She acts to the back of the house which is to say that wants the person on the last row of the balcony to see what she is doing on stage. Too many opera singers just act to the camera which leaves the live experience lacking. Diana thankfully doesn’t do that.
I hate how everyone is like “she’s terrible because she didn’t sing the E flat” or “she had a bad day”. She didn’t. This is the reality that a vast majority of singers face, especially opera singers. Diana was a BEAST in her early days (just look up Europa riconosciuta 2004). But in all cases, even with Joan Sutherland, coloratura sopranos eventually lose their top notes. For some, it happens sooner than others. Diana most likely still had the E flat at the time of this performance, but likely chose not to sing it because it wouldn’t have sounded very good. She knew her voice was aging. That’s the reality all singers face. My final point is that despite this not being her best performance of Traviata, it’s still a damn good one.
People were destroying her in another clip of this same performance... my ear is definitely untrained but still I couldn't believe it. I do see that in the higher parts she isn't as strong but come on
Not at all, she made a short pause that is not usually made because she realized she went a bit too far when throwing the glass away and may have hit something. The thing is that Damrau is very histrionic when performing, and more so if the character fits, and in this case one could say her Violetta is highly inebriated while singing this final cabaletta and acts as a drunk person.
@@alejandrotm Wait, why are we so sure this wasn’t part of the production? Has something been said about it? This sort of thing isn’t really done off the cuff, afaik, and I imagine that especially applies to the destruction of a prop in a way that could hurt someone _and_ that would require someone to be on it pronto to pick up shards of glass and dry up the floor before someone gets injured. And it’s not like Damrau’s a newbie who doesn’t know how far she can take improv. Also, the hesitation 100% makes sense in character. A moment where Violetta can’t help but acknowledge she’s lying to herself about her emotions before forcing herself to put the mask back on. It also looks in character to me: not like Damrau’s off-stage mannerisms or in any way disjointed from the rest. Not to mention, I’ve seen her have on-stage mishaps - including dynamic, visible ones caused by other singers or external circumstances, as opposed to an off-stage one caused by her own deliberate action - and she _never_ makes it this obvious. I’d be really surprised if this wasn’t completely planned.
Diana damrau is a wonderful opera singer and all those haters are mad because she became successful and they didn't. I cant stand keyboard critics and anyone who will try to argue with me will not be heard, you self proclaimed critics are irrelevant and nothing but bitter trolls. This isnt just for diana damrau but to anyone who criticizes any live performance.
The comment section is really full of internet vocal coaches and snobs. Save yourselves the trouble and just watch the performance. Her acting is wonderful and I enjoyed it, like the patrons who were actually in the theater and not on the internet did
Some of us are actual musicians and conductors. We know what we are talking about. If a singer is good, then she is good. This is our field and passion.
It's a little more than acting but I agree and I love how she threw the champagne cup, most singers are afraid to break something or mess up but her performance was excellent. So those self hating critics are just bitter she became a famous opera singer and they didn't.
I watched this and was in complete awe, but of course, the comments run rampant with pretentious snobs who are intent on ruining everything for not only themselves, but others
Comment section full of critics! Was it perfect? No. Live performances very rarely (never) are. La Traviata is a feat of vocal athleticism for all the singers, and she is a fantastic performer. Let's see any commenter sing it better. Lol, good luck.
@@lucia-di-lammermoor Perhaps you should consider doing as the rest of us do. Not speaking about what is clearly beyond your artistic and emotional understanding.
So my piano career was over, I am standing on stage performing some theatrical piece as an opera singer now, looking half drunk because all my hard work went to waste...not even in a shy way like Sinatra sings, next was noticing my best friend in the audience who decided to wave her hand on me while I was singing, I then lose all my muscles, fall with a laughter, then check the audience, recover right away and continue singing. While during piano performance your hands cannot shake, during opera singing you have tickles... hope with maturity it all ends!
When she sang "giogirrr'... giogirrr, oh ahhh!" She didn't rest at the top and really dazzle that note and blend it out coming down. BUT to dodge that High E Omgg i GAGGED!! Just wow.
