I returned to hear this great artist after seeing a report on Angel Blue and her debut in Aida on December 31. Although she is modest in the interview, the name of Leontyne Price came up. A sample of "Ritorna vincitor" by Miss Blue is seen. She is much better than the disastrous Latonia Moore, the most recent Aida at the Met. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joeThGRmdracbZo kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5ubiqd4oK5kZ80

Phenomenal extraordinary Talent 👌👏

That’s. Real opers

I have watched this for many years. I would show this clip to vocal pedagogy students when I taught that class. It always amazes me how stunningly beautiful this singular performance is. Incredible.

Wunderbar

Parfaite interprétation. Merci madame Crespin. C'est du bonheur à vous écouter. Vous étiez une grande cantatrice.

Tremendous

Perfect ❤

Dove sono questi cantanti oggi? Leggiadra Vergine degli angeli Caballe' memorabile, adorabile, incantevole voce

Diva, grande, immensa, adorabile Signora

❤

さすがだな、こんな力強い曲でも、喉が楽に聞こえる．カラスは確かに胸声を使ってイルガ、カバリエは、中間音から強さを感じる聞いてて、喉が楽苦．しかし表現はすごい。カラスも何回も聞いたが、こもってイるおとがある。

Voce sana bella ed emessa in modo eccellente (parliamo fine anni 60 e primi 70)

Perhaps the best Margherita on record. Stunning.

La Superba ❤

Robert Merrill doing the introduction??

MARAVILLOSA

Unique! 🥰

Quelle splendeur. Une voix éthérée qui vous transporte vers les anges.

unica

Ho fatto di tutto per seguire l'ultima rappresentazione alla Scala . Devo dire che non mi è piaciuta e mi ha annoiato a morte . Questi registi odierni riescono sempre a rovinare le opere , con delle trovate assurde e non coerenti con l'opera , e poi sempre il contorno del commento sputacchioso di Vespa . Meno male che mi è comparso questo pezzo di opera , che mi ha tolto il disgusto . Coreografia semplice e di fascino , e le voci bellissime dei cantanti .

Excuse me while I pull myself back from Heaven . . . . . .

Profound and vocally stunning. Thanks for posting this marvelous performance.

Extraordinario y sublime"!!!

Una interpretación perfecta, sin alardes ni caprichos, con una contención que transmite más que la autocomplacencia o los amaneramientos de otras. Conmovedora, te deja el alma acongojada por la belleza, la melancolía, la tristeza y el abandono.

Questa è la vera Forza DelDestino cantanti insuperabili ❤

Мы всегда будем любить Вас ❤

Beautiful sung.......best ever MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

DIVINA!!

Come si può non paragonare questa esecuzione alla recente ripresa scaligera....

Listened to old tapes with my father.She was always the best.

Idem liviobalasso 9 mesi fa!!!

Meravigliosa!!!

Freddy warxzurecht von Ihr angetan. Sie war die schönste Frau auf der Welt die er je gesehen hat. Sie htte schöne Facettten.❤ Danke fürs hochladen

Per me solo lei è all'altezza della Tebaldi.

I have seen this Norma many times. I come back to it often. I've read that Caballé went to see Callas in Paris to talk about the score. Supposedly, La Divina told her which part of the role was the most difficult and to do it her own way. In his book about Callas, John Ardoin writes that Callas went to see the film and told director Pierre Jourdan "you have made her too beautiful." She is.

Irripetibile

Compare this to Scala Dec 7th 2024....

Nessuna come lei.Mai più.

Montserrat Caballe voce divina! Timbro e modulazioni vocali da brividi!

Renata Tebaldi angelo in terra e angelo in Paradiso

Wonderful to hear and see such a young Carreras!

This performance is a revisitation of the 1964/65 Boston season where she sang this and the final scene from Salome with Erich Leinsdorf conducting. She later recorded an entire Strauss program with him for RCA to replicate the performances, and it's one of her very best. It's fascinating how she was able to keep continue to sing so much of her most challenging repertoire for so long. She first sang this aria publicly for the BBC in 1959. She sang it for the last time at the Carnegie Hall Centennial in 1991 at 64. I love the difference between the vocal color and type of production she uses for this aria vs. the fuller, darker sound she uses for the Trovatore aria on this same program. Ozawa is totally impressed at the end of this performance.

SUBLIME.

Prima Donna Assoluta. Brava!!!

Ma a parte le voci sentite la direzione

True bel canto technique…where do we hear this control..mezzo de voce these days?

Fantastisch, Juan Diego!

I am not sure about her choice here. It is a display of her extraordinary breath, but I concur with the person who said "...molti si fanno ancora incantare da questi pianissimi che non hanno nulla di musicale" I have not found another recording of hers with the same effect. It isn't written in the score and none of the great Forza Leonoras do it (Ponselle, Milanov, Callas, Price). Here are some examples of the same scene as written by Verdi. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5eck6pqgN90laM kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpO7kKWlZtmGi7c kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqbLYp6VesaLars

Quando la lirica aveva voci italiane 😢