Legendary (early) Edita Gruberova Flawlessly delivers Kostanze's 24 C6s and 15 D6s

[@liliabenchikhaa]

this is one of the best versions I've ever heard, Edita is killer !!

[@LohengrinO]

actually only Edita, Beverly, Ingeborg Hallstein and Inga Nielsen have sung this well... the rest usually just reveal how impossible this aria is

[@Feisenbach]

@@LohengrinO There are others. Luba Orgonasova and Iride Martinez just to mention a few.

[@AustrianAdrian]

I was fortunate enough to hear her all my life in Vienna since the beginnings of her international carreer. I remember when she debuted in the role of Violetta (then a repertoire performance with Carreras - and I think Bruson as partner) and the critics wrote " Miss Gruberova gave a solid performance, but a public used to Sona Ghazarian and Ileana Cotrubas won´t be taken off the seat" Since then I saw her in almost every role and my favorites were Donna Anna and Elvira (Puritani)

[@LohengrinO]

she is a legendary vocal phenomenon

[@Sir.Larselot]

I adore her very, very much. I really try to ignore her embarrassing efforts to sing with 72 years her screaming flat Lucia´s and the unreasonableness of not being able to sing this at this age anymore but in her prime (and it was a long one).... she was simply a miracle. A true singing miracle, the beauty of the lucent sound and technical mastery were unique. Like in this video.

[@julioareck]

4:58 Mozart was a sadist writing these nightmarish notes, but Gruberova delivers.

[@LohengrinO]

Easily... greatest Kostanze ever

[@orthohawk1026]

Apparently Caterina Cavalieri, the original Konstanze was more than up to the task. In fact, Mozart often wrote arias with a specific singer's skills in mind, this one included.

[@lublondon]

Stunning, unforgettable, outstanding…. If an opera heaven exists… she is there … partying with Maria Callas, Monsterrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Christa Ludwig and few others …. I hope they have fun and realise how very much we miss them … goddesses in their own right … RIP

[@LohengrinO]

Callas is not in Heaven, she cleanses souls in Purgatory

[@lublondon]

@@LohengrinO very reasonable assumption 🙋‍♂️😉

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Her very best role. I take full credit for suggesting this one! :)

[@jmiller05]

Perfection. No other word for this level of singing.

[@LohengrinO]

I think so too...

[@bathie2636]

*Perfection!… Well said:* Such an iconic performance… To this day I still going around saying to myself "I will never get tired of listening to this kind of singing”

[@byonbill9499]

What a wonderful recording, being a devoted fan of Ingeborg Hallstein I was almost sorry I had found it.

[@MisterSoprano]

Well, yes, this is Edita. Simply wonderfull.

[@podkowalesna]

Don't think of what She is doing now, enjoy with what's She has done!

[@papaki88]

Exactly!!! :D

[@NiggaYouthable]

Agreed, but my teacher said if audiences didn't want to hear her still then she would not be booked. And a friend said if she still has a message to share through her music she should be allowed. So as much as I think some of the Eflats should be retired, I say she keeps doing it and I would love to hear her live one day.

[@elenaschafermusic]

@@NiggaYouthable Oh absolutely! So well said!

[@miaovoo7161]

Wonderful!! rich voice is like sutherland, But more brilliant.

[@klaudialewicka01]

I've been waiting for it! The best Konstanze, with no doubt. The quality of the sound is unbelievable, it is so warm and deep. And there is that piano on high notes that always gets me. She is the perfect Konstanze, her version is really well-balanced. Thank you for the upload, always awaiting your videos :)

[@LohengrinO]

she is flawless although a tiny bit slower than Inga but Inga does not achieve the Flawlessness of Sound Edita has...

[@klaudialewicka01]

Indeed, and she is slower, but to some extent I don't experience that so much due to her agility. When she starts climbing up I don't want her to end

[@LohengrinO]

I also think, Im not sure, that the coloratura parts she sings as fast as she should, she slows down in the rest...

[@MrQbenDanny]

SALUDOS LOHENGRIN Y FAMILIA: Last night, I saw a NORMA La Gruberova sang at the PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATER, May 18,2018 at the channel: HC FISCHER-LES... (Leave the past where it is and enjoy a woman who breathes Opera from her soul)

[@josevaladez]

Miss Gruberova, wonderful ! as usual.

[@LohengrinO]

Perfection in this one

[@samoinborut1339]

RIP liebe Edita.

