This is some of the greatest Verdi singing of all time. Do we have any mezzos like this anymore? Dolora never became a household name, although she will be sorely missed when she retires. Of course, with singing like this, I don't think she will need to retire anytime soon.
SING, WOMAN!!! This is from 2011, and she sounds more secure and more fierce from top to bottom than she did singing O DON FATALE at the Tucker Gala a good 20 years ago?!?!? WHAAAAT?!?!? Long may she peel the patina from the walls, and may she continue to nurture young dramatic voices of the future...BRAVA!!!!
I have been blessed to see her at the Met several times, at least twice as Azucena. Her Stride la Vampa brought the house down every time, had half the audience in tears. Just amazing.
I'd reckon that Zajick, Cossotto, Verrett, and Troyanos had the best intepretation of this role. Callas didn't perform the role but her interpretation of this one aria also stands the test of time.
Indeed it is.... still is, five years later. I had the privilege of hearing her perform Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky this past season and oh, my goodness, she had all our attention from walking onstage, let alone the first note. What a voice!
@@carloslopez5766 .... I'm sure her voice sounded beautiful in the hall. Bigger voices don't record well. We don't get to hear their surround sound opulence!
Dolora and I attended the University of Nevada Reno's vocal department. She was a bit older than I. Real nice lady. She now runs a school for Individual Distinguished Young Voices.
BRAVA! My favorite Mezzo soprano.. she is some singer.. What I appreciate the most, is while the voice has matured, it is still a steady sound.. no wobble's still a lovely voice and very very strong top notes.. Love this woman.
Although excellent technical, linguistic and interpretive guidance play a part in the development of all operatic voices, to a significant degree, phenomenal operatic voices are God-given. Ms. Zajick has been thusly blessed.
@simisimi9 Zajick is one of the very few actual singers who definitely don't need any amplification. You can hear her outside of the opera house, especially the upper register...
It's funny to read some of the comments below, but you always get these so-called experts and critics on opera videos. Considering that Zajick just sang a well-received Amneris at the Met in 2019 (at nearly 67), it shows that she knows her technique VERY well. The great Fedora Barbieri was astonished when she first heard Zajick, and said, "Oh my God, where did you learn to sing like that??"
I chatted with Zajick at a small reception in DC this week. Truly a nice and down-to-earth person, and VERY smart. She said Don Carlo was one of her three favorite opera roles, so I assume this is among her favorite arias. I went on UA-cam and have listened to every version she has sung of O Don Fatale, and this from Madrid is the best. It is superb. But that said, I must say that the greatest recorded version of this aria ever is by the immortal Maria Callas, and it also is on UA-cam.
One of the all time great dramatic mezzos--She sings with massive power, range and drive. Heard her recently in Russalka and she was incredible as both a singer and actress
@simisimi9 I doubt she is being amplified. They record these concerts and since we are listening to a recording all kinds of things can be done to manipulate what we hear. Recording technicians can do more now to mimic the ambience of a live hall in recordings than ever before.
I wish she would enunciate the vowels in the middle part of her voice. It's as if she is trying to conserve something (breath, vocal alignment?) by not making them distinct. But it ends up distorting the whole meaning of what she's singing. I love her large, powerful voice, and impressive technique, but portraying the text acurately is also what helps move an audience.
Beautiful. Dramatic soprano? In what role? haha. Maybe Santuzza? She has a light way of using the acuti sometimes, so lovely; she uses it like a register a bit less sul fiato. That's almost contralto to me. I love mezzos and contraltos.
Unbeleivable that the human trumpet (as Fleming called her once!) was still singing this powerfully and solidly at 59. But it’s come at a cost - the vowels are absurdly modified and as a result her diction is terrible (and is she adding the letter G to the front of those Aimes in the slow central section?!!) she also can’t sing below a mezzo forte which is typical of singers who consistently oversang in heavy repertoire. Lots of lyric baritones end up this way). Nevertheless this is absolutely her repertoire and she is a phenomenon:
I have always HATED this aspect of her technique - how she purses her lips so intensely as a rule in order to keeps her mouth locked shut to stick the sound in her nose in her lower range. It does NOT sound good and tends to distort the lyrics and make the sound ugly and nasal. For example "ti maledicOO...ti maledicOO...il mio beltUH..." instead of maledico belta. Granted, the voice is huge and dramatic and a gift from God but I guess i don't think her particular technique is really working for her down there as consistently and strenuously as she applies it. I think it's a safety blanket. She needs to loosen up, but it's a hard area to navigate and I get that. I think she could use it as a base for practice but then in performance, open the jaw some and let's hear the words and a nicer warmer sound there!! I hope someone knows what i mean. She's aiming for a ueber forward placement and i just think it sounds ugly and distorts the text. And it doesn't look particularly pretty.
