I could have watched all night, i could have watched all night and still have begged for more!!

All the wonderful women!



Julia Andrews is so beautiful! I'm so inspired to sing!




and so is Callas!

the fake crying whiny little girl "o mio babbino caro"


i was surprised to hear my teacher describe lauretta as a little girl whining to her father. i still haven't watched gianni, but it hadn't occurred to me before that people actually portray rather trivial/daily feelings in operas. i thought they only sang of life and death situations. but here, this little girl is almost throwing a tantrum about her boyfriend to the daddy. that's quite cute don't you think.

norma



rosina



carmen




tosca



why was the tosca i watched (SLO) so boring!??


i really couldn't find anything to put here for veronique gens, but she's great :)



and dawn upshaw the wonderwoman!





"she has not a shred of self-satisfaction. which is why she can play these roles. and why she makes you cry, and it's not about having pity on me, you cry because of a kind of infinite sadness in the universe..."

you wouldn't think dawn upshaw would have a problem being intimate with people and sharing would you... afterall she's so successful at performing so many things! but then again, she does look like the introvert kind. i don't know. anyways, below is a masterclass video. she's a good teacher, i still remember how she described a piece to my teacher to be shattering. "you're not supposed to be able to do this piece more than once a day, cos it's such a shattering experience!"




bartoli



(the callas version is ... hmm.. so different

right?)


i love this song. but from the recording i could never have guessed her expression :p. that beautiful skinny little whistle tone somehow doesn't go with the tormented facial expression. well.. hha.

kristin chenoweth

she's a natural!




on a side note, it of course helps to have huge expressive eyes lol... all these pretty white girls! darn.