@bcom11 I disagree. Leontyne commands respect on and off the stage. Battle demands and command respect, I'll give credit to Battle in showing deference to Price (she and everybody else has no choice but to).
It's not just her magnificent vocals, but her ability to captivate and give her very best each and every time. 64 years old never looked nor sounded so beautiful. I am an eternal fan! Viva La Price!
Good Lord! How does she do that?? This woman is a vocal phenomenon and has my utmost respect as a vocalist and as a person. A true professional in every sense of the word. I only hope that the younger generations of singers are taking heed from one of the greatest singers; sing with your interest and not your capital - it certainly paid of for Ms Price! Brava!
EXTRAORDINARY SINGING BEYOND COMPARE! I'm just blown away at this phenomenal voice and artistry. What an encomparable performance. She is without a doubt one the GREATEST sopranos the world has EVER seen. The extended applause is warranted. I had the good fortune of turning the pages for her favorite accompanists, David Garvey at one of her performances in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was amazing!
When I first heard this, two weeks after my grandfather died, I said,"I have never heard this woman sing." And I made it a point to get to hear her, but I never managed to do it, until that appearance she made at Carnegie Hall after the WTC attacks. She is an inspiration. This performance will always remain firmly etched in my memory as one of the big things in my life. Thanks, Madame, for being an inspiration!
An example of beautifully aging and being humble for all sopranos passt and for all sopranos in the future.May she live for ever. Her example will live for ever.
We musn't forget that although there are many opera singers in the world that are respected and admired,there are very few that are loved as much or as well as Leontyne Price.
Who wants to SEE Ms Price after the function??? WHO???!!! You don't want NOTHING from Ms Price.....NOTHIN'....now run along and play!! LOL She SITS ALLLL others DOWN!!! BRAVA!!!
About understanding the language - who the hell cares! I speak english and don't understand any other language, don't know what the hell she is singing about and it doesn't matter to me. I can feel the emotions and I'm simply in awe of her vocal abilities! Amazing! Unbelievable! Music transcends..........
I'm floored...she actually nails the high-lying phrase with the High C# better at age 64 than in any of the earlier recordings on Youtube!!! THIS is the way to mature as a singer...in charge of your instrument...vibrant...and the list goes on. Thanks so much for posting!
I can't believe you linguists. What about Sutherland's Italian? What about Nilsson's German? Just listen to Nilsson in the final scene from Götterdämmerung here on youtube. I dare those who understand German to tell me that you understand her. Is there some special critique for Ms. Price that is subtext for something else?
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No disagreement about the diction -- German was not her forte (so to speak), her Italian wasn't very idiomatic, and in her French you could often hear her Southern accent coming through. But, still, the voice and the technique were spectacular.
And what about Nilsson's German? It is often very difficult to understand sopranos' German or Italian when they are up there in that "rarefied air." Given that I speak and understand German and know also the aria, I found it not difficult to understand Mme. Price Why don't you get the score?
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Mr or Mrs 4lebensbaum,
Thank your for your reply.I do not downgrade the art of Mrs Price, she is oustanding. But an artist like her and she truly is an artist, shloud always be as close to masterpiece as possible.
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Quel dommage que cette video UNIQUE avec la performance de Madame Leontyne Price exceptionnelle devant cette ligne de chant inchantable... n'ait eu aucune distinction!!
I do not undersertand such that great quality had have not any
Amazing...the voice is superbly intact at age 64...how many other big lyrics out there could pull off this tireless display of high-flying phrases without missing a beat? I'm amazed at how free her top is, even at this age. Wow...she just tosses it all off with that cheeky smile that almost says, "betcha didn't think I could work it out, eh?" GO TYNE!!!!
We have a few recording of these stupendous aria with Leontyne, but this captured in the begining of her seventies is one of the bets if not the best for me. incredible technique and unbeatable way she comands her voice! Such a certainty from each her tone, breath, gesture. She really knows the art of the singing. True DIVA !!!
The greatest compliment you can give is that her rendition of this demanding piece got better and better through the years! I like this one best ; her voice is dark round and without the eventual tremolo from earlier versions! BRAVA!!!
thank you, miss Price - you're SO great, and I hate the blablabla about menopause and so on - that night you were sensational, the audience adored you et vous le méritez bien: glorious voice, glorious singing, gloriuous charism and au diable l'age et toutes ces vulgarités
Absolutely. All women have had singing problems after menopause. Some fared better than others. Price and Sutherland fared pretty well, Tomowa-Sintow not so much...also, some singers' problems were a result of repertoire choices and/or technical problems...not menopause..
