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30 comments

• chevalierdupin says:

  Quiet as it is kept, she is one of my most favorite…errm…artists out there. The fact that there is live footage of her “singing” has been the greatest Christmas present ever!! It’s a Christmas miracle! I have always said (although this particular rendition doesn’t quite demonstrate) that had she actually been properly trained, she would have been one of the greatest performers. If you listen to her CD and manage to get past the actual affronted sounds, interpretively she is one of the most emotionally charged performers. One need only hear her “Voi lo sapete” or “Ecco l’orrido in campo” or “Ritorna vincitor” to understand. Truly, I implore you to listen beyond what is at once apparent.

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM
• DottoreMalatesta says:

  She’s portuguese, not brazilian!

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:39 PM
  • rd says:

    Definitely – she has Portuguese accent! I never knew if she was for real. For years, I thought that this was a hoax. Florence Foster Jenkins has lost a great deal of interest for me since I first heard the truly incomparable Natália de Andrade.

    on December 11, 2009 at 4:27 AM
• figaroindy says:

  Love Natalia – have for years! Live footage is just fantastic!

  I had a recording of her doing “Vissi d’arte,” but the CD became unplayable (I played it a lot!)….can’t find a recording of it to replace it now….anyone lucky enough to have that one still? It’s not on the collections with most of her stuff….sadly!

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM
  • figaroindy says:

    The “Vissi d’arte” CD wore out because there’s a FANTASTIC moment on the high Bb “signor…” where you can literally hear the voice just blow out under the pressure…I played it over and over!

    on December 10, 2009 at 4:41 PM
  • chevalierdupin says:

    I do have the “Vissi d’arte” on my compilation. It’s spectacular in a way that no other could ever hope to achieve!!

    on December 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM
    • figaroindy says:

      I’ll pay whatever necessary for a copy of that one again!

      on December 11, 2009 at 8:26 AM
• DottoreMalatesta says:

  And besides, she did have a career and a very nice voice when she was younger. However, she had some sort of mental disorder and it got worst when once, sleeping with her mother, she found her dead by her side in the morning.

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:41 PM
• Lindoro Almaviva says:

  As we would say in my country: Tirando pedradas

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:43 PM
• Lindoro Almaviva says:

  and here is the diva herself singing Voi lo sapete o mamma:

  http://kovacich.com.ar/grabaciones/masjoyitas/CavalleriaRusticana_Voilosapete.mp3

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM
  • Grimgerde2 says:

    Possibly the greatest exemplar of what Anna Russell refers to as great artistry but no voice. Love it!

    on December 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM
    • Often admonished says:

      The pianist’s a total hero.

      on December 10, 2009 at 5:17 PM
  • Nemorinopr says:

    BRaaaaVaaaa!!!!
    the diction is absolutely accurate and she knows what Santuzza is all about. And….she is better than Ann Murray!!!!

    on December 10, 2009 at 11:34 PM
• squirrel says:

  WO BLEIBT WENARTO

  on December 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM
  • wenarto says:

    i bleibe here
    

    on December 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM
• Olivero is my Drug of Choice says:

  My favorite part occurs around 45 seconds. But you have to look for it. Madame swallows one of the Damn Snowflakes and quickly spits it out, barely missing a beat.

  on December 10, 2009 at 5:16 PM
• Tamerlano says:

  In searching I found this…holy shit! She was 17, good god.

  on December 10, 2009 at 5:34 PM
• Tamerlano says:

  Good God! WHY DON’T WE HEAR THIS WOMAN IN NY????

  on December 10, 2009 at 5:37 PM
  • richard says:

    Well, there WAS Ermione at NYCO back about 5 years ago…

    She was sensational!

    on December 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM
  • bassoprofundo says:

    She is indeed unbelievable. Seems like she knows it too, her website says she is “La Pendatchanska.” She sang in Roberto Devereux in Dallas recently. She sang something in Toronto, too, I think. Not sure why she doesn’t come to the U.S. more.

    on December 10, 2009 at 6:28 PM
    • Hippolyte says:

      Pendatchanska’s career is a puzzlement. The NYCO Ermione was truly superb–the follow-up there of Donna del Lago was less successful as its music didn’t seem to lie well for voice and the character was perhaps too placid. For some reason Rene Jacobs seems to be the only conductor interested in her. I heard her as both Vitellia and Donna Elvira under his baton in Paris, and she was predictably fiery and memorable. She has also recently sung in Gassmann’s L’opera seria and Haydn’s Orlando Paladino with Jacobs, and her next big engagement is in the title role of a new production of Handel’s Agrippina (again with Jacobs) at the Berlin Staatsoper in Febrary.

      on December 10, 2009 at 6:50 PM
      • La Cieca says:

        on December 11, 2009 at 12:27 AM
  • rapt says:

    Wow! Thanks so much for posting this!

    on December 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM
  • Lindoro Almaviva says:

    I find her variable. She is certainly exiting, but sounds reckless to me.

    on December 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    on December 11, 2009 at 2:42 AM