She sounds wonderful-I agree the scales are not to the conventional standard (perhaps how a lighter coloratura would do it) but honestly the role of Gilda is SUPER dramatic. This aria stands alone. The best Gildas have a very full voice. Another thing: Anna Netrebko sang it with HER voice...why should she try to sound like Callas, Sutherland, etc; ? She didn't sing any wrong notes...know what I mean? Anyway, I would love to hear the other parts of this role with Anna.
This is her Met Gilda, which was actually very good in all the duets and lyric parts (sometimes really astounding), but her Covent Garden Gilda from the same year was indeed marvelous in every aspects.
Les autres grandes sopranos ont chanté et interprété Gilda dans le passé mais dans le présent Lady Anna Netrebko est au-dessus de toutes, elle est belle, elle est sublime, elle a une voix unique cette grande Diva.
Yeah, but I can't see how the fact she's "just" a lyric soprano would diminish her talent. She's never as good in coloratura roles as she's in lyric ones, but I must say she's an intelligent singer in all her coloratura roles as far as the more lyrical parts are concerned. In the coloratura, she doesn't shine but is very successful if compared with other real lyric sopranos. Also remind she's quite "unstable": sometimes she has no trills and then she sings perfect trills in another night. :-)
Dall'applauso fatto dal pubblico quando l'aria deve ancora finire e in un momento inopportuno, si capisce che si tratta di un pubblico che nemmeno conosce quest'aria il che giustifica altresì il fatto che questa esecuzione venga applaudita. My opinion.
@piax00 You are so right - 30/40 years ago sopranos of this calibre would be considered also rans mostly engaged by minor houses or used as stand ins, how standards have been lowered!
Thanks dear Leo, I've been waiting to hear this for a while. And I already knew what to expect. Obviously her groupies will say she's an amazing Gilda. I don't even need to comment much here. If one isn't deaf it's easy to understand what a terrible choice to sing this was. And seriously, diction is perhaps the least worrying problem here.
Caro Nome es tremendamente difícil. Seguro que en esta época y con su extraordinaria carrera podría cantar esa aria mucho mejor. Pues algo me sonó que le faltó. Gracias.
I still prefer Diana Damrau's Caro Nome, but Anna Netrebko is an excellent soprano in her own right. This is a difficult aria, and she sings it beautifully.
I disagree with you on that Anna Netrebko has no school (I mean the vocal technique), she studied singing 10 years. One other thing - every voice has its defects, not all singers respect rules in vocal technique, at least not all rules - that's life etc.
I really like it heaps! Those who are stupid enough to spend time listening to something they dislike, thinking their judgement is superior, wanting to put down those whose tastes are different, stop writing rubbish and see a psychiatrist, if you need to. Do not like something? Stop wasting your and everybody else's time, and find something you can enjoy. Art is for appreciation and enjoyment. Would you buy paintings you dislike so you could spend the rest of your life grizzling about them?
@REBECCAtheSOPRANO I read on Wikipedia that Netrebko *did* sing the Queen of the Night early in her career. If that information is accurate: Mind-blowing.
yes yes! Joan Sutherland and Edita Gruberova are my favourite sopranos, but I think that Sutherland sings this better than Edita^^ my best are: 1.Joan Sutherland 2. Edita Gruberova 3. Maria Callas (btw, I also LOVE Diana Damrau ;-)
I think, as most have said, that her problem is her repertoire. Having a big voice is not a problem to sing Gilda; Big-voiced sopranos have sung it (Callas, Moser, Sutherland). The problems here is the agility. i think she should sing Tosca, Mimi, Manon Lescaut: lyric parts; there she would shine.
AulendilElessar Those are spinto parts, not lyric ones. Netrebkos voice is by nature a high lyric even a coloratura but without the necessary technique...
Anna Sings very good and is so beautifull but i think Ekatrina Siurina is better in this song and acording to me is Edita Gruberova the absolute top in this (part).
I love anna!! She sings my favorite "D'oreste D'ajace"..... but Caro Nome!!! No no no no no 100 times no, she's not a coloratura soprano, I didnt like this version I missed the coloratura parts... This one is not for Anna :(
Anna ist schön und singt mindestens so schön wie sie aussieht....trotzdem kann ihre Interpretation die göttliche Art von Eglise Gutierrez nicht erreichen. Hört euch das Video an, sie hat wirklich eine fantastische Stimme und kann mit ihr richtig zaubern!!!
