Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland and Birgit Nilsson in Bad Moments

Some bad moments from the Divas.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Unfortunately, I had to edit the video (and cut the last piece) because a lot people doesn't understand that was a kidding, and the "rehearsal" doesn't count like 'fail' ok, but the will to comment some unpleasant thing is more important than to analysate some simple words.

[@moonsandstars3018]

Vinicius Soaris was that my fault if it was im sorry

[@renatofiorentini7250]

Vinicius Soaris ñ

[@richardholmesmusic2128]

These tiny flaws are nothing. I would like to catalog your inept misuse of the English language. "Crack voice" makes no sense at all, for example and no-one who speaks English would say this. Ridiculous.

[@kilubialin6222]

This video is really interesting.l love calls sutherland and nilsson.No matter how fail is,they are peak of Opera singer.

[@ceceliaclarke9147]

analysate???? Are we supposed to take seriously a commentator who uses a word like "analysate"? If you can't do better than this with language, I am not going to trust anything that you have to say about classical music.

[@BrunoACFernandes]

These ladies bad moments are better than the best some of the current singers offer... 😉

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

BrunoACFernandes Speak for yourself. They sound just as bad, especially Birgit. Ugh! Shrieking and shrill.

[@reneeitzen6744]

Nilsson does not shriek. She attacks every note it’s exceptionally clear. She really had far superior technique to many a singer now and in the past. Her approach was just different to most.

[@classicaldame4372]

Too True!!

[@bjbob3920]

Singers are not going to sound perfect all of the time. They may have been sick. We don't know. However, it doesn't change the fact they are the best sopranos of their generation.

[@Bravilor]

@@EmilyGloeggler7984 I see that around four years ago was your main streak of vitriol against Nilsson. What sort of phase were you going through in your life then?

[@KassandraMezzo]

We are only humans :-) It's comforting to hear that the Holy Monsters do mistakes, too. LOVE THEM all the same.

[@miaovoo7161]

Singers are not machines.

[@danielvargas-escareno6827]

Bad moments? Oh please! I would love to had those bad moments...I wish!

[@Валенсияинфо]

Daniel Vargas )))

[@mateodedios4507]

Yes !

[@kennyu4643]

This just shows how amazing they were. Their worst moments throughout their careers are better than lots of singers highlight moment.

[@SirDiogoferreira]

Even in their bad moments, these ladies were much better than most of pseudo-divas of nowadays...

[@schneevongestern9898]

To call one single imperfection within a phrase that needs unimaginable skill and talent to perform at all is quite something. And they performed live. "Lost breath in the third trill". The entire phrase is supreme. And so are all the others.

[@nathelondon3719]

I prefer Callas's "bad" moments to the others good moments.

[@PeteBMan]

All superstars, all human. This is great to see as a budding operatic singer, an instrumentalist, as an ardent fan. Love them, for every moment they offered - the gold standards they set and the flukes. ❤

[@ygorcoelhos]

When these minor and in some cases almost imperceptible flaws are the "fail" moments and mistakes of a diva, then we can really be sure that they were supremely talented singers and hardly surpassable by any others.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Ygor Coelho A clever comment without judgment. Yes, they are divas, even when committe a mistake, they still unsurpassed.

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

Ygor Coelho You are right!

[@kenclouseau2616]

Well spoken, very well spoken ..

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

I liked this video....it put a smile on my face - but even when these ladies make mistakes - they're BETTER than what we have today!😀

[@andity1]

The question is what we don't have today. The answer is adequate teaching. Talents are born always in any century, the question is what you do with that talent.

[@Hako2004]

Normal stuff from extraordinary voices. I have been singing all my life, and know that sinus issues, colds, allergies are problems even the greatest had to cope with. There are days when the voice is reluctant to obey, but you do your best.

[@harpguy18]

Thank god, they are human!! We all make mistakes. What’s the big deal, if you want perfect all the time create robots that can sing.

[@jasonhurd4379]

Quite right! Some of my favorite singers are far from perfect. Irmgard Seefried, my all-time favorite soprano, had a short top, faulty breath control and an inferior florid technique. Yet her personality fairly leaps from the speakers in every track she ever recorded, and her characterisation is superb. I'll take brilliant expression over placid perfection any day of the week.

[@emilijaminic]

WELL SAID !

[@theoperatripleaxel5417]

Japan did! Kkk it sucks

[@maryvallettakeith6146]

I don't get the sense this video was an attempt to be mean-spirited. For me, it felt that it was showing us that such perceived goddesses had to work at singing too.

