What you won't hear in Luisa Miller
Here's a YouTube clip of the original telecast of Luisa Miller, complete with the screamed "Brava Maria Callas!" before Renata Scotto's first solo. La Cieca is informed that (reasonably enough) this interruption had been edited out of the eagerly-awaited DVD version. Note, too, that the DVD will feature state-of-the-art video and audio restoration, unlike this rather faded VHS dub.
Also new and fresh on YouTube, a clip courtesy of Premiere Opera of the all time champion Turandot team, Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli.
La Nilsson's closeups were apparently filmed separately and lip-synched, but that's all to the good because this way we get to study up close the diva's modish "Yma Sumac meets Female Trouble" maquillage.
Nilsson/Corelli-Turandot 1970 Macerata
Also new and fresh on YouTube, a clip courtesy of Premiere Opera of the all time champion Turandot team, Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli. La Nilsson's closeups were apparently filmed separately and lip-synched, but that's all to the good because this way we get to study up close the diva's modish "Yma Sumac meets Female Trouble" maquillage.
Nilsson/Corelli-Turandot 1970 Macerata
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BRAVA, RENATA SCOTTO
So who had the best legs, Corelli or Aragall?
Seriously! Brava Scotto. That guy was an attention-seeking moron.
A beautifully sung scene from La Scotto. Thanks, Cieca!
Corelli had the better legs. In a nanosecond. But they both pale before the mighty thighs of Rolando Villazon.
I'm not sure how often people comment on the podcasts, but I have to say this. Am I the only one who finds Gobbi's Don really overrated? Don't get me wrong, I love my Tito, but here he sounds like he's still singng Scarpia. And I've never heard an glier Fin'chi dal vino. He was probably magnificent onstage, though.
La Scotto stood her ground and turned it OUT! You betta work, bitch! lol
Domingo sounds so fresh here. I love this clip.
Unrelated to this clip. Are any of Mme. La Cieca's fans going to be in Paris during the next few weeks? I'll be there for Troyens (10/11), Lucia (10/12), and Salome (10/14). Any chance of a group toast to Madame ?
How did legs come into this string? Random...
Brava Scotto btw.
I wish that I could be in Paris itdg. You have a marvelous time!
M. Baryton, I was watching the Turandot clip, and when Corelli comes into view near the end the sight of him in his tights took my mind off the lip synching. I thought how few tenors can pull off the tunic and tights look that well -- Aragall was another one who came immediately to mind (he used to get my heart racing!).
ITDG, I just saw the Lucia last night, which was, well WOW! Natalie Dessay blew the socks off of me. Perhpas some will quiblle that her voice, colors and line are wrong for bel canto, but bot does she invest her entire being every single second. I don't think i breathed at all during the entire mad scene. Every note had meaning. The coloratura was scary it was so passionate. Wow
I could probably be persuaded to go again on the 12th october. as for troyens and salome, i have been looking for someone with whom to attend. Perhaps i shall get tickets on those evenings and we can meet up?
Just another T, I am delighted to read your note about Dessay's Lucia--2 YEARS later, I am still stunned by her Chicago Lucia, and for the same reasons--every note had meaning, passionate coloratura.
Who was her Edgardo? Was it Polenzani?
Just another tenor, I'll be glad to meet while in Paris. Do you live there?
Just another tenor, If you want to contact me directly: iltenoredigrazia@comcast.net
"La Scotto stood her ground and turned it OUT!"
Exactly! I just hope the pathetic queen who did the yelling was seething as he realized that if you can try to make Scotto mad, but you'll just succeed in making her better.
Yes it was Polenzani. He was simply terrific. This was, in my opinion, his most complete performance I have ever seen. he was so engaged, he made Edgardo into an incredibly tragic figure. He deployed boyish charms in the first act, and with Mme Dessay turned act I almost into a Romeo and Juliet youthful encounter of two children who are defying the forbidden. There was excitment and thrill. His act III aria was pretty much the most beautiful I have ever heard it. I think his timbre is just right for this kind of role, and I hope we get to hear him in a lot more of the Bel Canto. I would also kill ot hear his Nemorino. Yay, Polenzani.
In her biography, MORE THAN A DIVA (what else) Scotto describes the scene, she was completely thrown and credits Milnes for keeping her focused. she basically says that he behaved like a real father in character and held her hand tightly and that helped her go on.
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Can we all please email DG and request the Met Scotto Trittico and Otello on DVD?
FYI - It's official. I purchased the Luisa Miller DVD this weekend. I also bought the Met Parsifal (Meier, Moll, et al) since I had a good experience with seeing it live this spring.
Thanks again La Cieca for continuing my obsession with performance DVD's.
P.S. - Who was in the Otello cast with Scotto?
The Otello featured Jon Vickers,
Renata Scotto (forty lbs slimmer than a year before in La Boheme) and Cornell Mac Neil as Iago.
...and don't forget we need the DON CARLO with Scotto, Troyanos, and, well, Moldoveanu, alas. My LUISA DVD just arrived from Amazon!!
OK, have at me--but I have always thought the Vickers-Scotto Otello was strange, because JV spent a lot of his time sobbing. The weeping Otello, instead of raging or slow burning. How did McCraken do the role? I won't ask how Slezak did O--too long ago.
Hmmm... Cornell was supposed to be a great Verdi baritone... what does everyone here think? I'm not that familiar with him.
Cornell Mc. did Iago as an old-time villain--rolling his eyes and making faces behind the back of the sobbing Vickers Otello. Milnes did Iago as a guy with a split personality--he was doing evil because he could not help it.
Cornell MacNeil was one of the finest Rigoletto's, Germonts or Iago's I have seen, (Milnes was a great Iago also) His Scarpia, (coached by Gobbi) was incredible and his performance in the DVD of Rigoletto is heartrending (the only Rigoletto I found better was Managuerra) Coming in the generation between Warren and Milnes,MacNeil was a much better baritone than his more poplular contemporary Robert Merrill,and sang at the Met for 25 years from 1959-1984. I think what ljc is reacting to is that Mac Neil was still not a television actor, he was a stage performer and had not learned how to adjust for the television cameras whereas Milnes was a natural for the cameras.
Very interesting. Not sure if I agree with rolling the eyes as Iago. That doesn't seem to be the character to me personally. I know what you mean by Milnes being a natural for the cameras, as he really has that magnetic personality, and subtle facial movements.
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