My Favorite High Notes in Opera (High C#6)

My favorite High C#6s from various opera singers. Enjoy!

0:12-0:29 - Dieu! Comme cette nuit est lente ... Ombre Legere (Meyerbeer: Dinorah)
0:30-0:51 - Un pensiero nemico di pace (Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Dis inganno)
0:52-1:13 - Conduit moi vers celui que, j'adore (Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe)
1:14-1:26 - Glitter and Be Gay (Berstein: Candide)
1:27-1:51 - Ombre legere (Shadow Song) (Meyerbeer: Dinorah)
1:52-2:13 - Follie! Follie! Delirio vano (Verdi: La Traviata)
2:14-2:32 - O Holy Night
2:33-2:58 - Dover, giustizia, amor (Handel: Ariodante)
2:59-3:20 - Ancora un Passo or Via (Madama Butterfly)
3:21-3:48 - D'amor sull'ali rosee (Verdi: Il Trovatore)
3:49-4:14 - Sovra il sen la man mi posa (Bellini: La Sonnambula)
4:15-4:37 - Franchigia a Floria Tosca (Puccini: Tosca)
4:38-4:56 - Empress Awakening Scene (Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten)
4:57-5:23 - Una macchia e qui tuttora (Verdi: Macbeth)

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[LohengrinT]

-Leontyne's Db6 in Quanto cielo is simply amazing - what year is that from?

-Nilsson 4:33 now this is a fantastic exhibition of high and real low voice

-Bartoli had forgotten to gargle in the morning so she decided to do it in the studio? what a lol vocalization that I am sure she is quite proud of

-Renee's flawless Db6 at 1:20 - perfection

-Poor Montsi in her early years needed only a slight pause before switching to her "miraculous" falsetto top register later on it would take her about 5 secs

[BZBlaner]

@LohengrinT Leontyne's Db6 is from the 1962 studio recording with Leinsdorf conducting. Please also take note of that full bodied Db6 she unleashes in the Empress Awakening Scene. It's a marvel!

[marylambcarter]

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[BZBlaner]

@marylambcarter Thanks! :)

[Yoelslash]

Callas ♥

[Devotedlamb19]

Love Joan's notes. Maria's first C#6 was great and the preceding coloratura was insane. Cabelle's pianissimo is wonderful and Ewa Podles is a marvel. Price's first C#6 was just beautiful.

[LohengrinT]

@Bigman240

yes and if I recall correctly it is fantastic

[Bigman240]

@BZBlaner I find that high not in the Empress Awakening Scene a little forced.

[Bigman240]

@LohengrinT Have you heard Leontyne's high note at the end of "Caro nome"?

[raigekimaru]

Ewa Podles is a freak. the core of her voice is a deep, chocolately contralto but she sings high Cs, Ds and Ebs with perfect, easy placement and spinning overtones that would put many coloratura sopranos to shame.

[MAPIAKALLAS]

the c 6 of callas was awesome brava divina

[MOROficiaL]

Woww!!! Montserrat Caballè's piannisimo in Follie!, Follie! :O ♫

[ChrisStockslager]

@sicuro75 I dunno, Sutherland's voice had that kind of ping live, so that may not be studio trickery.

[sicuro75]

@ChrisStockslager I believe that was more the echo effect from the studio recording that gave the illusion of the high D vibrating the walls. What amazing nuances and enhancements a studio recording can do for a coloraturas voice,that's why there's nothing like a live recording to see what a singer really has..