My God. My heart is pounding! This is the oxygen and blood of opera, of drama! It’s really daunting how difficult these operas are for the principal singers. But Radanovsky easily cements herself as a living legend! She has complete control of her instrument and this is the kind of compelling singing that I live for!!! Brava!!!
This is Perfection! Perfection in everything: technique, acting, creating a REAL character! This is ART! The staging and costumes are great, wonderful! This is opera! Thank you so much for sharing!
I can't listen to this without getting teary eyed. What power in that voice. And her acting and physicality is magnetic. To sing with that posture and movement is astounding
What a complete privilege it actually was to sit in the theatre with everyone else and watch her soar through those three queens. I miss going to the opera a lot.
I feel like I am watching this like almost every day. Never get sick of this.. can watch this all day long... why the don't release the DVDs ! Please TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!
@@jdanielkos Thank you Daniel 🙏🙇♀️ I saw it last week? week before? When Met did the free straming service this performance ❤ It was heavenly!!! Now Sondra opened her youtube channel called "Screaming Divas" Check those out 😍🥰😍🥰 Thanks again for the info, sir!!!
Sill's only telecast with the MET isn't even out on DVD. I would definitely buy the Trilogy if it was released. But she didn't do all 3 on the telecasts. Netrebko and DiDonato are the other two queens. Yet those two are out on dvd but this one isn't go figure! And the MET will continue to bombard us with calls for donations when they have a treasure trove of archives they could release.
Were there other HD recordings of Bolena and Stuarda? The HD's were Netrebko and DiDonato - I'm not sure they did a video recording of those with Sondra. (But I wish they had!)
A new GODDESS has been born to me!!!.....I'm a humble opera lover from Wigan, Lancashire, UK....whose access to this great art is severley limited, hence me only hearing Sondra in this sublime role for her from last week......I've listened to nothing else since!!!.....BELIEVE ME!!!! ( yes of course I would have given half my time on earth, to have heard Callas...had she ever sung it,...in her prime...or any other time...sing this!!) BUT Sondra's MAGNIFICENT performance.......almost compensates...........BRAVA MY NEW DIVINA!!!!.....xx
Spectacular! The most thrilling soprano of today. And the one of the very few that can fill the Met opera. And her pianissimi are also exquisite. I love her!
Sitting at the 32nd row I heard every sound of her ppp and wondered if the chandeliers will chatter and crumble on the poor orchestra's heads when she ventures as much as a mF.
I have heard Radvanovsky only once in person, in recital. Her voice is without a doubt the biggest I have heard in a lifetime of concert-going. Her sound is enormous, and her emotional risk and honesty as a performer is breathtaking. I wasn't in the house for this performance, but I saw it in the Live in HD broadcast. It's almost impossible to convey how thrilling the whole production was. Radvanovsky's voice reaches into your chest (and then she breaks your heart with those pianissimi). The whole cast was remarkable: Polenzani, Garanča, Kwiecien, above all Radvanovsky -- it was like watching them juggle lightning. By the climax of this scene, there were people in the audience openly weeping.
I’ve had the great fortune to see Radvanovsky at the Met in the following operas - Trovatore, Ballo, Aida (so far her one performance of Aida at the Met), all three Donizetti queens (Anna Bolena three times), Tosca, and Norma (four times). She has never been less than utterly spectacular, and audiences go berserk for her in a way that I’ve only seen on videos from the Golden Age.
Sondra Radvanovsky is a force of NATURE; She is pretty well the most brilliant VERDI singer around in 2020 and as of the last 8 years or so she has moved into THE BEL CANTO repertoire creating a sensation not seen since LA STUPENDA, DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND. BRAVA MADAMA RADVANOVSKY.
Any doubt that Donizetti's genius was indispensable to propelling Verdi in the direction he went is dispelled in this sovereign reading from Mme. Radvanovsky. At the height of his genius, Donizetti, in these final moments of Roberto Devereux, showed future generations how to reveal painfully honest feelings in music, a courage that lit up operatic inspiration throughout Italy and beyond. But it takes an artist who can combine the deeply human with the ultimate in grandeur to reveal the true measure of what Donizetti wrought. Mme. Radvanovsky, with a vocal capacity as supple and elastic in the tender moments as it is ample in those that strike terror, is just that kind of artist. We can be grateful that Donizetti comes into his own in this unique video. The world can finally understand how much the world of opera owes to this composer with the unveiling of this document. How frustrating that the world has not yet been given this entire performance as seen one fleeting afternoon on HD. Lest there be any doubt about the role this supreme work played in Verdi's professional career, rehearsals for his first opera, Oberto, had to be worked around rehearsals for Roberto Devereux. The younger master must have been steeped in this work as a result.
