I was at the Met that night. She absolutely brought the house down. It was spine tingling.

I feel like I am watching this like almost every day. Never get sick of this.. can watch this all day long... why the don't release the DVDs ! Please TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!

It's practically criminal the Met hasn't released her Tudors Trilogy on DVD.

What a complete privilege it actually was to sit in the theatre with everyone else and watch her soar through those three queens. I miss going to the opera a lot.

This must be one of the greatest performances ever

I can't listen to this without getting teary eyed. What power in that voice. And her acting and physicality is magnetic. To sing with that posture and movement is astounding

I’ve had the great fortune to see Radvanovsky at the Met in the following operas - Trovatore, Ballo, Aida (so far her one performance of Aida at the Met), all three Donizetti queens (Anna Bolena three times), Tosca, and Norma (four times). She has never been less than utterly spectacular, and audiences go berserk for her in a way that I’ve only seen on videos from the Golden Age.

This is Perfection! Perfection in everything: technique, acting, creating a REAL character! This is ART! The staging and costumes are great, wonderful! This is opera! Thank you so much for sharing!

I love the fact that Sandra just opens here throat and just lets it rip.

Sondra Radvanovsky is a force of NATURE; She is pretty well the most brilliant VERDI singer around in 2020 and as of the last 8 years or so she has moved into THE BEL CANTO repertoire creating a sensation not seen since LA STUPENDA, DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND. BRAVA MADAMA RADVANOVSKY.

A new GODDESS has been born to me!!!.....I'm a humble opera lover from Wigan, Lancashire, UK....whose access to this great art is severley limited, hence me only hearing Sondra in this sublime role for her from last week......I've listened to nothing else since!!!.....BELIEVE ME!!!! ( yes of course I would have given half my time on earth, to have heard Callas...had she ever sung it,...in her prime...or any other time...sing this!!) BUT Sondra's MAGNIFICENT performance.......almost compensates...........BRAVA MY NEW DIVINA!!!!.....xx

Spectacular! The most thrilling soprano of today. And the one of the very few that can fill the Met opera. And her pianissimi are also exquisite. I love her!

No me canso de ver esta maravilla de interpretacion de Sondra. Simplemente Genial!

My God. My heart is pounding! This is the oxygen and blood of opera, of drama! It’s really daunting how difficult these operas are for the principal singers. But Radanovsky easily cements herself as a living legend! She has complete control of her instrument and this is the kind of compelling singing that I live for!!! Brava!!!

Great interpretation! Great Voice. Fantastica Sondra!!!!

Radvanovsky is sensational in this role.

C'est vraiment très beau. Timbre original, çà change ; voix puissante, aigu facile, contrôle absolu. Le bonheur.

Meravigliosa sondra in un'aria difficilissima dal punto di vista interpretativo, per non parlare dell'ardua tessitura e dell'ampiezza di colori che ci vogliono. Sondra superlativa e vocalmente e scenicamente🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️

I think this must be her greatest role. It shows her virtues (full, warm sound, great high register) to great advantage without exposing her shortcomings (sketchy coloratura, inability to trill). I first encountered this role with Sills' recording, which I loved, but over the years, I've began to want bigger, fuller voices that didn't need to be pushed and stretched into this role. Radvanovsky really shines here. Her Devereaux far outclasses her Norma or Bolena.

Her Roberto Devereux is an iconic achievement. Edit: Her Roberto and her Medea are both iconic achievements. Brava Sondra.

Few sopranos can pull off the Devereux finale. It's one of the most demanding scenes in opera. Radvanosky delivers flawlessly!

Any doubt that Donizetti's genius was indispensable to propelling Verdi in the direction he went is dispelled in this sovereign reading from Mme. Radvanovsky. At the height of his genius, Donizetti, in these final moments of Roberto Devereux, showed future generations how to reveal painfully honest feelings in music, a courage that lit up operatic inspiration throughout Italy and beyond. But it takes an artist who can combine the deeply human with the ultimate in grandeur to reveal the true measure of what Donizetti wrought. Mme. Radvanovsky, with a vocal capacity as supple and elastic in the tender moments as it is ample in those that strike terror, is just that kind of artist. We can be grateful that Donizetti comes into his own in this unique video. The world can finally understand how much the world of opera owes to this composer with the unveiling of this document. How frustrating that the world has not yet been given this entire performance as seen one fleeting afternoon on HD. Lest there be any doubt about the role this supreme work played in Verdi's professional career, rehearsals for his first opera, Oberto, had to be worked around rehearsals for Roberto Devereux. The younger master must have been steeped in this work as a result.

Oh, my GOD!!! Sondra is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!!!! Braaaaaaavaaaaaaa!!!! But, this set and costumes are very wonderful! Congratulation all!!

