Ingeborg Hallstein sings Mozartian Coloratura Labyrinths (Jump to Sustained F6)

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[@percival74898]

Acuto sforgato …..exquisite, beautiful both in voice and looks 🎉

[@unemployedtraveler3764]

Opera singers of today are lucky that Mozart never heard Hallstein sing. Mozart would definitely be pissed off of her being able to sing anything he writes effortlessly. Imagine what kind of aria Mozart would have composed to challenge Hallstein and her effortlessly beautiful voice.

[@LohengrinO]

well given the fact she could easily sing up to Ab6... and the pitch alone is a miracle... the brain / neuromuscular connections behind this kind of singing is a Miracle in itself

[@unemployedtraveler3764]

Exactly. Not a day goes by that I don't envy this woman. Not only for looking like an angel but for also sounding like an angel. Hahahahaha.

[@LohengrinO]

isnt Nature racistic by definition? some people are born Gods and some people born Goblins

[@unemployedtraveler3764]

You are on point! Hahahaha. Couldn't agree more with that one.

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@LohengrinO Unfortunately I am one of the Goblins! lol

[@45Hilde]

für mich die beste Koloratursängerin

[@kastrafior1487]

Un mélange de technicité virtuose, de charme sublime et de fraîcheur presque naïve. Phénoménal et miraculeux ! Un miracle, oui.

[@micheleronco3761]

Voce stupenda, tecnica sublime, Grande Soprano lico. Bravissima.

[@raymondsmyth2169]

Such a pure voice with such control miraculous.

[@fransklaasen4528]

Wat een stem groots ongelooflijk wat een genot om hier naar te luisteren.

[@fransklaasen4528]

Dank je Lohengrin, Wens je een mooi en fijn weekend.

[@theartfulme1898]

She was a goddess... How can you not immediately fall in love with her?

[@LohengrinO]

and so individual... she sang her own repertoire which makes her Unique... she didnt go Lucia / Elvira etc... she chose her own path..

[@pasqualeperrone1560]

She still is! Dame Hallstein is still alive and kicking.

[@dankurth4232]

The brilliance of Hallstein‘s performance in some aspect even exceeds Callas‘, namely for its (if only seeming) effortlessness. In case of Callas one at any Instant always can hear how thoroughly and with most musical intelligence she thought through every phrase, whereas for Hallstein it seems (!!!) to flow simply just ... naturally

[@LohengrinO]

Hallstein was a phenomenon of Effortlessness... but the early early Callas Agility throughout a 3 octave fully supported range I have not heard and I dont think I will hear again in my lifetime

[@dankurth4232]

Lohengrin O I fully agree! What I’ve tried to emphasize just was a kind of difference between seemingly easy lightness (or rather: Leichtigkeit) and an - again only seeming - effortlessness perfection gained by sophisticated mastership. Anyway: Thanks for your fantastic work here on youtube!

[@LohengrinO]

@@dankurth4232 extreme technical mastership but also vocal cords created by Mama Nature herself in both cases... unreal vocal cords

[@robertsantoni5834]

Hummm no! Callas was an absoluta !!

[@theosah2428]

Hallstein's got vocal beauty and purity, which is very different. She's got Crystal clear sound. She's a true singing bird. Callas can't be qualified as a bird. She sounds a lot more human

[@tropicalstrings]

Impeccably beautyfull voice. Smooth how she jumps into an octave.

[@LohengrinO]

...and out of the octave :D

[@tropicalstrings]

@@LohengrinO from c to c is an octave, not?

[@kastrafior1487]

Heureusement toutes les cantatrices actuelles doivent être super-heureuse et rendre grâce tous les jours que Mozart n'ait jamais connu Ingeborg Hallstein..... On n'ose pas imaginer ce qu'il leur aurait composé ! On n'ose pas imaginer les infinies tortures vocales auxquelles il les aurait soumises. On n'ose pas imaginer toutes ces dames, perplexes et sans défenses, devant une œuvre inchantable et vocalement inhumaine. Mais voilà. Mozart n'a jamais connu Ingeborg Hallstein... Quel terrible malheur !