Great post. Verdi lifted entire passages from Donizetti and reworked them into his own operas. So many examples. Listen to the orchestral introduction to Roberto’s prison aria and you’ll hear Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene.
No words! Just amazing! What a great artist. Very few today other than Sondra and Devia can sing this! What a great staging and what a great and humble artist!
@@andresmendieta8111 Probably no one has sung the role as many times as Gruberova. Sills is the definitive for me but Gruberova is a close second. Radvanosky owns the role now that Gruberova has retired.
@@thosmoody ...although this may come as heresy...I was always afraid when I heard Sills sing this that she wasn't going to make it to the end...and I am a HUGE Sills fan. Radvonosky sounds she is just getting warmed up and could keep going.
Her thick notes and excellent coloratura make her perfect for dramatic bel canto. She’s like a modern day Leyla Gencer or Maria Callas. She runs free in all registers and can deliver those high notes with huge effect.
I have no words to describe how much I like this performance in this role of Sondra Rodvanovsky .. a very young woman manages to look like a 90 year old woman .. and these pianissimi! such a study! such acting such TALENT !! just thank you!
Meravigliosa sondra in un'aria difficilissima dal punto di vista interpretativo, per non parlare dell'ardua tessitura e dell'ampiezza di colori che ci vogliono. Sondra superlativa e vocalmente e scenicamente🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️
Sondra Radvanovsky as in all her roles sensational. I don't understand why we cannot get more of her, either on CD ROM or DVD or simply ate the Operas in Europe, Radvanovsky is the best Interpret of Verdi since Callas, and often better the the latter. I had the privilege to have heard both of them in my life
@@pugh.joseph i did not see Fleming, unfortunately. But i was basically weeped on new Traviata performance with Damrau . That was performance from Salzburg opera festival - full of allegory - with Traviata in shorter red dress. Then Met changed it to old fashioned performance. That Salzburg performance was my favorite Traviata performance.
Oh heavens, I am left in tears at the sheer beauty of Diva Radvanovsky’s voice and her artistry of presentation. How I would love to see her sing in person but traveling is not easy for me. I must purchase the CD of this if there is one.
ediblemarie Yes she is . I was at the Lyric Opera Of Chicago this Sunday Dec 1 2019 Attending The Three Queens “ Donizetti “ Sondra Radvanovsky delivered those very demanding and complex roles exceptionally. It was unmatched performance by all those high level of musicians. The best I have ever seen or heard . I was in awe and at the edge of my seat . Phenomenal 👌🏻💫⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Some people say that they were lucky to see Tebaldi or Callas or Milanov live...I am one of the people who considers himself lucky to have seen Radvanovsky live.
oh yeah, she is the new Callas - not an imitation but a thoroughly modern Callas. I am sure later generations will compare their diva to SR as we do to Callas
What an incredible and touching performing is this "fineal scene" ...Firstly for such a great actrees se is and with a perfct control of the emission as for the voice colours....really impressive !!
I love that her voice goes out into the House whether she is singing forte or piano.You notice it even on broadcasts. I was there for this production, unfortunately the one night Polenzani didn’t sing.
Sicuramente un Soprano dalla bella voce. Una artista lirica completa. Lei certamente non ha bisogno né di guru né di raccomandazioni varie per cantare ad alto livello. È bravissima ed è una donna davvero fantastica e intelligente.
I can't stop watching/listening to this... completely gorgeous music (utterly addictive melodic progression and orchestration), thrilling and beautiful singing, and a stunning design. And the English CCs are terrific! x
oh my god, addicting, that's a very perfect word for it. i find myself humming the tune very often. there's something so heartbreaking in those progressions.
This so fantastic, what an amazing singing actress. Singing like THAT and having to restrict your body at the same time. Unbelievable. Is more of this available to see? I love the applause at the end, she so deserves it and seems moved by it. Update: watching on Met On demand. Absolutely amazing!
