How extraordinary! Posting videos of artists in order to make negative comments! I have not seen this before! And then of course it attracts more unpleasant comments.
This video is not half as bad as the rather offensive title makes it out to be. Dessay's approach, not unusual these days, unfortunately, is to conflate acting with singing. Even Callas hastened her vocal decline by that same mistake which one can and should learn not to repeat. The voice is not a verismo tool and should not be used in a literal sense. Emotion is embedded in the music - there is no need to scoop and scream out high notes as she also did in Lucia, Hofmann and here.
I love Natalie, she's great, but I must admit your comment made me laugh a lot, in general the titles of your videos are really hilarious (even though I disagree with them)
Your comments are so offensive, you make me laugh a lot
Please keep uploading videos, I actually want to keep laughing
I can see that the title of this video has attracted an ugly horde of no life trolls. Americans used to throw pieces of horseshit at George Washington's carriage. I suppose this is a comparable modern way of trying to "have some effect". Oh, well... I suppose it is not as bad as writing graffiti on other people's walls.
I spoke to Natalie once after a dress rehearsal in Carnegie Hall months ago. She was coughing badly while singing. I was concerned and asked if she is fine. She told me she's having problems with her voice and that's why she wants to retire. "Retire? You?" Then I boldly asked what she wants to do then? "raising horses".. I was speechless.
Regardless the condition of her voice, she is truly a great artist, brings her passion and totally devotes herself into the most difficult art form- opera
Not a beautiful sound... I like her Lucia last year and col rep because her timbre was gorgeous. But a small, tired voice.. that I don`t like anymore.
@Serinia4melodic "Not a beautiful sound"??? Did you catch the thunderous roar of applause the audience gave her? Not always, but many, many times Dessay is greeted by that sort of audience reaction. You, poor thing with your soul eaten out by your own bile, are what by comparison? If you are in fact from Romania, you are not a good advertisement for that place.
I'd be honest; If i was a singer and my voice gets shot i would just have some type of back up career to turn to. It beats singing in denial and robbing people who pay to hear the mess and have your devoted fans chear for you...lol..
HEY! brividokaldo! I think that you are an idiot! And like so many have said "GET A LIFE"! YOU WILL NEVER KNOW OR APPRECIATE ANTHING THIS AMAZING WOMAN CAN DO!!! I LOVE HER SPIRIT! THE FACT THAT SHE STARTED LATE IN LIFE,2 SURGERIES, HER PASSION FOR LIFE .....YOU KNOW NOTHING! BUT I'M GLAD THAT YOU POSTED THIS VIDEO BECAUSE I LOVE IT,REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY THINK! I LOVE HER.
@mpullella26 Now, be easy on brividokaldo. This may BE his life. Natalie, however, goes on from success to success and clearly has quite a nice life and career.
I know she has had her ups and downs musically speaking. But when she is good, she is terrific. She is also a wonderful actress. So many great singers are lousy actors. She is wonderful to watch.
Totally agree with brividokaldo, this singing is second no third rate at best. Squally, often well off pitch, clumsy articulation and her ignorant fans actually think this is what singing is all about - under these conditions opera is a dead art. The conducting, by the way, is just as bad.
Les commentaires sont grotesques et offensants. C'est excellent et vécu, même si Nathalie a besoin de la scène. Diction impeccable, belle musicalité. passez votre votre chemin vous qui ne savez que tenter de salir ce qui vous résiste!!
P.s I have found all your videos with similar bitchy comments and think you need to get a life and stop criticising others who sing a thousand times better than you ever could brividokaldo!
WTF is with the comments you uploaded with the video? She sounds a lovely as ever - a little tired yes but everyone has "off days" If you can sing this better, brividokaldo , upload it and I'd love to hear. vous etes une salope!
I wish I could see you singing so many years and such a hard repertoire like she did! She is a true artist, those who say she's not anymore-find yourself a life instead of posting negative comments like this!
@MariaCallasLegend For years now the you tube trolls have been saying Natalie is losing, or has lost her voice. Natalie just keeps going on from one new success to another. I have a feeling that the trolls don't have much success in life.
The applause at the end was cut off quickly (by the uploader?) and the applause at the beginning (for whatever came before) were both thunderous from an obviously happy audience. Some people can't stand that. I like Dessay normally and liked her a lot in this. I also have viewed many YT uploads of her interacting with other people. SHE has wonderful manners.
Powers rangers... Go! what a classless tacky trollop this she-thing is. The crowed goes crazy because they've gotten the virus that caused the Met's audiance to go brain dead and to applaud to anything and everything, i'm sure Netrebko gave it to them like some STD.
Mrs. Miss or Mr. Brividokaldo, to make such comments of any artist is simply awful. May I ask what your training is to make such nasty remarks? If you are a singer, post some of your singing so we can see the material you are made off. If you are simply a critic, go back to school and review the ethics of criticism.
From the little bit of the beginning of the audience reaction they seem to have felt the same way I did about it. Wunderbar!!!! Dessay has lots of very devoted fans, sells a lot of records and tends to be very appreciated by audiences. For some reason she also attracts a few trolls. My guess is that she like to do things "not in the old way", and some people don't have the ability to change from what they were taught was THE WAY. Maybe it's just people who like being rude.