I just watched Shirley Verrett sing this aria. What splendidly GORGEOUS WARM scrumptious tone she had throughout and no distorted words with lockjaw and jutting lips and she didn't have to shove the sound in her nose to be heard. Masterful technique she had. Don't care for Zajick's technique at all, though it has seen her through.
The best mezzo after 1. Cossotto 2 . Bumbry 3. Verrett. Cossotto is the prima donna assoluta, The Queen of mezzo.Cossotto is so cute i private , but on stage she is burning with fire in her acting and in her glorious voice. I love La Cossotto and I always will.
She looks apologetic about losing breath at the end. She really did have an uncanny way of preserving the integrity of the voice - Cossotto’s acuti were badly flat by mid-career - but it involved a strange bottling up of the sound and distortion of vowels. Strange how she was the best for so long but not really ‘famous’.
io non capisco una sola parola di quello che dice. come si può cantare in questo modo? avrà pure risolto qualche problema di tecnica, ma non ha risolto quello più importante la pronuncia.
Histriónica. La voz fija en la nariz. Eso no es una voz libre. Y ninguna línea de canto. Lo contrario de una voz bella y cálida. Que me perdonen sus admiradores
Cierto. Justo en el inicio se puede notar cómo empieza con una voz de cabeza nasal y estrangulada, pasa a una voz de pecho más o menos correcta (aunque al menos tiene) y vuelve a la voz de cabeza estrangulada. Está bien que desarrolle la voz de pecho pero es una lástima que la voz de cabeza sea tan mala
@@robertotorres9945 Realmente es un comentario absurdo lo que los demás hemos conseguido o no en nuestras vidas. Simplemente estamos comentando como canta esta señora y lo que yo sí afirmo es que Zajick como la mayoría de cantantes actuales tienen que aprender mucho deauténticas mezzos del pasado como Stignani, Barbieri o Simionato. Grandes voces y bien emitidas. Obviamente ninguna ha sido perfecta. Ninguno lo somos. Bueno, la única cantante que se aproxima a la perfección humana es desde mi punto de vista Maria Callas.
@@draganvidic2039 maybe you do. But think I have the wisdom to know that all voices have their limitations. True, you don't want to give everybody a gold star but I think you're hypercritique of EVERYONE is just to show off. Get self esteem in healthier more constructive ways Sis. Pinch
Мда. Когда корпулентная тётя ( не сказать похлеще) с фактурой мадам Грицацуевой поет о том, что будь проклята ее красота))))), остается только сказать - НЕ ВЕРЮ!"
What a voice! And she seems so humble. Love it!
She's insane.
The best artists are humble.
This is some of the greatest Verdi singing of all time. Do we have any mezzos like this anymore? Dolora never became a household name, although she will be sorely missed when she retires. Of course, with singing like this, I don't think she will need to retire anytime soon.
It's music and talent like this that should get millions of likes on social media. Not mediocre tunes and garbage they call music nowadays...
I strongly agree. 👍🙂
SING, WOMAN!!! This is from 2011, and she sounds more secure and more fierce from top to bottom than she did singing O DON FATALE at the Tucker Gala a good 20 years ago?!?!? WHAAAAT?!?!? Long may she peel the patina from the walls, and may she continue to nurture young dramatic voices of the future...BRAVA!!!!
So true
oh my gawd, I can't believe the performance is this recent!!!!!
SELAH!
I have been blessed to see her at the Met several times, at least twice as Azucena. Her Stride la Vampa brought the house down every time, had half the audience in tears. Just amazing.
Still such a massive core weight of sound, and the upper register is still a beast amongst mezzos.
jmiller05 and that immense chest voice. She doesn't have the most beautiful voice but one of the greatest voice ever. And a really good technique.
