Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA
Fiorenza Cossotto, Amneris
Ivo Vinco, Ramphis
SFO, 1977
Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
Fiorenza Cossotto is one of the all time greatest dramatic mezzos, performing Amneris. Wonderful, rich mezzo voice, with great a chest register and perfect Italian diction.
Unfortunately, nowadays, most real dramatic mezzos voices have vanished. Well respected artists like Anita Rachvelishvili are afraid to use chest, the voice is weak at the bottom or sometimes even inaudible on some syllables, words, or even phrases.
24 авг 2021