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Title: At Last!
Review: I've owned the disc version of this performance on a pirated recording since a few months after the actual performance date (1969), and for me it's always been the epitome of what made any Sills role exciting--stunning coloratura, beautiful legato, and humor. Here her singing is much more exciting than on the VHS tape of a production in English, and her French is exquisite. Corena is a classic Sulpice, Hirst sings all of the high C's without strain, and Greenspon hams it to the hilt. A very minor drawback is the low-tech but pefectly listenable sound, without which this wonderful souvenir of Sills in her prime would not exist.
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