Renata Tebaldi "Un bel di vedremo" Madama Butterfly

[83DeaththeKid]

Come definire tale perfezione? Ci sono talmente tante parole e nessuna va bene, nessuna abbastanza degna di descriverla, ma ci provo lo stesso: Renata, eri meravigliosa, sia come cantante che come donna, la tua voce d'angelo resterà sempre nei cuori dei tuoi fan, il mondo ha perso uno dei suoi tesori più grandi con la tua scomparsa. Manchi a tutti noi, e se è vero che il Signore esiste, che possa concederci un giorno di incontrarti nel suo regno per sentire di nuovo la tua voce. Grazie di tutto!

[biancanevelet]

Unica voce splendida e piena di calore..Ti adoro Renata

[giustizzera]

VOCE ANGELICA

[Milahi1935]

Tebaldi has grace, very sweet voice and pretty high range. She must have been twice as good when younger. She has to be in the top five greatest sopranos of all times.

[rigoletto90]

Ero in estasi fino a quando non ha troncato l'ultima parola! Che delusione!

[8Goldie]

She sound beautifully but i cannot compere her to Callas, she is LA Divina... btw I didn't understood a word. Where is the diction? :/ I love her though!

[erginakif]

The last word is "Laspeeeeeeee"???????

[humangeorge]

@erginakif The last word is L'aspetto, but she lacks the breath, it is manifestly apparent in the previous phrase before that!!!!

[erginakif]

@humangeorge We all get old. Nobody can sing at 50 the way they sang at 25. It's a depressing thing really. They also lowered the key by a half step.I still think that she sounds good even if she's clearly not at her prime here.

[humangeorge]

@erginakif I didn't want to critisize this wonderful diva, You asked and i answered. Though I think she shouldn't have transposed down the original key, it is not a desirable thing. If she couldn't afford in the original key to take the high B, she shouldn't have taken this thing. For example, Callas has never allowed herself such things, though I think that it is foolish to compare this two giants, because they have absolutely different voices!

[MrArthurovenezuela]

En 1973, Renata estaba a punto de retirarse, ya no poseía la voz fluida de los 50 y 60, pero su voz seguía siendo la más bella y su interpretación de esta aria, genial; con el acento y el timbre necesario para esta ópera.

[caleche78]

@MrArthurovenezuela La voz està fresca y tecnicamente bien estudiada.Tebaldi terminò bien su carrera

[MartaStefanos]

Has anyone else noticed how little she opens her mouth.when she sings.......is this something she did throughout her carreer or only in the last years of her career?

Its interesting how so much sound can come out of so small a mouth opening.....

Is this part of her vocal technique? Has anyone else ever wondered about it??

Anyway - Bava Renata! The most beautiful voice ever!!!!!!!

[porsiemprememorias]

Siendo una adolecente, Renata doblò al inglès, las canciones de la primera pelicula de Walt Disney" Blanca Nieves", filmada en 1938. Su hermosa voz conmoviò generaciones y los que vimos la cinta en el cine siempre la recordamos. Despues el productor mexicano Edmundo Santos viaja a California, y pone un elenco de actores de su pais, para hacer los doblajes al español. Esto se aprecia en las copias que vinieron en versiòn para las videograbadoras y DVD. Comento Luis Espinoza de Lima.Perù

[31122051]

RENATA TEBALDI = MERAVIGLIA DEI SOPRANI !

[daria6321]

@31122051 *__________________________* siiiiiii

[bearitone50]

Still doesn't hold a candle to Scotto.

[bigttim1]

Is this Maggie Thatcher doing opera LMAO

[tena2]

she had a pure vocal sound, her very top register was not that solid bad her range overall was amazingly pure. Bravaaaaaaaaaaa

[faricallas]

Su voz sigue siendo preciosa. Está un poco disminuída, como es niormal después de tantos años cantando, pero aún saca suficiente volumen.También se le nota simpatía personal.

