Freni was certainly the best Mimi of her generation of singers. She was also a very smart singer who carefully chose roles that fit her voice well. This resulted in a very long career during which I saw her several times in some of her greatest roles. She always brought the character she was performing to life visually as well as with her voice.

It just doesn't get any better than that. Different maybe, but never better. Caballe?

アーメンの意味は、しかり！その通り！真実。… こう言う意味がありますよね？

Espléndida voz.Encantadora Musetta❤

1:15 Einfach nur wunderschön ♥️

Mi commuovo sempre nell' ascoltare questo pezzo di Puccini, sempre

4:53

❤zauberhaft ,schlicht,mozaertlich, wunderschoene Pianotoene,alles auf dem Atem...zart und innig,dabei einen technische Glanzleistung. Selten so gehoert,vorbildlich wie mitreissend,bravo

Fantastica 🤩

Immer wieder ruehrt mich Mirella Frenis Mimi zu Traenen,denn ihre Innigkeit,der Flow in der Hoehe,das ❤blut mit dem sie singt ist puristisch ,berührend,nimmt einen mit. Sie ist Mimi in Reinkultur und mit einer Stimmkultur,die leider nicht mehr zu finden ist...es wird zu viel gebruellt❤

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This great woman died a couple of years ago and the world hardly noticed it..

La piu grande ❤❤❤

the best mimi.

First time hearing these artist ,wonderful. Thank you.

Quando men vo soletta per la via,
La gente sosta e mira
E la bellezza mia tutta ricerca in me
Da capo a pie'...
Ed assaporo allor la bramosia
Sottil, che da gli occhi traspira
E dai palesi vezzi intender sa
Alle occulte beltà.
Così l'effluvio del desìo tutta m'aggira,
Felice mi fa!
E tu che sai, che memori e ti struggi
Da me tanto rifuggi?
So ben:
le angoscie tue non le vuoi dir,
Ma ti senti morir!

Voce fantastica, interpretazione bellissima come Lei..❤

One of the best sopranos of her generation; she sings this beautifully..

Interpretazione fantastica, sia attoriale che musicale . ❤❤❤❤

Full Control with motion 👍

RIP you wonderful person.

😥

Best I have ever heard sing this. She was at her very best here.

Diva Sublime !!!!!!!!!! Diamante na Voz !!!!!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Rare combination of voice, sex appeal, and acting ability. Marcello never had a chance.

Pienamente d'accordo ❤

Irraggiungibile!!!❤❤❤❤❤

La meilleure Mimi.Ecoutez la douceur et la simplicité qu elle met dans son interprétation.

One of the best sopranos Italy has ever produced … high praise as that country has given us so many. This performance was absolute perfection.

Simply perfect! I love singing Mimì thanks to Mirella Freni. Her interpretation of this role is still the best!

I’ve heard thousands of sopranos in my lifetime, and as a result put Freni in a category of the greats that I left largely ignored because I knew she was going to be amazing. Then in an exploration of great recordings to show a student I ended listening to this today. Some tears got worked up…I was utterly humbled. Freni is a cornerstone. A brilliant artist. And although she has left us, her legacy deserves the same-if not greater-attention than Callas and Tebaldi.

La più grande Mimi'...MIRELLA FRENI...è stata nella storia del Melodramma una delle piu grandi soprani...spaziando con la sua arte assoluta...in tantissimi ruoli..rendendoli memorabili...appunto nel personaggio di Mimi' nessuna collega di prima e dopo è riuscita a raggiungere vette così alte...di interpretazione e qualità vocali...ed in queste qualità della sua voce ..bisogna dire che sono...di una bellezza e di una tecnica che le consentono di dare al personaggio un'aura magica e suggestiva...e senza sforzo..anche nei registi più impervi la sua vocalità e' sublime...ed irradia tutto il suo magistero di grandissima protagonista della Lirica del mondo...GRANDISSIMA MIRELLA FRENI

Не превзойденная Мими!!!

Here Puccini demonstrates, to those sceptics who think that the Magician of Bayreuth represents the last word in philosophical and psychological profundity, that in fact the Italian genius is supreme for blending romance and poetry and yearning for the transcendental and the power of the erotic. This aria represents the last word in perfect expression of our compulsion to confess our hearts to someone whom we hope will fulfill our desire for perfect comprehension of us, and perfect mutual love between both of us. Absolute genius, vocal and orchestral, is pressed into the service of absolute adoration of all that is beautiful and noble and tender and delicate and womanly and aspiring and delightful in the human soul. The simultaneous daring, warmth, honesty, voluptuousness with which Puccini and her librettists compare (a) the blossoming petals of a living rose and its scent, with (b) the sterility of Mimi's artificial flowers, and (c) the emptiness of her heart and her vagina - and the similarity, furthermore, of those petals with her delicately florid inner labia - is stunningly vivid, yet absolutely tasteful and apt. The limitless explicit and implied yearning for love is heart breaking: "But when the thaw comes, the first sun is mine, the first kiss of April is mine!" Perhaps only the Italian sensibility and tongue could sustain that artistry and eroticism so delicately, so humanly, and so frankly. This 5 min of Puccini is enough to found a new world-religion, of pure altruistic, purely other-regarding, mutual love. But, of course, this is in fact the oldest and most human of religions of all time. Anyone who can watch this without soaking a box of tissues in puddles of tears of delight and joy, is little dead in their heart. Regards, andrea

Dolcissima, come era lei veramente nella sua vita. ❤❤❤

Meravigliosa Freni!! Che delicatezza! Che coloritura!

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I heard her the same year in the old MET! How not being fascinated!

Freni is to me the perfect voice for this opera. I always get tears and goosbumps. I am somewhat of a novice but have been to the Met several times. I still love the time worn favorites. Puccini being my favorite.

Мирелла Френи- чудо! Прекрасное пение и актерское воплощение роли! Пуччини был бы очень доволен!

It's just beautiful from a beautiful person xx

Absolute perfection!👌👏👏👏

Mirella Freni la più grande Mimì di tutti i tempi inarrivabile anche per 2 mostri sacri come Tebaldi e Callas

"..but,then when the snow melts The first sun is mime, The first April's kiss, Is mine. A rose springs in a vase, Leaf by leaf I spy on her So kind The perfume of a flower But the flowers I sew, sadly, they have no scent" It takes a kind and sensitive man to see beauty in the little things, dignity in powerty. Our time is so sad when kindness is mistaken for weakness, arrogance for power, money for beauty

Sublime! ❤️❤️❤️

RIP Mirella 💔

I officially want to come out! I'm Verdiano (Verdi fan) e Rossiniano from my childhood. BUT I think that from 2:55 to 3:30 we can taste the most beautiful 35 seconds in Opera history, all over the world. Voglio fare outing. Sono Verdiano e Rossiniano dall'infanzia. Ma penso che dal minuto 2:55 a 3:30 siano i 35 secondi più belli della storia della musica lirica mondiale.

A beautiful, outstanding, artist with the voice of a thousand angels x

Simply the best. RIP Mirella.

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