[@TenzinChodrak]

Still, i have to thank you for taking time to edit and went through the clips for us. You yourself must be a fan of them or else who will spend so much time going through music which many young people claim as alien music. This video is good as it tell us that we are human, practice only brings improvement not perfection, Hence do not be so hard on ourselves and be kind to ourselves in the practice room. We always chase for the perfection, but to me, imperfection is human, and only human can touch another human's heart. Thank you. James Long, Malaysia

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Thanks for comment. The real message it was absorved, not so many could understand it ;) I'm a huge fan from these ladies. I do believe that our mistakes teach us, but perhaps the ignorants persons that commented here thinks these singers were perfects. What always impress me is the hypocrisy those persons shows when complains, diminishes, attacks these ladies pointing their flaws, bad singing, et al... out there.

[@herrbrucvald6376]

The Callas Vespri example was no crack. The Macbeth was, but the imperfection doesn't stop it from being a compelling reading.

[@deeprollingriver5820]

Picky, picky. These voices are unbelievably excellent

[@wotan10950]

I am actually relieved to hear a few mistakes here and there. Too much perfection is bad for the digestion! Obviously these divas were most often right on top of any vocal situation, but a little hiccup shows they’re human too.

[@moonsandstars3018]

The recording of callas practicing sempre libera is my favourite because it seems more personal and and not something callas would have let her fans hear as she was such a perfectionist a true diva

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

Non si possono commentare queste tre grandissime Soprano !!!!sono assolutamente meravigliose!!!! Io godo ad ascoltarle. Tutte e tre magnifiche!!!! Mari

[@XPRT10R]

Questi tre Grandissimi Soprani. Soprano, sostantivo maschile

[@rodolfolomelig8349]

To be fair, Birgit Nilsson knew she didn't even had a shadow of a trill and never pretende to trill as far as I have ever listened to her attempts to sing bel canto.

[@MAGGIETA1]

Dame Sutherland..... I love your Bad Moments!!!!!

[@tripleaxell]

That last Callas traviata was at Rehearsals though.. so that wasn't a fail.... If you look on youtube, She also did "Vien Diletto.." with an Eb6.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Dikki Martinez As the video says "just kidding" this last doesn't count like fail ok

[@wilsonwatt9283]

These bad moments are better than 99% of the regular performances of today's sopranos attempting the same music. It is interesting but not really worth listening to except for people like me who heard all of these singers live and know that the glitches were simply human beings doing the best they could at the time.

[@yfzhou8074]

Dang. These "fails" are everyday life for me

[@herrbrucvald6376]

.......would that I could have heard these divine performances by divine singers and enjoyed these 'fails' in person!..... (note: where are the mistakes?)

[@albertcombrink3717]

Flaws and all, still the greatest trio of singers of their time.

[@jasonhurd4379]

I would amend your statement to 'sopranos' rather than 'singers'. There were many singers who were just as great as these three at this time in the other categories. Tenors: Corelli, di Stefano, Gedda. Mezzos: Simionato, Ludwig, Barbieri. Baritones: Bastianini, Panerai, London. Basses: Rossi-Lemeni, Pinza, Hotter.

[@Pachinanonim]

@@jasonhurd4379 Por Sutherland y Nilsson pero Callas no, ella fue una de las mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos y ella es una artista, no solo una cantante.

[@Operacrazed]

I cannot let the last extract of Maria Callas go without commenting that, rehearsal or not the final Eb in Violetta's Sempre Libera is not written in the score. It is only interpolated by singers as a nod to historic performance tradition and as a climatic ending to the first act. Many sopranos never attempt to sing this note at all. Disappointing maybe, but not dishonest or incorrect.

[@Anduril919]

How many of us will gladly take out loans just for the privilege of hearing these "fails" live?

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

How many Wagnerian sopranos actually cleanly articulate Brunnhilda's trills. No modern ones that I know of and to my knowledge never pristine clear like Sutherland 's trill that's for sure. If they're out there, please post them in compilation 🙏

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

I'm able to mention Frida Leider. She was wagnerian and sang perfect trills.

[@donaldcasey9204]

Let me just,all haters out there, you all probably can't even hold a simple note in any style of singing, so don't hate these brilliant, PROFESSIONALS, and highly talented performers because of your evident, short coming. Those girls rocked.

