Yeah, no. You are engaging in superlatives here, and I respect you for your Diva Worship but, all of her artistry aside, La Ponselle never sang "La Traviata" in its original key. She had a magnificent voice but even she herself said that she was a mezzo with full control of her upper register. Still, this an astounding feat of vocalism, and I thank you for sharing it with us. Best wishes from Turkiye. :-)
@@eddue12345 that's not true, all voces can sing with agililty, no matter the size, dramatic voces have existed for ever, and there was a time when all music was quite florid, and all type if voices sang those pieces
For me, Rosa Ponselle was incomparable - the most beautiful soprano voice ever. She was the pinnacle to which all others aspired. Even the great Maria Callas revered Ponselle. Thank heavens we have recordings such as this glorious rendering of Massenet's Elegie by which to remember her golden singing.
My father-in-law, baritone Giovanni De Surra, spent an afternoon singing arias and duets at her villa in New England. I have the signed photo she gave him with a lovely message. One of my treasures!
Her villa, Villa Pace, was in Greenspring Vally North of Baltimore, we lived a couple of miles away and when we went by her home when I was a kid I heard about her storied career from my Mother, a music teacher,
En ningún teatro del mundo, se escucha una voz así, en ninguno. Ponselle es única. Una voz totalmente emotiva, expresiva, rica, sin comparación. Gracias
@@aetion Tonally Ponselle maybe had the greatest chest voice of any 'soprano', but maybe lacked the intensity and musicianship of Callas'. I've always suspected that Ponselle was maybe a dramatic mezzo who had a bright top in her youth, because she was simply magnificent in the middle and lower voice.
@jmiller05 Not "maybe". She certainly had an amazing chest voice, but she undoubtedly didn't have Callas' intensity and musicianship. By far *not*. As to the remaining, I agree with you. A falcon soprano perhaps? However, you must admit that her low register is completely unusual, even for a contralto!
@@aetion Not trying to start an argument here, just my opinion...Ponselle here sounds amazing to me. I've never been able to warm to Callas. Callas did have some similarities to Ponselle, but I'd rather listen to Rosa here any day of the year. For some reason, sonically, Callas bores me to tears. Visually, her fierce soul came to the fore. I don't think I've heard any of Callas' early work before she lost a lot of weight. I've read she was amazing then. Anything you know of from that era on TH-cam?
Conductor Tulio Seraphin famously said that in his lifetime there were 3 vocal miracles - Caruso, Ruffo and Ponselle. After that there were . several wonderful singers. (Callas? Sutherland?)
that was said to spite Callas when they had broken their collaboration ... also Callas went far above Tulio, far far above... he also refused to have her sing in studio Armida or Kostanze and had her sing Cavaleria and Pagliacci lool... he was a nasty little person and never a truly genius conductor
extreme vocal beauty from an artist who never truly mastered technically her instrument out of laziness supported by the "easy factor" of the Beauty (Beauty opens easily all doors on all levels)
God himself created the Voice of Rosa Ponselle and it was given to a lazy person who never learnt how to use it, that she never reached her potential is an understatement
@@Jameseus18 Ponselle's diminuendi and messa di voce were Legendary.. and if we take into belief what is said that her voice was HUGE (it was said that when she sang there was no difference between first and low row in the theatre) just image what a full scale messa di voce of Ponselle would actually mean
I'm amazed that no one has mentioned the private recordings Ponselle made at her home in the 1950s. Her opulent voice gleams in more modern sound. Here's Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix: th-cam.com/video/r1nD8Z_rIso/w-d-xo.html
È proprio vero....è una voce tra le più belle e possenti...voce meravigliosa di Rosa Ponselle che si distingue nettamente...perché ammorbidita da toni leggiadri ed eleganti....è una di quelle preziose trine che abbelliscono , se possibile , danno un qualcosa in più....già a così tanto talento !! Grazie Lohengrin O...io ho espresso semplicemente un modesto parere....danke...Elsa.😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I had not heard this in decades. Bellisima voce. Maria Callas credited Rosa Ponselle as her vocal idol and only inspiration (Maria Callas in Her Own Words, John Ardoin). Ponselle worked with Tullio Serafin, who also worked with Maria Callas, an interesting link between these two great artists. I love this photograph of Ponselle in 1919, at age 22. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Ponselle#/media/File:Rosa_Ponselle_in_1919_on_sofa.jpg
Serafin rated Ponselle among the three vocal miracles he had heard in his lifetime, according to Walter Legge. The other two being Caruso and Tita Ruffo. Yes, the voice is truly amazing.