@eradesso yes, she is a little "heavy and slow". it is beautifulm though not perfect. i love darker voices... but she should choose better her repertoire. it is just when Diana Damrau sang the queen of the night. i think she goes a bit slow on that too...
I don't think so - not in the coloratura parts. Tebaldi is better than Netrebko as Violetta, I agree (yet, because her Violetta has vastly improved since the famed 2005 performance, her 2008 performance in ROH was much more interesting). However, she could be average in "Sempre libera", but I heard Tebaldi sing some very insufficient coloratura in other performances. That is not to diminish her, she really had a great limitation in coloratura, but she's still the best lyric spinto ever for me.
Entiendo que el problema de la pobreza en la dicción y el tiempo es la calidad del sonido y no se relaciona propiamente con Anna Netrevko ya que Gilda es uno de los personajes de las óperas de Verdi más fáciles de interpretar.
I wasn't actually diminishing her at all that is why I wrote "just". There have been many awesome lyric sopranos. To me she's just an "average" singer atm because she does not use her voice for the right repertoire and she keeps miscascting herself. So she "could" be great. You say she's unstable, I would say "unschooled". It's not a matter of day off, it's a matter of technique. Same with her problematic High Es. She should stop attempting them high D is the highest safe top note of her range.
After reading all the comments below, the only serious question I have for myself is: would I jump her bones given the opportunity? In a demisemihemidemisemiquaver.
If you haven't listened to Eglise Gutierrez's version (listed on the right) I'd like to recommend you click on that and check it out! I'm sure you'll be as spellbound as I was - for me, it's the loveliest interpretation I've heard to date!!
While Anna's a tremendous talent, no doubt, Gilda isn't right for her. This aria requires more vocal agility than Anna brings here. I prefer Laura Claycomb's and Natalie Dessay's versions in this role.
@seetsebea1 yes netrebko is part of the new generation but not the best in this aria, the best in this aria is the peruvian soprano eglise gutierrez who is gaining a lot of respect for her unique voice and technique, check her out :D! alexXx
leoperarm what an exaggeration! I enjoy opera as a whole and looking at Netrebko is a pleasure and a believable piece of art. I wonder how one could have looked at Sutherland and enjoy?
@eradesso As much as I appreciate Netrebko's charisma and acting skills, she has, sadly, lowered the bar for opera soprano stardom as well as 'cultured-ness' and class for opera discussion and marketing among audiences. Surely this is not entirely her fault, the industry has been wanting this type of dumbing down to increase sales. I would like this Emperor (empress) without clothes era in opera to end. At least Beczala is coming up to end it for the tenor's side.
i think anna is the best soprano of all times,i also have a crush on her, i have compared her with at least twelve , and she is thest overall of all of them.
@seetsebea1 sauf que quand Maria Callas était moins,elle était encore la meilleure.maintanant il faut vivre avec son temps mais il est toujours possible de faire un choix.
yes the problem is that she's so bad in the coloratura parts of any role she sings from Lucia to Gilda to Violetta and Elvira and so on that it makes people forget (and makes her forget too!) that she's "JUST" a lyric soprano MAYBE with some agility but DEFINITELY not a coloratura. She would be great if she stuck to the lyric roles, I see with pleasure that her schedule for the future has shifted more towards that repertoire.
Non mi sembra un pezzo adatto a questo soprano, che peraltro apprezzo molto. Non ha la freschezza di una giovinetta innamorata per la prima volta. Tecnicamente non saprei esprimere quello che non va.
That is extremely disrespectful. She has put an enormous amount of work into training and sculpting her voice. Yes, she is very beautiful, but in opera that is not the point. It is not the beauty of the face and body, but the beauty of voice that counts.
harleyasv For your information I am an opera singer...she has the beauty for Gilda..but she does not do this aria well....she is a much better Norina or Manon . ....but with her beauty...much is forgiven
my point still stands. No, her voice is not ideal for this aria, but her beauty should not at all enter the equation, which it apparently does for you, evident in your saying "....but with her beauty...much is forgiven" Honestly the great thing about opera is exactly that what matters is not, in fact, what the body looks like, but what the body can do, which is producing a lovely singing voice. It's quite few of the arts which carries this quality still and I think we should defend this rarity. That's all.
Офиздипенно! Слов восхищения не подобрать.
