I’ve followed and greatly admired this amazing artist since the beginning of her outstanding career. She has performed so many roles all over the world with enormous success. I own all her wonderful recordings and I only wish she had recorded more... And she is an intelligent and very down to earth woman. Thank you for posting this gem that I’d never heard before. Stunning rendition.
One of my favourite sections of this opera. Massis shapes the cantilena wonderfully. The embellishments in the second verse are unusual and she's the only soprano I've ever heard to add the penultimate top E. Covent Garden revived the opera in the early 80s (1984 I think) with Gruberova and Baltsa which was quite special with Muti conducting and that is when I first encountered it. I also enjoyed a later revival with Ricciarelli and Troyanos. A beautiful opera. Many thanks.
@@pianowil Interesting. Many thanks for the information. Scotto was superb in the bel canto roles in the 1960s and early 1970s until she started essaying the heavier roles. I think she was Giulietta in the famous but corrupt-version Scala revival of the opera in the 1960s with Pavarotti and Aragall as a tenor Romeo. Did Abbado permit a top E in that? I'm not so much of a fan of Claycomb - I found her voice in the theatre rather too light and colourless.
Hermoso
Una grandissima cantante!
Probably one of the best Giulietta ever. She had everything for the role. She was really at her peak in those years.
I’ve followed and greatly admired this amazing artist since the beginning of her outstanding career. She has performed so many roles all over the world with enormous success. I own all her wonderful recordings and I only wish she had recorded more... And she is an intelligent and very down to earth woman. Thank you for posting this gem that I’d never heard before. Stunning rendition.
One of my favourite sections of this opera. Massis shapes the cantilena wonderfully. The embellishments in the second verse are unusual and she's the only soprano I've ever heard to add the penultimate top E. Covent Garden revived the opera in the early 80s (1984 I think) with Gruberova and Baltsa which was quite special with Muti conducting and that is when I first encountered it. I also enjoyed a later revival with Ricciarelli and Troyanos. A beautiful opera. Many thanks.
Laura Claycomb and Renata Scotto ended with High E also FYI
@@pianowil Interesting. Many thanks for the information. Scotto was superb in the bel canto roles in the 1960s and early 1970s until she started essaying the heavier roles. I think she was Giulietta in the famous but corrupt-version Scala revival of the opera in the 1960s with Pavarotti and Aragall as a tenor Romeo. Did Abbado permit a top E in that? I'm not so much of a fan of Claycomb - I found her voice in the theatre rather too light and colourless.
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Devia also added a top E
That’s an E-flat at the end for Scotto, not an E natural. I assume it was sung in a lower key.