Sondra Radvanovksy is easily one of the best dramatic sopranos alive today and she was superb when she sang Elizabeth 1 in our little suburban opera house here in San Francisco
Radvanosky is a truly great singer/actress whose voice, like both Callas and Nilsson, sounds harsher when recorded than in person. These large voices seem to fall into two types in terms of the recorded vs live [not recording live but actually heard in the theatre live experience]. There are the large, "soft" edged voices [Sutherland, Flagstad, Norman, Ponselle] whose voices recorded very smoothly and only lose the ultimate sense of size that hearing them in the theatre allows [e.g., Sutherland, who I heard in 12 theatrical roles in large theatres, had a voice so large that no recording really tells you how it filled a theatre]. Then there are the large "hard" edged voices [Callas, Radvanosky, Cerquetti, Nilsson, Varnay] whose voices tend to sound somewhat metallic and thinner, not smaller, in their recordings than they did in the theatre. Nilsson actually often talked about this, saying that she never felt that her voice was recorded completely accurately. I heard her in 11 of her great roles, again in large theatres, and that hard edge in the theatrical acoustic carried the voice fully throughout the theatre but was much more rounded by the acoustic than any of her recordings. I also saw Zoe Caldwell on Broadway in "Master Class" where recordings of Callas were used as part of the play. I have every available recording of Callas but hearing some of them in an acoustically well designed theatre did the same rounding of the hard edge that I heard when I heard Nilsson live. We can never actually hear most singers fully unless we hear them live.
Very true. She is very good here, though some of the faster passages show her technical deficits. Whenever I hear her in this repertoire, or earlier Verdi, such as Il trovatore, I always feel she's more a verismo soprano who's dabbling in bel canto. Her florid technique never seems compleat in the same way as Callas, or Sutherland, or Sills, or Lisette Oropesa among today's singers. She "manages" the notes more or less, but in the faster fioriture, I don't hear the sovereign ease and technique of her illustrious predecessors. That being said, she's quite good in his finale, and I love how she goes to the high notes without any visible effort.
I am suire even from this recording that she was incredible when heard in the theater. My comments hav to do with the problem of capturing that sound in recordings not a criticism of her performance.@Bravo Luca
Yes. I have always marveled at how wonderful Radvanovsky sounded live in the theater. I have seen her several times including the three queens, Norma and Ballo
Sondra es la heredera del magnetismo de Callas y Tebaldi en una sola vos. Magnifica, perfecta, inolvidable e imponente!!!! Que mas????? Gracias amigos.
Her "Quel sangue versato" is an amazing tour de force, maybe one of the best sung vocal performances heard (and recorded) in the last decades. Incredible breath control, very even and homogeneous singing, tasteful expressiveness, perfect control of dynamics, powerful forte notes, seamless legato throughout the entire range... I always admire Radvanovsky's singing, but sometimes I feel something is lacking. Not here, though. This "Quel sangue versato" is a Bel Canto lesson for all the ages.
Well, she does lack the coloratura needed to tackle the passages Donizetti composed and which are being omitted here. Also, her legato is far from acceptable, especially for roles definitive of belcanto on its purest form such as Elisabetta. She does give the aria, her best shot but she’s not a belcanto signer and she never will be one. And please, let’s not exaggerate; if you want to know what this role is really about you should listen to Gruberova.
What a cast and what a performance!...just probably one of the greatest versions of Roberto Devereux seen in recent times! The final aria and final note from the Queen is stunning...well done Sondra...wonderful stuff. Bel canto at its very best.
It is nice to hear someone who actually SINGS these roles as opposed to some of the howling and screaming we are treated to by some of the socalled "bel canto experts" today. But there isn't much in terms of vocal characterisation, just nice singing and stage acting. This isn't Radvanosky's fault - it's just the way we do opera nowadays, where the stage director is omnipotent, often has very little knowledge and/or understand of music and singing, and ALWAYS puts his own ideas above the score.
Sinceramente creo que es el rol e interpretación de su vida, que calidad vocal, que control de la respiración, que forma de actuar e interpretar y que manera de llevar las emociones a la voz. BRAVA BRAVA BRAVISIMA
This final scene was so riveting when I saw her perform the opera in Toronto, that the gloves I was holding were actually torn in anguish! Radvanovsky is brilliant!
I think this must be her greatest role. It shows her virtues (full, warm sound, great high register) to great advantage without exposing her shortcomings (sketchy coloratura, inability to trill). I first encountered this role with Sills' recording, which I loved, but over the years, I've began to want bigger, fuller voices that didn't need to be pushed and stretched into this role. Radvanovsky really shines here. Her Devereaux far outclasses her Norma or Bolena.
Époustouflante, je l'ai vu au ciné-opéra en Avignon. Une grande voix, une belle carrière. le style et l'expression belcantiste. et le high D conclusif (non écrit).
Will be seeing her next week in Forza so just watched it yet again. Every time it is riveting. I cannot imagine a better combination of singing and acting. First saw it during Covid when the Met provided wonderful free streaming of operas. We watched the trilogy finishing with Devereux. It got better and better and with this finale went stratospheric.
