Beth Taylor - Le spectre de la rose from Summer Nights (CSOTW, 18th June 2023)

[@mid-zz6ct]

She absolutely should have won the competition - she has a wonderfully unique voice and she is a true artist. Her singing reminds me very much of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

[@SteveL2012]

Vocally somewhere between Hunt Lieberson and Von Stade, with Natalie Stutzman’s chest voice/low contralto notes. Great company to be in it goes without saying. ❤

[@buddys_dad]

That is what I am thinking - lovely, unusual quality, perfect vibrato (so quick and even - my favorite), and her musicianship…melts me

[@tamerlano]

​​@@SteveL2012Stutzman wishes!

[@taf44tt8io]

@@buddys_dad As you say ; she melts me, EVERY time I listen her. And this is just a video. What could happen with a live performance ? Maybe I should faint ? I have listened hundreds of singers in my life, I'm singer too. Beth is breathless. Not only because her chest voice or her terrific and deep musicianship. She has something special and unique. She does not sing ; She IS what she sings - flesh and bones "till the point of her hair" like the French say. I don't like to compare an artist with another. However, must go back to my teens to find so similar feelings and inner sensations listening a singer. It happened with the voice of Joni Mitchell.

[@carolinemitchell5241]

Top spellbinding magic. Beth was faultless with overflowing that-something-extra. Agree with others, deserved to win.

[@jennyrussellobrien1582]

My choice as winner. Very special voice . Hope you have a long and fruitful career dear girl. 🥰

[@FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ]

Where do we find such a phenomenal chest voice in current singers if not Beth Taylor?! I believe I have already watched all of her videos available on KZbin. That's what opera needs: OLD SCHOOL OF SING! BRAVA! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@scottgrunow5201]

She harks back to the contralti of the Golden Age

[@FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ]

@@scottgrunow5201 She is a FIND! I've been following Beth Taylor since there were only 3 videos of her on YT, all by Helmut Fischer. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 WONDERFUL!

[@DNA350ppm]

I loved this the best of all the performances of the five selected finalists. Both as song choice and voice.

[@bobbyoldsmith9425]

What a luscious voice. Beautiful.

[@hansvandenberg6464]

for me she IS the winner, love from the Netherlands

[@oberon481]

Simply gorgeous...

[@elenaperezherrero3443]

Impresionante la elegancia de esta mujer, tanto en su fraseo como en su presencia escénica. Una delicia el tratamiento vocal y musical.

[@jeanflack34]

Beautiful.

[@coranewman723]

Sublime❤

[@ohmy5650]

💎

[@JeffroTas]

One of my favourite songs, sung as well as any of the greats I can think of! In my opinion better!

[@KayHarpaGone]

The spectre of the rose English translation © Richard Stokes Open your eyelids, Brushed by a virginal dream; I am the spectre of a rose That yesterday you wore at the dance. You plucked me still sprinkled With silver tears of dew, And amid the glittering feast You wore me all evening long. O you who brought about my death, You shall be powerless to banish me: The rosy spectre which every night Will come to dance at your bedside. But be not afraid - I demand Neither Mass nor De Profundis; This faint perfume is my soul, And I come from Paradise. My destiny was worthy of envy; And for such a beautiful fate, Many would have given their lives - For my tomb is on your breast, And on the alabaster where I lie, A poet with a kiss Has written: Here lies a rose Which every king will envy. Translations by Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)

[@KayHarpaGone]

Théophile GAUTIER 1811 - 1872 Le spectre de la rose Soulève ta paupière close Qu’effleure un songe virginal ; Je suis le spectre d’une rose Que tu portais hier au bal. Tu me pris encore emperlée Des pleurs d’argent de l’arrosoir, Et parmi la fête étoilée Tu me promenas tout le soir. Ô toi qui de ma mort fus cause, Sans que tu puisses le chasser Toute la nuit mon spectre rose A ton chevet viendra danser. Mais ne crains rien, je ne réclame Ni messe, ni De Profundis ; Ce léger parfum est mon âme Et j’arrive du paradis. Mon destin fut digne d’envie : Pour avoir un trépas si beau, Plus d’un aurait donné sa vie, Car sur son sein j'ai mon tombeau, Et sur l’albâtre où je repose Un poète avec un baiser Ecrivit : Ci-gît une rose Que tous les rois vont jalouser

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

yes yes yes a low female voice that can carry over an orchestra