Never thought about skin color myself. Callas had a wobbly Bb as early as 1558 ( listen to " Addio del passato" in her Lisbon Traviata with kraus) way before menopause. Sutherland just stuck to a repertory that was too high but had an awesome C until her retirement..she just could have avoided all those e flats at the end. Freni managed menopause wonderfully ( medication and repertory probably)
And it's not the same to sing a whole evening in a staged performance as a single aria in concert. Brava Price here but the conditions as absolutely different
You misunderstand me as I was making a comment referred to her staged performances in the 70s and 80s. Here she sounds spectacular uo to the Db but in general her high notes had thinned in her last decade. When she sang here, she had retired so vocally she was was vocally rested. If you watch "forza" 83 or "Aida" 85...you may be able to see her B and C were not as full bodied or as spinning as in the 60's.
I heard her last week at the NEA Opera Honors. She sang "America the Beautiful" and she was still working those pipes. I am happy that she and others still maintain a technique. I learn something from her everytime I hear her.
Obviously...Price was a spinto with a very dark center while Danrau is a light soprano and Netrebko a lyric or light-lyric. She was a great singer but not perfect, and by the time she retired her upper register had thinned (maybe because her mid range was too big, dark and luscious and it's recorded that in ´77 Karajan told her she was singing to un-lyrically. Plus, she was rested..Singing an opera is not like singing an aria.
I may agree on Netrebko (but think she's on the light side of lyric)but Damrau, while very dramatic in her interpretaions, is vocally a soprano leggiero,That is, a light voice, like dessay, Gruberova, Sills, Serra,Sumi Jo, Mesple and Scotto (though she forced her voice to sing very heavy stuff).Sutherland was a dramatic coloratura, Callas, more volume, darker and rounder color (the most important asset) and a range that's fuller in the lower register..That's a dramatic coloratura.
I don't want to get into a big discussion 'cause it's so subjective to judge a fach nowadays when Lyric coloraturas are singing dramatic roles and Dramatic singers are playing lyric roles. But Kathleen Battle s considered a leggiero ('cause of her warmer tone) and I totally think Damrau is a way more powerful and penetrating voice. most critics consider her a dramatic soprano as well as Gruberova.
Battle isn´t a real leggiero, which is why she never sang lucia, or the Queen of the Night or oven Constanza..She could be a very sweet light lyric. Gruberova is still a leggiero, a veru mature one, which is singing heavy roles very intelligently, like scotto, with very good results, unlike scotto, due to experience and study..Her e flat, however, isn't always as free as it was because somehow she has had to add some weight to the middle and low voice to sing a heavier repertory
I don't want to turn this into a bigger stuff. Obviously we have very different opinions about how to categorize a voice fach. You're not going to change my mind. And I don't want to change yours. So I respect your point of view but I have mine...Hugs!
In the category of Dramatic coloratura sopranos there are different types depending on the clarity or darkness in the quality of the voice (Is not the same to play Abigaille or Lucia or Donna Anna) A dramatic coloratura soprano can push her voice into dramatic climaxes and has an extra sustaining power. Ana about Netrebko when she was contracted to sing Violetta it was clear that she was far from being a soubrette or a light lyric soprano!
Coloratura just means being able to sing ornaments..weight is different. Marton and Nilsson were dramatic sopranos but had little or none coloratura, didn't have D's, eflats or Fs, but damrau can´t sing Lady Macbeth, Norma, Odabella (not even leonora in Trovatore which has some ornaments)..those are dramatic coloratura roles and she doesn´t even have the low notes. Netrebko sang a very dramatic Violetta..stagewise, not vocally and that doesn't make her a dramatic soprano.
thats pretty awesome. alot of people say she pushed her voice and thats why the middle fell apart. i think its just the way her voice was. i dont think anyone could have those high notes or quality of tone at that age if it wasnt already there.
