Thursday 29 September 2011

A well written posting on Soviet Tenors

SAVt wrote about Vlasov:
Vlasov started his way in the Theater as a soloist of the first row, but then turned out being practically irreplaceable in many second-row roles, because of that not gaining the fame and recognition his talant deserved
A row tenor!  SAVT praises his English language skills!

Wednesday 28 September 2011

Lorenzo Abrunedo (1836-1904) Cylinder

This was stolen by Arakelyan from the website Historical Tenors  to put on his YouTube Channel.  Of course Arakelyan did not mention that.   I wish to thank Historical Tenors  for pointing that out to me.

Tuesday 27 September 2011

Delfin Pulido

Arakelyan is promoting a double CD of Pulido.  Many recordings are unknown as being sung by Pulido.  Unfortunately for Arakelyan, it has been proven by the two surviving sons of Pulido that those recordings are not by Pulido.  What a crook!

Sunday 25 September 2011

Where did Arakelyan announce his blog

Arakelyan, ak Stefan among others, is so desperate to sell that he posted on following groups:
colatura, historic opera board, phantom of the opera, opera-sell, opera=l, russian records, GMG Classical Music Forum, gheorghiuandalagna, rec.music.opera, alt . collecting . records, Blogger-Index, humanities . .music . composers . wagner, Enrico Tamberlik, youtube Giovanni6091's Channel, puccinisitaly · Puccini's Italy - The 1st club for lovers of Puccini's music,, zakaria trial, 78-c · For collectors of early sound recordings to buy/sell or trade vintage recorded music,russianoperaclub, Primal Labs, bassflava.comarmeniansworld.com,.123people.it,, theshellacattack · The Shellac Attack - 78 RPM Collectors Meet Here For Record Talk! , twikeo.com,, cylinders · Cylinder recordings, edisonsvintagerecords · Edisons Vintage Records - Antique Edison Buy's and Sell's Vintage Records, tenores · Para los amantes de la opera, etc

Buying from arakelyan

Do not buy from Arakelyan,  you can get the same files for free when exchanging with Historical Tenors

The Soviet Tenors site

I went to visit that site because I was insulted by the owner and the review I read about him on  Historical Tenors.
The funny review is on The ballad of Igot and the Soviet Tenors
I visited some of his so called biographies, they are completely simplistic, almost meaningless and seem to have been written by an uneducated person.
For better information with references visit Historical Tenors.

Arakelyan Carasa entry on Forgotten Opera Singers Blog

This entry is very funny.  Arakelyan cannot spell his name right.  He does not state that he got the picture from the New York Times.  Carasa had a very short career due to his lack of proper training and starting to sing around 20/21 years old roles like Canio.
Unfortunately Arakelyan could not copy from Kutsch & Riemens,  because there is no entry. in the reference.
Site with the correct information  Historical Tenors

Saturday 24 September 2011

Arakelyan and The Forgotten Opera Singers Blog

From below one can only conclude that Arakelyan is an Anti-Semite.

This site was opened in August by one Ashot Arakelyan.  The purpose of the site is to publish short biographies of decesased and forgotten singers with pictures and list of records Arakelyan wants to sell.  It also has per singer a snippet of a recording.

Almost everything is copied from the site of Mr. Marcocci or Kutsch and Riemens but without mentionning the reference to show the origin, one has to assume,  that Arakelyan is really the author.

Pictures are also taken from other places without reference (Harmonie Autographs, Historical Tenors, University of Frankfurt, etc ...). 

Arakelyan announced this website all over the place, including Opera-L.  His posting on opera-L drew following answer from Bill Ecker:

A quick  note on this blog.  The fellow who runs this blog is using it to sell cd's of his record collection and makes no bones about it on the blog. Therefore, I believe his post goes against the rules and regulations of the list, as it is a commercial post.  He had also had poached about 30-40% of the photographs on his site from my business web-site and other sites where we are often asked to provide photographs and they had been given fair credit.  I wrote to him and asked him to give the photographs fair credit and if so told him he could continue using them.  I also told him that if he needed photographs in the future, for fair credit, we would be happy to provide them.  The e-mail I sent was explanatory and fair; <B>instead I received a hostile e-mail and he angrily removed the photographs</B>, which was his second option.....
He apparently is located in Russia and based upon my experience, caveat emptor.

B.
The information copies the errors of Kutsch & Riemens as Arakelyan has no research abilities. The information on Pera, Galli Garulli Carasa, .. contain major errors.

I read some negative comments on his blog.  The were quickly removed by Arakelyan instead of answering.  Arrakelyn does not like any bad comments, his ego would not   allow it.

 In short do not trust all the information for any singer.  The information will give you an idea of the career of the singer. Also not providing a  complete recording of a singer is very cheap.  The main goal of this blog is to sell!!!
I noticed that on opera-sell announced that he was selling a CD of Oxilia and for the biographical information, he used a text from the website Historical Tenors with fair credit.  The CD was sold for $30.00.  This CD was given to him by the owner of Historical Tenors free of charge.  I sent him an email telling him that I would notify the owner of the website.  I received following email back:

Re: [OPERA-SELL] FOR SALE - CD OF TENOR GIUSEPPE OXILIA (1861-1919)
FROM:Ashot Arakelyan
TO: Samuel Goldenstein
Monday, 5 September 2011 12:45 AM
Message Body
Yes fucking jew Samuel Goldenstein the dude is your fucken Mother, you don't like when I post something  you  sucker jew. Yes it's I post in other sites and groups and also in russian records mather fucker. Suck my dick. 

So Arakelyan is to regarded as a disturbed Internet nut. 
He is also befriended with a certain SAVT, who has a website on Soviet Tenors, who use the same research technique: copy from Russian sites and do not give fair credit to your sources.  It is more difficult to find it out with Igor as all sources are in Russian.  
I met SAVT also on opera-sell as he wanted me to copy 7 Paprocki LPs on CDs, in exchange he proposed material that I refuse because I had it.  Naturally I was called stupid.

 Arakelyan has no LPs, 78s, but only mp3 that he received free charge.  He is not to be trusted like his friend Igor.  They are both dishonest.