yes along with Flagstad and Tebaldi I think t hey had the most beautiful vocal timbres (Aside Caballe)... I consider them like twin sisters Ponselle - Flagstad - Tebaldi and all of them with zero technique, natural singers, singing like their mother gave birth to them
@@LohengrinO It is such a shame that I have never heard these ladies singing live - only recordings. It is hard to judge whether they have a technique or not. From this very lush recording.of Ponselle's voice, impossible. Sounds solid enough to me. The timbre of a voice is the nature beauty. -or not. You would not call Callas's voice beautiful or pure. If her technique was so good, what happened to her then? Was it just the disasterous association with Onassis that played havoc with her emotions and affected her voice? Or was it the sudden and rather significant weight loss.?
Opulence indeed! A column of seamless unforced sound. Callas thought of her as a vocal Goddess! She was one of a kind voice. I always felt her voice was similar in many ways was Stignani. I think she was referred to as The Italian Fladstag.
Yes I think that Ponselle and Flagstad are twin sisters... not just in their ultra-round, smooth, rich, gorgeous, huge sound but also in their huge reluctance of accessing their top notes
ERIC GARBUTT Stignani was referred to as the Italian Flagstag, not Ponselle. I find those two voices similar. I agree Horne does have a similarity too. Especially when you listen to her when she was a soprano.
except from coloratura quality... she sounded like a duck quacking with no pinpoint accuracy plus she avoided C6s like plague... complete lack of technique... if she had worked on her voice perhaps she could have had everything... lazy artist
Listen to Ponselle singing “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta void” then listen to Callas at her best. Then tell me who possessed the most beautiful and opulent voice of the 20th c. (Allowing of course for the difference in recorded quality) 😁
Early life She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897, in Meriden, Connecticut, the youngest of three children. The family lived on the city's west side in a neighborhood chiefly populated by immigrants from the south of Italy, first at the corner of Lewis Avenue and Bartlett Street, then on Foster Street, where Ponselle was born, moving when she was three to Springdale Avenue. Her parents were Italian immigrants from Caiazzo, near Caserta. Ponselle had an exceptionally mature voice at an early age and, at least in her early years, sang on natural endowment with little, if any, vocal training. Instead, her early prowess as a piano student (which was cultivated by a local music teacher, Anna Ryan, the organist of a nearby Catholic church), seemed to incline Rosa to instrumental rather than vocal music. But with the influence and example of her older sister, Carmela, who was then pursuing a career as a cabaret singer, Rosa began to augment her engagements as a silent-movie accompanist in and around Meriden by singing popular ballads to her audiences while the projectionist changed film reels. By 1914, her reputation as a singer led to a long-term engagement at the San Carlino theater, one of the largest movie houses in New Haven, near the Yale campus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Ponselle creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The best qualilty recording of her that I can find here is "Carmen Carmela" (search "Rosa Ponselle folk song"). Do you have more of her in similar quality? I love her so much and it's hard to find recordings that really do justice to her huge voice.