Could you DIE!!!!??? I mean she is AWESOME and with all of that..at the end a standing ovation...with Kathy Battle in the black and white gown....COULD YOU DIE!!!???? WOW
does anyone know how old she is when this was performed...cuz she doesn't look or sound like she is old at all. talk about standing the test of time. A+ i love this and her!
She is 64 at the time of this performance. You should take a look at the performance that she did for the Opera News Awards she is 80 at that time and still amazing.
well i did listen to her do god bless america a capella and that was just as amazing. the grace and elegance she upholds in any performnace is absolutely wonderful.
Absolutely amazing performance! I think I prefer this performance to the recording of it that she made many, many years earlier - I believe with Leinsdorf conducting. I'll have to dust off my turntable and pull out some of her vinyl...Thanks for posting this.
She recorded the Empress' Awakening Scene (on her Strauss album, 1973)--but never performed the role. She said in an interview in 1978 that she had considered it, along with the Marschallin, at about the time she sang Ariadne (1978-80), but Ariadne suited her better. The Awakening Scene is pretty amazing
A famous American soprano who was at this concert was at a party shortly after this and said "look who can't sing this aria anymore!" After viewing this, I can see why that soprano isn't around anymore. She should have learned a thing or two from Miss Price!
No. The soprano of which I spoke is a big voiced soprano who had a fantastic voice with a great top, but alas, she sang too much too heavy. When she did Turandot and sang the words "Quel grido", she took it abit too literally...
I'm afraid I shouldn't divulge because the diva in question is still having a career, or at least trying to (if they let her...). And no she did not get gastric bypass surgery...
God bless you, Onegin65!!! Aw, man!!! I would have never been as thrilled as this if you hadn't posted this video and the many others from your library!!! You've done us all an amazing service!!! Thanks so very much!!! Mother Price TOOK TO FLIGHT. It was an amazing voice lesson watching her at 64. Such a secure and open top, with kicker high notes, as well as that sustained B-natural that wiggles up to the High-C# and back down. Mother was fierce, you hear???
This clip gives me chills...i agree that she is a dramatic here as well not a spinto. And she was very smart...a lil older and wiser..and the voice is soo well preserved even in here 60's...most soprano are done by this time.
i have a great memory hearing this aria with Voigt at the Met...love it. Please, would you edit this video, adding that is die agyptische helena? so, we can find it easily when looking for arias from this opera. Otherwise, it can;t be possible. Thanks for sharing!
Only Price could prove a 63-year-old woman could sing this incredibly difficult aria so well! As it was already mentioned, her high range remains as bright, effortless and soft as in her prime. One can hear almost no sign of decline, except for her later tendency to go deep down to the chest notes or to scoop sometimes. That said, she's amazing, few could do this like her (and even fewer could surpass her).
I find it really interesting how as she got older the low range got even more detached and softer from her voice, and how the high range seems like it never really degraded.
at this point in her vocal maturity she was a dramatic soprano....a good 10 years before this performance I would agree about her being a spinto...but not in this performance
I don't agree. A spinto can sing some dramatic roles by definition. That is what spinto means;i.e., they can sing lyric or open it enough to sing dramatic. The true voice is spinto. Nilsson is dramatic. She could never sing lyric.
hey beverly how many muppets had to die for your dress?
DoinItClassy 1 month ago
The Leontyne "float" is perfect!
Lederius18 3 months ago 2
Can anyone touch this legend? I do not thnk so! To sing like this at 64 is amazing!
niceguy6967 5 months ago
A Lady! It does NOT get any better than this!
wTrevorh 5 months ago 2
@wTrevorh Completely agree!
rrgallo 4 months ago
I listen to this when I need to focus. This is Miss Price showing us where heaven is. Thank God for her.
higharch 6 months ago
WOW!!!!!!!!! What can you say? Stunning!
danielhenrikvik 6 months ago
Hopefully Battle will take a lesson
TSquared2001 6 months ago
@TSquared2001 what kind of lesson. battle is this age now and sounds remarkable still.
bcom11 6 months ago
@bcom11 It has nothing to do with her sound as it has to do with her attitude.
TSquared2001 5 months ago
@TSquared2001 actually this video is about music and leontyne's sound, and no one's attitude. thanks
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@bcom11 I disagree. Leontyne commands respect on and off the stage. Battle demands and command respect, I'll give credit to Battle in showing deference to Price (she and everybody else has no choice but to).
