Renée Fleming - Addio del Passato "La Traviata"

Renée Fleming as Violata sings the great aria from the last act of La Traviata by Verdi. Conductor James Conlon, Los Angeles Opera, 2006

[@rosemaryallen2128]

Her distress is so convincing that the applause feels like an invasion of privacy. A great performance.

[@laurencelambert2908]

❤

[@novasafo]

I was lucky enough to be in the audience for two of the performances of this L.A. Opera production with Fleming. It is something I will never forget. She crawled into that fetal position hitting that last high note on fini, and the entire auditorium rang like a bell as her voice floated and reverberated. It was completely breath-taking. Her whole performance in the L.A. Opera production was absolute perfection in the marriage of acting and music - at least when you saw it live in the theater.

[@tomcunningham1973]

Agee best ever loved it theres a royal opera house with renee ,calleja &hampson that blows me also thanks & enjoy I introduced a collegue to the "finale clip he was kn bits ,,,,,,,,,

[@rodlecid]

Renée, definitely the voice to which I have a crush on !! 😊😊

[@manonowen1398]

Same here 😊😊

[@tatyanaidayatova1469]

Моя любимая певица Рене спела здесь просто классно - каждая модуляция голоса идеальна , а все вместе - полная гармония - ровно, чисто , психологически убедительно и очень, очень артистично. Обожаю !

[@jha5cs]

actually, it was Verdi's choice that the letter is spoken, he also uses this same technique in Macbeth, when Lady Macbeth reads the letter sent her by Macbeth. This technique is an extremely unusual way for Verdi to truly emphasize the importance of what is being said, another example of his genius to test the limits of opera in the 18th century.

[@andrewbreslin8298]

Love the plonkers who attempt to show they've seen different versions by making pointless comments. It is what it is. Rather magnificent. Oh Joan did it ....... who cares.

[@johnnie543]

So far so good. I am glad to see the aria's second stanza added to more performances these days, where Violetta sings her bones will be interred in a solitary, unmarked grave; it always brings near to tears.

[@galicius]

Incredibly beautiful.

[@vincentpdonnelly]

I saw the opening night 2 weeks ago in the royal opera house. truly an amazing preformance by all artists and a special thanks to Rene who was JUST AMAZING in all ways..........

[@jimmyl324]

one of the greatest ever!!!

[@sulejmanwspaniay5828]

Naprawdę piękna interpertacja. Czapki z głów dla Renée Fleming.

[@kari.b_soprano]

I love you Renee, I LOVE YOU

[@DagobertoEspinoza]

Para el estreno de la obra, enterado de que la diva que La Fenice había dispuesto tenía 38 años y estaba algo pasada de peso, Verdi intentó notificar al director que el papel de Violeta exigía imperiosamente "una cantante de elegante figura y que cante apasionadamente". La gestión resultó infructuosa, y el último acto provocó hasta carcajadas. Al año siguiente, 1854, una diva más estilizada permitió que la ópera recibiera el espaldarazo debido. "Addio del passato", precisamente del último acto, es el aria en que Violeta se llama a sí misma, por única vez, "la traviatta", la descarriada. Colaboración de: www.labellezadeescuchar.

[@DanielAlexis17]

renee's italian is very impressive :-) i could listen to her reading out that letter again and again

[@brachio8695]

She sang last passage with "fil di voce". Awesome!!

[@user-sp5se5iw5j]

Прекрасное сочетание вокала и драматургии !

[@XYZ8]

I love it too, Sweetheart...

[@Octavoification]

I love your insight on that. Thank you.

[@XYZ8]

It's really beautiful, Baby... Thanks for having sent it to me...

[@jeanjean9146]

Renee Fleming is the best Violata ever...the way she perform tis area...could move the mountaines.

[@telopidus]

bello bello!!!

[@jocmuc]

she is a perfect attatrice

[@jocmuc]

perfetto, mia nueva assoluta

[@OperaGIRL777]

I find that it is the easiest thing for spectators to critisize opera singers even when they shouldn't be critisizing. What gives you the right to say whether Fleming is a good opera singer? Unless you are a highly acclaimed opera singer yourself I would say that it is not your place to critisize!

[@janejones11]

Could that " e tardi" be anymore over the top? Restraint and sincerity make for great artistry.

[@XYZ8]

No, Baby... I would not... I love it since I heard that for the first time...

[@Sairasings]

My initial reaction to the faster tempo was similar, but when you think about it, Violetta is very ill, and it makes sense to get as many words into a phrase as possible dramatically- even speaking is difficult. I think it's great that Miss Fleming challenges performance practices with her music, and she really inspires young singers to rethink convention and make music their own.

[@bozenanastarowicz6960]

💖 💖 💖 💖 💖

[@LjubljanaSI]

dear folk, check also the KZbin's clip of this aria performed by Petya Ivanova at Maribor National Opera.

[@MrAnglophile]

BRAVA!!

