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I'd probably need to start with K too!

No teacher would ever teach someone to sing like this ever again... but this is now an historic moment in operatic history and should be remembered as such!!

When I first discovered Youtube.... I hoped I would eventually find this clip. THANK YOU.

I think both singers present extreme vocal accomplishment and appear to deliver this aria for the pure joy and exhilaration of the music and give us a chance to enjoy for both of those things as well. Cecilia has nothing to be ashamed of but you do, with captions like that.

Given that this probably the hardest 50 seconds of the role, I think it's pretty good. What a horrible caption to put against this clip.

Who is that idiot saying Dessay's E-Flat sounds like a struggle? I dare say she has made more money from her E-Flat than anyone else in the last 20 years and her E-Flat is a totally exciting compliment to the rest of her Lucia. Completely different placement to Sutherland's and lets face it... a ...

Excellent work

Sounds like she's sight-reading again.

The Rolls Royce of Kostelnickas! This was the first opera I ever saw in the Sydney Opera House and even in the cheap seats, she pinned us all to the back wall with her performance(s) - especially with this aria. A GREAT thing that this has been captured on film. Most under-celebrated soprano of o...