Dorothy Kirsten - Age 71 year's Depuis Le Jour

[@tom6693]

What's most amazing is how she doesn't break those many long-breathed phrases that so many younger sopranos routinely do. Admittedly, she takes it at a quicker tempo than some, but even so, she's shaping it all with extremely impressive breath control--especially for a septuagenarian.

[@pilottiunlimited]

This is GOOD SINGING!!!!! There are barely any of the younger generation of sopranos active today who can sing this well.

[@VinylToVideo]

Singers today generally lack an internal life so therefore externally project nothing.

[@jasonhurd4379]

There are barely any of the younger generation of sopranos active today who can sing this well. Kirsten was a phenomenon who was treated atrociously by the Met. May she rest in peace.

[@tobiasandrews3778]

They did the same thing to Amara. The Met hates the truth and these women sang with ALL the truth. Kirsten’s voice was indeed a phenomenon; a perfectly placed voice.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

You Jason Hurd are such a hateful and ignorant coward and hypocrite. Your not worth listening to until you actually either follow the Bible or mature - ideally both.

[@esterbruno8604]

@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Coward and hypocrite? Why? Any good reason for such hate? He's taking respect for her as a person, and he didn't say any bad word about her. So why is he hateful? Did he call her bitch? Your is an unjustified hate against everyone and everything.

[@michaelvaccaro3129]

Licia Albanese was also not treated well by the "Met" after 25 years of singing at the Met.

[@beachfanatic2010]

Back in those days especially when Bing was there I feel like they had something against lighter voiced sopranos. If Dorothy would be at the Met today she would be considered a dramatic soprano lol. But back then there were so many big voiced sopranos and Tebaldi was the queen of the Met that the smaller voices were comprimario.

[@vanmusician]

She's actually 66 - born in 1910 - 5 years earlier than she stated in her autobiography.

[@giacomolaurivolpi8693]

extraordinaire.

[@BellaFirenze]

Dorothy Kirsten (July 6, 1910, Montclair, New Jersey - November 18, 1992, Los Angeles, California)

[@SpecialtyHorseTraining]

I saw her in concert when I was 12 years old. Later I read her autobiography and learned so much.

[@opera888able]

Such a professional, I saw her in "The Great Caruso" as a kid. She's up there with the best of them.

[@susmateja]

just amazing!

[@manolis.799]

She sounds like she’s TWENTY ONE! Amazing!!!

[@correasilvio2010]

No, she's Born in 1910, this vídeo from 1981.

[@manolis.799]

@@correasilvio2010 I know... I’m just saying she sounds good!

[@danawinsor1380]

This is miraculous! What a beautiful performance, and at 71? I've heard that if you are taught correct technique you can sing into your 70s. There is a video on KZbin with Lily Pons at 76 sounding wonderful. Also, I've seen a video of Russian bass Mark Reizen singing an excerpt from Eugene Onegin at the age of 90. He doesn't sound like a young man, but his singing is quite good and I've never seen an audience listen with such awe and respect.

[@stevendaniel8126]

I first heard her in 1964 in Traviata in Atlanta with Tucker and Merrill. She was marvelous then and still was here.......

[@byronloyd2489]

Phenomenal. And at 71!!!

[@VeronicaBellSoprano]

Hoooly cooooow! Watch and learn young generation!

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Better interpretation, without that bad problem of vocal overacting. Simple and clean. Good job!

[@KajiVocals]

This is because she studied this role with the composer himself.

[@johngreene0129]

My first Butterfly.

[@ChristainSTARS]

The voice and figure of youth! Beautiful and moving.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

ChristainSTARS Voice yes, figure.. no.

[@rvmorrissey]

She's actually 65 years old here. This was recorded in 1975.

[@operalass]

Do you know what it's from?

[@operalass]

I mean the TV appearance, of course, not the aria :-)

[@correasilvio2010]

No, this recording from 1981, TKS!

[@jeffreymiller4814]

rvmorrissey No this is later. She sang this very high lying aria IN KEY as late as 1978 at the San Francisco Adler Gala (in the powder blue dress). Here in 1981 she took it down a half step. She would have definitely been singing this in key of it were 1975. She always gave her birth year as 1917. She finally “admitted” to 1915 at the time of the Adler Gala and her last Met Tosca in 1979. When she died in 1992 we were all shocked to find out she was born in 1910. After all the press raving about Magda Olivero (also born in 1910) singing her 1975 Met Tosca at age 65, we finally realized Dorothy Kirsten was singing Manon Lescaut (!!!!) that same year at the same age. Her broadcast with John Alexander is riveting. She gave 110% all afternoon, and had very little singing voice left after she gave everything she had in the big final aria (which was incredible). Of course since Manon is weak and dying she made it all work perfectly. Few even realized there was anything amiss. The audience went ballistic at the final curtain. She was one of the greatest American sopranos in history. What a career.

[@orion8835]

The orchestra sounds so strong and her singing is really full and normal. There is so weird sliding nor faux pianissimo.

[@ladyrotha5420]

Beautiful and moving.

[@seanduchinsky2632]

wow!!!!

[@michaelredmond9038]

WOW

[@terrycloth6380]

Amazing

[@operassassinOperaAssassin]

What placement! Not bad at all.

[@silvr94]

let's hope "this is opera" and his disciples don't read this LOL

[@manolis.799]

@@silvr94 best not to engage with those types...

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@manolis.799 Indeed, especially considering there is one already lurking around here...😮

[@manolis.799]

@@jasonhurd4379 Baba Yaga is near!

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@manolis.799 Beware!

[@robertmino5608]

WOW