Renee Fleming's E6s in Il Viaggio a Reims (and her B6 in the ending laughter)

Very young Renee Fleming exhibiting a solid E6 natural, while at the end she climbs up to a prety loud B6 at the laughing scale

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[supersourpatchdude]

Also, I tried extracting the audio from this video and lowering it to E-flat like the original key, and it sounded more like Fleming... I really hope this is not fabricated in anyway...

[LohengrinT]

@supersourpatchdude

No it is just that anti-Fleming fans have fabricated the high pitch theory of this excerpt the same way the anti-Callas fans fabricated the fast tape theory in Callas' F6 in Rossini's Armida - unfortunately for them Fleming has sung up to G6 as stacatto and B6 in laughing scales and Callas up to F6 sustained and fabulous :p

[raunchy9305]

unfortunately she misses a ton of notes and slurs over some of the runs. If you want to hear them all listen to Lelia Cuberli on the Abbado Pesaro recording. All in all tho' much better than I expected it to be.

[PukKoleszka]

@aragall77 Fleming is great always!

[alithecrab]

@pedrofribeiro Luciana Serra's rendition is also well-worth a listen. Great aria.

[BZBlaner]

Not only does she hit a perfectly placed E6 (poor stupid Edita would already be scooping), but goes down to a supported B3 right after! She is a miracle of a Lyric Soprano.

[primohomme]

@LohengrinT

Callas definetely had a high F...in her "Merci dilette amiche" live when she goes for the high E she overshoots and lands on an F before centering on the E, it's technically off key but it shows she had indeed an F6.

And Renee has also sung a glissando up to A6 in a performance of "I got rhythm".

[aragall77]

@LohengrinT ????

[aragall77]

@LohengrinT I know :-)

[LohengrinT]

@pedrofribeiro

Indeed no-one else swalloed half of the written notes like Sutherland did :)))