@MrHbc3 Well the old WAY is the the BEST way in the field of music. People like you have brought on the age of shrill manufactured singers with no clear vowels, squeezed sounds and are TOLERATED as opposed to the 1900's until late 70's and 80's where we were blessed with singers(Del Monaco, Tebaldi, Verrett, Callas, Bumbry, Price, Steber, Muzio, Caruso, Gigli, Bjorling, EARLY CAREER Alagna, EARLY CAREER Pavarotti, EARLY Millo, Ponselle for heaven's sake, and audiences who knew better
@brividokaido: what a stupid comment!!! Ms. Dessay can sing this better, yes - but 99% of all sopranos can't sing as she do here. Btw: perhaps you should think about your charakter, why are you so interested in execution of singers? Why don't you look for renditions, which bring joy in your heard and tears in your eyes?
@filmevoncosima maybe your wrong:D I know a lot of sopranos that sing better:) they just don`t have her fame... those sopranos that actually study in this shit music industry work their asses off for a long time!!
@MrHbc3 you are heavily underpaid in non-known opera houses. Dessay sings like a child compared to all romanian prima donas. ANd yes the shit music industry, because a classical singer is underpaid, again, over the mainstream whores. whores yes, no voice, no music only loopback.
Dearest Brividokaldo, your videos are interesting indeed and your comments, although often true are horrifyingly insensitive and unnecessary. Are you a singer? Do you understand the pressure, the commitment, the discipline and the INCREDIBLE hard work that goes into this profession. I do. Please pause and perhaps contemplate the next time you prepare to post something.
@vitroz An artist has to learn to be open to criticism and they WILL be harsh at times. Learn to deal with it if you want to be in this profession. If you suck, then you suck. Point blank. Dessay sounds 90% of the time like a shrieking banshee and that is FACT. Now your personal perception of sound is at this point questionable if you happen to enjoy hearing shrieking banshees. Can you tell the difference between her and Eleanor Steber? or any "dramatic" soprano these days with Birgit Nilsson?
@LordHettrick "shrieking banshee" was very subjective, I apologize for that. Her sound is frail and breathy, vowels unclear, harsh on the higher register, her piano is very tight, a slight wobble on her high notes.
@vitroz It is an insult to singers that know better and have gone through the politics of music schools and auditions to see comments like yours. When someone tells you that your voice is too big and they cannot cast you with any of the mosquitos "singing" these days then you'll understand the discipline and HARD work that goes into this profession. HEAL your hears with Rosa Ponselle, Renata Tebaldi, pre 1960 Maria Callas, Eleanor Steber, Claudia Muzio, Birgit Nilsson, Robert Merril, TITA RUFFO.
@brividocaldo I rated a thumb down this video not because of Nathalie's performance but because of your abrupt comment below the video!
If you don't like this perf (and I respect totaly your personnal taste) why posting it anymay if not for your selfish pleasure to make an unpleasant somment?
I really don't see how this performance is worthy of the introduction. There is nothing wrong with it, if anything, in addition to singing it well, she also expresses it physically and acts every dramatic notion by the music. Please open your eyes and instead of giving a great artist some imagined bad atributes as a result of your personal dislikes, you should go and find something else to fill your time with.
Incredibly good performance by a world class musician who uses her declining physical gifts with mastery and grace. She has given everything in her to her fans and we appreciate what she was in her youth, at the height of her career and now as time catches her. Her voice is beautiful and so is she.
Natalie had polyps removed. Serious surgery for a singer... let alone a coloratura. You can't expect her to have the exact same voice after that. I thought this performance was good. It may not be her best, but you can't say such strong things about her when she had a life-changing surgery right before this performance.
Natalie Dessay est, était et sera toujours Natalie Dessay quoi qu'il arrive!!! Depuis18 ans que je l'écoute elle ne m'a jamais déçu! Son immense charisme passe au dessus de tout!
I think of Regine Crespin, who also had problems technically at a given point, but who remained one of the most touching singers/actresses to me. These singers are such exquisite actresses, that the way they tell a story, is more important than them being perfect. These people work so hard. If you would really emphatise with that, you would have changed the name of this vid ( please do so), in : "Natalie Dessay, a living singing actress." Thank you for having become a little more loving.
I have enjoyed Natalie Dessay for 15 years - what troubles me is the facial contortions, over acting when she should be focusing on her vocal technique. I wish she would stand still and SING. I really think Dessay should focus on more lyrical reperatoire now. Although she can still sing a high Eflat, it sounds harsh above high C. I really do not see her doing Puritani at the MET in a couple of years.
Je n'aime pas beaucoup Dessay ( surtout ce qu'elle est dans ses interview , cette simplicite affectee etc...) mais il faut reconnaitre qu'elle a une technique exceptionnelle et comedienne hors pair. Je n'aime pas trop son timbre mais c'est une artiste hors du commun qui peut comme toutes les autres avoir ses faiblesses et vieillir
Okay, I cringed a little bit at the staccato notes at the 8:00 mark, but to call the entire performance "a new horror" is a bit of an overstatement. It is an overall great performance and the only thing I'd call a "horror" here is her outfit.
No amount of over-acting can make up for a voice that is past its prime. And as for the chorus singing in syncopation with the orchestra, instead of on the beat - lol!!!
The moron who posted this is not only illiterate, but knows nothing of our living, breathing art form! Indeed, she is not Sutherland or Gruberova when it comes to sheer technique, but neither are they her peer in the performing art! I love them all. Learn to love the art form, not the attendant bitch fest!
Well, after 20 years as the coloratura queen of the world (alongside Gruberova) this is outstanding. Her talent, musicianship and excellent way to express herself making her divine, nothing else. Such writing as the "up-loader" made is the most of misery you will find here. Please brividokaldo. Get som taste and knowledge before you act this cruel and childish again. Every word from you is a shame. Ms. Dessay has triumphed hundreds of times on stage, this performance included!!! BRAVA!!!
the only terrible thing is that there is a guy a guy on youtube posting videos from great singers ( some of them very high rated and famous) and that he makes comments on them like he is a singing god and they al are crap!! You have to be very pompous idiot for that. Think twice brikiadvokado and stop with this silly stuff because its only bad for you not for the singers!
