I always get the shivers when I hear LHL sing. So sad she’s not with us anymore.

Truly one of the greatest singing actresses I ever had the joy to sing, study, and work with. Lorraine, I miss you and your amazing voice so much. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

In an era of assembly line singers she was unique and irreplaceable.

Impossibly beautiful. If only we could have her again. I discovered Lorraine Hunt only about a year ago, and fell in love with her after I'd become obsessed with her interpretations of Bach and Handel. I listened countless times to "Vieni O Figlio," which often brought me to tears over a baby brother I'd lost many years ago. Only after investing so much emotion in this wonderful, compelling voice did I find out she herself died years before I happened upon her amazing recordings, shortly after she had just lost her own sister, and not long before her dear husband died prematurely as well. These revelations made for a long and deep sadness about the world and its felicitous cruelty, and about life, its terrible beauty and unforgivable brevity. And yet I return to Lorraine, ironically or not, for solace. She is a reminder that joy and art are as potent as loss and grief. Life is our destiny, before death.

Have heard this song performed numerous times by Lorraine; like now again. Every time my tears appear and I become overwhelmed by the divine sound coming out of the throat of this superb singer! Thank you Lorraine for your heavenly voice.

Un chant de l'âme.... Musicalité, spiritualité, beauté habitée, what else....

Gorgeous, musical, touching,...she will be missed forever.

This is so moving, as it was in the theatre, almost unbearably intense. Such a glorious artist taken so young

I am very grateful for the preservation of this peak in LHL's career. This may be her greatest role, and she's heard here in 1996, the same year she consolidated her rep as pure mezzo and became an international luminary. It was also in 1996 that I attended one of the most extraordinary recitals of my experience, LHL at the Y with the estimable S. Blier at the piano. This particular video cut also shows LHL's staggering ease at poised agility while moving in a Bacchic frenzy (2:33 - 3:03)!

These heavenly voices sing like the very angels of heavenly courts above.

As with rosy steps is a revelation!

Unforgettable Lorraine. Sing for the Angels❤

Además del maravilloso timbre, me asombra la profundidad emocional de su interpretación y cómo nos muestra todo el abanico que va de la desesperación a la aceptación.

Un monument tellement cette voix et cette musique vous transportent.

“We sing and pray...” the staging of these final moments and the presence of artistic mind of LHL as she looks to her fellow actors/singers onstage. There really are no words.

I love this Handel's Oratorio, simple a masterpiece.

Excellente, musicalità, fraseggio e la presentazione.

more than better, this interpretation is miles away from anay others..i just find it by chance, and more than delighted still srkewed on it. once upon a day...... had the same physical emotion with o solitude, i was'nt so keen with alfred deller version after all bur as it was the first time i heard it it was so superbb that i kept my mouth shut and let my ears open

Curious that Handel gave some of the best arias to Irene rather than Theodora herself. But who cares, when we have Hunt Lieberson to sing them? No-one composed vocal music like Handel, and few people sang it like her. What a loss her death was.

Un sommet, à tout point de vue.

Damn! I thought I was over it but the tears still come.

So much magic on youtube and this beauty is up there with the lovliest. I have heard

This gives me goosebumps - literally

God this is moving

Superb performance by LHL in this production. Sadly, I only saw her sing once,in 2004, at Carnegie Hall: Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler's Third Symphony, cond. by Christoph Eschenbach. She was transfixing. William Christie is superb also, despite having had a miserable time of it during rehearsals for this production. Difficult to imagine it working without him: a master.

Fantastisch

So powerful,so lovely. What a voice and what presence, Love it,

54. Air Irene Lord, to Thee each night and day, Strong in hope, we sing and pray. Though convulsive rocks the ground, And thy thunders roll around, Still to Thee, each night and day, We sing and pray. Lord, to Thee. . . da capo

Magnificent voice. Magnificent interpretation. Magnificent opera. Brava

My god people, what a great performance. Handel is without peer in vocal music.

Besides her wonderful vocal performence, this religous ecstasy is unbelievable...each night and day, oh my god.... I can't help myself. That reminds me of Meryl Streep. She would act and feel the same way...

I love Handel....is Amazing

The lead in at 3-30, magical.

Lorraine Hunt, c'est Fagioli au féminin! Remarquable!!

Works here we embarketh

Can anyone comment on the costuming choices in this video? Is it supposed to be a modern setting of a story from the 4th century A.D.?

Vocally wonderfully but the physical acting is not as good as her acting in other scenes in “Theodora”.