Contes d'Hoffman: Septet (Acte III) (Kraus, Quivar, Elias)

[CandyHaleLinton]

Lovely singing..very poor camera work though..

[Musik10x]

Thanks, that was magnificent!

[KaeChanel]

Holy moly. I remember doing this song as Nicklausse, and it was simply the most amazing, most powerful song to ever perform.

[Chutson353]

I LOVE Florence Quivar - her voice is like a beautiful bell - never understood why Jessye Norman is such a DIVA while Quivar receives relatively little recognition

[MisterSoprano]

This is great! Kraus was very old here allready, but still nice colour of the voice, some tremolo, but nice. Florence is superb! She's mezzo, but here you'd say she's soprano.

[gtelloz]

Kraus was in excellent form until he died. A great example for those singers of today...

[tena2]

spot on, a very good example,

[claufeld]

Excelent...They havre wondwerfull voices and the choir makes it veru well

[Chasson0318]

Dear Ms. Quivar is just luscious!!

[tantola12]

What the Giulietta in this does here is outstanding. I am in awe and love her voice.

[ontologix]

Five stars for this cultivated and soulful rendering of the sextett plus choir. Alfredo at the age of 75 is just a miracle. Florence would have deserved more popular attention in her career. Sopranos have it a lot easier, unfortunately.

[tena2]

75? sorry you got it wrong, I dont actually know what year this was filmed in but he died in 1999 aged 71

[ontologix]

You are right. Alfredo, tenore di grazia, died aged 71.

[operafan85]

It was filmed in 1996. There was a celebration for Levine who first appeared at the MET as musical director 25 years ago, in 1971

[operabuff1]

Thank you for posting this. Ms. Quivar is wonderful and Alfredo Kraus just amazing.

[dare57]

She was Phenomenal...

[dedal141]

Quivar is just great!!! what a pity for the entire world of art to not have more recordings of her

[Mahlerweber]

This is excellent! Best performance I've seeing of this sextet so far. Sound quality is really good too!

[wedidntknow]

Quivar is awesome... she is a humble gentle star in the opera world

[barrister79]

excellently magnificent!

[tastetrb]

les contes d'hoffman is such a terrific opera. i am so glad to find offenbach postings on youtube. thanks.

[godivapaw]

You know, this is a voice which is as good as it is and fell through people's fingers! She is an INCREDIBLE MEZZO-SOPRANO!!! And sometimes, she makes us think she is a soprano by the way she can hang around in the upper register like this does!

[mm9913]

And she flows at the lower end of her register with just as much ease, check out her low G in Ulrica's aria, she is the full package.

[leadingbyxample]

It's a shame that Quivar is as underrated as she is. The diva can sing!!!!

[steainsy]

anymore from this gala?

[godivapaw]

Quivar is AWESOME!!!! Too bad there was not more of her on this CD at the Met.

[doktor4carz]

Notice Kraus, at almost 70, he sounds like a 25 year-old one. And he still can cover them in his upper registry. Not to forget that he still had high notes at that age. This is what I call performance.

[tjaphrodite]

florence quivar is an excellent mezzo to bad we dont have more from her, high notes just soar

[soulcountertenor]

I agree completely. If you have not heard her ablum of spirituals "Ride On, King Jesus!" then I believe you have never heard the best spiritual singing on record. Get it. She will make a believer out of you.

[tjaphrodite]

I was on that recording we did with her, Im an alumn of the boys choir of harlem, so I know, I meant more of her operatic stuff

[KEEPDATBS]

AMEN...AMEN...AND AMEN!!!!

[wotanman]

Ms. Quivar, I've just got one thing to say: YOU.BETTA.SANG!

[josemlecaros]

¿Cuando fue grabado este fragmento?

[gtelloz]

gala del 25 aniversario de James Levine en el Met. 1996. mas informacion sobre la gala esta en el database del metropolitan.

[josemlecaros]

Muchas gracias