[@dianaaljadeff2983]

Rip great Edita Gruberova December 23 1946- October 18 2021

[@ivanazdravkova]

I love this performance of her!

[@sayersbrock]

Usually not a fan of gruberova, but this is simply spectacular... the accuracy, the shadings of dynamics, crystal clear high notes... far removed from her later wailing, swooping, and mushy coloratura

[@ajkenny2128]

You should check out her Una Voce Pocco Fa. It is stunning and all the things you like in this recording are very much present in her Rossini :) x

[@sayersbrock]

Yes, I have!...she had a perky bubbliness that worked wonderfully for Rosina...after listening to many of her performances though, i do get a feeling that fast tempi with coloratura was not her strong suit. One could even say that this tempo for ach ich liebte is quite slow.

[@robhendrikx2198]

I completely understand why you're not a fan. Who could possibly like accuracy, shadings of dynamics and crystal clear high notes?

[@VITAEVOCE]

Flawless is an understatement! She is until today the best Konstanze! right after the amazing Ingeborg Hallstein of course. These girls have made themselves immortal with this role

[@yvonnelenders5986]

Stunning performance. Mozart would have approved!

[@willemtates8232]

Brava 🎼🌷🌷🌷🌷🎼

[@mezzosoprano4778]

Absolutely beautiful. She sounds like a nightingale

[@amartirenaten]

Wonderful!

[@johnhwalker]

This is lovely, but the finest performance of this I’ve ever heard was from Arleen Auger. Absolutely crystalline.

[@nolango6160]

the best stage performance of this arias EVER

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Espectacular interpretación . Absolutamente sublime.¡¡¡

[@deonvandorp2226]

Sublime!

[@lindanorris2455]

gorgeous.

[@asdfopera7661]

Why have I not seen this? I'm guilty of focusing on Gruberova's more recent work.

[@ChrisOPera]

Astonishing

[@rodrigoandrade1807]

5:20 such a marvelous!

[@elisabetta611]

Now THAT is a role TAILOR MADE for Edita Gruberova.

[@TarotAstrologerTHOMAS]

RIP 💔😭

[@ivancervi1825]

Rip Edita♥️

[@LohengrinO]

I really thought she had 10-20 years ahead of her

[@ivancervi1825]

Veda,Edita Gruberova non e' mai stata fra le mie preferite, per tanti motivi,ma la sua perdita, a 74 anni! lascia un vuoto imcolmabile nel teatro d'opera...e per questo sono affranto, mi creda..

[@mugrad25]

such a rich gleaming sound

[@LohengrinO]

not gleaming, sparkling, crystalline

[@mugrad25]

Lohengrin O it's a very bright sound

[@mugrad25]

Shahrdad is/was it a big voice?

[@LohengrinO]

in 1991 she came to Athens along with Barbara Hendricks to sing in the Herodous Atticus Ancient theatre which has the WORST acoustics in the universe... Marilyn Horne had stopped singing there after 3 minutes her recital had begun and she left :D and Agnes Baltsa had said she would never sing there unless a Plexiglass shield was placed behind her to reflect her sound to the audience (the back of the stage is actually made of ancient rocks which have holes where from the sound of the street (cars etc) comes in)... Not to mention Renee Fleming and Angela Gheorgiou was as if they never sang there (no one could hear NOTHING!). In the Sunday before the recital, Edita gave an interview to an Athenean newspaper where she said two things that exploded in my mind: 1. that Callas very often sang roles that were NOT suited for her voice like for example (hold on to your seat) Lady Macbeth :D and 2. (after asked if she were afraid the famously BAD acoustics of the Herodous Atticus theatre) that she was not afraid at all for her Sound but she was a bit afraid about the sound of the small orchestra that accompanied the Zerbinetta aria she was going to sing (she sang Zerbinetta's aria, Lucia's Mad scene and Linda di Chamounix as encore) (I laughed at both comments and for the second I said: she is about to have the worst surprise of her life)... Barbara Hendricks began the recital and although I was sitting very near to stage I could not hear her at all and at one point a Pigeon that was on the rocks behind her started screaming COVERING HER SOUND completely (I felt so sorry for her)... Then Edita came out (the President of Democracy was present). Her sound was like a Miracle, it was almost deafening.. and as she turned her head from one side of the stage to the other, you could hear her Cone of Sound changing direction (becoming stronger or weaker) as if you could see the Beam / Cone of Sound... she was truly a Phenomenon

[@LohengrinTheo]

Shahrdad Yes exactly.. and Toscas if I recall

[@upsidedownaquarium]

Subtitles and other sources please 😊❤

[@SandyduSoleil]

OMG incredible! What artistry!