The only thing that's really miserable here is that somebody for what he takes to be the sake of music dumps his aggressive sentiments on a singer, putting her in the pillory like that. Shame on you, "brividokaldo".
How dare you write that desciption? Dessay had and has ups and downs as all great opera singers, and this I can say is NOT representative of her art. Brava Dessay
lmao!!!! Oh this is the state of opera now. Do you think this woman belongs in the same regard of the great sopranos of the past? No. Teaching today has been corrupted by a bunch of con-artists. All this masque BS... *facepalm*
Agree with cantorandopera. If we all could be so talented as Ms. Dessay! Even on her off days, and most of us have them, she is still magical. I have yet to hear anyone (soprano) who can touch her true gift.
The comments by the uploader are ludicrous. They don't even deserve a response! I was expecting to hear cracked notes, flat tones, dreadful singing - nothing of the sort here. And even that can be excused. When you are brought out to the public on a regular basis, you are bound to have some performances below your regular standard.I neither found this clip good or bad - was just ok, but for Ms. Dessay, a disappointment. However, that is no excuse to bash her.
Bande d'abrutis, je suis toujours surpris de la facilité avec laquelle il est plus facile de détruire un chanteur/chanteuse que de l'encenser ... mais ce doit être un trait de caractère bien français. Idem pour Roberto Alagna.
Juste pour information, ND s'est claquée les deux cordes vocales il y a quelques années déjà et n'en a fait opérer qu'une seule sur les deux.
Elle est consciente de cette situation mais ne souhaite pas repasser sur le billard.
@mdehloum78 : c'est chiant dans les deux sens. Les gens qui refusent de voir les faiblesses grandissantes d'un artiste parce que vraisemblablement, il s'est fait un nom, ça m'agace autant que ceux qui le descendent pour se sentir mieux. De telles faiblesses sont de plus en plus fréquentes dans ses performances, j'imagine que c'est dû à l'opération de ses cordes, mais peut-être aussi au fait qu'elle ait trop fait dans le virtuose. Trop de travail n'a jamais été bon ! Surtout en chant !
6:57 to 7:00 shows some pretty scary singing technique that would hurt anyone's voice. Can't someone help this poor girl? Most of the rest of this clip does not show strong signs of straining in her vocal technique. But 6:57 to 7:00 is pretty scary stuff!!
@Cuteo05 I think saying Dessay's career "is over" is a little dramatic.
One has to consider that Dessay has been singing the high coloratura repertoire for more than 20 years, and the voice is bound to change with age and use. It is true that some of the coloratura and top notes in this performance were a bit labored, but she remains a wonderful singer and committed actress. She is shifting into more lyrical roles, and her career will likely continue with new and varied successes. Viva Natalie
Mais de quoi s'agit-il ici, d'une cabale ? J'espère que Natalie Dessay ne tombera jamais malencontreusement sur votre chaîne. Honte à vous les dénigreurs pour votre ignorance et votre parti pris.
Elle entre dans la légende de l'opéra. Au prochain siècle, il ne restera que quelques noms d'artistes dans la mémoire collective. Elle en fera partie, aux côtés de Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Cécilia Bartoli. Ceux et celles qui, certains soirs, auront touché au sublime.
I cannot believe all of these crazy bad postings of this great and complete artist!!!Who are you??? Great singers with great contracts at La Scala, the Met???...Amazing teachers that created artist like her???...Can you at least listen to the audience applause at the end of the aria? Get over it please...Showing no respect for such a big star like Dessay means you are so squared and uneducated, and that, regardless whether you like or dislike her technique, style, face...or what ever!!
Really? And where were you when you posted this? In your underwear, picking your nose. Everyone has bad days, get over yourself and don't be a dick. Looking atyour channel it seems all you like to do is commemorate the faults of others. Petty much?
It's just shocking how some people seem to perversely enjoy the shortcomings of famous people in general and opera stars in particular. Dessay is a great singer, a great actress, and audiences love her. Deal with it!
this can´t be brushed off with "not one of her best performances.." it is worse than mediocre, a horrible, thin voiced, sreachy interpretation. as bad to the ear as it is to the eye.
and the gullible audience is duped into applauding because a mighty PR machine assures them "she is one of the greatest operatic singers of our time...(!)"
if this is "video bashing" it is entirely justified. this kind of singing is the death of belcanto.
this is a result of a non-proper fast speed vocal training and too much singing ......that represents our time singing........compare with Muzio and Ponselle and you will see where we are standing today!
I expected a worse than horrible singing after such a negative description ! Brividocaldo, let's see how you would sing this aria ! Opera singers are human beings ! Remember that at once !
Well, it wasn't THAT bad! Maybe not entirely comfortable, but her high register hasn't been the same for some time. What was really scary was the male chorus not being able to get with the conductor and being completely off.
Natalie Dessay is one of the world's most gifted sopranos. As an opera professional for many years I knew everything about the singer's lives and everything that could possibly have a negative effect on their performance. During the periods of menstruation and pre-menstruation many singers experience slight edema (swelling) of the vocal folds. There is a muffled quality in the low register. This is due to laryngeal water retention. The straining in the upper register is also due to hormones.
You gays are so cruel... maybe this was not her best night, but still... you are so demanding with someone who is just a human being... maybe you have to thank for the countless nights she gaves her best...
