I do agree with you,but as she is now 80 I think she has probably retired.Why did we (in the UK least) not hear and see more of her.If you look on Amazon you cannot see any recordings.It is a remarkable voice,a full blown dramatic soprano( as in the aria Suicidio) and refined down to a Lyric Soprano as in this aria.Thank goodness that KZbin enables us to see and hear her.

@@MrSwifts31 If I'm not mistaken she sang at the ROH in 1981, alternating as TOSCA with Dame Gwyneth Jones.

Maria Slătinaru-Nistor was born in Iasi on May 25, 1938. She began her studies in her hometown with Florica Mărieş, George Pascu, Mihai Cozmei, Ion Pavalache. The years 1967-1969 he spent at the class of Professor Arta Florescu, at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest. She was the winner of international singing competitions in Toulouse and Bucharest (G. Enescu) -1967, Barcelona and Hertogenbosch-1969. As a soloist of the first lyrical scene she started with Elisabetta from Don Carlo de Verdi (1969), she went through: Trubadurul, Aida, Faust, Boema, Turandot, AndreaChénier then through Walkiria and Cavalleria rusticana. From 1972 to 1988 (in Germany, France, Italy, Austria and other European countries) he addressed increasingly demanding roles: Amelia from Masked Ball and Simon Boccanegra, Arabella and Chriysotemis from Electra, Abigaille from Nabucco, Manon Lescaut, Elsa from Lohengrin, Leonora from Trubadur, Force of Destiny and Fidelio, Giorgietta from Mantaua, Elisabeta from Tannhauser, Lisa from Lady of Spades, Senta from Dutch Flying, Gioconda. The role that Maria Slătinaru-Nistor considers the most significant interpretive achievement, however, remains Tosca, repeated over 300 times, all over the world; from Frankfurt to Dallas, from Palermo, Paris and Berlin, to Montreal, Zurich and New York's Metropolitan. In fact, after his debut in Puccini's Far West opera, at the La Fenice Theater in Venice (1981), Andrea Chénier at the Arena in Verona (1982) and Mantua at the Grand Opera in Paris and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival (1983) returns to America. , to San Francisco in Gioconda, Montreal and Dallas with Tosca, and again to San Francisco in Leonora from the Force of Destiny. To all these and many other successes that I did not mention, Maria Slătinaru-Nistor also added wide-ranging vocal-symphonic appearances, such as: The Brahms, Fauré and Verdi's Requiem, Mahler's 8th Symphony , Symphony of IX Beethoven, Stabat Mater by Dvorak and the Glagolitic Mass by Janacek. He had partners on the most important soloists of the scenes he sang. We only mention tenors Carlo Bergonzi, Giuseppe Giacomini, Giacomo Arragall, Franco Bonisolli, Niccola Martinucci, Luis Lima, Carlo Cossutta, James King, Peter Hoffmann, Vasile Moldoveanu, Giorgio Merighi; on the baritones Gabriel Bacquier, Giuseppe Taddei, Piero Cappuccilli, Matteo Manuguera, Juan Pons, Giorgio Zancanaro, Ingvar Wixell and on the Bats Teo Adam, Matti Salminen, James Morris. (Source Mihai Bogdan)

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