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. . Manrico-Azucena
. . Carmen Aria
. . Rinat Shaham sings
. . "Ah Scostati..." conductor Douglas Martin
. Margareta Hintermeier sings aria from Wagner's Rienzi
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Tamara Sinyavskaya - Not Love Alone - Varvarya's Aria
Mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos sings "Asie" from Ravel's "Sheherezade" in this 1982 performance. James Levine, piano.
Fiorenza Cossotto as Leonora in Donizetti's La Favorita.
. . . The very talented mezzo Sheila Nadler was given a masterclass at Juillard by Maria Callas in the role of Amneris in Aida.
One Callas remark might be astonishing about staying beautiful in any occasion, even in tragedy, at the end. Because Callas would not care, during her career about just sounding or looking beautiful if the dramatic necessity needed more roughness. But one must remember that Amneris is a royal princess, not Santuzza, not Medea.
Fiorenza Cossotto sings Princess Eboli's aria from Verdi's Don Carlo.
She is only lip-synching to her own singing, but still a great performance. ( more )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-v8zGPWPZs
Mariana Pentcheva - Un Ballo in Maschera - Witch's Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHXHpSocXuU
One of the leading mezzo-sopranos of the first half of the 20th century, Elena Nicolai, delivering an outstanding rendition of the aria O Don Fatale from Don Carlo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOvSByJSavE
Olga Borodina - Don Carlo - O Don Fatale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSX3DG1l-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwtgkPECcWQ
Elena Obraztsova sings an aria from Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8fV5PpBYYM
Elena Obraztsova sings Joan of Arc's aria from the first act of Tchaikovsky's 'The Maid of Orleans': "Farewell, you native hills and fields".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZgfpMmZIKo
Cherubino's aria in act two.
Cherubino - Susanne Mentzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NYMqxVyoFE
Fiorenza Cossotto sings the 'Seguidille' from Bizet's Carmen. Naples, 1966.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WJaE1yy1w
I got the idea for this video when I found looking online that Gina Torres is a mezzo soprano. So I thought it would be interesting video to make where it looks like she is singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwANdq3nDIY
María Isabel Vera sings Azucena.
August 2006 Chile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD5tSAAXk3o
Mozart - Voi che sapete - Cecilia Bartoli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUgCI6pV-qs