[@nenechonlisboa4127]

Je rêverai de pouvoir ressusciter Mozart pour qu'il nous inonde d'autres merveilles et je rêverai aussi de le voir composer pour des virtuoses telle qu'Ingeborg :) J'aime beaucoup la version de Natalie Dessay de cet air également

[@jozefinacikac6555]

AMAZING COLORATURA VOICE

[@ladipokikelomo6938]

I'm reminded of Elizabeth Parcells, another underrated singer and one of my faves.

[@ThomasDawkins88]

Parcells was a lovely singer and woman who died far too young. Fortunately she left a large legacy of teaching materials and recordings!

[@ladipokikelomo6938]

Thomas Dawkins Yes. Her brother runs a memorial site and a lot of her recorded material is up for free download. It's a goldmine.

[@arniekevinvalera8166]

Ladipo Kikelomo I especially love her Bell song :)

[@NLidar]

Everything I had to say was said except my god her diction on high notes is mind blowing (5:43). And some coaches say that diction in the upper register is medically impossible!

[@LohengrinO]

indeed it seems physiologically impossible to have diction up there... Ingeborg was a miracle

[@percival74898]

Awesome. She takes your breath away with her bell like coloratura. 👍 She's incredible.

[@norse209]

I LISTEN TO ANYHING SHE HAS TO GIVE ME TO LISTEN TO IS O.K. WITH ME,,,,, LOVE IT,

[@mka7741]

Brawississimo !

[@byonbill9499]

Again thank you very much for this.

[@jjh2456]

I prefer dramatic coloraturas but her technique is just so effortless.

[@brolobear]

Lovely, as always. I also like Edda Moser singing this.

[@jjh2456]

brolobear but Edda’s voice was way bigger.

[@jasonhurd4379]

brolobear I also love Edda Moser's rendition, and her top F is incredible (she adds another F in the cadenza), but she has a bad habit of going non-legato in the fioritura, and even in some simple rising intervals, that is distressing to hear in a singer of her stature. Even so, Moser combines a fiery dramatic approach with fearless vocalism and a take-no-prisoners attitude (her 'Or sai chi l'onore' is hair-raising), so I silence my criticism and just sit back and thank God for her. Edit: Just wanted to remind subscribers of Edda Moser's Mlle Silberklang in Peter Ustinov's recording of Schauspieldirektor. The aural spectacle of she and Mady Mesple vying for title of 'erste Sängerin' is not to be believed. Unfortunately it was taken down from KZbin, but I found a copy in a used CD shop. Watch for it!

[@mertuncensored]

Her coloratura and magnificient trill in "bester jungling" is unbelievable! It was taken down on youtube but I found it on spotify lol.

[@ClassicusHomo]

This is the aria from🎵 KV 368, Ma che vi fece, o stelle ... / 🎶Sperai vicino il lido ... 🎶in🎼 F major.

[@vladimirgulyaev5660]

One of the greatest sopranos of XX c.

[@Valheurbia]

6:01 Just wow!

[@LohengrinO]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXzRgWithMSMja8

[@deadwalke9588]

Madame Hallstein is the only coloratura outside of Callas that can sing such excruciatingly difficult earlier repertoire I can actually get the pure emotional intent from. What a perfectly in-tuned intervallic jump from that F5-F6 and then ending it on a Eb4 (almost as close as Callas and her two octave diminishing string of pearls found in her Elena arias).

[@LohengrinO]

those sudden Jumps to high notes with an open / exposed vocal placement I have heard only by Callas and Hallstein... Sutherland would always keep her sound protected from accidents (closed even upon high notes even in sudden jumps)

[@jeanfourneau4411]

Indeed , true but Callas was Callas ...

[@MusikPiratCH]

I like Hallstein even better than Callas! I never found anything special about Callas - most of the time by far too cold, IMHO. Hallstein sounds always warm! :D

[@JustInfiniteYoutube]

The teaching and training she could give can Proberly save most of OPERA ITSELF

[@LohengrinO]

she could teach or train absolutely NO ONE just like dame Joan and Maria Callas (natural phenomena cannot teach anyone, only themselves)

[@susella646]

Ingeborg Hallstein was a professor at the Musikhochschule in my home-town Würzburg from 1979-2006.

