Opera singers from this era who included in their "skill set" the ability to croon for the radio brought a lovely intimate quality to operatic arias. This part of the art form has declined. I suppose because we don't get a daily dose of The Firestone Hour and the operettas of Sigmund Romberg. The unabashed sentiment of the popular songs of the 30s and 40s were lovely companions to the art of operatic singing
thank you for this post, a treasure from a great singer. This film has immense charm and the great Georges Thill, too! Moore was a charismatic star and this excerpt is a good indication why she was held is such high regard.
bradleyjenks: You list Brownlee an admirable tenor to be sure but you don't mention Juan Diego Florez who IS A GREAT SINGER. Of the current crop of artists before the public only Florez, Alvarez, and Heppner will be legendary at some point among tenors. As for Corelli and his scooping I HATE IT but the Met and other opera houses would almost kill for a tenor like him or Tucker who could sing the heavy Verdi and Puccini roles. Thomas Hampson singing Verdi roles is a total farce.
@gaytenor I agree that there are some roles that are harder to cast these days, but there ARE people who do them, and do them justice. My point is that there is some fantastic singing going on today, and for some reason people who are under the impression that there was some mythical "golden age" of singing that is over..... they bash on some of the loveliest singers that ever opened their mouths. And that I can't abide. Richard Croft, for example, could sing the phone book and make me cry.
bradleyjenks: Part II In the 50s and 60s we had great Puccini singing also but I suggest that you try to cast Manon Lescaut from any of the current singers at the Met that could even match the performances of Kirsten, Tebaldi, Tucker, Del Monaco, Bjorling, Albanese, Price, etc. As for Turandot with Licitra as Calaf I thought torture was illegal! Listen to Price and then tell me how great Fleming is!Fleming does have a well produced voice but one that sings everything the same. BORING, BORING
@gaytenor Whether Fleming MOVES a person or not is totally arguable. I take exception when people say that singers of her caliber "suck".... And it's true that it seems there were more good singers back then, but the reality is that we are looking back at a small handful of singers that cover multiple decades. The reality is that there are only ever a few people at a time that can even SING the harder roles, and right now we have fewer. I did hear the Kaufmann Tosca, thought he sounded great.
@bradleyjenks Small group of singers at any one time? In the 1950s the Metropolitan had on its roster Del Monaco, Tucker, Konya, Bergonzi, DiStefano, Peerce etc., for Puccini and Verdi roles. For the Italian operas they had Milanov, Tebaldi, and Maria Callas among others. As for Bjorling he sang in Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, and Tosca to great acclaim. Who sings like these artists? And for that matter who sings Handel and Mozart as Peerce did in terms of the coloratura passages with RING!!!
@gaytenor .....and Fleming doesn't really sing Puccini generally. And of the singers you list, Tucker sang more in tune than Del Monaco, Bjorling was careful with his Puccini choices, as he was a much more lyric voice. So that leaves the one. You see my point? If they were singing today, you'd say that Bjoerling was too quiet, Del Monaco was short on his highest notes, that Corelli had a lisp and scooped and sobbed too much, etc... there weren't really tons more back in the day.
@bradleyjenks As to Kaufmann I am an admirer of his singing a couple of years ago before he apparently took coaching from Cura. Del Monaco had a high d-flat so much for a short top and he didn't flat all that much and his live Dick Johnson with Steber and his Alvaro with Milanov and Warren are legendary performances. A Peerce performance of 'E la solita storia' from the Met recorded in-house at age 64 is better sung and PROJECTED than anyone can touch today, save, perhaps, Marcelo Alvarez.
Love Grace Moore, love the flowers, the histrionics and the beautiful rendering... but can I hang on to my devotion in this aria to Ninnon Vallin... And it's 'not just her French, either... Cheers!
I'd heard that she appeared in LOUISE in film but had never seen it..until now. Nice to see her most famous role has been captured on film so we who didn't know her "in the day" can enjoy her artistry years later. Thank you, BelCanto Society, for this peak into Opera's golden past.
I wish someone would repost this clip and embed it so I could share it with others. It's so beautiful. Although Grace had given up films by buying out her Columbia contract she wanted this to be her swan song and her contribution to the film industry. Her dedication to sharing her love of opera with the masses is to be commended. She loved people and music and wanted both to be together.
