Beverly Sills & Pauline Tinsley- Maria Stuarda Confrontation Scene-Act II-"Dialogo delle due Regine"
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2012
- Confrontation Scene-Act II-"Dialogo delle due Regine"
Opera: Maria Stuarda;
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti;
Maria: Beverly Sills;
Elisabetta I: Pauline Tinsley;
Roberto: Enrico Di Giuseppe;
Cecil: Michael Devlin;
Talbot: Richard Fredricks
Dir.: Charles Wendelken-Wilson
NYCO, 1972
Two power-house singers! The blessed Pauline keeps her end up fabulously. RIP Ms Tinsley. Died today. A sad loss x
Beverly Sills spoke with great affection and respect for Pauline Tinsley - this was the only time they had the chance to work together i believe. She was amazed by this Verdi soprano who could soar up to the top E. Miss Tinsley also sang this role opposite Janet Baker at the English National Opera. A great confrontation scene!
+Tenortalker I actually worked on a production of NABUCCO with her in Holland. Apart from singing the guts out of this role, she was an extraordinarily warm hearted modest, lady, totally unpretentious. I seem to remember her spending
most of her free time knitting or something of the likes. In private she was just like your favourite Aunty, but when she got out on stage, she adored being fierce and unpleasant and knocking out top E's! A remarkable woman! She is still alive - going on for 90!
Pauline was a treasure. She refused to take money for my lessons. She wanted me to come as often as possible as she really believed in me, alas it did not materialise. I cherish the moments of us singing together on stage.@@acacia-bloom
RIP Pauline. The most extraordinary singer! Equally at home in Wagner, Strauss, Janacek, Donizetti, Verdi, Handel ... I saw her Kostelnicka and Abigaille within a short period and she was incredible. I'm only sad that I missed her Elektra.
Wonderfull to have this thank you Edward Arckless
This was Awesome, I was lucky enough to have seen this with the both of them!
I heard Tinsley sing Donna Elvira the first season the ENO preformed at the Coliseum. She wore a red fright wig and was costumed to look like Queen Elizabeth I. She was by far the best thing about the show!
Pauline is a friend. I am in touch with her daughter and am about to write to Pauline. She was fantastic on stage. Fearless. I will pass on your comments.
I saw Miss Tinsley's photo taken at a nursing home, I believe, and I decided to do a little research. I hope Miss Tinsley is doing well!
Please pass along my birthday wishes - I used to see and hear Pauline Tinsley in Amsterdam and in London in the seventies and maybe also the eighties(?). I thought she was amazing!
Great, I love Tinsley's Elizabeth and Sills's Stuarda, two amazing singers. Tinsley sings in an excellent diction, except for her evident problem with the past tense of the verb condemn(condannò in Italian, condemned in English) at minute 7:58, you can clear hear it's a challenge for her to pronounce it in a proper way, but except that, no problem.
+Vincenzo Anzoletti I take your point, but I listened out for her ' problem' and it is over in a split second as she is singing at speed . This is a live performance and in live performance a slip of the tongue when singing at speed can occur. If you listen to some of the greatest native Italian singers in live recordings ( and I love them all and the wonderful Italian language ) you will find that many have trouble keeping the right words on the notes at all and the prompter is omnipresent. Signor Pavarotti ,whose timbre I adored , was well known for his difficulty in this respect for example.
Here we have a non native Italian speaker doing a splendid job and a very exciting performance that I am sure neither you nor I would want to be without.
A one word , one second slip is more than bearable and doesn't deserve comment surely? Tanti auguri.
When Sills sings more dramatic reportoire than her was made for she sounds like a lyric canary bird on amphetamine... But she is involved, no shit...
I heard Beverly Sills in a recital and had an opportunity to meet her. She was very friendly. She had the flu, but was in good voice . . . and when I met her, she said, I won't kiss you, but I will give you a hug. Right after, I got the flu . . . I, of course, contributed it to Beverly. ;-) She also wrote me back, and I have a Franklin Mint recording of her “greatest hits,” which she autographed.
You are right about her voice, it is a light lyrical voice . . . and I think her career could have been longer had she stayed away from the heavy stuff. “Roberto Devereaux” by Gaetano Donizetti was one of the last heavy repertoire I believe she did, but her heart and everything she had was put into the production. I have it on video . . . and it is worth it. I believe she said that she would have rather had a shorter career that she could be proud of instead of one that was mediocre . . . (paraphrased). I believe she got her wish.
@@russmaleartist I remember her talking about her preference for a quality career rather than a long and unmemorable one circa 1970 on one of the evening tv talk shows, either Merv Griffin or Johnny Carson. Good times.