Im glad someone taped this even if it was pirated :) I adore Sills, she was my first soprano who got me into opera.....what a beautiful voice...Beverly Sills is now an angel singing in Heaven.....
I have never heard Sills singing Lucrezia Borgia before, though Sills was one of the beloved sopranos for many years. Thanks to her art I discovered so many operas something like 22 years ago when I bought app. 20 kg of LPs during my visit to Canada and brought this with me to Poland. It was just the beginning of CD era but nobody even dreamed about YouTube! Thanks for these clips!
Many thanks for posting this. I was lucky enough to be at that performance. (It doesn't matter which one it was, I was at all of them.) For those wondering, at about 5:12, the scene shifts to the Act 1 duet with Don Alfonso, played by Richard Fredericks.
BRAVA!! Incredibile ~ Not only incredible to be seen, but to also include an aria antiche / alternate aria?!? Sublime ~ BLESS YOU StuartLou ~ it's futile to attempt to comment on the exquisite wonder and beauty of Beverly's performance, but to the exquisite GIFT that you have bestowed upon us, I THANK YOU endlessly ~ if you'd happen to have any of her Lucia entrance or exit aria or Anna Bolena's "Coppia Iniqua" I would die a happy man!! Tante grazia ancora!
Is this possible? Have I died and gone straight to heaven????? Yes I have and thank you StuartLou for this incredible upload!!! I NEVER dreamt that I would EVER see live uploads of Beverly on YouTube but you have sorted that out for me!!!! Brava Beloved Beverly and BRVO StuartLou!!!!
Interpretazione "GIGANTESCA"
fratelcarlo 9 months ago
Thank you so much for this - incredible to experience the whole package as it were. Can't thank you enough.
fullbuck50 10 months ago
sbalorditivo... i hope more vids from this performance will come out in the next future!!
jovi1715 11 months ago
Im glad someone taped this even if it was pirated :) I adore Sills, she was my first soprano who got me into opera.....what a beautiful voice...Beverly Sills is now an angel singing in Heaven.....
AmericanEvita 1 year ago
Thank you for this gift.
looksee26 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting. You've made my day, and week and.....;-)
eelco67 1 year ago
i can only say thank you soooooooooo much! i've been waiting for somehting like this!
cleanears 2 years ago
Oh StuartLou, I JUST LOVE YOU, you know...
SENAFOREVER 2 years ago
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I have never heard Sills singing Lucrezia Borgia before, though Sills was one of the beloved sopranos for many years. Thanks to her art I discovered so many operas something like 22 years ago when I bought app. 20 kg of LPs during my visit to Canada and brought this with me to Poland. It was just the beginning of CD era but nobody even dreamed about YouTube! Thanks for these clips!
arsoperae 2 years ago
Many thanks for posting this. I was lucky enough to be at that performance. (It doesn't matter which one it was, I was at all of them.) For those wondering, at about 5:12, the scene shifts to the Act 1 duet with Don Alfonso, played by Richard Fredericks.
IRememberBeverly 2 years ago
Correction: Alfonso has to be Adib Fazah. According to the NYCO Annals, Price and Fredericks never appeared together.
IRememberBeverly 2 years ago
MISERICORDIA!!!
WHAT AM I SEEING?!
A live Beverly video in a Donizetti opera!
These don't exist- that's what everyone said.
StuartLou, you are some type of angel.
Thank you for posting this! (and part 2!)
I just got my Christmas present early! :)
GOD bless us everyone!
(And especialy dear Bubbles and StuartLou!)
sillsfan2002 2 years ago 9
BRAVA!! Incredibile ~ Not only incredible to be seen, but to also include an aria antiche / alternate aria?!? Sublime ~ BLESS YOU StuartLou ~ it's futile to attempt to comment on the exquisite wonder and beauty of Beverly's performance, but to the exquisite GIFT that you have bestowed upon us, I THANK YOU endlessly ~ if you'd happen to have any of her Lucia entrance or exit aria or Anna Bolena's "Coppia Iniqua" I would die a happy man!! Tante grazia ancora!
Ronizetti 2 years ago 7
... sorry, this is about all i have with Beverly- and It wasn't easy getting this.
StuartLou 2 years ago
Dear StuartLou--bless you for sharing this! It's an unbelievable gift!!
AiTaiwandeRen 2 years ago 3
Is this possible? Have I died and gone straight to heaven????? Yes I have and thank you StuartLou for this incredible upload!!! I NEVER dreamt that I would EVER see live uploads of Beverly on YouTube but you have sorted that out for me!!!! Brava Beloved Beverly and BRVO StuartLou!!!!
petelovesbevsills 2 years ago 6
wonderful, thank you for uploading!!!
primohomme 2 years ago 6