Anna is such a beautiful woman. I love her so much. Greetings from Vienna Austria
She sounds wonderful-I agree the scales are not to the conventional standard (perhaps how a lighter coloratura would do it) but honestly the role of Gilda is SUPER dramatic. This aria stands alone. The best Gildas have a very full voice. Another thing: Anna Netrebko sang it with HER voice...why should she try to sound like Callas, Sutherland, etc; ? She didn't sing any wrong notes...know what I mean? Anyway, I would love to hear the other parts of this role with Anna.
I like it very much! :) She has such a beutiful voice....
She is very good.
Such a pure voice!
I've heard many records of Caro Nome. Anna sings it very well.
Siempre me gustó la música clásica, ahora me he dado cuenta de éstas voces extraordinarias. Gracias.
Lovely! ❤
Супер исполнение!
This is her Met Gilda, which was actually very good in all the duets and lyric parts (sometimes really astounding), but her Covent Garden Gilda from the same year was indeed marvelous in every aspects.
She is simply fantastic
Yes, I do like her voice... thank you ...
Echt prachtig ❤❤❤❤❤
Les autres grandes sopranos ont chanté et interprété Gilda dans le passé mais dans le présent Lady Anna Netrebko est au-dessus de toutes, elle est belle, elle est sublime, elle a une voix unique cette grande Diva.
Very beautiful!
Yeah, but I can't see how the fact she's "just" a lyric soprano would diminish her talent. She's never as good in coloratura roles as she's in lyric ones, but I must say she's an intelligent singer in all her coloratura roles as far as the more lyrical parts are concerned. In the coloratura, she doesn't shine but is very successful if compared with other real lyric sopranos. Also remind she's quite "unstable": sometimes she has no trills and then she sings perfect trills in another night. :-)
One of the best soprano at all! Fantastic! I love her voice.
splendida come sempre
Sounds absolutely divine to me!
Fantastik! Bravo Anna! ! Du bist am beste !!!
Dall'applauso fatto dal pubblico quando l'aria deve ancora finire e in un momento inopportuno, si capisce che si tratta di un pubblico che nemmeno conosce quest'aria il che giustifica altresì il fatto che questa esecuzione venga applaudita. My opinion.
Young Olga Peretyatko with great Leo Nucci is another, recent, beautiful Gilda. Truly beautiful (and perfect) voice, IMHO....
@piax00 You are so right - 30/40 years ago sopranos of this calibre would be considered also rans mostly engaged by minor houses or used as stand ins, how standards have been lowered!
oh gott, anna : weinen ist so leicht, wenn man dich hört. danke, dass es dich gibt.
Love, love LOVE
Verdi, Rigoletto, é bom demais.
Thanks dear Leo, I've been waiting to hear this for a while. And I already knew what to expect.
Obviously her groupies will say she's an amazing Gilda.
I don't even need to comment much here. If one isn't deaf it's easy to understand what a terrible choice to sing this was.
And seriously, diction is perhaps the least worrying problem here.
Caro Nome es tremendamente difícil. Seguro que en esta época y con su extraordinaria carrera podría cantar esa aria mucho mejor. Pues algo me sonó que le faltó. Gracias.
I still prefer Diana Damrau's Caro Nome, but Anna Netrebko is an excellent soprano in her own right. This is a difficult aria, and she sings it beautifully.
I disagree with you on that Anna Netrebko has no school (I mean the vocal technique), she studied singing 10 years. One other thing - every voice has its defects, not all singers respect rules in vocal technique, at least not all rules - that's life etc.
I really like it heaps!
Those who are stupid enough to spend time listening
to something they dislike, thinking their judgement is superior,
wanting to put down those whose tastes are different,
stop writing rubbish and see a psychiatrist, if you need to.
Do not like something? Stop wasting your and everybody else's time,
and find something you can enjoy. Art is for appreciation and enjoyment.
Would you buy paintings you dislike
so you could spend the rest of your life grizzling about them?
I think netrebko is glorious and I really hate comments like she's nothing like Callas because that's just rude.
musical monument
No--wrong voice type period. She pulls it off but that's all--flat notes in there all over the place.
@REBECCAtheSOPRANO I read on Wikipedia that Netrebko *did* sing the Queen of the Night early in her career. If that information is accurate: Mind-blowing.
yes yes! Joan Sutherland and Edita Gruberova are my favourite sopranos, but I think that Sutherland sings this better than Edita^^
my best are:
1.Joan Sutherland
2. Edita Gruberova
3. Maria Callas
(btw, I also LOVE Diana Damrau ;-)
her biggest success is to have lowered the standard of singing at the MET.
