREW UP!!!!!! CH

[Mike Richter]

You have some of my favorite singers there. Though the humor of the
names escapes me, I will ask that you spell 'em right (especially since
this is about the names themselves):

Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
Heinrich Schlusnus

In some of those cases, I'm trying to figure out how to cut the
collection of essential recordings down to fit onto a single WWW page!
(Though I'll admit that Oyshe is new to me.)

Mike
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mric...@cpl.net
http://www.mrichter.com/

[Marty Robinson]

Peter Schrier
Wolfgang Windgassen

[Charlie]

I have a very important (and MATURE) greeting for Wotan99 for Sunday:

TU MADRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CH

[Matthew B. Tepper]

plac...@aol.comnojunk (Charlie) wrote in
<20010512170831...@ng-cg1.aol.com>:

>
>TU MADRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CH

Where has she sung?

[OmbraRecds]

>One of the things a dear friend managed to do was to look up,in
>an opera encyclopedia, some really hilarious names of genuine opera singers.

>Here are some, for your edification and entertainment>Charlie

I always laughed when I heard Celestina Boninsegna. There was a ghastly soprano
in the 70's called Athena Lampropoulos who did an Aida that sounded like
F.F.Jenkins

Patrick Byrne

[Jeff]

On Sat, 12 May 2001 17:34:44 GMT, oy兀earthlink.net (Matthew B.
Tepper) wrote:

>wot...@aol.com (Wotan99) wrote in
><20010512131134...@ng-fc1.aol.com>:
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>So what are your nominees for funny singers' names? Mine is Leif Roar.

I like Bruna Castagna myself. I always thought it means brown
chestnut, although I could be wrong. Then there are Ewa Podles, Maria
Dragoni, Marcus Haddock, and the very exoticly named Zelie de Lusan,
who I believe was originally from Brooklyn.

Jeff

[Ed Rosen]

Not to mention Ruza Pospis, who, upon being advised on the meaning of this
name in America, changed it to Ruza Pospanov, and later, after marrying,
became Ruza Baldani. The Yugoslav countryman who advised Pospis was one
Zinka Kunz, better know as Zinka Milanov.

Best,
Ed

[Matthew B. Tepper]

custo...@earthlink.net (Ed Rosen) wrote in
<3AFDF6A6...@earthlink.net>:

>Not to mention Ruza Pospis, who, upon being advised on the meaning of this
>name in America, changed it to Ruza Pospanov, and later, after marrying,
>became Ruza Baldani. The Yugoslav countryman who advised Pospis was one
>Zinka Kunz, better know as Zinka Milanov.

Wasn't Zinka's name spelled Kunc, pronounced like Kunz?

[REG]

I thought it was pronounced - and certainly her American agents feared it
would be pronounceded - just like it was spelled, and so it was changed to
Milanov.

Christopher Perick.

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[John Lynch]

A supplement to Charlie's list:

Aberto Cupido (t)
Helmut Berger-Tuna (bs)
Manrico Biscotti (t)
Giuseppe Bravura (t)
Sebastian Feiersinger (t)
Fritz Feinhals (b)
Apollo Granforte (b)
Taurino Parvis (b)
Manfredo Ponz de Leon (bs)
Franz Roar (b)
Francesca Rotondo (s)
Otto von Rohr (bs)
Kurt Wehofschitz (t)
Erwin Wohlfahrt (t)
Fritz Wunderlich (t)
Rudolf Prick (conductor, called Perick in the US)

and a Dutch philosopher, Optatus van Asseldonk

--JL

[James Kahn]

In <3AFEA647...@worldnet.att.net> John Lynch <ano...@worldnet.att.net> writes:

>A supplement to Charlie's list:

[snipped]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Peter Schreier (if you don't
know why it's funny, get his last name translated).

--
Jim
New York, NY
(Please remove "nospam." to get my e-mail address)
http://www.panix.com/~kahn

[Customoper]

>Wasn't Zinka's name spelled Kunc, pronounced like Kunz?
>
>--
>Matthew B. Tepper:

Yes, Matthew, I believe you are correct.

Best,
Ed
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[Customoper]

>From: "REG"

>
>I thought it was pronounced - and certainly her American agents feared it
>would be pronounceded - just like it was spelled, and so it was changed to
>Milanov.

I believe Zinka married a man named Milanov, and took the name as her stage
name, and kept it after the marraige ended.

[dtritter]

yes, and notwithstanding anything you read elsewhere, christoph prick is
the original name of some guy masquerading today as perick

dft

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[Ann Gulbrandsen]

John Lynch wrote in message <3AFEA647...@worldnet.att.net>...

>A supplement to Charlie's list:
>

>Francesca Rotondo (s)

Do you have any information on this singer? I heard a new
soprano by the name of Angela Rotondo, in Bellinis Il Pirata
here in Stockholm earlier this season. I would suspect that
they could be related.

