Birgit Nilsson "Pace, pace, mio Dio" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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  • Опубліковано 17 гру 2024

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  • @scottw6704
    @scottw6704 Місяць тому +3

    Her fearless voce di petto fills me with glee!

  • @meiada
    @meiada 3 роки тому +58

    This is incredibly valuable! I wish young sopranos today will learn from this clipping !

    • @coletterottkamp9846
      @coletterottkamp9846 3 роки тому +2

      Facts will do

    • @zelimircabraja7529
      @zelimircabraja7529 8 місяців тому +3

      Haha, you think they have time with all the pressure by their labels?! There is no real opera singers anymore, no stars with charisma, everything is shouting, screaming and pretending.

    • @chantalfreeman3178
      @chantalfreeman3178 Місяць тому

      We’re trying!

  • @vegtamvanderveg
    @vegtamvanderveg 9 місяців тому +9

    Beautiful legato and high note like a laser beam. She was one dramatic sprano that actually had a beautiful voice as well as powerful!

  • @crisha721
    @crisha721 Рік тому +19

    3:40 that's how you do a pianissimo / 4:53 and that's how you do a fortissimo

  • @victorrangel93
    @victorrangel93 Рік тому +12

    Impecable breathing technique!

  • @romearomeo
    @romearomeo 3 роки тому +16

    Sublime

  • @BreeL1998
    @BreeL1998 Рік тому +23

    Faces in the crowd had me dying 😂

  • @BieneMaja5610
    @BieneMaja5610 3 роки тому +10

    😪 pace mio dio! 🕊🌿 🕯

  • @appotrit
    @appotrit 10 місяців тому +2

    ❤❤❤

  • @rugby8-Philadelphia
    @rugby8-Philadelphia 2 роки тому +7

    Beautiful, clean, evocative performance!
    PPP Bb was more P, but, we can't expect everyone to be Caballe, or Scotto 😊
    "Maledizione"'s --- Absofreakinglutely Excellent !!!

    • @pinacatalano5774
      @pinacatalano5774 Рік тому +1

      Hai dimenticato la più grande in questo ruolo Renata Tebaldi❤

    • @rugby8-Philadelphia
      @rugby8-Philadelphia Рік тому +1

      @@pinacatalano5774
      I didn't forget - I don't agree.
      Love Tebaldi as Santuzza
      Anything above a Bb was a total crapshoot with Tebaldi -- tough to be a soprano without a reliable B or C
      😎😎😎

    • @ИванБайков-л2е
      @ИванБайков-л2е Рік тому +2

      Зачем ставить в пример Кабалье или Скотто- ни та ни другая не были драматическим сопрано. У Биргит огромный драматический голос .

    • @rugby8-Philadelphia
      @rugby8-Philadelphia Рік тому

      @@ИванБайков-л2е
      They are examples of beautifully sung ppp Bb in this particular aria. Birgit is amazing! ....but does not sing the Bb as written. That doesn't condemn her, it's just a statement of fact.
      😎😎😎

    • @broadwaygodess630
      @broadwaygodess630 11 місяців тому +2

      A PPP in a dramatic voice is going to be anyone else’s p or even mp. I think that was pretty ppp for the size of her voice

  • @rennan1173
    @rennan1173 Рік тому +6

    Só nas primeiras notas, ela destruiu carreiras.

  • @Bravilor
    @Bravilor 5 днів тому

    The ending of this aria can be so big and dramatic, but I feel like she's not making it as big as she is capable of?

  • @Twisterjoe
    @Twisterjoe 8 місяців тому +2

    A lean sound like that would probably never be welcomed today by the gatekeepers of opera houses and conservatories.

    • @AuroraRoz
      @AuroraRoz 5 місяців тому +1

      It’s interesting because for me it doesn’t sound lean at all (just a very connected, healthy and unique voice)…But I also don’t listen to singers these days, and after your comment I’m really not going to start either 😅😅

    • @Twisterjoe
      @Twisterjoe 5 місяців тому +2

      @@AuroraRoz should you hear the thick, heavy, often wobbly, often under pitch sound of so many of today's singers, you would know what I mean. Nilsson was powerful and yet still sounds like youth, and its fire of enthusiasm.