[belorizontim]

Brava Renata!!! Wonderful performance

[Ubris2010]

Che meraviglia ... senza parole ... ascolto con le lacrime agli occhi! Che regalo poter godere di tanta soave perfezione!

[AndreaChenier1977]

il miglior soprano del mondo. la voce d'angelo, la perfezione...

[WealthyAce]

It can't get any better than Tebaldi's interpretation. Bella donna!!! She's one of the goddesses of opera and bel canto along with Caballe and Callas. The rest are add-ons :-p

[yellowandspring]

goose pimple at 2:53min...amazing!!

[PascualG65]

¡Qué belleza! ¡Suena precioso!

[Liakazar]

Lovely performance

[ximenadelacruz1981]

Renata, su voz es inigualable, su calidad interpretativa, su impresionante caudal. En mi opinión una de las 3 mejores sopranos de todos los tiempos

[31122051]

La più bella voce femminile in assoluto. A dir poco MERAVIGLIOSA : anche se non più all'apice della carriera offre comunque un'interpretazione di primissimo livello. Splendida !

[tenorlovesasoprano]

the magnificence. that's all i can say. the magnificence.

[Spiritakis]

Beautiful woman. Beautiful voice. Thanks for sharing. Even not in his prime Renata Tebaldi is always amazing.

[TheValdoro]

its the clarity more than anything else that is so forward and bright . and such a great sound

[MrMarprof]

renata tebaldi una stella che splenderà per sempre! classe, eleganza, sunsuosità regale...la più bella voce italiana

[IShipHuddy]

Momento di orgoglio nazionale.

[Rupertluca]

Quanto adoro questa esibizione della Tebaldi, esprime una potenza vocale eccezionale!! Grandissima Renata Tebaldi vanto italiano. Peccato che tutte le cose belle prima o poi si estinguono. Addio Renata, ti amerò sempre.

[cocolone5]

forse migliore voce della callas ma certamente minore pathos interpretativo

[bruzzoastgiustina]

concordo

[musicofilonapoletano]

Esiste un detto francese: l'ottimo è il nemico del bene.

[voxveritatis1]

lovely indeed, but it is transposed half a tone down - other videos, earlier in her career, are sung in the original key

[kigomin]

well it's obvious that after a 12 hours flight you are very tired. She probably flew directely from the States to Japan. That's very harsh on your system.

[spinto12]

she was at the end of her career and she still sounded great. she is/was one of the greatest spinto sopranos ever. brava!

[TheBrejoh]

Una de mis arias favoritas y mi soprano preferida, estoy conmovida.

[carloge77]

Bravissima... Non come qualche Butterfly passata ma Grande sempre!!!!

[vpjammer10]

hmm...not her best performance... but still very Tebaldi... :D

[Tiberius717]

Mirella Freni centomila volte meglio in questa parte.

[Marcocucciolo91]

basta parlare della callas e della tebaldi come se fossero mostri ke si sfidavano..rimangono dee dell'opera..diverse ma unike..poi sn gusti..sebbene amante della callas nn posso ke dire BRAVAAAAA RENATA

[rinarix1]

@Marcocucciolo91 commento intelligente bravo, ma sai l'italia soprattutto e gli italiani sono o bianco o nero il grigio non esiste, ahahaahhahforse e' una nostra caratteristica

[nijo87]

@Marcocucciolo91 tra l'altro, entrambe dichiararono che nutrivano una profonda stima reciproca...tutto il caos è stato montato dai gossippari.

[Operaddict]

Where does she get that hair? Her voice had hardened by this time...not easy for her at all. But, with that said...who today has this star quality and diva demeanor?

[operaclassicc]

una voce favolosa ,una signora bellissima con una stupenda .questa e la voce della cio cio san che puccini voleva

[uncletibs]

great story telling..what an actor

[fraternalsword]

Tebaldi has an amazing voice;very pure and powerful but isn't this rendition a bit too fast?

