We have Richard Bonynge to thank for surreptitiously inching Dame Joan's voice up from mezzo to soprano. What we would have missed! Thank you for this glorious recording, Lohengrin O.❤
Sills is perfect in Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux, but I feel (personally) she lacks some of the strength and range that the title role in Anna Bolena requires. She sounds rather too fluttery for my taste. In my opinion, there hasn't been anyone so far that has perfectly encapsulated the role, or met the music's demands. Maria Callas comes close, but her recordings/live performances have so many annoying cuts. Elena Souliotis, despite not being in her prime when she recorded it with Silvio Varviso (1969), offers the best characterization of Anne, although her coloratura is messy and her high notes are weak.
@@RequiemAeternam01We are not far apart. I was reacting to Sutherland’s María S and mentioned the other ladies thinking about those who sang the 3 Queens. Callas was great of course but only sang Anna B. I have listened to Sills’s recordings many times and “live” only once when she sang Bolena’s finale in concert which seemed to me at that time as out of this world. As we both said, great subjective component in all of these. Thanks.
Ήταν ένας από τούς πιο χαρακτηριστικούς της ρόλους, αν δεν κάνω λάθος. Μεγάλη δραματική κολορατούρα, πολύ μεγάλη. Ευχαριστώ, φίλε μου. ΥΓ: Ποιος είναι ο βαρύτονος; Έχασα πια την ικανότητα ν' αναγνωρίζω τις φωνές 😞
Really? Do you speak Italian? I speak basic Italian, and I speak Portuguese as my native language (obviously 70% or so is similar enough to Italian), and I can definitely understand most of what she sings here.
@@ygorcoelhos It's good, but in the music industry, most sopranos are compared with one another (Callas and Tebaldi, Nilsson and Flagstad, etc.), and one of the few criticisms Sutherland received was for her seemingly poorly-trained diction, but it's easy to look past when you hear her simply divine voice.
I was fortunate enough to hear Joan Sutherland in this wonderful opera march 1977 in Amsterdam with Huguette Tourangeau. Absolute magic. ❤
Lucky you!
Simply wonderful again, our « Stupenda »❤🙏🌹
We have Richard Bonynge to thank for surreptitiously inching Dame Joan's voice up from mezzo to soprano. What we would have missed! Thank you for this glorious recording, Lohengrin O.❤
That pianissimo.... ❤
The opera that haunts me.
GORGEOUS opera... so beautiful melodies and so CENTRALE for a soprano voice... requires spectacular middle voice
Brava!
Grazie Theo❤ Bella aria
A matter of taste but for me Sills is unsurpassed in the Donizetti’s queens. Sutherland, Caballè, Gruberova and Radvanovski are all great of course.
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Sills is perfect in Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux, but I feel (personally) she lacks some of the strength and range that the title role in Anna Bolena requires. She sounds rather too fluttery for my taste. In my opinion, there hasn't been anyone so far that has perfectly encapsulated the role, or met the music's demands. Maria Callas comes close, but her recordings/live performances have so many annoying cuts. Elena Souliotis, despite not being in her prime when she recorded it with Silvio Varviso (1969), offers the best characterization of Anne, although her coloratura is messy and her high notes are weak.
@@RequiemAeternam01We are not far apart. I was reacting to Sutherland’s María S and mentioned the other ladies thinking about those who sang the 3 Queens. Callas was great of course but only sang Anna B. I have listened to Sills’s recordings many times and “live” only once when she sang Bolena’s finale in concert which seemed to me at that time as out of this world. As we both said, great subjective component in all of these. Thanks.
Ήταν ένας από τούς πιο χαρακτηριστικούς της ρόλους, αν δεν κάνω λάθος. Μεγάλη δραματική κολορατούρα, πολύ μεγάλη.
Ευχαριστώ, φίλε μου.
ΥΓ: Ποιος είναι ο βαρύτονος; Έχασα πια την ικανότητα ν' αναγνωρίζω τις φωνές 😞
Although the diction is as mushy as ever (she could be singing of potatoes and gravy), the voice is as glorious as ever! Brava Joanie!
Really? Do you speak Italian? I speak basic Italian, and I speak Portuguese as my native language (obviously 70% or so is similar enough to Italian), and I can definitely understand most of what she sings here.
🙄....The bel canto queen's....always have to elevated themselves by diminishing others.
@@ygorcoelhos It's good, but in the music industry, most sopranos are compared with one another (Callas and Tebaldi, Nilsson and Flagstad, etc.), and one of the few criticisms Sutherland received was for her seemingly poorly-trained diction, but it's easy to look past when you hear her simply divine voice.
¿Tengo un día benevolente o no estaba tan desastrosa como de costumbre en el fraseo? Todo lo demás, impresionante.
Non si capisce una parola..