This role was written for this exact voice type. She sounds perfect!
@beate-mariavorwerk37772 ай бұрын
Zu Herzen gehend...mit Seele und Koennen gesungen: rar heutzutage
@pablobanados6552 Жыл бұрын
Qué voz más hermosa. Femenina, suave, llena de musicalidad. Perfecta para Mimí, Gilda o Micaela. Maravillosa Señora Kotrubas.
@Abby-km6vr Жыл бұрын
i just keep coming back to this. it’s simply the best of all the versions i’ve listened to. simply the best
@SteveL20125 жыл бұрын
Her voice is so easy and even throughout the register, I truly think she has the best technique of any Mimi I have heard and, moreover, the right, gentle and best approach to the character. What a delight!
@alexgomez2 Жыл бұрын
Amen!!
@AllenFigueredo54 ай бұрын
I agree with you about her approach, but Nellie Melba had the best technique of any Mimi.
@FranciscoFerrerGaliana193011 күн бұрын
Simplemente maravillosa.!!
@nicoletaelias25598 ай бұрын
So very sensible, beautiful, sliky and delicate voice! The best Mimi!!!! I have listen to many a great sopranos sing this aria, but Ms Ileana Cotrubas is the teal Mimi. ❤
@fredojoaquim4764 Жыл бұрын
A very lovely Mimi. Beautiful 💟soprano.
@fabiovaldevit91468 ай бұрын
Perfetta mimì ..voce meravigliosa e dolce ...la sua recitazione è commovente ...
@venetianformula11 жыл бұрын
This is the most beautiful performance of this aria I have ever heard.
@alexgomez2 Жыл бұрын
Whether Mimi at La Boheme; Michaela at Carmen; Gilda at Rigoletto or; Violeta at La Traviata, Ms. Cotrubas was amazing. Her sweet voice, demeanor and expressive acting made her one of my ever favorite sopranos.
@jmckenzie24029 жыл бұрын
Heard of her but not ever heard her. So sweet and delicate, with underlying power. Wonderful! Melting.
@jmckenzie24029 жыл бұрын
I know, I just never got around to hearing her, for some reason.
@xxsaruman82xx874 жыл бұрын
@@jmckenzie2402 Her Violetta with Domingo and Milnes, conducted by Kleiber is one of the best studio recorded La traviatas.
@arnoldamaral74064 жыл бұрын
@@xxsaruman82xx87S he brings Violeta to life without compromising the character. And her hi E is beyong beautiful. DIVA ELENNA 👑💙 Arnold Bourbon Amaral
@joan-mariezimmerman68855 ай бұрын
We saw her 2-3 times a week when students in Vienna in the late 70s and early 80s at the Staatsoper !! - Mimi, Gilda, Violetta, Adina, etc. She was so perfect, her voice was soooo beautiful ❤
@venetianformula11 жыл бұрын
Cotrubas is DIVINA. I absolutely adore her. Her singing always gives me goosebumps!
@belcantopera45626 жыл бұрын
Happy birthday, Ileana Cotrubas!
@ericholck39142 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager when I first discovered La Boheme. In the years that followed, I listened to many, many of recordings of it and heard dozens of interpretations of this aria. Finally, when I got to Ileana's version, I thought "THIS is Mimi." For me at least, she is the one who completely checks off all the boxes emotionally, musically, technically, dramatically, etc. I've listened to it at least 200 times, and every time her voice crescendos into "Il primo bacio dell'aprile è mio!" I get the same chills.
@arnoldamaral38147 ай бұрын
Word ❤🎉
@glenndabreo35818 жыл бұрын
Heard her at the Met in 1982... she was incredible....
Dios mío, cuando ella comienza "...ma quando vien lo sgelo" ya estoy llorando.
@yohangouraantoni39035 жыл бұрын
Es que es hermoso, es como si se abrieran los cielos, estamos igual agua de mis ojos, pensé que solo era yo el que sentía tanta emoción por ese momento...
@jesusnuovo53464 жыл бұрын
@@yohangouraantoni3903 Hermosísima voz de la señora ♥
@drimaz8511 жыл бұрын
Superb! She isn't just a great voice, is a great actress too!! The best Mimi! Bravissima
@rloomis36 жыл бұрын
I was at that performance! It was my first live opera.
