Hello! My name is Bob Rideout and I am a retired Information Technology executive, who lives in Brooklyn. Music, especially opera, lieder and piano, have absorbed my interest for most of my life, and their performance histories, (especially vocal) have become a consuming pastime for the last ten. I have contributed to the British journal, The Record Collector, and have written several other articles for publication in France and Italy. If music were not my first love, I'd be devoting all of this nervous energy to articles on my second passion, tennis, and the colorful characters who have defined its fascinating and eccentric history. Enough about me! My singers are infinitely more interesting.