callasassoluta:

Here we got the joyous aria from La Sonnambula, where Maria performs an unbelievable and unreachable (and famous) feat: a diminuendo on a High E-flat, then a 2-octaves descending scale, everything done perfectly in the same breath! Let’s remember: an Isolde, a Turandot, a Kundry!

Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula.
”Ah non giunge”
(Recorded: July 4th, 1957 in Großes Haus, Köln)

Under the direction of Antonino Votto.