[vocalpianist]

this whole concert was on the speedy side, perhaps because she's a bit older in this video?

[cris8472]

I agree that she is amazing and that this was a great performance, but it is still second to Maria Callas, in my opinion. As beautiful as Tebaldi is, she doesn't sing this with the same expressiveness that Callas does, and her face remained the same throughout the aria. Callas did not just sing with her voice but with her body as well.

[materialmyra]

I agree entirely.

[boris1281]

Cannot agree more with you!

[victimofcheese]

What a fantastic voice. This was right before she retired from the stage. When she retired she still had a powerful and lyrical voice, unlike someone else who should have retired after weight loss wrecked her voice in 1955

[fontenayperi]

hmm. who do you have in mind??? lol

[flaze3]

Probably Caballe

[fontenayperi]

I think it's Callas :)

[flaze3]

oh ok.... must have missed that one.

[feveroo7]

Callas is better way better..the best..even during thses years Callas was amazing and Renalti lacks her technique and voice...Callas even before her death had the best voice...

[segu82]

perfectly right!!! I absolutely agree with you!

[juanjitoD]

Renata como tú no existe ninguna. Eximia. Preciosa y grande entre todas.

[somethingnice218]

whats wrong with you--for gods sake enjoy

[brn6666]

grande renata!!! forse meglio della callas

[11Believer]

io oserei "sicuramente" meglio della Callas

[toni14744]

Great singer. Una grande diva. She will always be in the top

[olialto7]

Singers and composers have been transposing music for years to suit specific performances and performers.

[krysantemo]

Calla e Tebaldi due voci diverse ... Callas, greca, ma di profonda conoscenza della cultura e della lingua italiana..la Tebaldi italiana, ambedue sapevano esattamente cosa stavano cantando, le sfumature della lingua italiana... ma la differenza sostanziale é che la Callas"ha sempre sentito" cosa stesse cantandocn Puccini, e questo ne fa interprete unica, irripetibile e magnifica.

Grandissima Callas.

[MakaBelfagor]

@krysantemo Callas..la vera dea del canto... <3

[sgnmath1234]

Can't compare to the Janice Joplin version in Toronto in 1970.

[jalex11]

Is this a joke?? I am both confused and disturbed! lool

[11Believer]

I'm speachless...........

[kgarmaker123]

Freni I will agree with... she actually sings the High D flat in this opera, piano... freni was a great Butterfly.... .but then again, she did not have a restricted upper register, or sound like an old woman, like Tebaldi.

[kgarmaker123]

Well, did anyone but me, notice it was transposed down a half step.. that was not a B flat at the end, it was an A natural. This is what Tebaldi did her whole career, transposed music. Callas called her on it too.

[OperaBohemian]

I just checked it just to make sure, and you're right... that's insane... When you have to transpose things down... you should retire... unless you're a bass, and then you're just trying to show-off.

[birgitnilsson]

WHy retire wwhen the voice is so beeautiful and the artistry so great? It makes no sense.This is a great rendition to hear.

[jalex11]

I love Callas, but she transposed too so she probably shouldn't have talked.

[kgarmaker123]

She was talking about tebaldi's Traviata, which always sounded like a lot of screaming to me. And Callas transposed very little. Tebaldi was transposing in the middle of her career, when she was in so-called "peak" form.. Transposing down Mimi! Of course Violetta, anything, that might have sounded better a half step lower.. Hell then I say get some good mezzo to sing it, most can you know if it is transposed down.

[jalex11]

Yeah Callas did transpose very little. I like Tebaldi, but you're right, it's not like Puccini's operas are filled with High F's or anything.

[gencerito]

convegamos que teblaid cometio errores por ejemplo al abordar la traviata.dodne ni siquiera con el transporte salva el primer acto con la coloratura, ella desconocia lo que es el belcanto del que esta plagado el verdi de traviata o luego grabr el trovatore,pero su carrera fue muy grande en cuento al verismo ,salvando sus notas desafinadas al pasar el si bemol,pero no por eso ha de djear d e ser una de las voces mas hermosas de la historia de la opera

[LaMostraESopra]

Now this is my kind of tempo!

