Opera houses might all be locked down for the moment but we can still enjoy opera and plan future trips. Here are some things we found interesting, entertaining or both.

Who is the 'B's knees?

Extremely dedicated YouTube-r, Rafael Araújo, has compiled this remarkable archive of clips of some of the world's great tenors battling it out to see who delivers the best High B (B4). Some of the archive material is extraordinary - and rather amusing.

Here is the line up with time codes. Who would be in your top ten?

Roberto Alagna (0:16)
Piotr Beczala (0:32)
Nicolai Gedda (0:47)
Jonathan Antoine (1:02)
José Carreras (1:18)
Mario Del Monaco (1:31)
Giuseppe Di Stefano (1:45)
Rolando Villazón (2:00)
Richard Tucker (2:14)
Jonas Kaufmann (2:29)
Alessandro Valente (2:39)
Giacomo Lauro-Volpi (2:56)
Alfredo Kraus (3:13)
Paul Potts (3:29)
Ramón Vargas (3:47)
Andrea Bocelli (3:59)
Franco Corelli (4:20)
Jussi Björling (4:35)
Giovanni Martinelli (4:53)
Plácido Domingo (5:08)
Mario Lanza (5:21)
Joseph Calleja (5:40)
Juan Diego Flórez (5:52)
Lawrence Brownlee (6:10)
Luciano Pavarotti (6:23)

 

And there's more!

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