I love the men shouting for her right at the end! Such powerful exclamations of support for marvelous brilliant self, at the age of 70!!!! That is unheard of in the Opera world!! And she is still so brilliant and skilled, those runs?! And brings an element to the acting that could not be there, excentuated without age. This is a gift. The way she has cared for her voice, her instrument is amazing. She is so deserving and giving of to the Opera world. And incredible diva and blessing. Splendid.
She just did a tour this month in China with four major orchestras (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, xiamen) and people are getting crazy about her. She outsold ALL previous opera artists, male and female, including Anna Nebtreko, Kaufman, Cecilia bartoli, Angela Gheoghui, Renne Fleming and Kathleen Battle, Jessy, Norman, etc., and broke ALL records in sales and LIVE broadcasting (1.5 millions viewers).
It puts things into perspective now that she has passed. This is not her prime singing, but it's amazing for a 70 year old, and we're lucky she was here to sing for as long as she was.
let's put things into perspective now that she is the best opera singer and the greatest of all time. This is the BEST and better for Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland could have ever done, respectively, in their prime. As Jurgen von Kesting has concluded that Gruberoa was a "mistake" because she belongs to the Assoluta of 19th Century, not her 20-21 century.
Saw her in Budapest yesterday in her Farewell Performance as Lucia… still the incredible technique as ever. I owe that Lady more than 40 years full of incredible Moments at the opera (Lucia, Zerbinetta, Elvira, Donna Anna, Queen of the Night, Constanze, Linda, Amina, Lucrezia, Staniera, Elisabetta, Maria Stuarda, Rosina, Norina, Gilda, Violetta, Norma, Giulietta, Anna Bolena, Gretel, Adele … ) Seems like the last one of the last generation of opera singers has abdicated. Thank you Edita - bless you
She should continue singing if she wants to ! The decline is évident, but her performance is still amazing and her voice is still so beautiful and moving. Few singers nowadays can sing better than 70-year-old Edita ! Brava !
@Bravo Luca Wow, I love the way you speak in absolutes and exaggerations other than the glissandi at 0:05, 1:38 and 1:53, the first two minutes are still very good. Not as good as she used to be, but still very beautiful and in tune It's the last 30 seconds of the video that's terrible. The last high note was terrible, sure. But everything before it was in tune and still very beautiful
@Bravo Luca Also in her defense, this IS a mad scene so she's allowed to look as insane as she wants lmao. But if you don't watch with your eyes and do listen with only your ears, she still sounds pretty magnificent most of the time. Just fudges up the ending
@@justiniantbh that Luca one was a hater and an ignorant who always listens to IPHONE and maybe fans of Sutherland or Cabelle or both but can't enjoy the talents of everyone.
Wow! Some of these comments are ridiculous! Edita still hitting the f6 to be 70yrs old, while other young high Soprano can't even maintain that note! She have a lovely Lyric Coloratura Soprano voice!
More than likely she's singing in Eflat, tho I don't have perfect pitch. Also she may be singing because she has to financially? Mariella Devia I believe is in much better shape vocally at the same age.
@@MrJazzmeaux I know I'm very late with this reply but i know the last note she singing is a Eb6... i sing it all the time me being a high male Soprano and all😉...i was stating that she is still able to hit a f6 to be 70year's old.
Saw her sing it in 1986 with Neil Shicoff, in Chicago the top rang like a bell then and even here, at that age of 70, amazing, no wobble, she also made the Complete studio Rec. of her Lucia with Shicoff in the early 1990's as in her still prime, born in 1946,she has since passed away but rest her Soul, a wonderful voice and artist (from Bratislava .) RIP. Gruberova
@@SymphonyBrahms Did you listen to Sutherland Callas and Nilsson with over 50/60 and want to compare it with such brillance except only the last note?! And dont compare coloraturasopranos with highdramatique or mezzo, often shouting, sopranos Even Nilsson mentioned "to listen to Gruberova".