TSquared2001 2 months ago
Someday slap me silly and call me Gladys! This continues to amaze me!
godivapaw 7 months ago
It's not just her magnificent vocals, but her ability to captivate and give her very best each and every time. 64 years old never looked nor sounded so beautiful. I am an eternal fan! Viva La Price!
pheelme 8 months ago
Stunning!!!!!!
Beaulechat 11 months ago
Good Lord! How does she do that?? This woman is a vocal phenomenon and has my utmost respect as a vocalist and as a person. A true professional in every sense of the word. I only hope that the younger generations of singers are taking heed from one of the greatest singers; sing with your interest and not your capital - it certainly paid of for Ms Price! Brava!
Otellogv 1 year ago 2
The absolute greatest.
higharch 1 year ago
EXTRAORDINARY SINGING BEYOND COMPARE! I'm just blown away at this phenomenal voice and artistry. What an encomparable performance. She is without a doubt one the GREATEST sopranos the world has EVER seen. The extended applause is warranted. I had the good fortune of turning the pages for her favorite accompanists, David Garvey at one of her performances in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was amazing!
orvtimlaw 1 year ago 2
When I first heard this, two weeks after my grandfather died, I said,"I have never heard this woman sing." And I made it a point to get to hear her, but I never managed to do it, until that appearance she made at Carnegie Hall after the WTC attacks. She is an inspiration. This performance will always remain firmly etched in my memory as one of the big things in my life. Thanks, Madame, for being an inspiration!
klavierspieler72 1 year ago
An example of beautifully aging and being humble for all sopranos passt and for all sopranos in the future.May she live for ever. Her example will live for ever.
anothertry75 1 year ago
shes not one to "sit"on her applause... she seems very humble... considering how extraordinarily famous she is
Babs22h 1 year ago 3
yessuh, she did that! She laboreth NOT!
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aarongluzman 1 year ago
We musn't forget that although there are many opera singers in the world that are respected and admired,there are very few that are loved as much or as well as Leontyne Price.
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How do you like them apples, Renee Fleming?
markoparko 1 year ago
I love the way Leonyne tosses hands the roses off to her brother and Beverly just laughs at the television monitor!
Chasson0318 1 year ago
Who wants to SEE Ms Price after the function??? WHO???!!! You don't want NOTHING from Ms Price.....NOTHIN'....now run along and play!! LOL She SITS ALLLL others DOWN!!! BRAVA!!!
Platynumlove 1 year ago 2
:-)
Mropera111 1 year ago
God bless her!
orfeo2003 1 year ago 4
She is my Queen!
RVP57 1 year ago 2
this is jump out of your chair amazing.
BastaRoberti 1 year ago 3
Assoluta! The glorious, the greatest.
higharch 1 year ago 3
About understanding the language - who the hell cares! I speak english and don't understand any other language, don't know what the hell she is singing about and it doesn't matter to me. I can feel the emotions and I'm simply in awe of her vocal abilities! Amazing! Unbelievable! Music transcends..........
PCSerialMom 1 year ago 2
The freshness of her voice is jaw droping!!!!!!
lelecoloco 2 years ago 7
my jaw is still on the floor!
calispartan 2 years ago 3
I'm floored...she actually nails the high-lying phrase with the High C# better at age 64 than in any of the earlier recordings on Youtube!!! THIS is the way to mature as a singer...in charge of your instrument...vibrant...and the list goes on. Thanks so much for posting!
InformedListener 2 years ago 26
@InformedListener I agree
happyorganist 1 year ago
Ms. Price's German can be, at times, a bit hard to understand, but she NAILS this piece in NO uncertain terms! BRAVA at any age!
rkrealtorva 2 years ago
The way this aria is written i think every soprano's german will be hard to understand...heheh
sonqualnave 2 years ago 15
get it!
ryaneffingbrock 2 years ago 6
PLUS SHE IS 64 here! Every young soprano in the world whishes to sing like that
fludu1 2 years ago 4
flu. Absolutely! Her stage presence is electrifying. You can see how much love there is between her and the audience.
swanningaround 2 years ago 2
One of the most incredibly difficult things to sing that I have ever heard---how ever does she do it?
markedwardindc 2 years ago 5
I can't believe you linguists. What about Sutherland's Italian? What about Nilsson's German? Just listen to Nilsson in the final scene from Götterdämmerung here on youtube. I dare those who understand German to tell me that you understand her. Is there some special critique for Ms. Price that is subtext for something else?
