This is GOOD SINGING!!!!! There are barely any of the younger generation of sopranos active today who can sing this well.

@VinylToVideo

Жыл бұрын

Singers today generally lack an internal life so therefore externally project nothing.

What's most amazing is how she doesn't break those many long-breathed phrases that so many younger sopranos routinely do. Admittedly, she takes it at a quicker tempo than some, but even so, she's shaping it all with extremely impressive breath control--especially for a septuagenarian.

extraordinaire.

My first Butterfly.

There are barely any of the younger generation of sopranos active today who can sing this well. Kirsten was a phenomenon who was treated atrociously by the Met. May she rest in peace.

@tobiasandrews3778

5 жыл бұрын

They did the same thing to Amara. The Met hates the truth and these women sang with ALL the truth. Kirsten’s voice was indeed a phenomenon; a perfectly placed voice.

@EmilyGloeggler7984

3 жыл бұрын

You Jason Hurd are such a hateful and ignorant coward and hypocrite. Your not worth listening to until you actually either follow the Bible or mature - ideally both.

@esterbruno8604

3 жыл бұрын

@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Coward and hypocrite? Why? Any good reason for such hate? He's taking respect for her as a person, and he didn't say any bad word about her. So why is he hateful? Did he call her bitch? Your is an unjustified hate against everyone and everything.

@michaelvaccaro3129

2 жыл бұрын

Licia Albanese was also not treated well by the "Met" after 25 years of singing at the Met.

@beachfanatic2010

4 ай бұрын

Back in those days especially when Bing was there I feel like they had something against lighter voiced sopranos. If Dorothy would be at the Met today she would be considered a dramatic soprano lol. But back then there were so many big voiced sopranos and Tebaldi was the queen of the Met that the smaller voices were comprimario.

I saw her in concert when I was 12 years old. Later I read her autobiography and learned so much.

just amazing!

She sounds like she’s TWENTY ONE! Amazing!!!

@correasilvio2010

3 жыл бұрын

No, she's Born in 1910, this vídeo from 1981.

@manolis.799

3 жыл бұрын

@@correasilvio2010 I know... I’m just saying she sounds good!

She's actually 66 - born in 1910 - 5 years earlier than she stated in her autobiography.

Dorothy Kirsten (July 6, 1910, Montclair, New Jersey - November 18, 1992, Los Angeles, California)

Phenomenal. And at 71!!!

This is miraculous! What a beautiful performance, and at 71? I've heard that if you are taught correct technique you can sing into your 70s. There is a video on KZread with Lily Pons at 76 sounding wonderful. Also, I've seen a video of Russian bass Mark Reizen singing an excerpt from Eugene Onegin at the age of 90. He doesn't sound like a young man, but his singing is quite good and I've never seen an audience listen with such awe and respect.

Hoooly cooooow! Watch and learn young generation!

Better interpretation, without that bad problem of vocal overacting. Simple and clean. Good job!

@KajiVocals

9 ай бұрын

This is because she studied this role with the composer himself.

Beautiful and moving.

The orchestra sounds so strong and her singing is really full and normal. There is so weird sliding nor faux pianissimo.

She's actually 65 years old here. This was recorded in 1975.

@operalass

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know what it's from?

@operalass

4 жыл бұрын

I mean the TV appearance, of course, not the aria :-)

@correasilvio2010

3 жыл бұрын

No, this recording from 1981, TKS!

@jeffreymiller4814

3 жыл бұрын

rvmorrissey No this is later. She sang this very high lying aria IN KEY as late as 1978 at the San Francisco Adler Gala (in the powder blue dress). Here in 1981 she took it down a half step. She would have definitely been singing this in key of it were 1975. She always gave her birth year as 1917. She finally “admitted” to 1915 at the time of the Adler Gala and her last Met Tosca in 1979. When she died in 1992 we were all shocked to find out she was born in 1910. After all the press raving about Magda Olivero (also born in 1910) singing her 1975 Met Tosca at age 65, we finally realized Dorothy Kirsten was singing Manon Lescaut (!!!!) that same year at the same age. Her broadcast with John Alexander is riveting. She gave 110% all afternoon, and had very little singing voice left after she gave everything she had in the big final aria (which was incredible). Of course since Manon is weak and dying she made it all work perfectly. Few even realized there was anything amiss. The audience went ballistic at the final curtain. She was one of the greatest American sopranos in history. What a career.

wow!!!!

Amazing

The voice and figure of youth! Beautiful and moving.

@EmilyGloeggler7984

4 жыл бұрын

ChristainSTARS Voice yes, figure.. no.

WOW

What placement! Not bad at all.

@silvr94

4 жыл бұрын

let's hope "this is opera" and his disciples don't read this LOL

@manolis.799

3 жыл бұрын

@@silvr94 best not to engage with those types...

@jasonhurd4379

3 жыл бұрын

@@manolis.799 Indeed, especially considering there is one already lurking around here...😮

@manolis.799

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonhurd4379 Baba Yaga is near!

@jasonhurd4379

3 жыл бұрын

@@manolis.799 Beware!