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Beautifully sung by Mrs Homer: no frills, curlicues and furbelows such as are heard nowadays, but just the noble tune, well phrased and humbly interpreted. And how nice to hear a second of the four verses, stanzas that are never sung due to folks not knowing the text. Thank you, Manoli!

Callas had such a dramatic voice! What a treasure this is! I love Sutherland's version the best, but I'd have to give Callas a close second.

It's wonderful, dear Manoli, thank you.

Dear Manoli.Your South Carolina's half part is very alive and specially on the fourth of July.Congratulations on your day..And as you always say ,you like to change voices in your presentations.This time a contralto.But not any contralto.One that was once considered by many sopranos one of the most beautiful voices of her time.She married a composer Sidney Homer and became a specialist in Verdi and Wagner.Apparently she sang also outside America but specially in Chicago, California,Boston,she was an active member of the Metropolitan.And then my favourite part,Samuel Barber was her nephew.After that she has all my respect.🎉🎉🎉 The thirties marked the time when she slowly left singing,before starting the Second World War. Patriotism.Well to express it every one can have his or her favourite.Even Whitney Houston was elected to sing the anthem. But this is Manoli S.and here it is Homer.Lovely Manoli.Here in Spain we're not celebrating anything.But it fills me with joy and happiness to have heard this and I toast to you all. Interesting Lady.With a nephew to DIE FOR...❤

I've just been quarreling a little about Verret as Lady Macbeth.When I see this amongst your publishings. She is phenomenal in all dramatic roles.She was born for them.And Abbado is key directing her because exactly how to get the nectar from the flower.The tessitura is also the correct one as in Lady Macbeth.And above all she acts well,she moves well,even when she has to walk side to side a scenery wearing a long cape or gown. Verret you are delightful and have performed very difficult parts with the same level of perfection from the fifties up to the seventies.Which isn't easy AT ALL.❤

Love Bubbles and love Gus great singers and people

Legend.

Dear Beverly.I never thought I could be so hooked on you.I need to listen to you everyday.Always when sunset arrives,looking at the ⛵ sea. My whole neighbourhood transforms.A couple that always quarrel were seen by me the other day holding hands with their eyes shut.I open my window and listen to you with high volume and immediately other windows open.My cat who doesn't like music comes to my room and cuddles those almost nine minutes and sighs. When the ❤️ beautiful melody ends he always looks at me for more.And I tell him everyday.Tomorrow again... There's no point in losing the magic.And then he goes out for a stroll just to assimilate the magic...I ll thank you forever Manoli❤🎉 Sills is from another world and is able to take me there those almost nine minutes a day.

If that “re in alt” had been a slap, Mario would have had to wear a body sling for the rest of the night! No-for 2 weeks!

The proper way to sing Bel Canto

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Charming lady! Thank you, dear friend.

This a curious case.When you have a real Diva having a go at a wicked, sexy little song,you have something precious. As precious was Satie himself, specially when he composed his magnificent pieces for the piano. But he was a French man and sometimes he got devilish and decided to compose other less ethereal pieces like this one.Talking about the life of a girl who triumphed in the Empire,a naughty place for men in Picadilly ,London.. The song or aria in this particular case,reveals what she had to do to keep men excited.The sexy words the moving of petticoats, always trying to amuse but never going to far. Of course this is completely innocent nowadays and it takes us to the beginning of the Twentieth century when every bad thought was almost a sin. Cute deja vu of those times of cabarets and double sense words.Incredible interpretation of this wonderful singer that lifts it to a point it can meet Manoli s expectations.. Fun and ❤️ beautiful.This is a curious piece to relax from the last,so solemn and sad. Thank you Manoli for being so amusing selecting your favourites.

She was my absolute favorite when I started listening to opera singers in the 80s as a voice major at the U of Illinois. I had the most amazing gift of being able to tell her what an inspiration she was to me and to hug her!! She was being honored at a gala at the Lyric Opera of Chicago when I was a supplementary chorus member - I couldn't let the chance pass me by! She patted my cheek and said "Bambina" - I'll never forget it!!

Puccini's only bass aria? Such a shame he never write a great mezzo scene either. This is beautifully sang with aching vocal colour.

She is amazing but the famous orchestra is a mess!

A great bass and a multitalented artist. Thank you, dear Manoli.

What a luscious rich voice.You said it the other day when talking for appropriate voices in the Don Giovanni case. This aria is the saddest one of ALL.I mean because there's no war or mythology going with it. It's something that could happen to any of us. The farewell to a friend. Colline was in love with the good clothes he still kept.Above all his overcoat.This is something very french.If good it's better old than new.Although the mise en scene might have changed through the years,he holds it like a baby in his arms and strokes it.They have gone a long way together.Wearing it he never bowed in front of power or money.But he let other pholosophers or young guys touch it and find nothing in its cave long empty pouches. It's a love aria for me from your beloved Puccini.The overcoat will reach a mountain he will not climb. It's wonderful when you present a less popular aria that makes us love the opera more. For me La Boheme is mainly the two presentation arias. This is a marvel too.And a beautiful way of homaging your important tessitura.With one of your favourite basses. Thank you Manoli.Again you have managed to touch my heart inmensely.

