Supervia sings "Musetta's Waltz" in 1934 film "Evensong"

[yunshanwanli]

Brava！

Forever Supervia!

[AUDIOPHlLE]

Fantastic. Until now I've only heard her sing it in French.

[Rigelcentauri58]

Por qué actualmente ya no se canta asi?? con esta belleza de voz.....y de

mujer. Me pregunto por qué la técnica de voz ha cambiado tanto.

[Aviva2121]

My Grandad George Treger was in this movie, playing the gypsy violinist.

[Loobs666]

@Aviva2121 My grandad was the lighting engineer in this movie.... your Grandad tried to sell my Grandad some pegs, and then stole all the copper plumbing from his shed.

[Aviva2121]

@Loobs666: I assume that's a cheap joke based on the word 'gypsy'. Then let me rephrase - my Grandad was a violinist dressed up as a gypsy in this film; he serenades the blonde actress with a beautiful solo. He died in 2002.

[raanan17]

Surely one of God's gifts to mankind.

[CraigFrancisSoto]

I know that Supervia is highly regarded but her very narrow or rapid vibrato is not attractive to me.But its all very subjective I know.

[Pawelp]

I think we're used to slightly to slow vibratos nowadays, though Supervia does have a tremolo to my ear... yet.. it is so effortless and beautiful.. it made me cry more than once.. and it's not a sad aria :)

[LordMgls]

I've just been reading now, and it seems to be as De Lucia: witnesses say they didn't sing with the vibrato, and that the vibrato is sort of some distortion of the grammophon.

[Tenorboy29307]

Has anyone tried recording some of our currently premiere singers using this technology? It may answer a few questions.

[petrof4056]

nada es muy triste que la muerte de Supervia en el mundo de canto. For me, she was one of the best women singers ever

[Xeresa18]

Didn't Conchita Supervia died a few years after this movie from complications from childbirth? Que gran perdida de la belleza y talento de una artista divina!

[chewincito]

desde lo profundo de mi corazon te mando el recuerdo mas hermoso que jamas hayas tenido soy una descendiente tuya y me siento muy orgullosade haver tenido un ser tan bello en la historia y aunque no puedas escucharme yo sere ahora tu voz gracias por llevar tan alto nuestro apellido y seguro que desde el cielo veras todo lo bello que sembraste gracias cchita supervia tu voz permanecera siempre intacta y ahora estaras deleitando con tu voz a los angeles duerme para siemre una diva

[chewincito]

la mejor

[gondorado]

wow, thx for this video

[lasultanica]

Brava Conchita! Thank you WeicheWotan. Fantastic video.

[Oneguin65]

What charming Conchita Supervia!!! Nice video, thanks.

[Patriciasinger]

Thankyou! I wonder if you could post the Spanish songs she sings after the opera? I think they're pretty fragmentary but still well worth it, and of course hellishly rare footage.

[WeicheWotan]

You're welcome! I just posted the Spanish songs. I don't think the Brits who made this film recognized what a great cinema character Supervia was -- otherwise they would have written in a few more scenes for her in the script.

[Patriciasinger]

Quite right! The cutting-room floor had better stuff than the rest of the entire film! By the way, the book the film is based on, Evensong by Beverley Nichols (of 'Down the Garden Path' fame) is hilarious! He did NOT like being Melba's secretary and this was his revenge. They burnt effigies of him throughout Australia for years afterwards.