Ok she's very fiery and expressive and has given us very energetic and charming performances but I think she put herself in grave danger by doing all those vocal acrobatics for many years - and also allowing many directors and conductors to take advantage of her passionate nature.She's obviously suffering here and pushing so much that the veins on her throat are about to pop...
Quel pessimiste¡ Vous l'enregistrez sous un mauvais jour. A penser qu'il y a des gens dont leur passion est de descendre des artistes==>allez voir un psy et foutez la paix à ceux qui aiment la musique, qui aiment Natalie. Ya dix ans on la croyait morte et la revoilà. For ever.
Quel pessimiste¡ Vous l'enregistrez sous un mauvais jour. A penser qu'il n'y a des gens dont leur passion est de descendre des artiste==>allez voir un psy et foutez la paiz à ceux qui aiment la musique, qui aiment Natalie. Ya dix ans on la croyait morte et la revoilà. For ever.
Beh, direi che dici tutto nella presentazione..... Cos'altro aggiungere? Come diceva Onassis alla Callas: "Ti si è rotto il fischietto". O qualcosa del genere.
Okay, so she didn't quite hit those few notes... @brividokaldo do you realize how difficult this role is? And that particular spot is especially difficult! Besides that little hiccup, the aria was sung BEAUTIFULLY! So few opera singers commit to acting their part, and it's so refreshing to see someone with an outstanding voice like Natalie's actually put emotion and expression into their roles. Brava, Ms Dessay!
@noj8484 Yes but she's paid a lot of money to not make those mistakes. It doesn't matter how hard it is, it is her job to make it seem easy and not make any mistakes!!
@emma41093 That's the most preposterous comment anyone has posted to this video. "Paid" not to make mistakes? You sound absolutely delusional. And I'm speaking as someone who has never liked Dessay.
Did she just have an off night and all of you jerks are on crack and have nothing better to do than bash a great artist? I am out of the loop on Nat. What sort of problems has she been having and what have the docs said?
beh, che cafone, Brividocaldo. Sicuramente non era in serata. Ormai capita sempre più spesso. Però, che inutile cattiveria scrivere una cosa del genere. E' stata e è ancora un'ottima artista.
This was HORRIBLE. I remember her talking about how bad was Callas technique. Who has bad technique???... who had two nodes in her vocal cords???. Sorry to be so harsh but this was AWFUL!
@ezayi Bad enough that you post a bunch of stupid criticisms of one of the very best singers of today... but if you are talking about the Charlie Rose interview you are lying. Natalie was very, very complimentary about Callas' singing AND acting. CR did say that some people did say that Callas did not have a perfect voice and Natalie agreed but stated emphatically that Callas had great musicianship and interpretive abilities along with perhaps the best acting abilities around.
How come "brividokaldo" seems to upload clips of singers having a not-such-a-good day? I mean really-singers are people,not robots-if you want a perfect rendition every time stick with CDs. And the names of your clips are horrid: "Natalie Dessay....a singing dead", "A disastrous Traviata", "Poor Renee", Horrific fillato"... I mean what do you do for a living-sell tickets at the opera? Is that why you're so bitter? GET A LIFE
as long as we dont see her tits onstage she is acceptable nowadays. When she starts showing her tits onstage or have someone eating her pussy or jump like a retard around and on the tenors just because she is too much of an actress!! (her words) then she becomes unbearable.
Abrupt comments reflect abrupt and ridiculous singers
You go ahead onstage and show your tits and have your pussy eaten by the tenor and you ll see what comments you ll get :)))) And you ll deserve them
this was an off night, she doesnt normally sound this bad, even at the present. All things considered I dont think she sounds that bad (though, im no fool, i know this isnt pristine); shes 45, most coloraturas voices have considerably deteriorated byt his point, and shes had 2 different node surgeries, give the woman a break. the "supreme" divas were no exception either, sutherland and callas both sang horifically before they reitred
Abuse of one's instrument is ultimately that individuals responsibilty. Stop trying to attribute "drama" to bad singing and unhealthy vocal technique. Bad singing has led us to this point, where a Dessay can get away with grotesque singing by covering it up with flapping her arms or turning a cartwheel and some call it "art". Perhaps listening to a Sutherland, a Verrett, a Nilsson might clear out your ears...but I doubt it. The damage is done...forever.
@tosca121 it seems that she has trouble even singing in her tessitura. (maybe she was sick). The voice is unpredictable. Remember you can't cancel a programmed event so easily. It is a commitment you have.
I respect her so much. It is not easy to get on a stage. I've only done it once and I was very ill a few days before (anxiety). You need control of yourself. That's pretty hard
I think here you are putting your vocal health on danger, just listen the staccato notes 7:58 . She needs a break.
I am sick and tired of ignoramuses throwing around the "Callas" name to defend indefensible singing! Why do you think she quit? Do any of you think for one moment La Callas didn't know what she sounded like? That she couldn't feel what those sounds she was making felt like? Whatever the reasons for the decay in her vocal health, she quit because she wouldn't continue making sounds that she wouldn't have tolerated from anyone else.
@brividokaldo Pffff, you're very stupid to put that title ........... Just remember that we're human, not perfection, nobody, even you . And singing like she's doing with 2 vocals surgeries. Come on !!!! You can say it wasn't her best day but be cool !
PS : it wasn't that bad ! Show me what you can do ^_^ i want to compare !!!!!
PS 2 : do high notes when you're ill and you'll understand
Well, after 20 years as the coloratura queen of the world (alongside Gruberova) this is outstanding. Her talent, musicianship and excellent way to express herself making her divine, nothing else. Such writing as the "up-loader" made is the most of misery you will find here. Please brividokaldo. Get som taste and knowledge before you act this cruel and childish again. Every word from you is a shame. Ms. Dessay has triumphed hundreds of times on stage, this performance included!!! BRAVA!!!