Verdi especially demanded more than just a 'beautiful voice'.
I'd reckon that Zajick, Cossotto, Verrett, and Troyanos had the best intepretation of this role. Callas didn't perform the role but her interpretation of this one aria also stands the test of time.
Indeed it is.... still is, five years later. I had the privilege of hearing her perform Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky this past season and oh, my goodness, she had all our attention from walking onstage, let alone the first note. What a voice!
@@carloslopez5766 .... I'm sure her voice sounded beautiful in the hall. Bigger voices don't record well. We don't get to hear their surround sound opulence!
Dolora and I attended the University of Nevada Reno's vocal department. She was a bit older than I. Real nice lady. She now runs a school for Individual Distinguished Young Voices.
BRAVA! My favorite Mezzo soprano.. she is some singer.. What I appreciate the most, is while the voice has matured, it is still a steady sound.. no wobble's still a lovely voice and very very strong top notes.. Love this woman.
Everyone here should listen to Elena Obraztsova's version of it...
Exactly...
This and hers (Obraztsova's) are great renditions!
And Arkhipova ;)
❤ Bravissima Dolora !
BRAVISSIMA!!! What a stupendous instrument! I just heard her interviewed today on NPR. 60 and still going strong with no end in sight.
Although excellent technical, linguistic and interpretive guidance play a part in the development of all operatic voices, to a significant degree, phenomenal operatic voices are God-given. Ms. Zajick has been thusly blessed.
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
incredible than she was 59 years old when she permormed that aria! Her voice is so powerfiul and her vibrato so smooth! brava!
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
Bravo et merci Madame enfin une grande Mezzo soprano digne de ce nom, encore merci.
BRAVAA~!~!~! My how the voice has darkened~!~! A bottom that makes your hair stand up and a top that makes your ears perk up. Amazing.
Bravissima Dolora. Great singing in every way and a true mezzo voice with a true chest vouce. Just wonderful.
Exceptional !!!! It really is !!!! Bravo .... for this stellar performance !!!!!! 👌🏻
@simisimi9 Zajick is one of the very few actual singers who definitely don't need any amplification. You can hear her outside of the opera house, especially the upper register...
It's funny to read some of the comments below, but you always get these so-called experts and critics on opera videos. Considering that Zajick just sang a well-received Amneris at the Met in 2019 (at nearly 67), it shows that she knows her technique VERY well. The great Fedora Barbieri was astonished when she first heard Zajick, and said, "Oh my God, where did you learn to sing like that??"
WOW!! What a singer!!!
Dolora Zajick is magnificent. Brava!
Gorgeous as always!!!
I chatted with Zajick at a small reception in DC this week. Truly a nice and down-to-earth person, and VERY smart. She said Don Carlo was one of her three favorite opera roles, so I assume this is among her favorite arias. I went on UA-cam and have listened to every version she has sung of O Don Fatale, and this from Madrid is the best. It is superb. But that said, I must say that the greatest recorded version of this aria ever is by the immortal Maria Callas, and it also is on UA-cam.
She better give it to them in her golden years! VIVA LA DIVA!!
Real dramatic mezzo! BRAVISSIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
+Thomas Mann
Real dramatic soprano .
One of the all time great dramatic mezzos--She sings with massive power, range and drive. Heard her recently in Russalka and she was incredible as both a singer and actress
You must listen other mezzos. Try Ebe Stignani in this aria.
No one is better than Stignani in this repertoire.
That is just an amazing performance!!!
Bravíssima!!!! Que espetáculo!
Me encanta esta cantante. Es música total!
Meravigliosa!!!! Bravo!!
😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
FANTASTIC
Bravissima 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Merveilleux merci a vous , amities de Marseille !
Damn! Just amazing!
Perfect
In quest'aria amo lei e la Callas.
Unrivalled!!!
Bravísimo, que hermosa voz!
Q impresionante!
Meravigliosa!
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
I saw Zajick in San Francisco in as Joan of Arc and she has one powerful voice.
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
È perfeettaaaaaa🎵🎵🎵
Sublime!!
