Most Revered Teacher - Harold M. Barlow
(click for to learn about Harold)
Voice pages
The Lower Limits of the Human Voice
Fifth Element - Diva Plavalaguna song; Jane Zhang training
Pavarotti's Last Performance - watch him hold the space even after he's finished singing
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
"Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute" by Mozart
Maria Callas sings
three phenomenal Flute-like
notes up to Eb6 in
Leonard Bernstein's Ornaments
Lucia Popp
The picture during the video is of Maria Callas
(who never sung this role),
but the voice is Lucia Popp
