Verdi: La forza del destino "Pace, pace mio Dio!" Angela Meade Richard Tucker Gala Avery Fischer Hall NY 12.X.2014
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@aaronmichaelcooker5 жыл бұрын
While i totally agree that the technical standard has digressed.. I'm shocked by how many negative comments there are on this performance. This is the problem with why opera seems unaccessible for most. The attitudes and know-it-alls make it appear that way. Yes things have changed and I wish the golden era of technique was still the baseline standard, but there is still beautiful singing happening and artists are trying their best while accommodating to a completely different lifestyle that wasn't even possible 100 years ago (traveling constantly, meeting the demands of the stage and the theater screen, being more versatile in acting, etc.). You have to weigh all of these tough factors into what a career takes before harping on the fact that someones vibrato may sound a little wobbly... We should all be a little more kind to the people who are taking the risk to expose themselves in order to communicate beautiful music and story telling.
@wotan109505 жыл бұрын
Aaron Cooker You are absolutely right! There are many fine singers today, and I’m happy to pay good money to see them in the theater. Angela Meade is one of them. If you go to any opera clip on KZbin, you’ll often find losers who live only for the past. And even worse, the Callas-worshippers who are suffering from cult psychosis. If Callas farted, they’d say it’s the most musical artistic fart they’ve ever heard!
@rachelberrythegleequeen.32215 жыл бұрын
@@wotan10950 I couldn't agree with you more, I got the opera bug at the age of 16 and I'm 25 now. I love some of the singers of the past but I also love the singers of today such as mead, dessay, damrau, netrebko and so on. I hate looking at klips on youtube and seeing all these nasty comments from people who seem to think that opera is ment to be kept in the past and I'm sorry but I'm not a big fan ofCallass either. I don't understand why so many people are.
@wotan109505 жыл бұрын
Hailey Hoopes It’s always great see new opera fans. I hated opera till I went to college and accidentally saw a performance. I enjoy many of today’s singers very much. As you said, I don’t understand the Callas worship. I think she was awful, and the same people who genuflect would laugh and boo her off the stage if she made her debut now.
@rachelberrythegleequeen.32215 жыл бұрын
@@wotan10950 I'm blind so I can't see her but her voice is lovely and its people such as the people in these comments that make so many in my age group think opera isn't for them and that pains me very much. I'm just wondering, do you think its silly for a blind person to injoy opera as I do?
@wotan109505 жыл бұрын
Hailey Hoopes I don’t think your enjoyment is strange at all. One of my most amazing memories is attending the Met to see La Boheme. At the end of the performance, I heard a soft bark near me. It turns out that a blind lady attended the performance with her Seeing Eye Dog, a German Shepherd. He sat silent under her seat during the entire show.
@carizoism8 жыл бұрын
Amazing! !!! mind officially blown...
@abstract32132 жыл бұрын
That last note shoot me out of my apartment 😃 actually that last note was so good that the rest of it didn't matter.
@alanleech3727 күн бұрын
A,legend o f a voice.
@vale863013 жыл бұрын
Brava Angela!!! Grande voce!!!
@highcking9 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest sopranos singing today. Every technical challenge of this fiendishly difficult aria were mastered beautifully.
@wotan109509 жыл бұрын
She is thrilling! Thank God there are current singers who are still able to take your breath away!
@magicmonkichi9 жыл бұрын
BRAVA~! Meade is a true force of nature!
@operamonamour31097 жыл бұрын
magicmonkichi leaving behind all the fantastic singers of the past.... Angela Meade is one of the best today At least to me.
@pennyaltiparmaki17936 жыл бұрын
?????????.....
@williammaddox33396 жыл бұрын
But as sheer sound, Ms. Meade's voice is not beautiful; the final B-flat is little bit out of control.
@federicofielitz767310 ай бұрын
Excelente!!!!
@anandy92927 жыл бұрын
her semi low registers and pianissimo is stupendous, smooth mezzo voice, and delightfully brisk high notes, bravo
@jjh24564 жыл бұрын
an andy but she’s a soprano though.
@ansonidiaz7283 жыл бұрын
"Podrás superar a tu ex pero NUNCA está nota final..." #Bravisima!
@elsitarodriguez24792 жыл бұрын
Magnífica k extensión de voz brabo Estados Unidos
@celloguy8 жыл бұрын
Very unattractive vibrato to my ears...so much spread in such a young voice.
@chatbud8 жыл бұрын
Maybe she was too closely miked. There is a monochrome quality to the tone. This voice will no doubt thrill in the concert hall like in this performance but if captured specifically on tape or recorded for posterity all the flaws will be badly exposed.
