What a treasurable recording. Not just the sung extracts but also the narrative by Mr Tuggle. As for the singing (and indeed speaking) it is simply amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Claudia Muzio is my favorite singer. I have 1000+ opera and 10,000 opera/vocal LPs/CDs/78s and season opera tickets. That's how much I love her recordings.
Спасибо за память о великой артистке. Я думаю, что один из симптомов масштабной личности - умение бескорыстно восхищаться талантом других. Это так же очевидно для меня, как и то, что благодарность - одно из самых благородных чувств. Я благодарен Муцио за то, что эта поющая душа была с нами. Ее голос - звучащая поэзия...
Back in the days of 78's I acquired a Columbia album if Muzio. I don't remember why I did as I surely didn't know the voice. But once heard never forgotten. The voice is so idiosyncratic that I wonder if such a voice appeared today it could be embraced as it was in her's. When she recorded that last series (which she funded) it was obvious (though not to me at the time) that she was in poor health and her need to get a breath meant that she would have to break a line. No matter. I fell in love with the sound of Muzio and I can hear it in my head. Today's singers may be better trained but at the loss of a uniqueness of sound. Gatti was a fool to let her go but I would bet that where her repertoire matched Jeritza's Muzio would always be the choice to hear
The “evidence” I referred to below was from an off the air performance(s ?) from San Francisco in the early 1930’s. The sound quality is pretty abysmal but Muzio still comes across memorably. I especially cherish Tuggle’s first Muzio vocal example here, O DEL MIO AMATO BEN.
Robert Tuggle was also a great fan of Kirsten Flagstad and I am wondering if he recorded a tribute to her besides the documentary that he participated in...
in A.erica,al metropolitana per lei fu copiato l'appellativo divina e fu anche chiamata la Duse del bel canto,al Verano dove riposa Pietro Canonica sulla sua tomba scrisse semplicemente CASTA DIVA poiche" nessuna come lei fu diva assoluta inarrivabiĺe
Her AH! NO CREDEA MIRATI, although recorded when her health was in decline is matched only by Callas, in my opinion. The role in LA SONNAMBULA was not, I believe, one of her roles but this makes no difference as far as I am concerned.
She was a great friend of English soprano Dame Eva Turner. After Muzio's passing, the letters between the two were all destroyed. Dame Eva Turner had a female partner /companion for the rest of her life...so it wouldn't be a shock if these two great sopranos were family.
Dame Eva Turner, the great English dramatic soprano, had enormous admiration for the art of Claudia Muzio. They did meet for tea and to discuss London, where Muzio attended school as a small child. Muzio’s English was quite fluent and the two sopranos had much to discuss. They remained on very friendly terms but were not involved with each other romantically. I have read that Eva Turner’s life partner was a woman, but such was not the case with Muzio, whose life was complicated by affairs with men. Ottavio Scotto, a married impresario and lover caused most of Muzio’s financial woes. Tenors wooed her and in 1929 she was pursued by and married a lawyer 16 years her junior who stayed with her until her premature death from heart failure. There may have been confidential correspondence between the two great sopranos that was best destroyed but probably because of disclosures of a personal nature having nothing to do with romance. I knew Muzio’s secretary and also her best friend in Italy.
Everyone has their own favorites. I personally find Muzio a bland over exaggerated bore, as opposed to such like Rosa Ponselle, Kirsten Flagstad, etc. I don’t fault her efforts though, and feel sorry for her untimely death.
Really? Does this apply also to her recording on this broadcast from Cilea's L'Arlesiana? Personally I cannot imagine a more impassioned and heartfelt performance of this.
If you really find her such a bore, then I suggest you have absolutely no feel for the nuances and finesse of diminuendo and stretto. Listen to her reading of Boito's L'altra notte in fondo al mare, or of Recife's Umbra di Nube, and honestly ask yourself if you've ever heard anything more exciting and expressive. And that was at the end of her life, 1935. Not all opera is about the "big sound in the big town."
You really are clueless,muzio was one of the greatest soprano actresses ever,her beautiful voice with her attention to detail,and they way she lived and breathed life into her many roles,you have your opinion mostly hateful from your many posts on u tube,many here and nearly every critical review of her would strongly disagree with you.maybe we are all wrong and you are correct,I do however agree with you about ponselle
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The LOST ART of SINGING, superb CHIAROSCURO. The caress of the tone leads to interpretation as it should be..
What a treasurable recording. Not just the sung extracts but also the narrative by Mr Tuggle. As for the singing (and indeed speaking) it is simply amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Claudia Muzio is my favorite singer. I have 1000+ opera and 10,000 opera/vocal LPs/CDs/78s and season opera tickets. That's how much I love her recordings.
Спасибо за память о великой артистке. Я думаю, что один из симптомов масштабной личности - умение бескорыстно восхищаться талантом других. Это так же очевидно для меня, как и то, что благодарность - одно из самых благородных чувств. Я благодарен Муцио за то, что эта поющая душа была с нами. Ее голос - звучащая поэзия...
