One of the best performances of any live concertized oratorio. Hands down. Every single run is precise and has musicality. She was an excellent musician. Expression beyond belief as well.
@Janaceks_Dad2 жыл бұрын
A song about an extremely vain woman, sung by another extremely vain woman...
@Janaceks_Dad2 жыл бұрын
But she sings like an angel
@bq-92386 ай бұрын
Shut up!
@robertkildare85172 жыл бұрын
I attended the 1985 Carnegie Hall concert. The highlight for me was when she sang "Swing low, Sweet Chariot." She pulled a vocal trick on the last note that made the audience scream. And then wild applause. Marian Anderson was there that night and was saluted from the stage by Miss Battle. The Diva waved off the accompanist a few times when she hadn't settled herself. She reached an early peak with "Ombra Mai Fu." I would love to live that night again.
@germanquintero101219462 жыл бұрын
EXQUISITO
@НатальяМихалёва-э7с3 жыл бұрын
/Слушайте настоящую музыку и будете счастливы и здоровы. / Listen to real music and be happy and healthy!!! kzbin.info/door/N4ocByPdisi-fcrHGeTTNgvideos П.И. Чайковский "Средь шумного бала" _ Наталия Михалева ,сопрано/ Ирина Васильева ,фортепиано kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXS8lqeBfNt_f6M П. Чайковский "Закатилось солнце"_ Наталья Михалева, сопрано / Ирина Васильева, фортепиано kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWjbfqqdrZeMlcU Natalia Mikhaleva-Lisa THE QUEEN OF SPADES TCHAIKOVSKY kzbin.info/www/bejne/oF6aqqmbaN-dh9k Беллини Каста Дива/ Casta Diva Vincenzo Bellini kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6nUoIdpra-pr5Y
@ChagoWilson3 жыл бұрын
Happy 73rd Anniversary Of Life Thursday, August 13, 2021 Our Dearest & Most Precious Kathleen Battle You Are A Special Gift To Us All!
@ChagoWilson3 жыл бұрын
Happy 73rd Anniversary Of Life Thursday, August 13, 2021 Our Dearest & Most Precious Kathleen Battle You Are A Special Gift To Us All!
@marisataffini17893 жыл бұрын
Voce eccelsa interpretazione eccelsa ascoltarlo èvivere momenti di vera gioia in tutte le sue interpretazioni si può solo dire Bravo Bravissimo Arcibravo
@vivianbelissima4 жыл бұрын
Bravissima
@josephalfano22844 жыл бұрын
Now go and look up Beverly Sills "Myself I shall adore" although tonally I prefer the studio recording that Ms. Battles recorded.
@thefingerofgod694 жыл бұрын
Sublime!
@thefingerofgod694 жыл бұрын
And the crowd goes wild!!!
@7H7GRm8jm4QCnjuQ4 жыл бұрын
The best part is the applause. Something like 45 seconds. They knew singing that night
@skakdosmer4 жыл бұрын
I've never liked his timbre.
@AulicExclusiva5 жыл бұрын
This is singing!
@Teddyb19396 жыл бұрын
A magnificent, beautiful voice, Samuel Ramey sounding lovely.
@Teddyb19396 жыл бұрын
Will listen to the ladies later, had to get this comment on quickly, going out.
@mscott39186 жыл бұрын
If there is a more perfect performance of this I have never heard it.
@balloalsavoy6 жыл бұрын
Ammazza!!!!!
@MaximilianGarbe6 жыл бұрын
The best of all time! Our Kathy❤️❤️❤️
@danielhawkins47836 жыл бұрын
I'm a neophyte as an opera aficionado; this is a good place to start. thanks!
@theogoldberg89195 жыл бұрын
Good luck with the Opera journey, whether you do it or just audience, it's endless!!!
@perolsen42716 жыл бұрын
Words fail me. Wonderful, sprightly, joyful music performed by an inspired singer of sparkling talent. Pure pleasure.
@cn96306 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU BOSTON POPS CUSTOMER SERVICE DOR HELPING ME LOCATE THIS SINGER AND THIS EXACT PIECE AFTER AT LEAST 25 YEARS...(And, during this piece, she had held a mirror as she sung it... it was just such an amazingly wonderful performance)!!! IT WAS THE PIECE THAT TURNED MY DAUGHTER INTO AN OPERA LOVER AND HELPED SWAY HER TO BECOMING A CONCERT BASSOONIST!!! OH, HOW I HAD LOOKED... OH,.....ALL OF THE EMAILS, AND NOW, FINALLY,... ....THE SEARCHING IS FINALLY OVER... HALLELUJAH!!!
@josephalfano22847 жыл бұрын
Leonardi! Laurenti, It's Carnegie Hall. That's the acoustics there.
@baritonebynight7 жыл бұрын
That's Ms. Horne singing Juno and Sylvia McNair singing Iris.