Ponselle and her twin sisters Tebaldi and Flagstad, a Trio, that would be the Sum of Vocal Beauty... I would duet Callas with Pasta or Malibran, espcially Pasta who was the Sfogato of the 19th century with an ugly metalic voice, with 3 different heterogenous timbrically registers, supreme Agility and vocal colors of suffocating anxiety, horror etc
Listening to her makes me understand why Callas must have been upsaid/mad having to train sooo hard to manage her voice.. but then again i still think Callas had that extra edge that Ponselle didn’t. But it’s only my own opinion. Both sound out of this world and i’d love to have been born much earlier to have seen any of them live
because in the difficult/florid passages Rosa was almost horrible.. the natural instrument was phenomenal but it never reached its complete potential, her coloratura was not good and the top notes she most of the times avoided them. Gorgeous Voices usually dont reach their full potential because the doors open too easily for them... u do realize that Rosa was hired by the Met at very young age after singing Casta Diva (and fainting after it) without particular training!! To be able to naturally sing Casta Diva??? a Phenomenon
Lohengrin O as far as i listened she was pretty ok til the high C anything beyond .. well.. also i think she had some trouble with high speed passages. I always feel she sounds gorgeous but slowed down.. i mean i don’t think she could ever handle the speed of the second part of the Tu che invocco or from the Pirata first act finale ( the one Rescigno tells of in an interview, Callas sounded like a machine gun)...
Imagine though her singing Nume tutelar with that gorgeous, opulent Voice.. when the aria did not demand coloratura or too high notes (like the above post) she was Divine... and notice the wonderful Diminuendo at the end... being able to do a Diminuendo like that without training? I cannot even do a diminuendo within my speaking voice :D
yes she sang it under Toscanini and the audience went wild and they were screaming Bis but Toscanini was refusing till one lady shouted: Dont me stubborn Maestro, when will we hear such perfection again (I had read this before listening to this aria and I thought it would be a most difficult one - on the contrary it is the easiest in Vestale and that allows the Gorgeous Opulent Voice of Ponselle to shine through... btw the guy/poster describing her high notes here as falsetto is BRAIN DAMAGED the woman always gave her full Body of Sound)
a superb look. i had a teacher of that time, she was 10 years younger. she said that good old Italian school was still in America. my teacher was not beautiful but she had an extraordinary technique.
Please , what is this wonderful piece of music ? I don't even see the name of the composer... Can anybody please bring details and description? Year of recording ? Many thanks. I absolutely love to listen to this jewel 💖
She was Callas's idol, her role model and "her despair" the celebrated voice she grew up listening to. Callas said "next to her my voice sounds like thick oil"
she could have been if she had developed a singing technique and not sing like her mother gave birth to her, not that this way wasnt phenomenal but not even close to the best
Yeah, no.
You are engaging in superlatives here, and I respect you for your Diva Worship but, all of her artistry aside, La Ponselle never sang "La Traviata" in its original key. She had a magnificent voice but even she herself said that she was a mezzo with full control of her upper register.
Still, this an astounding feat of vocalism, and I thank you for sharing it with us.
Best wishes from Turkiye. :-)
...furthermore she often omitted high notes or sang them lower... plus her coloratura had duck-sound quality which I truly not like in coloratura
@@eddue12345 that's not true, all voces can sing with agililty, no matter the size, dramatic voces have existed for ever, and there was a time when all music was quite florid, and all type if voices sang those pieces
What aria is this?
@@scottjohnson4850 Jules Massenet „Élégie“.
That is not a valid rebuttal to a claim that she had "the most Beautiful and Opulent Voice of the 20th Century"
The song is Elégie (1926 recording, Victor records)
For me, Rosa Ponselle was incomparable - the most beautiful soprano voice ever. She was the pinnacle to which all others aspired. Even the great Maria Callas revered Ponselle. Thank heavens we have recordings such as this glorious rendering of Massenet's Elegie by which to remember her golden singing.
if only she had descent vocal technique (not avoiding C6s, good coloratura etc)... a miraculous voice without technique, Lazy artist
@@LohengrinO Who doesn't have technique??????
are you really this nuts??? Guess you haven’t heard very many great singers!!!
