She is a great singer, not everyone should be Callas She was beyond normal, it is really shame to judge opolais according to her looks if she is good or not!! in our age acting on stage should have liberty and be more close to reality, and this performance is perfect according to that! it's not always about showing of vocal techniques, it's a full show!! music and theater.
Elle possède un physique incroyable et une rare capacité à chanter dans toutes les positions (affublée de costumes parfois improbables) et dans toutes les productions, même les plus contestables. On peut rêver d'une voix plus charnue et moins lisse, mais elle a encore une marge d'évolution. On ne l'écoutera peut-être pas au disque, mais sur une scène d'opéra, elle est un régal.
Je suis d'accord ! Il y a des imperfections vocales, c'est vrai, absolument impardonnables dans le passé.. mais c'est une Traviata très excitante et réelle !!! Une femme que detruit sa vie follement et se moque de l'amour. Si elle a bu, donc elle est ivre et on aperçois ça
One of the best singer/actress of her generationI agree with the comment below regarding women disliking her - most likely women who can't get work as singers and are jealous....lolol
I have a friend who confessed to me that she didn’t like the 120-lb. Netrebko like she does the more full-figured one of late. And my friend (a female) is someone who’d choose listening to bel canto over verismo any day. Given her preference for lighter voices I posited the notion, albeit very tongue-in-cheek, that she didn’t like the old Netrebko because she was “easy on the eyes” as they say. I interpreted the look she shot back as “you’re damned right but you’ll never hear me say it”. It makes me wonder if that same sentiment might be at play with some women not liking Opolais, as she’s “easy on the eyes”.
That is probably exactly what is keeping you from enjoying this singer's interpretation Ana, you don't care. As a professional opera singer myself I can assure you that Kristine is a fine singer and highly regarded by her peers in the business. Her singing is widely experienced as moving and that is the very definition of beauty, something that touches us. If you aren't moved by her singing, that's fine but I have the feeling that you are angry, frustrated and miserable with yourself and that is a pity. I cannot imagine how you could help others heal through music if music doesn't heal you. I truly hope that you fine peace with that.
Dear God in Heaven, this is just awful on every level. There are aspects of her voice I find interesting, but this aria is painfully out of her reach. The staging/directing is worthy of litigation! For years I have worried that opera is on its last breath...and this only supports my concern. This is my first intro to this artist, so I will need to find other videos, but this is just insulting to Verdi. Why, oh why, do directors have this constant need for their sopranos to stretch out on the floor or sofa? It’s ridiculous.
The end of the Aria was a little weird. Too sexy I guess. Alfredo was touching her breast, that wasn't necessary but I will blame the director for that. She is an amazing singer, definitely a coloratura voice. I know a lot of people don't like her colors but doesn't mean she doesn't have the capacity to sing this role.
Mme. OPOLAIS is a fine artist a singing actress of the highest accord. The stage director here is at fault. This is vulgar taste in operattic direction. Hope he never directs another opera. Sour Amgelica would end up with lesbian nuns frustrated they can't have what they want. Crappola direction. opolais was a good sport to accept this direction.
mientras que las grandes en el pasado exigian...perfeccion.....parece que las actuales se prestan a la vulgaridad.....con tal de que se hable de ellas.....en algun sentido.....y eso no es opera................en opera lo que hay que enseñar son cuerdas vocales...con alma ...espiritu e buena impostacion llena de mucha dedicacion y amor......porque esto no es musica moderna actual ..donde se exige...mostrar piernas culos y tetas.....y la voz es lo de menos....y donde saber cantar no es sino una idea del pasado.............
She has a beautiful voice and we must understand that she is not a coloratura. A modern rendition, not bad in my opinion, but a bit vaudeville in excess.
In my opinion Violetta is not a coloratura role. Is more like a lyric role, because coloratura and high notes are just in her first act. In the following two act the soprano needs more body and strength that most coloratura doesn't have. Coloraturas are they only one able to do the E flat but that wasn't even wrote in the score.
callas didn't have to strip down to her undies, or crawl on couch and floor to be violetta. ms. opolais is so into her 'acting' - mostly of the 'look at me, mom' school of acting and singing. poor violetta, indeed.
This is an aria so famous that one cannot help comparisons. I've never before seen it staged like this. It must be very difficult to sing and act which includes strutting one's stuff, undoing corsets WHILE CONCENTRATING ON THE VOICE/NOTES. And singing with one's nose bare inches from the floor....... If nothing else, incredible concentration, make an obvious mistake that even a non-connoisseur would see; all this is terrible taxing. Kristine looks good (whatever happened to 'wait until the fat lady sings'?) and the production uses this, trying to push the boundaries to bring opera 'up to date'. Not many operation can get this treatment to advantage. In any case, 'La Traviata' is one of those operas that do not need gimmicks.