5 жыл бұрын
@@chatbud excuses excuses... not a mic setting, just bad technique
@operalover39665 жыл бұрын
Desmond P T nothing to do with mikes
@mugrad258 жыл бұрын
I love how the voice always always has a core/pin point focus....squillo
5 жыл бұрын
there is no squillo in this voice. it is nasal and has ugly metallic noise because of constriction.
@operalover39665 жыл бұрын
theodore braden whaaaaaat! There isn't a tiny tiny bit of squillo/focus in this voice
@xxsaruman82xx875 жыл бұрын
Her chest voice is very weak.
@mislavhilc5 жыл бұрын
Her whole voice is weak. Shame, she had a big potential when she started, but modern quackery of pedagogies ruined it all.
@whatyalldoing70122 жыл бұрын
You can’t have it all but she is still fucking great name some singers that can sing like her exactly
@gummypusswatterson13222 жыл бұрын
@@whatyalldoing7012 yes you can LMAO in fact, in opera you're SUPPOSED to have both: great low and high notes. ill do ya one better, i'll name singers who can sing better than her. WATCH ME GO Maria Callas, Birgit Nilsson, Zinka Milanov, Montserrat Caballe, Renata Tebaldi, Kirsten Flagstad, Claudia Muzio, Eileen Farrell, Margaret Harshaw, Ghena Dimitrova, Magda Olivero, Edda Moser, Cristina Deutekom, Giulietta Simionato, Elena Obraztsova, Fedora Barbieri, Tatiana Troyanos...
@xxsaruman82xx875 жыл бұрын
At least she wasn't out of tune - like Netrebko. That being said, this isn't a patch on Renata Tebaldi, Leontyne Price, Antionetta Stella, Maria Callas, even Mirella Freni and Montserrat Caballe.
@sergiu174 жыл бұрын
XxSaruman82xX Angela Gheorghiu has the best version of this area!
@agostonszabo60987 жыл бұрын
BRAVA!!!😮☺️
@Efthaliakanaki4 ай бұрын
Wow voice ❤❤❤❤
@qfbmezquita5 жыл бұрын
WTF I really need go to hear Renata tebaldis version , what’s Regis weak version with fake and woofy voice
@mdecord6 жыл бұрын
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING ! THIS GIRL IS UNBRAITHE TAKING!
@Apicoltura_La_Casella3 жыл бұрын
Che voce incredibile! Grandissima
@BudokaiMaster8 жыл бұрын
Gundam Thunderbolt brought me here. Amazing how that works.
@leidymartinez2893 жыл бұрын
Es bellísima👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@keymonmurrah44208 жыл бұрын
That mic was hot! Beautiful singing though!
@celebrity198120044 жыл бұрын
That was awesome!
@pazgo8 жыл бұрын
I always thought that Tebaldi Callas Price are best performers of this aria now I can add another name to the list brava meade
@dalilanicastrisinger6 жыл бұрын
Me too!!!!
@pelleas97 жыл бұрын
Listen to her in the bel canto repertoire. Her Ermione is wonderful. In Paris she has just had a triumph in this terrible part. A real drammatico di agilità.
@liguten7 жыл бұрын
Quelle puissance vocale!! Impressionnant!
@jonasmooka5124 Жыл бұрын
After Leontyne price.....someone finally got it 👏👏
@skyhunk6 жыл бұрын
What??!!! She left the stage without shaking hands with the conductor or concert master? I for one, think that is very bad form. Or perhaps it was edited out of this video clip?
@gabrielleorlaynafuqua37478 жыл бұрын
one of my favorite renditions. such. poise.
@rominafisolo5460 Жыл бұрын
A viva voces👏👏👏
@martinrussell15167 жыл бұрын
I was surprised with the audience's ovation. Great singer but they went crazy..
@MrSkylark18 жыл бұрын
Did anyone ever hear of ROSA PONSELLE? This performer is a LYRICO SPINTO as heard by her bottom notes.Making a louder tone DETRACTS from the basic quality of the voice.
@marshamarshamarsha90515 жыл бұрын
Too bad sound engineers don’t know how to mic and record performances nowadays. The singers from Lincoln Center NEVER sound the same on these recordings as they do in the theatre and it does them and the art from a HUGE disservice. Posting performances which misrepresent the artists vocal ability and actual sound in the hall makes me sad for great voices like Ms. Meade, who deserves a better quality recording of her work.
