The arias he wrote for this character are simply exquisite--and Sills put her forever imprimatur upon them. She sings them as beautifully as they could possibly be sung.
@tenisfin
4 жыл бұрын
Baby Doe's other arias are more famous, but to me, this is the best one. Reduces me to a puddle every time.
@dianeforti8696
4 жыл бұрын
Me too. Chills from the very first note.
@williamgraham9309
Жыл бұрын
Having directed Baby Doe the ending left me speechless. I don't understand why the Met has never produced this. A true story it has everything for audiences to relate to.
@David11643
3 жыл бұрын
When she (reluctantly) auditioned for the role, the composer listened to her singing Baby Doe's arias, and said 'Miss Sills, you ARE Baby Doe'.
@DLJ2890
3 жыл бұрын
Perfection, glorious singing.
@glgree1
4 жыл бұрын
One of the most truly romantic blending of words and music!
@copperleaves
5 жыл бұрын
The woman was MAGNIFICENT!
@petelovesbevsills
13 жыл бұрын
Beverly said she used to get very emotional when she sang this. I can understand, it is just the most beautiful aria ever sung by the the most competent of Baby Doe's! Brava Beverly and Bravo Kestal !!!!XXXXXXXX!!!
@kgarmaker123
12 жыл бұрын
You are right.. and I prefer Sills ... always have and as Baby Doe she is just incomparable.
@marioncapriotti1514
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely glorious performance. Beverly Sills was one of our greatest artists, love her so much. And I especially notice her ability to sing this role perfectly, without compromising her American accent -- which was obviously exactly right for Baby Doe. [So many American opera singers adopt British English pronunciations when singing in English (eliminating hard-R middles and endings to words, softening "ing"-endings, etc.) Sills bravely sings "Sound the battle's loud alaRms (not "alahms, as so many singers do), any foes I shall withstand; in the circle of his aRms (not "ahms") I am safe, in Beulah-land!"]
@kgarmaker123
13 жыл бұрын
Beverly Sills inhabited this role from this opera.. She gives me goosebumps when she sings this music.
@RonWylie-gk5lc
7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, what a wonderful talent she was, we are so lucky
@MingoWayama
2 жыл бұрын
Like many of you, I regard this as my favorite aria in all of opera. I never had the chance to hear her sing it live, but I did get to hear sing all three of the leading female roles in a performance of Tales of Hoffman in Cincinnati, and I discovered something else remarkable about Beverly Sills: she was a superb actress. As Olympia, the automaton, as Giuletta, the courtesan, and as Antonia, the obsessed ingenue dying of consumption - very dissimilar roles - she was completely believable in each role.
@williamarndt9465
2 жыл бұрын
I saw Sills in recital twice. So I never saw her in Baby Doe. However, I saw the 1965, 1995, 2005, and 2015 anniversary productions at Central City, where the piece premiered. This last scene reduces me to a puddle.
@ethanhill9738
6 жыл бұрын
Moore and Sills will remain paired forever. An almost odd choice of subject matter for any artistic authorship brought to prominence by one particular voice, a potent voice, a pretty voice.
google Horace Tabor and google Baby Doe to discover who these peeps were. This opera is based on a true story, a tragically, bittersweet true story !
@barbaramillard4049
8 жыл бұрын
I went to the opera some years ago looking for an album or something about the opera. Nothing. I heard they are going to do it next summer. Would love to go
@willworkforwages
8 жыл бұрын
+Barbara Millard There is a website devoted to the opera. It can be found at babydoe.org Lots of information and pics there. This full-length recording can be purchased on Amazon.com, ebay, and elsewhere. The original was on vinyl but was issued in 1999 as a CD set. Sills wasn't the first Baby Doe, but in my opinion she will always be the best.
@RonWylie-gk5lc
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you from me too, I did find some things but this is far better
@cosagen
13 жыл бұрын
i love these kind operas. wish they were standards.
@thedoeguy
8 жыл бұрын
By the way, the original 1959 recording of the opera was done IN ONE TAKE, just as if it were a performance.
@richardhastings6082
6 жыл бұрын
For which the cast were paid a couple of hundred dollars each.
@ykaiilah
13 жыл бұрын
Horace at 1:30, hubba, hubba!!! I wonder when Ghost Adventures will investigate the Tabor-Doe town.
@rebeccafarleysings
12 жыл бұрын
I believe that's John LaTouche, the librettist. Hunky!
@generalboy30
12 жыл бұрын
Tha's not Horace. That's John LaTouche, the librettist. All the same, he did die rather suddenly.
@willworkforwages
13 жыл бұрын
@ykaiilah You can contact wwwdotbabydoedotorg to inquire about past or future ghost hunting at the Tabor Opera House, the Clarendon Hotel, and the Matchless Mine.
@exsultet1274
12 жыл бұрын
This should come with a warning: seriously habit-forming! It is impossible for me to tell how to assign the credit for that effect, whether Moore's writing or Sill's performance. Who cares anyway; it's great.
@kgarmaker123
13 жыл бұрын
@Liu666able Yes I do, Sills was incomparable in this music and she was NEVER flat, you flatulatent creep. And please do not talk about motion in the voice.. Sutherland had a huge wobble.
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