Ла рэу момент са' примит зиа мя ,сынт болнавэ ,ченай авя акум те гындешть нумай ла ковит. Еу ну штиу пря Бине а мэ фолоси ши акум ам фэкут врео гафэ. Ымь паре рэу ам о инвидие де де чей каре ыс супер ын тоате. Музика ый супер нумай ну атунчь кынд ай температура ридикатэ.
I don't know. Reading some of the comments, seems Opolais would've been out of opera completely by now. But wait, she has a current thriving career singing in the major opera houses in the world. Are all these artistic directors deaf? I wonder who are the deaf ones.
Bien cantada, bella voz y bella mujer, lastima del mal gusto de poner a la Violeta a revolcarse por el suelo con Armando, como animales en celo, cuando tenían a mano un sofá, nunca había visto a armando regresar a la casa de Violeta, siempre he visto que canta el bellisimo y romántico verso a lo lejos, como un recuerdo de Violeta de la declaración de amor de Armando, la escena erótica acaba con el romantisismo de la obra, no se de quien fue la mente calenturiena que decidió hacerlo así, pero creo que sus hormonas alborotadas no le permitieron entender el romanticismo de la obra.
Non ho capito se è lei che propone di denudarsi oppure sono i registi che le chiedono di farlo. Qui è fisicamente in gran forma, nel canto qualche nota stridula c'è ma sarà la registrazione. In ogni caso se si spogliano le donne belle e giovani (qui 27 anni) a me sta bene, però mi pare un'edizione commercialmente ammiccante, vedremo se prima o poi si finirà nel porno. E se proponessimo Violetta a Jaroussky con Alfredo/ Kaufmann? Ecco finalmente la prima Traviata gay e la prima rappresentazione in assoluto di un'opera a interpretazione omosessuale! Scenicamente, si capisce, non so se i due abbiano inclinazioni particolari.
@@asterflamm Bhè, in ogni caso non credo che con Violetta/Jaroussky Alfredo sarebbe mai ingrifato come in questo caso con Violetta/Opolais....Però non si può mai dire, con l'Alfredina adatta.....Una volta o l'altra accadrà, pur di far cassetta certi produttori non si fermano davanti a niente.
This looks like it was directed by the dime store novelist Barbara Cartland, the dress is ghastly, and her acting is "pieno di scempiaggine". The voice is very good fundamentally, but her musical taste is very bad. All the notes don't come forward either, so the diction suffers.
Terrible, vulgar, ugly to watch. I don't think her voice is suitable for Violetta. And the tenor (who is he?) is horrible, this is not a voice. He acted like an animal. Verdi would be horrified.
Too bad singing voice is emitted in engolamiento and musicality is highly questionable (calante). It is not the scenic problem of an alleged "vulgarity, Violetta in history undresses in the privacy of your room, there I could do what she wants, but intrude Alfredo in this body, as in the musical drama she hears in her beau voice imagination. It is your imagination. the "genius" of the stage direction are destroying the opera, not a lack of teachers or voices.
Poor Verdi. All this nonsense acting and staging crap... I don't care about her voice or her technique at all, after one minute I'm just annoyed because she is out of tune, I don't hear any beautiful Verdian lines on the singing at all. If productions like this are considered a step forward in the art of singing and opera maybe they should have hired Beyoncé. At least that girl uses autotune... ewww!
I deleted my previous comment because I got tired of getting brought back to this awful video of an awful rendition of one of my favorite arias. I usually like OperaNews' artist highlights but they missed the ball on this one. And for those calling the dissenters snobs... This performance is just BAD, especially the acting. If you like it, good for you; I, however, found it painful. Luckily, this is an old performance and she is a better artist than she was. Although there are far many other singers who are vastly superior. Just because someone is famous does not mean they deserve to be; the music world is very political. And just because someone ISN'T famous doesn't mean they're not amazing. For example, all of THE best opera singers I've ever heard in my life were teachers in music universities. So I don't know, maybe I'm spoiled because I've been surrounded by such talent for all of my schooling and professional life.
Why does people not liking her bother you so much? You seem to be taking it kind of personally. I don't believe anyone you called rude was really rude, although you might disagree with their opinions.
