Oda Slobodskaya's definitive Tatiana's Letter Scene complete

[@NT-ih7ex]

Thank you so much for posting this. Didn't realize an exquisite recording such as this was ever produced!

[@MegaBenjamin70]

I have this glorious recording on CD. Met her once in Cape Town when she came to visit my father who was also from Lithuania. She was a forbidding figure. I remember her standing on the doorstep, all dressed in black and wearing a fur hat. I was about 8 years old at the time. Sadly, I didn’t hear her sing…. Thanks for your posting 🍀🎶

[@helgeevju]

This is the ideal sound of Tatyana and the most touching interpretation imaginable.

[@poshixa170]

Great soprano!

[@saltburner2]

One of the finest recordings of the scene. Now available on a double CD from Australian Eloquence in greatly improved sound.

[@mbooth2719]

Ah, Oda Slobodskaya, surely a revelation as Tatiana! No-one comes anywhere near to matching her youthful, excitable Tatiana. Her voice alone is glorious and her interpretation a miracle of subtle inflection and unrestrained passion. Thank you for this wonderful posting.

[@saltburner2]

Amazingly youthful sound, considering she was 57 at the time!

[@tishhill9561]

@@saltburner2 Beautifully trained. Lasted for all those years.❣️

[@1945Jill]

I had never before heard of Slobodskaya and am thrilled by her voice. I think she's now my favourite Tatiana.

[@65attila]

This is the most magnifcent and touching version of this wonderful scene that I have ever heard. ========================================================= CharlotteinWeimar The recordings of Oda Slobodskaya are difficult to find. Thank you so much for making her magnificent voice and artistry available to us. Regards-John

[@tomsalmon6334]

New to me! And I am in love...glorious singing...the voice, the soul..the Music. Thank you so much

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

Bravo. She is truly superb and I am so glad you have found her!

[@tishhill9561]

Yes. Superb. Superb.❤️

[@MCHEATH]

Wonderful :Why is it not on CD - it is criminal that it is not

[@operafan0anegnd]

Absolutely superb! one of the greatest Tatianas ever. This interpretation to me is perhaps the most authentic Tatiana. So moving, it made me cry.

[@petergraham8681]

Just now I am hearing this marvelous Russian Soprano for the first time & here is certainly a definitive version of this Letter Scene from EUGENE ONEGIN. She had a fascinating life & if she had come on the scene these days her career would have been truly international in scope, IMO. As it is the recordings that increasingly have come to light after her death are well worth exploring. A unique artist as I am discovering the more I hear her.

[@jefgong]

Magnifique couleur de voix !

[@romearomeo]

Fantastisch!

[@winifredtrout1]

Ah..my people came from Lithuania.. Such beautiful sound ....a combination

[@artdanks4846]

This is AMAZING! Best Tatyana I've ever heard!!! Do you by any chance know what year this was recorded? I had never heard of her till now. Thank you so much for posting this, and introducing her to us!!!

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

The LP 'The Art of Oda Slobodskaya' from which this was taken says recordings from 1945 - 1961 and this is from the earlier time as it was recorded originally on 78s. She was my teacher and she was magnificent!

[@tishhill9561]

@@CharlotteinWeimar How superb. She was your teacher!!! What a blessing for you❤️

[@paulostroff99]

Oda IMO does this better than anyone else ever has

[@tishhill9561]

Ms Weimar, did you study with her in London? Very interested. And thank you for posting this glory❤️

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

Yes, as an already fairly advanced student, I studied with her for four wonderful years, first at the Guildhall, then in the Royal College of Music Opera School, until she died. She was a wonderful teacher and a superb singer.

[@giacomoserra4823]

the problem with the others is the speaking of text and the meaning of legato

[@tishhill9561]

Ms Fleming managed very well. Very well indeed.❣️

[@giacomoserra4823]

why all the others do wrong?

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

This is Oda Slobodskaya in her element as one of the greatest Russian sopranos portraying the most enchanting Russian heroine.. She not only sings beautifully but embodies the impetuous, youthful character of Tatiana like no other. Always musically sensitive, whe never treats the aria as a bravura showpiece and is unsurpassed as an interpreter of Pushkin's enchanting poetry and Tchaikovsky's ravishing score.