The high b natural has to be done in messa di voce. She does it quite well. To-day is easier to do this when it's recorded in studio... Any way how lucky she was to sing with the great french tenor Georges Thill.
who said it's supposed to be done in messa di voce? she is supposed to be a young teenager and young teenagers explode in excitement. They don't do messa di voce or mezza voce.
Quite lovely. I have never seen nor heard Grace Moore until I watched this, and, although obviously lip-synched as was the custom in movies in those days, quite enchanting. My favorite comment about Grace Moore was made by Nicola Rescigno in the mid 70's, when he remarked that, although Grace Moore was considered not a great soprano in her day, "today she would be considered among the greatest." That is even more true in 2007.
Grace Moore was coached by the Scottish soprano Mary Garden (1878-1967) who famously took over the role at the Opera-Comique in the middlle of the opera!
She sings with a great deal of "splash" which is most definitely missing from today's operatic interpreters. Today there is way too much vocal blandness and not much in the style of coloration these arias no longer seem to mean anything.
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Well it's difficult to know how sounded the voice. The only thing I would like to say that even with . as it's said with Charpentier mentor, she does not do any of the composer indication, the dynamic and her french is enough bad. But she was a beautiful woman and right for Louise. Fleming. Cotrubas, they do a marvelous interpretation with dynamic and good French.
@VinylToVideo Are you retarded? Many people have sung this beautifully. But, how can you take exception to Fleming's version? It's FAMOUSLY beautiful! It was the thing that turned her from a working, successful singer into a star.
@bradleyjenks Fleming might as well be a mouse singing opera. Her bland voice and typical anemic style of singing do absolutely nothing for me. What turned her into a "star" is marketing, just like every other shitty singer of the last 30 years.
@VinylToVideo Oh...... I see, you are one of THOSE people... those folks for whom everything sucks except that which came in the past. Just remember, Grace Moore had a hard time getting an opera career going, and lots of other singers from that era had people saying the same things about them that you say about singers of today. In the end, there are good singers today....MANY.....and you only manage to miss out on great live performing if you dismiss contemporary singers.
@bradleyjenks Moore never had much difficulty as you say; in the early to mid 20s she was singing on Broadway and after training in France made her operatic debut at the Met in 1928 followed by performances at the Opera-Comique that year and later at Covent Garden. Moore was somewhat controversial for being in the movies but she never did leave opera. There are good singers today but years ago almost ALL were good. And unfortunately today the best singers are not even the more famous ones.
@VinylToVideo My understanding is that she went to France to train further specifically BECAUSE she had no luck in her twenties, getting hired finally at 30. My point is that she, like all singers, has ups and downs. Singers years ago were not ALL good. We just don't hear the people that weren't superstars. Frankly, those that we DO hear about sometimes didn't sing so well. Tauber (Nasal), Melchior (nasal and out of tune), Galli-Curci had to stop and retrain, as did Tebaldi, etc..
@bradleyjenk Whatever; most singers now don't even have much of a voice to begin with and the odds today are so poor that they'll get any sort of career that most don't even bother and we end up stuck with crap. The singers you call nasal and out of tune are considered some of the best ever; why not take them over others with lesser voices? It's unfortunate but singing has totally gone downhill and those who say otherwise are delusional. Wait 50 years; even today's singers will be sorely missed!
@VinylToVideo Pure silliness..... Heppner, Fleming, DiDonato, Graham, Gunn, Kauffmann, Croft (both), Brownlee, Bartoli and countless others, out there and singing gorgeously. Singing as well, or in some cases, better, than most of this music has been sung before. And I know that those I listed are considered some of the greatest. And that is my point. They WERE some of the greatest. And yet they still had these issues or idiosyncrasies. The point is that singing today is as good as it ever was
@bradleyjenks I must thank you for your mention of names like Gunn and those others I've never heard of; now I really know the sort of ignorance I'm dealing with. Opera is absolutely dead and perhaps if we still had good singers it wouldn't be and we'd also still have the several opera recordings made every year, the several weekly live and studio broadcasts and telecasts, plus all the opera movies. But we don't (fortunately!). And after hearing your singing I won't bother replying again either!
@VinylToVideo Thanks for that casual insult to my singing. I'm not a professional singer, just a guy who sings, I don't sing at that level. But thanks for the insult all the same. And I don't know if your words are sarcastic or dense. We DO have opera recordings, weekly broadcasts and movies.... You are unkind, petty, ignorant and the only singers you reserve kind words for can't appreciate them, because they are dead. Which is probably good for them, if they were alive, you'd say they suck.
