Was für eine grossartige Atemstütze, die es Birgit Nilsson erlaubt diese extremen Spitzentöne in einer Art herauszukatapultieren, die einzigartig waren. Extrem sauber ohne Schärfe und optimal ins Zentrum getroffen, die mich sprachlos zurück lassen. Da diese Sängerin über eine solch riesige Raumstimme verfügte waren die Mikrophone gar nicht in der Lage das ganze Spektrum dieser gewaltigen Stimme wieder zu geben. Das Publikum im Saal konnten diese Dimension noch viel besser erleben, wie wir das auf Schallplatten oder wie hier auf diesem Video gewohnt sind. Eine solche Art Sängerin gibt es heute nicht mehr. Sie WAR wirklich ein DRAMATISCHER Sopran, was man von allen Sopranistinnen, die diese Rolle heute deklamieren und leider nicht SINGEN können, nicht behaupten kann. Was für ein Erlebnis auf der Opernbühne war es, wenn die Nilsson und Franco Corelli in Bestform, gemeinsam in dieser Oper Turandot reüssiert haben, da ist es den Zuhörern die Münder vor Staunen bestimmt offen geblieben.
Tell us a bit more about them performing together. Both Nilsson and Caballe were unique in their roles. How did they sound together on stage, specially when Turandot interrogates Liu? How did people react to their performance?
No. Check your facts and don't fib. They sang these roles together in Buenos Aires, 1965. Caballe never sang Liu at the Metropolitan; she was scheduled to sing Turandot in the early 1980s but the production was cancelled due to a Met orchestra strike.
At the height of her vocal power. She drove audiences WILD with her utterly unique voice. God bless Ed Sullivan. Week after week, he brought the best there was to the popular American audience. We were a better people, a better country then - and this is part of the why.
But only barely. A common "problem" was what chance did a mere symphony orchestra have against that incredible voice!, and that without a mike (not that any mere mike would have been capable of even trying a reproduction)! I never cease to marvel at her brilliant exemplifying of the indescribable power God gave man's voice, the greatness of which mere man's well-meant but ever-vain attempts at creating instruments in sincerest imitations (e.g. the pipe organ's "Vox Humana=Human Voice" stop), but for the >99% quite untrained, the power remains unrealized, though there are miraculous exceptions.
Diciamo che quando l'ho ascoltata a Roma nel Tristano nel '72 il povero Briliot a malapena arrancava...Mehta faceva quello che poteva. Praticamente era un concerto per soprano e ogni tanto degli interventi orchestrali
The Ed Sullivan Show was amazing. To think on one show, you could present Elvis, The Beatles and Birgit Nilsson-and people watched! That voice was such a force of nature-wow!!
@@vincec8218 , I like her voice. It is not completely Italian in timbre. And she ignores some words, when it’s not convenient for her to enunciate. But definitely a lot of potential!!
@@brucereid5120 she is Armenian American...I've heard her three times in person...live, the voice is massive for a lyric soprano...the timbre is ravishingly beautiful and instantly recognizable
fantastic performance from Ms. Nilsson despite the fast tempo! It would have been wonderful if Franco Corelli had entered unexpectedly to sing his part of the aria...it would have been a powerhouse reaction from the audience.
It's impressive that she can sing this at such a ridiculously fast tempo, but the conductor should have been a bit slower. Then Nilsson's voice could have really shined!
Any chance you could disable the videos popping up on the screen at the end? It stops us from being able to see the last 10 seconds of the video. Especially considering that this is the only upload of this video on the entire internet.
@@jackwynnemusic2367 If you read my comment I said "10 seconds". You're not informing me of anything I didn't already say. Maybe you don't understand the significance of a singer like Birgit Nilsson, but any video of her is valuable. To be able to see the full video without links popping up on it is not much to ask.
I saw Nilsson onstage a few times, but never as Turandot. However, we did see Gwyneth Jones, and my wife and I went backstage to meet her. She was a petite soft-spoken lady, and my wife asked, “was SHE the soprano who just obliterated the entire orchestra and chorus?!”
Folks, following the poor ratings of the Callas/London Tosca broadcast, the show instituted a 4 minute for all operatic performances. Tempi choices and cuts were thus made accordingly.
The tempo is quite fast, very different from her usual interpretations, i guess she was in a "bad day voice" so they did it a bit faster (I say bad day voice, but nilsson was famous for being one of the 3 best in the world with callas and flasgtad, so her bad day is still perfect for sure).
I agree with the others who have replied to you- I'm sure this brisk tempo and the removal of one of the central sections of the aria was so it would not be too long. I'm sure it had nothing to do with whether or not she was in good voice. (I think she sounds absolutely fine.) The Sutherland/Horne "Mira o Norma" is also abridged. If you wanted to be on Ed Sullivan, you had to play by his rules.
Clearly you’re OBSESSED with denigrating Nilsson which is beyond odd. One can like Callas and not be a sour harpy. Every video of hers I’ve watch you been spewing vitriol like the typical Callas widow. La Divina would he embarrassed of you. Move on.
So unbelievably beautiful.
