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@Optical747 2 сағат бұрын
Wotan in this performance is the god himself Ludwig Hofmann!
@Thearchivebeyondimagination Күн бұрын
Wilson is pretty much challenged Nilsson here
@dudeforcaster8630 2 күн бұрын
All downhill after Nilsson. Screeching ugly voices, out of tune, poor rhythm, wobbles. Just hideous,
@yuh8946 2 күн бұрын
Who do you plan on doing next? I request Dame Gwyneth Jones ❤
@dramaticsoprano5168 2 күн бұрын
@@yuh8946 Next will probably be Tebaldi because a viewer has been requesting for a while and has already sent me all the material. Jones I could look into but it might take a while since she has so much material. I do know her live operatic range (F3-D6) but I'd have to go through her interviews and documentaries to see if she has any offstage singing. I'll add it to my list but I can't promise when it might come
@BalletBabyBoy 3 күн бұрын
Better for Wagner and Strauss
@MartyMusic777 4 күн бұрын
I love how perfectly she sings; even with a dark voice, there's clarity and focus on every note, there's never a sense of forcing or effort, and she has the ability to sing coloratura when it's called for. What a queen!
@cmarley4259 4 күн бұрын
Such an amazingly even and well produced voice. I'm sure she could go much lower and likely higher too. She has some low Es and Fs in the spoken monologue in Fidelio which seemed very well projected. Thanks for the video :)
@Yoavmw 4 күн бұрын
Thanks for this amazing (as always) upload. Which piece is the Eb4 2:12?
@dramaticsoprano5168 4 күн бұрын
@@Yoavmw It is from the Act 1 finale of Fidelio, 1950 in Salzburg.
@alleviation91 4 күн бұрын
Jesus! Her, Varnay, Traubel, Ponselle, and Dimitrova had to have the deepest soprano voices. Just ridiculous how low she could go. And with such strength!
@ПоэзияРоманаЛафоре 4 күн бұрын
Especially Astrid Varnay. She had the darkest voice with contralto sound in her bottom.
@bhyronsuela-ramos2432 4 күн бұрын
My favorite soprano! Because she already had the size and range, imagine if she sang Amneris? That would really be a thrilling vocal showcase between her and whoever is going to play the role of Aida. Thanks for the video! 🤍
@Thearchivebeyondimagination 4 күн бұрын
These low G - sharps of the man sound. Brava La Flagstad!
@dramaticsoprano5168 4 күн бұрын
@@Thearchivebeyondimagination Yes, but it took some time to find moments of her opening up her chest voice like this. She was very conservative with her use in Wagner, similar to Nilsson in this regard. Originally I thought it was Germanic but approach, but it is actually the Nordic way of Gillis Bratt - light on bottom and on top.
@danielintheantipodes6741 4 күн бұрын
Thank you for the video. Appreciated!
@pixelchords3201 4 күн бұрын
Amazing! I was waiting for this. Thanks ❤
@syncopate50 4 күн бұрын
What is called a D-flat6 at the end of the Götterdämerung Prologue is really a C6 that wandered sharp.
@dramaticsoprano5168 4 күн бұрын
Indeed, but it does center around a D-flat for the last two seconds (1100 Hz).
@jeffreymiller4814 4 күн бұрын
She nails a stunner of a high C at the end of this Götterdämmerung duet in the RCA recording under her boy, Edwin McArthur.
@dramaticsoprano5168 4 күн бұрын
My favorite Flagstad Cs are the ones from Bodanzky 08/02/1936, so radiant and secure. Only problem is I can't find the tape anymore! In this video are Bodanzky '37 which were almost as good...
@dramaticsoprano5168 4 күн бұрын
Since the previous upload was copyright-striked, I made a refreshed version using the same template Varnay's. Amended quite a bit due to some mistakes in the old video and feedback from viewers who preferred longer excerpts. Maybe a bit too long this time but the singing line just went on forever, it would be an injustice to crop too early...
@KajiVocals 5 күн бұрын
Great video. Clearly aiming for a C on that last note but hit a D-flat in stead.
@JustinPollinger 7 күн бұрын
A lot of haters up in these comments 👀
@jmiller05 8 күн бұрын
I notice that she sings the low notes with a kind of nasal, conservative placement that seemed popular with Germanic singers. I think i much prefer the darker, heavier chest placement from Italian singers.
@babydrane 8 күн бұрын
She is amazing. The lower end needed work, obviously, but I love how young, energetic and oftentimes sweet she can sound singing at the volume that she does. If you love Wagner, give her a try so you can hear a fresher, brighter Brunnhilde cut right through heavy orchestration without barking.
