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22 Comments:
She needs to find the light and keep crossing!
malfitano?
Could it be JULIA MIGENES?
Yaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn...........................
Hmmmm, very square and predictable.
Clean and straightforward, probably spent too many years in conservatory trying to learn all the right notes on the page........Happens to all of use who choose that path..........No that is harsh...skip that......for someone who doesn't spend lots of time in the genre it is a pleasent attempt. But missing lots of sass, fire, style that someone who has sung this rep for 10-20 or even 50 years would have.............of course if you gave Ella Fitzgerald the score to Lulu, I doubt she would have a comperable success.......
My $.02
Erstegeiger
neither methinks?!?!
Sass, fire and style, well stated: http://www.bluegobo.com/production.php?var=10056
Leave us not forget that Nancy Walker originated this part.
It's Evelyn Lear, no?
I understood all the words at that tempo!
So I don't think it was Sutherland...
(I'd have loved to hear Ella's Lulu, early on, when she still had the high notes.)
(I always hear Nancy Walker's accent on things like "marron glace.")
Stratas?
Migenes, definitely
She has the problem most classicos have when they "crossover" (TeKanawa, Verrett) - the middle voice is either worn or so classically placed that they can't get any bite into the sound there, and have to gingerly step thru it. That said, about 1/2 way thru I started to appreciate the clarity of the diction, and didn't think it was the disaster that it started as.
Delphimi,
Thanks for the rare video clip of Michael Maniaci!
I don't think that it is Migenes- she doesn't have that slight nasality that Migenes brings to this rep-btw happen to love Migenes in some of this stuff from the 80's
For those of you who are stumped and ready to find out who this singer is, here's a link to the album cover.
thanks for the answer- I assumed it was Lear by default- sad to say I don't really know her voice well- the things I have heard haven't attracted me to really study it....guess it's back to the books for me...btw La Cieca- thank you for this wonderful site... you amaze me as always.....your fan
dean
I rather enjoyed it. Was it as jazzy or sexy as nancy Walker (it is full of double entendres, after all) or Patty Austin, or even Betty Goarrett, who should have gotten to sing it in the movie, but didn't? No. But it's waaaay more successful an attempt at this repertoire than the Karita Mattila "Fever".
Nostalgia- I learned a lot of these songs from that recital disc. I must still have it on vinyl somewhere.
By the way, everyone knows that the best crossover EVER is the Bastianini/Simionato 'Anything You Can Do'...
As someone who's successfully crossed over, I'll say this is one of the best. Not Farrell - who is? - but light years beyond Fleming and Mattila, let alone the fun fright of Malfitano at Joe's Pub. (That could have been outtakes from "Beetlejuice.")
Go, La Lear!!! A truly great broad in the best sense of the word.
I just read on the Met Futures page that next season will have "Adriana Lecouvreur" starring Guleghina as Adriana and Borodina as La Princesse. Can you imagine The Absolute FILTH that night will bring?
RF-unfortunately this appears to actually be true. A travesty. Adriana with no chest voice.
cavalieri, tebaldi, caballe, scotto, freni, guleghina?!!!
"of course if you gave Ella Fitzgerald the score to Lulu, I doubt she would have a comperable success......."
i wouldn't be so sure ... could have been a huge success ... with pearl bailey as geschwitz.
What was the answer to the last Regie quiz?
Freni was my favorite Adriana but I don't she really had chest voice.
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