My father-in-law, baritone Giovanni De Surra, spent an afternoon singing arias and duets at her villa in New England. I have the signed photo she gave him with a lovely message. One of my treasures!
Her villa, Villa Pace, was in Greenspring Vally North of Baltimore, we lived a couple of miles away and when we went by her home when I was a kid I heard about her storied career from my Mother, a music teacher,
En ningún teatro del mundo, se escucha una voz así, en ninguno. Ponselle es única. Una voz totalmente emotiva, expresiva, rica, sin comparación. Gracias
Like Callas she goes right to your heart! Its
no wonder Callas adored her. Thank you.
The thickness and projection of her middle voice is staggering.
Just listen to this low register th-cam.com/video/eIYyw9Lru2c/w-d-xo.html Isn't it amazing?
@@aetion Tonally Ponselle maybe had the greatest chest voice of any 'soprano', but maybe lacked the intensity and musicianship of Callas'. I've always suspected that Ponselle was maybe a dramatic mezzo who had a bright top in her youth, because she was simply magnificent in the middle and lower voice.
@jmiller05
Not "maybe". She certainly had an amazing chest voice, but she undoubtedly didn't have Callas' intensity and musicianship. By far *not*. As to the remaining, I agree with you. A falcon soprano perhaps? However, you must admit that her low register is completely unusual, even for a contralto!
@@aetion Not trying to start an argument here, just my opinion...Ponselle here sounds amazing to me. I've never been able to warm to Callas. Callas did have some similarities to Ponselle, but I'd rather listen to Rosa here any day of the year. For some reason, sonically, Callas bores me to tears. Visually, her fierce soul came to the fore. I don't think I've heard any of Callas' early work before she lost a lot of weight. I've read she was amazing then. Anything you know of from that era on TH-cam?
@dynomax101 De gustibus non est disputandum.
For young Maria, you can have a look here th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=Callas+pre+1953
Incredible rich and beautiful voice and very expressive musicality of her, shining through even from an old record. Phenomenal.
Conductor Tulio Seraphin famously said that in his lifetime there were 3 vocal miracles - Caruso, Ruffo and Ponselle. After that there were . several wonderful singers. (Callas? Sutherland?)
that was said to spite Callas when they had broken their collaboration ... also Callas went far above Tulio, far far above... he also refused to have her sing in studio Armida or Kostanze and had her sing Cavaleria and Pagliacci lool... he was a nasty little person and never a truly genius conductor
Sublime mélodie, superbement chantée, a goddess!
Rosa Ponselle die göttliche Stimme !!!!! Die schönste Sopranstimme aller Zeiten. Meine Lieblingssängerin ❤❤❤❤. Ich besitze alle ihre Tonaufnahmen.
Rich , beautiful ,touching singing .
Thank you so much !
Remarquable interprétation, émouvante et profonde exécutée par une voix exceptionnelle de beauté et de technique
extreme vocal beauty from an artist who never truly mastered technically her instrument out of laziness supported by the "easy factor" of the Beauty (Beauty opens easily all doors on all levels)
What a gorgeous voice! So beautiful...!!!
Bravo!!! certainly the most beautiful and opulent voice... LOVE+ BRAVO!!!
too bad she never truly learnt how to sing well the soprano roles
@@LohengrinO She sang mezzo role so well, are you saying that she had not reached her potential?
God himself created the Voice of Rosa Ponselle and it was given to a lazy person who never learnt how to use it, that she never reached her potential is an understatement
@@LohengrinO You can’t really be that stupid can you?
are you retarded???
I forever mourn the fact that she omitted the fast passages in the finale of Tu che invoco. IMAGINE..
I keep coming back to this post. What a gorgeous, gorgeous voice
...it is haunting and seductive
@@LohengrinO Indeed! And that diminuendo at end is breath taking
@@Jameseus18 Ponselle's diminuendi and messa di voce were Legendary.. and if we take into belief what is said that her voice was HUGE (it was said that when she sang there was no difference between first and low row in the theatre) just image what a full scale messa di voce of Ponselle would actually mean
È la voce di un angelo. Non può essere reale... È così dolce e drammatica al tempo stesso 💖
In the low passages one can almost hear Callas. Amazingly beautiful!
