High Notes in Opera High E Flat SOPRANOS

0:12-0:33 - Beverly Sills’ rapid-fire E-flat in Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille (Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffman). 0:34-1:00 - Ingeborg Hallstein’s crystalline E-flat from Il Bacio (Arditi). 1:01-1:19 - Joan Sutherland’s very lyrical and bell-like E-flat from the Invocation Scene (Ah Roland!) (Massenet: Esclarmonde). 1:20-1:53 - Beverly Sills floated E-flat from Eccomi in liete vesta ... Oh! Quante volte (Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi). 1:54-2:21 - Leontyne Prices’ well-placed E-flat from O madre, dal cielo ...Se vano e il pregare (Verdi: I Lombardi). 2:22-2:50 - Edda Moser’s amazing cadenza up to E-flat in Bester Jungling (Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor). 2:51-3:10 - Beverly Sills’ glassy E-flat in the cabaletta from Ah! Che spiegar non posso (Rossini: L’Assedio di Corinto). 3:11-3:37 - Cristina Deutekom’s gigantic E-flat as she flies away on a chariot pulled by dragons to Rinaldo’s camp (Dove son io?... Fuggì!“) (Rossini: Armida) 3:38-4:04 - Renee Fleming’s chilling and dramatic E-flat as she distresses over her son’s death in Era desso il figlio mio (Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia). 4:05-4:31 - Joan Sutherland’s anguishing E-flat from the Mad Scene - Vien diletto, è in ciel la luna - of I Puritani (Bellini: I Puritani). 4:32-4:54 - Joan Sutherland’s gigantic and steely E-flat from Già mi, pasco ne’ tuoi sgardi (Bellini: Norma). 4:55-5:19 - Joan Sutherland’s wonderfully interpolated E-flat scale from Santo di Patria (Verdi: Attila). 5:20-5:47 - Gualtier Maldè! ... Caro Nome (Verdi: Rigoletto 1952 Mexico City). 5:48-6:14 - Ardon gl’incensi (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor 14 June 1952). 6:15-6:33 - Spargi d’amaro pianto (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor 14June 1952). 6:34-7:02 - Sovra il sen la man mi posa (Bellini: La Sonnambula). 7:03-7:23 - Non più nozze (Bellini: La Sonnambula). 7:24-7:49 - Ah! non giunge uman pensiero (Bellini: La Sonnambula) 7:50-8:17 - Maria Callas’ ecstatic E-flat swelled into an amazing diminuendo from Ah! non giunge uman pensiero (Bellini: La Sonnambula 1957 Köln). 8:18-8:46 - Maria Callas’ fragile and well placed fil di voce E-flat from Alfredo! Alfredo! Di questo core (Verdi: La Traviata 1952 Mexico City). 8:47-9:19 - Maria Callas’ flawless E-flat executed in mezza voce from Non si dà follia (Rossini: Il Turco in Italia 1950 Roma). 9:20-9:50 - The greatest E-flat in recorded history (Gloria all’Egitto). A massive comet being sent off into the cosmos and beyond ... (Verdi: Aida 1951 Mexico City).