Очень близко мне то что вы написали, она моя любимая певица! Но как вы охарактеризовали её это потрясающе просто-Звучащая поэзия! ❤
Back in the days of 78's I acquired a Columbia album if Muzio. I don't remember why I did as I surely didn't know the voice. But once heard never forgotten. The voice is so idiosyncratic that I wonder if such a voice appeared today it could be embraced as it was in her's. When she recorded that last series (which she funded) it was obvious (though not to me at the time) that she was in poor health and her need to get a breath meant that she would have to break a line. No matter. I fell in love with the sound of Muzio and I can hear it in my head. Today's singers may be better trained but at the loss of a uniqueness of sound. Gatti was a fool to let her go but I would bet that where her repertoire matched Jeritza's Muzio would always be the choice to hear
What a beautiful voice! Thank you for posting...
Wonderful to hear Mr. Tuggle (and Muzio ). Look forward to more of these broadcasts! :)
The “evidence” I referred to below was from an off the air performance(s ?) from San Francisco in the early 1930’s. The sound quality is pretty abysmal but Muzio still comes across memorably. I especially cherish Tuggle’s first Muzio vocal example here, O DEL MIO AMATO BEN.
This is just to much, what a voice, so much feelings and warmth.
Has soon as this lady starts singing you realise she has a wonderful voice
Robert Tuggle was also a great fan of Kirsten Flagstad and I am wondering if he recorded a tribute to her besides the documentary that he participated in...
Was she the greatest TOSCA prior to Callas? Now there is some evidence in which to make a comparison.
But that B-flat is definitely flat and made me cringe.
Muzio, Callas, Caballé are unique and comparisons are out of place.
@@31deenero1 Absolutely agree
@@SuperArkleo GREAT YOU!!!
I absolutely adore Muzio, my favorite opera singer together w Callas.
Donaudy is LITTLE KNOWN? Hardly
in A.erica,al metropolitana per lei fu copiato l'appellativo divina e fu anche chiamata la Duse del bel canto,al Verano dove riposa Pietro Canonica sulla sua tomba scrisse semplicemente CASTA DIVA poiche" nessuna come lei fu diva assoluta inarrivabiĺe
Musicology, the best!
0:55, O del mio amato ben
2:55,
Her AH! NO CREDEA MIRATI, although recorded when her health was in decline is matched only by Callas, in my opinion. The role in LA SONNAMBULA was not, I believe, one of her roles but this makes no difference as far as I am concerned.
She was a great friend of English soprano Dame Eva Turner. After Muzio's passing, the letters between the two were all destroyed. Dame Eva Turner had a female partner /companion for the rest of her life...so it wouldn't be a shock if these two great sopranos were family.
That’s messed up.
Dame Eva Turner, the great English dramatic soprano, had enormous admiration for the art of Claudia Muzio. They did meet for tea and to discuss London, where Muzio attended school as a small child. Muzio’s English was quite fluent and the two sopranos had much to discuss. They remained on very friendly terms but were not involved with each other romantically. I have read that Eva Turner’s life partner was a woman, but such was not the case with Muzio, whose life was complicated by affairs with men. Ottavio Scotto, a married impresario and lover caused most of Muzio’s financial woes. Tenors wooed her and in 1929 she was pursued by and married a lawyer 16 years her junior who stayed with her until her premature death from heart failure. There may have been confidential correspondence between the two great sopranos that was best destroyed but probably because of disclosures of a personal nature having nothing to do with romance. I knew Muzio’s secretary and also her best friend in Italy.
@@dabiscaglia Muzio was also involved romantically with the same Son of a B..... that many years later destroyed Callas! Aristotle Onassis!
Everyone has their own favorites. I personally find Muzio a bland over exaggerated bore, as opposed to such like Rosa Ponselle, Kirsten Flagstad, etc. I don’t fault her efforts though, and feel sorry for her untimely death.
Really? Does this apply also to her recording on this broadcast from Cilea's L'Arlesiana? Personally I cannot imagine a more impassioned and heartfelt performance of this.
If you really find her such a bore, then I suggest you have absolutely no feel for the nuances and finesse of diminuendo and stretto. Listen to her reading of Boito's L'altra notte in fondo al mare, or of Recife's Umbra di Nube, and honestly ask yourself if you've ever heard anything more exciting and expressive. And that was at the end of her life, 1935. Not all opera is about the "big sound in the big town."
You really are clueless,muzio was one of the greatest soprano actresses ever,her beautiful voice with her attention to detail,and they way she lived and breathed life into her many roles,you have your opinion mostly hateful from your many posts on u tube,many here and nearly every critical review of her would strongly disagree with you.maybe we are all wrong and you are correct,I do however agree with you about ponselle