A recent performance of this showpiece at Carnegie Hall, delivered with ZERO panache by a certain soprano currently engaged at the Metropolitan Opera, reminded me of what separates the have-nots from the haves, the aspirants from the pros, the chaff from the wheat, the girls from the women. Listen.

Live, 6 July 1988, London, Covent Garden

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