*Beverly Sills' Musical "Geneaology"* *Manuel Garcia I* taught his three children, Maria Malibran, Pauline Viardot, and *Manuel Garcia II.* *Manuel Garcia II* invented the Laryngoscope; he authored books of vocal exercises, and taught *Mathilde Marchesi, née Graumann,* who worked as his assistant in vocal pedegogy. *Mathilde Marchesi* taught Emma Calvé, Emma Eames, Dame Nellie Melba, and *Estelle Liebling.* *Estelle Liebling* taught, among many others, *Beverly Sills.* For Beverly Sills' entire career, Estelle Liebling was Beverly Sills' only teacher, from the time Ms Sills was 7 years old until Ms Liebling passed away in 1970. AN UNBROKEN CHAIN FROM THE TRUE GOLDEN AGE OF BEL CANTO!
From the February 2, 1970 performance of La Fille du Regiment performed in french for the American Opera Society in New York. Roland Gagnon conducted. It's one of Sills' top 10 live performances. Look for it on RU-vid.
Much of the beauty lies in the emotions and feelings she puts into her singing. It is not necessary to understand each and every word she sings - the way she sings it tells the story.
When she was good, i mean THIS good, she was the best. God, this is a unique performance. That child-like quality she retained till the end, with a perfect voice and breath control... The stratospheric notes all in exact, exquisite tuning, like a plaintive violin solo in a clear moonlit night... I saw her in '69 or '70 in Los Angeles, in La Traviata, with Domingo. Almost as good.
Add to that a controlled vibrato! I saw her late in her career, the voice had taken a bit of a strident quality, but omg, how she sang! She was one of those who could “Project’” a pianissimo in a way that it seemed to emanate just from beside your ear.
Sometimes I come to this channel for the wildly evocative emotional video titling. Be still my beating empath heart! But then I listen to the music and my heart 💔 breaks from the beauty time and time again!
Is this from a full recording of La fille? Or just a recital? In case its the full opera can you provide the info for me to look for it? Thanks for everything, Lohengrin 🫂💞✨
There is a recording of Sills in this opera from the late 60s conducted by Roland Gagnon that is very good. I can’t tell if this clip is from this performance or not.
This is the Feb. 13, 1970 performance from Carnegie Hall and was Sills' first performance in the role (this live recording has often been mislabeled as from 1969). The complete performance can be heard on RU-vid here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XTDo5snoytw.html (it's also incorrectly labeled 1969 in the main title).