Momentos sublimes tenemos en la vida cuando nos encontramos estas divas maravillosas que además de cantar, actúan brindandonos momentos maravillosos gracias Sondra
I was at the Met that night. She absolutely brought the house down. It was spine tingling.
My God. My heart is pounding! This is the oxygen and blood of opera, of drama! It’s really daunting how difficult these operas are for the principal singers. But Radanovsky easily cements herself as a living legend! She has complete control of her instrument and this is the kind of compelling singing that I live for!!! Brava!!!
This is Perfection! Perfection in everything: technique, acting, creating a REAL character! This is ART! The staging and costumes are great, wonderful! This is opera! Thank you so much for sharing!
I can't listen to this without getting teary eyed. What power in that voice.
And her acting and physicality is magnetic. To sing with that posture and movement is astounding
Itotally agree, it's stunning
è stupenda
Bezbroj puta ovo slušam ,I vječito sam nadahnuta tom od svih najboljom opernom pjevačicom
What a complete privilege it actually was to sit in the theatre with everyone else and watch her soar through those three queens. I miss going to the opera a lot.
I feel like I am watching this like almost every day. Never get sick of this.. can watch this all day long... why the don't release the DVDs ! Please TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!
I would pay whatever price they asked if they would release a DVD set of her Three Queens!
I am with u!!!! ❤🔥❤🔥
@@maryannward Mee too!!!
I mean the whole opera
@@jdanielkos Thank you Daniel 🙏🙇♀️ I saw it last week? week before? When Met did the free straming service this performance ❤ It was heavenly!!! Now Sondra opened her youtube channel called "Screaming Divas" Check those out 😍🥰😍🥰 Thanks again for the info, sir!!!
It's practically criminal the Met hasn't released her Tudors Trilogy on DVD.
Lots of things the Met doesn't release.....but SHOULD!!!!!
Yes this should go out on DVD!
Sill's only telecast with the MET isn't even out on DVD. I would definitely buy the Trilogy if it was released. But she didn't do all 3 on the telecasts. Netrebko and DiDonato are the other two queens. Yet those two are out on dvd but this one isn't go figure! And the MET will continue to bombard us with calls for donations when they have a treasure trove of archives they could release.
@@jjmboston5832 this was on the nightly stream 2 days ago
Were there other HD recordings of Bolena and Stuarda? The HD's were Netrebko and DiDonato - I'm not sure they did a video recording of those with Sondra. (But I wish they had!)
A new GODDESS has been born to me!!!.....I'm a humble opera lover from Wigan, Lancashire, UK....whose access to this great art is severley limited, hence me only hearing Sondra in this sublime role for her from last week......I've listened to nothing else since!!!.....BELIEVE ME!!!! ( yes of course I would have given half my time on earth, to have heard Callas...had she ever sung it,...in her prime...or any other time...sing this!!) BUT Sondra's MAGNIFICENT performance.......almost compensates...........BRAVA MY NEW DIVINA!!!!.....xx
SAAAAAME!! Every few years I discover new ones I’m obsessed with. I was on a Christine Goerke kick, now it’s Sondra! Check out her Casta Diva too!
Spectacular! The most thrilling soprano of today. And the one of the very few that can fill the Met opera. And her pianissimi are also exquisite. I love her!
Sitting at the 32nd row I heard every sound of her ppp and wondered if the chandeliers will chatter and crumble on the poor orchestra's heads when she ventures as much as a mF.
I have heard Radvanovsky only once in person, in recital. Her voice is without a doubt the biggest I have heard in a lifetime of concert-going. Her sound is enormous, and her emotional risk and honesty as a performer is breathtaking.
I wasn't in the house for this performance, but I saw it in the Live in HD broadcast. It's almost impossible to convey how thrilling the whole production was. Radvanovsky's voice reaches into your chest (and then she breaks your heart with those pianissimi). The whole cast was remarkable: Polenzani, Garanča, Kwiecien, above all Radvanovsky -- it was like watching them juggle lightning. By the climax of this scene, there were people in the audience openly weeping.
You must be rather young. Sondras voice is sizable but it is by no means enormous lol.
I’ve had the great fortune to see Radvanovsky at the Met in the following operas - Trovatore, Ballo, Aida (so far her one performance of Aida at the Met), all three Donizetti queens (Anna Bolena three times), Tosca, and Norma (four times). She has never been less than utterly spectacular, and audiences go berserk for her in a way that I’ve only seen on videos from the Golden Age.