4lebenbaum 2 years ago 7
You are right! who cares about the lyrics! LISTEN TO THAT SOUND! IT´s AMAZING
fludu1 2 years ago
4leben. Leontyne's German is just fine. Her voice is phenominal too.
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4lebenbaum 2 years ago
Thanks! i totally agree with you on both points. She is simply incomparable -- without peer!
4lebenbaum 2 years ago 2
I love how Beverly Sills laughs at 6:16 when Leonyne goes back stage, as if to say "Take these flowers...I'm outta here! lol
Chasson0318 2 years ago
Simply stupefying. Who can sing like this today?
cashelnd 2 years ago 5
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amonasro100 2 years ago
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No disagreement about the diction -- German was not her forte (so to speak), her Italian wasn't very idiomatic, and in her French you could often hear her Southern accent coming through. But, still, the voice and the technique were spectacular.
cashelnd 2 years ago
And what about Nilsson's German? It is often very difficult to understand sopranos' German or Italian when they are up there in that "rarefied air." Given that I speak and understand German and know also the aria, I found it not difficult to understand Mme. Price Why don't you get the score?
4lebenbaum 2 years ago 7
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Mr or Mrs 4lebensbaum,
Thank your for your reply.I do not downgrade the art of Mrs Price, she is oustanding. But an artist like her and she truly is an artist, shloud always be as close to masterpiece as possible.
Und da Sie ja deutsch verstehen, erlaube ich mir zu sagen : Nicht jedes Stück ist ein Meisterstück.
Thank you and nice talking to you
amonasro100 2 years ago
To sing like this at 64,it's some voice,and some technique.Altogether amazing!
swiftsboy 2 years ago 2
SHE'S THE BEST HANDS DOWN!!!!
tkguy30 2 years ago 5
Quel dommage que cette video UNIQUE avec la performance de Madame Leontyne Price exceptionnelle devant cette ligne de chant inchantable... n'ait eu aucune distinction!!
I do not undersertand such that great quality had have not any
congratulation....
Every one is perfect! and much more !!!
clytemnestre1 2 years ago 5
I LOVE her expression at 3:08..... and the note at 3:39..... good god this woman blows me away....
brianmiles34 2 years ago 2
LOL if it was Jessye Norman... you KNOW she held her own!!! LOL
MovableBass 2 years ago 2
that voice...
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Italia1987 2 years ago
Wow. I fell off my chair. What poor soul had to go on next? I hope it was a juggler.
gratecourt 2 years ago 5
Amazing...the voice is superbly intact at age 64...how many other big lyrics out there could pull off this tireless display of high-flying phrases without missing a beat? I'm amazed at how free her top is, even at this age. Wow...she just tosses it all off with that cheeky smile that almost says, "betcha didn't think I could work it out, eh?" GO TYNE!!!!
UrsulanChild 2 years ago 3
We have a few recording of these stupendous aria with Leontyne, but this captured in the begining of her seventies is one of the bets if not the best for me. incredible technique and unbeatable way she comands her voice! Such a certainty from each her tone, breath, gesture. She really knows the art of the singing. True DIVA !!!
jirizika1962 2 years ago 2
Difficult to sing. Mrs Price does it brightly! Very good!!!!!!!!
clymnestre 2 years ago 2
If you didn't know, she was like in her late 60s during this performance. Ridiculous. She's incredible.
theboysontheradio 2 years ago 2
She was 64.
BeauTenor 2 years ago
Seems like sho ownes this piece... From 4:25 and out is the best passage ever recorded...shes so precise and the timbre is beautiful!
Thanks for posting
OstrasDeNoruega 2 years ago
Phenomenal!
troppofiato 2 years ago
soooo fantastic!!!
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gerardolec 2 years ago 4
Brava Diva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Houndentenor1998 3 years ago 3
The greatest compliment you can give is that her rendition of this demanding piece got better and better through the years! I like this one best ; her voice is dark round and without the eventual tremolo from earlier versions! BRAVA!!!
zampieriano 3 years ago 3
Brava, Diva! Happy Birthday!
4lebenbaum 3 years ago 5
FANTASTIC !