@trab497 жыл бұрын
Silvery tone, effortless coloratura, unwavering breath support. This aria has been spoilt for me.
@jondavwal133 жыл бұрын
Funny, and no disrespect meant, but this sound is defined as silvery, as is early Sutherland. To me, it's all gold, warmth and beauty. I never get the silver metaphor when describing the best singing the world has ever heard.
@101mosioatunya7 жыл бұрын
The Non-pareille! What a stunning performance. I can listen to this again and again and never tire of it.
@tenorschofield8 жыл бұрын
Both are superb!!!BRAVI!!!!
@tenorschofield8 жыл бұрын
...sorry wrong question;is Kathleen Battle the soprano with Rockwell Blake?
@tenorschofield8 жыл бұрын
MARVELOUS!!!
@liviuflorindinu77769 жыл бұрын
Breathtaking
@ThrivingJean10 жыл бұрын
Oh ecstasy of happyness indeed!
@ThrivingJean10 жыл бұрын
However self destructive and winding her lifes path may have been, this lush and shining splendour is registered forever, and that's all that matters to me, what a truely great, great artist!
@jondavwal1311 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This just shows you what is missing from opera today. Nobody sings like this anymore, with a sound that can just make you cry by just being.
@jondavwal1311 жыл бұрын
Just wow. Can you imagine being there and not really knowing who she was in 1985? Like Being at Sutherland's first Lucia in 1961. Lucky people who were at this performance. Thankfully, I heard Battle in Giulio Cesare in 1988. It was one of the greatest performances I've ever heard at the Met, if not THE greatest.
@thomasmartin409110 жыл бұрын
The reviewer may not have known much about her but, she had been singing opera professionally for 10 years in 1985 and was 37 years old, she certainly wasn't unknown though it does seem to be around the time when she was becoming very well known. I'd never compare her to Sutherland who's tone I've never cared for.
@jondavwal1310 жыл бұрын
Thomas Martin Sutherland had also been around for about ten years in 1961. My point was the effect of this performance on her career, not the relative similarities in the voices. Battle was responsible for some of the greatest performances I've ever heard but if you're being objective, she comes nowhere to the towering achievements of Sutherland. Whether you like her tone or not, she is widely considered either the greatest soprano of the 20th century or one of the top 3 (for those who ridiculously include Ponselle, a voice none of them has ever heard live). Battle had a remarkably beautiful voice, but at times it was to tiny as to be inaudible (for those of use who heard, or didn't hear as it were, her Zerbinetta at the Met.
@thomasmartin409110 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Wallach Sutherland could do some amazing things for sure but, if I can't stand to listen to her then I can't really personally call her great. Just like I wouldn't call a pianist great simply for hitting all the right notes.
@jondavwal136 жыл бұрын
Listen to her performance of Santo di Patria. It is probably the greatest recording by a soprano in history. Nobody else could sing it like that before or since. Massive, monstrous, ringing sound, light and agile at the same time. It's unique in opera history.
@josephalfano22844 жыл бұрын
I was there and everyone knew who she was. Marlyn Horne was in the performance as well. An evening I will never forget.
@Hexmeyer11 жыл бұрын
A rich true bass who could sing coloratura. Pretty rare in the days since WW I.
@MaximilianGarbe11 жыл бұрын
Simply the Best...!!!
@alexanderfisher5276 жыл бұрын
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@chriswaddell750811 жыл бұрын
Thanks you for loading this - a superb, glorious evocation by one of the best basso voices ever to sing. Such robust resonance, musical light and engaging intelligence. I'm not surprised that Jerome Hines may have been an influence. In them, the basso at its best!
@skakdosmer4 жыл бұрын
Name one.
@slimgersh11 жыл бұрын
Amazing voice and speed.
@leonardilaurenti981911 жыл бұрын
Wish that echo that interferes with that beautiful was absent. It does make some idiots think that is rhe real ly how the singer sounds. Ms. Battle's voice was as PURE...AS A FLAWLESS DIAMOND!
@ChrisStockslager12 жыл бұрын
Love it.
@MVMilo12 жыл бұрын
Mathew Epstein, the artistic consultant for the performance, in an interview contrasted the tempi of the oratorio style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which were thick, heavy and slow with what they were trying to do in this performance with the faster tempi..
@ChrisStockslager12 жыл бұрын
I think everyone must've had food poisoning in this performance -- every tempo is SO fast no matter whether it's Horne, Ramey, Blake, or the chorus singing! I love it! Where can I find a copy of this incredible performance? :D
@DEFinitivelyHis12 жыл бұрын
Simply Peerless.
@ChrisStockslager12 жыл бұрын
Thank you! :D
@MVMilo12 жыл бұрын
Air: "More sweet is that name" from Act 3 Scene 1