@bradleyjenks Pray tell who can sing the Verdi roles? Did you actually listen to the sounds out of Kaufmann in the Met Tosca broadcast. Yet another potentially great voice trashed by a very musical pinhead. Did you hear the noises made by Cura and Licitra and the excessive vibrato of Calleja? The point is simply that singing is not what it once was. In the 40s and 50s Kurt Baum was an all purpose tenor that could perform the roles assigned to him when Tucker, etc. was ill today he'd be #1.
people people. No one can deny that she sings this well. Because she does. The question becomes who sings it the best. It depends on what you prefer. If you prefer softer richer tones than fleming is the best(and personally my pick) but if you like straight forward tone then this is the one.
I think LADY00010 should have her ears (and head) examined! To say this "sounds absolutely terrible" is the most ignorant, absurd comment on youtube! Obviously a Britney Spears fan! (And Rene is OK, but Grace owns this one).
This is absolutely wonderful! The best performance I´ve heard alongside the one with Ileana Cotrubas. The only thing I knew about this singer (sadly enough) was that she died in the same plane-crash as the Swedish prince Gustaf Adolf (father of the present king.) This LOOKS like a Hollywood-film - but the SINGING is very far from it! (what a pleasant surprise when she opens her mouth.)
This is sung with purity of tone, exactly the way a soprano is supposed to sound - not HOOTY as in all the sopranos today. Actually, everyone should listen to Dorothy Maynor who also exemplified the Golden Age of Singing in this aria.
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I think she's very uneven in the high notes, I think it sounds absolutely terrible, Renee Fleming is absolutely perfect for the repertoire. I feel as if I'm at the dentist without an anesthetic
"Carmen" was filmed in 1915 as a silent movie with Farrar. There was also British version of Carmen (under the title "Gypsy Blood") in 1931. I'm not sure how many others there were, but this is certainly not the first.
Yes, it's the best rendition of this aria by Grace Moore, better than in the november 1937, Radio city Hall concert, even better than the Met 1943 performance under Beecham...
like moore and maynor , steber, albanese and kirsten are well worth a listen. but the combination of passion and beauty exhibited here is hard to beat
Opera singers from this era who included in their "skill set" the ability to croon for the radio brought a lovely intimate quality to operatic arias. This part of the art form has declined. I suppose because we don't get a daily dose of The Firestone Hour and the operettas of Sigmund Romberg. The unabashed sentiment of the popular songs of the 30s and 40s were lovely companions to the art of operatic singing
stephpwall 2 months ago
Wonderful and lovely, I had never seen or heard Moore do this. It was very moving, thank you for this great post! Cheers, William
wbondar 4 months ago
thank you for this post, a treasure from a great singer. This film has immense charm and the great Georges Thill, too! Moore was a charismatic star and this excerpt is a good indication why she was held is such high regard.
baltoman24 8 months ago
bradleyjenks: You list Brownlee an admirable tenor to be sure but you don't mention Juan Diego Florez who IS A GREAT SINGER. Of the current crop of artists before the public only Florez, Alvarez, and Heppner will be legendary at some point among tenors. As for Corelli and his scooping I HATE IT but the Met and other opera houses would almost kill for a tenor like him or Tucker who could sing the heavy Verdi and Puccini roles. Thomas Hampson singing Verdi roles is a total farce.
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor I agree that there are some roles that are harder to cast these days, but there ARE people who do them, and do them justice. My point is that there is some fantastic singing going on today, and for some reason people who are under the impression that there was some mythical "golden age" of singing that is over..... they bash on some of the loveliest singers that ever opened their mouths. And that I can't abide. Richard Croft, for example, could sing the phone book and make me cry.
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
bradleyjenks: Part II In the 50s and 60s we had great Puccini singing also but I suggest that you try to cast Manon Lescaut from any of the current singers at the Met that could even match the performances of Kirsten, Tebaldi, Tucker, Del Monaco, Bjorling, Albanese, Price, etc. As for Turandot with Licitra as Calaf I thought torture was illegal! Listen to Price and then tell me how great Fleming is!Fleming does have a well produced voice but one that sings everything the same. BORING, BORING
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor Whether Fleming MOVES a person or not is totally arguable. I take exception when people say that singers of her caliber "suck".... And it's true that it seems there were more good singers back then, but the reality is that we are looking back at a small handful of singers that cover multiple decades. The reality is that there are only ever a few people at a time that can even SING the harder roles, and right now we have fewer. I did hear the Kaufmann Tosca, thought he sounded great.