Terrifying? Misery? No art? Lack of technique? What are you all talking about? This was a daring, no-holds-barred performance. Dessay has a fabulous technique and is a brilliant actress. Like Callas, she's not afraid to sacrifice the perfectly-produced tone for dramatic emphasis. Anyone who has seen her live knows this. The naysayers here sound a little jealous to me.
How extraordinary! Posting videos of artists in order to make negative comments! I have not seen this before! And then of course it attracts more unpleasant comments.
MrFpam 1 day ago
Buffff esta muy pero que muy calada aquí.
alfonsorama1 1 week ago
I must be deaf then....
cdoggiefizzle 1 week ago
This video is not half as bad as the rather offensive title makes it out to be. Dessay's approach, not unusual these days, unfortunately, is to conflate acting with singing. Even Callas hastened her vocal decline by that same mistake which one can and should learn not to repeat. The voice is not a verismo tool and should not be used in a literal sense. Emotion is embedded in the music - there is no need to scoop and scream out high notes as she also did in Lucia, Hofmann and here.
zamyrabyrd 1 week ago
I love Natalie, she's great, but I must admit your comment made me laugh a lot, in general the titles of your videos are really hilarious (even though I disagree with them)
Your comments are so offensive, you make me laugh a lot
Please keep uploading videos, I actually want to keep laughing
LacrimaLunaMortua 1 week ago
I can see that the title of this video has attracted an ugly horde of no life trolls. Americans used to throw pieces of horseshit at George Washington's carriage. I suppose this is a comparable modern way of trying to "have some effect". Oh, well... I suppose it is not as bad as writing graffiti on other people's walls.
MrHbc3 2 weeks ago
hysterical nutter
Federicopera 2 weeks ago
I spoke to Natalie once after a dress rehearsal in Carnegie Hall months ago. She was coughing badly while singing. I was concerned and asked if she is fine. She told me she's having problems with her voice and that's why she wants to retire. "Retire? You?" Then I boldly asked what she wants to do then? "raising horses".. I was speechless.
Regardless the condition of her voice, she is truly a great artist, brings her passion and totally devotes herself into the most difficult art form- opera
qnhsuan 2 weeks ago
looks like she's about to spit her uterus out of her "puzzle" in every single upper register note
lateralex90 3 weeks ago
A sad [and unfortunately ubiquitous] living testament to the dangers of singing with muscle and youth rather than technique and reserve.
I think the audience just feels allegiance to their broken toy, who can no longer do the tricks that gave them thrills in the 90s.
Rather than insert horribly broken, desperate and unmusical embellishments ( 7:59 ), why doesn't Dessay choose music that shows her strengths?
The Shepherd in Tosca is rarely sung by an adult, but maybe it would be novel.
operassassin 4 weeks ago
She's fabulous. Fierce. Love her. You? Well, the best part of you ran down your mother's legs or ended up the on the hook of a knitting needle.
danielbillingsley74 1 month ago
Not a beautiful sound... I like her Lucia last year and col rep because her timbre was gorgeous. But a small, tired voice.. that I don`t like anymore.
Serinia4melodic 1 month ago
@Serinia4melodic "Not a beautiful sound"??? Did you catch the thunderous roar of applause the audience gave her? Not always, but many, many times Dessay is greeted by that sort of audience reaction. You, poor thing with your soul eaten out by your own bile, are what by comparison? If you are in fact from Romania, you are not a good advertisement for that place.
MrHbc3 1 month ago
I liked her before...now she has great difficulties, it's pity...
edmanetti 1 month ago
The title of this really rather good performance by Dessay certainly called a lot of trolls out of their holes. That's the way they are.
MrHbc3 2 months ago
Trolls will be trolls. Sometimes they run in groups. In groups or not, they all just seem nasty. I suppose it makes them feel better about something.
MrHbc3 2 months ago
What misery?
ktw 2 months ago
im curious to hear her in the Traviata telecast in a few months, maybe this was an off night
skitzo429 2 months ago
Well, I don't really like her either.
perlfarben 2 months ago
Where she study Stanislavsky
She like his best pupil
TADER1000 2 months ago
I love Natalie Dessey and Laurent Pelly
TADER1000 2 months ago
Give her a break.. this is not a bad performance, only if you compare it to the ease of her younger years.. I rather enjoyed this!
kgarmaker123 2 months ago
But she rolled her eyes and twisted her elbows and jumped on her left foot so WONDERFULLY!
Bad acting doesn't make up for bad singing, amen.
bronxbearbud 2 months ago
Les aigus sont affreux et poussés. brrrrrrrrr
palhaud 2 months ago
I'd be honest; If i was a singer and my voice gets shot i would just have some type of back up career to turn to. It beats singing in denial and robbing people who pay to hear the mess and have your devoted fans chear for you...lol..
sicuro75 2 months ago
HEY! brividokaldo! I think that you are an idiot! And like so many have said "GET A LIFE"! YOU WILL NEVER KNOW OR APPRECIATE ANTHING THIS AMAZING WOMAN CAN DO!!! I LOVE HER SPIRIT! THE FACT THAT SHE STARTED LATE IN LIFE,2 SURGERIES, HER PASSION FOR LIFE .....YOU KNOW NOTHING! BUT I'M GLAD THAT YOU POSTED THIS VIDEO BECAUSE I LOVE IT,REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY THINK! I LOVE HER.
mpullella26 2 months ago 3
@mpullella26 Now, be easy on brividokaldo. This may BE his life. Natalie, however, goes on from success to success and clearly has quite a nice life and career.
