Grace Bumbry's Best Friend Watches Her as Carmen
Clip: Season 53 Episode 1 | 3m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
In this scene from the 1968 film, Grace Bumbry performs as Carmen.
Felicia Weathers, a good friend of Grace Bumbry, watches her perform as Carmen in the 1968 film version of the opera.
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...
Grace Bumbry's Best Friend Watches Her as Carmen
Clip: Season 53 Episode 1 | 3m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Felicia Weathers, a good friend of Grace Bumbry, watches her perform as Carmen in the 1968 film version of the opera.
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This piano is fantastic!
So natural.
♪♪ Oh, now listen to this.
The next four bars.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Yes, that's Grace right there.
Okay.
That shoulder was Grace.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ There you hear the future soprano.
That was the moment when you could hear that she was headed in that direction.
She didn't know it at that time.
♪♪ Thank you.
That was my favorite scene.
Because it had very little going on, but a heck of a lot going on from the inside out.
Yeah?
And funny enough, you could also see that in the eyes or the expression of Jon Vickers that he got it.
He got it.
Yeah.
That was obvious for me anyway.
Beyoncé's relationship to Grace Bumbry
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Clip: S53 Ep1 | 2m 15s | David Lee Brewer, Beyoncé's former vocal instructor, on Beyoncé's love of Grace Bumbry. (2m 15s)
Grace Bumbry's Journey to the Opera Stages of Europe
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Clip: S53 Ep1 | 3m 20s | Fleeing racial discrimination in the US, Bumbry took the opera stages of Europe by storm. (3m 20s)
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