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenks Small group of singers at any one time? In the 1950s the Metropolitan had on its roster Del Monaco, Tucker, Konya, Bergonzi, DiStefano, Peerce etc., for Puccini and Verdi roles. For the Italian operas they had Milanov, Tebaldi, and Maria Callas among others. As for Bjorling he sang in Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, and Tosca to great acclaim. Who sings like these artists? And for that matter who sings Handel and Mozart as Peerce did in terms of the coloratura passages with RING!!!
gaytenor 1 year ago
@gaytenor .....and Fleming doesn't really sing Puccini generally. And of the singers you list, Tucker sang more in tune than Del Monaco, Bjorling was careful with his Puccini choices, as he was a much more lyric voice. So that leaves the one. You see my point? If they were singing today, you'd say that Bjoerling was too quiet, Del Monaco was short on his highest notes, that Corelli had a lisp and scooped and sobbed too much, etc... there weren't really tons more back in the day.
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenks As to Kaufmann I am an admirer of his singing a couple of years ago before he apparently took coaching from Cura. Del Monaco had a high d-flat so much for a short top and he didn't flat all that much and his live Dick Johnson with Steber and his Alvaro with Milanov and Warren are legendary performances. A Peerce performance of 'E la solita storia' from the Met recorded in-house at age 64 is better sung and PROJECTED than anyone can touch today, save, perhaps, Marcelo Alvarez.
gaytenor 1 year ago
STAR QUALITY! You know it when you see it - and hear it!
legatofancier 1 year ago
Beautifully sung!
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this... it is fabulous to have such a wealth of singers on youtube. I had never head of her.
klarynn 2 years ago 4
WHO could sing like that today?
SENAFOREVER 2 years ago 5
I have met one of the greatest Louise ever, who learned it from Ninon Vallin, she loves
Grace Moore in this gorgeous film.
SENAFOREVER 2 years ago 2
If you want ONE operatic DVD you'll want to keep forever, buy this.
SENAFOREVER 2 years ago 5
Love Grace Moore, love the flowers, the histrionics and the beautiful rendering... but can I hang on to my devotion in this aria to Ninnon Vallin... And it's 'not just her French, either... Cheers!
sebreathnach 2 years ago
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LobsngDmchoi 2 years ago 3
I thank you as well JRT
josemuso1 2 years ago
I am always in awe of ladies who can truly sing. Nothing in todays "music" can compare.
So beautiful, such talent.
Creaky1964 2 years ago 6
This looks great - I may have to buy it. Thank you Stefan, for these delectable tastes of BCS's offerings.
vstasov 2 years ago 3
Very sweet- but a little amusing when you consider they're supposed to be living in a humble cottage.
albanybeardguy 3 years ago
Well Charpentier obviously didn't have a problem with it...
VinylToVideo 3 years ago 5
LOL it took a full minute before I noticed that she was not alone sitting there, but that she had a guy kneeling at her feet! I had quite the shock!
OlgaSoprano 3 years ago 3
I'd heard that she appeared in LOUISE in film but had never seen it..until now. Nice to see her most famous role has been captured on film so we who didn't know her "in the day" can enjoy her artistry years later. Thank you, BelCanto Society, for this peak into Opera's golden past.
erzbet07 4 years ago 4
I wish someone would repost this clip and embed it so I could share it with others. It's so beautiful. Although Grace had given up films by buying out her Columbia contract she wanted this to be her swan song and her contribution to the film industry. Her dedication to sharing her love of opera with the masses is to be commended. She loved people and music and wanted both to be together.
mrfabulocity 4 years ago
The high b natural has to be done in messa di voce. She does it quite well. To-day is easier to do this when it's recorded in studio... Any way how lucky she was to sing with the great french tenor Georges Thill.
joanabanyeres 4 years ago
who said it's supposed to be done in messa di voce? she is supposed to be a young teenager and young teenagers explode in excitement. They don't do messa di voce or mezza voce.
viverito 3 years ago
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joanabanyeres 4 years ago
and you are right, my dear l am French. How is yours?
joanabanyeres 4 years ago
thanks for the video grace is my cousin, in kin to her threw her maternal stokely grand parents wich lives in del rio tn cocke co
donnabuckner 4 years ago
She's lovely. She IS Louise.