Shes a Master, shes control her voice very well
IMPRESIONANTE BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
Única! ❤️
mi favorita
The best Eboli...fantástica.
ua-cam.com/video/B22uguRA0EE/v-deo.html
U should listen to Elena Obraztsova's version of it.
@@lesindorf-934videos yes another beloved mezzo.
And what about Verrett?@@cadoh8143
Браво!!!!!!!!
Bravo
Great!
GLORIOSA MEZZO... DIOS MIO QUE VOZ!!!!
@simisimi9 I doubt she is being amplified. They record these concerts and since we are listening to a recording all kinds of things can be done to manipulate what we hear. Recording technicians can do more now to mimic the ambience of a live hall in recordings than ever before.
quelle voix waooooo bravo
I wish she would enunciate the vowels in the middle part of her voice. It's as if she is trying to conserve something (breath, vocal alignment?) by not making them distinct. But it ends up distorting the whole meaning of what she's singing. I love her large, powerful voice, and impressive technique, but portraying the text acurately is also what helps move an audience.
Dlora Zajick = soprano drammatico .
questa è la mia modesta opinione .
il vecchio
bravissima!
Brava!!!!!!!!!
Гласные в разных местах, а они связаны с настройкой голосовых складок и, главное, с дыханием, которое ПОЁТ, связанное с диафрагмой и гортанью!!!!
La grandezza 👑❤️
Honestly I hear a dramatic soprano here not a true mezzo...but what a technique...a 'truly tenacious' singer
But listen to lower register, no one sopraanos sing so
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
Maravilhosa
BRAVA !
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
Wow
A question: Does she have Afro-American heritage? She looks a lot like Patti Austin, an Afro-American rnb singer.
💞💞💞
BRAVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
una pregunta... a que nota llega al minuto 1:20?
Do sobre agudo
+Vlogs en Technicolor Do 6?
+Daniel Solis Sip
+Vlogs en Technicolor
jejejeje muchísimas gracias!
Un si
ЛЮБЛЮ!
Her and Shirley verette own Don Fatale...
Extraordinaria cantante. La vi personalmente en Chile en La Favorita y el teatro se vino abajo.
HIHETETLEN SZÉP
We use superlatives...well, I wish I had some here now 💘
Beautiful. Dramatic soprano? In what role? haha. Maybe Santuzza? She has a light way of using the acuti sometimes, so lovely; she uses it like a register a bit less sul fiato. That's almost contralto to me. I love mezzos and contraltos.
Its not a cpntralto! She is a Mezzo with a strong but short chest voice, her passagios show that.
Unbeleivable that the human trumpet (as Fleming called her once!) was still singing this powerfully and solidly at 59. But it’s come at a cost - the vowels are absurdly modified and as a result her diction is terrible (and is she adding the letter G to the front of those Aimes in the slow central section?!!) she also can’t sing below a mezzo forte which is typical of singers who consistently oversang in heavy repertoire. Lots of lyric baritones end up this way).
Nevertheless this is absolutely her repertoire and she is a phenomenon:
taking into account that biggest of sopranos can't sing at all at age 59, still impressive.
Sávio Faschet high voices tend to age worse (tenors get worse earlier than basses etc.)
I have always HATED this aspect of her technique - how she purses her lips so intensely as a rule in order to keeps her mouth locked shut to stick the sound in her nose in her lower range. It does NOT sound good and tends to distort the lyrics and make the sound ugly and nasal. For example "ti maledicOO...ti maledicOO...il mio beltUH..." instead of maledico belta. Granted, the voice is huge and dramatic and a gift from God but I guess i don't think her particular technique is really working for her down there as consistently and strenuously as she applies it. I think it's a safety blanket. She needs to loosen up, but it's a hard area to navigate and I get that. I think she could use it as a base for practice but then in performance, open the jaw some and let's hear the words and a nicer warmer sound there!! I hope someone knows what i mean. She's aiming for a ueber forward placement and i just think it sounds ugly and distorts the text. And it doesn't look particularly pretty.
I just watched Shirley Verrett sing this aria. What splendidly GORGEOUS WARM scrumptious tone she had throughout and no distorted words with lockjaw and jutting lips and she didn't have to shove the sound in her nose to be heard. Masterful technique she had. Don't care for Zajick's technique at all, though it has seen her through.