My number 1 choice for Turandot for sure. As Birgit once said, "Isolde made me famous but Turandot made me rich." Incomparable, to say the least.
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The best Turandot EVER!!!!!
Was für eine grossartige Atemstütze, die es Birgit Nilsson erlaubt diese extremen Spitzentöne in einer Art herauszukatapultieren, die einzigartig waren. Extrem sauber ohne Schärfe und optimal ins Zentrum getroffen, die mich sprachlos zurück lassen. Da diese Sängerin über eine solch riesige Raumstimme verfügte waren die Mikrophone gar nicht in der Lage das ganze Spektrum dieser gewaltigen Stimme wieder zu geben. Das Publikum im Saal konnten diese Dimension noch viel besser erleben, wie wir das auf Schallplatten oder wie hier auf diesem Video gewohnt sind. Eine solche Art Sängerin gibt es heute nicht mehr. Sie WAR wirklich ein DRAMATISCHER Sopran, was man von allen Sopranistinnen, die diese Rolle heute deklamieren und leider nicht SINGEN können, nicht behaupten kann. Was für ein Erlebnis auf der Opernbühne war es, wenn die Nilsson und Franco Corelli in Bestform, gemeinsam in dieser Oper Turandot reüssiert haben, da ist es den Zuhörern die Münder vor Staunen bestimmt offen geblieben.
One of the greatest dramatic sopranos of all time.
The best Turandot ever...I heard here at the Met with Caballe as Liu
Tell us a bit more about them performing together. Both Nilsson and Caballe were unique in their roles. How did they sound together on stage, specially when Turandot interrogates Liu? How did people react to their performance?
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James King was Calaf in those performances
No. Check your facts and don't fib. They sang these roles together in Buenos Aires, 1965. Caballe never sang Liu at the Metropolitan; she was scheduled to sing Turandot in the early 1980s but the production was cancelled due to a Met orchestra strike.
She’s NO WORDS! So amazing
The only Soprano who didn’t have to work really hard to sing this aria with its stratospheric tessitura!
You forgot Sutherland..listen
Phenomenon. Nothing more to say. The best ever.
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Agreed!
At the height of her vocal power. She drove audiences WILD with her utterly unique voice.
God bless Ed Sullivan. Week after week, he brought the best there was to the popular American audience. We were a better people, a better country then - and this is part of the why.
And then Birgit comes and they had to bring the whole Montreal orchestra so that the audience could hear the orchestra as well.
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But only barely. A common "problem" was what chance did a mere symphony orchestra have against that incredible voice!, and that without a mike (not that any mere mike would have been capable of even trying a reproduction)! I never cease to marvel at her brilliant exemplifying of the indescribable power God gave man's voice, the greatness of which mere man's well-meant but ever-vain attempts at creating instruments in sincerest imitations (e.g. the pipe organ's "Vox Humana=Human Voice" stop), but for the >99% quite untrained, the power remains unrealized, though there are miraculous exceptions.
@@vincec8218 , basta con questa Kasondra. E' pessima.
Diciamo che quando l'ho ascoltata a Roma nel Tristano nel '72 il povero Briliot a malapena arrancava...Mehta faceva quello che poteva. Praticamente era un concerto per soprano e ogni tanto degli interventi orchestrali
@@vincec8218 She sucks.
Extatic ! Wonderful singer, wonderful woman, imperial, kind and funny too. I love you Birgit wherever you are. You were a goddess.
Beverly
The Ed Sullivan Show was amazing. To think on one show, you could present Elvis, The Beatles and Birgit Nilsson-and people watched!
That voice was such a force of nature-wow!!
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@@vincec8218 , I like her voice. It is not completely Italian in timbre. And she ignores some words, when it’s not convenient for her to enunciate. But definitely a lot of potential!!
@@brucereid5120 she is Armenian American...I've heard her three times in person...live, the voice is massive for a lyric soprano...the timbre is ravishingly beautiful and instantly recognizable
@@vincec8218Why bother after Nilsson??? No one will ever ever ever approach her greatness!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Even more amazing is that people watched when Sullivan himself was the host: the guy have no stage presence at all. 100% awkward.
She also sang in my opinion the best Aida ever.
Oh my God! That power..
Birgit Nilsson era un vero soprano drammatico...non le odierne voci drammatiche fasulle pompate artificialmente...
A M A Z I N G.....
Sublime Turandot!!!!
She is magnificent! I heard her with the Dallas Symphony in the sixties. I've never heard such a huge voice ever since.
Великолепное исполнение! Биргит Нилльсон обладала феноменально прекрасным голосом! Браво!
That pianissimo!!!! My heart just stopped beating
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Это великолепно. Насколько все грамотно, выразительно, музыкально. А какая техника. Просто образец исполнения! Браво, брависсимо👏👏👏💖💖💐💐💐
fantastic performance from Ms. Nilsson despite the fast tempo! It would have been wonderful if Franco Corelli had entered unexpectedly to sing his part of the aria...it would have been a powerhouse reaction from the audience.
Her 100% was 130% for others!
