Thrilling high notes!

I just picked up some selections of huge and thrilling high notes among my recordings. Here I don't mean those exciting and incredibly high notes, but especially those that thrills us because of their amazing power and fearlessness, even if not exactly a High E-flat. So, the selections are:

1) Maria Callas in "Sempre libera" (La Traviata), 1951;
2) Kirsten Flagstad, together with Lauritz Melchior, in the Love Duet of Tristan und Isolde, 1941;
3) Hilde Gueden in "Unheivolle Daphne!" (Daphne), 1964;
4) Joan Sutherland in "Salut à la France" (La Fille du Régiment), 1973;
5) Régine Crespin in "Hojotoho!" (Die Walküre), 1966;
6) Birgit Nilsson in "Was bluten muss" (Elektra), 1965;
7) Astrid Varnay, together with Wolfgang Windgassen, in "Ewig war ich" (Siegfried), 1953;
8) Giulietta Simionato in the Love Duet of Les Huguenots, 1962;
9) Renata Tebaldi in "Pace, pace, mio Dio" (La Forza del Destino), 1953;
10) Marisa Galvany in "Ah! segnata è la mia sorte" (Anna Bolena);
11) and Renée Fleming in "Dis-moi que je suis belle" (Thaïs), 2007.

Category:

Music

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• opera
• callas
• sutherland
• nilsson
• flagstad
• fleming
• crespin
• tebaldi
• varnay
• galvany
• gueden
• simionato

[Gabriel13187]

incredible... Fleming auf dieser Liste????

[Joeleole]

NILSSON NILSSON NILSSON!!!!!!!

[theater42]

@singer101 I know what lousy technique sounds like

[singer101]

@theater42 obviously u don't know anything about opera.

[theater42]

Callas is all over the place. Awful.

[duchesslove04]

oh yeah! I can hit those notes baby! :D

[gmmix]

Fascinating compilation of great voices. Each is really special in her own way. Were they not all justifiably venerated and legendary? Thanks for this video.

[philipc67]

Tebaldi? High notes? Even in her prime she barely managed high Bs and Cs, which were usually brief, or transposed, or slightly flat, or all of the above...

[nedingen]

The High C belonged to Birgit Nilsson !You can not compare her with the other singers !

[NEBESHIKU]

@paternostro63 Really? Nothing that Tebaldi can sing can hold a candle against de E-flat that Callas sang during the triumphal march when Callas drowned by her self the orquetra, the chorus and the other singers in Mexico City.

[dimitrovajunkie]

@NEBESHIKU

And sometimes the C didn't come so easily.

[tebaldicallas]

@yodavidnavarro Nilsson had high notes but were colorless.