The spirit of Florence Foster Jenkins lives on.
Not only the
spirit but the
voice!!!
The following are notable as they show she actually had a high C and even a D, but the latter a third lower that the F she should have achieved as the Queen of the Night. (Oh well, you reach for the stars and get the moon.) Artistic license also in the melismas (a rich dowager can do anything she likes,
n'est-ce pas?)
The pianist however emerges as the hero of the whole undertaking, doing a bit of transposition I believe in the beginning of the Delibes, while not rolling off the piano stool in convulsions of laughter.
Laugh along with her:
Mein Herr Marquis in
Englisch (some of it recognizable)!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g945PVDEL6YQueen of the Night (This was a hard one to figure out but it seems SOME form of
anglais.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp-e1CXdNvA&mode=related&search=Lakme (a now prevalent attitude here: the music should fit
my accent, not the other way around)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5z6Kd06PFw&mode=related&search=I've known, however, more than one self-proclaimed singer, the main and most crucial disability, not being able to hear oneself. Quite a few of them on "American Idol" these days.
ZB