GREAT VOICE !
Volsebnyk 3 years ago 4
...and she's 64 here...OMG!
lullybasblancs 3 years ago 3
Simply Magnificent! Nothing thin about the notes nor timbre of the voice. It's call CONTROL. Bravo Ms. Price. BRAVO!!
iwafam 3 years ago 3
thank you, miss Price - you're SO great, and I hate the blablabla about menopause and so on - that night you were sensational, the audience adored you et vous le méritez bien: glorious voice, glorious singing, gloriuous charism and au diable l'age et toutes ces vulgarités
giandoroma 3 years ago 4
Absolutely. All women have had singing problems after menopause. Some fared better than others. Price and Sutherland fared pretty well, Tomowa-Sintow not so much...also, some singers' problems were a result of repertoire choices and/or technical problems...not menopause..
Dymension 3 years ago
BTW..I just didn't comment on other singers' thinning because we were talking about Price.
rrgallo 3 years ago
Never thought about skin color myself. Callas had a wobbly Bb as early as 1558 ( listen to " Addio del passato" in her Lisbon Traviata with kraus) way before menopause. Sutherland just stuck to a repertory that was too high but had an awesome C until her retirement..she just could have avoided all those e flats at the end. Freni managed menopause wonderfully ( medication and repertory probably)
rrgallo 3 years ago
And it's not the same to sing a whole evening in a staged performance as a single aria in concert. Brava Price here but the conditions as absolutely different
rrgallo 3 years ago
You misunderstand me as I was making a comment referred to her staged performances in the 70s and 80s. Here she sounds spectacular uo to the Db but in general her high notes had thinned in her last decade. When she sang here, she had retired so vocally she was was vocally rested. If you watch "forza" 83 or "Aida" 85...you may be able to see her B and C were not as full bodied or as spinning as in the 60's.
rrgallo 3 years ago
That's serious.
TSquared2001 3 years ago
I heard her last week at the NEA Opera Honors. She sang "America the Beautiful" and she was still working those pipes. I am happy that she and others still maintain a technique. I learn something from her everytime I hear her.
Mropera111 3 years ago
Her technique should be perfect to have these powerful pipes at her age.
At her 64s she was more powerful than Netrebko and Damrau combined (At their 37s)
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
Obviously...Price was a spinto with a very dark center while Danrau is a light soprano and Netrebko a lyric or light-lyric. She was a great singer but not perfect, and by the time she retired her upper register had thinned (maybe because her mid range was too big, dark and luscious and it's recorded that in ´77 Karajan told her she was singing to un-lyrically. Plus, she was rested..Singing an opera is not like singing an aria.
rrgallo 3 years ago
Damrau is a dramatic coloratura soprano and Netrebko is a full lyric soprano...
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
I may agree on Netrebko (but think she's on the light side of lyric)but Damrau, while very dramatic in her interpretaions, is vocally a soprano leggiero,That is, a light voice, like dessay, Gruberova, Sills, Serra,Sumi Jo, Mesple and Scotto (though she forced her voice to sing very heavy stuff).Sutherland was a dramatic coloratura, Callas, more volume, darker and rounder color (the most important asset) and a range that's fuller in the lower register..That's a dramatic coloratura.
rrgallo 3 years ago
I don't want to get into a big discussion 'cause it's so subjective to judge a fach nowadays when Lyric coloraturas are singing dramatic roles and Dramatic singers are playing lyric roles. But Kathleen Battle s considered a leggiero ('cause of her warmer tone) and I totally think Damrau is a way more powerful and penetrating voice. most critics consider her a dramatic soprano as well as Gruberova.
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
Battle isn´t a real leggiero, which is why she never sang lucia, or the Queen of the Night or oven Constanza..She could be a very sweet light lyric. Gruberova is still a leggiero, a veru mature one, which is singing heavy roles very intelligently, like scotto, with very good results, unlike scotto, due to experience and study..Her e flat, however, isn't always as free as it was because somehow she has had to add some weight to the middle and low voice to sing a heavier repertory
rrgallo 3 years ago
I don't want to turn this into a bigger stuff. Obviously we have very different opinions about how to categorize a voice fach. You're not going to change my mind. And I don't want to change yours. So I respect your point of view but I have mine...Hugs!