Clearly, as you say, a voice from the Golden Age. Quite remarkable.
Well judging from this no wonder they do.
This is phenomenal.
Dramatic operatic expression, through body, soul, spirit and voice as one.
Hear, hear!
Wow, you've seen her about 13 times, that's amazing!
You are right - we saw her in Tosca at the MET…which I will always remember as absolute spectacular.
This must be one of the greatest performances ever
absolutely. i had a glass of wine the first time i watched this and ended up in tears with my heart racing by the end.
Wasn't able to attend her MET performance but did go to the one in SF. YES! ABSOLUTELY! One of the best opera experience I have had.
Without doubt
I saw this video 10 a 15 times ....so fantastic ...Sondra is amazing ...what a great singer and a good actress too.
feel ya
I am watching this regularly I am with u hahaha
C'est vraiment très beau. Timbre original, çà change ; voix puissante, aigu facile, contrôle absolu. Le bonheur.
Sondra Radvanovsky is a force of NATURE; She is pretty well the most brilliant VERDI singer around in 2020 and as of the last 8 years or so she has moved into THE BEL CANTO repertoire creating a sensation not seen since LA STUPENDA, DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND. BRAVA MADAMA RADVANOVSKY.
Any doubt that Donizetti's genius was indispensable to propelling Verdi in the direction he went is dispelled in this sovereign reading from Mme. Radvanovsky. At the height of his genius, Donizetti, in these final moments of Roberto Devereux, showed future generations how to reveal painfully honest feelings in music, a courage that lit up operatic inspiration throughout Italy and beyond. But it takes an artist who can combine the deeply human with the ultimate in grandeur to reveal the true measure of what Donizetti wrought. Mme. Radvanovsky, with a vocal capacity as supple and elastic in the tender moments as it is ample in those that strike terror, is just that kind of artist.
We can be grateful that Donizetti comes into his own in this unique video. The world can finally understand how much the world of opera owes to this composer with the unveiling of this document. How frustrating that the world has not yet been given this entire performance as seen one fleeting afternoon on HD.
Lest there be any doubt about the role this supreme work played in Verdi's professional career, rehearsals for his first opera, Oberto, had to be worked around rehearsals for Roberto Devereux. The younger master must have been steeped in this work as a result.
Great post. Verdi lifted entire passages from Donizetti and reworked them into his own operas. So many examples. Listen to the orchestral introduction to Roberto’s prison aria and you’ll hear Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene.
No words! Just amazing! What a great artist. Very few today other than Sondra and Devia can sing this! What a great staging and what a great and humble artist!
Few sopranos can pull off the Devereux finale. It's one of the most demanding scenes in opera. Radvanosky delivers flawlessly!
Edita Gruberová is one of them
@@andresmendieta8111 Probably no one has sung the role as many times as Gruberova.
Sills is the definitive for me but Gruberova is a close second. Radvanosky owns the role now that Gruberova has retired.
@@thosmoody what about Sills
@@thosmoody ...although this may come as heresy...I was always afraid when I heard Sills sing this that she wasn't going to make it to the end...and I am a HUGE Sills fan. Radvonosky sounds she is just getting warmed up and could keep going.
Her thick notes and excellent coloratura make her perfect for dramatic bel canto. She’s like a modern day Leyla Gencer or Maria Callas. She runs free in all registers and can deliver those high notes with huge effect.
I have no words to describe how much I like this performance in this role of Sondra Rodvanovsky .. a very young woman manages to look like a 90 year old woman .. and these pianissimi! such a study! such acting such TALENT !! just thank you!
She's not that young, sweetie!!!!!
Without a doubt, one of the greatest performances ever!
Oh, my GOD!!! Sondra is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!!!! Braaaaaaavaaaaaaa!!!! But, this set and costumes are very wonderful! Congratulation all!!
I love the fact that Sandra just opens here throat and just lets it rip.
that's exactly what I love about her singing, it's so open and free and so resonant
Reminds me of Sutherland. She did the same thing.
Meravigliosa sondra in un'aria difficilissima dal punto di vista interpretativo, per non parlare dell'ardua tessitura e dell'ampiezza di colori che ci vogliono. Sondra superlativa e vocalmente e scenicamente🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️
I keep rewatching this as one of the sot riveting oper a scenes Ive ever seen.
Please, please Met, release the trilogy on DVD - Id buy it instantly
Great interpretation! Great Voice. Fantastica Sondra!!!!
Her Roberto Devereux is an iconic achievement.