But anyway I'm muting this post because I'm tired of this video, and honestly I don't care enough about Opolais to argue about her anymore. So toodles :)
You are nota spoiled. You are bitter and tired. Everything evolves in life, and opera is no exception. You may not like it. Your problem. We love Kristine.
This is absolutely horrible and embarrassing. but I think that now she sings better. Yes, she is married with the young conductor Andris Nelsons that helped her throughout her career; especially at the beginning when she was a disaster like here. She sings better now, even if there are many sopranos that are much, much better and they don;t have the chance to sing in such great theatres....but you know, life is not fair.....
She is a great singer, not everyone should be Callas She was beyond normal, it is really shame to judge opolais according to her looks if she is good or not!! in our age acting on stage should have liberty and be more close to reality, and this performance is perfect according to that! it's not always about showing of vocal techniques, it's a full show!! music and theater.
Elle possède un physique incroyable et une rare capacité à chanter dans toutes les positions (affublée de costumes parfois improbables) et dans toutes les productions, même les plus contestables. On peut rêver d'une voix plus charnue et moins lisse, mais elle a encore une marge d'évolution. On ne l'écoutera peut-être pas au disque, mais sur une scène d'opéra, elle est un régal.
Je suis d'accord ! Il y a des imperfections vocales, c'est vrai, absolument impardonnables dans le passé.. mais c'est une Traviata très excitante et réelle !!! Une femme que detruit sa vie follement et se moque de l'amour. Si elle a bu, donc elle est ivre et on aperçois ça
@@veronicagombach1067 Exact mais tellement palpitant.
One of the best singer/actress of her generationI agree with the comment below regarding women disliking her - most likely women who can't get work as singers and are jealous....lolol
I am sure that you're right... !!!
I have a friend who confessed to me that she didn’t like the 120-lb. Netrebko like she does the more full-figured one of late. And my friend (a female) is someone who’d choose listening to bel canto over verismo any day. Given her preference for lighter voices I posited the notion, albeit very tongue-in-cheek, that she didn’t like the old Netrebko because she was “easy on the eyes” as they say. I interpreted the look she shot back as “you’re damned right but you’ll never hear me say it”. It makes me wonder if that same sentiment might be at play with some women not liking Opolais, as she’s “easy on the eyes”.
This is the best sung Sempre Libera I have heard since Fleming.
Now I see why she is taking over. LOVE HER!
Such a pretty cabaret singer and showgirl.
I think its very good both in terms of singing and acting
Povero Verdi!
She is swimming through the score....good that she is nice to look at, because there is not much more....
Beh, uno schifo da sentire e da vedere.
That is probably exactly what is keeping you from enjoying this singer's interpretation Ana, you don't care. As a professional opera singer myself I can assure you that Kristine is a fine singer and highly regarded by her peers in the business. Her singing is widely experienced as moving and that is the very definition of beauty, something that touches us. If you aren't moved by her singing, that's fine but I have the feeling that you are angry, frustrated and miserable with yourself and that is a pity. I cannot imagine how you could help others heal through music if music doesn't heal you. I truly hope that you fine peace with that.
Clapping hands. Me too I adore Kristine.
This sounds like a broadway show !!!!! NOT OPERA !!!!!!!
Dear God in Heaven, this is just awful on every level. There are aspects of her voice I find interesting, but this aria is painfully out of her reach. The staging/directing is worthy of litigation! For years I have worried that opera is on its last breath...and this only supports my concern. This is my first intro to this artist, so I will need to find other videos, but this is just insulting to Verdi. Why, oh why, do directors have this constant need for their sopranos to stretch out on the floor or sofa? It’s ridiculous.
Gran cantante, la escuché anoche en el Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires. Además, mujer muy hermosa y gran actriz.
Ce rôle n'est pas celui dans lequel je la préfère. Grande interprète néanmoins.
"WOW!!!" ----- I'm absolutely besotted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The girl couldn't wait to get her party dress off.
The end of the Aria was a little weird. Too sexy I guess. Alfredo was touching her breast, that wasn't necessary but I will blame the director for that. She is an amazing singer, definitely a coloratura voice. I know a lot of people don't like her colors but doesn't mean she doesn't have the capacity to sing this role.
Divina!❤️
Mme. OPOLAIS is a fine artist a singing actress of the highest accord. The stage director here is at fault. This is vulgar taste in operattic direction. Hope he never directs another opera. Sour Amgelica would end up with lesbian nuns frustrated they can't have what they want. Crappola direction. opolais was a good sport to accept this direction.
Some of these comments are unbelievable. Such experts! Let's see you do what she is doing. Sorry girls (and boys), she's got it all :-)
+beth wallace I'm with you!