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
In the category of Dramatic coloratura sopranos there are different types depending on the clarity or darkness in the quality of the voice (Is not the same to play Abigaille or Lucia or Donna Anna) A dramatic coloratura soprano can push her voice into dramatic climaxes and has an extra sustaining power. Ana about Netrebko when she was contracted to sing Violetta it was clear that she was far from being a soubrette or a light lyric soprano!
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
Coloratura just means being able to sing ornaments..weight is different. Marton and Nilsson were dramatic sopranos but had little or none coloratura, didn't have D's, eflats or Fs, but damrau can´t sing Lady Macbeth, Norma, Odabella (not even leonora in Trovatore which has some ornaments)..those are dramatic coloratura roles and she doesn´t even have the low notes. Netrebko sang a very dramatic Violetta..stagewise, not vocally and that doesn't make her a dramatic soprano.
rrgallo 3 years ago
And I'm pretty sure at 64, Diana and Anna will be far retired! And with no voice...Cause their technique is very bad...
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago 2
thats pretty awesome. alot of people say she pushed her voice and thats why the middle fell apart. i think its just the way her voice was. i dont think anyone could have those high notes or quality of tone at that age if it wasnt already there.
moghedien13 3 years ago
Brilliant comment!
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
No she was not microphoned! She stood there and knocked the world over with her desperately FABULOUS sound!
godivapaw 3 years ago
that is amazing...to have such a gift at her age...
AmorMuse 3 years ago
64 years old and sounds like she's not even 30 yet! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! WOW!
ticklemebad 3 years ago 2
Was she even microphoned. I love her ease of tone!
bigdigger87 3 years ago
Fab-U-Lous!!!!! Too bad we had to glimpse Kathy Battle...ugh! Thanks for this post!
spazdj 3 years ago
La Price has made us worship her. She is a Sacred Monster, an icon for the ages, a DIVA, and may we never forget it. Miss Thang has SUNG.
RVP57 3 years ago 6
Geez, Levine really swings his arms around when he conducts.
Great performance, though.
JeeRant 3 years ago
Could you DIE!!!!??? I mean she is AWESOME and with all of that..at the end a standing ovation...with Kathy Battle in the black and white gown....COULD YOU DIE!!!???? WOW
Platynumlove 3 years ago 6
LOVE IT!
blackaristo 2 years ago
64?!?!...i wouldn't and still don't believe it...AMAZING! I love how long that applaud for her.
handelfan610 3 years ago
does anyone know how old she is when this was performed...cuz she doesn't look or sound like she is old at all. talk about standing the test of time. A+ i love this and her!
handelfan610 3 years ago 2
She is 64 at the time of this performance. You should take a look at the performance that she did for the Opera News Awards she is 80 at that time and still amazing.
JWEST456 3 years ago
well i did listen to her do god bless america a capella and that was just as amazing. the grace and elegance she upholds in any performnace is absolutely wonderful.
handelfan610 3 years ago 3
4:27-4:33...YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!....She still had it!!...love it!
musicboy403 3 years ago 2
Is the soprano in question Eva Marton?
niallguinan 3 years ago
Absolutely amazing performance! I think I prefer this performance to the recording of it that she made many, many years earlier - I believe with Leinsdorf conducting. I'll have to dust off my turntable and pull out some of her vinyl...Thanks for posting this.
usedalittle 3 years ago
You know what I would kill to hear her do is the Empress in Frau Ohne Schatten. Does anyone know if she ever did it or parts thereof?
Dymension 3 years ago
She recorded the Empress' Awakening Scene (on her Strauss album, 1973)--but never performed the role. She said in an interview in 1978 that she had considered it, along with the Marschallin, at about the time she sang Ariadne (1978-80), but Ariadne suited her better. The Awakening Scene is pretty amazing
liedersanger1 3 years ago
A famous American soprano who was at this concert was at a party shortly after this and said "look who can't sing this aria anymore!" After viewing this, I can see why that soprano isn't around anymore. She should have learned a thing or two from Miss Price!
Dymension 3 years ago
Could that be the soprano who is seen standing at the end of this?!
liedersanger1 3 years ago
No. The soprano of which I spoke is a big voiced soprano who had a fantastic voice with a great top, but alas, she sang too much too heavy. When she did Turandot and sang the words "Quel grido", she took it abit too literally...
