Most Revered Teacher - Harold M. Barlow
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Coloratura
Coloratura style, you can tell they've worked
Amazing coloratura sopranos of all times!
These are silvery TRUE coloraturas---not heavy, dark mezzos or dramatic sopranos 'slumming' in coloratura country and trying to prove that they too can hit that high E flat—that's not all this repertoire is about—these are high wire roles.
00:04 Madd Robin (1918-1960 French) - Lucia di Lammermoor
01:00 Mady Mesple (1931- French) - Ariadne auf Naxos
03:14 Lily Pons (1898-1976 French American) - Lakme
03:56 Silvia Voinea (Romanian) - Lakme
05:22 Anna Moffo (1932-2006 American) - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
07:20 Beverly Sills (1929-2007 American) - Giulio Cesare
09:13 Luciana Serra (1946 Italian) - Die Zauberflote
10:12 Edda Moser (1938 German) - Die Zauberflote
11:03 Edita Gruberova (1946 Slovak) - Lucio Silla
12:50 Joan Sutherland (1926-2010 Australian) - La Traviata
14:30 June Anderson (1952 American) Semiramide
16:44 Mariella Devia (1948 Italian) Lucia di Lammermoor
18:00 Ruth Ann Swenson (1959 American) I Puritani
20:08 Natalie Dessay (1965 French) Candide
21:39 Elisabeth Vidal (1960 French) Mozart Concert Aria
22:59 Diana Damrau (1971 German) Le Comte Dry
27:12 Desiree Rancatore (1977 Italian) Les Huguenots
28:24 Jessica Pratt (1979 Australian) Adelaide di Borgogna
29:29 Maria Aleida Rodriguez (Cuban American) Linda di Chamounix