Mashups seem to be everywhere these days! This is Beverly Sills doing her famous Sillsillana piece: a pastiche of every famous coloratura piece mashed together to make this hysterically fun piece. I have it as an MP3, and never thought I'd find it at Youtube, but there it was.
It was arranged by her coach and for those of you who know some of these pieces, you will hear the following excerpts:
Piano
intro -Una voce poco fa – Barber of Seville
Grossmächtige
prinzessin – Ariadne auf Naxos
Je
suis Titania – Mignon
Shemahka’s
aria - Coq d’or
Holle
Rache - Magic Flute
Richard
Strauss: Amor
Je
suis encore tout étourdie –Manon (with Una voce “ma” at end)
Vien
delitto – Puritani (with Una voce poco fa "ma" at end)
Schubert:
Shepherd on the Rock
Vocalize
on Chopin’s Etude in A-flat, Op. 25, no. 1
Spargi
d’amaro (Mad Scene) - Lucia
Vocalise
on Chopin Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, no.2
Les
oiseaux (Olympia)– Tales of Hoffmann
Sempre
libera - Traviata –with Gagnon as tenor
Sills’
cadenza used for O luce di quest’anima – Linda di Chamounix
Sempre
libera – the final “pensier”
ENJOY!