Dymension 3 years ago
Sharon Sweet?
FoggyRoad81 3 years ago
I'm afraid I shouldn't divulge because the diva in question is still having a career, or at least trying to (if they let her...). And no she did not get gastric bypass surgery...
Dymension 3 years ago
Are her initials AM?
liedersanger1 2 years ago
I'm back for more...YESSAH!!!!!
KaminaOne 3 years ago
God bless you, Onegin65!!! Aw, man!!! I would have never been as thrilled as this if you hadn't posted this video and the many others from your library!!! You've done us all an amazing service!!! Thanks so very much!!! Mother Price TOOK TO FLIGHT. It was an amazing voice lesson watching her at 64. Such a secure and open top, with kicker high notes, as well as that sustained B-natural that wiggles up to the High-C# and back down. Mother was fierce, you hear???
KaminaOne 3 years ago 4
watching leontyne price sing is as good as any voice lesson could be...
baritonecoach 3 years ago 6
Here at 64 years old La Price sings this aria arguably better than any soprano currently on the Met roster could.
basie8 3 years ago 2
This clip gives me chills...i agree that she is a dramatic here as well not a spinto. And she was very smart...a lil older and wiser..and the voice is soo well preserved even in here 60's...most soprano are done by this time.
raycanto76 4 years ago
EVEN IN HER 60'S SHE WAS AWESOME!
TreblesBasses 4 years ago 3
I have Ms. Price sing this aria over about 30 year span. Make a necklace of these performances them it will have the most precious jewels.
63Attila 4 years ago 6
What a treasure she is. The most beautiful sound I have ever heard in the theatre.
osvaldito55 4 years ago 2
lol @ when this was first Posted I commented that Leontyne was a dramtic....I guess if Beverly agrees with me thats quite enough :0p!
VoyArrasando 4 years ago
there is nothing wrong with a little drama!!!
laurynlova84 3 years ago
Thank you, Onegin65, for all the wonderful Price-moments. We, Price-fans, owe you a debt of gratitude.
4lebenbaum 4 years ago 3
Here, Here!
blackaristo 2 years ago
She is just amazing! @ 63!?!? WOW!
Voluptuossa1234 4 years ago
Amazing Leontyne....!!!!!!!
rrgallo 4 years ago
La voix du siecle!!!
lungdoc 4 years ago
i have a great memory hearing this aria with Voigt at the Met...love it. Please, would you edit this video, adding that is die agyptische helena? so, we can find it easily when looking for arias from this opera. Otherwise, it can;t be possible. Thanks for sharing!
gtelloz 4 years ago
Only Price could prove a 63-year-old woman could sing this incredibly difficult aria so well! As it was already mentioned, her high range remains as bright, effortless and soft as in her prime. One can hear almost no sign of decline, except for her later tendency to go deep down to the chest notes or to scoop sometimes. That said, she's amazing, few could do this like her (and even fewer could surpass her).
Homoclassicus 4 years ago
I like the post by the way, lol.
drdre333 4 years ago
I find it really interesting how as she got older the low range got even more detached and softer from her voice, and how the high range seems like it never really degraded.
drdre333 4 years ago
She is not a dramatic soprano. She was a spinto at best.
MrCafiero 4 years ago
at this point in her vocal maturity she was a dramatic soprano....a good 10 years before this performance I would agree about her being a spinto...but not in this performance
SuperstarDee28 4 years ago
I don't agree. A spinto can sing some dramatic roles by definition. That is what spinto means;i.e., they can sing lyric or open it enough to sing dramatic. The true voice is spinto. Nilsson is dramatic. She could never sing lyric.
MrCafiero 4 years ago 2
I agree A spinto she is but not a dramatic....
tjaphrodite 4 years ago
Spectacular!
paulostroff99 4 years ago
every time I see this I marvel at how she WORKS IT. Love her.
FoggyRoad81 4 years ago 2
"Zweite Brautnacht" heißt die Arie. Ausgezeichnet ist das Singen. Brava Mme. Price!
4lebenbaum 4 years ago
Mother Leontyne. The best ever.
jeffchester 4 years ago 2
This a miracle, at 63 old this dificul aria. Brava Price!!!! Braviiiiiisssiiiiiiima!
fajamaqui 4 years ago