@alleviation91 8 күн бұрын
I never liked this woman's voice. Pitchy, and bleaty, her borderline wobbly voice drives me through the roof. She also sounds like an up jumped lyric soprano, rather than a mature dramatic. I much prefer Traubel, Flagstad, Varnay, etc. Loud as all hell, though, and possessing suprising flexibility. Her musicality isn't bad, either! I just can't stand the sound she emits lol.
@pixelchords3201 8 күн бұрын
The most pitchy of the famous Wagnerians. She could even give Rysanek a fright. And yet I've heard people on KZbin praise her pitch... Nice A and B-flat tho.
@adrianday3118 8 күн бұрын
This is some stunning BIG singing! Thank you for the Norma 😉😎
@germanoehlke4179 8 күн бұрын
Zinka Milanov.... The Best. ❤
@jasonblack4208 8 күн бұрын
Traubel is the best. Then Varnay.
@michaelpapadopoulos5450 9 күн бұрын
Huge voice, but i find her consistently sharp.
@hrh4961 9 күн бұрын
Couldn't do any better than Harshaw as Magdalena? Quel embarrassment.
@ПоэзияРоманаЛафоре 9 күн бұрын
I don't think she had a very huge voice. Yes, her top is very strong but average and low notes are not big. Compare them with the low voices of Astrid Varnay and Ellein Farrel.
@ПоэзияРоманаЛафоре 9 күн бұрын
Nilsson had the same type of voice: huge top and week bottom...
@dramaticsoprano5168 9 күн бұрын
I think it is a very loud voice but not a particularly heavy voice. Certainly, Varnay's was notably heavier. I'm not sure about Farrell. I've always thought Farrell and Grob-Prandl were quite similar naturally.
@ПоэзияРоманаЛафоре 9 күн бұрын
@@dramaticsoprano5168 Farrel was heavier than Hertrude.
@Thearchivebeyondimagination 9 күн бұрын
Верха Фаррелл просто отвратительны. Хуже чем у Варнай. Вне оперы, да, у неё есть нижний регистр. Но когда доходило до определённых опер, она всё это дело кастрировала. Пела ту же Джоконду так же, как она бы напевала какие - нибудь поп вариации 60 - х. Варнай очень хороша, велика, но не без проблем. И её нижний регистр можно объяснить разницей тесситуры и тем, что она курила 40 лет.
@ПоэзияРоманаЛафоре 9 күн бұрын
@@Thearchivebeyondimagination У Варнай голос был просто шикарный, особенно средний и нижний регистры. Верхние ноты она тоже великолепно пела, хотя давались они ей не так легко, как Нильссон, Джонс или Гроб-Прандль. Однако, в моем понимании драматическое сопрано должно мощно звучать во всем диапазоне. Варнай, Флагстад в этом плане эталонны. Что касается Гвинет Джонс, Биргит Нильссон, Хильдегард Беренс и Гертруды Гроб-поандль, то их низы звучали слабо, сиедний регистр тоже не ахти. Все-таки драматическое сопрано обязано иметь мясистый низ и обьемную середину.
@Orfeus80 9 күн бұрын
I love the combination of her wonderful German diction and energetic phrasing with her powerful voice. She's my go-to dramatic soprano in the German repertoire.
@ER1CwC 9 күн бұрын
I partly agree, but I do find her vibrato quite bleaty, particularly in the top half. I think I’m in the minority here though.
@Orfeus80 9 күн бұрын
@ER1CwC you're right, it gets bleaty but I'm a sucker for natural diction and phrasing. For this reason, Nilsson doesn't do it for me, so it's a compromise I have to make.
@ER1CwC 9 күн бұрын
@@Orfeus80 How about Traubel then?
@Orfeus80 9 күн бұрын
@ER1CwC I adore Traubel but I consider her a lower voice, comparable to Flagstad's. And I find myself preferring Traubel's phrasing and expression to Flagstad's monumental and lethargic, as you once called it, Lol.
@ER1CwC 9 күн бұрын
@@Orfeus80 All fair points. I think that Flagstad had a special glow to her voice that did a lot of heavy lifting. I agree on the relative merits of Traubel, but she just didn’t have that.
@Thearchivebeyondimagination 9 күн бұрын
A very german voice. More beautiful than i though.
@pixelchords3201 8 күн бұрын
According to herself she trained in the Italianate way. I think you can hear it in the low notes and the in the fast vibrato on top. It is similar to pre-war Italian sopranos.
@tsquare076 9 күн бұрын
I notice you removed the Flagstad's vocal range video. Copyright?
@dramaticsoprano5168 9 күн бұрын
Yes. I'll remake it soon though.
@tsquare076 9 күн бұрын
@@dramaticsoprano5168 Thank you.