[leugim1961]

fantástica!!!! y ademas hermosa

[muschnik1961]

She sang at the end "l´aspet..." - Where was the last syllable "..to"?

[ledaem87]

Meglio Maria Callas!

[kimjfriedman]

my favorite un bel di diva......thank you...

[bachorg]

Grazie Renata per ciò che ci hai dato.

[rossini90]

Mi sembra di sentire la voce di Dio...

[vandalounge]

La Meravigliosa Tebaldi was an angel!

[bachorg]

Una delle arie d'opera più belle mai scritte

One of the most beautiful opera's arias

Eins operas arias mehr schones

[luigicorvi24]

i first saw this video i thought " pity abit too fast not quite the old days". after seeing the others including Gheorghiu its imediately apparent that even this late, Tebaldi is on a diferent planet. Clarity,Diction ,the sound always forward clear . the breath is shorter, but she manages to produce twice the effect of the others with apparent ease.From old tebaldi to young tebaldi there is a loss.Time has robbed us,but Compare her with the others and you realise just what makes her immortal.

[janraei]

Does anyone else feel the conductor was pushing the tempo a bit? She seemed a little rushed to me.

[forgetsalot]

Yup.

[cek1111]

They lower the interval.

[MaximilianCaldwell]

Tebaldi knew she couldn't compare to Scotto, Price, and even Callas in this role. It's interesting to note that she had it transposed down significantly.

[woytynowska]

her voice is wonderful, but if she gave a bit more of expression it would be better I suppose...

love the sound of her voice anyway

[pixieswand]

Une voce che mi fa tremare...

[modaguy]

Anyone who negatively criticizes this great artist must be both deaf and truly DUMB!!!

[gransasso101]

she's older here. it just proves that she's human too event thought her vocal beauty seems supernatural at times. This was not her best but she's definitely one of the best of all time

[Orosmann]

Quiza escribir los comentarios en un especio tan limitado haga que parezcan antagónicos pero creo que estamos de acuerdo todos. Lo que destaco igual que otro usuario es la dignidad vocal que Tebaldi mantuvo durante toda su carrera. Me parece una artista notable. Era mucho mas expresiva que otras que vinieron despues y veneramos como Divas. Si la comparamos a Callas es menos expresiva pero era mucho mas expresiva que una Sutherland o una Te Kanawa y nadie dice nada de esas.

[765027]

Gracias "pedoni5". Con más razón aún. Entonces eran 29 años de canto verista. Por ahí dicen que el aria esta bajada medio tono. Eso la hace fácil de cantar a esa altura de la carrera? Muchas cantantes bajaban las arias a los 10 años de estar cantando.

[TrovadorManrique]

Desde la más profunda admiración hacia la Tebaldi, permíteme decirte que no fueron 29 años veristas... al principio de su carrera su vodalidad era la de soprano lírica.

[enderezo]

Tebaldi debutò en 1944 con el rol de Helena en Mefistofele y en 1946 ya debutò Maddalena de Andrea Chenier y en 1947 ya Tosca.Tebaldi ya desde sus primeros años era una spinto o sea una cantante de timbre lìrico pero con una tecnica y un volumen de una cantante y tambien caracter de una cantante dramatica

[enderezo]

Totalmente que Tebaldi no fue solo una cantante verista.Verista es Lina Bruna Rasa por ejemplo.Ser solo "dramatica" no es lindo, Tebaldi es una spinto que es mas que ser solo una dramatica, la cantante dramatica (Ponselle, Traubel, Varnay) no tiene el agudo expansivo y grande como una spinta (Tebaldi, Nilsson que tampoco es dramatica sino spinta)

[enderezo]

