Now here was a performance! Tonal perfection, brilliant phrasing and what a STUNNING voice! Bravissima!!

Very underated artist!!! Beautifully sung!

Florence Quivar was one of the greatest singers in the modern golden age at the Metropolitan Opera. Her Ulrica is magnificently sung---A glorious voice that lends itself to Verdi's drematic music

@rememberourmusic53

8 жыл бұрын

+Herman Joseph Happy Birthday to Florence Quivar born on this date in 1944.

Ulrica is one of the greatest operatic creations. A woman of incredible supernatural power, which Verdi immortalised with this genius aria.

This lady is criminally underrated.

@richardvergara

4 жыл бұрын

TSquared2001 Are you talking about James Levine? :-)

@xxsaruman82xx87

3 жыл бұрын

Much better than Cossotto IMO.

@BM-ur4je

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely !! unbelievable, how relatively little is written about her in the American entertainment media compared with other less stellar performers - barely anywhere. Just became re-acquainted with her glorious voice recently watching the full Un Ballo during the Met weekly streams during the pandemic. This copy doesn't come close to the original Met recording where her lush mezzo to contralto full range is beautifully displayed. In my humble opinion she easily matches -in fact at times exceeds - even Pavarotti's huge volume & depth with ease to my utter amazement. Will be looking up her recordings.

@michaelstrelosmith

3 жыл бұрын

Criminally underrated is almost an understatement. THIS is perfection.

@charlesdotson4766

2 жыл бұрын

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Yes,I agree. Cossoto's rendition is decent, but Florence Quivar is extraordinary and has a soulful depth, conviction, richness, and intensity that could only come from the Divine realms. Its mesmerizing every time I hear it!

Love this rendition. SO much darkness and color.

what a fantastic performance and voice. why the public didn't shout: BRAVOOO?? The best Ulrica I ever heard in youtube!!

absolutely amazing. NO words. A powerful contralto.

@thomasgraham4837

5 жыл бұрын

Santiago Garzón k

She's great! Amazing, incredible voice!

Magnifica interpretación.!!

JUST FANTASTIC, BRAVA !!!!

La divinissima, strong and convincing with warm and sultry dramatic tones . Thank you

Thoroughly fantastic.

This is my favourite Ulrica. Eccezionale.

What a glorious sound!

WTF?? That audience should have gone crazy for that aria?? What's up with that tiny applause??!!

@TheAWGemini

5 жыл бұрын

Shock! Lol

She kept nothing back...she left it all on stage for us to savor. Thank you Ms. Quivar. I was transported. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@rememberourmusic53

8 жыл бұрын

+K Oliver Happy Birthday to Florence Quivar born on this date in 1944.

Can't get enough of that!

You better sing that! I saw her do this role at the Met in 1997 with Pav, Voigt and Pons.

Yes. Wonderful and underrated!! I would love to hear her Azucena, Amneris, Dalila, Fides and other dramatic mezzo parts. Seems like Ulrica low G scratches her bottom abilities... :-)

@nicholasprakash3411

2 жыл бұрын

Cenerentola as well.

Thats probably the best I've ever heard this aria done!!! What control and beautiful lower register, good acting too!! Mezzos dont sing like this anymore. Brava

Impresionante voz, absolutamente maravillosa.!!!

This is by far the best rendition of this wonderfully dramatic aria: smooth phrasing not allowing the words (though they were clear) to take over Verdi's truly GREAT aria. The octave jumps were incredibly implemented with no break anywhere in the air column; the intensity remained the same on each of them. I would have loved to have heard this 'live', but alas too late. AND the Met Orchestra displayed its usual excited accompaniment matching the vibrant sounds of the voices. But with such a great conductor this is no surprise!!!!!

Amazing Personally my favourite Ulrica whats not to love!

Absolutley incredible, soaring powerful top and lush rumbly bottom. Beautiful.

Florence Quivar is just unbelievable!! Going comfortably from folk songs and spirituals to Verdi operas..... she is truly beyond words!!! I've greatly admired her for quite a while, now. Do you have this full performance of this opera, with Quivar? I would love to see the full performance.

@charlesdotson4766

2 жыл бұрын

As a young singer in the 80s, I was introduced to the great artistry and voice of Florence Quivar! She has one of the most heartfelt, rich, exciting, and beautiful mezzo soprano operatic voices I've had the privilege of hearing in my lifetime! Just extraordinary everytime I hear it!

the audience should be ashamed, anywhere else the crowd would have gone nuts, do they even realise how hard a good contralto is hard to come by, this is quiver at her best , one of the best re dell abbisso i have ever heard

Happy Birthday to Florence Quivar born on this date in 1944.

Maestro incrível!!!

Masterrrrrrrrrr! !!!!

Florence Quivar has one of the most amazing mezzo voices in the business. As we all know in classical music POC don't get their roses first.

@thomasgraham4837

5 жыл бұрын

Catiriana Reyes k

@charlesdotson4766

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are correct! Florence Quivar is one of the great operatic artists to emerge from that era that included the likes of Leona Mitchell, Kathleen Battle, Barbara Hendricks, Jessye Norman, Roberta Alexander, Isola Jones, and Harolyn Blackwell.

I remember her singing the Angel in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius at the Royal Albert Hall. How fabulously she sang it!

Awesome every time I watch it!

Florence Quivar together with Jessye Norman and Shirley Verrett were freaks of nature. Florence could sing just about anything from dramatic mezzo roles like Dehlilah to contralto roles like Ulrica to coloratura mezzo and coloratura soprano roles of Amina in La Sonambula wtf. We know she shined as a Spinto as Bess and Serena. For this reason Zajick, Fleming and Audra McDonald said she was among the best. Thats some Joan Sutherland Maria Callas type of ish.