MrHbc3 2 months ago
I know she has had her ups and downs musically speaking. But when she is good, she is terrific. She is also a wonderful actress. So many great singers are lousy actors. She is wonderful to watch.
swarze 2 months ago 3
brividokaldo: suck my dick!
Natalie Dessay: Take my heart
Lokolara922 2 months ago
Well it coud be still worse...
RIRRATTO 2 months ago
Very idiotic comment by the uploader!! Why would u load something just to bash her! I agree about you getting a life!!
GABYCONSTANZA 2 months ago 2
veramente qui è molto brava tecnicamente
everopera 3 months ago 2
moi aussi je lui adore.
gmsoyls 3 months ago
@gmsoyls Moi aussi...elle est magnifique! Mais, elle n'est pas Callas....
Psammead806 3 months ago
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Totally agree with brividokaldo, this singing is second no third rate at best. Squally, often well off pitch, clumsy articulation and her ignorant fans actually think this is what singing is all about - under these conditions opera is a dead art. The conducting, by the way, is just as bad.
TheVaughan5 3 months ago
J'ADORE NATALIE DESSAY.
nanai16951 3 months ago 2
Beautiful!
silSD04 3 months ago 3
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Every short person has the ego of a giant, and Dessay is no exception. The voice however is of a midget.
tklogan111809 3 months ago
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every person like you has the intellect of a midge...I don't find her voice overly SMALL
Psammead806 3 months ago 4
Les commentaires sont grotesques et offensants. C'est excellent et vécu, même si Nathalie a besoin de la scène. Diction impeccable, belle musicalité. passez votre votre chemin vous qui ne savez que tenter de salir ce qui vous résiste!!
opera751 3 months ago 16
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Every note in a different position, half of it not supported, screamed high notes.....not to mention the "ACTING".......to this we've come.......
tantris39 3 months ago
P.s I have found all your videos with similar bitchy comments and think you need to get a life and stop criticising others who sing a thousand times better than you ever could brividokaldo!
Psammead806 3 months ago 27
WTF is with the comments you uploaded with the video? She sounds a lovely as ever - a little tired yes but everyone has "off days" If you can sing this better, brividokaldo , upload it and I'd love to hear. vous etes une salope!
Psammead806 3 months ago 6
This was just fine! Just a little tired,
wbondar 3 months ago
I wish I could see you singing so many years and such a hard repertoire like she did! She is a true artist, those who say she's not anymore-find yourself a life instead of posting negative comments like this!
amillia007 3 months ago
it such pity she loosing her voice!She had so nice coloratura!She is going to sing Traviata this yera at the Met in 2012!She may needs some rest!
MariaCallasLegend 4 months ago
@MariaCallasLegend For years now the you tube trolls have been saying Natalie is losing, or has lost her voice. Natalie just keeps going on from one new success to another. I have a feeling that the trolls don't have much success in life.
MrHbc3 2 months ago
@MrHbc3 I love her as an artist...but i hear a continue vocal decline...thats my opinion///
MariaCallasLegend 2 weeks ago
Time for retirement, Natalie...
SavHub 4 months ago
The applause at the end was cut off quickly (by the uploader?) and the applause at the beginning (for whatever came before) were both thunderous from an obviously happy audience. Some people can't stand that. I like Dessay normally and liked her a lot in this. I also have viewed many YT uploads of her interacting with other people. SHE has wonderful manners.
MrHbc3 4 months ago
DISGUSTING!
MrCafiero 4 months ago
everyone has an off day........NUFF SAID!
danefritz2006 4 months ago
Powers rangers... Go! what a classless tacky trollop this she-thing is. The crowed goes crazy because they've gotten the virus that caused the Met's audiance to go brain dead and to applaud to anything and everything, i'm sure Netrebko gave it to them like some STD.
NEBESHIKU 4 months ago
@NEBESHIKU
lol
asdfopera 3 months ago
Mrs. Miss or Mr. Brividokaldo, to make such comments of any artist is simply awful. May I ask what your training is to make such nasty remarks? If you are a singer, post some of your singing so we can see the material you are made off. If you are simply a critic, go back to school and review the ethics of criticism.
Karl4242 4 months ago
From the little bit of the beginning of the audience reaction they seem to have felt the same way I did about it. Wunderbar!!!! Dessay has lots of very devoted fans, sells a lot of records and tends to be very appreciated by audiences. For some reason she also attracts a few trolls. My guess is that she like to do things "not in the old way", and some people don't have the ability to change from what they were taught was THE WAY. Maybe it's just people who like being rude.
MrHbc3 4 months ago
@MrHbc3 Well the old WAY is the the BEST way in the field of music. People like you have brought on the age of shrill manufactured singers with no clear vowels, squeezed sounds and are TOLERATED as opposed to the 1900's until late 70's and 80's where we were blessed with singers(Del Monaco, Tebaldi, Verrett, Callas, Bumbry, Price, Steber, Muzio, Caruso, Gigli, Bjorling, EARLY CAREER Alagna, EARLY CAREER Pavarotti, EARLY Millo, Ponselle for heaven's sake, and audiences who knew better
Detie002 4 months ago
completamente de acuerdo, NATALIE ES UNA GRANDE SOPRANO, QUERIDA, RESPETADA, Y ADMIRADA.
acitipo 5 months ago
Honestly more concerned for the chorus 0.o
but she has openly stated she was sick during this concert.
