Leontyne Price "Ach, ich fühl's" Die Zauberflote Salzburg

[OperaMystery80]

This is a beautiful and heart felt rendition of Ach ich fuhls by Price. Many light lyric dime a dozen Mozartian sopranos sing this with blandness but Price uses her voice with great effect, round, full notes, and yet with all the calmness it requires. This is a sad aria involving Pamina's attempted suicide and grief. I much prefer though Anna Moffo singing this (she has more emotion) as well as Dorothea Roschmann

[blauauge2]

not the best version of this aria,in my opinion. much more feeling for the phrase > grümmer,rothenberger, battle, te kanawa.

[higharch]

Perfect journey to "zuruck." Perfect voice. Perfect Price.

[KozenaFan]

@cuoredeinidi I feel somewhat the same way about Janet Baker's performance of that phrase in "Befreit."

[lovesGenet]

Moffo inthis is totally Italian sounding.Janowitz seems to me a perfect soprano for classical era and bigger voices for later Italian,french esp. Puccini. Bright in most Verdi.Price does it all.Her LeNozze Duchess was emotionally,timbre perfect.I've never heard her inMererbeerorWagner.Must find here!

[Operadiva2012]

I hope I can meet her one day! She is my idol!

[Dtenor87]

hu?

[dcurtis53]

Check our Diana Damrau's Queen of the night

[Operaddict]

And this one year before her retirement! Gorgeous!

[AmericanEvita]

I think that the Mozart soprano voice should sound BIGGER...Edda Moser was a dramatic coloratura whose technique I really liked...Leontine and Jessye Norman both sang Mozart roles (the Countess in Figaro) and have definate Mozartian voices...today they ought to allow bigger voices to sing Mozart

[swanningaround]

American. Leontyne has that special quality in that she can either have a very powerful voice or a delicate precise one as she chooses. Of all the American sopranos, I think she is the best, certainky in her hey day. Other greats include Lily Pons, Beverley Sills and Barbara Bonney from that part of the world. .

[dolcefico]

Humm--Then Callas was right yet again: Mozart should be sung by large voices!

[khothye]

Many lyrics sopranos has sing beautifully this difficult aria, like Kiri te Kanawa , Margaret Price and Gundula Janowitz. It's not a coloratura aria, but can be sung by a coloratura too (Natalie Dessay sings it well). However, the ideal is a lyric soprano because this aria has many chromatics possibilitys, and Leontyne Price shows that. BRAVISSIMA

[KozenaFan]

There are no atheists in foxholes.

There are no atheists when Leontyne Price sings.

[drmarvinlynn]

She can anything! Amazing.

[tigerpirate71]

Why is Leontyne and her large voice singing this coloratura aria at the same time she was singing the much bigger spinto Verdi and Puccini roles?

[fiercejarret]

Because She Can! :)

[inter215]

The only coloratura role in Magic Flute is the Queen of the Night. Pamina's music can be sung by any type of soprano. as long as she can handle its technical demands. The Wagnerian Johanna Gadski who had a larger voice than Leontine's specialized in singing this role. Singing this aria is like walking on a high wire while juggling balls and not falling off. Its very challenging. Try singing it sometime and you'll see. Leontine sings it about as well as anyone I've ever heard. Brava Leontine!

[loredinusa]

In fact, Pamina is a rounder voice, not so much a light soprano. It is much easier for a light soprano to sing it than for a round, full soprano, that's why so many sing it...Ideal is to have a soprano with a voice so special and rich as belgium truffels are...but that soprano must have a pure technique...This aria is...very revealing!

[yodavidnavarro]

This is singing! and all involved in opera!

[brodsky96]

dear onegin65... thanks for posting this wonderfull aria... I myself like another version more... I post it as a video-response... hope you like it!

[Trinite33]

Diva! Diva! Diva! Leontyne sings at this amazingly slow tempo and doesn't sound one bit deliberate while doing so. Everything is freedom here and introspective, contemplative beauty. The final ascent is unbelievable.

[BGSourgas]

mea culpa

[StephanAOTTO1]

I was swooning by the 5th note.LOL

[tenornmd]

This is what you call a voice lesson.

[ktpj]

All other Pamina's take note. Not many sopranos could combine poignancy, seamless legato, and gleaming tone without contradicting the text. Few may remember that Ms. Price sang Pamina early in her career, including performances with an English translation. This aria is far more difficult to sing than many realize, but Ms Price's skills are such that she does so with exquisite ease. With all due respect, who else could match this performance today?

Thank you, Onegin.

[BGSourgas]

i'm having trouble believing this is 1985!!!she'd been singing over 30years;

sensational

[brodsky96]

nobody could!!!!!!!... nobody and never!!!!!... well... she only can match it... I have an earlyer recording of this... that is really GENIAL!!!!

[jjh2456]

@ktpj The thing is the 2 blockbuster Queen of the Night arias overshadow everything in this opera. This is one of the most poingant pieces that Mozart wrote, and La Price just killed it. Beautiful!!!