Hans NL
qklq42 4 years ago 8
Renee Fleming: better sound quality on recording. Grace Moore: better singing and performance quality.
eflaspo 4 years ago 4
Quite lovely. I have never seen nor heard Grace Moore until I watched this, and, although obviously lip-synched as was the custom in movies in those days, quite enchanting. My favorite comment about Grace Moore was made by Nicola Rescigno in the mid 70's, when he remarked that, although Grace Moore was considered not a great soprano in her day, "today she would be considered among the greatest." That is even more true in 2007.
eflaspo 4 years ago 4
Grace Moore was coached by the Scottish soprano Mary Garden (1878-1967) who famously took over the role at the Opera-Comique in the middlle of the opera!
ratisbon 4 years ago 2
She sings with a great deal of "splash" which is most definitely missing from today's operatic interpreters. Today there is way too much vocal blandness and not much in the style of coloration these arias no longer seem to mean anything.
BelliniNorma1 4 years ago 4
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Well it's difficult to know how sounded the voice. The only thing I would like to say that even with . as it's said with Charpentier mentor, she does not do any of the composer indication, the dynamic and her french is enough bad. But she was a beautiful woman and right for Louise. Fleming. Cotrubas, they do a marvelous interpretation with dynamic and good French.
joanabanyeres 4 years ago
Well, if you can handle Flemming squeaking along in this aria fine but I'll stick with Moore.
VinylToVideo 2 years ago 2
So bad is Renée?...
joanabanyeres 2 years ago
@VinylToVideo Are you retarded? Many people have sung this beautifully. But, how can you take exception to Fleming's version? It's FAMOUSLY beautiful! It was the thing that turned her from a working, successful singer into a star.
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenks Fleming might as well be a mouse singing opera. Her bland voice and typical anemic style of singing do absolutely nothing for me. What turned her into a "star" is marketing, just like every other shitty singer of the last 30 years.
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
@VinylToVideo Oh...... I see, you are one of THOSE people... those folks for whom everything sucks except that which came in the past. Just remember, Grace Moore had a hard time getting an opera career going, and lots of other singers from that era had people saying the same things about them that you say about singers of today. In the end, there are good singers today....MANY.....and you only manage to miss out on great live performing if you dismiss contemporary singers.
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenks Moore never had much difficulty as you say; in the early to mid 20s she was singing on Broadway and after training in France made her operatic debut at the Met in 1928 followed by performances at the Opera-Comique that year and later at Covent Garden. Moore was somewhat controversial for being in the movies but she never did leave opera. There are good singers today but years ago almost ALL were good. And unfortunately today the best singers are not even the more famous ones.
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
@VinylToVideo My understanding is that she went to France to train further specifically BECAUSE she had no luck in her twenties, getting hired finally at 30. My point is that she, like all singers, has ups and downs. Singers years ago were not ALL good. We just don't hear the people that weren't superstars. Frankly, those that we DO hear about sometimes didn't sing so well. Tauber (Nasal), Melchior (nasal and out of tune), Galli-Curci had to stop and retrain, as did Tebaldi, etc..
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenk Whatever; most singers now don't even have much of a voice to begin with and the odds today are so poor that they'll get any sort of career that most don't even bother and we end up stuck with crap. The singers you call nasal and out of tune are considered some of the best ever; why not take them over others with lesser voices? It's unfortunate but singing has totally gone downhill and those who say otherwise are delusional. Wait 50 years; even today's singers will be sorely missed!
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
@VinylToVideo Pure silliness..... Heppner, Fleming, DiDonato, Graham, Gunn, Kauffmann, Croft (both), Brownlee, Bartoli and countless others, out there and singing gorgeously. Singing as well, or in some cases, better, than most of this music has been sung before. And I know that those I listed are considered some of the greatest. And that is my point. They WERE some of the greatest. And yet they still had these issues or idiosyncrasies. The point is that singing today is as good as it ever was
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenks I must thank you for your mention of names like Gunn and those others I've never heard of; now I really know the sort of ignorance I'm dealing with. Opera is absolutely dead and perhaps if we still had good singers it wouldn't be and we'd also still have the several opera recordings made every year, the several weekly live and studio broadcasts and telecasts, plus all the opera movies. But we don't (fortunately!). And after hearing your singing I won't bother replying again either!