Ya en el Requien de Verdi con Toscanini de la Scala , año 1950, Tebaldi es una spinto real, toda la parte final del Requiem se escucha a una verdadera soprano dramatica italiana.Fue muy inteligente es dosificar su carrera alternando los roles mas dramaticos (Maddalena, Leonora, Aìda, Tosca) con algunos mas lìricos (Boheme, Maria Boccanegra, Traviata, que tampoco son papeles para una lìrica pura como Freni y mucho menos aun para Victoria De Los Angeles)

[765027]

Esta Señora está cantando esto en 1973 habiendo debutado en 1946 y miren como lo canta. 27 años de canto verista y miren la dignidad vocal. Dónde estaba Callas para 1973? escuchando sus discos de los años 50 ?

[pedoni5]

Tebaldi made her debut in Rovigo in 1944.

In 1946 she made her LaScala debut

[birgitnilsson]

Es necesario decir este tipo de comparaciones pelotudas? Pareceria que los boludos nuunca faaltan

[ffilchtaeh]

Beautiful. A real lady who sang like an angel. Those who are not singers can't know how taxing it is on the voice to sing aria after aria. Thank you for posting this.

[Telltaleheart79]

Piss off! The hair was fierce!

[carlo331]

Ah dimenticavo, questa aria è abbassata di mezzo tono.

[carlo331]

E' una Tebaldi decisamente declinante.

[pedoni5]

Again you.Your miserly work is too evident.You were sending several messages in several Tebaldi videos everyday trying to discredit her but in a cynical way.Don't you know Renata voice is one of the greatest soprano of ever period ? I am sorry for you and your hidden hatred

[carlo331]

Mister pedoni. Soffri di manie di persecuzione?

[zafireh]

they lowert this aria for one tone. she doesn't sing it in the original key

[coreTenore]

Bellísimo!!!!

[italiantenor]

Great Renata! Always in our hearts!

[davidstmckenn]

Beautiful voice

[FerocityQueen]

Here her voice is deadly sharp,but...somehow I like it

[eze102]

i was lucky enbough to her Tibaldi at the Met in Tosca and I dare say before she even opened her mouth you knew great sounds would come out of it. Her stage presence spoke for itself and when she exteneded her are she was a goddess to behold and when she sang even if she didn't act her singing was spellbinding. Loved Tibaldi. She was great I am a singer I know. Dont be ignorant go to the opera and learn.

[listeningtoit]

Tebaldi voice problems began when she decided to turn to heavier roles and to make her voice darker when she was around forty. A pitty. The voice became laboured with screaming high notes. The artistry was the same but the voice... That was a wrong step. And a certain teacher "helped" her to darken her sound from lyric to dramatic...

[maggeo78]

Continuo a preferire la Callas in quest'aria, ma devo dire che questa è un'ottima esecuzione considerando anche l'età!

Grandissima Tebaldi!

[swdanielson]

Did I say that?

[sublimevoices]

There are a lot of ignorant comments about singers here, meanspirited too. Every artist has something to offer. The fanatical worship of Callas should be taken with a grain of salt. Tebaldi and Callas were both great artists, and both were originals. One is not "better" than the other, just different.

[longlifeluke]

I think so...;)

[DanyelHawkes]

but when one has a better singing technique than the other, it's very hard to appreciate both artistry equally...not naming any names...but to anyone with a musical ear, its obvious who has the better voice.

[CzarDodon]

Indeed, both ladies are no longer with us, they have passed into history and legend. We shall have to be content with the testimony they left us. Like Wagner and Brahms the controversy belongs to the past, we have the pleasure of enjoying them both. Here Tebaldi was at the end of her great career, she retired from the stage in 1973 aged 52. She left no sad memories of an embarassing decline unlike some singers today (male and female) who will leave behind a ghastly legacy of shame.

[swdanielson]

This is a good performance towards the end of her career. However, it's just average. She was very well-liked by opera goers.

[osvaldito55]

The one and only Renata. Only she can sing "... e un po per non morire al primo incontro, ed egli..." like she did. Brava.

