Anna Tomowa-Sintow: "Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani involami". Errnani. G. Verdi 

Such mastery is achieved with a lot of work and talent.

Couldn't have said it better. I'm in awe of her poise and freedom. It's beautiful.

Totally agree

It is a fine interpretation but I would recommend listening to Rosa Ponselle and Leontyne Price in this aria. I don't think Mrs. Tomowa-Sintowa reaches that level of vocalism.

This is a live performance and IMO this gives it a special place in the canon of recorded performances such that I rate it as number one.

Anna does a fantastic job with this aria!! I would also recommend listening to Leona Mitchell sing this aria. It is phenomenal!

Leona Mitchell owns this aria as well! Im not taking anything away from Anna Tomov Sintow as she sounds wonderful in this piece. I've always loved her voice especially as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni

First "squared" comment I've seen. A good and honest invention.

Ponselle ?

Tra le ultime che hanno "cantato". Splendida.

I know, it was reeking havoc with my perfect pitch...LOL

It's written in Eb

Your orthography is wreaking havoc with my perfect spelling.

Wrong. It's in Bb. The music below it shows the key of Ab. Remember when there are flats, it's always the penultimate flat that determines the key. In this case the Eb refers to the 5th of the chord, the tonic being Ab. Still bring it up a whole step and it is actually sung in Bb. I've never seen it in Ab.

Norberto, tienes razón y pido disculpas por ello. Anna canta en Mib, que es como, creo que está en la partitura original de Verdi. Yo encontré esta trasposición un tono más bajo, en Reb y sin más la incorporé equivocadamente. Gracias por tan excelente aportación crítica constructiva y por el elogio final. Saludos.

Lucky you! I saw it live on TV and I remember this performance specifically. She schooled singers more famous than herself that night!

There is a clip of this by Leontyne Price where she actually puts up her hand to caution the audience not to clap there.

@@rogerpropes7129 Thanks, she's had the guts to do it.

YOU ARE PERFECTLY !!! NO ONE

Since Maria Callas passed in the 70s I agree.

@@cavaliothorson7755 That's not a fair comparison either. What Callas could do in her prime, nobody else has been able to do, including Tamowa-Sintow. And Callas could never produce the classically beautiful sounds that Anna does here. Anna was a wonderful and amazing singer, but Callas was a genius. You can hear the difference just in the way they say Ernani involami. Anna sings it; Callas caresses it and almost whispers it in his ear.

@@Shahrdad I'm actually not an opera connoisseur, I was more or less exaggerating in my previous comment. I've known about Maria Callas for a short time now and I'm blown away every time I hear her sing.

@@Shahrdad your comment really gave me goosebumps just to remember Callas, the divine goddess, the eternal artist!

Far dar better!!!

without question

Why do you even mention the Russian here???!!!

Lots of people are better than Netrebko

Who isn't?

Non ne sarei cosi sicuro...hai trovato nel suo camerino lo spartito? Non mi pare proprio un tono piu' basso.

@@fabriziomariagarzi5534 - Troj Rox ha ragione. la signora canta in si bemolle maggiore, come l'originale. Le note scritte sono piu' basse

@@sutherland9, ho ascoltato molte esecuzioni confrontandole e mi sembra che cantino tutte nella stessa tonalita', Callas e Sutherland comprese. La Tomowa-Sintow oaveva problemi di estensione e tenuta e arrivava al Re tranquillamente. Riascolti bene e comunque un tono per quest'aria sarebbe troppo e si avvertirebbe, stravolgendo l'esecuzione e l'ascolto.

I missed a question mark

You must be deaf

ok

Madam, you're blurting out total BS, and not even involving Leontyne Price in it helps..

@@enthusedtosing9655 Evidently all you have to offer is to tell someone that they are blurting out BS? This is a public forum! Anyone can say whatever they like and give thier opinion! Therefore, I could give less than a damn about what you think about what I wrote! I stand behind my opinion with expertise to match! And, I only debate with my equals! People like me do not respond to people like you, who evidently do not have education or knowledge to express themselves without profane and low class profanity! You sound like a very sad person with nothing going in your life, beside a huge chip on your shoulder! One way to pull your life out of the gutter, is to learn to respect other people's opinions and thier rights to those opinions! What rock have you lived under that you don't know who the greatest American Operatic Singer is? You must be a total failure and a nobody! Do not bother responding, because you will be blocked! Any response from you means nothing to me or anyone else! You Nobody! Pooof! Be Gone!!!

@@shirley9529 Your first post is uneducated, and shows, to point out the least, full ignorance of history, or linguistics, or phonetics. (Sintow, with several slight vocal hurdles here and there, is magnificent in her rendition, and most certainly has _great_ Italian) Also it is rude and I won't stand self-entitled bigotry entering discussions of Opera. Trampling the work of an amazing singer, who gives, at 40+ years, with more than 20 years of career, a great interpretation of virtuosic material, with among others, a beautiful integration of a beautiful, creamy, ringing uppermost register within the rest of the voice. Also, Leontyne Price is possibly the first one who will tell you her own Italian diction is very far from perfect (and I like Price a lot, but you yourself decided to bring her into this) And as it is a public forum, I take your "Begone" and give it back to you, written down on paper and slightly soiled. You Madam are an aggressive bigot with racist tendencies, and opera is the last artform I would associate with you. And thanks for the life advice, it's amazingly well-educated and polite, and your wonderful good intentions gleam through magnificently. It also shows you are gifted in divination, a gift only matched by your assessment of people's Italian diction. Block whatever you like, BTW

Please go and ask Price why after so many decades on stage she didn't give a shit about the language she was singing and just kept on making hooty sounds? Would she be allowed to sing English so badly??

@@Orfeus80 Your Pure Ignorance Is Showing! I only debate my equals! All others I teach, however, you are evidently not worthy of my time and professional expertise! Calm down! This format is open to anyone who wishes to expound an opinion! But, Please, Go and Educate Yourself and Stop Trolling until you can articulate something for the public to here. You accused Leontyne Price of "hooting!" Evidently you have never heard her, otherwise you would not mischaracterize her singing as "hooting!" Please, do not bother to respond, or attempt to mense words with professionals and learned experts in the music genre of classical music unless you are willing to listen and learn! Again, do not respond and waste my expert time time. I Cannot Help You!