I agree she wasn’t fully appreciated. I heard her only once at her Covent Garden debut as Semele. Inexplicably she never returned. It was a shimmering full lyric coloratura. Pity I never heard her in Donizetti. I still enjoy her Ines in L’Africaine.
Una soprano extraordinaria que merecía ser mucho más conocida y apreciada. Una técnica fabulosa, una musicalidad exquisita, una presencia sensacional y una facilidad para el canto asombrosa, con dotes de, extremo valor en todo su registro. ¡BRAVA!
I would forgive all of that, but for me the tea is that she opens up the sound producing a high larynx emission that it doesn't fit correctly in the chiaroscuro aesthetic of the operatic singing. That's the thing with most of coloraturas after the 50's.
She does strange things with her tongue, sometimes she deafens her high notes, which she turns into muffled because of that unnecessary twist of the tongue. Why? imprecise singing....
She sticks out out sometimes but I heard her live in minneapolis and her high notes were big and powerful carrying over everything. You need to hear her live. Recordings are deceptive.