@rememberourmusic53

8 жыл бұрын

+Will 2 Happy Birthday to Florence Quivar born on this date in 1944.

@randysills4418

4 жыл бұрын

Jesse Norman died today...September 30, 2019...

she is amazing! I had the great good fortune of singing in a production of Mahler's Das Klagende Lied in 1989 (or 1990?) with the NY Philharmonic and Florence Quivar .. she was just spine tingling.. what a gorgeous voice and brilliant talent :)

@randysills4418

4 жыл бұрын

I saw her as Brangane in Tristan Und Isolde in 1986 or 1987 and she was outstanding! I will not comment about the Isolde...except she was over voiced and couldn't sing in tune after the first act!

ICONIC

Zenaida Pally.! She is the one and only in this aria !

u betta sing that low G

@Whemsical

7 жыл бұрын

i laughed too hard at this

Magnficent singing - back when going to the Met was exciting and honorable - nowadays so trivial and cheap

@randysills4418

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! Many of The Met singers of today are not good...especially the singers of Wagner! Horrible...and at such high prices!!!

bravisima, esat aria me pazcina, peor mas en la voce de esta gran , exelentisima cantante, q privilegio poder escuchar y ver esta interpretacion!!1

When a singing sorceress makes you want to have CHURCH! Florence, I am so sorry this audience disrespected you-likely because they were just waiting on the soprano and the tenor to show up onstage.They had no idea what they heard. What I would have given to hear La Quivar's mezzo-soprano/contralto Ulrica and Mama Leontyne's Amelia together onstage in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA. They'd have to carry me out of the opera house!

@rememberourmusic53

8 жыл бұрын

+Dana Fripp Happy Birthday to Florence Quivar born on this date in 1944.

@golden-63

6 жыл бұрын

Make that two of us to be carried out!

@rayarthey3706

5 жыл бұрын

It doesn't get better than that! One of the reasons I studied opera lirica here in Italy!

@joemiller6975

4 жыл бұрын

That audience may have not gotten it but Thank God this performance is preserved for more astute and aware Music lovers to hear and appreciate ! Ms, Quivar was sinfully underrated and ignored in the press and by the general public but she is appreciated fully by those who truly know art and artistry as one of the best Singing /Actresses and excellent musicians around.

@SilfredoSerrano

4 жыл бұрын

I did see a performance of her Ulrica at the Met with Deborah Voigt as Amelia and Pavarotti as Gustavo. Florence was amazing!

Bravissima e pezzo impressionante! il personaggio ha praticamente poca scena, ma occorre una grande! Se Whoopi Goldberg (64 anni oggi, auguri!) cantasse opera, sarebbe una parte pronta per lei, l'abbiamo vista in Ghost

@leodlibes4946

2 жыл бұрын

That's true.

Best Ulrica since Marian Anderson

Dear ezayi, totally agree with you! And isn't it amazing at the sh*t singing they give standing ovations for.

I never understood how could people at the met react this way when such a fabulous mezzo soprano sang this way. I think she deserved MUCH MORE than this weak clapping. STUPID PEOPLE! Just wonderful... BRAVISSIMA!

@draganvidic2039

6 жыл бұрын

ezayi Most of the audience are americans...

@yaletenor I agree. Perhaps they were smoking crack? That's my only explanation for them not standing to their feet!

SOBERBIA ESCENA la música y toda ella es impresionante por lo Esoterica de la misma.ver volta a la terra.,ver di tu si fedele.ver las brujas de Macbeth.

Right... but Im one of those that never stands up especially when I someone doesn't deserve it.... like lately at the met... most of it... SHIT!

And what about Princess Eboli!!

1990?!

Vocally

I heard her sing Brangane (spelling?) in Los Angeles in a Tristan in 1986 or 1987 and she was superb! I will never forget it! Unfortunately, the Isolde had too small a voice and was a disaster after the first 25 minutes of the opera! She sang the Liebestod a minor third flat!!! She was maybe a Sieglinde, Elsa, Eva, and possibly an Elisabeth but never an Isolde!

I agree, this is frustrating

As a singer and as an actress, Florence Quivar is really excelent, but I think that the best Ulrica is the Bulgarian Contralto Mariana Pencheva, who has a darker voice and more impressive low notes.

what is up with the met and that puny applause! Shame on them!! That was so fantastic!!!

What a voice!!! Even Pavarotti seems a bit mesmerized.

Florence Quivar! OMG! That audience should have gone crazy for what this woman did! Those thankless, disrespectful A-Holes! Yeah, I said it! So What! WTH!

the American contralto Marian Anderson is my choice.

Great singer, intelligent and impressive. But her voice is too beautiful for this character. I don't think Verdi was interested in a beautiful voice for his Ulrike. Need some evil tone here.

Un po' opaca....

I agree that it’s offensive. If you look at the KZread video of Florence Quivar singing Ulrica in A Masked Ball and then compare that with another KZread video of a white Italian singer in obvious tinted makeup singing the same role, it’s unbelievable to think that that’s perfectly OK. Opera should be inclusive and respectful of everyone who may want to watch it. A blackface Ulrica was a total shock for me. Racially insulting and spoiled a beautiful opera that has some of Verdi’s best music.

I adore the costum. Sweet voice, but interpretation...

her chest voice is SOOOO under developed. she’s not near as great as Bruna Castagna or Fedora Barbieri.

@dasingaman1

4 жыл бұрын

Treyson Sherratt she truly a soprano. I’ve said this for years! A great artist either way!