Oh sis that last phrase was complete magic!!! Ah goodness the passion and control there (all of it) was spectacular! Thank you for the breathing spots too. Makes sense. I’ll be performing that this weekend
Garanca really was a great Octavian, wasn't she? Sexy and very funny when she had to play Octavian in drag as a girl. She actually behaved like a young man would who was having fun playing a woman. And then there was her exquisite singing! I wish I could see her play Amneria in a well directed, well produced "Aïda."
@@unclealand However "well-directed and well-produced" an Aïda production may be, you still need a talented and skilled dramatic mezzo to sing Amneris... which Garança isn't.
Elina Garanca es una artista muy inteligente y apreciada por sus interpretaciones. "Vissi d'arte" ¡SI y basta ! No el rol completo de TOSCA. Armando Cerutti - barítono
Io Adoro la sua voce e modo in cui canta e molto bella la sua tecnica, penso che ne ha da cantare nel suo repertorio. Senza cantare parti di soprano lirico abbassando la tonalità, per me scelta sbagliata. Comunque ci tengo a precisare che è una gioia sentirla sempre❤
Pensi, però, che Elina Garanca è un mezzo soprano con facilità nel registro acuto. Forse potrebbe essere più propriamente un Falcon che un mezzo soprano vero e proprio, ad esempio Azucena. Infatti, come Adalgisa, un ruolo scritto per soprano drammatico di agilità, è sempre stata più che plausibile, come pure in Carmen, altro ruolo scritto per soprano drammatico. Ad ogni modo, concordo con lei circa la pericolosità, per la voce, di cantare parti che non sono le proprie, passando da un ruolo per mezzo soprano ad uno per soprano.
Devo dire che Shirley Verret e Grace Bumbry hanno cantato ottimamente ruoli di mezzosoprano e soprano drammatico. E poi. la Callas ha cantato Macbeth e Puritani e c"è più differenza tra il personaggio di Lady e quello di Elvira che tra Amneris e Aida. Comunque è interessantissima la sua disamina. Grazie!@@desperatehell
@@antben8992 assolutamente d'accordo con lei. Tra Elvira e Lady Macbeth c'è un abisso di differenza che, invece, non c'è, ad esempio, tra Norma e Adalgisa, oppure tra il ruolo di Adriana Lecouvreur e quello della Principessa di Bouillon. Pensiamo, a proposito di Elvira, come hanno cantato "Son Virgin Vezzosa" Joan Sutherland e Luciana Serra: il ruolo della Lady non ha colorature o virtuosismi talmente alti, sul registro sovracuto. L'indimenticabile Grace Bumbry, scomparsa nemmeno un anno fa, a maggio del 2023, aveva una voce da dio ed era mezzosoprano e soprano. Certamente, ha cantato Sansone e Dalila, Carmen, che sono tutti ruoli da mezzosoprano acuto ma, oltre a Tosca, dove è stata bravissima, ha cantato pure, con Magda Olivero, Jenufa di Leoš Janáček, proprio nel ruolo di Jenufa, che è un ruolo da soprano.
@@giulianosalvatori4126 concordo con lei, però consideri che non ha cantato tutta l'opera, ma solo un'aria. Anche Mariella Devia, in un recital a Barcellona di anni fa, canto Vissi d'arte e Luciana Serra, a Torre del Lago, in un famoso festival dedicato a Puccini, che avvenne circa 20 anni fa (se non sbaglio), cantò O mio babbino caro
The fact that she was at the masterclass with Nilsson doesn't mean anything. Nilsson is not a vocal pedagogue of any kind, or someone who can teach voices, much less classify them. And please stop associating dramatic voices with Wagner. Most of the female roles in his operas are beautiful, tender, feminine lyric voices.
anybody who knows anything about voice knows that Garanca is actually a soprano lol. Who are you kidding? It was clear back then. It's clear now. Everybody knows it. Nilsson knew it. @@marieantoinette3857
I was sayimg a mezzo cant sustain the high tessitura like a soprano. Though i think this is was a sylistic choice for garanca. Shes been the Amneris lately which is high for a mezzo. Maybe she's saving her high notes for that
@@OperaMyWorld you think she could sustain a high tessitura for an entire opera...with all the dynamic changes and shadings on high bflat, high Bs and Cs?
I ve heard Garanca live and her voice sound much of a soprano ,not a lyric of course , she goes very hight for a mezzo ,can anyone confirm or am i wrong?