Why would you gag? Most singers her age don't have high notes like that anymore. It's common sense: you lose your highest notes as you grow older. Look at Joan Sutherland. As she got older, she had so many works transposed (look up her 1982 Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene at the Met)
Haha that's my favorite part the sound of the drink clashing is absolute gold 😅 I've loved this song since I first heard it in choir nearly 10 years ago, this is one of the best performances 👍
Meh, not even close. She even completely dodged the high Eb towards the end. Although in fairness, most of them do except for the true greats like Dame Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas .
We'll never know what happened. Maybe she was sick, maybe she was tired, maybe she was having a bad day. Everyone has bad days in which you can't deliver your job well. She has plenty of other performances to attest her vocals/high notes, etc. Her performance as Queen of the Night is one of the best, you can check on UA-cam. So, please, stop judging based on one performance which clearly is not her best one.
She’s older here than she was when she was singing Queen of the Night. The vocal technique didn’t hold up well. It’s a sad progression for some singers.
@@davidalbro2009 OMG, those first two especially. They have nothing on Sutherland & Callas. I know they're in different categories but nothing on Voight & Horne as well. But I'll have to disagree on Caballé, although she isn't a particular favorite of mine either, but I've grown to appreciate her mastery of the difficult pianissimo technique & all the other subtleties in singing that tend to be underappreciated in opera.
@@Dr__Feelgood I excepted to have to equivocate about Caballe, she certainly isn't as bad as Damrau or Netrebko BUT while she has a pleasant upper range and pianissimo, her endless scooping and guttural lower and middle range makes her listenable to me.
Many of us have problems with this performance. And for reasons that (I feel!) are objective truths. Pitch, the dropping of support, breathiness, lack of true legato or much phrasing or musicality. The argument that we’re all scolds and not great singers ourselves is specious. I can’t build a table, but when I commission one I should expect a good one for my money. She’s one of the most famous and lauded artists of her voice-type. We should expect a more-than competent performance at one of the most storied houses in operatic history.
You cannot expect these people to be hundred percent precise during each performance they deliver. There are different factors that affect the performance and you only have this clip of this performance where things are a little bit shaky but maybe she did a better job at the next one. I mean if you watch other performances of hers you’d think she is so good so I think it’s a little bit unfair. I know it might be a little bit disappointing but no one is perfect
@@sahinemrah5340 Opera buffs know that singers can have off-nights. But I saw her onstage as Violetta, and I was horrified. She had given some wonderful performances (Manon, Juliette, Gilda), but something terrible has happened to her voice since then.
Это не надломленная Травиата !, Это - Валь4ирия!, Не люблю Дамраю. На верхах верещит и задыхается , как …Ладно , промолчу!, Послушайте Роберту Петерс!,
Not a Maria Callas. For some roles the voice is too light and you look for that dramatic deep timbre vibrato. In the voice. She also missed a note. Also be aware not to overplay the role. However, one of the best Queens.
Le bajaron como 3 tonos a la orquesta sin mencionar el tempo para que la cantante pudiera hacer su show....no mijo, como la Callas no habrá nadie en este mundo!!!
That's an unfair comparison considering they are both considerably younger than Diana. Of course their performances would be better. Their voices aren't aging yet.
Oh, please. Y'all just get over yourselves, especially the non-singers. Yes, this is far from the best rendering of the aria. Anyone gifted with ears can hear that. Vocal decline? Flawed technique? Age? SHUT. UP. Perhaps she just had a bad night. It DOES happen. Why not try to get up on that stage and do it? Take a powder. (And, BTW, Callas is and has been dead since September 16, 1977. God knows, she committed some paint-peelers in her later performances, as well she could, would and did attest.)
Time changes nothing. Just like I can still comment 1 year after yours. Secondly having to be able to do something yourself to be able to critique is a very childish mentality. I can tell a good pastry from a bad one without having any skill to make one myself. Critique and ability simply do not need to be related.
This is simply an aging voice. Must have been hard for her not making the runs which used to be a piece of cake and no final E flat. Her body of work speaks for itself - she was an amazing artist in her day. Unfortunately, singers well into vocal decline is the majority of what you hear at the Met today.
I don't agree. She was 47yrs old. Her technique was never extraordinary, she just had a extended upper register in her younger days. But she pushed her voice too much and her faulty technique (especially her issues with proper breathing) took an early toll.
