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SATURDEE OPRY LINKS TABLE OF CONTENTS
updated 4/2025
(Note: links can expire, in which case, please search for the item in question. It will usually pop up on Youtube.)

1. Beginnings

2.
Courage Edition

3.
Grab Bag!

4. Baritenorial Edition

5. Forgotten Singers Edition

6. Flashmob Opera Vs. The Real Thing!

7. Caprice Edition

8. Comfort Edition!

9. Farewell to 2024 Edition

10. Bel Canto Edition!

11. Waltz Edition!

12. Neapolitan Songs!

13. Despair and Heartbreak Edition

14.  Meyerbeer Edition

15. Willy-Nilly Edition

16. Sheer Anguish Edition!

17. St. Patrick's Day/ John McCormack Special

18. Licia Albanese Tribute

19. Nicolai Gedda Special

20. Under-Appreciated Edition!

21. Pioneering African-American Sopranos

22. Rainy Day Edition

23. Plant-based Meat Product and Root Vegetable Edition

24. Farewell to Winky Edition

25. Christmas Edition

26. "Wild Anna" Netrebko Special

27. Baritone Special

28. Heroic Tenor Edition

29. Jules Verne Edition

30. All-Beauty Edition


31. Grab Bag

32. Montserrat Caballe Tribute

33. Grab Bag

34. Unbridled Emotion Edition

35. All Tenors Edition

36. Drinking Edition

37. Hot and Cool Edition

38. Aria for Aria's Sake

39. Recently Gone, Recently Returned

40. Mostly Neapolitan Songs!


41. "Rigoletto" Special!

42.  High/Low Edition

43. "La Clemenza di Tito" Special!

44. Somewhat Grigolo/Yoncheva Edition

45. Passover Edition!

46. Mostly Tenor Edition

47. St. Patrick's Day Edition 2

48. Mozart & Wagner Special

49. Goodbye, Carol; Hello, Sonya

50. Don't Forget Me Edition

51. Valentine's Day Heartbreak Edition

52. Quasi-Delibes Edition

53. Blow the Roof Off The Dump Edition

54. French Leave Edition

55. Farewell (Sniff) Edition

56. Christmas Edition!

57. Beethoven's Birthday Edition!

58. Invigorating Edition

59. Rosa Ponselle Special

60. Hvorostovsky Memorial

61. Grab Bag Edition

62. Good/Bad Production Edition

63. Run the Gamut

64. Quasi-Trousers Edition

65. Heroes and Heroines

66, All-hits

67. All-hits 2

68. All-hits 3

69: All Kinds of Sopranos

70. All Kinds of Tenors

71. Massenet Edition

72. Callas Vs. Other Sopranos

73. Summer Joy

74. Lesser Known

75. Semi-"Carmen" Special

76. Grab-bag

77. Tribute to the late Mirella Freni!

78. Bad Guys Edition

79. Fun Stuff Edition

80. Precious and Rare

81. Jaho, Hvorostovsky

82. All-Beauty Edition!

83. Farewell 2019!

84. Christmas Edition (2019)

85. Grab Bag Edition

86. "La Boheme" Handicap!

87. "Turandot" Handicap!

88. "Madama Butterfly" Handicap!

89. Boys and Girls Edition

90. Bel Canto Edition

91. All-Wagner Edition

92. One-Hit Wonder Edition

93. Forgotten Singer Edition

94. Grab-Bag Edition

95. Lieder Edition!

96. Gentle Edition

97. Dead and Living Edition

98. Look Back Edition

99. Grab Bag Edition

100. (!) "Tannhauser"/Barry White Edition!

101. Grab Bag Edition

102. Divertimento Edition!

103. Gedda Special 2!

104. Gone Too Soon Edition

105. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Edition

106. Hallowe'en Special!

107: 50-50 Edition

108: For the Hell of It Edition

109: "Tito" Special!

110: Gounod Special!

111. "It is to Weep" Edition

112. Luisa/Lucia Edition!

113. Italian Balcony Edition!

114. Krazy Kar Edition!

115. Tribute to Gianfranco Altavilla

116. Mario Lanza 100th Birthday Celebration!

117. Grab bag!

118. Pioneering African-American Male Opera Singers

119. Helluvit Edition, starring Jackie Wilson

120. Krazy Kar Edition!

121. Lockdown Edition

122. Forgotten Edition

123. French Edition

124. Grab bag!

125. Why Tenors?

126. Half-and-Half Edition (Lina Cavalieri and "I Puritani")

127. Gone But Not Forgotten

128. What Aria Gonna Do?

129. Crazy-Quilt Edition

130. Quasi-Di Stefano 100th Birthday Edition

131. Evil White Male Edition

132. Semi-Segue Edition

133. All-Beauty, Giacomini Tribute Special!

134. Op Hits/Pop Hits

135. Grab Bag!

136. Half-Assed Edition

137. Familiar/Unfamiliar Edition

138. Ukraine Edition

139. Ukraine P.S. Edition

140. Boffo Edition!

141. All-Beauty Edition

142. This-and-That Edition

143. All-"Manon" Edition

144. 
Types of Tenors     

145.  Mostly Czechs and Russians

144.
"Stuck in France"

145, Calming Edition

146. Grab Bag!

147. Pavarotti Smackdown!

148. Bizet & Puccini Edition

149. Slap-Happy Edition!

150. Solo/Tutti Edition

151. Quasi-Verismo Edition

152.
Bel Canto Edition

153. Mit Kraut!

154. Memorial Day Edition!

155. Heartbreak Edition

156. Grab Bag!

157. Bel Canto Edition

158. Fantastic Edition

159.
Delicacy and Poignancy

160. Sad Sopranos

161.
Thrills and Chills!

162. Valentine's Day!

DOZENS MORE ARCHIVED SATURDEE OPRY LINKS EDITIONS COMING SOON!
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