@@draganvidic2039 Nonsense. As you can hear in this recording, her voice is at it's most powerful and beautiful in the middle range and keeps it's rather dark colour throughout the range. Ugh, all of these self-named specialists!
@@wallenstein72Most voices are at their "most powerful," in the middle-to-upper-middle range, so that doesn't mean anything by itself. The top (or abouts), is just the loudest/most intense. Also, the middle of a soprano, and the middle of a mezzo differ by quite a lot. Her voice is big where a spinto soprano should be, i.e., from e5 on up to an a5, with top notes to c6. A mezzo, especially a "dramatic mezzo," would possess significant presence fom g4/a4 up to e5/f5, with top notes at f#, g, g#, and a. They can technically push to b flat but it involves larynx squeezing and valsalva manuever, which can be vocally destructive longterm. That said, I've heard her live and she sounds like a darkened spinto soprano to me. She didn't possess the voice "downstairs," for Dalila.
According to my tuning fork, she actually did sing it a half tone lower than written, so her high B-flat is actually an A. Arias can be sung like this, but not entire roles.
@@mugrad25 Her voice is worn out. Born a spinto soprano but trained as a lyric mezzo, a voice category that doesn’t really exist. Now trying dramatic mezzo parts and sings soprano arias. Nothing went right with her voice.
@@nesherben-negev1345 ja, sie hat eine wunderschöne Stimme und sie ist eine große Künstlerin!❤ Aber, ich meinte, diese Rolle verlangt eine Stimme mit mehr Metall in den Resonanzen. Elina singt die Arie wunderbar, aber die Rolle würde zu ihre Stimme und Persönlichkeit nicht passen. Elina ist schön und lieblich, Tosca ist eine launische Diva, deshalb braucht sie einen Sopran Glanz. Wir lieben Elina Stimme, ❤ aber in anderen Rollen.
Why tranposed... It's very well known aria and it's very obvious. If you can't sing it in the original key, better don't sing it at all. And what are you afraid of.. it's not that high, Elena Obraztsova, a dramatic mezzo, sang this in the original key.
Tessitura--the best-sounding part of a singer's voice with regard to timbre--is the determining factor. She certainly has the capability to sing the aria in the original key. That is not the point. For her voice, the aria sounds better in a lower key. Singing is not a competitive sport.
Transposed or not really doesn’t matter to me. We opera lovers can be very critical and picky as is our right as listeners. Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to these people that have the ability to sing this genre of music. Relatively few people in this world have the desire ability and god given talent to perform on this level. I think in my opinion she does a great job. She sings this with great emotion and that counts also. Sure I prefer a soprano over a mezzo in this, I love Tebaldi’s version but I like to be open minded about it.
Voices don't develop into a dramatic in their late 40s; that's a too common myth. If it were destined to happen it would have occurred from 29-33 years of age, with a "crystalization" near late 30s. Voices, especially from women, can DARKEN with age, but that isn't necessarily more "dramatic." Yes, she's by nature a big soprano. I'm not sure why she instead sings as a mezzo.
I desperately wanted to like this. I do like her phrasing, but it feels too heavy and slow for Tosca. Elina is a wonderful mezzo, but just because you can sing an aria doesn’t IMHO you should
A kak sluchilos? A po kakomu pravu? Sprosili shto lyubyat shto net, po takomu. :))))))) Razve normalno takoye lyubit? Zdes kak vi dumayete? Razve muzikant Klassicheskuyu muziku ne lyubit???
Elina, you have been blessed to be a blessing. So many lives, including mine, have been enriched by your gift. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Perfekt ❤Thank you Elina❣️❣️❣️
Elina looks and sounds Divine👏👏👏
😂😂😂🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Oh sis that last phrase was complete magic!!! Ah goodness the passion and control there (all of it) was spectacular! Thank you for the breathing spots too. Makes sense. I’ll be performing that this weekend
Elina you are amazing.
A wonderflu experience of art
Praechtig. Wunderschoen.
BRAVISSIMA ELINA !!!❤❤❤👏
Beautifully sung
Never heard of conductor Karel Mark Chichon (searched & found out) but liked very much. Expectedly wonderful singing. Brava/Bravi.
