Beverly Sills sings Zerbinetta (vaimusic.com)

http://vaimusic.com/VIDEO/DVD_4363_BSO_Leinsdorf_AriadneAufNaxos.htm
Excerpt from "Grossmächtige Prinzessin" sung by Beverly Sills
From: VAI DVD 4363 Aridane auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
Beverly Sills, in the role of Zerbinetta, triumphs over the formidable challenges of perhaps the most difficult coloratura role ever written, and Claire Watson is ideal in the title role of Ariadne in this latest installment in VAIs series of historic telecasts from the archives of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This legendary 1969 concert performance marked the US premiere of the original 1912 version of the opera. The orchestra is under the direction of the BSOs Music Director Erich Leinsdorf, and the cast also includes Robert Nagy, John Reardon, Benita Valente, Carole Bogard, and James Billings.
93 minutes, Color
With optional subtitles in English, French, German, and Italian.
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[senesino83]

Well guys, when one sings like THAT, it doesn't really matter if it has F or G or whatever. The rest of the aria is so much harder that singing one single high note, whatever!

Here Bev is just AWESOME :)

[baritonebynight]

Apparently Sills did sing the F#s previously but no known recording exists. F#s or no F#s...she was pretty amazing here!

[BentonHess]

I was actually working for the Boston Symphony when this production happened. Beverly had a horrible cold and was thoroughly miserable. It was amazing it came out as well as it did.

[SlovenskyRaj]

@chrizosthemis DEFINITELY picking up their mutes from the floor and putting them in the bell of the horn.

[CincinnatiTenor]

@chrizosthemis Getting thier mutes for the Horn

[dodacon]

As to the height of the music stand - just LOOK! She's elevated on a platform above the orchestra... if the stand were raised, it would come between Beverly's face and the audience down in the hall where she's singing!

[manidonno10]

Thank God for editors - much of this music is just redundant...

[Manxypop]

@15platinum Maybe she was far-sighted?

[papoocanada]

makes you wonder why coloraturas today cast as Zerbinetta sing the "easier" version of the revised scene instead of learning the original properly........if they can sing Rossini, Donizetti and other bel canto scores, why not Strauss ?

[tenore37]

probably getting a mute of some sort

[chrizosthemis]

1:35 what are doing these men?

[ChristophePhilippe]

I'm surprised the head tones could make it through that hair.