@operalover39665 жыл бұрын
Marsha Marsha Marsha it sounds bad because she has bad technique lol
@gcmacyman6 жыл бұрын
Very Good interpretation but the deep resounding richness that surrounds the notes will come in time. Bravo.
@theoperatripleaxel54174 жыл бұрын
That was terryble in so many ways that i don't know what to say...
@fejkakaunt8 жыл бұрын
what does 'malezione' mean? what happened to the the lady's neck? other than that i like this version
@Zashorigin8 жыл бұрын
"Maledizione"... is something like Goddammit. A maledizione is a curse.
@fejkakaunt8 жыл бұрын
Yes I know... but the question was what 'malezione' is supposed to mean;) It was a rhetorical question BTW ;)
@Altonahh108 жыл бұрын
It´s a curse spoken upon you by somebody else. It´s not cursing for yourself.
@LaDivinaLover4 жыл бұрын
Altonahh10 you’re very clearly obtuse. They are saying she doesn’t articulate the word Maledizione. She is ending up saying “malezione” instead. I mean fuuuck, I know some sarcasm is lost in text but c’mon...
@voicebug82257 жыл бұрын
this is supposed to Spinto/dramatic sopranos, no?
@beachfanatic20106 жыл бұрын
The standard has been dropped ridiculously in Opera. This woman has not lost absolutely anything in any operatic stage. Also, while she may be a big girl, she is an authentic lyric soprano farrrrrrrr from a Spinto! She also lacks finese, her voice is all over the place. Her singing is not classy or interesting - she is singing wrong repertoire.
@wotan109506 жыл бұрын
chosentenore And you consider Callas’s voice the standard?? I will never understand what motivates the Callas worshippers. I can barely listen to her.
@beachfanatic20105 жыл бұрын
Callas was superhuman. What she achieve vocally will NEVER again be repeated, ever and this with an actual authentic dramatic voice. Not a Spinto voice, Callas had a solid dramatic voice with natural coloratura. Listen to this recording with headphones: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZy6qnyLfbl3frM&app=desktop Then come back to me with somebody who comes close to her toes!
@LaDivinaLover4 жыл бұрын
Dave Glo well that just shows YOUR poor taste. I bet you adore Meade AND Netrebko.
@gummypusswatterson13222 жыл бұрын
@@wotan10950 you can make the case she had an unusual or unappealing voice, but she was a fantastic singer. many opera singers record better live. listen to her redordings from the 50s (particularly the early ones) not 60s and 70s.
@operaox107 ай бұрын
@@beachfanatic2010 She wobbles on the high notes and always did. She pushed her voice to an unhealthy degree. She is not and never was a dramatic soprano in the classic sense, but used her voice dramatically. Her career was quite short because of oversinging very strenuous repertoire. But as an artist and musician, worthy of the highest respect.
@pittipat6123 жыл бұрын
she's got it
@morganchan24658 жыл бұрын
She is for Verdi ~ Well done~
@agostonszabo60986 жыл бұрын
Huh that's amaizing!😮 Barva barava!😌🎶
@mertuncensored7 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with today's vibrato technique? It sounds fabricated and hollow.
@beachfanatic20106 жыл бұрын
Her voice has no squillo. See, actual natural vibrato and squillo go together.
5 жыл бұрын
because it is. the voice can't vibrate naturally if it's constricted.
@rrgallo9679 жыл бұрын
Who's conducting?
@davida.44909 жыл бұрын
Emmanuel Villaume
@machovoce68267 жыл бұрын
While it's great to see some full figured people back in the spotlight Meade's voice is rather monochromatic much like Radvanovsky's. With the pitch problems already surfacing I doubt she'll be around for very long.
@beachfanatic20106 жыл бұрын
The difference is that Sondra actually possesses a real Spinto instrument in her while this Meade woman has a light lyric instrument forcing it to be a Spinto due to her massive size.
@wotan109505 жыл бұрын
chosentenore Wow! It’s okay to denigrate a heavy woman, but if anyone dares to say anything about gays you’d go nuts! Actually, you’re already nuts.
@beachfanatic20105 жыл бұрын
Where is the lie? This woman is too big to be true! She looks extremely unhealthy! Not a good role model for any singer and she is so young. Even Caballe had a slender curvy figure at Meade’s current age. Caballe became a hippo much much later when she was in her 60’s. This woman’s voice is horrible!
@pagemichels7628 Жыл бұрын
This couldn’t be a more uninformed and inaccurate comment. 😂
@Altonahh108 жыл бұрын
Whenever a singer is singing loud people applaud. Meade at least understands that concept. Her different Leonoras only have one message: Loud, louder, the loudest!