@xxsaruman82xx874 жыл бұрын
@@rloomis3 How wonderful!
@mugrad256 жыл бұрын
she's so innocent, fragile, and feminine sounding. just right for Mimi. others overpower this role....forget that Mimi has consumption
@xxsaruman82xx875 жыл бұрын
Like Tebaldi - nudge, nudge, wink, wink
@arnoldamaral74064 жыл бұрын
@@xxsaruman82xx87 That's right because" if you have a good techique, you can sing anything" 🙏😁 Arnold
@xxsaruman82xx874 жыл бұрын
@@arnoldamaral7406 Tebaldi was great, though.
@kelvinmusic11 жыл бұрын
the best Mimi EVER
@merryquantagency27312 жыл бұрын
The role was made and composed for her. The best Mimi.
@rudolforulloda36957 жыл бұрын
awesome - great singing
@rationalsceptic76344 жыл бұрын
Ileana has the most beautiful voice for Mimi x
@道-p2e4 жыл бұрын
check her La Scala version with Pavarotti, kzbin.info/www/bejne/r52Tla2wr8mreZI
@RubyBMMMAD7 жыл бұрын
What an inspiration. So wonderful!!!!!
@davidchen86854 ай бұрын
Great Performance. Well control and balance and with emotion.👍
@LUCIDANNA7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. I adore her voice. Thank you for posting.
@LauraAlbertOfficial6 жыл бұрын
This is so heartbreaking ❤️
@valdesouza66036 жыл бұрын
THE BEST OF THE BEST. SIMPLESMENTE MARAVILHOSO
@yohangouraantoni39035 жыл бұрын
Que belleza, recuerdo tener 13 años y escuchar esta mujer cantar de hermoso.
@lilspring10574 жыл бұрын
My favorite Mimi :)
@omaramerio4545 жыл бұрын
que maravillosa voz!
@道-p2e4 жыл бұрын
Superb performance, so fit so natural... bravo, love+ more Bravo...
@sarahlee35347 жыл бұрын
So lovely!!
@jcleivaamoros4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@fluffynamedkimba3 жыл бұрын
magnificent!
@ALEXISVASSILIEV3 жыл бұрын
Magnifique! Merci
@alejandrobriglia8 жыл бұрын
fantastico!
@petertenten86262 жыл бұрын
Erfreulicherweise besinnt man sich offenbar wieder, welche große Künstlerin die Cotrubas ist, weil im Rausch der Netrebko-Jahre diese Qualität verloren ging und viele einer vollkommen überbewerteten russischen Sopranistin auf den Leim gingen. Das hat offenbar jetzt ein Ende gefunden, was ich nur begrüßen kann.
@kyrie003312 жыл бұрын
La voz más dulce para Mimí @}-'-----
@jordifuentes55214 жыл бұрын
Hay que ver la pureza de la música y del canto de las cuatro barras es difícil expresar tanta ternura y belleza en una canción tan hermosa Puccini imitaba bastante a Wagner en el sentido de que no tenía por qué un área tener dos o tres temas bien diferenciados hay quien dice que aquí no los hay está muy claro que los hay en la primera parte es como una especie de recitativo pero que no lo es bien bien porque es francamente maravilloso pero amigos cuando se levanta de las sillas la controlas está bien claro que es otro tema muy diferente y tan maravilloso que casi se puede considerar algo divino es una verdadera maravilla que muchos directores de escena no tengan en cuenta este detalle que al levantarse se inicia el segundo tema tan maravilloso que uno se queda anonadado bien y no es ya el bel canto si no es verismo presten atención porque es una maravilla
Finally find someone sing it justice after Maria and Tebaldi.
@benedettabaroni71057 жыл бұрын
Morgan Alan you should listen to Freni
@jonathanlinton65226 жыл бұрын
Freni is very good but can’t connect emotionally with the part and the music in the way Cotrubas can. She inhabits the character.
@xxsaruman82xx875 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanlinton6522 I think De Los Angeles is on par with Cotrubas, though
@xxsaruman82xx874 жыл бұрын
De Los Angeles?
@zava07 жыл бұрын
What a diction!
