Birgit Nilsson and Leonie Rysanek, Elektra 1980
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2019
- ELEKTRA - Vintage Remix
by Richard Strauss
This was the famous performance when Leonie Rysanek had a very high fever and wanted to cancel but pushed through for the TV broadcast.
This live performance is commercially available in DVD format. I have edited the video to add sharpness and converted it to black and white. The sound as well was enhanced and converted to mono.
Birgit Nilsson, Elektra
Leonie Rysanek, Chrysothemis
Mignon Dunn, Clytemnestra
Robert Nagy, Aegisth
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I was privileged and blessed to be at that performance at the Metropolitan.
Tatsächlich sieht für einen unerfahrenen Beobachter alles ziemlich seltsam aus. Zwei ältere Frauen geben vor, etwas Absurdes zu sein. Aber das ist hohe Kunst und höchste künstlerische und musikalische Leistung, die einen Sturm von Emotionen, Erlebnissen und Bewunderung für die professionelle Umsetzung hervorruft. Dies ist ein Meisterwerk! aller Zeiten.
I think Nilsson was underrated as an actress. She is completely captivating. Watching her eyes role back right before she collapses - Thrilling!!!!
The ULTIMATE in opera...Miss Nilsson and Miss Rysanek were truly the very best. I thank the heavens for allowing me to attend several of their last performances at the MET. Never to be seen again on stage.
These two great artists will never be outdone...
I remember. So sad to think that it is impossible to see anything like this now.
How wonderful to have been in the audience when these two legendary titans were singing together!
Anyone who has witnessed the late great and beloved Birget's 'Elektra' with the late great and much beloved Leonie Rysanek's 'Chrysosthemis' should consider him/herself blessed beyond measure. There is nothing more demanding of a soprano than 'Elektra'. I was so blessed. Thank you for posting.
Rysanek was very ill with the flu and almost cancelled but Thank Goodness she went on. The DVD shows them all backstage during the curtain calls - very happy!!!
These two extraordinary ladies probably had the biggest voices in opera history. Do you hear the thickness of the orchestration and how much brass is playing forte!!!! My God, and you can still hear these two. Humbling!!!
Nope. Gertrud Grob-Prandl's and Gwyneth Jones' voices were bigger than either of these ladies'. Also Sona Cervena.
Extraordinary! Even though Nilsson is beyond her peak (she is age 62 here!)
Je l'ai vu 3 fois à l'époque, inoubliable.
I can listen to this all day and night long in order to feel alive! Strauss has such a unique way to describe his compositions it's unbelievable and Nilsson have made such a splendidly gargantuan Elektra as always, no discussion! Love from Pakistan ❤❤💖
WOW!!!!! AMAZING!!! Oh to have experienced that, live.
Outstanding - marvellous!!!!!🎶🎶🎶👏👏👏👏❤️❤️
People went nuts! In the book Music and Trance this performance was compared to the possession by the audience similar to that which happens in a Voo-doo ceremony. They had to bring down the fire curtain people wouldn’t leave it was total delirium.
I saw Nilsson sing Turandot in Wiesbaden and it's true, they had to bring d own the fire curtain to get the audience to leave.
This is the gold standard of Elektra performances. Rysanek was the greatest Strauss soprano of the 20th century, and Nilsson was a force of nature beyond description.
How wonderful!
No one will ever sing Elektra like Nilsson. At 61 she is still far better than most modern sopranos who sing this role. Period.
G L O R I O U S
Most wonderful presentation of Electra/Elektra--ever. Ms Nilsson is a goddess in her own right. I was a child when I saw this first, and have never ever forgotten Nilsson's magnificent performance--voice, pose, and conduct THANK YOU for posting this
As Strauss told his orchestra, “Louder! I can still hear the singers!”
Actually, it was "I can still hear Frau Schumann-Heink" after she had criticized the music asking "What is this racket?"
@@SilfredoSerrano ahahah
Wasn't she right, though?
@@Tkimba2 No, she was wrong.
Nilsson habe ich zuletzt 1983 ich Hamburg sehen und hören können. Auch da noch grossartig und überwältigend. Wer könnte dies heute so singen wie sie? Danach habe ich viele andere Sängerinnen in dieser Partie der ELEKTRA gehört. Fast alle sind daran gescheitert und ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass mich eine Sängerin nach Nilsson sehr beeindruckt hätte. Jetzt warte ich darauf, dass Frau Netrebko vom Ehrgeiz gepackt wird und sich als Elektra präsentiert. Wir wollen doch alle etwas wieder zu lachen haben. Nicht wahr?