I saw this video 10 a 15 times ....so fantastic ...Sondra is amazing ...what a great singer and a good actress too.

Siempre la vuelvo a escuchar. Magnifica voz y canto. Estupendo despliegue escénico. La vi en vivo en el MET haciendo Tosca. También impactante.

Sicuramente un Soprano dalla bella voce. Una artista lirica completa. Lei certamente non ha bisogno né di guru né di raccomandazioni varie per cantare ad alto livello. È bravissima ed è una donna davvero fantastica e intelligente.

Sondra Radvanovsky as in all her roles sensational. I don't understand why we cannot get more of her, either on CD ROM or DVD or simply ate the Operas in Europe, Radvanovsky is the best Interpret of Verdi since Callas, and often better the the latter. I had the privilege to have heard both of them in my life

Tremendous! This is just a Bel Canto tsunami!

I have no words to describe how much I like this performance in this role of Sondra Rodvanovsky .. a very young woman manages to look like a 90 year old woman .. and these pianissimi! such a study! such acting such TALENT !! just thank you!

No words! Just amazing! What a great artist. Very few today other than Sondra and Devia can sing this! What a great staging and what a great and humble artist!

I have heard Radvanovsky only once in person, in recital. Her voice is without a doubt the biggest I have heard in a lifetime of concert-going. Her sound is enormous, and her emotional risk and honesty as a performer is breathtaking. I wasn't in the house for this performance, but I saw it in the Live in HD broadcast. It's almost impossible to convey how thrilling the whole production was. Radvanovsky's voice reaches into your chest (and then she breaks your heart with those pianissimi). The whole cast was remarkable: Polenzani, Garanča, Kwiecien, above all Radvanovsky -- it was like watching them juggle lightning. By the climax of this scene, there were people in the audience openly weeping.

In the not so distant past, Ms. Radvanovsky would be a household name and there would a number of her complete opera recordings available

Amazing dramatic,passionate and soulful performance. She reaches into your psyche.

I keep rewatching this as one of the sot riveting oper a scenes Ive ever seen. Please, please Met, release the trilogy on DVD - Id buy it instantly

Radvanosky is a truly great singer/actress whose voice, like both Callas and Nilsson, sounds harsher when recorded than in person. These large voices seem to fall into two types in terms of the recorded vs live [not recording live but actually heard in the theatre live experience]. There are the large, "soft" edged voices [Sutherland, Flagstad, Norman, Ponselle] whose voices recorded very smoothly and only lose the ultimate sense of size that hearing them in the theatre allows [e.g., Sutherland, who I heard in 12 theatrical roles in large theatres, had a voice so large that no recording really tells you how it filled a theatre]. Then there are the large "hard" edged voices [Callas, Radvanosky, Cerquetti, Nilsson, Varnay] whose voices tend to sound somewhat metallic and thinner, not smaller, in their recordings than they did in the theatre. Nilsson actually often talked about this, saying that she never felt that her voice was recorded completely accurately. I heard her in 11 of her great roles, again in large theatres, and that hard edge in the theatrical acoustic carried the voice fully throughout the theatre but was much more rounded by the acoustic than any of her recordings. I also saw Zoe Caldwell on Broadway in "Master Class" where recordings of Callas were used as part of the play. I have every available recording of Callas but hearing some of them in an acoustically well designed theatre did the same rounding of the hard edge that I heard when I heard Nilsson live. We can never actually hear most singers fully unless we hear them live.

This so fantastic, what an amazing singing actress. Singing like THAT and having to restrict your body at the same time. Unbelievable. Is more of this available to see? I love the applause at the end, she so deserves it and seems moved by it. Update: watching on Met On demand. Absolutely amazing!

Stupenda voce, stupendo brano, stupenda esecuzione

fabulous - just discovered her. Where has she been all my life.

Superba interpretazione del finale di una della opere più straordinarie di Donizetti.

Fantastica! Che brividi a sentirla e vederla.

I can't stop watching/listening to this... completely gorgeous music (utterly addictive melodic progression and orchestration), thrilling and beautiful singing, and a stunning design. And the English CCs are terrific! x

Great actress, phenomenal voice and beautiful lady is Diva Sondra Radvanovsky. She is absolutely fabulous in this role💛

I love that her voice goes out into the House whether she is singing forte or piano.You notice it even on broadcasts. I was there for this production, unfortunately the one night Polenzani didn’t sing.

Her "Quel sangue versato" is an amazing tour de force, maybe one of the best sung vocal performances heard (and recorded) in the last decades. Incredible breath control, very even and homogeneous singing, tasteful expressiveness, perfect control of dynamics, powerful forte notes, seamless legato throughout the entire range... I always admire Radvanovsky's singing, but sometimes I feel something is lacking. Not here, though. This "Quel sangue versato" is a Bel Canto lesson for all the ages.