@@Iatraviata69 Gruberova warbles, scoops and distorts the vocal line, issues that got worse in the last 30 years of her career. Nvm the missing low register and the foggy middle, lol.And none of the ladies mentioned by SymphonyBrahms shouted. You simply prefer cookiecutter tweeters to dramatic voices.
perdón mi intromisión, jeje, pero he oído a decenas de sopranos de 20 años que no pueden cantar ni la mitad de bien de lo que lo hace Edita a sus 70, yo creo que su voz ha cambiado, obvio, pero si no quiere, no tiene por qué retirarse
Solo alguien que no quiere reconocer lo obvio cuestiona esta Edita: es un prodigio, leyenda! Sigue emocionando a sus públicos, porqué? Porque da clase de canto!!! Cada presentación es una emoción viviente!!!! Genia
I don't know of another soprano who can hit a resonant high E flat at age 70. Anybody else performing this at age 70 would almost certainly transpose it
Yes, it is time for retiring but she deserves respect for her magnificent career. The singing is far from perfect but many younger soprano cannot do what she did at 70. Fabulous.
Everything, but the last note, was beautiful! I've always been a big fan. She clearly can still sing very high, but she should find some new stuff that will make her look stupendous! Her timbre is still gorgeous! With the right repertoire, I think she'd garner critical acclaim!
Incredible for a woman of 70! Of course she’s not in top form and there are some out of tune notes, but for goodness sake..... 90% of the young “stars” could only hope for longevity like that! They scream out in 10 years!
Y sí, desde el punto de vista visual, ya no está para cantar Lucia. Vocalmente desluce un poco el mi bemol sobreagudo, pero después... ya quisieran algunos de los "grandes cantantes de ahora" cantar como ella. Yo también he crecido con sus grabaciones y la he visto muchas veces en Munich y es una grande. Te adoro Edita... Resites a las estúpidas críticas!!!
ANY day! I attended this very LUCIA of Edita's, having just days prior heard Peretyatko's LUCIA in Vienna ... (*if one could call it a Lucia*) - EASILY Gruberova even at 72 sang a better performance... The Viennese who grew up on Edita's Lucia were not having it, she was booed wildly and justly! I was so thankful to cleanse my ears with Edita. Granted, it was NOT (quite) the Lucia I heard her sing in the 80's - but damn close and certainly better than *most* of today's "stars". The final note obviously not pleasing, but I can agree in the acoustics of the house live (where she always shined better than recordings) it wasn't as bad as here recorded. R.I.P.
I think she is still quite okey. Ask any coloratura who are currently at their 50s, e.g. Damrau, to sing, would that be better than this? Seriously doubt.
But then again, to name a couple of coloraturas from yester-year, that FAR exceeded this when they were in the 70s: Lily Pons and Roberta Peters. But they both had the wisdom to change their repertoire!
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It's impressive that she retained that bright ping in her voice at this age. I've no doubt that she still had the high E flat too, though probably it wasn't as easy as it once was, and - on this occasion - it was a wee bit flat.
Why can't these once top artist not stop, when the decline starts to be hearable? Why have they to go on and on and ruin their reputation? Gruberova once was a goddess on opera stage, but this here is nothing else but a screeching old woman. And as a former Gruberova fan, I take this amiss!
Thank you for catching the error! The performance was indeed on Nov 12, 2017. I have updated the information and have given the complete cast if you are interested.
She should play "la voix humaine", "The Aspern Papers", and this kind of roles today... Lucia is sooo damn high! But i don't think she needs to retire just because people think so.
OMG here you are again, troll! Why are you answering every comment? Such a weird, compulsive, low-life commenter. I honestly can't with your obsessive trolling. Get a hobby!!!
@Bravo Luca you should listen to opera (or operetta) if you want to comment - Prince Orlowski is no speaking role. Gruberova is physically too old to sing Lucia (and made her farewell to a role she had been famous fo yesterday) but anyhow if Peretyatko (ridiculous Soubrette) or Netrebko are paid to sing roles they never had any ability to try to you better comment on doing injustice to the audience. After all Gruberova is an artist, Netrebko has a decent spinto but Peretyatko may have oral skills which have nothing to do with performing on stage
Это феноменально. В конце, правда, не ми бемоль был. Петь так в 70 лет-фантастика. Иметь такую технику, неизменный тембр, то же звучание, что и 20 лет назад. У Груберовой, наверное, есть средство Макропулоса. И это не Перетятько, пение которой в "Лючии" уже становится мемом.