[@-giakhanh--kayden-8337]

0:28 the unintended crack is surprisingly on key and on beat :))))))

[@kyleaustin7045]

Regarding Maria Callas: the Traviata excerpt isn't Callas' fault, so much so as the tape's fault

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

It sounded weird or forced and I decided to use it here :)

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Use your mind and ears.

[@raynardi2326]

I cantanti non sono dei ROBOT !

[@roymayh3819]

Wow, these are so "terrible" other singers especially today would surely die to sing like that in their best moments. The softest gentlest cracks with some very nice saves. "Weak trills" by Nilsson are still pretty strong by everyone else's standards. These are so great their mistakes melt away in the otherwise great execution.

[@barbaranorthwood]

I feel sorry for anyone who can carp at an odd error in the course of a 3 hour live performance.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Barbara Northwood There are a lot of compilations of opera vocal disasters on KZbin. But I think that the problem is citing Callas' mistakes HAHAHHAAHHAHA

[@barbaranorthwood]

If more people realised the performers' disappointment and chagrin if they make the smallest mistake there might be more sympathy shown. No performance ever went without a hitch. Not just the singers, but the orchestral players, the conductors, lighting technicians, scene shifters etc.Literally hundreds. If there was more appreciation of the work involved in a production, maybe then there would be less put downs. It may seem funny to some, but it was very serious to the people mentioned.

[@mercedesleon4990]

Barbara Northwood what a wise coment , i can only agree

[@artdanks]

Barbara Northwood. BRAVA, Barbara Northwood! Very well said.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

@@barbaranorthwood Ironic because there are more flaws that you failed to observe and even more ironic that some can turn a blind ear to those of "great singing" but have no problems doing the same to others who are working to get their singing technique healthy. It goes both ways, not just for the great.

[@kbhprinsesse]

The "Macbeth" with Callas sounds more like a loss of breath than a crack. The first "Turandot" with Nilsson isn't "Stranio" but "Stranier", a common abbreviation in operatic Italian.

[@marylambcarter]

CALLAS IS PERFECT ALWAYS !!!DIVINAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@marylambcarter]

SUTHERLAND IS AMAZING ALWAYS ...

[@marylambcarter]

POINTLESS VIDEO ... THEY ARE DIVINE JUST THE SAME ... TRY THE NEW SINGERS ... MUCH BETTER AND RELEVANT MATERIAL ...

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

CRAZY COW HAHAHAHHAHA As the video says "just kidding" this last Callas' Traviata doesn't count like fail ok

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

...and I dedicate myself only with these three divas 👍

[@goldie5788]

Dear Maria Callas has nerves disfunction that her doctors ignored. That's what she had breaks but she was a giftet and smart artist. Please, watch her masterclass❤️

[@gianerajohn436]

I don’t mind this video at all. It reminds us that these 3 at their worst were still a world better than today’s singers at their best. Average audiences today don’t even know what a trill is, let alone understanding when their favorite singers go flat on a high E.

[@oliverferns8600]

Exactly my point. These fans are so triggered.

[@operabilia]

Well, not necessarily "fail" moments, but ... simply human ones! Period. However, the extracts are quite well chosen. Thank you for that.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

operabilia "Fail" to get attention to the public, kk

[@operabilia]

Oh I see, thank you Dear. Then I wonder if the title is 100% clear. Never mind: thanks so much for the post!!!

[@MartyMusic777]

I mean, I think that this is actually kinda comforting. The three best dramatic soprano voices of their time sometimes weren't perfect - it's a nice reminder that such remarkable art is still made by humans and not an automaton.

[@oliverferns8600]

I agree.

[@kyleaustin7045]

Regarding Nilsson's Turandot (the In questa reggia excerpt) I think it might be a rehearsal.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Isaac Nguyen It sounds awful.

[@LohengrinO]

fail moment the unbelievable Bolena ascend? it should be replaced with the Frog she does in the F3# in her live Vespri... and u use the best of the Beatrice trills, in the worst perormance she omits the third trill out of lack of breath...

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

I really enjoyed that!

[@magicflute3]

Well, that's interesting- anyway, I am realy fond of those remarkable Ladies and all these "flaws" proove they were human beings, after all

[@breakingbadheisenberg9703]

Fails? Go listen to the current crop of divas 😳, holy crap ,Netrebko Is your sister who’s had too much to drink at the family get together 🤦‍♀️

[@evaosirus6055]

This is a good video for educational purposes!

