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Let's take a look at a few YouTube performances of the greatest of all Verdi arias, "Tu che le vanita," from Don Carlo, starting with Sena Jurinac.
Compare and Contrast 18, Italian Soprano Division Lisa Hirsch 2009
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Let's take a look at a few YouTube performances of the greatest of all Verdi arias, "Tu che le vanita," from Don Carlo, starting with Sena Jurinac.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009
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With the wonders of recordings and now YouTube I have often listened and watched almost 40 years of her performing such jewels as Dove sono from The Marriage of Figaro, Desdemona's Ave Maria in Verdi's Otello, Nanetta in Verdi's Falstaff which she sang with WNO alongside Sir Geraint Evans, and relived the Tu che le vanita from that Don Carlo in New York.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Eisabeta's arias and duets as sung by Anita are quite unsurpassable, especialy the concluding "Tu che le vanita", where she is as impressive vocally as she is touching dramatically.
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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She couldn’t fake this in the big passages, though she tried to temper her delivery of the big final aria, “Tu che le vanita,” with artistry and sophisticated pianos.
The Met's new Don Carlo Anne Midgette 2010
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"over thin shadows that mocked the substance of real forms," but rather it was the real forms that appeared as shadows, or vanita.
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"over thin shadows that mocked the substance of real forms," but rather it was the real forms that appeared as shadows, or vanita.
The Caxtons — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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