Thanks.These divine and wondrous melodies's Bellini are music that sounds from heaven. Such a duet can probably to sound only in paradise (we are incredibly lucky to hear this before 😂).
This is one of those moments that you wish to have a “time machine “ only to be able to travel back in time and watch this performance and back with no voice due to the BRAVISSIMO screaming ! Thank you Lohengrin.
I was fortunate to hear them sing this with Muti in the beautiful Pizzi production in Covent Garden in the spring of 1984. They were breathtaking and I became a Baltsa convert for life. I travelled to Athens for the opening of the new Greek opera house for Baltsa's Klytemnestra. The amplitude of the voice was no longer there but the stage presence was still electrifying. A pity she cancelled her Vienna Greek songs recital due to Covid. I hope she has not retired and will still appear one day. Gruby has alas officially retired.
@@LohengrinO yes, the Athens Elektra was outsung by Baltsa and the Chrysothemis of Gun Brit Barkmin. I remember the Elektra was a replacement for the originally announced Lise Lindstrom or Irene Theorin. My abiding memory of Baltsa as Kytemnestra was her debut in the role in the premiere of the Robert Carsen production in Tokyo in 2005 with Seiji Ozawa conducting his Saito Kinen Orchestra. Baltsa was electrifying - she entered in white prowling on her bed carried aloft by her retinue and was the moment the theatre was waiting for. Polaski was Elektra and Goerke was Chrysothemis. The Japanese were very fond of Baltsa starting with her Cherubino and Komponist when she appeared with the Vienna State Opera in Japan in 1980 followed by her Carmen in the Royal Opera House tour, her Romeo in the La Scala tour, her Santuzza in the Bologna Communale tour etc plus multiple concerts and guest appearances every year in Tokyo. Sadly she and her husband cancelled their engagements with the Tokyo Opera's Fledermaus after the Fukushima earthquake and she has not returned after that.
Hello my virtual friend Lohengrin O.. Wonderful dueto. Agnes Baltsa sang Carmen in Municipal de Santiago ópera Nacional de Chile. Gorgeous performance. Best wishes for you from Chile. 🤝🙏🇨🇱. The former vídeo you uploaded Hildegard Bherens in amazing Isolde. She sang the same rol in my dearest Municipal de Santiago Ópera Nacional de Chile, the oldest opera house of Latinoamérica ( 165 Years of glorious history of performing fine art) Dr. Fernando Rivas-Burattini.
Η μουσική τού Μπελίνι αποπνέει μία καταπληκτική ευγένεια, μία ευλαβική προσέγγιση στην μελωδία. Και βέβαια οι ... κοπέλες παραπάνω την αποδίδουν εξαιρετικά. Ευχαριστώ, φίλε Τεό, που παρά τον καύσωνα μεριμνάς για όλους εμάς.
Bellini always delivers, ant these two ladies are the messengers. Bellini, the epitome of bel canto--he gave us quality in his short life, not quantity.
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Hmm. Love Bellini! Nicely sung. But is nobody bothered by the many breaths Baltsa is taking which interrupt these beautiful long Bellinian lines? I find this much more distracting than Gruberova’s gulps of air someone else mentioned. Sure, she has to gulp air so as not to interfere with the legato flow of the melody. But this is how it should be sung! Then when they sing together, Edita seems to concede to Agnes’ lack of breath support, and they both are taking quick breaths together. As a reference, I don’t remember this happening with Sills & Baker, who also sing this exquisitely. Such difficult music to sing well
Hi, dear! By chancr do u have this full video? It looks much better resution thqn minr. If u have a chance, could you post it to us? Or at least the aria and final scene of Baltsa. This is incredible!!!!!!!! Pure beauty!!!!
Saw her last year as Klytamnestra in Elektra in Athens... she was HUGE and scary... at some point I jumped over, she literally scared me... in a very beautiful production of Elektra
Endearing music. I prefer Baltsa to Gruberova because of the overall vocal production. The voice has more core therefore producing a clearer sound. Gruberova restrains her tones singing piano, but the pianos are a bit throaty because she is not using the vocal muscles to produce the correct sound. Yes, the diaphragm is essential to support the voice, but if all of the vocal muscles are not working to full capacity, the tone gets cut off and no amount of air will enable the voice to reach its full potential.
Great observation! When Bjorling saw a teacher advise breathing through the abdomen, he simply said, "Jackass! That is the perfect way to ruin the voice." You have to keep the breath UP and put the voice on the breath. Sul fiato. That is the bel canto way. Grub's breathing is really problematic. I also find her intakes disturbingly loud. She sounds and looks like a fish out of water.
@@alioffe4321 was / am trying to make a Sul fiato post... whom would you consider the best Sul fiato singers ever? Besides Maria and Ebe that come from the top of my mind
@@alioffe4321 I did read about Bjorling's theory. It is confusing because every article I read on vocal production emphasized the importance to use the diaphragm to support the voice. Bjorling obviously had great technique and his voice lasted up to his early demise so he was correct. Then why do opera buffs think that Maria Callas' had vocal issues after the weight loss and her diaphragm lost muscle. Bjorling would have disagreed. A singer must breathe naturally and allow the air to travel through the lungs.
@@raybercse1 Callas was singing the most taxing repertoire in the world, her body changed and yet, the roles remained the same. She tried really hard to reconfigure her technique after the weight loss. Her Lucias from 54 and 55 are telling. Also in her videos, you can see a dramatic change in her body composition and "the bad habits" creeping in, chest sinking etc. In her earliest videos, she stands fully erect and the head is up, which is called the noble posture in bel canto. Bjorling was a technical purist and he called Callas' Leonora "perfection." He wasn't able to find a single flaw in her voice or her technique. And that was after the weight loss. Btw, you may like this book if you haven't read it yet. library.lol/main/91575BE1FA9E8F75D482879B1AB4B908