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
@VinylToVideo Thanks for that casual insult to my singing. I'm not a professional singer, just a guy who sings, I don't sing at that level. But thanks for the insult all the same. And I don't know if your words are sarcastic or dense. We DO have opera recordings, weekly broadcasts and movies.... You are unkind, petty, ignorant and the only singers you reserve kind words for can't appreciate them, because they are dead. Which is probably good for them, if they were alive, you'd say they suck.
bradleyjenks 1 year ago
@bradleyjenks Pray tell who can sing the Verdi roles? Did you actually listen to the sounds out of Kaufmann in the Met Tosca broadcast. Yet another potentially great voice trashed by a very musical pinhead. Did you hear the noises made by Cura and Licitra and the excessive vibrato of Calleja? The point is simply that singing is not what it once was. In the 40s and 50s Kurt Baum was an all purpose tenor that could perform the roles assigned to him when Tucker, etc. was ill today he'd be #1.
gaytenor 1 year ago
This is gorgeous singing !
Johnny1206 4 years ago 2
Has anyone heard Dorothy Kirsten sing this? She was the ideal Louise.
StuartHamilton 4 years ago
VERY GOOD.
OperaGhost1990 4 years ago
people people. No one can deny that she sings this well. Because she does. The question becomes who sings it the best. It depends on what you prefer. If you prefer softer richer tones than fleming is the best(and personally my pick) but if you like straight forward tone then this is the one.
garconfrancais01 4 years ago
I think LADY00010 should have her ears (and head) examined! To say this "sounds absolutely terrible" is the most ignorant, absurd comment on youtube! Obviously a Britney Spears fan! (And Rene is OK, but Grace owns this one).
greenstboy 4 years ago 3
This is absolutely wonderful! The best performance I´ve heard alongside the one with Ileana Cotrubas. The only thing I knew about this singer (sadly enough) was that she died in the same plane-crash as the Swedish prince Gustaf Adolf (father of the present king.) This LOOKS like a Hollywood-film - but the SINGING is very far from it! (what a pleasant surprise when she opens her mouth.)
ellandelachapelle 4 years ago
This is sung with purity of tone, exactly the way a soprano is supposed to sound - not HOOTY as in all the sopranos today. Actually, everyone should listen to Dorothy Maynor who also exemplified the Golden Age of Singing in this aria.
796824 4 years ago
I'm with kraneled - Ileana Cotrubas' Louise is extraordinary.
hotvicaronamyl 4 years ago
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I think she's very uneven in the high notes, I think it sounds absolutely terrible, Renee Fleming is absolutely perfect for the repertoire. I feel as if I'm at the dentist without an anesthetic
lady00010 4 years ago
Charpentier himself told her exactly how to sing it.
I suppose you know more than the composer.
mrfabulocity 4 years ago 11
@mrfabulocity For sure he coached her to sing the aria but he was not her singing professor nor her throat.
pslogge 1 year ago
Do you sing opera??? If not then please, cork it.
cillianslass 4 years ago 5
LOL Renee Flemming sucks!
VinylToVideo 3 years ago 5
Truly BEAUTIFUL!! What a thrill to hear. Thank you.
norcross124 4 years ago 2
What a valuable document of an artist of great charm. But I agree with the commenter above - try to hear Dorothy Maynor's recording, too, some time.
Moegiust 4 years ago
I believe this to be the first filmed opera.
She filmed it in France with Charpentier as her mentor.
Abel Gance was the director. This was Miss Moore's final film.
mrfabulocity 4 years ago
"Carmen" was filmed in 1915 as a silent movie with Farrar. There was also British version of Carmen (under the title "Gypsy Blood") in 1931. I'm not sure how many others there were, but this is certainly not the first.
RobNYNY1957 3 years ago
Yes, it's the best rendition of this aria by Grace Moore, better than in the november 1937, Radio city Hall concert, even better than the Met 1943 performance under Beecham...
She is so charming
Many thanks
ghbook 4 years ago 2
Lovely and listen also to Dorothy Maynor. No one today who can match either.
796824 4 years ago
like moore and maynor , steber, albanese and kirsten are well worth a listen. but the combination of passion and beauty exhibited here is hard to beat
ilprincipedipersia 4 years ago 2
Thanks! This is the best Depius le jour I have heard.
elinorberg 4 years ago 2
try to hear ileana cotrubas, more poetic and sensuell.
kraneled 4 years ago
Love it! Thanks
operadonna 5 years ago
so lovely, thankyou....from grace moore :o)
dewbottle 5 years ago
Thanks for sharing this video. I do have the original video from Bel Canto, but it's nice to see this clip. A tragic loss when that plane went down.
cabelleto 5 years ago