It is your Aunt Grace, Leotyne Price, Marian Anderson, and Kathleen Battle that inspired me take opera voice lessons and fortified my love of opera. To see and hear your Aunt and the other Black Female Opera singers brought and still brings great joy to my heart. 🥰
I enjoy all aspects of music and singing. But when a female singers are producing such ringing, brilliant and commanding high notes, it thrills me most. Just the acoustic phenomenon itself gives me chills.
On a beau dire....elle est et elle restera la Carmen du siecle....le phrase, la ligne de chant, elle a ete a la bonne ecole....Incomparable Grace Bumbry....une des plus grandes....
what amazes me is she hardly looks like she's opening her mouth very wide or taking huge breaths yet this grande sound emits form her! props to her =))
Wow! That slight but ever so dramatic change in her facial expression in the 1st 10 secs speaks volumes about her talent, independent of her magical voice. What a beauty! And does anyone notice her foot tapping at 0:09 s? Notice how the heel hits the ground right on the downbeats but rises with a sort of rubato haste, just ahead of the tempo of the orchestra. She's basically dancing a rubato and it's so appropriate! Such subtlety is the mark of a born musician! They feel music from head to toe.
@@colorfulthinker was i ever; i was sitting in a booth talking about her; i was 8 year old genius type and rudolph bing was in the booth behind me and gave me mom and dad his tickets
I really love her voice!!!!!! The first time I saw the play was with her and i fall in love!!!! Now, it is no more in youtube... What kind of world is this!!!
Anubhab Chatterjee Joan Sutherland never sang Carmen (fortunately I might add, even speaking as a die-hard fan. she didn't have the creamy, sultry, delicious lower register necessary to pull it off)
+Jason Black Actually, that's not quite correct. Sutherland sang as a dramatic coloratura, but her physiologic voice type was DRAMATIC MEZZO. She actually had quite a dark and rich lower register (check out her Voi che sapete), with no lower head-midrange break. However, for obvious reasons she did not develop this part of her voice, so it never had much compression or brilliance to it. But yes, her Carmen would have been horrific, for temperament mis-match alone!
with all due respect, that's ridiculous. Sutherland is clearly most comfortable at the top of the soprano range. she is about as mezzo as Cher is coloratura soprano
+Anubhab Chatterjee Callas was great at Carmen just like all the roles she took on... but she wasn't a mezzo so I think a darker color voice soprano or mezzo would do the role more justice!
she is so beautiful! i love to see it when a singer has the person they are singing with compelled and at their finger tips..lol..it was fun to watch! thanks!
Congrats to your wonderful auntie!! one of the best Carmens ever!! :-) the other 2 in considerations in my opinion are Marilyn Horne and Elena Obrastzova. Greetings from Budapest! :-)
BRAVA. absolutely stunning. And whoever said she doesn't look "gitana", please watch the film "Latcho Drom", from India to North Africa to Ireland to Spain, the Roma Diaspora is gloriously beautiful and diverse. One love.
@isabellanova007 Actually, there were. Especially in southern Spain, where there was a significant Muslim influence from North Africa for quite some time, it wouldn't surprise me if some had managed to remain. Also, the opera was written in 1852, rather late for there *not* to be black people in Europe.