Kurtperry41 5 months ago
@brividokaido: what a stupid comment!!! Ms. Dessay can sing this better, yes - but 99% of all sopranos can't sing as she do here. Btw: perhaps you should think about your charakter, why are you so interested in execution of singers? Why don't you look for renditions, which bring joy in your heard and tears in your eyes?
filmevoncosima 5 months ago 3
@filmevoncosima maybe your wrong:D I know a lot of sopranos that sing better:) they just don`t have her fame... those sopranos that actually study in this shit music industry work their asses off for a long time!!
Serinia4melodic 1 month ago
@Serinia4melodic "this shit music industry"???? I think I can see your outlook on life.
MrHbc3 1 month ago
@MrHbc3 you are heavily underpaid in non-known opera houses. Dessay sings like a child compared to all romanian prima donas. ANd yes the shit music industry, because a classical singer is underpaid, again, over the mainstream whores. whores yes, no voice, no music only loopback.
Serinia4melodic 1 month ago
Dearest Brividokaldo, your videos are interesting indeed and your comments, although often true are horrifyingly insensitive and unnecessary. Are you a singer? Do you understand the pressure, the commitment, the discipline and the INCREDIBLE hard work that goes into this profession. I do. Please pause and perhaps contemplate the next time you prepare to post something.
vitroz 5 months ago
@vitroz An artist has to learn to be open to criticism and they WILL be harsh at times. Learn to deal with it if you want to be in this profession. If you suck, then you suck. Point blank. Dessay sounds 90% of the time like a shrieking banshee and that is FACT. Now your personal perception of sound is at this point questionable if you happen to enjoy hearing shrieking banshees. Can you tell the difference between her and Eleanor Steber? or any "dramatic" soprano these days with Birgit Nilsson?
Detie002 4 months ago
@Detie002 Ok, so your taste judgment ("shrieking banshee") is now an objective fact? And if we disagree, we're the ones being stupidly subjective?
LordHettrick 4 months ago 3
@LordHettrick "shrieking banshee" was very subjective, I apologize for that. Her sound is frail and breathy, vowels unclear, harsh on the higher register, her piano is very tight, a slight wobble on her high notes.
Detie002 4 months ago
@vitroz It is an insult to singers that know better and have gone through the politics of music schools and auditions to see comments like yours. When someone tells you that your voice is too big and they cannot cast you with any of the mosquitos "singing" these days then you'll understand the discipline and HARD work that goes into this profession. HEAL your hears with Rosa Ponselle, Renata Tebaldi, pre 1960 Maria Callas, Eleanor Steber, Claudia Muzio, Birgit Nilsson, Robert Merril, TITA RUFFO.
Detie002 4 months ago
@Detie002 you know not of what you speak. Good luck to you!
vitroz 4 months ago 2
the opera of Beverly Hills!!!
reribus 5 months ago
4:30 ...This is painful.
coryisawake 5 months ago
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coryisawake 5 months ago
@brividocaldo I rated a thumb down this video not because of Nathalie's performance but because of your abrupt comment below the video!
If you don't like this perf (and I respect totaly your personnal taste) why posting it anymay if not for your selfish pleasure to make an unpleasant somment?
matthieusarah 5 months ago 3
I really don't see how this performance is worthy of the introduction. There is nothing wrong with it, if anything, in addition to singing it well, she also expresses it physically and acts every dramatic notion by the music. Please open your eyes and instead of giving a great artist some imagined bad atributes as a result of your personal dislikes, you should go and find something else to fill your time with.
barmanjoe 6 months ago
Incredibly good performance by a world class musician who uses her declining physical gifts with mastery and grace. She has given everything in her to her fans and we appreciate what she was in her youth, at the height of her career and now as time catches her. Her voice is beautiful and so is she.
FrogCraw 6 months ago 4
Sounds like she might have been ill or tired....not lacking in skill, etc...When I am really tired, I can't get a note out...
TrevorDaniels 6 months ago
Natalie had polyps removed. Serious surgery for a singer... let alone a coloratura. You can't expect her to have the exact same voice after that. I thought this performance was good. It may not be her best, but you can't say such strong things about her when she had a life-changing surgery right before this performance.
ashfab90 6 months ago 3
Natalie Dessay est, était et sera toujours Natalie Dessay quoi qu'il arrive!!! Depuis18 ans que je l'écoute elle ne m'a jamais déçu! Son immense charisme passe au dessus de tout!
Christiannewyork1 6 months ago
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damn, she sounds awful!
UrbanYupster 6 months ago
I think of Regine Crespin, who also had problems technically at a given point, but who remained one of the most touching singers/actresses to me. These singers are such exquisite actresses, that the way they tell a story, is more important than them being perfect. These people work so hard. If you would really emphatise with that, you would have changed the name of this vid ( please do so), in : "Natalie Dessay, a living singing actress." Thank you for having become a little more loving.
loetje 6 months ago 3
Non avevo mai sentito degli errori dalla Natalie, questi sono i primi che sento....
cherocherocoucou 6 months ago
so schlimm find ich das nun auch wieder nicht.
stimmen altern eben auch und die technik ist ja so schlecht nicht.
man kann doch auch kritisieren unter berücksichtigung der bereits in vielen
jahren vorher erbrachten leistungen.
jocmuc1 6 months ago
I have enjoyed Natalie Dessay for 15 years - what troubles me is the facial contortions, over acting when she should be focusing on her vocal technique. I wish she would stand still and SING. I really think Dessay should focus on more lyrical reperatoire now. Although she can still sing a high Eflat, it sounds harsh above high C. I really do not see her doing Puritani at the MET in a couple of years.
