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- Bianca Castafiore
  I still remember her wily looks and eyes in the other Frau, with the amazing Studer with Solti. She was the ultimate Amme.
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 5 minutes ago
- Olga
  Sills like all fab divas/divos/Trump are in a category of existence that just IS!?Milanov could kick a gown train like nobody--her Tosca in '61 Met with London was hysterically bad/wonderful!!!!!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 1 hour ago
- scott grunow
  How was the Berta?
  I zonked out when I got home from teaching. Exhausted after two 12 hour days
  
  Il barbiere di Siviglia · 2 hours ago
- Olga
  I remember Sills & Price as getting more publicity in national media than others!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 3 hours ago
- NPW--Paris
  The 1933 Broadway production? Did Lenya travel to NYC for that?
  
  Pennies from heaven · 3 hours ago
- Olga
  I think her having a deaf daughter & mentally retarded son would be a terrible sorrow to carry during a glorious career!?
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 3 hours ago
- scott grunow
  Oh? very interesting
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 4 hours ago
- scott grunow
  It takes some effort to get the voice moving in the florid parts. And she pretty much sticks with the score, no high interpolations. A top B flat at that point is the voice's upper limit.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 4 hours ago
- Olga
  I heard the Philly broadcast & was able td pause the opera on Sirius!! Best of both worlds--the Mahler was fab & opera gloriously bouncing along on delay--Brownlee stunning!
  
  Il barbiere di Siviglia · 4 hours ago
- scott grunow
  Farrell recounts Mitropolous did the singers to use a score. If they needed to refer to it, they had to clomp over to his podium where the score rested.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 4 hours ago
- scott grunow
  The late Albert Innaurato aka Mrs. John Claggart gives one of the more insightful reflections and analyses of her art, voice, and personality in the booklet notes to the Testament CD reissue of her...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 4 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  The end of “Make /our Garden Grow” always gets to me. It builds from solo to duet to ensemble of soloists and the suddenly the orchestra drops out and the (hopefully) huge chorus erupts in 8+ part...
  
  Happiness indeed · 4 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  The MEDEA is a one LP excerpt disc with André Turp and Flagello.Since they had to CUT they CUT Glauce's aria. Not to mention Neris' aria. Sills and maybe Florence Kopleff would have been...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 4 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  Although I did not see the original Broadway production, when I was in college (CSU Long Beach) in the ‘70s, the music library had both the vocal score AND the libretto from the original production...
  
  Happiness indeed · 5 hours ago
- fletcher
  https://youtu.be/Eey8Px4ldj4?si=fzo92Uvedr4hml6c
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 5 hours ago
- fletcher
  I know you're probably like "oh christ there goes Fletch posting Júlia" but Seiffert does some really wonderful singing on the whole record
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 5 hours ago
- Cornelia
  Yes, you've already said.
  
  Pick a little, talk a little · 5 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  Well, the grudge against Horne is certainly reciprocated. In her bio, Horne’s comes down hard (big time!) over Sills’ behavior when they did L’Assedio di Corinto)!!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 5 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  She has appeared several times recently in South Florida. The percussion instructor at the college where I work (who was the drummer on the OC Ain’t Misbehavin’) played for her several times.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 5 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  Beverly Wolf also does fine work in the recording.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 5 hours ago