Beverly Sills "O luce di quest'anima" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@bunkyman8097]

Her talent and technique are not of this world, but can we just talk about her trill for a moment?! Unreal. Brava Miss Sills, you are loved and missed...

[@charlesdotson4766]

Beverly Sills -lyric coloratura extraordinaire! One of the best to ever do it!

[@jacksonrichards-jarvis4482]

She’s the most pleasant singer to watch . She can achieve the hardest of coloratura while actually looking pleasing to look at. An inspiration

[@WakandaBabe]

Imagine, this is what we used to get on regular TV before cable, streaming, etc. I miss those days.

[@zofiaczerczynska7935]

Tak to prawda,wszędzie serwują nam miernotę.

[@shicoff1398]

@@zofiaczerczynska7935 YES! CORRECT. 100%

[@philipcondenzio5987]

Take a look at what network tv has to offer in 2024. It’s 🤮

[@vic-iv2ff]

People are morons without an attention span of more than a minute .. thanks to “technology”

[@jaykauffman-k9d]

What I did NOT get from Sutherland or Caballe was the sheer joy of singing that we see and hear here

[@allenjones3130]

A virtuoso performance by Ms. Sills!

[@danarzechula3769]

Oh wow. She just opens her mouth and this glorious sound shimmera out😮

[@musicalme27]

The QUEEN!! Rest in peace, Ms. Sills.

[@scottw6704]

That staging is trippy and I LOVE IT!!!!!

[@garywait3231]

One of the highlights of my graduate school years in Boston, over a half century ago, was seeing/hearing Ms Sills with the Boston Opera. Great to discover this exciting highlight from her wonderful career.

[@judyreale3063]

Loved er and such a beautiful voice! Also, a gracious person and entertaining!

[@barrycunningham3242]

Beverly sills made the nearly impossible look like a walk in the park.. such technical brilliance done as if it were not much at all.

[@danarzechula3769]

Sorry so good I had to comment twice and wonder if more peopkw would like opera if this were their introduction. She is just....beyond words

[@DanRobSo]

America's Queen of Opera. Miss her . . .

[@vdivapino8898]

The flexibility of her voice is just mind blowing. She genuinely makes it look so effortless. She was beyond gifted. I wish I had had the opportunity to see her live. What a treasure.

[@sergiosanchezsanchez8712]

Virtuosa virtuosística ¡Trina en los trinos! con su Voz de especial inaudita belleza.💕❤️

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

What an awesome performance by Aunt Bev!!! She was 40 here and her talent and personality shown like a MegaWatt Super Trooper!!!

[@MarkSmith-gb7sz]

2:35 to the end is thunderous. Sang Bev 😜

[@ВалентинХудяков-о2л]

❤❤Прекраснейший,чистейший ,ангельский голос,восхищён Брависсимо ооо❤❤❤

[@vincentmancini6279]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shicoff1398]

Very great and the aria is perfect for her voice. RIP.

[@roxannemoore3045]

Exquisite!

[@lz43p15]

Incantevole e dotatissima. Un fenomeno e fa anche onore all'opera italiana.

[@sugarcookiecube]

Amazing. She is still missed. 😭

[@brucepappas6298]

Holy cow. An incredibly talented singer and a very beautiful women as well.

[@richardthiele8363]

Love to see and hear Beverly Sills sing Donizetti. I’ve listened to her recordings of the Queen operas many times.

[@johnperrylcsw7826]

It does not come any better than this wonderful woman!

[@miguelsalinas4143]

Muy Bello!!!

[@delibeslakme6451]

Una gran soprano lirica ligera, de grandes agilidades, hizo una maravillosa carrera ademas de actriz, y artista de television . RIP

[@РаузалияГиваргизова-ъ3ж]

Блестящее сопрано! Одно из лучших в мире! Bravissimo!

[@lemon-eu6kw]

the best so far!!

[@ef7952]

Thanks to the fine people at The Ed Sullivan Show for such a thoughtful, novel and accurate biography and page for the great American soprano, Beverly Sills!

[@patrickandrew122]

Bubbles at her brilliant best!

[@chrispatty2025]

That was the most incredible performance I have ever seen and heard. Dan Akroid from the 1987 movie 'Dragnet' brought me here and this performance by Mrs. Sills made me realize that I was missing out on something incredible and remarkable. Wow!

[@shicoff1398]

She was the greatest Coloratura Soprano I've ever heard in the house in my 65 years of opera going, saw her many times from 1968 on in both opera and concert, met her a couple of times back stage and had mutual friends, the woman was smart with a quick wit and had both the voice and the talent as a great artist and singing actress on stage. RIP.-- Beverly Bubbles Silverman

[@brt5273]

Beverly was wonderful. One of the top Sopranos of the later half of the 20th Century, completely confident and assertive in her talent but lacking in any pretense or presumption that is typically associated with the genera. She performed regularly on television when I was a kid, radiating down to Earth charm, while making opera accessible and acceptable entertainment for everyone.

[@TonaBrown1979]

Still my favorite performance of this opera! The pure joy she has in singing as well as the mastery of her technique can't be touched!