@pelleas97 жыл бұрын
Her high B flat is not really loud, louder, is it ?
@Altonahh107 жыл бұрын
No, it´s not loud. The entire aria is not well-balanced.
@JohnsonAllie7 жыл бұрын
She's a dramatic... they're not "loud" in volume, it's just the amount of resonance she has.
@JohnsonAllie7 жыл бұрын
She's singing with dynamics..
@onigbajamo7 жыл бұрын
Allie Johnson She doesn't sound like a dramatic soprano though.
@Zashorigin8 жыл бұрын
Njce voice... but it isn't dark enough or she sounds too light for this and ghis needs more voice or a dense voice. Didn't like it. I don't think it is an illness but she has gained weight. I really don't care about sizes when someone has an incredible voice but is too much!
@uppityglivestockian6 жыл бұрын
Perhaps if I hadn't just finished listening to someone else sing this so very beautifully.....
@SR-jx8yu7 жыл бұрын
WOW!!!!
@Vogeln8 жыл бұрын
I agree. Her voice is much too light for this role and perhaps for all of Verdi's heroines.
@draganvidic20397 жыл бұрын
Joy Juaneza It's not. Maybe too bright but voice is big if you listen to her in opera ensambles. This aria is not about producing a big sound except for maybe the final note. Her voice has a spinto size but a lyric timbre.
@operalover39665 жыл бұрын
Dragan Vidic she is miked lol
@victordunson7197 жыл бұрын
I heard her as a student, she is maturing nicely.
@stephenonomo44163 жыл бұрын
She's got one of the most beautiful and unique voice techniques in this century's opera world.
@chatbud8 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately this is the type of voice that will only make it to the stage but won't make it to the studios...
@Altonahh108 жыл бұрын
There are so many good recordings - why should they be added by another mediocre production? I find Meade a bit vulgar with a voice that´s always going to be too forte instead of balancing it. So there´s a lot of "big mouthing" but not enough soul. Not to mention the intonation and some other flaws.
@thomasmbr Жыл бұрын
The vibrato…this is not a free voice.
@jcmclovin387 жыл бұрын
shameful.. she bottoms out in the lower register.. its like a splat! so many singers just ignoring the beauty of a complete vocal line!! way too much weight in the sound... its hindering her spin and her vibrato is uneven because of it. met worthy? i think not.. unfortunately, I haven't heard too many who are.
@Geronimo19138 жыл бұрын
She did good but Leontyne will always be the standard.
@TedinNY8 жыл бұрын
+Geronimo Larson In that case, what does "Pauce" (the first word sung by LP) mean?
@wotan109508 жыл бұрын
Price was certainly right at the top, but you could say the same for Ponselle and Tebaldi.
@liricacantante1944 жыл бұрын
Canta bene! Ma purtroppo non è suo repertoiro! Lei non è un soprano lirico
@perrehn71922 жыл бұрын
Big wobble.
@thomasmbr Жыл бұрын
This is fached up!
@aurangzebmogol94727 жыл бұрын
DİVA
@alicjaalvena11208 жыл бұрын
it was okay.. her vibrato was too widely spread, like if she had old vocal chords, yet she's young...
@jasonblack42086 жыл бұрын
better in this rep than bel canto. the voice is more cutting, in-your-face. she doesn't have the polish for bel canto, not by a long shot. I'd like to here more of her in this rep. the voice sounds more at home.
@bodiloto7 жыл бұрын
non rispetta la partitura. una interpretazione freddissima ,tutto calcolato nessuna spontaneità artistica. questa bellissima giovane donna deve cantare Turandot... non mi piace affatto .
@rnerse7 жыл бұрын
deve cantare turandot?? sempre ho saputo che lei era un po' sordo ma adesso.. anche pazzo??? lei ha una bella voce, pero' piccola.. nel suo requiem gia' non la ascoltavo niente nel Libera me...adesso, una voce per Turandot??! behh
@bodiloto4 жыл бұрын
@@rnerse il fatto che sei un Grande ignorante lo sano tutti . visto che non sai leggere tra le righe ... solo un dilettante volgare del tuo genere può ''immaginarsi '' che questa vocalità può interpretare Turandot. hai una immaginazzione infinita caro mio giovane dilettante . piccolino ignorante , io parlavo dell'interpretazione freddissima ! ... non vedi i puntini alla fine del mio commento o sei cieco ?!... e basta seguirmi , ti sei innamorato di me piccolino ?!... trova ti un'altro ''amore'' ... il vecchio P.S. prima di darmi del ''pazzo'' quarda ti nello specchio ...