@@jjh2456 The Queen will not destroy you, if you are actually able to sing it. The problem is correct vocal technique and with that should follow correct vocal fach categorization. The Queen doesn't not wreck a voice per se. Even Carmen can destroy a voice if a soprano is forced into mezzo fach. How high or low something is has nothing to do with wrecking a voice as such.
À force de faire le clown avec sa voix comme Nathalie Dessay, elle a perdu ses notes aiguës. Elle qui chantait la reine de la nuit avec des Fa aigus, elle est incapable de faire un mi bémol 😮
Meh. Damrau just over sings and the voice has never been that well covered or supported to transition into the heavier coloratura roles convincingly. The top is just too glassy and raw. Now the acuti for which made her famous are omitted or rather uncontrolled screams. She should had just stuck with the lighter coloratura repertoire if she wasn’t going to redevelop the sound. Regrettably the pressures to grow are immense and not every performer leans into the next level well . Her performances of La Contessa are absurd really as the voice is too light. She is a committed actress yet this Violetta was just serviceable. She sounds like Oscar or Norina here.
It's not that bad, it's just not worthy of singing at The Met. She should rather sing at a local or lesser opera house. However, she has a very beautiful voice and the recording makes it difficult to hear what it would have sounded like in real life. I think if this wasn't performed at the Met (or any other popular venue), she would be one of the best to have performed on that stage. That's just my opinion though and I respect yours.
as always diana shows off her ease of agility and high notes (even if tradition would like the E flat at the end) but no big deal, verdi had not written it. the real problem of many non-italian singers is the absolute lack of context and the right intention of the song, here I find little, maybe nothing, of the TRUE violetta valery written by verdi
Damrau took her Rolls Royce voice, and turned it into a Volkswagen. By the time of her Met Traviata, the sound was pinched and shrill. She tried to compensate by imitating Meryl Streep as an actress.
So are you a vocal coach? Or maybe you’re an operatic soprano too? Would you sing better than her? What are your arguments to say her singing is not correct, well tuned, correctly projected? Before criticizing someone’s job, make sure you can do it as good or even better 😉
@@masterprocrastinator007 to judge and criticize someone negatively with such sure? Yeap 💁♀️😉. If you can’t do it better, or say anything positive about it just remain in silence
The audience absolutely disagrees with you, just listen to the applause at the end, and it was at Metropolitan Opera not at some town theatre. Diana has a fluid coloratura and pronounces words in Italian very well. Your comment is full of hate without argument.
Dear @@enzomasciulli976 ...my comment is exactly the opposite , because i respect the singer ... i think this is a terrible page in her career ... and i´m sure you can listen to it and realize im right ! And i´m sure this beloved singer knows this is not good at all ... no hate here ! But i respect your opinion, and admire your defense of the singer ... so respect mine too... un abbracio caro Enzo
@@marylambcarter To the trained ear. But to the audience she is an amazing vocalist. You forget that normal people who don’t know music to any degree which is the majority of these folks can’t tell if her voice is any different than it was 10 years ago.
Damrau: STAY AWAY FROM VERDI. This composer requires voice and you came entirely too late to the distribution of vocal gifts to ever touch anything he ever wrote. You don’t have voice!
I love her acting. She always adds so much to her performances.
I love everything about her and omg that voice, that beautiful, beautiful voice.
She acts to the back of the house which is to say that wants the person on the last row of the balcony to see what she is doing on stage. Too many opera singers just act to the camera which leaves the live experience lacking. Diana thankfully doesn’t do that.
Absolutely agree ! She's wonderful.
@@lorraines14763:35 3:37 3:39
TOO BAD SHE SINGS OFF PITCH
WHAT AN ACTING! Golden piece of culture here. My God...
I hate how everyone is like “she’s terrible because she didn’t sing the E flat” or “she had a bad day”. She didn’t. This is the reality that a vast majority of singers face, especially opera singers. Diana was a BEAST in her early days (just look up Europa riconosciuta 2004). But in all cases, even with Joan Sutherland, coloratura sopranos eventually lose their top notes. For some, it happens sooner than others. Diana most likely still had the E flat at the time of this performance, but likely chose not to sing it because it wouldn’t have sounded very good. She knew her voice was aging. That’s the reality all singers face. My final point is that despite this not being her best performance of Traviata, it’s still a damn good one.