Beth - you hit the nail on the head!
Oh I agree! She is amazing
Sure she is. "Only problem" she is too beautiful and people (some) can't stand that.
She seems to be doing Carmen at her most seductive in Sempre Libera….
Innecesario el final con ellos rodando por el escenario.
mientras que las grandes en el pasado exigian...perfeccion.....parece que las actuales se prestan a la vulgaridad.....con tal de que se hable de ellas.....en algun sentido.....y eso no es opera................en opera lo que hay que enseñar son cuerdas vocales...con alma ...espiritu e buena impostacion llena de mucha dedicacion y amor......porque esto no es musica moderna actual ..donde se exige...mostrar piernas culos y tetas.....y la voz es lo de menos....y donde saber cantar no es sino una idea del pasado.............
totalmente de acuerdo!
Totalmente de acuerdo también!
She has a beautiful voice and we must understand that she is not a coloratura. A modern rendition, not bad in my opinion, but a bit vaudeville in excess.
In my opinion Violetta is not a coloratura role. Is more like a lyric role, because coloratura and high notes are just in her first act. In the following two act the soprano needs more body and strength that most coloratura doesn't have. Coloraturas are they only one able to do the E flat but that wasn't even wrote in the score.
And this is your first experience with Opera you're in an alternate universe.
callas didn't have to strip down to her undies, or crawl on couch and floor to be violetta. ms. opolais is so into her 'acting' - mostly of the 'look at me, mom' school of acting and singing. poor violetta, indeed.
This is an aria so famous that one cannot help comparisons. I've never before seen it staged like this. It must be very difficult to sing and act which includes strutting one's stuff, undoing corsets WHILE CONCENTRATING ON THE VOICE/NOTES. And singing with one's nose bare inches from the floor....... If nothing else, incredible concentration, make an obvious mistake that even a non-connoisseur would see; all this is terrible taxing. Kristine looks good (whatever happened to 'wait until the fat lady sings'?) and the production uses this, trying to push the boundaries to bring opera 'up to date'. Not many operation can get this treatment to advantage. In any case, 'La Traviata' is one of those operas that do not need gimmicks.
UN VERO SKIFO!!!!!!!
Ла рэу момент са' примит зиа мя ,сынт болнавэ ,ченай авя акум те гындешть нумай ла ковит.
Еу ну штиу пря Бине а мэ фолоси ши акум ам фэкут врео гафэ.
Ымь паре рэу ам о инвидие де де чей каре ыс супер ын тоате.
Музика ый супер нумай ну атунчь кынд ай температура ридикатэ.
This is weird.... I don't know... I'm confused, hahah
I don't know. Reading some of the comments, seems Opolais would've been out of opera completely by now. But wait, she has a current thriving career singing in the major opera houses in the world. Are all these artistic directors deaf? I wonder who are the deaf ones.
Purtroppo la Callas è una .....anche nel buttare le scarpe in aria😂😂😂
Oh my!
Foliranje....nepotrebno.....odlican glas.....ALI....... mafia.....steta.......
Es superficialidad pura.
Bien cantada, bella voz y bella mujer, lastima del mal gusto de poner a la Violeta a revolcarse por el suelo con Armando, como animales en celo, cuando tenían a mano un sofá, nunca había visto a armando regresar a la casa de Violeta, siempre he visto que canta el bellisimo y romántico verso a lo lejos, como un recuerdo de Violeta de la declaración de amor de Armando, la escena erótica acaba con el romantisismo de la obra, no se de quien fue la mente calenturiena que decidió hacerlo así, pero creo que sus hormonas alborotadas no le permitieron entender el romanticismo de la obra.
+Luz Cecilia Carrasco Se llama Alfredo.
Horrid vocals. She should not sing anything that requires coloratura technique.
Never saw like this :( ...out of acting, out of music. If she would be a student I would shout bravo, but she's not...
+Nerita you obviously don't know much about acting or music
I agree with you. It is terrible in every way.
7:01 Is it a fur seal??
she exist...
wow
Non ho capito se è lei che propone di denudarsi oppure sono i registi che le chiedono di farlo. Qui è fisicamente in gran forma, nel canto qualche nota stridula c'è ma sarà la registrazione. In ogni caso se si spogliano le donne belle e giovani (qui 27 anni) a me sta bene, però mi pare un'edizione commercialmente ammiccante, vedremo se prima o poi si finirà nel porno. E se proponessimo Violetta a Jaroussky con Alfredo/ Kaufmann? Ecco finalmente la prima Traviata gay e la prima rappresentazione in assoluto di un'opera a interpretazione omosessuale! Scenicamente, si capisce, non so se i due abbiano inclinazioni particolari.