Ditto! Edita: follow the examples of Callas, Sutherland and Sills and RETIRE gracefully NOW. If you must sing, choose new roles like the Countess in Nozze di Figaro.
I've always been a great admirer of Edita Gruberova. Having said that, some artists should adjust their repertoire as they get older or retire from singing all together. Sad to hear her sing like that.
I don't mean to be disrespectful but ... I feel Ms. Gruberova is doing herself a disservice. Moreover she's competing with her younger self. The camera here, in this snippet, is way too close for comfort. The facial distortions are painful to watch and the flat notes cannot be ignored or explained away. It is what it is ... Ms. Gruberova and I were born in 1946. We have grown old "together". I have experienced her beginnings at the Vienna State Opera and was most happy with her success there and her success in other opera houses. I own wonderful recordings of this singer. But it pains me to observe her recent activities. There comes a time in every artist's life when they have to realize that enough is enough. Yes, she still has adoring fans. And these fans are probably celebrating the what has been and not the what it is now. Please, Ms. Gruberova, bow out as gracefully as you can muster.
A year ago I kinda felt the same thing. But I think part of the reason why it sounded so BAD is because some stupid people on youtube keep posting her videos. With terrible sound quality. Anybody who has heard Edita live knows she sounds way better live than on recordings, where the timbre of her voice gets distorted to the point where it becomes irritating. Not to mention listening to her on recordings done using hand-held cameras and phones like this one. I think people should just stop posting her videos unless its actually filmed properly
+Bravo Luca - Please a little more respect... this is one of the legends of Bel Canto. I agree that it is perhaps time to retire, but people adore here (me one of them) and although she may not be singing in god form ... the audiences adore her.... but I do think now is the time to retire gracefully ... when she eventually does, I hope that she gives masterclasses.... She represents a generation of great singers who have become legends and who today’s bel cantists aren’t a fraction of what she ir.
Because she is 70 ! And I also thought it was time for her to renounce to reach those very high notes...until I heard her Sonnambula aria in Wien almost two years later: not only does she reach several times the E flat in the right pitch, but she attacks the note directly, without sliding up. Conclusion: she naturally can't be always at the top, as all of us; but she still has good days with super form. And now she has proved it, she also has announced her retirement for the next year. Some will say "at least", others will cry. C'est la vie.
+Bruno PICAUDE I mean that not just at the age of 70, but all through her career she slides to the high notes ... it’s not a criticism, but perhaps it is a stylistic thing. I think she is absolutely tremendous and has done so much fior Bel Canto. One of the greatest coloratura sopranos EVER! I mean even at her age, she is singing roles that the younger, less able generation of sopranos, can only dream to sing!! And still she drives the audiences insane. I hope that once she retires she starts masterclasses... she is a living compendium of Bel Canto
She has been sliding into the notes above the C all her life. I remember her early recordings, and that was the one thing I didn't like about her singing...not hitting high notes dead on.
Edita la famosa interprete del belcanto...a 70 anni non puoi più essere credibile come Lucia: ahimè, aveva ragione Natalie Dessay. L'acuto finale è venuto malissimo, era stonata...chissà come ha cantato Spargi d'amaro pianto? Speriamo vada presto in pensione, invece temo farà come Domingo. Grandi artiste come la Simionato, la Tebaldi e la Gencer si sono ritirate quando ancora erano "in bellezza", perchè erano grandi artiste.
I feel that Gruberova should have either moved on to new repertoire, singing wonderful recitals and less vocally demanding music, or... follow the precedent of say, Sutherland, and do a victory lap and bow out respectfully
Problem is, by now its too late for her to bow out "respectfully". Since she has drug this thing out for sooo long now, if or when she ever does retire, people will just think "Thank God! Its about time!"
Ma quale brava. Ora il rispetto per Lei va bene ma addirittura brava mi sembra esagerato. Nello spinto e l' acuto ( o meglio il grido) finale sono indecenti. Inutile cantare quest" aria per eseguirla cosi. Meglio interpretare altro. Che arroganza!!!
