Beverly Sills - Håkan Hagegård - Don Pasquale act I duet

[olobbus]

One of my favorite duets. They're great together!

[jamesjmertins]

This is not very good, mind you Sills was at the end but despite that her acting is still terrible, i always thought she was overhyped, as for him well!!!! at least he did not try to sing Macbeth/Boccanegra etc like some other baritone with the wrong voice.

[valerotti]

Cant help it! I love her!

[AiTaiwandeRen]

Yep, after all of these years I still can't get enough of her!

[Sochilinda]

He sings very good. I prefer this role than his Papageno. This one has more attitude. Now i know why Barbara Bonney marry him. Talented both!

[jmahlon]

in the 70s they werent as obsessed with forcing male opera singers to over darken and bark the sh*^ out of their singing to satisfy those with a lack of taste who want a "masculine" sound. If Bjoerling were to try to get a career today he would prolly get pigeon-holed into singing only Mozart and Rossini... ridiculous

[bleetenor]

Amen!

[oloferne84]

Cottarella la Signora eh...

[motardbear15]

To the "never happy" , just this : do you remember in wich state was Callas'voice after 1958'.........Just remember and then you will find that our Beverly was "not so in bad voice"!!!!!

[raigekimaru]

is Hakan Hagegard a baritone or a tenor? He sounds like he could pull off both fairly easily.

[Bjoerrelli]

He´s a "Swedish Baritone" this is the Swedish ideal sound of a baritone I say more tenor then Vickers!

[izar1234]

"I say more tenor that Vickers!"

Haha! If he tried to sing Tristan or Otello perhaps you wouldn't be inclined to think he's more of a tenor than Jon Vickers. Though it's definitely true that Vickers is more of a baritone than him!

[Bjoerrelli]

I meant just that he would offcourse be singing lyric tenor stuff if he would have shift rep, just like he´s brother Erland did.

[izar1234]

Aha, gotcha. BTW, I agree with you about his upper register.  I think he tends to sing "open" too high as Hampson does. And it's not just a matter of lightness of the voice as Hermann Prey, John Reardon and many other lighter baritones could "turn" their voices very well and avoid singing too open above the passagio.

[drdre333]

He is a lyric/light lyric baritone. Part of the reason why he sings so well in the upper range is that he knows how to negotiate it properly! His abilities remain intact, even at this age, and he's now officially retired I believe.

[Bjoerrelli]

I´m not that impressed by he´s upper register i´m much more impressed by Merrill, Warren, Bastianini, stacciari, Battistini, Ruffa or my favourite swedish Baritone Hugo Hasslo who was as high and light as a real Baritone can be atleast in my taste.

[moghedien13]

shes sounds quite good considering her voice was destroyed by then.

[pweny]

Destroyed?  Any soprano today would kill for her voice here!

[moghedien13]

Thats true because most sopranos today at their best can't beat sills at her worst, but there is no denying that her voice is far deteriorated. Her vibrato goes horribly wide at times and the top can be painful especially when she transitions. Its just the mark of the great artist she is that she can pull it all together in this sort of state.

[petelovesbevsills]

Yummy, adorable, professional stunning Bev!

Thank goodness we had singers of this callibre . BRAVA BEV!

[RossiniSoprano]

I have a recording of her singing this opera,but had never seen any video. Thanks so much for putting it up! So wonderful to see her face along with the great singing, to add to the enjoyment. :-)