The new Callas?
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19 September 2007
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12 Comments:
I love it, she looks like my mother, I'm serious. I even told Netrebko once that she looked like my mom (when she was her age of course).
Although it looks kinda cool, theres no way in hell the two are alike talentwise. Callas? Legend. Netrebko? Blegh.
Although it looks kinda cool, theres no way in hell the two are alike talentwise. Callas? Opera's biggest lie. Netrebko? Competent soprano.
How remartkable that our own tklogan has been able to detect the fraud that took in Vittorio Gui, Erich Kleiber, Victor de Sabata, Tullio Serafin, Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan and so many other great musicians.
Makes one kind of humble...
The saga, for reasons that they never existed, by some to find a way and an excuse to connect Callas to Netbreko, physical or otherwise, continues ad nauseum. Let Callas rest in peace and on her laurels, and leave Netrebko alone to do her thing her way, good or bad in singing or otherwise.
Tklogan...Is there any reason to first pose as Callasorphan and then call the diva Opera's Biggest Lie? Kinda giving yourself away there...
Don't feed the troll.
Maria Callas sometimes reminds me of Audrey Hepburn in pictures.
Callas deliberately modeled herself on Hepburn, especially during the weight loss. I think I've seen a photo of her dressing room with Hepburn's picture on the make-up table.
Aïe, the torture!
I can take the picture but as to the Netrebko - Callas match, may I quote from the classics – if you will forgive the rough translation of a non-native speaker :
[…]
'Sleep peacefully, idols and giants. To recommence Callas, Haskil, Arrau, one would need above all to recommence their initiatory journey, their immersion in the universe of relentless study, then to absorb everything, to forget oneself, to refuse, as they [Callas and Seefried] have, to imitate anyone. One climbs higher and higher, not knowing at what price or how long and how far one can keep on climbing. Only then, as for Faust, Aussicht frei, the view is unobstructed. […]’
Andre Tubeuf, ‘ L’inimitable secret’, in Diapason
Past0lin: you just described my diva, Fremstad.
ljc: I did not describe your diva, André Tubeuf did in an article for the French magazine 'Diapazon'. He drops these huge names of performers who know the secret - le secret. You named Fremstad, I could name a few others myself and so could everyone else. Would we find Anna Netrebko among those names?
Netbrebko is young enough to still have some time to develope as an artist if she will and can. Hopefully she will not be a Marion Talley; a quick crash and then grabbing lowpay gigs for the rest of her years. Fremstad is quoted as having said that when she was not on stage singing her life was dark and foggy. This could lead into logins forever on the private lives and later years of multitudes of singers, so I will leave my brief comments out in cyberspace.
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