Angela Gheorghiu sings ''Addio del passato'' in her La Scala debut
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2024
- Angela Gheorghiu sings "Addio del passato" in the scandalous first night of La Traviata at La Scala that marked her debut in July, 2007.
Despite the bad start (with boos directed to her, to baritone Roberto Frontali and, especially, the conductor Lorin Maazel), she had a good success in the subsequent performances. In this aria, one hears some boos amongst a wave of applauses. Judge her interpretation for yourself.
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she is simply great - what a beautiful colour of voice!!!!!
Wonderful news indeed! Thank heavens!
I have excellent news. In a recent interview to a Romanian newspaper Gheorghiu said her La Scala Traviata is going to be released in DVD soon. I hope they filmed a later performance, when there were no boos and, in fact (according to reviews I read), she was very acclaimed. ;-)
i think that the rec part is amazing and also the singing part .She make this part very moving
She is a wonderful singer - just forget uninformed predudice and listen and look.Superb!
Superb!
dear folk, check also the TH-cam's clip of this aria performed by Petya Ivanova at Maribor National Opera.
I think her Violetta is superb. Only Moffo and Callas are better Violettas. I don't understand the boos at all.
Gheorghiu is my favorite soprano after the passing of Sutherland and Sills the last few years.
Luckily we still have Domingo singing. But Horne is retired.
I missed the Golden age of yesteryear.
I think it was very RUDE of those individuals that booed her, her singing of the aria is so sophisticated and filled with emotion and despair, and her sobs are wonderful and effective! Her interpretation may differ from that of her great predecessor, co-national and idol Virginia Zeani, but it is still artistically valuable in its own way. Angela is a great singer, actress and artist!
wow. not always a fan but I got chills here. Those boos are just what kills opera, people unable to reach out of what they exactly want.
Well, in fact she is dead, but "operatically" she is present in many other videos in TH-cam, which I'd suggest you to watch to, because her interpretations of this aria are truly amazing and almost unsurpassable, and I'm quite sure you'd rather listen to that than a singer whom you don't seem to like at all.
Hey....that's ur opinion...i told you Angela is simply the BEST
The audience at La Scala is so harsh that, sometimes, I think it is a disgrace for such a great opera house.
The boos had nothing to do with her performance. She made some statements in interviews with the Italian media several days before the performance and the loggionisti perceived those comments as subtly unflattering to them...So the boos were their way of getting revenge for a (mis)perceived insult.
Aquellos italianos (que abuchearon) son unos sacos de pelotas, apuesto que son puros cantantes o intento de músicos frustrados...
Es una tremenda interpretación.
They booed an excellent Otello performance with Domingo and Freni and some recordings do show a very aggressive audience in good or even amazing interpretations. There's more to an Opera performance than purely technical analysis, you know.
I don't mean they are demons, but we also shouldn't make them appear as the "prophets" of Opera, who never fail. It's an old belief and I don't think it still applies to our days.
How can anyone in their right mind boo that performance, bloody archair experts , they should be barred from ever setting foot inside the place....let alone judging something that they are incapable of doing themselves.
The problem at LaScala was that some of the runs in Sempre Libre weren't working as well. Some people there like to boo an artist.
will this ever be released on dvd? is there any way to get a recorded film?
Sorry, I don't even remember who the singer people were talking about is. After all, I wrote that comment five months ago. ;-)
Pienso que existe en todo esto una cuestión mas "extramusical", o mas bien dicho fuera de la música y de la calidad de los interpretes, es una cuestión mas de buen gusto y de educación de parte del público, la interpretación fue grandiosa y la calidad vocal fuera de serie, sin mas decir.
i said generally .... it doesn*t mean there are not exceptions
italian public generally boos everyone that sings italian opera and is not italian
La Zeani...
Virginia era anni luce migliore come Violetta,è un fatto.