[@theoperatripleaxel5417]

No one eeeever did the trills in Walkire, wagner was just crazy putting that on the score.

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

There are singers who did them. You can even find some on KZbin

[@MrEtrusquan]

Like my mom always said, "The two easiest things in the world to do is to criticize and to complain." A lot easier than singing...that's for sure.

[@arseniyrevun]

1:01 She was ill...

[@remyparaskovia5499]

The Bad Moments Are better Than most Of Nowadays....

[@leedsuza1]

Even goddesses have bad days. It's alright.

[@billyflynn2]

So, these incredible women are human! Shit happens......

[@jasonhurd4379]

Lambasting Nilsson for 'weak trills' in Brünnhilde's battle-cry is really stretching a point. How many Brünnhildes actually do the written trills in the Ho-jo-to-ho? I know of only two: Frida Leider and Gwyneth Jones.

[@ubedajils]

In I vespri, it is known that Callas had a strong cold that night. Despite that, she sang that incredible high E.

[@hayerwhophtow6700]

Des êtres humains, quoi. Quelques secondes vite oubliées, parmi de centaines d’heures de bonheur total et absolut.

[@danielvargas-escareno6827]

I would love to have these fails in my singing. They are godess

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

We all wanted.

[@termeatermini]

Gianni Schicchi is spelled wrong! Speaking of errors..

[@wilsonwatt9283]

Although some comments object to this video, I believe it demonstrates for all of us why the greatest opera singers are so great. Imagine having to sing music that, when you miss even the slightest breath or support or tone or vowel sound, it is noticeable. These are great musicians and this is how we know they are. Also, frankly it is surprising that so many existed for Sutherland. I say her many times and saw Nilsson quite a few and never heard the slightest misstep from either of them. Sutherland certainly was known for the reliability [some people said it contributed to their boredom with her characters] in the roles she performed.

[@williammorris584]

3:16 This would be applauded today, audience expectations being so low due to a high prevalence of bad singing.

[@celtik05]

Interessante se as divas podem errar, os meros mortais também. A vida segue.

[@ian.marais1202]

Good heavens they were three of the ultimate superstars the opera world has ever produced but they were also humans. And by the way the so called flaws are barely audible.

[@MadonnaImperia]

It is a shame you didn't include time and place of the recordings. When/where is the Callas "Sempre libera" from?

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

MadonnaImperia Really??? It's a shame compare Joan and Nilsson fails at sixty with early Callas' fails HAHAHA I don't include these informations for that reason.

[@stefanodepeppo]

It's a rehearsal, not a live performance!

[@MadonnaImperia]

I didn't mean the last bit. The first time she sings it in this video.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Another: Callas in her Tosca (1964 - London) sang wrong in "Vissi d'arte" (...nell'ora del 'signore'...), it's just the listeners have attention when listen opera to percept some "fails".

[@stefanodepeppo]

She changed words few times in her career. Medea live from Dallas 1958 and in "Pace mio Dio" concert Athen 1957 among others. Who didn't change/forget words sometimes?...

[@ryan.engstrom]

Oh please no errror PERIOD in Joan's Beatrice waterfall of trills.

[@XPRT10R]

SIciliani , just ONE elle

[@SuperEfexor]

I brutti momenti di grandi cantanti li rendono più umani.... sono comunque bellissimi.

[@BucurEST1989]

Sutherland no where as good as Callas.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Callas no where as good as Sutherland.

[@jondavwal13]

Yes, Callas does mistakes much better than Sutherland does. What a stupid comment.

[@giovic9802]

Andrei sul ponte rossa is so funny 😂

[@tiagodelode9368]

Los cantantes son seres humanos y todos pueden tener una mala performance, lo que no es recurrente en cantantes como estas tres sopranos que han tenido los mejores resultados que jamás hayamos podido oir en sus repertorios. Quizá de las tres la única que ha conseguido una linea de canto adecuada aunque no podemos de dejar de reconocer sus méritos ha sido Sutherland, que ha incurrido en gravísimos problemas vocales en vivo, cosa que no se ha visto en Callas ni en Nilson. Ha decir verdad las perlas negras de Callas y Nilson son inexistentes y las de Sutherland son muy pocas. Por otra parte ser infalibre no es la misión de ningún cantante.