People were destroying her in another clip of this same performance... my ear is definitely untrained but still I couldn't believe it. I do see that in the higher parts she isn't as strong but come on
@@Fernando-w1v7b That's exactly what I'm saying.
@@ulyssessquitieri9931 Agree with you. A very educated piece that you have just shared. All of us lose a bit with aging , and over time.👌👌👏👏🙏🙏
This one singer is drawing into me into the world of opera. You don't have to know anything about opera, to know this sounds more than right. Bravo.
When, in fact, it was not "more than right".
Damrau has a harsh not due to lack of facility in her production.
The performance is terrible. Every note is spoiled. Listen to the singers of the past!
@@КириллДученко ok Opera Gatekeeper. I can smell a failed singer from miles away
She is great as The Queen of the Night. She's is so talented 😍
She's such an amazing performer she doesn't let on at all that she headshotted a stagehand with that glass
Omg she did?😂
When the Diva is a knockout, but literally 😂
What in the phuckinfuck?! 😅
Not at all, she made a short pause that is not usually made because she realized she went a bit too far when throwing the glass away and may have hit something. The thing is that Damrau is very histrionic when performing, and more so if the character fits, and in this case one could say her Violetta is highly inebriated while singing this final cabaletta and acts as a drunk person.
@@alejandrotm Wait, why are we so sure this wasn’t part of the production? Has something been said about it? This sort of thing isn’t really done off the cuff, afaik, and I imagine that especially applies to the destruction of a prop in a way that could hurt someone _and_ that would require someone to be on it pronto to pick up shards of glass and dry up the floor before someone gets injured. And it’s not like Damrau’s a newbie who doesn’t know how far she can take improv.
Also, the hesitation 100% makes sense in character. A moment where Violetta can’t help but acknowledge she’s lying to herself about her emotions before forcing herself to put the mask back on. It also looks in character to me: not like Damrau’s off-stage mannerisms or in any way disjointed from the rest. Not to mention, I’ve seen her have on-stage mishaps - including dynamic, visible ones caused by other singers or external circumstances, as opposed to an off-stage one caused by her own deliberate action - and she _never_ makes it this obvious. I’d be really surprised if this wasn’t completely planned.
Kaum zu glauben, dass das beschauliche Günzburg im schönen Bayernland so eine unglaubliche, fantastische Sängerin und actress hervorgebracht hat.
Diana damrau is a wonderful opera singer and all those haters are mad because she became successful and they didn't. I cant stand keyboard critics and anyone who will try to argue with me will not be heard, you self proclaimed critics are irrelevant and nothing but bitter trolls. This isnt just for diana damrau but to anyone who criticizes any live performance.
The comment section is really full of internet vocal coaches and snobs. Save yourselves the trouble and just watch the performance. Her acting is wonderful and I enjoyed it, like the patrons who were actually in the theater and not on the internet did
Sadly it is about a LOT more than the “acting” dearie.
This is opera and not high school musical
Some of us are actual musicians and conductors. We know what we are talking about. If a singer is good, then she is good. This is our field and passion.
She's straight up off-key in some of the runs...
She was not so bad some years ago, but this is probably one of the worst performance of this aria on UA-cam. A joke
I'm a soprano and i can't sing it so wonderful like her😢
Her acting is on point here. She actually looks a drunk and crazy lady😂😂😂😂
It's a little more than acting but I agree and I love how she threw the champagne cup, most singers are afraid to break something or mess up but her performance was excellent. So those self hating critics are just bitter she became a famous opera singer and they didn't.
You should see her on act iii, absolutely heartbreaking and convincing.
Magical, as ever....
Tot un prodigi.
Vielen Dank, Diana.
Великолепная Диана!!музыка родилась с ней. Лучшая Царица ночи!Бесподобна❤
The Queen of day❤
I watched this and was in complete awe, but of course, the comments run rampant with pretentious snobs who are intent on ruining everything for not only themselves, but others
Comment section full of critics! Was it perfect? No. Live performances very rarely (never) are. La Traviata is a feat of vocal athleticism for all the singers, and she is a fantastic performer. Let's see any commenter sing it better. Lol, good luck.
She should consider doing as we do. Not singing what is clearly beyond your skills...
Yawn@@lucia-di-lammermoor
@@lucia-di-lammermoor Perhaps you should consider doing as the rest of us do. Not speaking about what is clearly beyond your artistic and emotional understanding.