    • @AuroraRoz
      @AuroraRoz 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Twisterjoe I guess that happens when people are taught such awful techniques, try to imitate other singers without the actual understanding of the instrument, and being pressured and pushed by music directors and directors to create sounds that are not natural to them (or just take inadequate roles).
      There are other factors, obviously.
      But I do agree with you about Nilsson.
      I wish we could hear today more of the quality of that age- Zinka Milanov, Rosa Ponselle, Eileen Farrell, Renata Tevaldi, Callas, Helen Traubel, Gundula Janowitz, Tetrazzini, Claudia Muzio, Elisabeth Grummer and many many others…

    • @Fauxtralto
      @Fauxtralto 3 місяці тому

      I feel like I’m one of these leaner voices and people accuse me of having minimal vibrato on recording but tell me my voice is resonating everywhere in a large space

  • @Bravilor
    @Bravilor 7 місяців тому

    Not very well placed video link windows popping up over Birgit in the end :(

  • @ИванБайков-л2е
    @ИванБайков-л2е Рік тому

    Это был не лучший выбор для неё . Абсолютно лучшей она была в Турандот.

  • @randydubin7118
    @randydubin7118 3 роки тому +5

    Sounds like something a Ferrari F1 team manager would say to its driver...

    • @j.criquette3334
      @j.criquette3334 3 роки тому +10

      Is that your hobby to put that joke under every video of Pace, pace, mio dio you can find?

    • @Adam-Daniel2004
      @Adam-Daniel2004 3 роки тому

      @@j.criquette3334 he's telling you the truth. first few seconds of the video, my damn poor ears

    • @j.criquette3334
      @j.criquette3334 3 роки тому +7

      @@Adam-Daniel2004 Are you trying to tell me you're fourteen years old? Why do you even bother to listen?
      Pace, pace, mio Dio means Peace, peace my God. Leonora has retired to a life of prayer. She prays to God for peace but confesses that her soul is still troubled by the memory of her love.
      Here are the lyrics in English.
      Peace, peace, my God!
      Cruel misfortune, alas, forces me to languish;
      my suffering has lasted for so many years,
      deep as on the first day.
      Peace, peace, my God!
      I loved him, it's true! But God adorned him so much
      with beauty and courage,
      that I love him still, nor will I be able to remove
      his image from my heart.
      Fate! Fate! Fate!
      A crime has separated us in this world!
      Alvaro, I love you, and it is written above in heaven:
      I will never see you again!
      O God, God, make me die;
      since only death can give me calm.
      In vain my soul hoped for peace here,
      while prey to such grief.
      Wretched bread . . . come prolong
      my comfortless life . . . But who is approaching?
      Who dares to profane the sacred place?
      A curse be upon them!

    • @Adam-Daniel2004
      @Adam-Daniel2004 3 роки тому +2

      @@j.criquette3334 I didn’t ask for the lyrics. Why you looking at my profile in first place, I’m 16 now

    • @rugby8-Philadelphia
      @rugby8-Philadelphia 2 роки тому +4

      How many race car drivers start by saying:
      Peace My Lord
      ??????
      Examples please?????

  • @mattiheiskanen597
    @mattiheiskanen597 2 роки тому +1

    To much stoccato.

    • @WelshHomo87
      @WelshHomo87 2 роки тому +7

      Do shut up. This is how it's supposed to be sung

    • @mattiheiskanen597
      @mattiheiskanen597 2 роки тому +1

      @@WelshHomo87 Yes, if You like staccato. I prefer legato. Not so common these days.

    • @ginopietracupa4305
      @ginopietracupa4305 2 роки тому +2

      @@WelshHomo87 Nilsson is better here than in a previous 1961 "live" Pace mio Dio where she is so stiff. Here in this video in color she is very fine, anyway she lacks a bel canto technique for italian opera

    • @mattiheiskanen597
      @mattiheiskanen597 2 роки тому +3

      @@rugby8-Philadelphia You are rude, it’s a matter of taste. Everybody can’t sound and act like Callas could. Every voice should stay in their nisch. There they can be good interpreter of the music.

    • @rugby8-Philadelphia
      @rugby8-Philadelphia 2 роки тому +1

      @Matti Heiskanen
      I'm not Rude
      As a matter of fact - I am educated, and have worked in, this field.
      What I said to you - if English is an issue - is that your post makes no sense.
      If you misrepresented what you meant, Please explain yourself.
      What she sang was Not staccato.
      Want to talk about it?
      Works for me.
      Mean (as you've been) is *Never* necessary
      😎😎😎