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Although the aria has been transposed down so the note is not a high F, it is a high E ... but having sung High Cs galore let me tell you that sometime they are there and sometimes they are not. It takes the same kind of physical effort as a primal scream to reach those ultra high notes and well ...

There's nothing funny about this. Her voice teacher should be shot.

Here is another light weight. Pretty sounds but she would die at the Met today.

I am amazed at what ordinary voices these ladies had. This simply doesn't compare to what we have around today. It is nice to have recordings so we can hear what they sounded like. But there is a lack of musicianship, musicality and quality of voice. This cannot compare to Sutherland or Sills or ...

In 1962, in Karachi, I heard (over BBC shortwave)her in a new production of "Lucia di Lammermoor". I was so blown away that at 13 years old I wrote a fan letter to her . A few months later I got an autographed photograph from her thanking me. I still have the photograph.

I am very grateful that...