Video Recording of 01/07/2025 Class
Sopranos Then and Now, Part I
LINKS FOR SOPRANOS: PART I
INTRODUCTION TO VOICE TYPES (NARRATIVE)
www.theopera101.com/operaabc/voices
KATHLEEN BATTLE
Singing "Giunse alfin il momento" from Act IV of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzxugLzSWc (6:05)
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman singing "I Believe I'll Go Back Home"/ "Lordy Won't YouHelp Me?" From Spirituals in Concert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6yAoltmFA (4:52)
With Luciano Pavarotti, singing "Caro elisir"from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSyBPLe4xs (4:52)
HAROLYN BLACKWELL
Singing "Summertime"from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DDVa-TGz6A (4:01)
Singing "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK2rYvBzDMc (3:07)
Harolyn Blackwell in Conversation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRcMk1kmZM (22:15)
ANGEL BLUE
Singing "Summertime" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZupDr5M5Ac (1:03)
Interview with Angel Blue (2018)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCGrXRcrpYM (37:30)
GRACE BUMBRY
Singing "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqCyAZdFmSU (3:26)
Singing "Nel giardin del bello" (Veil Song) from Verdi's Don Carlo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_CIqfaWk8 (4:47)
MONTSERRAT CABALLE
Singing "O mio babino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZSP1Dc78Q (3:57)
Singing "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7wbRzPp6dQ (3:34)
With Freddie Mercury, singing "How Can I Go On?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNLzMdm_guU (4:03)
With Freddie Mercury, singing "Barcelona"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzGbWkKoMgQ (4:35)
MARIA CALLAS
Singing "Casta diva" from Bellini's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TwMfgaDC8 (7:13)
Singing the Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DITaIvaC1gA (14:46)
Singing "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLR3lSrqlww (3:20)
Singing "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1C8NFDdFYg (2:00)
Maria Callas: What Really Happened to the Voice? Documentary by Monica Bellucci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjr4UfZdvY4&t=34s (20:48)
REGINE CRESPIN
Singing "Suicidio"from Ponchielli's La Gioconda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpsbFZuvVu4 (4:34)
Singing "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wa-_EgluvI (3:56)
Singing "Euch Luften, die mein klagen" from Wagner's Lohengrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnSRUw5Q4g (4:04)
Singing (Mezzo-soprano role) the Letter Scene from Massenet's Werther
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGr0ocopGNk (7:35)
CLAMMA DALE
With Simon Estes, singing "Bess You is My Woman Now" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbLTlA49Cvk (6:01)
Singing "I Loves You Porgy" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzy11zovZeQ (3:44)
Singing "To the Poem" from Leonard Bernstein "Songfest"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP91-jrOHnw (3:27)
DIANA DAMRAU
Singing "Der holle Rasche kocht in meinem Herzen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcaf9GfyWs (2:57)
Singing "O Dieu Brahma" from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_uDf50J-jc (1:43)
Singing "Non Mi Dir" from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-sgw_hArc (4:41)
Talking about singing the role of Marie in Donizetti's La fille du regiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybQfS--XyE (4:06)
LISE DAVIDSEN
Singing excerpts from Wagner's Tannhauser and Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-2HBTAessA (2:03)
Singing Strauss's "Morgen" and an aria from Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U97HhkNzMNk (2:49)
Singing "Mir ist so wunderbar" from Beethoven's Fidelio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXH5J7rPIJ8 (4:25)
Singing Lisa's aria from Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45BmLhLxiQ (6:17)
Singing Elisabeth's aria "Dich teure Halle" from Wagner's Tannhauser
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TofuLQOuk (3:35)
NATALIE DESSAY
Singing "Chacun le sait" from Donizetti's La fille du regiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE5DyvqXxsY (3:51)
Singing "Ah! non credea mirarti" from Bellini'a La sonnambula
Singing the Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=92jiitUEahg (3:59)
MATTIWILDA DOBBS
Singing "Vive, l'hiver" and "Ah, echo viens" from Bizet's La jolie Fille de Perth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTns6SJARw (6:57)
Gilda singing "Caro nome" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krl6nYnjcTA (5:18)
Singing Mozart's "Exultate Jubilate"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8MnV9kinIc (15:21)
RENEE FLEMING
Singing Part 1 of the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9GarMKGfXQ (5:03)
Singing "Sempre libera" from Verdi's La Traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGlugsYQZgg (3:45)
Singing "Song to the Moon" from Dvorak's Rusalka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km1b1yZB5rY (6:37)
Singing "Casta diva" from Bellini's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Rg4L5tcxFcA (7:17)
Singing "Summertime" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfgou8vK2I (4:20)
Singing in Strauss's Arabella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVhGkyKFa2Y (2:54)
Renee Fleming in Conversation (2017)
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NVdDngYEm7k (54:16)
Documentary 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk0_hduaEGk (44:05)
MARISA GALVANY