Ponselle had a natural contralto register, pure and authentic
@@LohengrinO the low register is what moves me.
Callas revered Ponselle
@@marilynmichaels8358 They were both mezzo. Their low notes are always strong where others' voice go all watery down there.
So earthy yet otherworldly at the same time... One of the most beautifully colored instruments I've ever heard.
probably the most beautiful of them all...from the pure dramatic soprani: Ponselle, Tebaldi, Flagstad
Una conjunciòn de belleza sublime. Gracias por descargarlo; profunda belleza para el deleite de nuestros sentidos.
I see the firefights in the comments have distracted from the fact that this is wonderful singing no matter WHO your favorite is!
exquisite singing
I'm amazed that no one has mentioned the private recordings Ponselle made at her home in the 1950s. Her opulent voice gleams in more modern sound. Here's Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix: th-cam.com/video/r1nD8Z_rIso/w-d-xo.html
Voce soave, ci porta con gli occhi chiusi tra gli Angeli e ci fa sognare di vivere in un mondo celestiale!! Eccelsa 💕
Most admirable
ca fait du bien au mezzo qui se posait a 15 ans la tessiture..la question est precoce oui😅 j ai un sourire particulier...c divin..le beau en tout
I'm not crying...😭
Thanks for sharing ...
Amazing!
It is surreal
Unmatched rendition! Sublime! I don't know if Poncelle is the greatest soprano ever, but at the very least she is second to none.
greatest Voice perhaps, greatest singer no... too bad technique
Oh Yaz
È proprio vero....è una voce tra le più belle e possenti...voce meravigliosa di Rosa Ponselle che si distingue nettamente...perché ammorbidita da toni leggiadri ed eleganti....è una di quelle preziose trine che abbelliscono , se possibile , danno un qualcosa in più....già a così tanto talento !! Grazie Lohengrin O...io ho espresso semplicemente un modesto parere....danke...Elsa.😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
She was Callas's love and mine. Thanks for this gem.
Unbelievable... She was a Goddess!
Vielen Dank!!!So schoene Stimme.....❤🌹
Elegie de Jules Massenet. Merci pour cette enregistrement rare.
I had not heard this in decades. Bellisima voce. Maria Callas credited Rosa Ponselle as her vocal idol and only inspiration (Maria Callas in Her Own Words, John Ardoin). Ponselle worked with Tullio Serafin, who also worked with Maria Callas, an interesting link between these two great artists. I love this photograph of Ponselle in 1919, at age 22.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Ponselle#/media/File:Rosa_Ponselle_in_1919_on_sofa.jpg
Serafin rated Ponselle among the three vocal miracles he had heard in his lifetime, according to Walter Legge. The other two being Caruso and Tita Ruffo. Yes, the voice is truly amazing.
First time I hear Rosa Ponselle. Quiet beautiful.
yes along with Flagstad and Tebaldi I think t hey had the most beautiful vocal timbres (Aside Caballe)... I consider them like twin sisters Ponselle - Flagstad - Tebaldi and all of them with zero technique, natural singers, singing like their mother gave birth to them
@@LohengrinO It is such a shame that I have never heard these ladies singing live - only recordings. It is hard to judge whether they have a technique or not. From this very lush recording.of Ponselle's voice, impossible. Sounds solid enough to me. The timbre of a voice is the nature beauty. -or not. You would not call Callas's voice beautiful or pure. If her technique was so good, what happened to her then? Was it just the disasterous association with Onassis that played havoc with her emotions and affected her voice? Or was it the sudden and rather significant weight loss.?
Sou um altista essa música e uma inspiração para viver da forma que mundo e as pessoas não entendem como e ser assim
Absolute perfection!
