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My favourite lyric tenor , always melts me.

Oh my heavens, this is exquisite! To die for...

What a gem! As a huge Menotti fan, I would love to see the whole performance; don't know of any other TV production of "Amelia."

So good to hear singers with clear words. So often these days we have wordless vocalises..so boring!

Esecuzione esplosiva! Nella quale tuttavia si percepiscono distintamente tutte le linee che concorrono all'esplosione atomica della partitura più geniale di sempre! L'esecuzione di Rattle rende appieno lo sgomento che nel 1865 dovette destare l'irrompere di una simile musica dinamitarda nel fiacco esausto clima del secondo romanticismo. Solo un Bruckner e pochi altri dovettero cogliere appieno la portata di una simile opera, ed uscirne sgomenti e segnati per sempre. La presente esecuzione splendidamente anticlassica ci fa provare la emozione che dovette reggere lo stesso Wagner nel corso della creazione

Masterpiece!❤️

Thanks BCO I have never hear this recording. She is magnificent.

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Just amazing! She is an angel. I could have done without the heavenly choir and/or the dancers. She is all we need.

It is not just the diction, he had incredible compression in the vowels which makes all the consonants and vowels clarion and preserves the unique colour and character of his speaking voice. It is that "solidity" of sound that modern singers are generally incapable of capturing.

Great post Brian, while a fantastic performance from a genuine contralto who was, in her prime, at the greatness level of Kathleen Ferrier, Clara Butt and all the others. I was at this performance, while my impression was that it was given in 1984, even if I may be confusing it with those performances of The Trojan's that Lauris sang in (along with Phillip Langridge) under Mackerras in that year. With thanks nevertheless, while very best to you and Gerrie.

I remember him for his manly voice. Thank you Mr. Castles-Onion.

Very impressive. A very pleasant blast from the past.

批判的なコメントもあるようですが、個人的には好きなイゾルデです(≧▽≦) 古今東西のオペラで、もっとも美しい幕、この美しい演奏を無料で聴けるなんて、なんて良い時代なんでしょうか！

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What an amazing woman!!!

A force of nature!

Beautiful.

Magnificent, it was👏👏👏

Such virtuosity!

terfel‘s wolfram aria wonderful❤❤❤

Tú el honor de cantar a su lado Coro Maitea de San Sebastián y, coral de hombres Coral Loinaz de Beasain (Gipuzkoa) En la Iglesia de Santa María se (San Sebastián)

He was such a compelling artist - when onstage you couldn't take your eyes off him.

No matter which role she was playing she gave it everything she had...and more. We were so lucky to have her performances down in this part of the world as often as we did.

Thank you for posting. Mitchell a stunning soprano as always.

Classy

An age in which opera singers where “Great” singers and didn’t get on the stage just because of the colour of their skin!

wow.....amazing Leona

In my opinion,her voice is too young sounding for this. Its beautiful, but sounds wrong to me.

is it possible to publish the opera in its entirety pleaaaasr❤❤❤

Ahi que bonita dolcezza i Infinite

What a great voice Gedda had. I personally find it ridiculous to sing like this at the age of 70. You would be lucky not walking with a stick at that age let alone sing operas. His voice still maintained the same young and bright quality that he had his entire career. Just amazing. He really took good care of his instrument. Truly the maestro. Wonder if there will be one like him ever again.

Angelic! Her piano is incredible. Best voice ever.

Belleza pura, inigualable

❤maravilhosa!!!

The introduction is by newsreader,. Richard Baker - who toured in a lovely small scale show called 'Grand Tour to Melody' in 1988, featuring operetta from various countries.

It will be for ever: What Nicolai Gedda could - only Nicolai Gedda could. Even when he was 70.

Thank you for posting this, its wonderful.

It would be wonderful to hear this complete performance...

In the last years of her career, Dame Joan did not pivot to the standard Verdi repertoire, though this suggests to me it would have been a very good idea, since the center of her voice had naturally dropped a little.

Que la louange est belle!

Ray Arbizu is my grandpa! Thank you for uploading this.

Love the video Brian! Thanks so much for posting this song from 'Somewhere: The Magical Musical of Penrith' !!! Would you happen to have any other footage from this musical other than this extract? Would love to see the whole performance including the song that Tim wrote for Geraldine to sing. Love the version she did on her album from 2018.

Listening to all this, the parts are greater than the whole. Some nice moments, but really it's kind of a black and white tik-tok video version of Tristan. Davidson doesn't sound authentic. Tenor is on the downhill slope.. The King Marke is very nice.

what's that with the banana? what is this crap?

Also, do you have the rest of this concert, Brian?? 😍

Beautiful and lush, as always! I think this is my second favorite rendition of hers, right after that live 1967 one on RUclips. Her voice always had a melancholy quality that suits this aria perfectly. I wish she would’ve done Countess as her farewell, as originally planned, vs the small Marguerite role in Huguenots. But she knew herself, and probably thought Countess was too much, that late in her career.

She’s such a natural she makes it look easy x

Davidsen on her way to become a new Isolde, obviously.