While music and arts lovers mourn the loss of Beverly SIlls, we can be
consoled to some extent by a phenomenal more than 20 hours of live
recordings from over her near thirty-year operatic career, at THIS
website:
http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/musicroom.htm
While she formidably fought for the arts in New York City for the past
twenty years, before that she was a truly amazing singer-- and so
culturally ubiquitous for awhile, as "America's Diva," that her true
artistic greatness could sometimes take a back seat. She had a
steel-trap technique and dizzyingly wide repertoire wedded to an
amazing warmth and humanity. She had it all. Give her a listen, and
you'll say "How did she do that?"
Her Handel still just blows me away. AND her Mozart, Strauss,
Rossini, etc.
Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
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