Tosca: Vissi d'arte - Elina Garanca - 2023 

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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.

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

How does it remind you of a place you've never been?

@@vicky-yx4dy People are confused about voices and love anything

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!

Half ton wrong too 😂

Она сопрано??????????

she is not a soprano, she is a mezzo-soprano

@@DanielTakata She’s a wrongly trained soprano

Messo Lirica... mi estimado

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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

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.

Retire!

MONEY 💰

She lacks most things making opera worth listening to

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She doesn’t know better

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

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.

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?

😂😂😂😂У них разные типы голосов от природы. Каллас лирико-колоратурное сопрано. Элин крепкое сопрано, лирическое меццо-сопрано с натяжкой.

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…

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Go wash your mouth with soap

HALF A TON LOWER

@@GoranVONKarkin A ton? As in 2,000 pounds?

@@GoranVONKarkin you’re right

@@julianaspector3391 Delusional

Quale sarebbe il "suo" repertorio ? " quel vecchio maledivami" ?

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.

She’s a bad soprano 😂

And proud of it