Eileen Farrel - Suicidio

[antares291]

Потрясающий,великолепный голос!

[lahire22]

@antares291

да! Эйлин потрясающая! ПРИМА!

[robin678]

WONDERFUL

[Paddy818]

Truly one of the greatest! Thanks for posting it.

[monpitt500]

I sang once with her in The Messiah and she was astounding

[nirebreaf]

stunning.breathtaking

[anninchicago]

What a majestic, tremendous powerhouse of a voice!

[mjmacmtenor]

I saw her in the 70s with Sherril Milnes in recital. She was past her prime but still magnificent. She sang her solos (Ritorna Vincitor, Liebestod) by memory, but sang their duets reading the music (with glasses). Miles acted up a storm while she just stood there - and sang him off the stage!!

[cleanears]

Saw her do a fantastic "Forza del Destino" with tucker at the old Met!!! Great huge voice that we don't hear anymore.

[SENAFOREVER]

She certainly studied the aria with Rosa Ponselle!!!

Bavisima forever!!!! What a great artiste!!!!!

[felicia1882]

Thank you for posting!

[caddlac]

Brings back wonderfull memories,of her on the Bell telephone Hour and Ed Sullivan show.

[stingabe]

Now here is a Dame with a voice!

[mrrk]

So underrated. What a voice.

[nohpiano]

i had almost forgotten.......wonderful

[Operafiend22]

This is wonderful to watch. Opera fanatics always yap about Callas and Tebaldi, and while I'm fans of both, all too often we forget about the other great sopranos like Farrel, Milanov, etc... She was such an extraordinary singer and the voice...heaven sent.

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Brava indeed! And what a good comment. Isn't YouTube wonderful letting us share these gems and keep the memories alive of the equally great singers the major companies failed to record. Sadly, I never heard Farrell live. Was it huge? I think Flagstad had the most spacious voice I heard - in her very last concert. I am uploading two other wonderful singers, Virginia Zeani [famous Violetta] and Oda Slobodskaya [Chaliapin's soprano] and 'bringing them in from the cold'!

[jkircher314]

Virginia Zeani's Traviata is my favorite!

[juadan]

Brava!  That's how to sing!

[metropolitan1966]

Brava! That was a Singer. Beautiful and wonderfully imagined. Gran Dio!

[RVP57]

One of the finest voices ever, and equally successful in 'crossover'. I grew up listening to her on my dad's old Columbia LPs, and for me she is 'the' voice of so many fave and famous arias. Love her!

[marchesano]

She was one of the greatest voices ever, anywhere. It was too large to capture well on recording, especially the TV sound of her time. She could cover up the brass in a Wagnerian orchestra. All while being extraordinarily musical and never losing phrasing.

[Operacrazed]

Wow !

Beautifully sung...surely one of the best ever renditions of this difficult aria.

Gloriously phrased, powerful and emotional, yet subtle singing.

[benderpm]

Magnificent! Brava Diva.

[verdiguy]

Wonderful! Surely one of the most majestic voices ever to sing at the Met. Rich, powerful voice but capable of scaling down to a gorgeous whisper. Her intensity is also pretty impressive, considering that this seems to be a staged excerpt rather than a complete performance. I have her Verdi duet CD with Richard Tucker, which gives an even better idea of her vocal powers. Thanks for posting!

[BeauTenor]

I have that Album too...I read somewhere that the had to put her 5 or 6 feet BEHIND Tucker (who was no slouch, to be sure- he had plenty of squillo) because she totally drowned him out and they couldn't get the levels to balance otherwise. She had a HUGE voice, and it's funny to me how it seems as though she was so overlooked by fans who love voices like this. It's probably because she didn't record well...