I heard this performance on radio, and while I didn't think it was anything special, I didn't thinking the booing was deserved. Actually, the booing was probably a result of her conceited off-stage persona which contributes to many people's negative feelings about her.
means "pushed"
Actually I am not a big fan of her but I have to say that she is one of the greatest Violettas ever... I dont like her overacting espacially when she reads the letter, she is pushing the words with a non corret accent. It looks a little ridiculous . But after you hear all the aria you can not say any word about her interpretation. The boos at La Scala are just to give more pepper to the show... :P
Any expert would care to elaborate about the boos?
it is true that the recitativo is a lit long, maybe a bit off a little bit here and there (deffenetly out of tempo, now that i'm listening closely)... =S gheorghiu is not my favourite choice for any role (nothing wrong with her, i just prefer Caballe or Scotto, that's all) but i always check Angela for proper phrase.
So, i really don't understand the boos =S I would love to know how she screwed it technically for those exquisite ears!????
lmao
Maybe to much vibrato? I don't catch it.
brava e appassionante, oddio un pochino caricata e debordante ma ci sta, i fischi sono davvero vergognosi...
omg...FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! the air is getting stuck and she is using the jaw and the tongue muscles! the sad part is that she is only in her 40's! look at mariella devia! she's in her 60's and could still hurl a high e flat very easily!
sa fare di meglio!
besides she's already lucky they waited for the end to BOO her. It's a common thing with these superstar sopranos at La Scala (Fleming's Lucrezia for instance) though Fleming is for sure a lever above this Gheorghiu.
Her voice is so spread it bothers my ears!
Je pense qu'elle s'écoute trop chanter;mais de l'extérieur,et pas assez de l'intérieur:
C'est esthétique,et non pathétique!..
Viiiiiiiiiiiibraaaaaaaaaaaaaatooooooooooooooo
just worst Italian chauvinism the boos.
And Dessay the graetest spinto beside gheorghiu is going to sing Brünnhilde soon!!! Hahahaha... in Bayreuth in 2050, hahaha!
pushed
Certainly comrade, we are not allowed to criticize the Guiding Light, the Soprano of Sopranos, the Second Coming of Callas! The "then you shouldn't be listening to her" is another rhetorical fallacy in reviews: as if I knew beforehand that she was bad! That means that I should judge her by other people's reviews, which would be totally unreasonable to Gheorghiou and any other performer. Lets just set up a boxing match in the loggione and see who has the right to speak (or whistle & shout).
On my first reply to you, dear Sergiu, I explained that your message tried to put down my argument by "appeal to authority". It seems you can only sing what you read, because here you are again making another appeal, this time to YOUR OWN authority. If this held, then all opera critics would have to be professional singers! And the same would apply to the audience: since they can't appreciate the singing, they fill the hall just to keep the singers at work. Go talk in your own echo chamber.
Another rhetorical fallacy common among wannabee music connoisseurs: appeal to authority. Because one is not a professor or singing coach, or some established opera critic, one CAN NOT give an opinion on a singer's performance. And what exactly, dude, is wrong with saying whether I like or do not like in Gheorghiou's singing? And THEN explaining why, so as to turn an opinion into real criticism, which is what most people do here and in Amazon when it comes to music? You belong in the loggione.
Preferisco la versione della Callas e da lontano
Exagerada interpretación. El público de la Scala no es de los que se dejan engañar fácilmente, y es implacable.
Dear Hugo, we can judge, because we have ears and heard many others that are at least as good or better. No need to be a singer. Any reader can judge a book, no need to be a writer, right? She sounds really bad here, sorry but that's the simple truth. ( She did so much better, compare to her Traviata with Solti some ten years ago which was pretty good) Here she pushes and tries desperately to be expressive because her voice doesn't respond anymore. It's sad, I agree.
To start with, this rec is not good quality, so everything in the upper registers sounds scratchy. In the end the only sound that is hear clearly is that of the clapping and booing at the end. That aside, in my not too humble opinion, this exaggerated vibrato is almost a cliché, and sounds (almost certainly) like an attempt at hitting high notes she can't reach. Then there's the matter of the decrescendos: she goes into the piano and pianissimo too quickly, so lacking dynamics. Barely competent.
Gheorghiu the best around today? LMAO
God she has the vibrato of a goat how is she the best?!
She's just an older version or Netrebko but luckily these marketing sopranos get replaced soon