Edit: Her Roberto and her Medea are both iconic achievements. Brava Sondra.
Absolutely! Saw her in the San Francisco Opera in this role and it was an overwhelming experience.
Unfortunately she has not a Medea voice. Her voice is large but not lyrical enough to handle Cherubini's lyrical yet taxing score
Mind BLOWN!!! and Met Opera Chorus like friggin GODS! BRAVI ! ❤
No me canso de ver esta maravilla de interpretacion de Sondra.
Simplemente Genial!
Sondra Radvanovsky as in all her roles sensational. I don't understand why we cannot get more of her, either on CD ROM or DVD or simply ate the Operas in Europe, Radvanovsky is the best Interpret of Verdi since Callas, and often better the the latter. I had the privilege to have heard both of them in my life
i agree
I agree. I saw her in this role. I even did not know her before! She just changed opera for me - forever
@@yelenak6255 despite her voice not being amazing, the person the changed opera for me was Renée Fleming for La Traviata.
@@pugh.joseph i did not see Fleming, unfortunately. But i was basically weeped on new Traviata performance with Damrau . That was performance from Salzburg opera festival - full of allegory - with Traviata in shorter red dress. Then Met changed it to old fashioned performance. That Salzburg performance was my favorite Traviata performance.
@@yelenak6255 th-cam.com/video/Yjf6WcfwZVs/w-d-xo.html
I didn't see her live, but I saw this, I mean.
Oh heavens, I am left in tears at the sheer beauty of Diva Radvanovsky’s voice and her artistry of presentation. How I would love to see her sing in person but traveling is not easy for me. I must purchase the CD of this if there is one.
Radvanovsky is sensational in this role.
ediblemarie Yes she is . I was at the Lyric Opera Of Chicago this Sunday Dec 1 2019 Attending The Three Queens “ Donizetti “ Sondra Radvanovsky delivered those very demanding and complex roles exceptionally. It was unmatched performance by all those high level of musicians. The best I have ever seen or heard . I was in awe and at the edge of my seat . Phenomenal 👌🏻💫⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yiannis Tripodis you were so lucky,I always come back here,or on the Met side to listen again!
Agree 200% with you. I saw that broadcasted in Hd at the movies, I was totally mesmerized, she nailed the role to perfection by adding superb acting .
Savršenstvo
The voice! BUT the Acting...im speechless. A once in a generation performance. Brava.
In the not so distant past, Ms. Radvanovsky would be a household name and there would a number of her complete opera recordings available
Some people say that they were lucky to see Tebaldi or Callas or Milanov live...I am one of the people who considers himself lucky to have seen Radvanovsky live.
Gerald Sternbach same here
strongly agreeeeeeeed!!! Same here!
oh yeah, she is the new Callas - not an imitation but a thoroughly modern Callas. I am sure later generations will compare their diva to SR as we do to Callas
I saw Tebaldi and Callas a few times and you're right. This scene in particular epitomizes opera: singing, acting, sets and drama.
P.S. I saw this production twice.
Amazing dramatic,passionate and soulful performance. She reaches into your psyche.
fabulous - just discovered her. Where has she been all my life.
This is one of the greatest opera moments captured in video. Impeccable singing, astonishing set, fabulous customs, it has it all.
The epitome of a SINGING ACTRESS! How POWERFUL! BRAVA, SONDRA!!!!!!
Tremendous! This is just a Bel Canto tsunami!
Superba interpretazione del finale di una della opere più straordinarie di Donizetti.
Che tensione drammatica. Un capolavoro
What an incredible and touching performing is this "fineal scene" ...Firstly for such a great actrees se is and with a perfct control of the emission as for the voice colours....really impressive !!
I love that her voice goes out into the House whether she is singing forte or piano.You notice it even on broadcasts. I was there for this production, unfortunately the one night Polenzani didn’t sing.
Sicuramente un Soprano dalla bella voce. Una artista lirica completa. Lei certamente non ha bisogno né di guru né di raccomandazioni varie per cantare ad alto livello. È bravissima ed è una donna davvero fantastica e intelligente.
I think this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
I can't stop watching/listening to this... completely gorgeous music (utterly addictive melodic progression and orchestration), thrilling and beautiful singing, and a stunning design. And the English CCs are terrific! x
agree
oh my god, addicting, that's a very perfect word for it. i find myself humming the tune very often. there's something so heartbreaking in those progressions.