@@LaSopRAWna AT LAST someone who says that! BRAVO!! :)
Up until now the best Princess Eboli has been interpreted by Tatiana Troyanos
DIVA
Listen to Baltsa to hear how this should sound!
The best mezzo after 1. Cossotto 2 . Bumbry 3. Verrett. Cossotto is the prima donna assoluta, The Queen of mezzo.Cossotto is so cute i private , but on stage she is burning with fire in her acting and in her glorious voice. I love La Cossotto and I always will.
Dolora always delivers. Amazing singer with a rich, lush sound. Brava!!! Not a big fan of this conducting, though... some weird tempos, but ok.
Please check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian, "Tu che di gel sei cinta", magnificent voice
She looks apologetic about losing breath at the end. She really did have an uncanny way of preserving the integrity of the voice - Cossotto’s acuti were badly flat by mid-career - but it involved a strange bottling up of the sound and distortion of vowels. Strange how she was the best for so long but not really ‘famous’.
FANTASTICA!
But, my favorite in THIS part is that other GREEK:
Tatiana TROYANOS
Ce n'est pas notre matériel, mais bien youtube qui transmet un très mauvais Son !!!!!!!!!!
LISTEN to EBE STIGNANI
No text, no vowels, strange lower registre...
they switched it off in her case ... ;-)
why is she singing with a micro...????? i thought opera singers did not need it !!!!!!!!!!!
the mike is to record her voice, NOT for amplification purposes
io non capisco una sola parola di quello che dice. come si può cantare in questo modo? avrà pure risolto qualche problema di tecnica, ma non ha risolto quello più importante la pronuncia.
🤡
Io capisqueio tudo minha cara. Que tal leres e estudares o libreto? Ora pois!!!
Per me invece resta la Sutherland quella più incomprensibile
If you do not see who sings, you can take for Elena Obraztsova, very much copies the intonation, tries very hard to be similar.
Io capicci
*Dramatic soprano the color is not of mezzo voice but she ingola the voice to sing more dark but her color is more for dramatic voice*
panda ？
Histriónica. La voz fija en la nariz. Eso no es una voz libre. Y ninguna línea de canto. Lo contrario de una voz bella y cálida. Que me perdonen sus admiradores
Cierto. Justo en el inicio se puede notar cómo empieza con una voz de cabeza nasal y estrangulada, pasa a una voz de pecho más o menos correcta (aunque al menos tiene) y vuelve a la voz de cabeza estrangulada. Está bien que desarrolle la voz de pecho pero es una lástima que la voz de cabeza sea tan mala
Es la forma qué ella halló cómo cantar, como expresar su arte. Hizo una carrera, muchos las admiran. Ustedes que han logrado?. Ni mierda 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@robertotorres9945 Realmente es un comentario absurdo lo que los demás hemos conseguido o no en nuestras vidas. Simplemente estamos comentando como canta esta señora y lo que yo sí afirmo es que Zajick como la mayoría de cantantes actuales tienen que aprender mucho deauténticas mezzos del pasado como Stignani, Barbieri o Simionato. Grandes voces y bien emitidas. Obviamente ninguna ha sido perfecta. Ninguno lo somos. Bueno, la única cantante que se aproxima a la perfección humana es desde mi punto de vista Maria Callas.
@@ASerranobaritone tranquilo. ..yo ya ando acostumbrado a gente como tú....k jamás ha cantado,...... critique y opine sin respeto. Eso sí es absurdo
Could be a big voice. Horrible diction. Nasal technique. A mess.
You have something to say about every singer
@@mugrad25
And you have nothing to say
@@draganvidic2039 boy bye...you just trolling
@@mugrad25
No I know voices better than you.
@@draganvidic2039 maybe you do. But think I have the wisdom to know that all voices have their limitations. True, you don't want to give everybody a gold star but I think you're hypercritique of EVERYONE is just to show off. Get self esteem in healthier more constructive ways Sis. Pinch
Мда. Когда корпулентная тётя ( не сказать похлеще) с фактурой мадам Грицацуевой поет о том, что будь проклята ее красота))))), остается только сказать - НЕ ВЕРЮ!"
Sa bouche est un tuba. On ne comprend rien.......
Her whole middle is like a speech impediment.
ugly sound.