It just doesn't get better than her Cleopatra. The high Baroque was an era for decorating and ornamenting as much as possible. If you had high notes, you added high notes; if you had fast notes, you added fast notes; basically if you had it, you flaunted it, and Sills certainly had it all then.

@luisnunes3863

Жыл бұрын

That's why I'm drawn to it the freedom and the technical richness.

@frangoldstein7171

Ай бұрын

@@luisnunes3863 She once said she only sang it in 1 perf. that was perfect....&, never again....I can't believe it.

One of the most genuine opera singers of all time who can do imbelishments, coloratura, melismas and a PROPER TRILL, most of which cant do to save their life. She is perfect for Baroque roles!!!

Boy, does this ever take me back, to my high school days in the early '70s! That's when I became an opera fan, and the 3 sopranos I listened to incessantly were Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, and Beverly Sills! The recordings of Sills that I would listen to over and over when I first became familiar and enamored with her were an album of Bellini and Donizetti arias, and the full recording of Giulio Cesare! I was enamored with the clarity of Sills tone, her silvery coloratura, and her dramatic expressiveness! And in particular, Da Tempeste was my favorite aria from Giulio Cesare! I would listen to it over and over! Thank you for posting this!!!!

I have heard a few recordings of her live performances of this aria. This is probably the best. She sings this with such ease and unrushed clarity.

@LohengrinO

Жыл бұрын

the artist at her Ultimate Peak

She really made this role hers. Brava!!

RAVISHING ASSOLUTA SINGING. THE BEVERLY WAY.

She's my favorite Cleopatra. Brava❤

Every inch a Queen 👸

Cleopatra for me is her best role (of course along with Pamira from L'assedio)

@LohengrinO

Жыл бұрын

Pamira for me is her masterpiece

omg, all I have to say is I was listening with my jaw UNDERGROUND the whole time

@LohengrinO

Жыл бұрын

​@@MacDinolandtrully great singers always shine more live...

Grazie Theo ❤La Sills non aveva certo difficoltà nei trilli

In a nutshell. Brilliant!

So Wonderful! Thank you! Only a self created queen would object! 🤪🤪🤪

Thanks for this one. Subscribed! 🤘

A very happy Cleopatra

A gal has to get up pretty early in the morning to compete with that trill. Fantastic performance.

The. TRILLLLLLLLLLLLS

She’s extremely talented, no doubt… it’s just for me, at times, she sounds like the recording has been sped up..almost a little Snow White-ish. But like I said, there’s no denying her incredible gift, and the agility of her voice.

@LohengrinO

2 ай бұрын

the vulnerability, fragility and melancholy of her interpretations....

@christinec.6685

18 күн бұрын

Many have commented that her voice was rounder and fuller live in the house. She could be heard in the top back of the house no problem.

Mi sembra più espressiva della Sutherland e direi che alla fine incanta di più

Conosco poco questa cantante, ma trovo che qui aveva una coloratura fantastica, una voce chiara ed agile, ricca di trilli.😍🌺🌺🌺

I’ll just add that I hated opera, although I come from a musical family, until college, when I saw Beverly Sills on the Johnny Carson Show. Early 1970s. I told my parents that I’d agree to go to a performance if Sills was in it. So my very first operas were the Three Donizetti Queens! Then I became a big opera aficionado!

@LohengrinO

Жыл бұрын

In those days u switched TV on and you saw in a major popular american show Beverly Sills ? or Ella Fitzgerald with dame Joan Sutherland? Unbelievable... and today we see Buttholes with 40 Grammys :D

Se non sei brava non canti cosi´, Beverly un vero talento

@LohengrinO

Жыл бұрын

Ultra Talent

@aetion

Жыл бұрын

@@LohengrinO I fully agree. Thank you for the post.

@kid926

Жыл бұрын

@@aetion Grazie a voi

♥️

From what opera please?

@fan2jnrc

Жыл бұрын

Giulio Cesare, by Haendel.

@michelchambers8553

Жыл бұрын

@@fan2jnrc Thanks you so very much.

@patrickandrew2785

Жыл бұрын

And she is in the role of Cleopatra.

@purtigodo

Жыл бұрын

Giulio Cesare, Haendel. I saw her 21/9/68 Teatro Colon.

@wotan10950

Жыл бұрын

@@purtigodo Ooooh, she wrote in her memoirs that she hated those performances! She adored the Colon theater and the public, but loathed Karl Richter, the conductor. She said he sucked the lifeblood out of the opera and the artists.

Her Da Tempeste has been a huge favorite of mine for two decades. I am quite obsessed with it and gladly overlook her goat vibrato.