Robert Lee, Countertenor What?! What is this casting switch about? I haven't heard of it until I read your comment. I mean, yes, she should have been forcefully retired back then and if indeed she shows up at the Met as you claim, it will be the most disrespectful and disgraceful thing to have ever happened in that auditorium. And no one, save her tone-deaf fanatics, will be able to hear her beyond the prompter's box.
This is very sad. A 70 year old trying to play a teenager. She is wearing sleeves so her aged upper arms don't keep time with the music. Plus, she looks like singing is very painful and judging by the last note, it is. It's time, darlin'.
Maybe her upper arms are not pretty but compare her to far younger singers like Peretyatko, Netrebko or Damrau who cannot sing at all (and have no arms pretty enough to cover that fact)
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My beautiful swan will sing no more. RIP Edita.
She must have had a heck of a solid technique, because she practically didn't miss a note at 70. Most couldn't think this high after 55. Wow.
I love the men shouting for her right at the end! Such powerful exclamations of support for marvelous brilliant self, at the age of 70!!!! That is unheard of in the Opera world!! And she is still so brilliant and skilled, those runs?! And brings an element to the acting that could not be there, excentuated without age. This is a gift. The way she has cared for her voice, her instrument is amazing. She is so deserving and giving of to the Opera world. And incredible diva and blessing. Splendid.
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May she Rest In Peace!!!! What a beautiful amazing singer and human!!!!
Wow! One of the great things about this is that she actually looks MAD! Gruberova still had it at 72!
She just did a tour this month in China with four major orchestras (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, xiamen) and people are getting crazy about her. She outsold ALL previous opera artists, male and female, including Anna Nebtreko, Kaufman, Cecilia bartoli, Angela Gheoghui, Renne Fleming and Kathleen Battle, Jessy, Norman, etc., and broke ALL records in sales and LIVE broadcasting (1.5 millions viewers).
И это понятно. Она феноменально пела, лучше всех
Comparar uma cantora da Era de Ouro da Ópera com os pobres cantores atuais é muita injustiça com a nova geração 😂
@@AnaLuiza-rl9eetrue, but the point was she outsold those younger artists in ticket sales
It puts things into perspective now that she has passed. This is not her prime singing, but it's amazing for a 70 year old, and we're lucky she was here to sing for as long as she was.
let's put things into perspective now that she is the best opera singer and the greatest of all time. This is the BEST and better for Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland could have ever done, respectively, in their prime. As Jurgen von Kesting has concluded that Gruberoa was a "mistake" because she belongs to the Assoluta of 19th Century, not her 20-21 century.
Saw her in Budapest yesterday in her Farewell Performance as Lucia… still the incredible technique as ever.
I owe that Lady more than 40 years full of incredible Moments at the opera (Lucia, Zerbinetta, Elvira, Donna Anna, Queen of the Night, Constanze, Linda, Amina, Lucrezia, Staniera, Elisabetta, Maria Stuarda, Rosina, Norina, Gilda, Violetta, Norma, Giulietta, Anna Bolena, Gretel, Adele … )
Seems like the last one of the last generation of opera singers has abdicated.
Thank you Edita - bless you
You are a lucky guy!
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Apart from the last note ,,,this is amazing,,,,,
Now to listen again with headphones.
Wbyyy
R.I.P. grande Dame! I will miss you! 😕
An absolutely fabulous soprano! Thanks for sharing!
Rest in peace Queen!
How and why would anyone be able to stand listening to this my goddess
She should continue singing if she wants to !
The decline is évident, but her performance is still amazing and her voice is still so beautiful and moving. Few singers nowadays can sing better than 70-year-old Edita ! Brava !
@Bravo Luca Wow, I love the way you speak in absolutes and exaggerations
other than the glissandi at 0:05, 1:38 and 1:53, the first two minutes are still very good. Not as good as she used to be, but still very beautiful and in tune
It's the last 30 seconds of the video that's terrible. The last high note was terrible, sure. But everything before it was in tune and still very beautiful
@Bravo Luca Also in her defense, this IS a mad scene so she's allowed to look as insane as she wants lmao. But if you don't watch with your eyes and do listen with only your ears, she still sounds pretty magnificent most of the time. Just fudges up the ending
@@justiniantbh that Luca one was a hater and an ignorant who always listens to IPHONE and maybe fans of Sutherland or Cabelle or both but can't enjoy the talents of everyone.
@Bravo Luca who at 60 year old sings better than this 70 year old?
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Wow! Some of these comments are ridiculous! Edita still hitting the f6 to be 70yrs old, while other young high Soprano can't even maintain that note! She have a lovely Lyric Coloratura Soprano voice!
it's eb6, not f .Huge difference. And it is pretty horrible and she's flat. In her prime she was outstanding, this is just sad.
It's not an f6, it's a (flat) eflat, and very ugly. She was superb in her youth, but this is just horrible.
More than likely she's singing in Eflat, tho I don't have perfect pitch. Also she may be singing because she has to financially? Mariella Devia I believe is in much better shape vocally at the same age.
Maybe she has to continue singing to support herself? If that's the case, it's a shame
@@MrJazzmeaux I know I'm very late with this reply but i know the last note she singing is a Eb6... i sing it all the time me being a high male Soprano and all😉...i was stating that she is still able to hit a f6 to be 70year's old.
Saw her sing it in 1986 with Neil Shicoff, in Chicago the top rang like a bell then and even here, at that age of 70, amazing, no wobble, she also made the Complete studio Rec. of her Lucia with Shicoff in the early 1990's as in her still prime, born in 1946,she has since passed away but rest her Soul, a wonderful voice and artist (from Bratislava .) RIP. Gruberova
PEOPLE, WAKE UP:
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What? It's sounds like crap!
You poor thing. It would be comical if it wasn't so very, very sad.
Then you haven't heard of Callas, Nilsson, Ponselle, Traubel, Flagstad, or Sutherland.
@@SymphonyBrahms Did you listen to Sutherland Callas and Nilsson with over 50/60 and want to compare it with such brillance except only the last note?!
And dont compare coloraturasopranos with highdramatique or mezzo, often shouting, sopranos Even Nilsson mentioned "to listen to Gruberova".
@@Iatraviata69 Gruberova warbles, scoops and distorts the vocal line, issues that got worse in the last 30 years of her career. Nvm the missing low register and the foggy middle, lol.And none of the ladies mentioned by SymphonyBrahms shouted. You simply prefer cookiecutter tweeters to dramatic voices.
Increíble para mi una de las mejores sopranos de la historia. Esta cantando esta pieza con 70 años por el amor de Dios es absolutamente fuera de serie
Magnifique !!
A todos los genios que critican, los invito a que cuando cumplan 70 años canten como hace esta mujer!
Brava Edita!!!!
perdón mi intromisión, jeje, pero he oído a decenas de sopranos de 20 años que no pueden cantar ni la mitad de bien de lo que lo hace Edita a sus 70, yo creo que su voz ha cambiado, obvio, pero si no quiere, no tiene por qué retirarse
¿Canta? ¿En serio? ¿No, no?
Solo alguien que no quiere reconocer lo obvio cuestiona esta Edita: es un prodigio, leyenda! Sigue emocionando a sus públicos, porqué? Porque da clase de canto!!! Cada presentación es una emoción viviente!!!! Genia
No, it's terrible horror and look at her just awkward.
Quero ver uma jovem de 20 anos chegar aos 70 com a qualidade vocal de Edita.
To me, she was the best of All. So sorry she left Planet earth so early.
😢 R.I.P.
I don't know of another soprano who can hit a resonant high E flat at age 70. Anybody else performing this at age 70 would almost certainly transpose it
Yes, it is time for retiring but she deserves respect for her magnificent career. The singing is far from perfect but many younger soprano cannot do what she did at 70. Fabulous.
When you are 70 and if you can produce this performance you have to be surprised
Everything, but the last note, was beautiful! I've always been a big fan. She clearly can still sing very high, but she should find some new stuff that will make her look stupendous! Her timbre is still gorgeous! With the right repertoire, I think she'd garner critical acclaim!
