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Bess, is you our woman now?

by | 8:25 pm | Jan 31, 2008

Or, to put it another way, could this soprano be what the Met needs for Roberto Devereux?


While you ponder the future, you can enjoy the past: the final act of Verdi’s Macbeth is now on Unnatural Acts of Opera.

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  • Gran Dio says:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CYxC3UW8Qyw

    Pendatchanska in Devereux. Very exciting, though it is not a conventionally pretty sound … But then Dessay doesn’t really have a pretty sound either – and it’s less distinctive than this.

    on February 2, 2008 at 9:44 AM
  • kashania says:

    I also think it might be Pendachanska. There is a DVD of her in Devereux which I would very much like to see. I’ve heard that she’s had vocal troubles lately. Her last Rossini role at NYCO wasn’t a big success, if I recall.

    I haven’t heard much of Radvanovsky in florid music but I definitely like her voice for the role of Elisabetta. However, I don’t think that Gelb considers her a star.

    on February 2, 2008 at 12:46 PM
  • JATM2063 says:

    No, Radvanovsky would not be good as Elisabetta, and I don’t think much of the singing in the clip posted either, whoever it is, BUT, thank you Cieca for giving us something to consider.

    on February 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM
  • judycdadana says:

    I don’t care for it either- I’m fine with ‘unconventional’ voices, but not when the high notes sound like Kath Najimy in ‘Sister Act’.

    on February 2, 2008 at 4:15 PM
  • simon says:

    I agree this is not Sondra’s best singing. I have just seen on youtube a clip of a Roberto Devereux in concert with Maria Pia Piscatelli; quite good. But also you must check out Annik Massis ‘s live in concert Casta Diva again on youtube. In a few years I know she could sink her teeth into Devereux. After all the best one was a high soprano; Sills and then Caballe of course. Bigger voices don’t meet the vocal lines and agility challenges of the role

    on February 2, 2008 at 4:28 PM
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