@@chaserooface Yh, I also can't stop watching/ listening to this one and do the same thing too: th-cam.com/video/ZTNVmrW2XJw/w-d-xo.html
Great actress, phenomenal voice and beautiful lady is Diva Sondra Radvanovsky. She is absolutely fabulous in this role💛
I've just seen this entire opera and it was just sensational! Bravo!
me too
E talmente brava che non si puo' fare altro che un commento: ce ne vorrebbero tante come lei
Seeing the torn up programs floating to the stage gives me chills!! She deserved all the applause and shouts that day!
This so fantastic, what an amazing singing actress. Singing like THAT and having to restrict your body at the same time. Unbelievable. Is more of this available to see? I love the applause at the end, she so deserves it and seems moved by it. Update: watching on Met On demand. Absolutely amazing!
Sondra Radvanovksy is easily one of the best dramatic sopranos alive today and she was superb when she sang Elizabeth 1 in our little suburban opera house here in San Francisco
Okay, là on est du niveau de la Gruberova... Et une mise en scène à la hauteur de l’ensemble musical ! Superbe !
Radvanosky is a truly great singer/actress whose voice, like both Callas and Nilsson, sounds harsher when recorded than in person. These large voices seem to fall into two types in terms of the recorded vs live [not recording live but actually heard in the theatre live experience]. There are the large, "soft" edged voices [Sutherland, Flagstad, Norman, Ponselle] whose voices recorded very smoothly and only lose the ultimate sense of size that hearing them in the theatre allows [e.g., Sutherland, who I heard in 12 theatrical roles in large theatres, had a voice so large that no recording really tells you how it filled a theatre]. Then there are the large "hard" edged voices [Callas, Radvanosky, Cerquetti, Nilsson, Varnay] whose voices tend to sound somewhat metallic and thinner, not smaller, in their recordings than they did in the theatre. Nilsson actually often talked about this, saying that she never felt that her voice was recorded completely accurately. I heard her in 11 of her great roles, again in large theatres, and that hard edge in the theatrical acoustic carried the voice fully throughout the theatre but was much more rounded by the acoustic than any of her recordings. I also saw Zoe Caldwell on Broadway in "Master Class" where recordings of Callas were used as part of the play. I have every available recording of Callas but hearing some of them in an acoustically well designed theatre did the same rounding of the hard edge that I heard when I heard Nilsson live. We can never actually hear most singers fully unless we hear them live.
Very true. She is very good here, though some of the faster passages show her technical deficits. Whenever I hear her in this repertoire, or earlier Verdi, such as Il trovatore, I always feel she's more a verismo soprano who's dabbling in bel canto. Her florid technique never seems compleat in the same way as Callas, or Sutherland, or Sills, or Lisette Oropesa among today's singers. She "manages" the notes more or less, but in the faster fioriture, I don't hear the sovereign ease and technique of her illustrious predecessors. That being said, she's quite good in his finale, and I love how she goes to the high notes without any visible effort.
Shahrdad I feel the same way. She is so exciting that I was down more so because of her lack of coloratura ability. Otherwise she is wonderful.
I am suire even from this recording that she was incredible when heard in the theater. My comments hav to do with the problem of capturing that sound in recordings not a criticism of her performance.@Bravo Luca
Wilson Watt thank you for writing this, you perfectly explained it!
Yes. I have always marveled at how wonderful Radvanovsky sounded live in the theater. I have seen her several times including the three queens, Norma and Ballo
Sondra es la heredera del magnetismo de Callas y Tebaldi en una sola vos. Magnifica, perfecta, inolvidable e imponente!!!! Que mas????? Gracias amigos.
Stupenda voce, stupendo brano, stupenda esecuzione
Siempre la vuelvo a escuchar.
Magnifica voz y canto. Estupendo despliegue escénico.
La vi en vivo en el MET haciendo Tosca.
También impactante.
Legendary. Lucky to bear witness to such a complete artist at any time, much less in recent decades.
This has got to be one of the most iconic, historic, classic moments in the long history of the Met. Radvanovsky is magnificent. Full stop.
OH What a JOY AND LAMENT Combined to A Celestial Level By the DIVA SONDRA THE Graceful and ENCHANTRESS.Merci joe
Some of her best ever singing.
Her "Quel sangue versato" is an amazing tour de force, maybe one of the best sung vocal performances heard (and recorded) in the last decades. Incredible breath control, very even and homogeneous singing, tasteful expressiveness, perfect control of dynamics, powerful forte notes, seamless legato throughout the entire range... I always admire Radvanovsky's singing, but sometimes I feel something is lacking. Not here, though. This "Quel sangue versato" is a Bel Canto lesson for all the ages.