@operaanimelover369 9 күн бұрын
I love Madame Gertrude Grob-Prandl's massive, ocean-like voice. She may not be a total vocal actress. However, her vocal size and excitement thrill me to a high degree!
@krodham2004 9 күн бұрын
Thanks. I was at this concert. Nothing has come close in the years since and I have been a regular at Covent Garden for about fifty years now. I stopped going about ten years ago. What you don't hear here is the tremendous energy from the audience. After the I Love You encore the applause was so monstrous and never ending that Sir Malcolm Sargent got fed up and began conducting the next piece. There was also a funny moment later when a gentleman came on stage to play the piano but for some reason Madame Flagstad remained on stage to the side! The poor fellow must have been annoyed because I'd wager many of us were watching Flagstad over him!
@dramaticsoprano5168 9 күн бұрын
I appreciate your comments very much, thank you for sharing your experiences :)
@vanmusician 9 күн бұрын
D6??? The highest note in the role is B (Ich lachte!)
@dramaticsoprano5168 9 күн бұрын
Yes. But the title is just referring to the cry at 13:08. Don't take it too seriously. By the way, she sometimes sang a C on the "ich verlachte haHA" at 8:46. It is not so clear in this version but it is a clear C in the 1938 recording.
@vanmusician 9 күн бұрын
Two years later she recorded the role of Fricka in Solti's Das Rheingold. Apparently when this very matronly woman arrived for her first session some of the younger members of the Vienna Philharmonic were snickering. But when she sang her first notes they nearly dropped their instruments in astonishment!
@OldSchoolOpera 10 күн бұрын
Callas is the best sounding of the all. Sheer perfection.
@WotanKlingsor 10 күн бұрын
0:08 very good!!!!
@scottjohnson1162 10 күн бұрын
What is the song at 1:36 Flagstad part? Really need to know haha
@dramaticsoprano5168 10 күн бұрын
It is from Act 2 Scene 1 of Tristan, "Dein Werk? O torge Magd!". The excerpt is taken from the 1937 Bodanzky recording.
@scottjohnson1162 10 күн бұрын
@@dramaticsoprano5168 thank you kindly!! 👊🏾
@tsquare076 11 күн бұрын
3:33 I get goosebump when the singing begins. What a sound!
@pixelchords3201 11 күн бұрын
Amazing dynamic control in the middle voice at 24:21. Thank you for uploading, the audience reaction is very endearing. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say this is the greatest soprano voice on record. ❤
@SinoSene 11 күн бұрын
My goodness! The Grieg was absolutely beautiful, such a clear and bell like voice... Thank you for uploading ❤
@jeffreymiller4814 11 күн бұрын
She sang like this at 62 because she PRACTICED DAILY. Remember her recording career at this time was still going full guns. What a gorgeous voice she had, and steady as a rock till the end. Her last commercial Decca recording was from January 1959.
@dramaticsoprano5168 11 күн бұрын
I recall a letter she wrote to Culshaw in 1961-62 telling him that the doctor had told her to stop her singing exercises, and she commented that (paraphrasing) it hurt so much to stop singing when you still have so much voice left (at age 66-67)!
@Twentythousandlps 11 күн бұрын
All singers need to continue singing a few times a week - even just vocalises. The elaborate coordination between the body and voice otherwise goes and the singing is no fun and no good!
@Tenortalker 11 күн бұрын
If you can get to the end of a very long career sounding as excellent as this then you are truly an outstanding singer. Flagstad had an exceptional voice , a magnificent instrument and the musical sensitivity to use it well.
@lucete7240 11 күн бұрын
I fell in love with Grieg after I heard her❤
@jaykauffman4775 11 күн бұрын
One of the greatest voices ever
@Bivolari 11 күн бұрын
One of the great wonders of the world.
@cmarley4259 12 күн бұрын
Thank you for the post! I have heard bits and pieces but never the full thing. Looking forward to it :)
@Thearchivebeyondimagination 12 күн бұрын
Is that a true rarity?
@dramaticsoprano5168 12 күн бұрын
Not really but for some reason it wasn't on KZbin before in full and the speech intermissions definitely not..
@Thearchivebeyondimagination 12 күн бұрын
@dramaticsoprano5168 oh well. The generosity of the old generation of collectors.
@danielintheantipodes6741 12 күн бұрын
Wow!
@wissamzahawie8520 13 күн бұрын
I heard in Vienna in the late 60s when she came out of retirement in an emergency to sing Brunhilde in Gotterdamrung. She had a huge voice, I thought the people sitting in the terrace of the Sacher Hotel across the street behind the opera house could hear her loud and clear. WZ