This was provincial!
You overestimate the western standard, which is typical.
I think, as most have said, that her problem is her repertoire. Having a big voice is not a problem to sing Gilda; Big-voiced sopranos have sung it (Callas, Moser, Sutherland). The problems here is the agility. i think she should sing Tosca, Mimi, Manon Lescaut: lyric parts; there she would shine.
AulendilElessar Those are spinto parts, not lyric ones.
Netrebkos voice is by nature a high lyric even a coloratura but without the necessary technique...
anna netrebko is a beautiful woman and marvelous singer
Anna Sings very good and is so beautifull but i think Ekatrina Siurina is better in this song and acording to me is Edita Gruberova the absolute top in this (part).
extraordinaria interpretación
Bravissima!
Those are the original low notes. Most sopranos take the higher variation.
spiceofmadrid I agree,all dem beautiful voices
@eradesso You are so right I am sad to say! This effort is lacking in so many ways it is more of an interpretation than the aria Caro Nome.
Я обожаю Нетребко, и как женщину, и как певицу, её талант огромен... но Джильда не для неё...
Нет легкости
Exactamente
I love anna!! She sings my favorite "D'oreste D'ajace"..... but Caro Nome!!! No no no no no 100 times no, she's not a coloratura soprano, I didnt like this version I missed the coloratura parts... This one is not for Anna :(
Anna ist schön und singt mindestens so schön wie sie aussieht....trotzdem kann ihre Interpretation die göttliche Art von Eglise Gutierrez nicht erreichen. Hört euch das Video an, sie hat wirklich eine fantastische Stimme und kann mit ihr richtig zaubern!!!
Sorry, but we are talking here about Gilda (Rigoletto) not Violeta (Traviata) is a big difference.
@eradesso yes, she is a little "heavy and slow". it is beautifulm though not perfect. i love darker voices... but she should choose better her repertoire. it is just when Diana Damrau sang the queen of the night. i think she goes a bit slow on that too...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like a microphone is hidden somewhere close to her or in her dress.
I don't think so - not in the coloratura parts. Tebaldi is better than Netrebko as Violetta, I agree (yet, because her Violetta has vastly improved since the famed 2005 performance, her 2008 performance in ROH was much more interesting). However, she could be average in "Sempre libera", but I heard Tebaldi sing some very insufficient coloratura in other performances. That is not to diminish her, she really had a great limitation in coloratura, but she's still the best lyric spinto ever for me.
she sounds a little too forceful at the beginning, but on the other hand, she adds those expressive sighs in the pauses. interesting interpretation
Nun se pò senti'!
Very indifferent singing; she does not sound young, nor in love-but it sounds like a cold reading in a practice room. She needs to practice.
I’m afraid no practice would be useful.
@jeannemeumier je viens de réentendre Maria Callas et ce n'est que du bonheur,c'est une leçon de chant
Totalmente de acuerdo
LOL
none of them has access to the video^^ just take a look at the ratings XD
Non capisco, perché perdere il tempo a intestardirsi su ruoli che non le appartengono e basta?
MARAVILLOSA
Entiendo que el problema de la pobreza en la dicción y el tiempo es la calidad del sonido y no se relaciona propiamente con Anna Netrevko ya que Gilda es uno de los personajes de las óperas de Verdi más fáciles de interpretar.
I like it.
Not very competent. Just enjoy. Good enough for me.
Thank u Anna.
I wasn't actually diminishing her at all that is why I wrote "just". There have been many awesome lyric sopranos. To me she's just an "average" singer atm because she does not use her voice for the right repertoire and she keeps miscascting herself. So she "could" be great.
You say she's unstable, I would say "unschooled". It's not a matter of day off, it's a matter of technique. Same with her problematic High Es. She should stop attempting them high D is the highest safe top note of her range.
To jest aria koloraturowa, a Netrebko nie ma sopranu koloraturowego.
Netrebko is usually better in duets where she adds much. But then again - this isn't bad.
After reading all the comments below, the only serious question I have for myself is: would I jump her bones given the opportunity? In a demisemihemidemisemiquaver.
Yeah... that scene has made a common woman become 'LA DIVINA' LOL!
Diana Damrau Is better vocally for Gilda...If we could combine her with Ana...we would have perfection!!!!
If you haven't listened to Eglise Gutierrez's version (listed on the right) I'd like to recommend you click on that and check it out! I'm sure you'll be as spellbound as I was - for me, it's the loveliest interpretation I've heard to date!!