Well, she does lack the coloratura needed to tackle the passages Donizetti composed and which are being omitted here. Also, her legato is far from acceptable, especially for roles definitive of belcanto on its purest form such as Elisabetta. She does give the aria, her best shot but she’s not a belcanto signer and she never will be one. And please, let’s not exaggerate; if you want to know what this role is really about you should listen to Gruberova.
This was THE Devereux of this generation. To think that the Met will cast two 300pounders in these roles next season makes me cry.
Fantastica! Che brividi a sentirla e vederla.
Mr. Radvanovsky is the best singer today!!!!!!!!!
Mr->{Ms./Mrs.}
No question About it!!!
What a cast and what a performance!...just probably one of the greatest versions of Roberto Devereux seen in recent times! The final aria and final note from the Queen is stunning...well done Sondra...wonderful stuff. Bel canto at its very best.
Queen Sondra 😍 Exquisite & priceless treasure of human race!!
She is the consummate singing actress. I’ve watched her grow over the past twenty years. What a joy it has been.
Her high notes are terrible - otherwise she is just OK!
Fantastica non la conoscevo, che brava
Sublime ! Un très grand spectacle du MET !
It is nice to hear someone who actually SINGS these roles as opposed to some of the howling and screaming we are treated to by some of the socalled "bel canto experts" today. But there isn't much in terms of vocal characterisation, just nice singing and stage acting. This isn't Radvanosky's fault - it's just the way we do opera nowadays, where the stage director is omnipotent, often has very little knowledge and/or understand of music and singing, and ALWAYS puts his own ideas above the score.
Sinceramente creo que es el rol e interpretación de su vida, que calidad vocal, que control de la respiración, que forma de actuar e interpretar y que manera de llevar las emociones a la voz. BRAVA BRAVA BRAVISIMA
Stunning. My word this is absolutely fabulous singing. 👌
Superbe musique et superbe interprète…..sublime
She did a very good performance! Congratulations, Miss Radvanovsky!
Simply put, she owns this role. I doubt anyone will (or can) surpass this performance.
OMG this is great...her voice is just marvelous 😍😍
She's awesome - Sondra you go girl! I absolutely love it. :-)
This final scene was so riveting when I saw her perform the opera in Toronto, that the gloves I was holding were actually torn in anguish! Radvanovsky is brilliant!
Sondra é uma grande cantora! Sensibilidade e muita expressão vocal !!! Brava!!!
So much beautiful air flow in her singing. Raises us to the heavens.
She is really opening her throat and belting this out, just how this should be sung.
I think this must be her greatest role. It shows her virtues (full, warm sound, great high register) to great advantage without exposing her shortcomings (sketchy coloratura, inability to trill). I first encountered this role with Sills' recording, which I loved, but over the years, I've began to want bigger, fuller voices that didn't need to be pushed and stretched into this role. Radvanovsky really shines here. Her Devereaux far outclasses her Norma or Bolena.
unforgettable Edita Gruberova
I am In Awe to Sandra Majestic Allure and rendition at the Sublime and Heavenly level
Stupendo allestimento. Lei è straordinaria nella sua intensità.
Bravissimoa! You, Wonderful one!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🏻🔥
mind blowing performance!
Époustouflante, je l'ai vu au ciné-opéra en Avignon. Une grande voix, une belle carrière. le style et l'expression belcantiste. et le high D conclusif (non écrit).
Will be seeing her next week in Forza so just watched it yet again. Every time it is riveting. I cannot imagine a better combination of singing and acting. First saw it during Covid when the Met provided wonderful free streaming of operas. We watched the trilogy finishing with Devereux. It got better and better and with this finale went stratospheric.
Maravillosa version. Sondra esta Genial. Magnifica puesta en Escena. Impactante Final.
adorable, extraordinary, touching
This is Opera Theater at its best!
They need to release the DVD!
Geweldig! Prachtig!!! Ik ben sprakeloos (=speechless). XXX
REALMENTE ASOMBROSA, MARAVILLOSA !
Merci pour cette merveilleuse scène. Fabuleuse Sondra, inoubliable.
Momentos sublimes tenemos en la vida cuando nos encontramos estas divas maravillosas que además de cantar, actúan brindandonos momentos maravillosos gracias Sondra
Now that is what I would call a DRAMATIC SOPRANO!
spinto soprano
Божественный голос! Слушала бы с утра до утра!
IMHO (of course), seldom do voice, music and acting come together as splenidly as here. Thank you all !
Unique. Absolutely remarkable performance.