...es wäre tatsächlich grotesk, würde Frau Netrebko Hazard spielen wollen. Im Vergleich zu einem deutschen Tenor hat sie sich bisher jedoch nicht an Partien gewagt, die für ihre Stimme nicht taugen. Ob einem das jeweilige Ergebnis gefällt oder nicht, ist eine andere Frage. Ich bin mir jedenfalls sehr sicher, daß Frau Netrebko, auch wg ihrer mangelnden Deutsch Kenntnisse, diesen künstlerischen Suizid nicht begehen wird. Gruß!
@@mk5244 Wo Sie recht haben, haben Sie recht. Der von Ihnen angesprochene Deutsche Tenor singt tatsächlich deutlich über seinen Möglichkeiten. Bald dürfen wir seinem Tristan in München lauschen, Anja Harteros an seiner Seite, was es auch nicht erwartungsvoller macht. Die Aida Anna Netrebkos, der ich zuhören konnte, war so grottenschlecht, dass das Eintrittsgeld für diese Vorstellung hätte zurückgefordert werden müssen. Meine Sympathie hat werde ihre Stimme und ihre Persönlichkeit schon gar nicht. Wie sagte vor Monaten in München jemand zu mir: Diesem Paar, also ihrem Ehemann und ihr, haftet einfach etwas parvenuehaftes und billiges an. Das trifft es wohl.
@@petertenten5174 ....tatsächlich hat meine Gesangslehrerin Frau Netrebko schon sowohl „sehr gut als auch sehr schlecht“ erlebt. Ich plane meinen Konzert/Opernkalender - auch nach Corona- nicht nach Frau Netrebko und Ehemann. Den Eindruck, den Sie beschreiben, habe ich auch. Gruß!
Oder zu weinen.Ich habe Nilsson oft gehoehrt : Keine wie sie !!!
They don't do productions like this, anymore. Many are almost cartoonish.
Then she was sixty. Others were past their prime with forty
Glorious Nilsson and Rysanek forever...(BTW The sync is off but NOT dubbed)
Прекрасные голоса
Nilsson ne chante plus toujours très juste et Rysanek est en méforme vocale. Il fallait les voir et les entendre 15 ans plus tôt. Mais c'est mieux que rien
Music theatre de luxe
It doesn't get better.
Ronald Johnson If you heard her in ‘66 you might change your mind.
It's magnificent.
There is such a thing as 'great singing' ..... but it is not always above 'how loud can I sing?'
Much of Strauss' vocal music is today misunderstood because the melodic line is hidden behind 'noise'.....
体躯。
Why is this dubbed? It was a Met broadcast. (Of great sentimental value, but Nilsson was long past her prime.)
Dubbed??
@@mikaelb7735 If you look carefully the music and the mouths are not in sync. Maybe another fault, but something is technically off.
Yes i see that. But it is not "dubbed" only a diff in sound and movement/picture. A thing that can happen. Not a "guarantee" for perfection beeing filmed at MET. Dubbing, not to be arrogant, is when language f ex in an amercan movie is changed, by other actors voice, in to f ex german.
@@mikaelb7735 Your definition is way too narrow. All the old opera movies were dubbed by the singers after the action. Corelli in particular almost never sang on TV live but insisted on dubbing.
Yes Ransome i know. But that is not the case with the clip from the production we are talking about.
Too fabulous for words...but at the same time...there's some really off-pitch singing here.
But if it expresses something, does it matter that much?
It sounds fine to me.
A pity you didn't listen her when she was 40. The greatest Bruennhilde and Isolde EVER !!!!!!!
You’re correct. I attended one of the performances in this 4-performance run. Yes, it was incredible that two older sopranos could manage these roles after decades of singing the most punishing roles. But if you didn’t know their names were Nilsson and Rysanek, you’d say, wow, that’s not good singing. Loud, but not much more. Nilsson, flat; Rysanek, sharp. But as you said, who cares! It was still wonderful to see them. As far as Elektra, I was infinitely more thrilled by Behrens & Voigt, and Jones & Evans.
@@jorgeloffler9567 I never saw Flagstad onstage, but she sure sounded a lot better as Brunnhilde and Isolde, in my opinion.
@@wotan10950 I think it depends what you are looking for, as well as tessitura. I don’t think Flagstad could have sung Turandot or even the latter parts of Siegfried like Nilsson did. Flagstad could also be a bit lethargic in delivery, whereas Nilsson was more energetic. Both were great though.
Who conducted?
James Levine.
What a perv.
@@mvjonsson
Nilsson had a strange way to sing. The voice almost sits in her mouth and lips. And sound is stiff. Rysanek sings very different.
Did you ever hear her live? I did - and was in fact on the stage with her - close up you heard some strange sounds but the real thing happened out in the hall where her voice came from the walls and ceiling. No recording - no matter how good - comes close to what that voice was in a live performance.
Thank you
@@samthiel9824 I think she is really trying to keep her tongue as far forward as possible here.