[Fegen]

May she rest in peace. I do not believe

there was ever a soprano that the Met

Opera audiences loved more. She had a way

with an audience unlike most singers.

Her warmth always came across.

She thrilled me many times in performances

at the Met Opera in NYC.

[KILLERADVICE]

A lesson of italian singing.

No matter tempo changed and vocal decline.

End of the aria is incredible.

And the public understood it very well.

[nicevidbro]

dont like it at all.

[thotmosis]

Hay q tener un alma muy mesquina para hacer comentarios negativos cuando esta a la vista q las interpretaciones son excelentes..

[filiodecallas]

Estimo que el bajar las tonalidades de las arias es un acto de esgoísmo con el arte. Es como algo falso.

[Oneguin65]

Bueno; pues es algo que se hace desde siempre, si no fuera así nos habríamos quedado sin muchos personajes de Caruso, Ponselle, Muzio, Milanov, Callas, Sutherland, Vickers, Domingo, ect.

[solostan]

nadinaoz, your comment seems rather naive in light of the great number of transpositions that have gone on over the years. Callas sang "Casta Diva" in a transposed key all of her career, while tenors have regularly transposed whose high tessitura no longer suits their voice. You may not like it, but audiences around the world accept it, and love their artists from the beginning to the end of their careers. I am actually quite amazed at how fine her voice sounds here.

[saverioorlando]

Malibran key for Callas,Caballè....

[nadinaoz]

When the part of a soprano or a tenor needs to be transposed so that he or she can sing it... everybody knows what it means. There's no place for doubts about it. I see no point of discussion here. Bye.

[porchile1984]

La mejor de todo los tiempos.

[Telltaleheart79]

A little respect please. I agree the concert was a mistake, but so were Callas' comeback performances. Both sang when the voices had gone.

[stome3139]

Don't make me laugh Telltaleheart79, Tebaldi is in fine voice here nov 1973, and her voice is technically well fited, Callas was retired since 1965 and her only '73/'74 tour comeback was a disaster.Tebaldi voice remained till the very end, 1976

[suxmdbab]

This is one of the very few arias she could normally sing in an acceptable way , but still in here she is too old and of course all this concert was a disaster.

[vitellia]

What do you mean "she could sing few arias in an acceptable way"? Her voice is still as beautiful as ever with such persuasion. Granted, she's transposed it half-step down, and the money note wasn't as long, but still she delivers a performance to die for, far from a disaster.

[embenadorfinearts]

Tebaldi was not a great actor and in this was part of so called "an old school". Here she is at the end of her career, what a charm and what a voice ! Not like some other rivals who did sing too long with almost no voice left...

[MAPIAKALLAS]

Ok was Tebaldi sick during this concert it was horrible her wording was off this aria omg who am i kidding this song it was not and aria it was just talking on stage and no acting were is the beauty and what happen at the end its te aspetto its not te aspeeeeeeeeee were is the TTO people omg lol

[patjan1992]

There isn't any excitement here; she is going through the motions. After so many years of performing you would think she had a connection with her audience.

[rksu747]

I know that people love her for a reason. I am sure that she took her 'trade' quite seriously. This is why I do not feel comfortable trashign this performance. I just think that with all of the limitations she suffered with her voice, she shoudl have offered something more wherever she had a surplus. She is a great singer but listening to this leaves me yawning. The excitement just isn't there for me.

[trumansf]

Its a spit into the audience!!!! Its like she says " I dont bother acting at all, youll take it like this" What about the composer???? What about serving the art at any given time???? Callas was so right about her!

[gspichuni]

Poor Puccini.

[Laeliapurpurata]

I hope nobody had to pay to hear this.

[Orfeus80]

A lesson of phrasing this beautiful aria.

[mrrk]

Magic

[fabstenor]

BRAVISSIMA!!!

[jeferry]

I will add it to my favorite without a second hesitate.

[AmericanCallas]

Yawn.

[alecs1976]

I totally agree...double yawn!