Singing "Vieni! T'affretta" from Verdi's Macbeth (1973 film)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ZbymFPjwk (8:25)
Singing Abigaille in Verdi's Nabucco (two-octave drop!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBlU_Az9e4A (9:58)
Singing in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hObclOyXwHk (1:54)
2018 Interview with Myra Kornbluth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6X5uVB-ONU (4:56)
CHRISTINE GOERKE
Singing excerpt from Wagner's Die Walkure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf1ZPr5ezwE (1:52)
Singing "Abscheulichter"from Beethoven's Fidelio in Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsAaZDCSJg8 (8:03)
Singing "In questa reggia" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QXPfxafHfTM&list=PLt_Hob8xP2WvKRTdtufrUH425pNk7DyR0&index=8 (1:36)
In Screaming Divas (conversation)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywS5__Y4cXA (1:16:33)
ASMIK GRIGORIAN
Singing "Song to the Moon" from Dvorak's Rusalka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkurqMeDLgE (2:43/7:22)
Singing "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8kFXQAWWE (2:23)
Singing "Un bel di" from Puccini's Madama Butterfly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFQ5rOOyBmo (5:40)
RERI GRIST
Singing "Somewhere" from Bernstein's West Side Story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-DtChQ39U (3:27)
Singing "Les oiseaux dans la charmille"from Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Ingeborg Hallstein. Grist sings in French, Hallstein in German.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1B79gySpqk (4:56)
Singing "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSQ-ej-37DI (6:18)
Singing "Caro nomo" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9K_o2yLvJs (7:05)
EDITA GRUBEROVA
Singing in Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=meqIkpFXVRQ (4:35)
Singing "Der holle Rasche kocht in meinem Herzen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdheZiVf2vQ (2:51)
Singing "The Bell Song" from Delibes's Lakme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbTF81gsx4o (6:48)
ERMONELA JAHO
Singing "Addio del passato" from Verdi'a La Traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfcPlLLnCNU (6:04)
In conversation with Antonia Pappano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN86Kr9Bu1g (29:15)
Singing "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" from Puccini's La Rondine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdOr2UxAz5Q (2:34)
Speaking with Fred Plotkin in Adagio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpDElAi7NQ (1:33:03)
LOTTE LEHMANN
Singing Schubert's "An die Musik"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1HCkr4XWIk (3:33)
Singing Schubert's "Nacht und Trauma"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZDeofDi1a4 (3:25)
With Lauritz Melchior singing in Act I of Wagner's Die Walkure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQASPDdGQE (8:43)
EVA MARTON
Singing "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7sGw_QSXE (3:39)
With Placido Domingo singing in Act III of Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q5G_jfvGC8 (15:02)
Singing "Dich teure Halle" from Wagner's Tannhauser
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tapH2--IBrk (5:16)
With Rene Kollo, singing "Heil dir, Sonne!" from Wagner's Siegfried
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7-t0I9tMQ (33:38)
ANGELA MEADE
Singing "D'amor sull'ali rosee" from Verdi's Il Trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlyyBb8O1Y (1:19)
With Jamie Barton, singing "Mira o Norma" from Bellini's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxQf7Amn-_U (6:50)
Singing "Casta diva" from Bellini's Norma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNpjk1psOQ (11:38)
Singing an excerpt from the "Mad Scene" from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG0Gabi5ci8 (2:33)
Angela Meade in Conversation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqeKIrB1O60 (47:39)
WALTRAUD MEIER
Singing "Liebestod" from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu02skyFCyI (6:45)
Singing Sieglinde from Wagner's Die Walkure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvuHH2-k4Aw (11:19)
The Wagner Society of New York 2016 Tribute to Waltraud Meier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocu6XL6VbAw (13:42)
APRILE MILLO
Singing "O patria mia" from Verdi's Aida
www.metopera.org/discover/video/?videoName=aida-o-patria-mia-aprile-millo&videoId=808163318001 (5:49)
Singing the Mad Scene from Bellini's Il Pirata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=APO6MVHX2rQ (14:13)
Singing "Signore ascolta" from Puccini's Turandot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpIEjB7B5uA (2:53)
LATONIA MOORE
Singing "Ritorna vincitor" from Verdi's Aida
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzKtLVEye08 (7:17)
Singing "My Man's Gone Now" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9xbkTFdonQ (1:02)
ERIN MORLEY
Singing "The Doll Song" from Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXKsOeccz8w (3:03)
Performing as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6jafLxqoRs (2:25)
Singing "Chacun le sait" from Donizetti's La fille du regiment from Metropolitan Opera's At Home Gala during the pandemic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPPwSBd1Ug (4:00)
Singing "Neath my lattice through the night" from The Rose of Persia by Arthur Sullivan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jblwzpAk4-Q (3:03)
Questions and Additional Information
Please reach out to Instructor Margie Satinsky with questions and requests for additional information. Contact information is: (919) 383-5998 (home/work), or (919) 812-2235 (cell/text), or margiesatinsky@icloud.com.