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What a gorgeous performance of “Vissi d’arte!” And was La Cieca surprised when she learned the name of the artist!
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How about Cristina Deutekom? I don’t why I thought of her, but it reminds me of that style of singing (when she wasn’t yodelling coloratura)
I vote for Miricioiu too.
Lisa della Casa? I can’t believe someone thought it was Marc or Vaness.
Only the MET broadcasts? Jeez, that’s reductive.
As I said way back in #11, it’s surely Jurinac–who could mistake that voice?
Susan Boyle? Michael Bolton? Katherine Jenkins? A terrible horrible deep dark existential part of me just whispered to me that the last mentioned might be possible.
Our lieber Hippolyte is very wise indeed. The singer is in fact the lady he names, in a live performance of Tosca at the Vienna State Opera in 1966.
whew!
Sena Jurinac, still living in retirement, 87 years old. Born 1921. (Wikipedia)
There are 2 Jurinac Toscas on CD (both from Vienna on MYTO) but since Tosca is one of my least favorite operas I never own nor have heard either. Essential Jurinac (for me) include the EMI anthology with a live VLL (not one of my favorite Jurinac recordings) along with a selection of her early Glyndebourne Mozart and her superb Tchaikovsky and Smetana arias; a cheap but excellent 2-CD collection on Gala with extensive excerpts from a great Vienna Butterfly; the Glyndebourne Idomeneo; the E. Kleiber Rosenkavalier; the Leinsdorf Ariadne (impossible to find on CD); and well worth seeking out is an EMI anthology dedicated to tenor Peter Anders. It’s mostly arias by him (he’s OK, I guess) but it also includes 4 duets (Bartered Bride, Otello, Butterfly, Boheme) all in German with Jurinac in her absolute prime and she’s sensational.
Hildegard Behrens came to mind very soon and stayed there through the end.
Funny how very different voices share some tonalities now and then. Some heard shades of Steber, Moffo, Jurinac, et al. To me a couple of notes, but just a couple, reminded me of Milanov.