🤣🤣🤣 beh certo Jaroussky la potrebbe cantare giusto un ottava sotto e in questo caso Alfredo dovrebbe essere un basso
@@asterflamm Bhè, in ogni caso non credo che con Violetta/Jaroussky Alfredo sarebbe mai ingrifato come in questo caso con Violetta/Opolais....Però non si può mai dire, con l'Alfredina adatta.....Una volta o l'altra accadrà, pur di far cassetta certi produttori non si fermano davanti a niente.
Nice parody!
This looks like it was directed by the dime store novelist Barbara Cartland, the dress is ghastly, and her acting is "pieno di scempiaggine". The voice is very good fundamentally, but her musical taste is very bad. All the notes don't come forward either, so the diction suffers.
E flat?
Povero Verdi !!!
Maybe the most horrible Traviata I've ever heard......
Me too.
Terrible, vulgar, ugly to watch. I don't think her voice is suitable for Violetta. And the tenor (who is he?) is horrible, this is not a voice. He acted like an animal. Verdi would be horrified.
Un INSULTO al Maestro Verdi e alla sua musica
SCHIFO!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, she not singing well anymore .
Pure superficiality
¡¡¡ HORRIBLE !!!
I agree.
Too bad singing voice is emitted in engolamiento and musicality is highly questionable (calante). It is not the scenic problem of an alleged "vulgarity, Violetta in history undresses in the privacy of your room, there I could do what she wants, but intrude Alfredo in this body, as in the musical drama she hears in her beau voice imagination. It is your imagination. the "genius" of the stage direction are destroying the opera, not a lack of teachers or voices.
No
Lausy......sad
Тембр... Очень специфический, как будто голос расфокусирован, все время какой-то песок.
she might be a mezzo in my opinion.
La voz es increíblemente buena, la reggie una porquería. Se merecía algo mas decente esta cantante
molto più gnocca che altro
Disgraceful performing, directing, acting, and almost disgraceful singing. Opera may be dying and THIS is why!
Opera's not dying, but it sure isn't being helped by the presence of angry little snobs.
Tom Salmon dramatic but a bit too much.
Tom Salmon haha STFU it's dying because of snobs like you and Ana Leigh. I CAN'T.
I agree, it was terrible. The acting was the worst part for me. The screaming vocals were close behind.
Poor Verdi. All this nonsense acting and staging crap... I don't care about her voice or her technique at all, after one minute I'm just annoyed because she is out of tune, I don't hear any beautiful Verdian lines on the singing at all. If productions like this are considered a step forward in the art of singing and opera maybe they should have hired Beyoncé. At least that girl uses autotune... ewww!
Интересно кому в голову пришло поставить такое. Опера это высокое, но не это
I deleted my previous comment because I got tired of getting brought back to this awful video of an awful rendition of one of my favorite arias. I usually like OperaNews' artist highlights but they missed the ball on this one. And for those calling the dissenters snobs... This performance is just BAD, especially the acting. If you like it, good for you; I, however, found it painful. Luckily, this is an old performance and she is a better artist than she was. Although there are far many other singers who are vastly superior.
Just because someone is famous does not mean they deserve to be; the music world is very political. And just because someone ISN'T famous doesn't mean they're not amazing. For example, all of THE best opera singers I've ever heard in my life were teachers in music universities. So I don't know, maybe I'm spoiled because I've been surrounded by such talent for all of my schooling and professional life.
Actually yes, I am a professional. With a degree in music. Majored in voice. With years of experience. Opera included.
Why does people not liking her bother you so much? You seem to be taking it kind of personally. I don't believe anyone you called rude was really rude, although you might disagree with their opinions.
But anyway I'm muting this post because I'm tired of this video, and honestly I don't care enough about Opolais to argue about her anymore. So toodles :)
I am italian, i grew up with Opera. If i didn't know the lyrics I couldn't not understand a word...
You are nota spoiled. You are bitter and tired. Everything evolves in life, and opera is no exception. You may not like it. Your problem. We love Kristine.
This is absolutely horrible and embarrassing. but I think that now she sings better. Yes, she is married with the young conductor Andris Nelsons that helped her throughout her career; especially at the beginning when she was a disaster like here. She sings better now, even if there are many sopranos that are much, much better and they don;t have the chance to sing in such great theatres....but you know, life is not fair.....
I agree with you, she is better now but still.... there are many other singers that could blow her out of the water.