Legendary Sopranos and Their Signature High Notes

A highlight reel of the some of the most renown sopranos hitting some of their best notes.

Featured artists and recordings:
0:00 Astrid Varnay - A♭5
1) Salome - 1953
2) Elektra - 1975
3) Die Walküre - 1941
4) Don Carlo - 1951
5) Tristan und Isolde - 1954

1:12 Rosa Ponselle - A5
1) Suor Angelica 'Senza mamma' - 1952
2) Don Giovanni - 1934
3) Aida - 1923
4) La bohème - 1923
5) Cavalleria rusticana - 1936

2:29 Kirsten Flagstad - B♭5
1) Parsifal - 1950
2) Tristan und Isolde - 1951
3) Götterdämmerung - 1939
4) Götterdämmerung - 1956

4:08 Renata Tebaldi - B5
1) Giovanna d'Arco - 1951
2) Manon Lescaut - 1959
3) Simon Boccanegra - 1960
4) Andrea Chénier - 1966
5) La Gioconda - 1967
6) Tosca - 1968
7) La Fanciulla del West - 1970
8) Andrea Chénier - 1970
9) Otello - 1973

6:35 Birgit Nilsson - C6
1) Un Ballo in Maschera - 1955
2) Götterdämmerung - 1963
3) Tosca - 1964
4) Aida - 1965
5) Elektra - 1966
6) Macbeth - 1970
7) Siegfried - 1975
8) Tristan und Isolde - 1981

8:49 Zinka Milanov - D♭6
1) Il trovatore - 1938
2) Il trovatore - 1939
3) Il trovatore - 1944
4) Il trovatore - 1945
5) Il trovatore - 1947

9:53 Joan Sutherland - D6
1) Norma - 1978
2) Maria Stuarda - 1971
3) Esclarmonde - 1983
4) Anna Bolena - 1985
5) I puritani - 1986
6) La fille du régiment - 1986

11:15 Maria Callas - E♭6
1) Rigoletto - 1955
2) La traviata - 1952
3) Aida - 1950
4) Proch 'Deh torna mio bene' - 1951
5) I puritani - 1949
6) La sonnambula - 1955

Some disclaimers as usual:
- As with all of my 'best of' compilation videos, I do not claim this list to be scripture or all-encompassing in any way. It was simply what I could produce in a reasonable amount of time. If you have other suggestions, please share them in the comments!
- If I missed an obvious moment, it may be that it is already showcased in another one of my videos.
- There is some 'liberty' taken on the note associations (besides clear choices for Nilsson and Callas), this was to allow for each note to be covered by a different soprano. Please do not read to much into it.
- I do not yet have permission share the Flagstad 'Vissi d'arte' recording. It is not complete anyhow.
- If someone could help me out with filling in the missing dates in the recordings (or correcting where necessary), it would be much appreciated!

Special thanks to ‪@omarsomehow69‬ for providing many of these clips. Thank you also to ‪@JoanSutherlandFan‬, who's channel I used extensively for finding Sutherland clips as I am not particularly familiar with her or her repertoire.