[@arnaldoleonardo9044]

Inmortal

[@celularnuevocn]

Gosh... Definitely not for her (loved that last note, though). And why the tempo so fast, who made that choice?

[@gattocanoro]

Parla benissimo italiano. Le ho parlato assieme dopo un concerto.

[@christinec.6685]

I agree with those who find the fast tempo jarring.

[@XYZ8]

Powiedziałaś mi po angielsku: "Wiedziałam, że będziesz to lubił..." Ja Ci odpowiedziałem: "Ja nie będę... Ja to już lubię, odkąd pierwszy raz to usłyszałem..." Ot, i wszystko na ten temat...

[@jimmyl324]

sills did a great job with traviata...

[@manonowen1398]

She sure did 😊😊

[@jimmyl324]

@LohengrinT sills did sing traviata...

[@pohlpiano]

Who was not booed in damn Italy ? :)))

[@cosmopolitan8]

renee does a wonderful job with this aria, but i also adore ileana contrubas as violetta.

[@Johnny1206]

Violetta is not suited to her voice but she does it quite well...She really doesn't need to widen her repertoire so much being such a great singer.

[@PascualG65]

I strongly recommend to heard Magda Olivero in this aria.

[@christophesingio9801]

Le tempo est top ! :ça rajeunit l'héroïne. C'est une jeune femme qui est sur le point de mourir, pas une vie entière qui agonise. C'est fraîchement mortifaire. Hélas. Excellent tempo. C'est une gamine qui meurt, pas une femme qui s'éteint.

[@XYZ8]

Nie musimy... Ja wiem, że jestem głupi i do niczego się nie nadaję... Znam biegle 4 języki i co z tego, skoro nikt mnie nie potrafi zrozumieć...

[@XYZ8]

No tak... jeszcze i to... Mało komunikatywny jestem dzisiaj... Już to dzisiaj od kogoś słyszałem... Ech... ciężki dzień, naprawdę...

[@laurencelambert2908]

Poignard et beau

[@cantanteporsiempre]

guaaaaaaaa, that talking voice!!! .lol. Noone read this letter as Callas

[@jocmuc]

es gibt so viele grandiose traviatas. meine favoritin ist leyla gencer. aber ich selbst mache mir nichts vor. renee fleming ist in keiner phrase schlechter als leyla. das ist doch alles nur geschmackssache. seid doch nicht päpstlicher als der papst. in dieser beziehung haben wir doch alle nicht die weisheit mit löffeln gefressen. in diesem sinne bitte ich um etwas objektivität lasst uns fair bleiben. gott, sind diese traviatas alle gut

[@Cenayon]

Uhm... Okay. Right... *closes window*

[@-Tesla-Live_]

It's great how she can read most of the letter without even looking at it - e strano!

[@carolineswan4044]

because she is re-reading it... she received it some time before, in the story... she is still waiting for Alfredo to come, as promised in the letter

[@janetflier6192]

The make-up man did a great job!! Renee looks terrible

[@XYZ8]

A od kiedy to Amerykanie używają Present Perfect??? Myślałem, że użycie Past Simple nie będzie tutaj błędem... Aż tak tępy z angielskiego to ja nie jestem, jakby się wydawało...

[@mariacristinazarpellon2786]

Eh ma il recitativo non perdona 😔

[@dalgacik80]

I didn't like this version of addio del passato. It should be slower. The words are not accentuated enough.

[@MrJuanmaes]

Terrible! The way she reads the letter is just laughable, Violetta is supposed to be sad and dying not drunken..

[@brookeggleston9314]

She's dying of TB. If you'd ever been around people suffering from lack of oxygen, you would know that the resulting narcosis can make a person sound drugged or drunk. Find some other reason to trash her performance. She was *totally* in character!!

[@MrJuanmaes]

I respect your opinion, but it still sounds terrible! Sorry...

[@manonowen1398]

But that's how she was suppose to act though. She portrayed Violetta wonderfully. I loved her in La Traviata.

[@clivepapayanis3121]

She's many things, but a Violetta she ain't. Callas(whom I'm not the biggest fan of), Albanese, Cotrubas, and , morerecently, Hong do a superlative letter- reading. This is all wrong: mannered, sloppy, just dreadful. I LOVE Renee...she never should have sung this. Desdemona? Incredible! This? Awful!

[@janetflier6192]

Clive Papayanis In your opinion.

[@love2laugh36]

Leontyne did it better.

[@brookeggleston9314]

Leontyne never did it on stage! The only Traviata that my beloved Miss Tyne ever did was in the studio!

[@XYZ8]

No tak, Niemcy podobno też mnie nie rozumieją... aż takie mam problemy z wysławianiem się... aż dziwne...

[@sd.m3521]

I love Renée, but... NO. The letter-reading is ghastly, and the singing, not so good. Nope.

[@kamikazekate]

@MastersoftheOpera same here, i find her quite bland in this role. I find this interpretation puzzling in the extreme.

[@mojopum]

Such fake!