[@shicoff1398]

She was sensational and had it all, I saw her many times, first back in 1968 in Chicago Grant Park and then in Calif. many times in both opera and concert, met her when I worked in radio and she sent me a nice card with herself in costume at the Met. she was a very smart lady. A tragic life in some ways, with her very pretty daughter being born with almost no hearing and a son that was not able to live at home with special needs and now the children are both also deceased, her husband died first and Sills who did not smoke ever got Lung cancer and died in her 70's. She had a very very high IQ over 140 , so later she ran the NYCO company and of course when she married (as she describes in her biography) her husband's family where wealthy conservative folks (not middle class Jewish as she was, born Beverly Bell Silverman) some of his family objected to their marriage, her being Jewish and let her know that, saying, "a Jewish opera singer, mother would spin in her grave" . Anyhow she told them off and her husband sided with her, he also had some family tragedy before he was married to Sills, in his former marriage . Anyhow they had a long successful marriage until his death.

[@mwrathome]

@@shicoff1398 She did smoke as she tells in her autobiography, Bubbles.

[@shicoff1398]

@@mwrathome I haven't read the book since it came out, didn't recall that or how long she did smoke, but do recall her father died also of it.

[@divadonna5670]

My favorite all time coloratura! No one did it better!

[@michaelmiller1215]

Amazing!

[@jertexjertex7880]

I'm not a big fan of opera & this is incredible, she was a talent like few others.

[@tommyt9761]

Now you know why the opera is seldom played. How many sopranos want to take that on? I often wonder how many young singers she influenced.

[@robertguttman1487]

"Bubbles" at her best.

[@TomElvisSmith]

You've been posting a lot of sopranos, which is great and I hope you continue, but I also hope you will post more tenors! We haven't seen too many operatic tenors yet in comparison.

[@brt5273]

Oh yes! Would love to see Franco Corelli and Jerry Hadley remembered.

[@scottw6704]

Hello, conductor...please come in on the final note WITH Ms. Sills, not a full measure after. Thanks, every opera singer ever

[@tommyt9761]

Anyone know the year of this performance?

[@GH-oi2jf]

1969

[@bartpeeters380]

On this same show VIKKI CARR sang her classic hit WITH PEN IN HAND. Could you please post that performance. So far Miss Carr is sadly missing on this channel., as are THE MCGUIRE SISTERS. More CONNIE FRANCIS, PATTI PAGE and BRENDA LEE would also be very much appreciated.

[@TomElvisSmith]

Teresa Brewer is also completely missing from the channel so far, although she was on the show more times than any other singer.

[@bartpeeters380]

@@TomElvisSmith You are absolutely right. Teresa is the only artist who appeared on the show more times than Connie and she certainly deserves a prominent place on this channel as a musical icon.

[@TomElvisSmith]

@@bartpeeters380 Thank you! I wish they would post their appearances here.

[@LazyIRanch]

Oh wow! I've never heard her version of that heart-breaking song but I'd love to watch that, too! My parents were considering divorce in the late 60s, and I remember my mom crying and listening to Roger Miller's version of that song, over and over. They decided to try to make it work, and they did! They were married 40 years, and the last 20 years were the best. I think their biggest challenge was that Daddy was always spending months at a time in some terrible part of the world, working as a contractor for the NSA. They could only communicate by letter, and he could never talk about his job. I still don't really know what he did. Too much time apart, and too many secrets. After they both passed, I found the stack of letters he wrote her from the 2 years he spent at Pine Gap in Australia, a secret (at the time) military base that was a joint project between USA and Australia. I have a million questions now, but no one left to answer them!

[@hawby7mgh]

The reverb does make me wonder if she is perhaps lip syncing to a track(?) Expert if so. And of course it is Sills doing it masterfully. No orchestra in sight supports my thinking.

[@RafaelEspadine]

I was thinking the same, but then her muscular movements are so convincing and synced that I thought maybe just the orchestra is pre-recorded. Another thing that made me think me it is live is the fact that the lyrics are "messed up" in the beginning: it should have been "la nostra sorte unita" the first time, (so it rhymes with "vita"), and it is only when repeated that it becomes "unita nostra sorte" so the singer has the vowel "o" to play with.

[@jasonlassiter9229]

Why isn’t she in the “Rock and Roll” hall of fame? Lmao If Run DMC, Bob Marley, and other rap, reggae, country artists can be in, why not Beverly Sills? Why not Plácido Domingo too? Lmao 🤣

[@franksinatraalvesprates9933]

Lark.

[@yurorega1148]

Come si vede che gli americani del nord...purtroppo non riesce quasi nessuno a " pronunciare bene" ogni volta che cantano qualsiasi lingua oltre l'inglese.

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

As you can see - NON North Americans unfortunately can be very Rude - in Any language

[@shicoff1398]

​@@rugby8-Philadelphia She was fantastic and anyone knowing the aria knows this, she was sensational here singing live and in every respect. RIP.

[@andrewculwell707]

Ah yes, the same snobbish complaints Europeans made about Sutherland. Your nonsensical criticism is noted and dismissed. The voice the technique and the tessitura and fioritura surpass many of the supposed "great sopranos" in history. So while you obsess about diction sir, I will focus on the musicality and greatness of the voice and acting of this great American diva.

[@jeffreymiller4814]

Unfortunately, Italians haven’t produced a soprano who can SING like this since Tetrazzini.

[@lonestarfriend]

Excellent. So many false finishes though. 🙂

[@johnperrylcsw7826]

oh, honey, that is the style of Bel Canto!

[@milkoprinsze3924]

No idea what you are talking about

[@milkoprinsze3924]

, still, 😜

[@jeffreymiller4814]

Don’t make comments on things you don’t know or understand. It’s a totally STUPID comment.

[@hawby7mgh]

That was the point of bel canto coloratura composing. Challenges upon challenges. And finally - the grand note to cap it all off.