@HoWaAl19493 жыл бұрын
She’s really BEAUTIFAT and has a great voice ❤️‼️
@julianjoseph28618 жыл бұрын
Sorry .......and the winner is Leontyne Price!
@wotan109508 жыл бұрын
We have winners and losers? Like the Kentucky Derby? Honestly, Ponselle and Tebaldi were just as great as Price. And Meade ain't chopped liver either.
@callastoujours8 жыл бұрын
Of course not. The winner is every soprano who can stand and deliver with technique and passion to touch the audience.
@wotan109508 жыл бұрын
callastoujours Absolutely right! And while I don't think Callas's 'Pace' is vocally at the level of Ponselle or Tebaldi, she is the one who invests so much truth into the entire narrative that I am absolutely convinced by her interpretation.
@josephmcduffie52778 жыл бұрын
My favorite singing on this aria "Pace Pace Mio Dio" in order of my goosebumps: Caballe, Price, Tebaldi, Ponselle, Ghregouri, Callas barely makes the grade for my ear, though she is always hailed as the epitome Leonora!!!!!!! That's on the big stage in the big houses; step down just one notch to NY City Opera and you have one of the best Leonoras to ever sing Pace Pace, the late great Miss Alpha Floyd. Move on to the west coast and there the great Ella Lee! There have been some divas out there that can sure enough do this aria without any orchestral edit in order to be grand with the final B-flat!
@pelleas97 жыл бұрын
Leontyne Price is 90. Should we stop going to opera ? Angela Meade is one of the few exciting sopranos today. She is not perfect, she is better than that.
@irischung68882 жыл бұрын
Canta bene, purtroppo non è suo repertorio , la voce sia troppo leggere
@manoelmasini92043 жыл бұрын
terryble..... shameful and she is the winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2011 Richard Tucker Award. Poor opera!!!! What could we do? It's terryble...
@manonclaudia3 жыл бұрын
Very bad Italian but what a voice !!!
@MrSkylark17 жыл бұрын
She is WOBBLING from PUSHING the VOICE to acquire a LARGER sound, the DOWNFALL of all singers.
@draganvidic20397 жыл бұрын
MrSkylark1 Absolutely no wobble! But she's got a vibrato which not everybody likes. On some recordings it can sound almost rabbit like but not always. Her coloratura and upper extension is sometimes just fabulous!
@raarnoldra6 жыл бұрын
Anna Netrebko is doing the same thing.
@operalover39665 жыл бұрын
Dragan Vidic that is called a wobble my friend. If her voice was not constricted she would have normal/good vibrato
@YouCanBeTheBass7 жыл бұрын
i don't like this. Her voice doesn't have the depth required to achieve the effect we like to hear
@cguzmmang5 жыл бұрын
Horrible
@yk51483 жыл бұрын
Mais c’est inacceptable !!!
@plebonhomme69823 жыл бұрын
De?
@crazyorganist16095 жыл бұрын
Horrendously bad. Callas's owns this aria
@victordunson7194 жыл бұрын
Crazy organist , actually Leontyne Price owns it .🤔
@yk51483 жыл бұрын
@@victordunson719 Callas, Tebaldi, Chiara, Nilsson own this aria, but Price doesn’t.
@lifeisgood30874 ай бұрын
Simply awful. Meade has no clue on how to sing Verdi.
@lifeisgood30874 ай бұрын
Very poor rendition.
@ransomcoates5462 жыл бұрын
What a horrible joke of a singer. And she only gets worse.
@terrycloth63806 жыл бұрын
Boring. Not the voice for Aida.
@babbonatale93626 жыл бұрын
Terry Cloth this is "La forza del destino" not Aida
@mrturtle11285 жыл бұрын
There is wrong balance in her voice, making it too sharp too much through the nasal space/mask.. Rendering low notes inaudible, must say the only note that is endurable is the first note, which lies around the middle voice and the only note that sounds balanced. Too much on the face, not enough support from the body. Terrible...
@daniel_56066 жыл бұрын
le falta práctica..
@mortlock367 ай бұрын
Horrible singing, lack of all fundamentals of a good voice, like squillo, appogio, chiaroscuro, chest voice, open throat and I can continue... Shame how these modern singers have destroyed the long tradition of amazing operatic voices. Try listen this aria with Callas, Tebaldi, Caballe, Souliotis, and so on