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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Today's Frau Fix

An unexpected soprano in the Empress's Act II awakening scene:



Of course she never sang this role on stage, but you have to wonder what it would have been like, based on this excerpt.
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1 comment:

  1. Civic CenterNovember 21, 2013 at 7:03:00 PM PST

    Gosh, even with my crummy little computer speakers, she sounds awesome. Heard her role debut in the title role of "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the SF Opera late in her career, and loved every second of it. As a Very Grand Diva in the Prologue, she could not have been more perfectly typecast. In the opera proper, that voice just soared.

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