The music. 😮 Verdi was a dramatic genius. That ending. The ominous sound of those repeated bars. 🤯

Very nice

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Époustouflant ! Un grand moment.

It may sound weird, but when I was a kid, listening to Melchior singing "Nothung!" and acting it out was among my very favorite fantasy playtimes. Yes, I grew up in a very strange family setting where Classical Music in general and Wagner in particular were everywhere around. It might have been this exact recording. "Nothung!" on one side and "Winterstürme on the other of an old 78 rpm record....with a Deutsche Grammophon Gesselschaft label.

Leo NUCCI, nettement supérieur. Quant à Cotrubas sa note finale est très écourtée

I saw him in several of his greatest roles and he was the absolute best bass I have heard in almost 60 years of opera attendance. He had a magnificent voice, superb technique, impressive acting skills [for an opera singer], and was usually the handsomest person on the stage as well which helped his character work seem real.

The best mezzo there ever was! This is the bar that every mezzo should try to reach.

The One ❤

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Gobbi was a treasure and chose his roles Berry wisely. E.S. was not one of my favorite pure lyric soprano like Cotrubas.. But our Maya did say that Motzart required big voices even for Donna Elvira. But wouldn't we simply die die without Mozart? Great post thank you my friend

Outstanding performance! Thank you, dear friend.

Gobbi sounds absolutely great.He specialized in Mozart's operas during a time of his life, although his first marvellous actuation was in Bellini s La Sonnambula. Brothey in law to Boris Cristoph they looked for the possibility of singing together whenever they could. He was a scene director,made 25 films,you name it. I don't know if you prefer Siepi,but this is one of those hateful questions,I know. Here he sounds fantastic.They all do even being an old recording.Specially at the very colourful ending of this Don Giovanni's first act.Postures when many people sing are essential as you know and all the voices come out clearly and beautiful without any sound pollution. Very nice Manoli and very good conservation of it all.I m not a great fan of German operas although Mozart I believe has a category of his own away from Wagnerism.

An extract from perhaps the greatest performance of Don Giovanni that was given in the XXth century. Schwarzkopf's Elvira is more lyrical and less of a termagant than it later became, and she sings as beautifully as it was possible for her to do; an achievement also upheld by Erich Kunz, which this august gentleman did not always bother to do. My beloved Seefried sings like an angel here, and Dermota is not actively offensive. Welitsch achieves the near impossible by portraying Anna as a nervous young girl rather than a hectoring, superannuated hochdramatisch; but unfortunately, if a pig were to be granted the ability to sing, it would not sound dissimilar to Alfred Poell. Gobbi's Don is not only destined for the inferno, he seems to have come from there already, with his snarling and blatant contempt for the people surrounding him; the complete opposite of Siepi's dissembling suavity. If devils could sing, they would sound like Gobbi. Furtwängler leads all with a sure hand, and the Wiener Philharmoniker follow him with an inner glow and an outer fire that are fully worthy of this greatest of all operas. Thank you, Manoli!

Lovely Montse of my heart.Here you were hidden,and I hadn't found you. Donizetti was made for you and you for Donizetti.All his English Queens and above all his Lucretia Borgia.I ll always miss you dearly,my friend.

This is my favorite version...! Nothing else compares.

Brilliant seen and heard Samuel at Covent Garden in this role concert performance with June Anderson Marilyn Horne fantastic never to be forgotten

This is the best version of this aria. Thank you so much for sharing. Miss. Marshall certainly has an amazing voice, and the musicality's accuracy surpasses so many in this repertoire. Thanks again!

The best! The clarity!

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This opera is incredible difficult!!!💪❤️

With her there's no problem with not placing the notes and the words while doing the florituras.That became an obsession to Rossini and therefore to Maya.But Sills is impeccable.What a decent approach to the Master s rules.The sad fact is that there are people who can sing like that and people who can't and fake it.Good for you Sills.

All this reminds me a lot to the masterclasses of Maria Callas at Julliard in 1971.I had the tapes and she always sung the arias after she had heard the pupils and made the corrections.What is rude is the fact of having a laugh or making comments.That is something Maya didn't allow,of course.Beautiful Donizetti, incredible interpreter...

This artist is very important and not well known in Europe. She's devastating.Her coloratura,her control in the steadiness of voice.I m absolutely impressed.What a diva,what a contained and miraculous godess.

Ultimately there are some experts that have insinuated that Enrico and Lucia were two mentally ill people.I don't think so nor do I believe that was Donizetti s idea when creating both parts.In any case they sing so well I wouldn't even care.So I toast to the family of Lammermoor in either case. What a way to sing.Marvellous.

Surpassing, sublime. Artistry like this is so uplifting... one's life is better after experiencing it. Beverly at her finest -- and that wonderful horn solo! Not to mention Bellini's magical orchestration; his use of the harp is so ethereal. One hears the influence he had on Chopin, unmistakably! This aria is like a Chopin nocturne (or, really, vice-versa).

Great performance! Thank you, dear Manoli.

Being a mad fan of Caballé s pianissimos,I must say she sings them fantastically. Caballé loved to show off in O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni S.by Puccini.