Roberta Peters conquers Mozart's K.416 (with piano) скачать в хорошем качестве

Roberta Peters conquers Mozart's K.416 (with piano)

THE SONGBIRD: The career of Roberta Peters (1930 - 2017) is likely familiar to most opera and high soprano fans, starting with her famed 1950 debut at the Met as a last-minute Zerlina substitute for Nadine Conner, which made her an overnight sensation. She was on the Met's roster for 35 years (over 500 appearances with the company) and sang with other regional companies and toured regularly in concert and recital. Peters became a celebrity in American magazines, television shows, and movies — there was even a memorable American Express card TV commercial ("Taxi!!") that you can see on YouTube here:    • American Express ad w/Roberta Peters - 1981  . THE MUSIC: Mozart wrote the aria “Mia speranza adorata … Ah non sai qual pena sia” K.416 in January 1783 in Vienna for one of his favorite sopranos, Aloysia Weber, who sang it at a concert soon after. Aloysia possessed one of the most extraordinary soprano voices of all time judging by the exquisite and extremely difficult music Mozart composed for her. K.416 is a demanding showpiece in rondo form; it begins with a probing, heartfelt recitative and then launches into a long, wistful aria, before closing with a spectacular coda. All told the piece includes four High Fs and ends with a series of ascending coloratura spirals to High E-flat and cascades down over two octaves to middle C.