[@vaughangarrick]

R.I.P

[@tropicalstrings]

And het pianissimo ot 5:04

[@leandrorodriguez8472]

And some give thumbs down.

[@TheUnknownforu]

Bravo

[@ThomasDawkins88]

Glorious. Yet just three days ago she sang Norma in Prague (with the Casta Diva in G!) and for her age, yes, it's amazing. But Norma was not intended to be sung by somebody over 70. I fear people will remember that instead of this, or her Elettra or Oscar.

[@LohengrinO]

Well if I had a C6 and D6 at the age of 70 I would probably keep singing as well... now why she chooses to slaughter Norma? I think it is because with all her Gigantic talent she never got passed why she never became a Callas... just like every other soprano wonders the same

[@mnverrone]

Ayyyyyy Dios Mío!💘

[@СеклитаЛимариха]

Люблю Едіточку.

[@gabrielbelimo9762]

👍👍👍

[@manolis.799]

Of course you counted lol. I still believe she is the best complete Konstanze.... early Gruberova was surely something divine. I still don’t understand how people consider Martern to be more difficult than this...

[@LohengrinO]

Agnello counted them :D (Primohomme)... from the score :D

[@manolis.799]

Lohengrin O I miss that channel very much.... did you talk to him recently or something?

[@LohengrinO]

yes I think he will re-upload

[@manolis.799]

Lohengrin O If he did... I think I would die of happiness... please tell him that his fans miss his videos.

[@LohengrinO]

we spoke here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jajTnmigmsyYj8k&lc=Ugw_3thw6D1pIJlX9894AaABAg

[@Ruffiello]

Your comment is very interesting, Lohengrin. A friend of mine sang in the San Francisco Opera chorus (plus some small roles). He said he heard Gruberova live and the voice was "big", which I found astonishing. It certainly doesn't sound large on recordings. Very focused, light, and accurate...but not big.

[@LohengrinO]

Big Big Big when she wanted it... I dont know if that night she had drunk her Red Bull :D but the Herodous Atticous Theatre test is the worst test any singer's Volume can have... Horne, Fleming and Gheorgiou were as if they werent singing... (Horne left 3 minutes after the recital started, she stopped singing and left stage :D)

[@Ruffiello]

Really interesting. Thanks.

[@pump066]

Noooo....che v'ho fatto in vita mia, che cosi mi torturate.....

[@nathandavis3002]

So sad what she has become today. The saddest thing is, she could still have a respectable late life singing career today, if she chose the right repertoire. Her tone is still pleasant and her vibrato hasnt loosened too much. But rather than sing suitable repertoire, she chooses to murder assoluta roles for which she never had the lower register, and for which her upper register can no longer handle, with coloratura which she now must cackle through. She reminds me of a gorilla now when she goes for the lower notes. The woman NEVER had the voice for norma or borgia or most of what she now sings. What is she thinking?

[@LohengrinO]

She was as a person unbelievable Ambitious and not particularly intelligent... can you believe that in 1991 when she came to Athens to sing a glorious recital, she said in an interview (probably to defend her future choices) that Callas very often sang roles that were NOT suited for her Voice like for example (hold on to your seat!!!) Lady Macbeth :D I was staring the newspaper for 10minutes when I read that :D

[@vima8680]

We all get old and go beyond our prime. Enjoy the music while it lasts.

[@manolis.799]

Lohengrin O yes because Toscanini was wrong after he said that Callas was the only one who fit Verdi’s specifications for the role after spending his whole career searching for the right Lady Macbeth!!! Foolishness....

[@nathandavis3002]

Wow. She really said that? Jeez. And of course, as manoli pointed out, we all know what an inexperienced amateur ARTURO TOSCANINI was. Also of not is that miss Gruberova of late manages to have more cleavage in the back then the front! She wears low cut necklines which her descending bustline seems to run from, yet when she turns around theres these folds of sagging skin hanging out. Its awful!

[@manolis.799]

Nathan Davis oh that is awful lol

[@nonamenoname1935]

соловей

[@esuna6352]

Now I can't listen to any other Konstanze.

[@KBGWorld29]

What’s this aria called?