Magda Olivero - Poveri Fiori (live 1959)

Fantastic rendition of the aria from Cilèa's "Adriana Lecouvreur", by Magda Olivero. Live recording of 1959 with Simionato, Bastianini and Corelli.

[@stefanodallasen796]

Meravigliosa. Struggente Fate cantare quest'aria a quella noiosa della Sutherland......

[@pamwagner47]

Il 25 marzo la mitica Magda compie 100 anni!!!! Ascoltata la prima volta nel '70 al Margherita nell'Adriana...ho pianto per 10 minuti... Rivista al San Carlo qualche anno dopo, ed incontata personalmente 20 anni fa in occasione del premio Aldo Protti, e non vi dico che emozione!!! L'unica eccelsa "umile ancella!"

[@LordRandallFan]

Wow! This singer actually makes you feel something! Brava!

[@forbluegirl]

Olivero is legend.

[@woutspaans9879]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@mteresasop9564]

This is amazing, the voice is so solid, like a rock then the emotion she puts into it gives me chills wow 🌟

[@PascualG65]

La escucho, la escucho y siempre es capaz de despertar la misma sublime emoción. En este día cumple 101 años de edad ¡Felicidades Dame Magda Olivero!

[@tuadolcefanciulla]

Excellent comment and 100% true. The KZbin clip of Mario del Monaco and Magda Olivero in Andrea Chenier is terrific. I bought the DVD from the Bel Canto Society, and I watch it often. Happy 100th Birthday to a great opera singer.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Maravillosa interpretación.!!

[@jelenabodrazic522]

Oh Dio, che bellezza.

[@vincebossi46]

E il canto di un anima.SPLENDIDA!

[@ubedajils]

Espectacular... sin palabras.

[@PascualG65]

¡Sin palabras! ¡Todo emoción! ¡¡Qué belleza de interpretación! ¡Maravillosa señora Olivero!

[@angelabender8132]

Adriana is an actress So is Magda Phenomenal

[@sospello]

Yes, this sounds like the historic live recording with Simionato, Bastianini and Corelli--just wonderful. Thank you too for some beautiful photographs of this great artist.

[@orson15]

This is the first recording of Magda's I'd heard (several years ago). I've been captivated ever since.

[@francoisecrameri6427]

Thanks for sharing !

[@MedeAilinel]

Hello! This recording is from Teatro di San Carlo, 1959. IF I'm not mistaken, it was her return to the stage after years of retreat.

[@babydrane]

Very well done

[@cinziavidali411]

Una grande interpretazione

[@forbluegirl]

Great Olivero!! no more word, need no word... Thank you for uploading

[@corellithebest]

Excuse me, do you happen to know if this was at La Scala? Olivero is otherworldly in this moving, melancholic aria, and she was partnered by three more greatnesses: Corelli, Bastianini, Simionato! What more could one wish for?

[@faipeaavaava4821]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@marco-marchi]

Unica.

[@Herur22]

Superb.

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

The great Magda Olivero will be 100 years old in March 2010,. Oh.... how she lives this role.. Bravissima!

[@grazianobattisti7912]

Ineguagliabile

[@Tenortalker]

The comparison with Callas is apt . Magda Olivero also worked on her voice until it became a great vehicle of expression. Every nuance is captured here and if this can seem too much in a recording it would have been very exciting live in the context of a theatre.

[@MedeAilinel]

Hi! Thanks for the feedback!!! =) Indeed, this is from the live recording with the cast of stars you've mentioned!

[@antoniogiusti9939]

È g5andiseima come al solito, ma altre volte è stata anche piu appassionata e intensa!!!

[@Orfeus80]

Olivero stepped in for an indisposed Tebaldi and had a huge success that night. I like how much Magda modulates her sound and her style is authentic Italian verismo, now a lost tradition. But I miss Tebaldi in this performance.

[@genlyai5055]

Oh FFS. Are you actually incapable of loving two different performances by two great but different singers? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Orfeus80]

@genlyai5055 I like Caballe, Chiara, Dessi, Petrella in the role too. Can't I dislike Olivero's performance?

[@genlyai5055]

@@Orfeus80 Sure. You can like a no-talent third-rater like Chiara and hate Olivero. You're perfectly free to have no taste. Not interested in anything else you have to say; blocked with pleasure!

[@Orfeus80]

@@genlyai5055 I didn't say I hate Olivero, just dislike her squeezed singing, milking every phrase to the death and voice full of holes and warts. Chiara is sublime compared to Oli

[@abracadabranque]

Une belle intensité,parfois surchargée,surtout à la fin.

[@reduxmisc]

A bit over the top but nicely done... she shows off her vocal control very well. But over all I prefer Muzio

[@KouichiTokoyama]

Magda Olivero totally outshines most modern singers, she basically eats them for breakfast. But let's be real, she's not quite in the same league as Callas or Tebaldi. Personally, I've never been a fan of her caprino, and her chest voice was weak and undeveloped. When it comes to the role of Adriana, I'd pick Muzio or Tassinari any day - they were just fabulous.

[@antaxerxes3138]

OMG - better than Callas and Tebaldi.

[@mannail888]

She manages to out "muzio" Muzio in this war-horse. A bit too sentimental, but nevertheless very affective.

[@genlyai5055]

Do try to learn something about opera. Cilea begged Olivero to reappear in this role, calling her the best-ever Adriana.

[@mannail888]

@@genlyai5055 Please further elaborate.

[@genlyai5055]

Look it up. Cilea considered Olivero the best diva ever to sing Adriana Lecouvreur. Your notions of 'sentimentality' are contemporary, uneducated, and ahistorical; they have nothing to do with proper verismo style or with great singing. Great art which was created in the past cannot be comprehended nor appreciated without extensive familiarity with its esthetics, its period, its style, and its cultural matrix.

[@mannail888]

@@genlyai5055 I was well aware of such an anecdote. Don't worry. However, such an hearsay/anecdote can only be taken at face value. It was said Refice encouraged Scotto to do Cecilia. So, is that trainwreck of a noise maker any good? I don't want to speak ill of Olivero. She's one of my favorite soprano despite her shortcomings.

[@genlyai5055]

@@mannail888 It, unlike your unsubstantiated myth about Scotto, is not hearsay nor is it an 'anecdote.'

[@jmiller05]

Too many verismo tricks.

[@jovi1715]

+jmiller05 I think you wouldn't comment so harshly after having known that, according to the composer of that opera, Mrs. Olivero was the best performer ever of that role.

[@jmiller05]

I stand by my comment.

[@jefgong]

More certainly, that's you who doesn't understand this music.

[@legrandmaitre7112]

@jmiller - you silly bugger.

[@deannasilva574]

ricordiamoci che studiò Adriana con il maestro Cilea ....lui la volle così

[@rascaypica73]

That kind of technic is almost forgotten. There was a line: Giannina Arangi-Lombardi-Leyla Gencer-Magda Olivero-Montserrat Caballé...What happen now? Only Sondra Radvanovsky can be close to that filato (and I think she never recorded Poveri fiori)Netrebko sings Adriana,but far from reaching this filato. What a time of emptyness...