I notice that Victoria De Los Angeles isn't included. She had the common sense to vary her repertoire as she aged. I don't know if she had any bad performances, if so, I haven't heard a note out of place.

Wagnerian soprano:it is not "high"dramatic. Hochdramatisch is better translating to "big dramatic", because Wagnerian roles are the lowest soprano roles, she can be sung even by a mezzo most of the times.

Victoria de los Angeles in the 1990's when she was in her 70's.

Lesson nr 1 Don't go on for too long

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Maria Callas foi (é ) a maior!A Divina,a rainha da ópera!Permanece no trono até hoje!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🇵🇹

Callas is the best, and set the bar so high that nobody has come close to equaling her achievements, let alone surpassing them!! Legend!! 🌟

Vielen Dank für dieses Video! Die Grössten ihrer Zeit - und die Grösste war m.E. Cristina Deutekom!

My four favorites are missing from this video and they are still with us. Helen Donath, Ileana Cotrubas, Martina Arroyo and Reri Grist.

Insulting.not Monsserat Cabelle,at 74,if you can hit those notes,I would be surprised.wendy UK.

Gosh, I hope I can sing like that when I'm 67!

Caballe sounded good here, high notes as clear as Chrystal.

Fiorenza Cossotto was past her prime, too wobbly.

Edita Gruberova stayed too long at the Fair.

Katia Ricciarelli’s best singing days are behind. She’s often flat in her intonation.

Elena sounds appropriately menacing. Lower register is a grand organ here.

Agnes Baltsa sounds good here.

Eva Marton is wobbling too much - sounds as if she’s singing on a water or vibrating bed.

What happened to Katia’s pitch and intonation?

Honorary? LOL! First, someone needs to school Sock Monkey in production values. Having the name, birthday and aria plastered across the screen, obscuring the singers' face is Internet Posting 101. You put that at the bottom and don't obscure the image. Second, the choices are a joke. Clearly Sock Monkey likes them old, worn out, flat, out of breath. Really cruel and silly video. Finishing with the cult-troll Magda Olivero at age 96 says it all. She's the worst of the lot, but Sock Monkey pays tribute to her.......what? She was never any good at any age!

Callas was still 49 in that London concert. She would turn 50 a few days after. As to Caballé she is not singing live... Is a poorly lip singing video. She wasn't 74 when she recorded that song, but 64.

La Tebaldi possedeva ancora un bellissimo colore vocale...

I am Callas fan. However, no one ever surpasses Tebaldi's Cio Cio san~

Many times a mature voice is much more interesting!

OK I’m gonna say something that’s probably gonna get me hated in the opera community but I feel like this is just mocking these ladies because yeah they’re past their prime they’re not as young as they were but the fact that they can still sing like that in any capacity and the fact that they’re still doing what they love because they love doing it should be admired not made fun of This is ridiculous.

Renata Scotto still had an active career here.

My skull was cracked open when I heard the Turandot duet with Birgit Nillson and Franco Corelli.

Should add Caballee in Orange (Norma). And there are also some tenors and basses around. Melchior Siegmund and Siegfried, M Price Liebvestod, Nilsson's Salome at the Met Gala. Nice to hear the famous Mexico City Aida! She brought down the house. But that Turandot at the end is something else!

So awful…. Can’t they stop as did Maria Callas (the Japanese tour with Di Stefano was meant to pay for the treatment of his daughter ´se cancer )….

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I was a bit gobsacked to see only 596 Likes It's just crazy, I'm no Classical or Opera nut, but Classical music is the music that has lasted hundreds of years, opera is the singing that has lasted hundreds of years. You would think that if someone had gone to the trouble of putting together the best clips, at least 1 million people out of a population of 8.1 Billion might watch.

Gheorgiu really sounds awfull!

Stemme is holding onto a steering wheel? Wtf

I think its unfair to include Callas, who was suffering from an undiagnosed neurological condition

Brava, Magda Olivero, BRAVA!!

The Tebaldi clip is from her last American concert tour. I saw her in Chicago on that tour and she was remarkable given that she had been singing for 35 years at that point.

All that I can say is that when the vocal will not be in form it is the artiste total that I see. and for me that is very important.I don not have to go I can stay at home (. but I go to see a wonderfull artiste that has so much love and understanding of the music and stage . ) It is a miester class from them Edward Arckless ex Royal Oper Ballet Covent Garden London and conservatoire ville de Paris.

There are many great sopranos here, Brigit Nilsson, Montserrat Caballe, Maria Callas. A great and underrated soprano was Eileen Farrell, and there are some great older sopranos as well such as Rosa Ponselle. The one who stood the most in this compilation was Franco Corelli. lol

i really miss her🥲

more or less just a focus on the same old 50s and 60's singers. although that Dimitrova Gioconda was really extraordinary and not something I've heard before

The entire Christa Ludwig concert that her clip originates from exists here on KZbin and its dated 1994. (Although there's a version of her Morgen excerpt dated 1993). That would make Ludwig about 66 in the clip NOT 75. She was born in 1928. She still sounds magnificent for 66. The tone and vocal integrity are solid and she sounds entirely like herself. Only her highest (soprano) notes are gone which isn't unusual for someone age 66.

There is OBLY ONE GREAT MOMENT in Opera: Isolde's Liebestod, the rest is just average opera singing.

Flagstad is terribly recorded off pitch

Callas ❤

Cristina Deutekom is still very impressive!

Ах, какая подборка....Аж до слёз...БЛАГОДАРЮ!!!

The Nilsson recording was a joke tongue-in-cheeck demo in 1996 as she said that did things "her way" . She was 78 yo.

What a big chest voice from ghena😍. She sound like Tenor.

Ludwig, Bumbry and Sutherland and Price weren't past it. It's how they always sounded.

For contraltos, I would have gladly gone with Elvira Casazza, Sigrid Onegin, Dame Clara Butt, Armida Parsi-Pettinella, Kathleen Ferrier, Louise Kirkby-Lunn, Marian Anderson, Louise Homer, Marie Delna, Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Margarete Klose, Alice Raveau, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink.