Nothing wrong with this interpretation at all. She was amazing live in Melbourne. Do people also hold issue with the lazy staging on Broadway right now? Yet another play playing the live camera gimmick...
The current Broadway "production" is a train wreck. I don't need to put out all that money to know it. C'mon, Andy, reach in yer stash, put out the cash and do it fer real, now.
great, I’m a collector and really interested in your recording. Please consider contacting me through mail. I have other several audios from this production that may interest you. Also I have the audio of Nicole’s first preview in sunset boulevard in Broadway. Hope you can help me. Anything you send me will be for my own private listening and collection.
Parts of it sound like Hilda Ogden singing at the kitchen sink, and other parts sound strangely like someone playing the saw. I love Sarah, but this isn't right for her voice. Christine, yes. Norma, not so much. I've heard Sarah sing Macavity using only her chest voice - she was fabulous - so I know that she can do it. But Norma needs a mixed voice. Without it, not enough oomph! Good quality recording through, for a bootleg.
Haha. Don’t hold back, chuck. I love Sarah, too, but I don’t understand the vocal choice she’s made with Norma. It’s bewildering. She has at least three octaves to play with. She is very selective when she uses the chest part of her voice and it’s not often. I know it’s going back a bit but A Salty Dog showcases Sarah’s belt to perfection. Aside from Fly to Paradise and Better is One Day, the only (relatively recent) good example is when she sang Happy Birthday to Richard Branson’s granddaughter (th-cam.com/video/2psd-CtLhfU/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared). Anyway, she’s still my favourite diva and I’m grateful she’s still performing. 🙂
I saw Sarah's performance in Sydney, and while overall she took a decent swing at it, this was not the role for her at all. I say this as a musical theatre performer myself and in the nicest possible way, but although she clearly worked hard at it, this was a casting decision tantamount to doing a show about the civil rights movement and getting a white man to play the part of Martin Luther King! The part of Norma Desmond requires a robust, strident voice and Sarah's delicate soprano lost all semblance of the feistiness inherent in the character. The songs ended up being a distraction from the story and came across more like they were being performed on the concert stage than in a musical. The end result is sadly what we see when an artist who unquestionably is highly accomplished in their field, attempts to play a part for which they are patently unfit. Someone should have realised this was not going to work.
Hi. Thanks for your fair and constructive take on Sarah’s performance as Norma. I must say you’re lucky, seeing the diva that is Brightman at Sydney Opera House. Now that’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. David Caddick, a conductor of Phantom, once said: ‘What is amazing about Sarah is that she has two voices, really. She can produce a pop, contemporary sound, but she can also blossom out into a light lyric soprano.’ Sarah has made a vocal choice to use her head voice and not her chest. I don’t understand this and feel it doesn’t do her justice but there you go. 😉
@wisehammer It was indeed a treat to see a show at the Opera House. Having lived in Australia for 20yrs it's taken me a long time to tick it off my bucket list! A lot of people have been saying that the alternate Norma, Sylvie Paladino, is better, but I needed to see Sarah and find out for myself.
I know before I even finish writing this comment. I’ll probably get my behind kicked because apparently everybody supposed to just bow down and worship Sarah with no question but I’m sorry this is a train wreck.
I don’t hear what y’all do. It’s a good thing singing is subjective. I hear a fresh, sparkling tone from a veteran performer in her mid-sixties. Many people half her age would be lucky to deliver these vocals. Respect for your opinion, but ‘train wreck’ seems like a far stretch.
@@javierortiz5537 if you hear a fresh sparkling tone, then honey, you need to get your ears checked and I can promise you I’m not the only person who has used such language as friend to describe this.
That's rich coming from someone who is a fan of Lea Michelle, a singer whose career didn't go beyond Glee and who doesn't have even a hair of Sarah Brightman's talent. This is definitely not the Sarah Brightman who sang Time to Say Goodbye or Memory and perhaps this isn't the right role for her but to call this a train wreck is quite frankly insulting.
Sarah took the challenge and did it her way, artists are allowed to do so. Thats what an artist does.
Love it she is great
Andrew Lloyd Webber has said this part was written on her voice. So really, this is how it was meant to be.
They rearranged the scores around her soprano voice, and she sang the songs with her own voice
Sarah does Sarah! Not a copy cat..
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Nothing wrong with this interpretation at all. She was amazing live in Melbourne.
Do people also hold issue with the lazy staging on Broadway right now? Yet another play playing the live camera gimmick...
The current Broadway "production" is a train wreck. I don't need to put out all that money to know it. C'mon, Andy, reach in yer stash, put out the cash and do it fer real, now.
Hi! Great audio. What’s the date of this recording?
Hey it was the 13/10 Matinee
great, I’m a collector and really interested in your recording. Please consider contacting me through mail. I have other several audios from this production that may interest you. Also I have the audio of Nicole’s first preview in sunset boulevard in Broadway. Hope you can help me. Anything you send me will be for my own private listening and collection.
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Parts of it sound like Hilda Ogden singing at the kitchen sink, and other parts sound strangely like someone playing the saw. I love Sarah, but this isn't right for her voice. Christine, yes. Norma, not so much. I've heard Sarah sing Macavity using only her chest voice - she was fabulous - so I know that she can do it. But Norma needs a mixed voice. Without it, not enough oomph! Good quality recording through, for a bootleg.
Completely! I love her too, but wrong role for her in every way. She's too dainty and sweet of a woman to pull off the grit of the character.
Haha. Don’t hold back, chuck. I love Sarah, too, but I don’t understand the vocal choice she’s made with Norma. It’s bewildering. She has at least three octaves to play with. She is very selective when she uses the chest part of her voice and it’s not often. I know it’s going back a bit but A Salty Dog showcases Sarah’s belt to perfection. Aside from Fly to Paradise and Better is One Day, the only (relatively recent) good example is when she sang Happy Birthday to Richard Branson’s granddaughter (th-cam.com/video/2psd-CtLhfU/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared). Anyway, she’s still my favourite diva and I’m grateful she’s still performing. 🙂
Love Sarah but this not a role for her.
I saw Sarah's performance in Sydney, and while overall she took a decent swing at it, this was not the role for her at all. I say this as a musical theatre performer myself and in the nicest possible way, but although she clearly worked hard at it, this was a casting decision tantamount to doing a show about the civil rights movement and getting a white man to play the part of Martin Luther King! The part of Norma Desmond requires a robust, strident voice and Sarah's delicate soprano lost all semblance of the feistiness inherent in the character. The songs ended up being a distraction from the story and came across more like they were being performed on the concert stage than in a musical. The end result is sadly what we see when an artist who unquestionably is highly accomplished in their field, attempts to play a part for which they are patently unfit. Someone should have realised this was not going to work.
Hi. Thanks for your fair and constructive take on Sarah’s performance as Norma. I must say you’re lucky, seeing the diva that is Brightman at Sydney Opera House. Now that’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. David Caddick, a conductor of Phantom, once said: ‘What is amazing about Sarah is that she has two voices, really. She can produce a pop, contemporary sound, but she can also blossom out into a light lyric soprano.’ Sarah has made a vocal choice to use her head voice and not her chest. I don’t understand this and feel it doesn’t do her justice but there you go. 😉
@wisehammer It was indeed a treat to see a show at the Opera House. Having lived in Australia for 20yrs it's taken me a long time to tick it off my bucket list! A lot of people have been saying that the alternate Norma, Sylvie Paladino, is better, but I needed to see Sarah and find out for myself.
I know before I even finish writing this comment. I’ll probably get my behind kicked because apparently everybody supposed to just bow down and worship Sarah with no question but I’m sorry this is a train wreck.
I don’t hear what y’all do. It’s a good thing singing is subjective. I hear a fresh, sparkling tone from a veteran performer in her mid-sixties. Many people half her age would be lucky to deliver these vocals. Respect for your opinion, but ‘train wreck’ seems like a far stretch.
@@javierortiz5537 if you hear a fresh sparkling tone, then honey, you need to get your ears checked and I can promise you I’m not the only person who has used such language as friend to describe this.
I’ll leave it to a nameless critic to tell people they don’t know that they need their ears checked. Different opinions, that’s all.
Consider your ass kicked!
That's rich coming from someone who is a fan of Lea Michelle, a singer whose career didn't go beyond Glee and who doesn't have even a hair of Sarah Brightman's talent. This is definitely not the Sarah Brightman who sang Time to Say Goodbye or Memory and perhaps this isn't the right role for her but to call this a train wreck is quite frankly insulting.