GpD79 sorry ugly like shit ....... screaming cat
robert monthe come on... is that necessary? To be singing this well at 72!!!!
Unfortunately she’s gone. :(
@@rodrigogonzalez8566 Oh my goodness! I didn't know! I just looked it up and it's true. :-( RIP Diva.
Incredible for a woman of 70! Of course she’s not in top form and there are some out of tune notes, but for goodness sake..... 90% of the young “stars” could only hope for longevity like that! They scream out in 10 years!
Considering she was 72 here, this was incredible! The last note was a little flat, but the POWER AND RESONANCE!
Y sí, desde el punto de vista visual, ya no está para cantar Lucia. Vocalmente desluce un poco el mi bemol sobreagudo, pero después... ya quisieran algunos de los "grandes cantantes de ahora" cantar como ella. Yo también he crecido con sus grabaciones y la he visto muchas veces en Munich y es una grande. Te adoro Edita... Resites a las estúpidas críticas!!!
Hermosa, divina, brava. La más grande Edita, la mejor!!!!!
I still prefer this over Peretyatko.
ANY day! I attended this very LUCIA of Edita's, having just days prior heard Peretyatko's LUCIA in Vienna ... (*if one could call it a Lucia*) - EASILY Gruberova even at 72 sang a better performance... The Viennese who grew up on Edita's Lucia were not having it, she was booed wildly and justly! I was so thankful to cleanse my ears with Edita. Granted, it was NOT (quite) the Lucia I heard her sing in the 80's - but damn close and certainly better than *most* of today's "stars". The final note obviously not pleasing, but I can agree in the acoustics of the house live (where she always shined better than recordings) it wasn't as bad as here recorded. R.I.P.
The first time I've seen it make dramatic sense!
Then you didn't see Callas.
Wow, just amazing! Priscilla
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Stuning, with an E at her 70!!!
incredible!
Mad indeed...
It's amazing.
Superb eye twitch at 0:08
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Merci Édita, émouvant
è ora di smettere!!!
E da mo'.
Incredible. Edita forever!
LOL you can see Kovacs in the background psychokinetically trying to tune her final note with his head.
I think she is still quite okey. Ask any coloratura who are currently at their 50s, e.g. Damrau, to sing, would that be better than this? Seriously doubt.
I agree totaly. I've head Damrau this summer after a while... Edita is much better.
But then again, to name a couple of coloraturas from yester-year, that FAR exceeded this when they were in the 70s: Lily Pons and Roberta Peters. But they both had the wisdom to change their repertoire!
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Un mito. Un icona del Belcanto. L'ultima e l'unica. IRRAGGIUNGIBILE
icono*
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UFFFFFF.
Incredibile
Es war die große Überraschung mit welcher Mühelosigkeit Edita Gruberova in München die Norma sang.
MAGNÍFICA!
A MAIOR PERSONIDADE LÍRICA DESTA DÉCADA.
brava.
Ja...es ist unglaublich das noch mit 70...
Edita has had an amazingly long, and successful career, and deserves all her success, but it's time for an intervention.
she was actually 72 years old there...
wow♡♡
Die beste Sängerin aller Zeiten.
0:09 that face is sublime
It's impressive that she retained that bright ping in her voice at this age. I've no doubt that she still had the high E flat too, though probably it wasn't as easy as it once was, and - on this occasion - it was a wee bit flat.
LINDOOOOOOOOOOO, PERFEITO.
RIP Edita.
I think it was a fine effort, and the last note? Thank you for the generosity madam, but I fear for you. =(
Why can't these once top artist not stop, when the decline starts to be hearable? Why have they to go on and on and ruin their reputation? Gruberova once was a goddess on opera stage, but this here is nothing else but a screeching old woman. And as a former Gruberova fan, I take this amiss!
How did they post this video before it even took place? LOL (Posting date is Dec 2, 2017 -- performance took place Nov 2018)
Thank you for catching the error! The performance was indeed on Nov 12, 2017. I have updated the information and have given the complete cast if you are interested.
@@VocidellaLirica Thank you. Good job. Great clip.
She should play "la voix humaine", "The Aspern Papers", and this kind of roles today... Lucia is sooo damn high! But i don't think she needs to retire just because people think so.
