Beverly Sills - Zerbinetta's aria - Ariadne auf Naxos

Beverly Sills - Zerbinetta's aria - Ariadne auf Naxos - 1969

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[mmbriggs]

anyone who charctareized sills as being of slender vocal means, must be serioulsy devoid of any knowledge of opera or vocalize, what a bore you are!

[junefun55]

When Sills, Sutherland and Caballe were all singing we took it for granted! Each wonderful in their own way. This is dazzling.

[maestrojimbo]

She performed the F#s at the Tanglewood performance with Leinsdorf.

[RoOodOoOloOmeg]

@skitzo429 Dude, the aria last ten minutes and the F#s are two or three plus the final F. Who cares those four or five notes? Didn't you listen to the whole 1912 version of this aria? Even if high notes are omitted, this is hystorical.

[Snowydog123]

Aren't we lucky to have this wonderful document of Sills in unusual repetoire (for her) and fresh voice. Please do not misunderstand me, many of the later videos of her in her more central repetoire are wonderful, too. The way she execultes the trills in the middle, well only one singer ever could execute trills as precise as that, Joan Sutherland and she never even sang this aria once. Sills was a great great artist and I will remember all the performances I was lucky enough to see forever.

[skitzo429]

I dont really see the sense in singing the original higher key version if she was going to omit all of the F#s

[skitzo429]

@opera7bubbles this is the 1912 version, and she omitted all of the F#s

[LLehmannfan]

@opera7bubbles Yes, that's right. She sings the original version of this aria, which Strauss had to put aside, because the singer he wanted to sing Zerbinetta (by the way - German Coloratura Frieda Hempel) was not able to stop her contract with the Metropolitan Opera. The revision of the aria was much less difficult.

[Csanfer14]

This is one of the Arias in which really like her....I don´t like her in all the coloratura rolls but this performance was and  still is really exceptional!

[bkmustang07]

Oh ok thanks I love Sills I like some of the creative runs she does and her breath control was out of this world

[opera7bubbles]

She did sing the Queen of the night, so it'd be an F. However, in her autobiography she said she did in fact perform the 1912 (or whatever) version of Ariadne with the F#s. And, at the end of the terzetone in her live 1969 L'assedio she either hits and holds an E or an F I don't quite remember.