2:23 OMG!! This was so smooth!
So my piano career was over, I am standing on stage performing some theatrical piece as an opera singer now, looking half drunk because all my hard work went to waste...not even in a shy way like Sinatra sings, next was noticing my best friend in the audience who decided to wave her hand on me while I was singing, I then lose all my muscles, fall with a laughter, then check the audience, recover right away and continue singing. While during piano performance your hands cannot shake, during opera singing you have tickles... hope with maturity it all ends!
😀 excelente me encanta
Brava!
E davvero bravissima e superba
When she sang "giogirrr'... giogirrr, oh ahhh!" She didn't rest at the top and really dazzle that note and blend it out coming down. BUT to dodge that High E Omgg i GAGGED!! Just wow.
Why would you gag? Most singers her age don't have high notes like that anymore. It's common sense: you lose your highest notes as you grow older. Look at Joan Sutherland. As she got older, she had so many works transposed (look up her 1982 Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene at the Met)
Wonderful
Chill cannot tamed, she is the frostbite and thawing is impossible that voice to ear and straight to bone🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
I love her man
The queen.
My musical crush.
she is wonderful. dont think so? u do it !!!!!
Diana ❤❤❤
mega
3:20 SHEER MADNESS INDEED😂
Haha that's my favorite part the sound of the drink clashing is absolute gold 😅 I've loved this song since I first heard it in choir nearly 10 years ago, this is one of the best performances 👍
Diana is by far the BEST Soprano on the planet. Amazing gift...❤❤❤
Listen to Maria Remolá. She simply blows Damrau away.
Meh, not even close. She even completely dodged the high Eb towards the end. Although in fairness, most of them do except for the true greats like Dame Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas .
We'll never know what happened. Maybe she was sick, maybe she was tired, maybe she was having a bad day. Everyone has bad days in which you can't deliver your job well. She has plenty of other performances to attest her vocals/high notes, etc. Her performance as Queen of the Night is one of the best, you can check on UA-cam. So, please, stop judging based on one performance which clearly is not her best one.
She’s older here than she was when she was singing Queen of the Night. The vocal technique didn’t hold up well. It’s a sad progression for some singers.
Old, tired, dried-up...
Or maybe you're just a troll.
@@Muttonchop57 a troll would have said that she is trash to provoke and anger, this person clearly isnt one..
@@BarryCorbett-x9m you want a medal for that? Trolling don't mean shit for a blithering idiot like you. Lmao. Stay mad.
What's with all these hates? This comment section attracts quite a lot of whinny little nitwits innit
She has the most glorious voice I’ve ever heard.
You have a lot of listening to do
@@davidalbro2009😂 Yep lol. This is just slightly below mediocre level actually.
@@Dr__Feelgood Netrebko, Damrau, and Caballe. None get me more riled up when being praised.
@@davidalbro2009 OMG, those first two especially. They have nothing on Sutherland & Callas. I know they're in different categories but nothing on Voight & Horne as well. But I'll have to disagree on Caballé, although she isn't a particular favorite of mine either, but I've grown to appreciate her mastery of the difficult pianissimo technique & all the other subtleties in singing that tend to be underappreciated in opera.
@@Dr__Feelgood I excepted to have to equivocate about Caballe, she certainly isn't as bad as Damrau or Netrebko BUT while she has a pleasant upper range and pianissimo, her endless scooping and guttural lower and middle range makes her listenable to me.
Hail Damrau!!!
The best version so far🎉
Primadonna!
Magnifica!!
Wow
Lmao I hope no one got hurt by that glass of water. Yikes xD
I was worried for a second there
❤
Amore mio
Many of us have problems with this performance. And for reasons that (I feel!) are objective truths. Pitch, the dropping of support, breathiness, lack of true legato or much phrasing or musicality.
The argument that we’re all scolds and not great singers ourselves is specious. I can’t build a table, but when I commission one I should expect a good one for my money.
She’s one of the most famous and lauded artists of her voice-type. We should expect a more-than competent performance at one of the most storied houses in operatic history.