Absolutely beautiful, and wow what a voice. Simply the Best.❤❤❤
🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🙄🙄🙄
Wow nunca imaginé que cantaría Tosca.. lo hizo genial, claro que puede su registro lo permite.. bravo
Can’t imagine my favorite Octavian singing Tosca….😲
Garanca really was a great Octavian, wasn't she? Sexy and very funny when she had to play Octavian in drag as a girl. She actually behaved like a young man would who was having fun playing a woman. And then there was her exquisite singing! I wish I could see her play Amneria in a well directed, well produced "Aïda."
@@unclealand However "well-directed and well-produced" an Aïda production may be, you still need a talented and skilled dramatic mezzo to sing Amneris... which Garança isn't.
@@grantyoungblood7895 Isn't that odd. I mentioned your comment to some other mezzos and they think you sound jejune.
@@unclealand LOL Indeed? And how many of those "other mezzos" are experienced Verdi singers?
@@grantyoungblood7895 Well, they've sung at The Met in NYC. Truth.
Elina Garanca es una artista muy inteligente y apreciada por sus interpretaciones. "Vissi d'arte" ¡SI y basta ! No el rol completo de TOSCA. Armando Cerutti - barítono
Beautifully done.
Pięknie .
Io Adoro la sua voce e modo in cui canta e molto bella la sua tecnica, penso che ne ha da cantare nel suo repertorio. Senza cantare parti di soprano lirico abbassando la tonalità, per me scelta sbagliata. Comunque ci tengo a precisare che è una gioia sentirla sempre❤
Pensi, però, che Elina Garanca è un mezzo soprano con facilità nel registro acuto. Forse potrebbe essere più propriamente un Falcon che un mezzo soprano vero e proprio, ad esempio Azucena. Infatti, come Adalgisa, un ruolo scritto per soprano drammatico di agilità, è sempre stata più che plausibile, come pure in Carmen, altro ruolo scritto per soprano drammatico. Ad ogni modo, concordo con lei circa la pericolosità, per la voce, di cantare parti che non sono le proprie, passando da un ruolo per mezzo soprano ad uno per soprano.
Devo dire che Shirley Verret e Grace Bumbry hanno cantato ottimamente ruoli di mezzosoprano e soprano drammatico. E poi. la Callas ha cantato Macbeth e Puritani e c"è più differenza tra il personaggio di Lady e quello di Elvira che tra Amneris e Aida. Comunque è interessantissima la sua disamina. Grazie!@@desperatehell
@@antben8992 assolutamente d'accordo con lei. Tra Elvira e Lady Macbeth c'è un abisso di differenza che, invece, non c'è, ad esempio, tra Norma e Adalgisa, oppure tra il ruolo di Adriana Lecouvreur e quello della Principessa di Bouillon. Pensiamo, a proposito di Elvira, come hanno cantato "Son Virgin Vezzosa" Joan Sutherland e Luciana Serra: il ruolo della Lady non ha colorature o virtuosismi talmente alti, sul registro sovracuto. L'indimenticabile Grace Bumbry, scomparsa nemmeno un anno fa, a maggio del 2023, aveva una voce da dio ed era mezzosoprano e soprano. Certamente, ha cantato Sansone e Dalila, Carmen, che sono tutti ruoli da mezzosoprano acuto ma, oltre a Tosca, dove è stata bravissima, ha cantato pure, con Magda Olivero, Jenufa di Leoš Janáček, proprio nel ruolo di Jenufa, che è un ruolo da soprano.
Non è una voce Pucciniana !!!
@@giulianosalvatori4126 concordo con lei, però consideri che non ha cantato tutta l'opera, ma solo un'aria. Anche Mariella Devia, in un recital a Barcellona di anni fa, canto Vissi d'arte e Luciana Serra, a Torre del Lago, in un famoso festival dedicato a Puccini, che avvenne circa 20 anni fa (se non sbaglio), cantò O mio babbino caro
Bravissima
She did a masterclass with Birgit Nilsson when she was young.
Birgit Nilsson told her she was a dramatic soprano, destined for Wagner.
But she became a fake mezzo instead…
Wow I want to watch Elina's Wagner very much!!!
The fact that she was at the masterclass with Nilsson doesn't mean anything. Nilsson is not a vocal pedagogue of any kind, or someone who can teach voices, much less classify them.
And please stop associating dramatic voices with Wagner. Most of the female roles in his operas are beautiful, tender, feminine lyric voices.
anybody who knows anything about voice knows that Garanca is actually a soprano lol. Who are you kidding?