Opulence indeed! A column of seamless unforced sound. Callas thought of her as a vocal Goddess! She was one of a kind voice. I always felt her voice was similar in many ways was Stignani. I think she was referred to as The Italian Fladstag.
Yes I think that Ponselle and Flagstad are twin sisters... not just in their ultra-round, smooth, rich, gorgeous, huge sound but also in their huge reluctance of accessing their top notes
iTALIAN? YOU MEAN AMERICAN
I also hear bits of Ponselle's sound in Horne... particularly the lower middle voice
ERIC GARBUTT Stignani was referred to as the Italian Flagstag, not Ponselle. I find those two voices similar. I agree Horne does have a similarity too. Especially when you listen to her when she was a soprano.
yes! indeed...
Powerful.
Her voice divine
She was haute too.
I can only cry .
Wonderful!
Rise Stevens on Rosa Ponselle´s voice: "Ponselle was unique; the quality, the control the volume of that voice! she had evvvverything...!"
except from coloratura quality... she sounded like a duck quacking with no pinpoint accuracy plus she avoided C6s like plague... complete lack of technique... if she had worked on her voice perhaps she could have had everything... lazy artist
@@LohengrinO lol
Listen to Ponselle singing “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta void” then listen to Callas at her best. Then tell me who possessed the most beautiful and opulent voice of the 20th c. (Allowing of course for the difference in recorded quality) 😁
Great great artist, beautiful photo
BELLEZA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Πόσο αγαπημένη! Σας ευχαριστούμε για την υπέροχη ανάρτηση!
η σοβαρη αλλα υπερτιμημενη Καλλας πρεπει καποτε να εκτιμηθει αντικειμενικα
Wow, just matches my mood so precisely...
Early life
She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897, in Meriden, Connecticut,
the youngest of three children. The family lived on the city's west
side in a neighborhood chiefly populated by immigrants from the south of
Italy, first at the corner of Lewis Avenue and Bartlett Street, then on
Foster Street, where Ponselle was born, moving when she was three to
Springdale Avenue. Her parents were Italian immigrants from Caiazzo, near Caserta.
Ponselle had an exceptionally mature voice at an early age and, at
least in her early years, sang on natural endowment with little, if any,
vocal training. Instead, her early prowess as a piano student (which
was cultivated by a local music teacher, Anna Ryan, the organist of a
nearby Catholic church), seemed to incline Rosa to instrumental rather
than vocal music. But with the influence and example of her older
sister, Carmela, who was then pursuing a career as a cabaret singer,
Rosa began to augment her engagements as a silent-movie accompanist in
and around Meriden by singing popular ballads to her audiences while the
projectionist changed film reels. By 1914, her reputation as a singer
led to a long-term engagement at the San Carlino theater, one of the
largest movie houses in New Haven, near the Yale campus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Ponselle
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The best qualilty recording of her that I can find here is "Carmen Carmela" (search "Rosa Ponselle folk song"). Do you have more of her in similar quality? I love her so much and it's hard to find recordings that really do justice to her huge voice.
u cant see her huge voice but through bootleg recordings
Reminds me a lot of Enrico Caruso . There is something that these two share in the voice ...
It's ironic because due to the unique almost baritone-like darkness, Ponselle was given the nickname "Caruso In Petticoats"
Her debut at the Met was singing with Caruso.
Эту "Элегию" изумительно исполнял Фёдор Шаляпин.
Not just Shalyapin..many other wonderful singers!
She sings so freely it's like she has a breeze blowing inside her head
Sublime!
Callas miala racje wzorujac sie na TEJ WSPANIALEJ SPIEWACZCE o cudownym glosie
Superbe Ponselle
It would be really interesting to hear Ponselle and Callas sing a duet.
Ponselle and her twin sisters Tebaldi and Flagstad, a Trio, that would be the Sum of Vocal Beauty... I would duet Callas with Pasta or Malibran, espcially Pasta who was the Sfogato of the 19th century with an ugly metalic voice, with 3 different heterogenous timbrically registers, supreme Agility and vocal colors of suffocating anxiety, horror etc
I would die of bliss to hear Ponselle and Callas sing together. Oh my goodness!
