My Favorite High Notes in Opera (High E)

0:11-0:32 - Je veux vivre (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette).
0:33-0:43 - À vos jeux, mes amis (Thomas: Hamlet).
0:44-1:09 - Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio! KV 418 (Mozart).
1:10-1:36 - No, no, che non sei capace KV 419 (Mozart).
1:37-2:00 - Großmächtige Prinzessin (Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos).
2:01-2:30 - An der schönen blauen Donau (Die Kaiserin).
2:31-3:01 - Zauberlied der Nacht (Das Lied Der Nachtigall).
3:02-3:24 - Où va la jeune indoue (Delibes: Lakmé).
3:25-3:43 - À vos jeux, mes amis (Thomas: Hamlet).
3:44-4:08 - Se tradirmi tu potrai (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor).
4:09-4:37 - Le Jour Naissait Dans Le Bocage (Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment).
4:38-5:05 - Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini).
5:06-5:30 - O, amour, mysterieux amour (Sauget: Les Caprices de Marianne).
5:31-5:56 - Ah! la pena in lor piombò (Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda).
5:57-6:21 - Come tacer ... vorrei spiegarvi il giubilo (Rossini: La cambiale di matrimonio).
6:22-6:48 - Mercè, dilette amiche (Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani).
6:49-7:18 - Miseri pargoletti (Mayr: Medea in Corinto).
7:19-7:46 - tier Maldè! ... Caro Nome (Verdi: Rigoletto).
7:47-8:18 - Bel raggio lusinghier (Rossini: Semiramide).

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[primohomme]

Great compilation, and different approaches to such a high note, some more slender and some full and fiercing

[BZBlaner]

@primohomme My ears can never resist a full sound being taken up to those heights.

[KathrynARyder]

I LOVE IT!!! Delightful! What a wonderful homage to the art of coloratura!!! Thank you!!!!

[BZBlaner]

@KathrynARyder Thanks for watching!

[KathrynARyder]

@BZBlaner - Will you be doing High F's next? :)

[BZBlaner]

@KathrynARyder Yes ... and all the way up to G#6.

[raigekimaru]

@Devotedlamb19

fair enough (she has a beautiful voice) but I still think Joan's high notes are usually more effortless because of the way she approaches them (Joan has one of the best vocal techniques of the 20th century). she's also a HUGE, Wagner sized voice if you were to take it up a third and can produce power and drama just with the sheer size of the voice (more lyric voices tend to have to add drama to the performance in other ways)

[themasterflexG]

Joan Sutherland, Natalie Dessay and Maria Callas are the Best for ME :)

[Devotedlamb19]

@raigekimaru I actually think Dessay's Es are more effortless than Joan's since Dessay is a light lyric coloratura. I also prefer Dessay's sound. But, to each his own.

[raigekimaru]

@Devotedlamb19

personally I like Sutherland's the best. Dessay's high notes sound a little to "forced dramatic" for my tastes. Sutherland's high notes pour out effortlessly like a fountain. Dessay sounds like a moody princess; Sutherland sounds like a majestic, powerful queen.

[Devotedlamb19]

Natalie is the best at this note to me. Sills is amazing as well and so is Joan. Renee and Price were very impressive as well.