OMG here you are again, troll! Why are you answering every comment? Such a weird, compulsive, low-life commenter. I honestly can't with your obsessive trolling. Get a hobby!!!
@Bravo Luca THANK YOU! I was thinking the same thing about @Camille Greffe!
@Bravo Luca you should listen to opera (or operetta) if you want to comment - Prince Orlowski is no speaking role.
Gruberova is physically too old to sing Lucia (and made her farewell to a role she had been famous fo yesterday) but anyhow if Peretyatko (ridiculous Soubrette) or Netrebko are paid to sing roles they never had any ability to try to you better comment on doing injustice to the audience. After all Gruberova is an artist, Netrebko has a decent spinto but Peretyatko may have oral skills which have nothing to do with performing on stage
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november 2018? hahah :)
Это феноменально. В конце, правда, не ми бемоль был. Петь так в 70 лет-фантастика. Иметь такую технику, неизменный тембр, то же звучание, что и 20 лет назад. У Груберовой, наверное, есть средство Макропулоса. И это не Перетятько, пение которой в "Лючии" уже становится мемом.
А что значит " пение становится мемом? " мемом -это что такое?
Se percebe a caixa do microfone na parte de trás do vestido. Amo a Gruberova mas está na hora de sair.
Norma Desmond
LOL!!!
Exactly !
Jajajajaja
Mamma mia... :((((
MAGNÍFICA!!!!BRAVA!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤💐
Ainda é muito boa...pena que a idade não colabore😢
She does show great technique....but it is way past retirement time; I adored her in her younger days.
Ditto! Edita: follow the examples of Callas, Sutherland and Sills and RETIRE gracefully NOW. If you must sing, choose new roles like the Countess in Nozze di Figaro.
kathryn ryder and she did!
I've always been a great admirer of Edita Gruberova. Having said that, some artists should adjust their repertoire as they get older or retire from singing all together. Sad to hear her sing like that.
I don't mean to be disrespectful but ... I feel Ms. Gruberova is doing herself a disservice. Moreover she's competing with her younger self. The camera here, in this snippet, is way too close for comfort. The facial distortions are painful to watch and the flat notes cannot be ignored or explained away. It is what it is ... Ms. Gruberova and I were born in 1946. We have grown old "together". I have experienced her beginnings at the Vienna State Opera and was most happy with her success there and her success in other opera houses. I own wonderful recordings of this singer. But it pains me to observe her recent activities. There comes a time in every artist's life when they have to realize that enough is enough. Yes, she still has adoring fans. And these fans are probably celebrating the what has been and not the what it is now. Please, Ms. Gruberova, bow out as gracefully as you can muster.
A year ago I kinda felt the same thing. But I think part of the reason why it sounded so BAD is because some stupid people on youtube keep posting her videos. With terrible sound quality. Anybody who has heard Edita live knows she sounds way better live than on recordings, where the timbre of her voice gets distorted to the point where it becomes irritating. Not to mention listening to her on recordings done using hand-held cameras and phones like this one. I think people should just stop posting her videos unless its actually filmed properly
i guess this must the last edita's lucia。。。。。
Evidentemente esto es un homenaje a su carrera. Nadie espera a esa edad escuchar una Lucía como Dios manda.
TEL THIS TO THE PUBLIC -THEY STILL LOVE HER
+Bravo Luca - Please a little more respect... this is one of the legends of Bel Canto. I agree that it is perhaps time to retire, but people adore here (me one of them) and although she may not be singing in god form ... the audiences adore her.... but I do think now is the time to retire gracefully ... when she eventually does, I hope that she gives masterclasses.... She represents a generation of great singers who have become legends and who today’s bel cantists aren’t a fraction of what she ir.
Oh no…,
Why can she never got a high note without sliding up
Because she is 70 ! And I also thought it was time for her to renounce to reach those very high notes...until I heard
her Sonnambula aria in Wien almost two years later: not only does she reach several times the E flat in the right pitch, but she attacks the note directly, without sliding up. Conclusion: she naturally can't be always at the top, as all of us; but she still has good days with super form. And now she has proved it, she also has announced her retirement for the next year. Some will say "at least", others will cry. C'est la vie.