[@tenortonyvillecco2404]

w o w

[@smtaz7631]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏♥️

[@ladipokikelomo6938]

What's the name of the piece? Edit: her diction is so delicious, I was able to find out the name of the piece just by listening. It's 'Sperai vicino il lido.'

[@ThomasDawkins88]

Astounding, isn't it? Most coloratura sopranos turn to mush above the staff, and granted, Mozart writes most of the fast notes here on sustained vowels, but Hallstein is completely understandable all the way up to top D. I adore Sutherland, but she never met a consonant she couldn't take out up there!

[@ladipokikelomo6938]

Thomas Dawkins LMAO!

[@arniekevinvalera8166]

Ladipo Kikelomo the title of this concert aria is Ma che vi fece o stelle... Sperai vicino il lido :)

[@leonaldobrum]

Ah!... I've heard her sing other things where her toying with the voice was not so "appropriate"... but THIS, YES. Her voice here plays the part of entertaining the Baroque lords quite well (and me, too ;-) ...)

[@deadwalke9588]

Question Lohengrin 0: Will you ever post any videos of Baritones doing something extraordinarily rare for their voice type?

[@LohengrinO]

I think not in this life time :D

[@ladipokikelomo6938]

Lohengrin O You're forgetting you've posted Fischer-Diskau.

[@LohengrinO]

and I have also posted this I worship: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5KXkmCnm96SsKM

[@jeffreyhunter7635]

What is this concert piece?

[@krowapaulinka4351]

Isn't that the aria that Mozart wrote for the soprano who locked him in a room and said she would only let him out once he finished the aria he had promised her to compose? Hence why it's so difficult and the coloratura passages so ridiculous. Mozart was a petty little shit and I love him for that :D

[@LohengrinO]

he was a Troll for sure... as they are quite many intelligent people... but not a little shit

[@krowapaulinka4351]

@@LohengrinO obviously I meant the 'little shit' in an affectionate way ;) he's my number 1 composer and I love him to the moon and back!

[@LohengrinO]

@@krowapaulinka4351 well he does have a fame around there... but I think of him as a Troll not as something worse that was my point

[@giovic9802]

How is this aria called?

[@sanderbeemer5065]

Yes.ik kan nog steeds het als déze zangeres zingen en dank de lord!

[@mabuo16]

I did not know that Hallstein sang serious aria like this. I used to listen this aria sung by Edda Moser, sheer and keen as she sings. Her last added F''' was also not convincing. I prefer somewhere between these two ladies.

[@matthieudegott3154]

Oui, bien sur, c'est très impressionnant. Mais je suis désolé, c'est superficiel. Toutes les notes sont admirables, mais elle ne rentre pas du tout dans le drame, dans les émotions. Encore un rossignol mécanique!

[@jeanfourneau4411]

En effet , c"est non seulement superficiel , mais également à la limite de l'artificiel. Je croyais cette époque révolue ??

[@icydomino3917]

A vrai dire Ingeborg Hallstein n'est pas une colorature dramatique mais plutôt une soprano colorature lyrique ! Son registre n'est donc pas la puissance vocale mais la précision, la technique qui d'ailleurs est associée au style de Mozart qui ne réclame dans ce cas pas de spectacle... Hallstein a d'ailleurs refusé de nombreuses opportunités à l'étranger car elle jugeait que sa voix n'était pas faite pour certains rôles ! Elle n'est donc pas un "rossignol mécanique" mais bien une interprète et une artiste qui a conscience de l'art musical comme en témoignent ses interviews ;)

[@szkotnickibruno6337]

@@icydomino3917 Je classifierais plutôt Ingeborg Hallstein de soprano léger ou soprano colorature. Elle n'en reste pas moins admirable dans certain "rôles légers" et ses pyrotechnies toute en nuances sont extrêmement rares !

[@morganchan2465]

just not good enough. the ornamental notes are sticking together and key are bit off. Nah

[@jasonhurd4379]

You're hilarious! 😂😂😂

[@paulahupitzer]

Yes but on the whole delightful