Lucrezia Borgia: Com'e bello (Beverly Sills)

From a performance in NYCO, Sills sings this aria with a very rare cavaletta, rarely performed!! such a jewel!

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[gtelloz]

i have that recording, and the cavaletta is not there...let me check

[AmericanEvita]

Nice "tribute" video to Beverly Sills...she holds a special place in my heart because she was my first introduction to the soprano voice in opera...she's the one singer who got me into opera...I love her voice, it's like sunshine, it's motherly, it's warm and beautiful...she was a great singer who did not let success get to her head...rest in peace ..an angel singing in Heaven

[MastersoftheOpera]

I love Beverly Sills. Her Lucrezia when compared to Caballe and Sutherland lacks the bigger "dark" quality or the "evil" part for the historic ambitious murderer-aristocrat. Sills played up the the "mother" part which works great for this opera since it's about a mother and her son, whom she only poisons accidentally. Sills has a great talent for bel canto and this role was very good for her. And now we have her Norma on CD as well. Brava Sills...forever.

[cesare1906]

thats ugly

[pfeliks]

It's CaBaletta not Cavelleta

[mmbriggs]

its interesting to hear this performance, because in the private video of this aria, sills takes a very quick breadth near the end of her incredibly long and wonderfully ornamented, roulade that stops the flow in the middle of a descending scale. here she takes the same roulade on a single breadth with no break in the scale. sills has said, that even with all her technique, if she was feeling tired she would come up short of breath and this is the only obvious example i know.

[mmbriggs]

its interesting to hear this performance, because in the privtae video of this aria, sills takes a very quick breadth near the end of her incredibly long and wonderfully ornamented, roulade that stops the flow in the middle of a descending scale. here she takes the same roulade on a single breadth with no break in the scale. sills has said, that even with all her technique, if she was feeling tired she would come up short of breath and this is the only obvious example i know.

[christieheathert0n]

@luxsolis75 Montserrat Caballé sí que la ha cantado en los teatros; aquí tienes unos ejemplos:

Nueva York 1965, Marsiglia 1968, Londres 1968, Filadelfia 1969, Milano 1970, Barcelona 1970, etc. Y de todos los que menciono hay grabaciones...

[MonsieurDarcy]

It's quite a pity she never made a complete studio recording of Lucrezia. As my favourite opera to date, I think Sills has added something new to the role. Her tessitura has actually thickened by this time, hence it is natural if not most apt choice to sing this role. The cabaletta must have been from the revised version. Prefer just the complete aria though - it's probably the most tender aria ever composed by Donizetti or for the matter, any composer.

[BEVER29]

@romondesbert Le mi bémol est un peu bas il est vrai et trop vibré mais Beverly pouvait-elle,au NYCO, s'en passer? .Pour ce qui est de la cabalette additionnelle, composée pour

Méric-Lalande qui souhaitait(de son propre aveu) briller dans l'ajout de variations,il faut la considérer comme"salonarde" par nature. Ceci posé contrairement à "Era desso il figlio mio"cette cabalette n'est pas du meilleur cru et Donizetti semble avoir été réelement contraint ici de satisfaire un caprice!

[geoff189d]

I checked - the other recording is also Caballe.

[geoff189d]

I didn't recognise the cabaletta although I have the Caballe recording mentioned. But then, I haven't played it for over 30 years. I have a slightly later recording which I prefer. Forget who sang Lucrezia.

[romondesbert]

Beverly cède à son pêché mignon qui consiste à orner à outrance dès qu'il y a une cabalette, ce qui souvent dénature cette musique en lui donnant un côté salonard. Et comme ici elle n'est plus à son zénith, même si la virtuosité est toujours stupéfiante, elle termine sur un aigu magnifiquement ... faux ! Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.