How about that low register....
Gorgeous singing
Callas admired Ponselle.
great beauty
Who was it who said that if you want to compare singers, first you must separate Caruso and Ponselle, then you may begin?
never truly liked neither... both overrated Legends
Listening to her makes me understand why Callas must have been upsaid/mad having to train sooo hard to manage her voice.. but then again i still think Callas had that extra edge that Ponselle didn’t. But it’s only my own opinion. Both sound out of this world and i’d love to have been born much earlier to have seen any of them live
because in the difficult/florid passages Rosa was almost horrible.. the natural instrument was phenomenal but it never reached its complete potential, her coloratura was not good and the top notes she most of the times avoided them. Gorgeous Voices usually dont reach their full potential because the doors open too easily for them... u do realize that Rosa was hired by the Met at very young age after singing Casta Diva (and fainting after it) without particular training!! To be able to naturally sing Casta Diva??? a Phenomenon
Lohengrin O as far as i listened she was pretty ok til the high C anything beyond .. well.. also i think she had some trouble with high speed passages. I always feel she sounds gorgeous but slowed down.. i mean i don’t think she could ever handle the speed of the second part of the Tu che invocco or from the Pirata first act finale ( the one Rescigno tells of in an interview, Callas sounded like a machine gun)...
Imagine though her singing Nume tutelar with that gorgeous, opulent Voice.. when the aria did not demand coloratura or too high notes (like the above post) she was Divine... and notice the wonderful Diminuendo at the end... being able to do a Diminuendo like that without training? I cannot even do a diminuendo within my speaking voice :D
Lohengrin O you mean... this? th-cam.com/video/uxSI8BnUEGs/w-d-xo.html
yes she sang it under Toscanini and the audience went wild and they were screaming Bis but Toscanini was refusing till one lady shouted: Dont me stubborn Maestro, when will we hear such perfection again (I had read this before listening to this aria and I thought it would be a most difficult one - on the contrary it is the easiest in Vestale and that allows the Gorgeous Opulent Voice of Ponselle to shine through... btw the guy/poster describing her high notes here as falsetto is BRAIN DAMAGED the woman always gave her full Body of Sound)
Elégie, by Jules Massenet
a superb look. i had a teacher of that time, she was 10 years younger. she said that good old Italian school was still in America. my teacher was not beautiful but she had an extraordinary technique.
my teacher was born in 1910, she taught me being 84 yo , our main exercises were staccato and talking
also fermata over the octave , head resonator
Please , what is this wonderful piece of music ? I don't even see the name of the composer...
Can anybody please bring details and description? Year of recording ?
Many thanks. I absolutely love to listen to this jewel 💖
The song is Elégie ("O doux printemps d'autrefois") from Massenet's Opus 10, number 5
What’s the name of the aria?
Her voice remember me a bit to Callas, more than no other soprano.
She was Callas's idol, her role model and "her despair" the celebrated voice she grew up listening to. Callas said "next to her my voice sounds like thick oil"
❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
e assim eternizamos essa voz
What aria is this?
Maria CALLAS favourite Singer ♥️.
Ponselle was amazing but I would say she and Flagstad Should share greatest voice of the century - but in different repertories !
If only Flagstad didn't omit every high note in the score... very disappointing from her
What is this piece?
Elegie by Jules Massenet
Maria Callas called her the best. So much for dismissing Ponselle.
she could have been if she had developed a singing technique and not sing like her mother gave birth to her, not that this way wasnt phenomenal but not even close to the best
I've been burrying myself in TH-cam for a while, and male or female voice she is nonpareil.
Sorry, I do not hear what you do. I don't think the voice is that special.
What aria is this?
Yeah, I've been looking too.
Massenet - Élégie
@@roalia2372Massenet - Élégie