Beverly Sills goes for broke with jaw-dropping embellishments

[@stefanwild326]

I admittedly love it when singers go all "Why? Well, because I can." 😄

[@ThomasDawkins88]

The high Baroque is not an era for restraint! If you have high notes, sing more high notes. If you have fast notes, sing more fast notes. If you have trills, roulades, scales, pile them in there. The audience ate it up back then, and clearly they did with Beverly Sills too!

[@wotan10950]

And she was one of the few who could make it sound easy!

[@garywait3231]

One of my favorite coloraturas, whom I often saw/heard with great pleasure in Boston over a half century ago. Thanks for reviewing the memory of this superb artist.

[@johns2240]

Playing this for my mother right now.

[@gfrangi5422]

Incredible, she was superb

[@wotan10950]

God, she was great! I saw her in many roles, but not this one. I don’t think this opera was ever performed in New York. (Oops, I just read your commentary that it was performed, with a different soprano, in New York that same year).