She actually sounds very good here. This is kind of magnificent to me and I am not a fan of Anna's
While Anna's a tremendous talent, no doubt, Gilda isn't right for her. This aria requires more vocal agility than Anna brings here. I prefer Laura Claycomb's and Natalie Dessay's versions in this role.
@seetsebea1 yes netrebko is part of the new generation but not the best in this aria, the best in this aria is the peruvian soprano eglise gutierrez who is gaining a lot of respect for her unique voice and technique, check her out :D!
alexXx
Definitely not the best title of the video
Edita is the best sorprano.. However, Anna is charming and attractive on the stage...
Time for me to listen to Joan Sutherland.^^
you right only La Stupenda
leoperarm what an exaggeration! I enjoy opera as a whole and looking at Netrebko is a pleasure and a believable piece of art. I wonder how one could have looked at Sutherland and enjoy?
@eradesso As much as I appreciate Netrebko's charisma and acting skills, she has, sadly, lowered the bar for opera soprano stardom as well as 'cultured-ness' and class for opera discussion and marketing among audiences. Surely this is not entirely her fault, the industry has been wanting this type of dumbing down to increase sales. I would like this Emperor (empress) without clothes era in opera to end. At least Beczala is coming up to end it for the tenor's side.
lmao everybody hates Trebko...but I understand. Why is the diction so poopy?
@martindogo They all have beautiful voices.
Beautiful voice...but OMG is she capable of singing anything faster than a quarter note in pitch??!
Зачем быстрее?
Джильда стоит на балконе и мечтает…
нє-нє-нє...
bonne nuit les petits,c'est tout
Why??
i think anna is the best soprano of all times,i also have a crush on her, i have compared her with at least twelve , and she is thest overall of all of them.
Putin’s nightingale strikes again
So, when do we get Netrebko's Queen of the Night? ;)
@seetsebea1 sauf que quand Maria Callas était moins,elle était encore la meilleure.maintanant il faut vivre avec son temps mais il est toujours possible de faire un choix.
Afinación??? (3:02, 3:19, 5:38, 6:34)
Para mi , ninguna
+Toñi Gómez
:D :D :D
yes the problem is that she's so bad in the coloratura parts of any role she sings from Lucia to Gilda to Violetta and Elvira and so on that it makes people forget (and makes her forget too!) that she's "JUST" a lyric soprano MAYBE with some agility but DEFINITELY not a coloratura.
She would be great if she stuck to the lyric roles, I see with pleasure that her schedule for the future has shifted more towards that repertoire.
Non mi sembra un pezzo adatto a questo soprano, che peraltro apprezzo molto. Non ha la freschezza di una giovinetta innamorata per la prima volta. Tecnicamente non saprei esprimere quello che non va.
Elmondhatatlanul gyönyörű. (prekrasznij)
Фантастика!
omg she was flat! at 5:11
Crummy sound quality on this recording, but her lovely voice still comes thru.
Las mejores para mi:
1-Sumy jo
2-Anna moffo
3-Johan suterland
4-Edita gruberova
5-Maria callas
Voice????What Voice...LOOK AT HER!!!! who cares what she sounds like!!!!
That is extremely disrespectful. She has put an enormous amount of work into training and sculpting her voice. Yes, she is very beautiful, but in opera that is not the point. It is not the beauty of the face and body, but the beauty of voice that counts.
harleyasv For your information I am an opera singer...she has the beauty for Gilda..but she does not do this aria well....she is a much better Norina or Manon . ....but with her beauty...much is forgiven
my point still stands. No, her voice is not ideal for this aria, but her beauty should not at all enter the equation, which it apparently does for you, evident in your saying "....but with her beauty...much is forgiven"
Honestly the great thing about opera is exactly that what matters is not, in fact, what the body looks like, but what the body can do, which is producing a lovely singing voice. It's quite few of the arts which carries this quality still and I think we should defend this rarity. That's all.
or MOffo, Gruberova, Guiterrez, Dessay, Sumi Jo, Cotrubas etc.......
Джильда - это Груберова прежде всего. А остальные - по списку после Сазерленд, несмотря, что она внешне не выигрывает на Джильду.
and last but not least Montserrat
Disproportionate vibrato and shortness of breath and to much breath/sigh in the sound.
Carla maffioletti is Best version
Есть все. Есть много чего. Это красота поет. Но не Джильда.