Turandot, Vienna 1961 (Nilsson, di Stefano, Zaccaria, Price)
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- Turandot, Vienna 1961
(Nilsson, di Stefano, Zaccaria, Price)
Live from Vienna State Opera
22 June 1961
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Two Goddesses Price and Nilsson!!!
The vocal tone of each of the leads is fascinating in the performance. Indeed Di Stefano is a bit short at the top and his voice more medium in size and lacks energy in the middle voice at times, but his heartbreaking sound is so effective and not every Calaf is stentorian. Price spins bright gold tone in a quicker vibrato that was present at that point in her career. Added in some weird phrasing that almost sounds Straussian at times layered around a unique crying sound throughout the doomed Liu. It’s a very free , glamorous and totally soulful reading. Nilsson is her usual steel orotund and clarion self making a scary Turandot fearless in all the vocal registers at times she even becomes witch like and shadowy. Zaccaria is moving and gruff at the same time bringing a sense of grandeur to the father. The orchestra is vibrant and very animated. The conductor made sure every issue the singers have never ran into a train wreck as some of the phrasing is very unexpected and on the edge. He kept a brisk pace and brought out gorgeous playing. It’s a passionate reading almost frenetic with everyone singing for their LIVES. It must have been an incredibly exciting experience to be there.
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Di Stefano zuzuhören ist hier wirklich kein Vergnügen. Nilsson dafür wieder überragend. Kein Wunder dass die großen Tenöre damaliger Zeit ihre liebe Not mit Nilsson hatten.
I never tire of Nilsson's amazing vocal output in this role. It's really amazing how she can just sing out with complete security and abandon in a role where most others have to tiptoe. Yes, she's not the most Italian, but it doesn't matter. I'm not the biggest fan of Price, but her singing here is very sensitive, and the voice is gorgeously balanced. Liu is a great fit for her, even if it is an easier sing and a seconda donna role. I like Di Stefano, but he as others have noted, he does some pretty dangerous things here. The charisma is there though.
Vi fu a suo tempo un commento di un famoso tenore (non cattivo,anzi) che consigliava a Di Stefano di non cantare più Turandot,specialmente se Turandot era la Nilsson, anche perché nel 1961 la più bella voce di tenore mai udita, cominciava a soffrire anche per quel repertorio che non doveva cantare, qualche crepa si sente purtroppo anche qui
Qué pasó con Ola Pang Ola Pong
This role is not for Di Stefano. He has no power in his voice to sing the role of Calaf....IMHO
Nilsson semplicemente fantastica...oscura coro e orchestra , Di Stefano ce la mette tutta...ma lo trovo fuori ruolo, specialmente considerando il periodo, in cui Calaf era predominio di Corelli, Barioni e del Monaco.
Siete italiano, ma non capisci niente.
@@nietzschearistofanes sei come un tifoso di calcio....e anche maleducato
@@nietzschearistofanes forse tu non capisci niente...nemmeno che ci sono persone con gusto diverso dal tuo
@@ciupotto resta il fatto che un tenore lirico,con una voce stupenda come il grande PIPPO, non puo cimentarsi in un ruolo non consono alle sue corde vocali...questo è risaputo nel campo della lirica...E' come chiedere a CORELLI e DEL MONACO di cantare l'Elisir D amore di sicuro non farebbere una gra figura.....ci sono tenori leggeri..lirici..spinti e drammatici...ad ognuno la sua opera adatta alla sua voce....non se la prenda..Certo negli anni 50 Pippo aveva una voce ed una naturalezza nel cantare unica.
Calaf is not a dramatic role ,it's lyric-dramatic ,more lyric than dramatic . The tessitura is highish . Mdm didn't sing more than a couple of performances in the very late 1949 , as he did with Trovatore . Too high for him .
"Ti voglio tutta ardente d'amor" without high C :(
Why did no one ever say to Di Stefano, "basta", this is not for you?
Because it would have been a ridiculous thing to say ...and completely wrong!
@@puppetoz Lol. Now I understand your knee jerk reaction to my comment . Well ,Ruxon , you are wrong . mannail888 is wrong too , after a fashion , there were quite a few opera houses who said "basta" . Your former golden boy did sing only a couple of performances in the season 1958-59 , struggling , after which La Scala put their foot down . The Vienna State Opera were incautious enough to hire him for what we hear here , after which they too put their foot down to Di Stefano's pretensions as Calaf .
He wanted to match Corelli and del monaco in the spinto rep especially Corelli. So he forced his voice tried to give it s hard edge ,but he could nt go against his nature. Result ruined his voice . Beautiful natural big lyric voice. but stupid.
@@Nangis123 I'm looking at the Frank Hamilton archives now. Actually Di Stefano went on to sing a lot of other performances in Vienna after this performance, including of Turandot: Tosca, Ballo, Carmen, Cavalleria, Forza, Butterfly, Chenier, Traviata. He was just a huge star there during that time period. I agree that he is singing very recklessly in this performance, although the vocal charisma and crystal clear diction are still there.
There's no end to the list of roles he shouldn't have sung , but by 1961 I guess it didn't matter anymore ,the voice was already shot after less than 15 years .
Nilsson sounds like a foghorn , so different from the first Turandots , Raisa and Roselle . Puccini's misfortune (and ours) that his last opera fell on the hands of the Wagner sopranos , in the 1950-60's Inge Borgkh and Nilsson .
To get so little enjoyment out of something so wonderful says a lot about you.
@@puppetoz To say this is wonderful says a lot about your ears and your musical education . To not suffer other people to have an opinion different from yours says a lot about your psyche
@@Nangis123 The "everyone said so and so is good, then it must be good" herd mentality manifested in "Ruxton J" writings clearly indicates her/his grasp or, more accurately, lack of aesthetic faculty.
@music fan there isn’t anything wrong with having an opinion but there are times when it is best to know when to keep it to yourself
@markgraysondumas try understanding what is actually said or written and avoid assuming and making things up
You can hear how Di Stefano ruined that beautiful voice he had singing heavy roles like this which were far too big for him. Price, who I love, sounds too grand for the role of Liu.