Margaret Price sings Dove sono (Le nozze di Figaro)

[TJAcoustic]

The Most Beautiful Voice I have ever heard.

[fairlytaleofnewyork]

Thank you so much for posting this historical gem. R.I.P.

She is deeply missed. True wonderful soprano.

[embenadorfinearts]

Comment I of II It is with great sadness that Dame Margaret price passed away on January 28,2011. The world has lost one of the most luminous voice, with superb legato and a rare and unique musical sense. Her repertoire was always chosen carefully to suit her voice and she is a fully accomplished lieder interpret. In her personal life she was a very courageous person, suffering from her legs since childhood with difficult surgeries and remained in pain for the rest of her life.

[embenadorfinearts]

Comment II of II She also was a very caring person in taking care of a brother mentally challenged. All of these can be actually heard in her warm interpretation and superb maitrise of sounds. Thank you Dame Margaret Price for giving us so much emotions ! Thank you for posting this video. Please listen also an amazing interpretation of Mozart: Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio.

[fairlytaleofnewyork]

Many thanks for positng this histrical gem.

R.I P Margaret Price.She is deeply missed.

[youkali22]

not just wonderful but excellent technique in the total register - the rrrrs and the vowels! plus the tremendous and building pianissimo at about 5,14

[faithculturekiss]

The note at 2:29 in the recit.... piano executed perfectly. Ahh! I agree too with operaoaf3.... recit acted amazingly. I'm so thankful YouTube exists so she is never really gone :)

[Coloraturissimo]

One of best Countesses, one of best voices - EVER!!! :) & :( God bless You, Dame! RIP

[traxelable]

RIP ... one of the best sopranos of our time!!!

[fferocious]

According to Wikipedia this songbird, Margaret Price, died yesterday Jan.28, 2011. Miss Price was 69 years old and died of heart failure.

[MAmezzo]

RIP indeed! :(

[drhalsall]

RIP

[danubius36]

Great, great, great! Never heard better .... R.I.P.

[Wotan123456789]

R.I.P. Dear Margaret

[blauauge2]

when was it?

[wTrevorh]

What a touching rendition!

[SFOtter]

This was an "opera in the park" performance in Golden Gate Park by the San Francisco Opera. Kurt Herbert Adler was the conductor. How I love this woman's voice.

[mabemawi]

This is simply the most beautiful rendition of this aria that I know.

[alyssaathina09]

Absolutely phantastic!!!!! Ten stars from me!

[minnie888444]

4. Again thanks for posting this jewel, even if the atmosphere I discussed before is an example of the modern world and how it lost its reverence for art. Everything is "nice," this is not a temple where the sacred work of art comes to life.

But let us ignore all that and focus on Ms. Price's stupendous performance.

[EightballRus]

@minnie888444 do your research love and I quote, "Early opera houses were often boisterous and unruly. They were also lit by candles which—when combined with perspiration, perfume, and little ventilation—made opera night fairly ripe." AND "After hearing of scandolous behaivor at the Tor di Nona in 1697, Pope Innocent XII (1615-1700) decreed the opera house immoral and ordered it to be burned to the ground."

[minnie888444]

3. Even worse, the announcer speaks meaninglessly explaining that the public is quieting down or something, there is a moving bar in the middle of the aria announcing the next show, why couldn't they wait and put it during the applause or at the beginning, before she started singing?

[minnie888444]

2. Unfortunately, the conductor is unable to emphasize the deeply sad accents in Mozart's orchestration. At least it is good that he does not get her confused.

Terrible atmosphere: they are all dressed as if going to the supermarket to buy tomatoes!

[EightballRus]

@minnie888444 It's an outdoor, free summer performance you nit. SF Opera taking opera (and not your attitude thank God, to the people)

[minnie888444]

1. Thanks 1 million for posting. A wonderful opportunity not only to hear, but also to see her wonderful technique! A splendid lesson in opera singing. Superb sense of style.

Perhaps the best rendition of this excruciatingly difficult aria as far back as I can remember. Margaret Price, a priceless artist!

[fairlytaleofnewyork]

Abusolutely wonderful! What a beautiful voice she has!

Love it so much, thank you for posting!

Best regards

Satoko

[CaptainBluebear08]

In the sixties, Price sang Marzelline in Covent Garden and had the rehearsals under Otto Klemperer. At one occasion, Price complained about her having a cold and not feeling well, Klemperer said "Well, then you better retreat and go to bed indeed. With me."

[iWalkure]

How lovely she sings this aria - love the "marbles" in the Rs that she uses all the time. Is that an older technique that is somewhat forgotten or what ? why singers don't use this technique as frequently - any reason ?

[silvr94]

personally i love it. but people criticise it because italians don't roll their Rs that harshly. so it is considered bad (well - exaggerated!) diction.

[operaworld48]

Paris. Garnier. Libermann. 70's. I was there for Strehler. I met la Contessa. At the end of "Dove sono", the tremolo-vibrato of Margaret made me definitivly a opera lover. I knew at last what was the operatic perfection. I live for that from now on.

[TimAmukele]

Amazing!

[paminaase]

She is definitely my favorite Countess!

[Heraopera]

BRAAAAAAVA! Grace in tone and technique! What a beauty! And live sung.... This is Mozart! Elegant and bella voce.....

[RayBusmann]

Thank you!! I saw Dame Margret Price performing the Countess in Cologne, Germany in the 70s... and it made me fall in love with opera. She has a voice like fluid gold. It means a lot to me to watch this video and experience her again.

[westmalle3]

How lovely this - but what an unkempt audience - it surely cannot be that warm?

[OperaGod]

This is the most perfect voice of mozart with no doubt. She is incredible.

[pagerbear]

Just beautiful. I can't say anything that hasn't been said before--her beauty of tone, her legato and phrasing, her interpretation are all stunning. Makes one wish one could have seen her perform Mozart.

[hawks3101]

Brava Diva!

[osvaldito55]

Dove sono i bei momenti di dolcezza e di piacer? She asks. They are in her voice. A flawless, moving performance of a great aria by a great artist.

[sarasava]

Is this real?Voice from heaven!

[Tristiano]

i know it is so well supported and the breath is perfect, never mind the tone ....beyond!

[operajk]

One of my first "extase" when I heard her in Paris in 1973: I fall in love of this voice.

Thank you to post this aria, the same some years after.

She is one of the best "mozartienne"

[bicobotscho]

PERFECTO!!!!

[Nico35]

Us Brits should be ashamed as we let her go and she did not perform in the UK for many years. Also the record companies did not snap her up, what a great pity. One of the greatest voices ever.

[parker930]

It is so wonderful to be able to see this video! I just don't get the chance to see singers of this quality very much this day in age. Brava Margaret!

[verdiguy]

Superb!

Beautiful voice. She creates a real sense

of attachment with her characters and has

an ease of facility with the coloratura.

A major talent, who sang Verdi and Wagner,

she is perhaps the most underrated soprano

of the 1970s and 1980s.

Brava Margaret!

Thanks for posting!

[operaoaf]

Her recitative is exquisitive. Few singers truly take the time to fully explore the emotions in this very critical prologue to the aria. She meticulously reveals the colorful array of emotions of the character to make the following aria more meaningful. Furthermore, her voice is pure lyric silver. Her notes are never forceful and very spontaneous.

[owenboi66]

I completely agree with you. For me, she has the most perfect voice for Mozart - and almost anything else she chooses to sing - or rather chose to sing. What happened to her?

[tobiashaaks]

Thank you so much for this video!

I always melt, when i hear her sing...

[besokind]

celestial!!!!!