Product: Donizetti - Roberto Devereux / Rudel, Sills, Alexander, New York City Opera (1975)
Rating: 5.0
My favorite Devereux......despite
A fine musician friend asked me about opera singers and aging voices and I said the voice is just part of it. I told her for example I have several Devereux videos with singers much better than Sills at this point in her career and yet hers is my favorite. Yes, she's screechy and wobbly on higher notes, singing inconsistently.......but her characterization is sooooooo intense the well sung ones (Caballe, Nicolescu)are tepid by comparison. Alexander needed to be younger vocally. He was quite good much earlier but is just OK here. Fredericks takes the vocal honors singing magnificantly. Just his singing is worth the whole video.