What consummate beauty! The breath control, the legato line, the dynamics of light and shade, sensitively soft at times and that ability to "float" the high notes as if they were coming from Heaven and not herself! Bravissima! I very much doubt that Rossini ever heard this being sung like this and I doubt that we will ever hear another capable of singing this with such consummate beauty again.
@essevikt
Жыл бұрын
E vero!
@munequitodeebano3920
3 жыл бұрын
No doubt that in her peak years her voice was phenomenal. Wow my heart flies out of pleasure with her beautiful instrument.
@sillsforsinging
11 жыл бұрын
What a difficult aria and - yes, agreed - I doubt whether any other colaratura soprano has ever tried this or could emulate Sills. She's just exceptional as always. Thank you Maestrojimbo.
@mrturtle1128
7 жыл бұрын
She is sooooo extraordinary and not to forget her consistency, she sounded just alike her recordings!! reallllllyyyyyy greeeeatttt and so lucky this was captured on recording!!
@flyinghow
4 жыл бұрын
She was my introduction to opera when I was 17. I had studied classical piano since age 7 and didn't care for opera until I met a humanities teacher who told me I was tacky for saying so lol and proceeded to educate me about opera. She began with Sills and Traviata. OMG I was hooked! Her coloratura is just effortless. Of course I went on to explore other singers as well, but Sills remains in my heart tied for #1 with Leontyne. She is just brilliant here.
@kendn01
4 жыл бұрын
La Scala must have some pretty decent acoustics - Sills' voice just rings out over the audience...
@enfava
11 жыл бұрын
Outstanding performance for the best among the best. I miss her so much! Thanks Maestrojimbo for this piece of jewelry.
@petelovesbevsills
13 жыл бұрын
@undeuxtroisquatreish How absolutely extraordinary and almost beyond belief! YOU worked with 'Tommy' way back in 1969 but according to your profile were born 8 years after Beverly's debut. That really is quite fascinating to say the least! I'm sure even Beverly and Tommy would be fascinated to know how you did that! You can mark me down as flabbergasted and dying of curiosity too.
@maestrojimbo
13 жыл бұрын
You are SOOOOOOO correct. Thanks for visiting.
@glgree1
Жыл бұрын
Exquisite!~
@operabilia
11 жыл бұрын
Well, either on EJS, LR, Robin Hood and so on, I should still have the LPs somewhere. On pirate discs that's what I had meant. But it's truly amazing, her PPP were just haunting ...
@MrAndredekock
13 жыл бұрын
@petelovesbevsills Pete I love the subtle edge of sarcasm here! But you certainly would do as Sherlock's successor! Well done.
@petelovesbevsills
13 жыл бұрын
@MrAndredekock Thanks Andre! It transpires he made a mistake when he entered his birth year on KZitem and was in actual fact in his early twenties when his mother sang with our Beloved Beverly at la Scala. Subtle sarcasm and sleuth work are both specialities!! ;-D!
@sevoflurane
12 жыл бұрын
When one reads statements like undeuxtroisquatreish 's, one really realizes human possibilities have no limit!
@FotografoMuscle737
3 жыл бұрын
Thomas Schippers conducting, not Carlo Franci
@operabilia
11 жыл бұрын
Why rare? I don't know, this has been already released on live LPs! Anyway, it's sumptuous, so thanks for the post.
@randysills4418
7 жыл бұрын
Does anybody have more of this performance that could be downloaded? Was this one of the performances that she sang with Marilyn Horne?
@myrabyanka5442
2 жыл бұрын
Verrett on recording
@petelovesbevsills
12 жыл бұрын
I'm in total agreement!! LOLOLOL!! :-))
@maestrojimbo
13 жыл бұрын
@undeuxtroisquatreish You might want to examine the back of your hand again! I just found my other L'Assedio - this IS the debut recording with the same intonation flaws, the same audience cough after she begins the aria at 3:36 and the same loud bravas which almost interrupt her last note. No doubt about it - mystery solved!
@tonywrestles2
11 жыл бұрын
And then, of course, there was the problem with the costume... :grin:
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