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@NewArtsParadigm If you re-read my post, you'll see that I was referring SPECIFICALLY to Audrey and Julie's achievements in the *CINEMATIC/FILM* industry. Not overall careers. :) :)

@chrischico In the original sheet music, the "of" note is only a CROTCHET (Americans call it a quarter note I hear). So that's basically how Michelle sings it, but I think she held the note longer like the other Nessaroses, when she returned to the role in 2009. I don't think it's crucial to hold...

@stanibol I've heard Audrey's own takes. The main problem was that Audrey wasn't a classically trained soprano, unlike Marni & Julie Andrews, so they should have transposed songs like this one down to a LOW MEZZO key - in which case, she could have sung at least as successfully as Vanessa Redgrav...

Virginia Bruce sings this to a very young James Stewart in "Born to Dance", in order to convince him that she is crazy about him. If you haven't seen the film yet, you NEED to buy it - it's available on Amazon.

She looks absolutely *CELESTIAL* as she performs it - and demonstrates what *REAL* A...

She brings her aching vulnerability to this song - definitely the most poignant version of this number since the original rendition by Virginia Bruce. Other people who have sung it, including Frank Sinatra, RUIN it by making it schmaltzy.

@theclassicqueen I think the best version of this song is the original - by Virginia Bruce, in the film "Born to Dance" - but this is a hundred times better than later versions that completely distort the composer's intentions.

@YellowTexasRose90 It's more about the rich kid's ATTITUDE and TOUGHNESS though. :) :)

The orchestrations may be the original from 1925, but unfortunately the singing STYLE couldn't be MORE *MODERN* here. They should have emulated the vocal style of the 1920s, if they really wanted to give audiences a sense of the original performances (which are fortunately available on CD for die...

Not the song for Rebecca Luker. The music is in too MIDDLE-LOW a tessitura for her, and doesn't do ANY justice to her soprano voice!!!!! :( :( For the definitive version of this number, listen to Judy Garland's performance in the film "Till the Clouds Roll By".

@AulicExclusiva Don't worry, it happens to the best. lol. This is still "a magical realisation of the music" like you said, "at a PERFECTLY SEDUCTIVE TEMPO" - as befits Cherubino!!!!

@Gary2837 Yes, they say she died after complications ensuing from a face lift. But I'm not sure whether this has been confirmed conclusively. I happen to like her VISSI D'ARTE, because I personally think she brought a lot of SENSITIVITY and a SUBLIME type of pathos to this famous aria. I know tha...

She sounds a lot like Marni Nixon here (the American singer who dubbed Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn in the 50s and 60s). :)

Melba was astonishingly versatile!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She could tackle so many different genres of music, and adapt the very timbre of her voice accordingly!!!!...

@xxkewldudexx F4 is the F above Middle C.

@Jjayd1st Would the singing frog's initials be T. H, by any chance? :P

Melba - unlike several others in this clip - conveys Lucia's madness with FABULOUS ARTISTRY *WHILST* retaining the SHEER *BEAUTY* AND MUSICALITY of both her voice and the vocal line!!!!! The other divas featured here tend to do only one or the other - either focus on the character's madness from ...

@Factboy12 I wouldn't say the French Canadian "L'univers a mes pieds" is BETTER than the original English "Universal Appeal", but it's definitely JUST AS GREAT - and really really captures the essence of Pizzazz's superiority complex, like you said!! :) :P But you're right, some of the other song...