@arnoldamaral74064 жыл бұрын
Her French & German are excellent as well. A true ARTIST 👑 . Arnold Bourbon Amaral
@jordifuentesandres2265 жыл бұрын
También los dos cantan para unir sus deseos emocionales, pues sincronizan debidamente el deseo de amar y ser amada, esto sucede cuando unao se enamora, pero este sentimiento, que ningún filosofo sabe lo que es, pues igual que es una maravilla, una felicidad, es una analogía con el miedo, ,con el sufrir y el dolor.Es mucho mejor dejar el enamoramiento y que la unión sea más duradera con el conocimiento mutuo y en especial, con un comportamiento de ideales honestos, y incluso de sacrificios mutuos para darse la felicidad.tu soy yo, yo soy tu, ambos somos el espejo del otro, en ti me veo y me mejoro.En esto debería de ser el amor.aql menos asilo considero yo.perdon por el rollete.
@mscott39185 жыл бұрын
Saw her as Mimi at Covent Garden back in 197 something
@mariafsilva12 жыл бұрын
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellooooooograna artista superbe!!!!!!!!!
@Fanfanbalibar Жыл бұрын
How old are you?
@jordifuentesandres22610 жыл бұрын
hay quien dice que en esta aria no encuentra bien claro los dos temas musicales que como mínimo debe de tener un aria,con una estructua bien definida.Ver cuando ella se levanta de la silla, es ahí donde se inicia el senundo tema musical, mucho más lirico,mucho más bonito ect...
@jordifuentesandres2265 жыл бұрын
RODOLFO Y ELLA QUE AL INSTANTE DE CONOCERSE SUS HORMONAS SE HAN AGITADO,ES LA QUIMICA DEL AMOR, EL CUENTA QUIEN ES Y QUE HACE,LE CUENTA QUE ES POETA Y...Y LUEGO ELLA EMPIEZA A DECIR DE SU VIDA, QUE LA LLAMAN MIMI Y NO SABE BIEN PORQUE, QUE LE GUSTAN LAS COSAS PEQUEÑITAS, QUE HACE RAMITOS DE FLORES PERO SE LAMENTA QUE NO TENGAN EL OLOR DE LAS NATURALES, pero ahora llega lo divino, menos nombrar la divinidad en vano, y este detalle si se puede decir, divino, cuando ella se levanta de la silla, todo cambia, la música, el canto, es cuando canta el aria, que esto si es cosa divina, que maravila de expresivida, dulzura....
@marcomicheletti99572 жыл бұрын
2:21, la in una bianca cameretta
@bernsteinbrocken7 жыл бұрын
Zauber der leider längst vergangenen Opernkultur mit solch sensiblen Sängern und Dirigenten...Sehnsicht nach "damals"
@mihaelavasilescu11384 жыл бұрын
Elle est roumaine, c'est un de nos biens perdus perdant le communisme.
@Tkimba23 жыл бұрын
Lagnosa
@olivierkeegel8 жыл бұрын
Sonderklasse! One of a kind. Not at all "after Callas". Far, far better than Callas.
@beachfanatic20106 жыл бұрын
She had a very light instrument. Beautiful but the middle voice was not supported well.
@arnoldamaral74066 жыл бұрын
chosentenore she was past her prime when she did this. Cutrubus owned this role in the 70's. She was the greatest Traviata in the 70s very well known in Europe. She came to the Met 1977 always late a bring his great European artists has song and every Opera House in Europe the great Opera Houses. Covent Garden Paris Vienna she spoke seven languages excellent diction very underrated in America. My daughter and I bought her Traviata and vinyl the rest was history. My daughter would follow her and see what she was singing all the time finally caught her at the Met I believe it was 1979 doing La Boheme. It's a great time Great opera singers knew who she was and admired her for it that Dusky soprano beautiful top voice but that childlike quality so telling and true to the music. Check her out you will fall in love with her voice. The purest form lyric soprano voice I ever heard Etc.
@luceafarul5795 жыл бұрын
Arnold Amaral just in terms of lyrical soprano timbre Barbara Bonney will kick her out of the park any day of the week. I actually consider her to be highly overrated. But if she’s the first singer you’ll ever hear I can see how you would love her. She does have a pretty timbre in comparison to the typical darker operatic voice and her techniques, while not the best (breath control issues that she masks well), are very good.
@clarkepaul8373 жыл бұрын
YEAH.....SHE DOESN`T WOBBLE OR SHOUT LIKE THE GREAT MAJORITY OF TODAY`S OVERRATED "SOPRANOS".