Some of her best ever singing.

Oh heavens, I am left in tears at the sheer beauty of Diva Radvanovsky’s voice and her artistry of presentation. How I would love to see her sing in person but traveling is not easy for me. I must purchase the CD of this if there is one.

Queen Sondra 😍 Exquisite & priceless treasure of human race!!

E talmente brava che non si puo' fare altro che un commento: ce ne vorrebbero tante come lei

Seeing the torn up programs floating to the stage gives me chills!! She deserved all the applause and shouts that day!

Fantastica non la conoscevo, che brava

I think this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Sinceramente creo que es el rol e interpretación de su vida, que calidad vocal, que control de la respiración, que forma de actuar e interpretar y que manera de llevar las emociones a la voz. BRAVA BRAVA BRAVISIMA

Maravillosa version. Sondra esta Genial. Magnifica puesta en Escena. Impactante Final.

Époustouflante, je l'ai vu au ciné-opéra en Avignon. Une grande voix, une belle carrière. le style et l'expression belcantiste. et le high D conclusif (non écrit).

Stupendo allestimento. Lei è straordinaria nella sua intensità.

OMG this is great...her voice is just marvelous 😍😍

Legendary. Lucky to bear witness to such a complete artist at any time, much less in recent decades.

This has got to be one of the most iconic, historic, classic moments in the long history of the Met. Radvanovsky is magnificent. Full stop.

REALMENTE ASOMBROSA, MARAVILLOSA !

I am In Awe to Sandra Majestic Allure and rendition at the Sublime and Heavenly level

Mr. Radvanovsky is the best singer today!!!!!!!!!

It is nice to hear someone who actually SINGS these roles as opposed to some of the howling and screaming we are treated to by some of the socalled "bel canto experts" today. But there isn't much in terms of vocal characterisation, just nice singing and stage acting. This isn't Radvanosky's fault - it's just the way we do opera nowadays, where the stage director is omnipotent, often has very little knowledge and/or understand of music and singing, and ALWAYS puts his own ideas above the score.

adorable, extraordinary, touching

What an incredible and touching performing is this "fineal scene" ...Firstly for such a great actrees se is and with a perfct control of the emission as for the voice colours....really impressive !!

Okay, là on est du niveau de la Gruberova... Et une mise en scène à la hauteur de l’ensemble musical ! Superbe !

What a cast and what a performance!...just probably one of the greatest versions of Roberto Devereux seen in recent times! The final aria and final note from the Queen is stunning...well done Sondra...wonderful stuff. Bel canto at its very best.

The epitome of a SINGING ACTRESS! How POWERFUL! BRAVA, SONDRA!!!!!!

I've just seen this entire opera and it was just sensational! Bravo!

Sublime ! Un très grand spectacle du MET !

Momentos sublimes tenemos en la vida cuando nos encontramos estas divas maravillosas que además de cantar, actúan brindandonos momentos maravillosos gracias Sondra

Il massimo assoluto. The greatest singer and a superb actress.

Sondra é uma grande cantora! Sensibilidade e muita expressão vocal !!! Brava!!!

Sondra Radvanovksy is easily one of the best dramatic sopranos alive today and she was superb when she sang Elizabeth 1 in our little suburban opera house here in San Francisco

mind blowing performance!

Божественный голос! Слушала бы с утра до утра!

Mind BLOWN!!! and Met Opera Chorus like friggin GODS! BRAVI ! ❤

OH What a JOY AND LAMENT Combined to A Celestial Level By the DIVA SONDRA THE Graceful and ENCHANTRESS.Merci joe

So much beautiful air flow in her singing. Raises us to the heavens.

bellissima interpretazione sia vocale che scenica.

Without a doubt, one of the greatest performances ever!

Superbe musique et superbe interprète…..sublime

This is Opera Theater at its best!

I watch this every day

This final scene was so riveting when I saw her perform the opera in Toronto, that the gloves I was holding were actually torn in anguish! Radvanovsky is brilliant!

Incroyable !

Stunning.

Kurz, dieser Sopran ist ... class of own !!!!!

Now that is what I would call a DRAMATIC SOPRANO!

Merci pour cette merveilleuse scène. Fabuleuse Sondra, inoubliable.

Magnífica!

I love her so much!!!

They need to release the DVD!

She's awesome - Sondra you go girl! I absolutely love it. :-)

Jesu! What an amazing singer. The very best.

Bravissimoa! You, Wonderful one!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🏻🔥

Una meravella de la natura! Espectacular.

super hermosa Sondra!! increible altura artística deslumbra!!!

Stunning. My word this is absolutely fabulous singing. 👌

The voice! BUT the Acting...im speechless. A once in a generation performance. Brava.

Insuperable