Angela Rotondo was great BTW, (too bad the evenings
tenor went to the top of my list of worst performances by a
singer in any opera I've seen)

/Ann, who thought Angela Rotondo sounded like *the*
name for an opera diva

[Karen Mercedes]

I've always been tickled by Lily Pons - particularly since I've visited
the aquatic gardens named after her where they grow, you guessed it, water
lilies in ponds.

Other singer names that I can't help finding a little amusing are Inger
Dam-Jensen, Claes Ahnjso (a name I know is probably not at all
funny to Scandinavians), Amanda Roocroft, Hedwig Rummel (a name no doubt
not at all amusing to German-speakers),

Some more evocative names include Ian and Jennifer Partridge and Adrian
Peacock. Also Andrew Rutt, Peter Fog, Clara Butt, Peter Snipp, Mary
Plazas, Sharon Sweet, Iris Vermillion, and Evelyn Tubb.

And I can't help it - whenever I hear Alan Opie's name, I think of the
little red-haired, freckle-faced kid on the Andy Griffith Show.

Edward Higginbottom, not a singer but a conductor, is blessed with a
typically English "funny" name, as are Simon Rattle, Andrew Parrott and
David Honeyball.

Myung Whun Chung has a nifty ring to it. And I can't help thinking the
name "Goossens" is inherently amusing. Then there are pianist Keith
Swallow, guitarist Franz van Gurp, Viola da Gambist Freek Borstlap, the
family Wallfisch, and Oscar Shumsky (don't know why, but "Shumsky" makes
me giggle) - but now I'm getting way out of genre.

Give me time - I'll think of more.

KM
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[Matthew B. Tepper]

Herbert Witherspoon!

[Leonard Tillman]

Has any one noticed that a bunch of postings in this thread has suddenly
been replaced with a "this posting unavailable" -
screen?
What happened? Is someone at the servers "offended" by the rmo
opinions on the "funny names"?

Best, LT........
"Vuja De - the feeling that you have never
been here before!!"

[Evelyn Vogt Gamble (Divamanque)]

Are you sure it's not just problems with your news-server?
I was getting that, a few months back, when Earthlink's
news-server was having problems - not just on one thread -
it seemed as though half the recent postings were suddenly
"unavailable". The odd thing was, if I shut down the
computer and dialed in again, many of the previous
"unavailable or expired" messages were fully visible.

[Leonard Tillman]

That could be!! It seems our VARIOUS servers, isp's, and all -
still haven't ironed-out their various bugs!!
SO, let's expect posts not in order, and numerous other "glitches" -
which can be mighty annoying, unfortunately!
(Though, "may that be our GREATEST
problem" !!!)

Best, LT........
"I'm a tree surgeon -
I leave a box of Kleenex under
Weeping Willow's."

[CarriDiva]

Ferrucio Furlanetto....damn, now my tongue is in a knot.

[HenryFogel]

I missed some of this thread, but did someone mention Luisa Malagrida ("Bad
Cry")?

Henry Fogel

[PK]

Just as the conductor Christoph Prick had to change his name to start an
American career, three singers of old couldn't have dreamed of making
one in Poland : Hilde Zadek ("arse"), Georg Paskuda ("ugly") and Gladys
Kuchta ("dirty kitchenmaid"). But it's not necessarily so : Kurt Moll
(in French : "short and limp") is still beloved in France.

PK

[Leonard Tillman]

How about .... Herbert WITHERSPOON? ( maybe already mentioned...)

Best, LT........
"The economy is getting worse -
even the muggers are using 2nd-hand
blackjacks to lower their overhead!!"

[OmbraRecds]

> three singers of old couldn't have dreamed of making
>one in Poland : Hilde Zadek ("arse"), Georg Paskuda ("ugly") and Gladys
>Kuchta ("dirty kitchenmai

Is this the Kuchta that sang with the Met on tour?

pcb

[HenryFogel]

Not as much funny as tellingly appropriate was the name of the baritone Appollo
Granforte.

Henry Fogel

[GRNDPADAVE]

Musicianly names I love are:

Wolfgang Windgassen -- a perfect Wagnerite
Leo Blech -- not a blasé singer
Fritz Wunderlich -- illuminating
Laurel Hurley -- aromatic as fresh strawberries
Fritz Uhl -- No uhl like an old uhl

==G/P Dave

[Matthew B. Tepper]

grndp...@aol.com (GRNDPADAVE) wrote in
news:20010528123541...@ng-mm1.aol.com:

> Leo Blech -- not a blasé singer

But a pretty good conductor.

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[Beth Diane Garfinkel]

How about Roberto Alagna?

Beth

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