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

This is only excerpts. Callas compared with Nilsson and Joan, was who slipped more vocally. While Joan cracked maybe once, Callas cracked the voice lot of times as example.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

And each of them 500,000,000 times better than anyone today. Especially Callas.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Nope. A fail is a fail, even when the greats do it. Funny those who praise these people for their mistakes have no problem behaving like vile dogs to those who are trying to work on improving their technique.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

@Emily Greene Juan Nasal Florez certainly isn’t doing anything to improve his technique.

[@DCFunBud]

I always knew they were no good. (Heh, heh!) 😃

[@keithericbrinkley1428]

Artists are human not machines.

[@ransomcoates546]

Sutherland was notorious for musical and verbal mistakes. And Nilsson only enters a little early in the Immolation Scene.

[@esuna6352]

Nilsson in the part with weak trills is better significantly than modern opera singers who can't even trill for shit.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

She still failed just as much as those who can't trill now. A fail is a fail.

[@cashmerecat9269]

JOan Sutherland sang as if she had something stuck in her mouth most of the time.

[@mattiheiskanen597]

Money back.

[@tecnicadelcantolirico6431]

La Callas stecca solo nel Macbeth(era indisposta per un’influenza )nelle altre è solo dosaggio di fiato e appoggiature

[@ian.marais1202]

They were supestars not super machines. Wow everyone makes mistakes and especially in this utterly demanding profession. They will remain superstars for ever.

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

What brings you to want to create and publish this type of video?

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

I'm going to create the Part 2 ;)

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

@@JoanSutherlandFan Rather sad.

[@shookedt7766]

Guys, calm down. Vini soaris did not in any way negatively expressed the trio's legacy in opera. He/She merely showed some bad moments of even the greatest singers. He/She does not hate unlike you all triggered fans. Thank you.

[@Luifernal6]

Sutherland had good moments in her career !?

[@jondavwal13]

Another stupid comment from a deaf person.

[@Nemoxxx-c6u]

I definitely agree

[@MsDvornik]

ma che tutti cantino cosi bene , come loro cantavano cosi male almeno!!!

[@loboestepario2424]

This kind of videos are pointless and mostly taken from rehearsals. People have to understand that what they hear from recordings is highly edited / manipulated, and live singing can't always be perfect.

[@robertoramossempere7252]

Me encanta este vídeo!!! Menos mal que alguien pone los malos momentos de la Divina, parece que sólo los tenía Renata Tebaldi...

[@Situnadei]

Bad Moments in swedish can mean at least 4 different interpretations- and in english ? - and what about this context ?

[@stevewoodland464]

So they’re human. BFD.

[@TaekyungLee-mb1sb]

사람같아..좋아요..

[@larissakent4219]

For crying out loud! We are all humans! Not perfect machines!

[@vellbariaofficial]

not obvious at all!! mistakes like these happens unintentionally so not a big deal at all.

[@save312]

Se questi sono cattivi momenti che dire dei cantanti odierni

[@emilijaminic]

Bad moments are HUMAN moments ...Who is a singer knows what I am tolking about .

[@maryvallettakeith6146]

They were human? Good to know.

[@artdanks]

The "fails" of these 3 great singers are still far superior to the "beautiful singing" of most other singers! So, I see no point in posting something like this.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Art Danks Use your ears and mind. Lol

[@kilubialin6222]

Hahahahahah

[@artdanks]

So, you managed to prove that these 3 great singers were human, and could be imperfect. Congratulations! Should we post all of your imperfections publicly too, for the world to see?

[@shookedt7766]

I dont think the YT channel intended to dishonor these three great opera singers instead he/she just showed some bad moments (everyone has bad days) to further prove the massive skills of the three as a result of proper and good training. The YT channel, in no way, hates and criticizes the trio. :)

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

That includes yourself as well. If your going to critique other singers with worse vocal technique, that does not excluse those great singers who made vocal mistakes either.

[@Tojazzer]

This really shouldn't be a competition, however Callas, as is always the case, is the weakest. They each had their strengths, however Nilsson was always the strongest and was clearly gifted with the versatility that the others lacked.

[@herrbrucvald6376]

oh....ok...

[@jondavwal13]

Nilsson was . . . . versatile? LOL. Her wide ranging repertoire from Puccini to Wagner with a little late Verdi? Is this a joke comment?

[@caninbar]

Dear Vinicius, you should check your own errors, such as I Vespri Siciliani.

[@artdanks]

I'm glad to see your commenters are all like minded in our responses. Re-think what you post.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Art Danks Theyre not all like-minded. Those who use their ears and minds don’t agree with your echo chamber.

[@danielgontier1563]

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