BRAVAAAAAA
Wooo impresionante, con que facilidad llega a las notas
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Esa tal casondra no es mejor que nilsson en este papel
Fantastic performance!
Enorme 😍
🏆🏆wonderful, wonderful🏆🏆
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This episode was broadcast from Montreal's Expo '67.
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Thank you for uploading it. I love seeing her in color
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🎉Fantastisk,en slik sopran finnes ikke nu.2024
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I didn't know Ed Sullivan could sing like that, or look that good in a dress.
ÉVA MARTON "A" TURANDOT! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
It's impressive that she can sing this at such a ridiculously fast tempo, but the conductor should have been a bit slower. Then Nilsson's voice could have really shined!
Maybe there were time issues given it was a TV broadcast
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Caro, figuriamoci, era Birgit che dirigeva!
Any chance you could disable the videos popping up on the screen at the end? It stops us from being able to see the last 10 seconds of the video. Especially considering that this is the only upload of this video on the entire internet.
It's only 10 seconds
@@jackwynnemusic2367 If you read my comment I said "10 seconds". You're not informing me of anything I didn't already say.
Maybe you don't understand the significance of a singer like Birgit Nilsson, but any video of her is valuable. To be able to see the full video without links popping up on it is not much to ask.
@@MrQwerty88 hmh k whatever you're just annoying me
@@jackwynnemusic2367 You're annoying yourself. You're the one commenting nonsense on somebody's post.
@@MrQwerty88 Please take it outside.
I saw Nilsson onstage a few times, but never as Turandot. However, we did see Gwyneth Jones, and my wife and I went backstage to meet her. She was a petite soft-spoken lady, and my wife asked, “was SHE the soprano who just obliterated the entire orchestra and chorus?!”
Omg. I saw her. She was peeling paint off walls
Wait. Could have been Dimitova. This would have been 95 or 96
@@ev4875 I never saw Dimitrova onstage. Definitely Dame Gwyneth. We got autographed photos from her.
No other whom ever lived is that divine God's gift eternal
Real turandot.
I like the fast tempo.
This is the kind of soprano you want to sing Turandot not Netrebko
🎂Birgit Nilsson 05-17-2022
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Tá pra nascer cantora de ópera igual essa
Quando si parla di Turandot la Nilsson non ha alcuna naturale rivale. Nessuna riesce neanche ad avvicinarsi…
Nessuna.
Nilsson WAS TURANDOT
Hit the pitch but strident. Love her Wagner…
Folks, following the poor ratings of the Callas/London Tosca broadcast, the show instituted a 4 minute for all operatic performances. Tempi choices and cuts were thus made accordingly.
If it's too fast, that's not her fault...the conductor.
Yeah. Slightly.
Nobody noticed that an entire part of the area is missing?
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A bit to rushed - but she is fantastic anyway!
Where was Franco?
This is, of course, fantastic singing. These trumpet notes!!! But I miss Italianità.
Le pauvre chef dirigeait quel opéra là? West side story?
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James Bond music😂
That was Tosca!
surely the best, but such bad writing for the voice needs a real good singer, and she was the best
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Oh yes. If only Puccini had known how to write for the voice, he might have achieved some success.
The tempo is quite fast, very different from her usual interpretations, i guess she was in a "bad day voice" so they did it a bit faster (I say bad day voice, but nilsson was famous for being one of the 3 best in the world with callas and flasgtad, so her bad day is still perfect for sure).
Maybe was it too long for popular TV...
@@yannicklaunoy2097 The singer cannot sing faster than the orchestra lol
There is a whole section of the aria that was cut, beginning with "Pure nel tempo che ciascun ricorda..." The fast tempo is probably for time.
I agree with the others who have replied to you- I'm sure this brisk tempo and the removal of one of the central sections of the aria was so it would not be too long. I'm sure it had nothing to do with whether or not she was in good voice. (I think she sounds absolutely fine.) The Sutherland/Horne "Mira o Norma" is also abridged. If you wanted to be on Ed Sullivan, you had to play by his rules.
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This made here very very rich.
Clearly you’re OBSESSED with denigrating Nilsson which is beyond odd. One can like Callas and not be a sour harpy. Every video of hers I’ve watch you been spewing vitriol like the typical Callas widow. La Divina would he embarrassed of you. Move on.
Ascoltata dal vivo a Palermo, mi spiace ma non è voce adatta a Turandot!
I'm
Just noticed that first half of the aria she sung with too much staccato, should be serene legato as written in the score.
Too bad she didn't have you around to critique her interpretation. She might have had a career.
@@michaelvaughn2091..best comment on TH-cam!!!
Just realized, she looks like Susan Boyle!
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your socks, blasphemer!
Too messy. Even the vibrato is instabile. No nuances.
She had much better performances.
Where can we listen to your performance?
@@torresedith4023 No, I m sorry
Umm..the vibrato is stable but ok..this is amazing singing. So effortless yet huge and loud
The problem is that it was too fast. This tempo doesn't give her room for full expression unfortunately.
the tempo is toooo fast for TV, it was strange to me at first too.
Too fast ..zero feeling ..rock solid voice but i dont like the performance.