Indeed. 💯
You cannot expect these people to be hundred percent precise during each performance they deliver. There are different factors that affect the performance and you only have this clip of this performance where things are a little bit shaky but maybe she did a better job at the next one. I mean if you watch other performances of hers you’d think she is so good so I think it’s a little bit unfair. I know it might be a little bit disappointing but no one is perfect
To be fair this is among the toughest pieces that exist for a soprano.
@@sahinemrah5340 Opera buffs know that singers can have off-nights. But I saw her onstage as Violetta, and I was horrified. She had given some wonderful performances (Manon, Juliette, Gilda), but something terrible has happened to her voice since then.
She SUCKS!!!
You have to please the public they are waiting for the high E
Это не надломленная Травиата !, Это - Валь4ирия!, Не люблю Дамраю. На верхах верещит и задыхается , как …Ладно , промолчу!, Послушайте Роберту Петерс!,
Not a Maria Callas. For some roles the voice is too light and you look for that dramatic deep timbre vibrato. In the voice. She also missed a note. Also be aware not to overplay the role. However, one of the best Queens.
Brava
Le bajaron como 3 tonos a la orquesta sin mencionar el tempo para que la cantante pudiera hacer su show....no mijo, como la Callas no habrá nadie en este mundo!!!
ya salio el viejo ridiculo acordandose de la callas
Ya está tirante el do....
brava
Compare with a Joan Sutherland and Monserat Caballe. Dramatic voices and suttle role play.
I can think of better Violetta’s than Diana Damrau. Try Lisette Oropesa or Nadine Sierra
That's an unfair comparison considering they are both considerably younger than Diana. Of course their performances would be better. Their voices aren't aging yet.
Oh, please. Y'all just get over yourselves, especially the non-singers. Yes, this is far from the best rendering of the aria. Anyone gifted with ears can hear that. Vocal decline? Flawed technique? Age? SHUT. UP. Perhaps she just had a bad night. It DOES happen. Why not try to get up on that stage and do it? Take a powder. (And, BTW, Callas is and has been dead since September 16, 1977. God knows, she committed some paint-peelers in her later performances, as well she could, would and did attest.)
Clearly, you don't know what you are talking about. This is the BEST Soprano on our planet....!!!
Agreed Peter. Tell them brother.
Thank you! These mediocre never-will-be-anything-but critics need to keep their jealousies to themselves
Time changes nothing. Just like I can still comment 1 year after yours. Secondly having to be able to do something yourself to be able to critique is a very childish mentality. I can tell a good pastry from a bad one without having any skill to make one myself. Critique and ability simply do not need to be related.
Hola45❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
1:29
This is simply an aging voice. Must have been hard for her not making the runs which used to be a piece of cake and no final E flat. Her body of work speaks for itself - she was an amazing artist in her day. Unfortunately, singers well into vocal decline is the majority of what you hear at the Met today.
I don't agree. She was 47yrs old. Her technique was never extraordinary, she just had a extended upper register in her younger days. But she pushed her voice too much and her faulty technique (especially her issues with proper breathing) took an early toll.
@The Scalla Among others, Devia sang a beautiful E-flat regularly until her 70s.
@The Scalla One of many great high E flats from Callas, but she was in her 20s back then!
@@Wotan123456789 plus she sang all those Queen of the Nights. That role even though small will wreck a voice if done a lot because of the crazy range.
@@jjh2456 The Queen will not destroy you, if you are actually able to sing it.
The problem is correct vocal technique and with that should follow correct vocal fach categorization. The Queen doesn't not wreck a voice per se. Even Carmen can destroy a voice if a soprano is forced into mezzo fach. How high or low something is has nothing to do with wrecking a voice as such.
Total comedy.
Voce logorata
واااااااااااء
She sounds tired here. Better in 2022
À force de faire le clown avec sa voix comme Nathalie Dessay, elle a perdu ses notes aiguës. Elle qui chantait la reine de la nuit avec des Fa aigus, elle est incapable de faire un mi bémol 😮
Este final es una estafa. No sé cómo el MET (el Director de Orquesta) pudo aceptar el arreglo totalmente carente de valor.