+Bruno PICAUDE I mean that not just at the age of 70, but all through her career she slides to the high notes ... it’s not a criticism, but perhaps it is a stylistic thing. I think she is absolutely tremendous and has done so much fior Bel Canto. One of the greatest coloratura sopranos EVER! I mean even at her age, she is singing roles that the younger, less able generation of sopranos, can only dream to sing!! And still she drives the audiences insane. I hope that once she retires she starts masterclasses... she is a living compendium of Bel Canto
Her 80's Der Hoelle Rache is sung as written. It is written with pinpoint staccati. So it must be, as you say, a stylistic thing.
She has been sliding into the notes above the C all her life. I remember her early recordings, and that was the one thing I didn't like about her singing...not hitting high notes dead on.
Why boring people need to post negative stuff on TH-cam
Edita la famosa interprete del belcanto...a 70 anni non puoi più essere credibile come Lucia: ahimè, aveva ragione Natalie Dessay. L'acuto finale è venuto malissimo, era stonata...chissà come ha cantato Spargi d'amaro pianto? Speriamo vada presto in pensione, invece temo farà come Domingo. Grandi artiste come la Simionato, la Tebaldi e la Gencer si sono ritirate quando ancora erano "in bellezza", perchè erano grandi artiste.
Der letzte Ton brauchte eine Ewigkeit bis er endlich die richtige Hoehe erreicht hat.
Jeder Ton, eigentlich.... zeit 20 Jahren
grande interptete
Брависсимо!!!
Bravo. Is she singing with glass harmonica? Amazing.
wonderful! amazing!
The guy at 2:15 was horrified.
Pretty great up until the last note.
cmq avrei proibito di riprendere in primo piano...........vederla ( e sentirla) è.....sconfortante x non dire comico.
e quella maglietta color carne????? non si può guardare oltre a non poterla sentire..... orrrrrorreeeeee
Oh, you shouldn't ~!!!
Il faut savoir s’arrêter à temps. Ici , elle n’est plus que le spectre d’elle-même.... je persiste à penser que c’est tellement dommage
Complètement fou.
I feel that Gruberova should have either moved on to new repertoire, singing wonderful recitals and less vocally demanding music, or... follow the precedent of say, Sutherland, and do a victory lap and bow out respectfully
Problem is, by now its too late for her to bow out "respectfully". Since she has drug this thing out for sooo long now, if or when she ever does retire, people will just think "Thank God! Its about time!"
She is not Callas, the singing has issues even at her prime.
th-cam.com/video/zSsI0AaZsLM/w-d-xo.html
L’ultima nota… 😅
Was ist das denn bloss für eine grässliche Kittelschürze, die sie da trägt?
Die hatten sie noch übrig vom VEB Heim & Garten....
Ma quale brava. Ora il rispetto per Lei va bene ma addirittura brava mi sembra esagerato. Nello spinto e l' acuto ( o meglio il grido) finale sono indecenti. Inutile cantare quest" aria per eseguirla cosi. Meglio interpretare altro. Che arroganza!!!
"Whatever happened to Baby Gruberova?"
Should have retired 15 years ago. This is painful to watch and utterly bad, almost a caricature.
Oh dear, time to retire, Edita. This is getting too painful to watch.
Robert Lee, Countertenor What?! What is this casting switch about? I haven't heard of it until I read your comment. I mean, yes, she should have been forcefully retired back then and if indeed she shows up at the Met as you claim, it will be the most disrespectful and disgraceful thing to have ever happened in that auditorium. And no one, save her tone-deaf fanatics, will be able to hear her beyond the prompter's box.
This is very sad. A 70 year old trying to play a teenager. She is wearing sleeves so her aged upper arms don't keep time with the music. Plus, she looks like singing is very painful and judging by the last note, it is. It's time, darlin'.
Maybe her upper arms are not pretty but compare her to far younger singers like Peretyatko, Netrebko or Damrau who cannot sing at all (and have no arms pretty enough to cover that fact)
Was dat n E natural 🤣🤣🤣