It was clear back then. It's clear now.
Everybody knows it. Nilsson knew it. @@marieantoinette3857
@@marieantoinette3857
Nilsson was right which you aren’t.
And Wagner needs strong voices, yes often heavy and dramatic.
A true Angel! Some voices remind you of Heaven.
How does it remind you of a place you've never been?
@@vicky-yx4dy
People are confused about voices and love anything
BELLISSIMA DONNA BELLISSIMA VOCE MEZZO E SOPRANO BEL CANTO SALUTI DALLA POLONIA
What are you all on about? She sang it beautifully. And all the right notes and everything!!
Extraordinary, bravissima
To me it sounded beautifully!!!
WOW!! Muy bonito
Hahahah Now I can sing Nessun dorma without problems!!!
I was never convinced of her lower register.
You mean she sounds like a soprano
She does come to think of it.
I agree. When I first heard her Eboli it was desastrous.
No great lower notes to be found
🌷
This is transposed down just for the record.
HALF A TON LOWER
Half ton wrong too 😂
❤
Vissi d'arte isn't coloratura - but thank you for including this aria from Puccini
Vielen Dank fürs Teilen. Ich durfte live in Kitzbühel dabei sein und Elina sehen.
In fact she was never a mezzo! More of a Soprano without her high high notes!
Isnt that a mezzo
@@mugrad25 yes that’s how she made her career
I was sayimg a mezzo cant sustain the high tessitura like a soprano. Though i think this is was a sylistic choice for garanca. Shes been the Amneris lately which is high for a mezzo. Maybe she's saving her high notes for that
@@mugrad25 In fact what I’m saying that she is not a real mezzo…she is a soprano! Her low notes are very bad and no chest partition!
@@OperaMyWorld you think she could sustain a high tessitura for an entire opera...with all the dynamic changes and shadings on high bflat, high Bs and Cs?
shes rushing through it and i find myself she would let it breathe a bit coz she definitely has the chops to sing it
I ve heard Garanca live and her voice sound much of a soprano ,not a lyric of course , she goes very hight for a mezzo ,can anyone confirm or am i wrong?
She’s a misguided soprano
@@draganvidic2039 Nonsense. As you can hear in this recording, her voice is at it's most powerful and beautiful in the middle range and keeps it's rather dark colour throughout the range. Ugh, all of these self-named specialists!
Heard her live...i heard something of a verge of a dramatic mezzo.
@@wallenstein72Most voices are at their "most powerful," in the middle-to-upper-middle range, so that doesn't mean anything by itself. The top (or abouts), is just the loudest/most intense.
Also, the middle of a soprano, and the middle of a mezzo differ by quite a lot. Her voice is big where a spinto soprano should be, i.e., from e5 on up to an a5, with top notes to c6. A mezzo, especially a "dramatic mezzo," would possess significant presence fom g4/a4 up to e5/f5, with top notes at f#, g, g#, and a. They can technically push to b flat but it involves larynx squeezing and valsalva manuever, which can be vocally destructive longterm.
That said, I've heard her live and she sounds like a darkened spinto soprano to me. She didn't possess the voice "downstairs," for Dalila.
Una sola domanda: perché?...
Elina tiene una técnica increíble. Es una gran soprano
Она сопрано??????????
she is not a soprano, she is a mezzo-soprano
@@DanielTakata
She’s a wrongly trained soprano
Messo Lirica... mi estimado
J'aurais aimé l'entendre chanter Liebestod, j'ai l'impression qu'elle a le timbre pour
There will never be another opera singer with the combined beauty and talent of Elina Garanca. She is one in a billion!
🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤣🤣🤣
Far better suited to singing Wagner than Puccini.
Aleluia Glória a Deus
Tudo é deus, que saco
I wish she had sung this aria in the original tone.
According to my tuning fork, she actually did sing it a half tone lower than written, so her high B-flat is actually an A. Arias can be sung like this, but not entire roles.
Why sing it when you shouldn’t
@@fredrickroll06 Wrong x 2
A bit of a rough go if it. The climactic B-flat was flat. Sounds like she’s really pushing her voice where it doesn’t want to go.
I'm sorry, but she's not doing herself any favors with that aria. It actually lacks everything that makes Puccini special.
She lacks most things making opera worth listening to
Elina… dont do it again!
