Upshaw OWNS this role. 🤩

She has this incredible GIFT for making the most modern and angular music sound utterly MUSICAL. It's a remarkable thing, and a joy to listen to. That high C is a knock out too!

I am obsessed with interpretation of this aria by magnificent Dawn Upshaw.

One of the most beautiful lady in the world. Her voice is a girl from God bless this beautiful lady. Dawn Upshaw is a treasure with love to my sweetheart

Dawn was really feeling herself. ❤

love her love her love her.................

This role really does best with a diamond bright, pert soubrette voice like Dawn Upshaw has. The heavier lyric sopranos are uninspired and not girlish enough and the violin laser beam coloraturas sound mechanical and not human often in this aria. Brava Upshaw.

I never liked opera. I assumed it was likeable for people with sophisticated tastes, but I just didn't get it. THEN ONE FINE DAY in the late 80s, I was working in a store that sold these new-fangled "CDs". Our distributers would send us free sampler albums. I was particularly fond of playing the lullaby CD over the PA whenever a customer with a mewling tot disturbed our peace. It never failed to silence them...but I digress. Where was I? Oh yes, sampler CDs! Someone sent us one that included Dawn Upshaw singing something. I finally "got it". I suddenly realized why people love opera, thanks to this one performance by Dawn Upshaw! For decades, I have only remembered it was in English, seemed "modern", and contained the word "Tom", but nothing else. Finally, thanks to KZfaq, I have rediscovered it! I have no clue why this, and nothing else, makes me understand the appeal of "opera", but thank you, Dawn Upshaw, nonetheless!

Great musician! Your presentation of this piece is the best I have ever heard or thought of

WOW! Most sopranos would give anything to sound this good after a long recording session with lots of help from the engineers and autotune. Here Dawn Upshaw is singing live in front of an audience, a pit orchestra and all the distractions of a dancer twirling around her like some out of control automotan. Her singing is simply brilliant throughout this challeging aria and you can understand what shes singing, despite i perfect acoustics for capturing text. And her final note is pure triumph!

Utter perfection!

I still can't get over how full-bodied that High C is!!

Bravissima,questa è la migliore esecuzione sul youtbe di quest'aria :-)

...And that's how you perform opera.

This performance is everything!

This is my favourite Upshaw's version of the aria becuase here she sings beautifully and without any little imperfection. The tempo is right and not too fast like in the audio version although in that recording her voice sounds wonderful and very youth, just right for the chacacter. In the Salzbourg video she sings well but I think her voice sounds a little tired.

wow！so great

Don't blame the ballerina. They wanted Upshaw to do that too while singing, but she politely declined. ;)

Dawn is so graceful, her performance here so riveting- the dancer is a distraction and and insult to Dawn's brilliance.

❤❤❤❤❤

Dawn, great in English pieces. American soprano!

What an absurd staging of this. wonderful Aria and cabaletta. What the hell is with a TV hampster and a ballerina in this scene?

Ha, ha

I love dawn Upshaw and i love this opera and especially this aria BRAVO! -------- the dancing is distracting and pulls the focus away from the aria and the singer-------less theater please

Monotone color. I feel moderate irregularities, but I am never conscious of only the flat. Although it is a neat and beautiful singing, it never touches the surface and appeals to internal feelings. There is a rich tension, objectively grasp the shadows of the story with people listening.

Get rid of that dancer