단순히 e플랫을 못해서가 아니라 진짜 전체적으로 형편없음 ;; 조수미가 대단하지 대단해
Meh. Damrau just over sings and the voice has never been that well covered or supported to transition into the heavier coloratura roles convincingly. The top is just too glassy and raw. Now the acuti for which made her famous are omitted or rather uncontrolled screams. She should had just stuck with the lighter coloratura repertoire if she wasn’t going to redevelop the sound. Regrettably the pressures to grow are immense and not every performer leans into the next level well . Her performances of La Contessa are absurd really as the voice is too light. She is a committed actress yet this Violetta was just serviceable. She sounds like Oscar or Norina here.
No final E flat here! Aleksandra Kurzak technique is just phenomenal and her E flat is there !
Yup. She was a blazing Queen of the Night. She used to have high notes to burn. I was expecting the E flat but was disappointed.
Siempre con una cuota de histeria. Una pena.
Oh my! This is not good. What happened to her range?
Aging voice
???
No high E. Very odd.
She act’s hysterical like in Mozart show
horrible
Difficult to describe how bad this is!
It's not that bad, it's just not worthy of singing at The Met. She should rather sing at a local or lesser opera house.
However, she has a very beautiful voice and the recording makes it difficult to hear what it would have sounded like in real life. I think if this wasn't performed at the Met (or any other popular venue), she would be one of the best to have performed on that stage.
That's just my opinion though and I respect yours.
What do you mean its a aging voice
@@pugh.joseph Why is it not worthy? Is it the song that's not worthy or her performance?
Плохое , неуклюжее пение ! Альфред- хорош!
as always diana shows off her ease of agility and high notes (even if tradition would like the E flat at the end) but no big deal, verdi had not written it. the real problem of many non-italian singers is the absolute lack of context and the right intention of the song, here I find little, maybe nothing, of the TRUE violetta valery written by verdi
Voce da zanzara... recitazione alla Benny Hill... tragicomica...
Terrible acting .... caricature of Meryl Streep!
Like you could do better,I think she's a very talented women whom at her age can do what she does 🤞😎😒
Damrau took her Rolls Royce voice, and turned it into a Volkswagen. By the time of her Met Traviata, the sound was pinched and shrill. She tried to compensate by imitating Meryl Streep as an actress.
The staging is beautiful, the singing is not. This is unacceptable.
So are you a vocal coach? Or maybe you’re an operatic soprano too? Would you sing better than her? What are your arguments to say her singing is not correct, well tuned, correctly projected? Before criticizing someone’s job, make sure you can do it as good or even better 😉
Bet you can't sing like an opera singer.
@@MrGabriexxx So you have to be expert at everything to comment/review someone's performance? Come on man, that's just silly.
@@masterprocrastinator007 to judge and criticize someone negatively with such sure? Yeap 💁♀️😉. If you can’t do it better, or say anything positive about it just remain in silence
Then sing better, she has an aging voice, do that then with the aging voice
Sorry. An overrated singer.
Oh please ... If you love this singer ... delete this post ! Not even the over absurd acting can take away from this train wreck performance
The audience absolutely disagrees with you, just listen to the applause at the end, and it was at Metropolitan Opera not at some town theatre.
Diana has a fluid coloratura and pronounces words in Italian very well. Your comment is full of hate without argument.
Dear @@enzomasciulli976 ...my comment is exactly the opposite , because i respect the singer ... i think this is a terrible page in her career ... and i´m sure you can listen to it and realize im right ! And i´m sure this beloved singer knows this is not good at all ... no hate here ! But i respect your opinion, and admire your defense of the singer ... so respect mine too... un abbracio caro Enzo
@@marylambcarter I'm totally new and ignorant to this. What is so terrible here? Thanks.
Diana is always amazing. Love the interpretation!
@@marylambcarter To the trained ear. But to the audience she is an amazing vocalist. You forget that normal people who don’t know music to any degree which is the majority of these folks can’t tell if her voice is any different than it was 10 years ago.
Not exquisite singing.
She struggles with repeated A's. Why do audiences often glorify such mediocre singers?
No. Listen to Roberta Peters sing it. That's true coloratura!
Damrau: STAY AWAY FROM VERDI. This composer requires voice and you came entirely too late to the distribution of vocal gifts to ever touch anything he ever wrote. You don’t have voice!
Have you really insanely lost your mind ?? She doesn't have a voice ?? aahauhauha says home-made voice critique! Don't be ridiculous.PLease.
Awful, Awful, Awful
why???????
Very disappointing coming from a coloratura! Maybe she was really drunk during the performance 🤔