Retire!
why????
MONEY 💰
She has a good high C and the tessitura to Vissi is not super high....so not sure why she couidnt sing the original key
Well she would have sung it in the original key had she not found it too high.
She shouldn’t sing this at all
@@draganvidic2039 why?
@@mugrad25
Her voice is worn out.
Born a spinto soprano but trained as a lyric mezzo, a voice category that doesn’t really exist. Now trying dramatic mezzo parts and sings soprano arias.
Nothing went right with her voice.
@@draganvidic2039elle a simplement une tessiture étendue et je pense qu'elle a raison de l'exploiter
¿Qué orquesta, qué lugar, qué director? Por favor...
une voix si proche de celle de la Callas ! magnifique !
😂😂😂😂У них разные типы голосов от природы. Каллас лирико-колоратурное сопрано. Элин крепкое сопрано, лирическое меццо-сопрано с натяжкой.
best version I have heard since Maria
😾😾😾🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Go wash your mouth with soap
Ma perché?
She doesn’t know better
Filippa Giordano version for me im afraid .
Eine geeignete Stimme für Tosca muss STRAHLEND sein, nicht dunkel und weich... Es gab keine Arien mehr?
Stimme nicht. Elina ist wunderbar.
@@nesherben-negev1345 ja, sie hat eine wunderschöne Stimme und sie ist eine große Künstlerin!❤ Aber, ich meinte, diese Rolle verlangt eine Stimme mit mehr Metall in den Resonanzen. Elina singt die Arie wunderbar, aber die Rolle würde zu ihre Stimme und Persönlichkeit nicht passen. Elina ist schön und lieblich, Tosca ist eine launische Diva, deshalb braucht sie einen Sopran Glanz. Wir lieben Elina Stimme, ❤ aber in anderen Rollen.
Correct, she’s horrible…
...so perfunctory...a shame
Finally, singing in her Fach!🙌 Magnificent!
HALF A TON LOWER
@@GoranVONKarkin A ton? As in 2,000 pounds?
@@GoranVONKarkin you’re right
@@julianaspector3391 Delusional
Why tranposed... It's very well known aria and it's very obvious. If you can't sing it in the original key, better don't sing it at all. And what are you afraid of.. it's not that high, Elena Obraztsova, a dramatic mezzo, sang this in the original key.
Is it really transposed???Elina has a wide vocal range . I wonder why...
In ‘’ la favorita ‘’ she sings a high C , as Leonora .
Tessitura--the best-sounding part of a singer's voice with regard to timbre--is the determining factor. She certainly has the capability to sing the aria in the original key. That is not the point. For her voice, the aria sounds better in a lower key.
Singing is not a competitive sport.
А главное, зачем меццо-сопрано лезет не в свой репертуар....
Sing better if you can . Envy is a horible crime of de soul and lack of caracter .
Transposed or not really doesn’t matter to me. We opera lovers can be very critical and picky as is our right as listeners. Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to these people that have the ability to sing this genre of music. Relatively few people in this world have the desire ability and god given talent to perform on this level. I think in my opinion she does a great job. She sings this with great emotion and that counts also. Sure I prefer a soprano over a mezzo in this, I love Tebaldi’s version but I like to be open minded about it.
Horrible
And proud of it
Her turn away from roles that made her famous was a mistake. I hope that she goes back to them before completely losing her voice.
She's like 47 already, why hasn't her voice developed any dramatic quality? Maybe she always sang the wrong fach..
Voices don't develop into a dramatic in their late 40s; that's a too common myth. If it were destined to happen it would have occurred from 29-33 years of age, with a "crystalization" near late 30s. Voices, especially from women, can DARKEN with age, but that isn't necessarily more "dramatic."
Yes, she's by nature a big soprano. I'm not sure why she instead sings as a mezzo.
I don’t like it
Abbassata di un semitono....ma vai .....pensasse a cantare il "suo" repertorio che sarebbe già tanto visto che di mezzosoprano non ha proprio nulla
Quale sarebbe il "suo" repertorio ? " quel vecchio maledivami" ?
I desperately wanted to like this. I do like her phrasing, but it feels too heavy and slow for Tosca. Elina is a wonderful mezzo, but just because you can sing an aria doesn’t IMHO you should
She’s a bad soprano 😂
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This wasn't coloratura.
evidenmente mezzosoprano ！ non è soprano ……………
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