DominaKathryn 6 months ago
beautiful!
rshnrvrrbrt 6 months ago
Je n'aime pas beaucoup Dessay ( surtout ce qu'elle est dans ses interview , cette simplicite affectee etc...) mais il faut reconnaitre qu'elle a une technique exceptionnelle et comedienne hors pair. Je n'aime pas trop son timbre mais c'est une artiste hors du commun qui peut comme toutes les autres avoir ses faiblesses et vieillir
dapheneo 7 months ago
Okay, I cringed a little bit at the staccato notes at the 8:00 mark, but to call the entire performance "a new horror" is a bit of an overstatement. It is an overall great performance and the only thing I'd call a "horror" here is her outfit.
erginakif 7 months ago 2
@erginakif I loved this dress in fact: very french this little chique chanel dress, lovely pearls....what do you dislike about it??
velazquez2011 6 months ago
I also think this is very good singing :)
lajtnga 8 months ago 2
What was wrong with this? I thought she sang fine.
nostopsnopurgatory 8 months ago 2
The funniest thing is the chorus!
CaptFitzbattleaxe 8 months ago
No amount of over-acting can make up for a voice that is past its prime. And as for the chorus singing in syncopation with the orchestra, instead of on the beat - lol!!!
vocalissimo1 8 months ago
The moron who posted this is not only illiterate, but knows nothing of our living, breathing art form! Indeed, she is not Sutherland or Gruberova when it comes to sheer technique, but neither are they her peer in the performing art! I love them all. Learn to love the art form, not the attendant bitch fest!
theropodia 8 months ago 3
Well, after 20 years as the coloratura queen of the world (alongside Gruberova) this is outstanding. Her talent, musicianship and excellent way to express herself making her divine, nothing else. Such writing as the "up-loader" made is the most of misery you will find here. Please brividokaldo. Get som taste and knowledge before you act this cruel and childish again. Every word from you is a shame. Ms. Dessay has triumphed hundreds of times on stage, this performance included!!! BRAVA!!!
dannymaestro 8 months ago 2
She has sung too much too long.
bear46no 8 months ago
the only terrible thing is that there is a guy a guy on youtube posting videos from great singers ( some of them very high rated and famous) and that he makes comments on them like he is a singing god and they al are crap!! You have to be very pompous idiot for that. Think twice brikiadvokado and stop with this silly stuff because its only bad for you not for the singers!
tenoreDB 8 months ago
@tenoreDB Couldn't have stated it better! Thanks, tenoreDB.
ian1856 7 months ago
This is a true singing dead for the joy of brain dead audiances!
NEBESHIKU 9 months ago
its" better" than her Sonnambula at the Met
OLIVCHEN77 9 months ago
@OLIVCHEN77 I loved her Sonnambula at the Met.
MrHbc3 2 months ago
"Neid ist die höchste Form von Anerkennung"
GERMANYFrankie 9 months ago
The only thing that's really miserable here is that somebody for what he takes to be the sake of music dumps his aggressive sentiments on a singer, putting her in the pillory like that. Shame on you, "brividokaldo".
Tetsugakusha75 9 months ago 3
How dare you write that desciption? Dessay had and has ups and downs as all great opera singers, and this I can say is NOT representative of her art. Brava Dessay
distefano13069609 9 months ago 3
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lmao!!!! Oh this is the state of opera now. Do you think this woman belongs in the same regard of the great sopranos of the past? No. Teaching today has been corrupted by a bunch of con-artists. All this masque BS... *facepalm*
Stevo8844 10 months ago
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Stevo8844 10 months ago
Agree with cantorandopera. If we all could be so talented as Ms. Dessay! Even on her off days, and most of us have them, she is still magical. I have yet to hear anyone (soprano) who can touch her true gift.
carobu1776 10 months ago 5
The comments by the uploader are ludicrous. They don't even deserve a response! I was expecting to hear cracked notes, flat tones, dreadful singing - nothing of the sort here. And even that can be excused. When you are brought out to the public on a regular basis, you are bound to have some performances below your regular standard.I neither found this clip good or bad - was just ok, but for Ms. Dessay, a disappointment. However, that is no excuse to bash her.
cantorandopera 10 months ago 25
Bande d'abrutis, je suis toujours surpris de la facilité avec laquelle il est plus facile de détruire un chanteur/chanteuse que de l'encenser ... mais ce doit être un trait de caractère bien français. Idem pour Roberto Alagna.
Juste pour information, ND s'est claquée les deux cordes vocales il y a quelques années déjà et n'en a fait opérer qu'une seule sur les deux.
Elle est consciente de cette situation mais ne souhaite pas repasser sur le billard.
Voilà, Nathalie, je t'adore.
mdehloum78 10 months ago 2
@mdehloum78 : c'est chiant dans les deux sens. Les gens qui refusent de voir les faiblesses grandissantes d'un artiste parce que vraisemblablement, il s'est fait un nom, ça m'agace autant que ceux qui le descendent pour se sentir mieux. De telles faiblesses sont de plus en plus fréquentes dans ses performances, j'imagine que c'est dû à l'opération de ses cordes, mais peut-être aussi au fait qu'elle ait trop fait dans le virtuose. Trop de travail n'a jamais été bon ! Surtout en chant !
Llilyhful 7 months ago
such an overrated singer. terrible
mrrk 10 months ago
@mrrk wtf. get a life you dumb shit
distefano13069609 9 months ago
@distefano13069609 hummm, do you kiss your mummy with that mouth? She's a crap singer.
mrrk 9 months ago
@mrrk do you have a boyfriend? you seem like a cock sucker
distefano13069609 9 months ago
She had a greater career than any of the bitches trying to slam her can ever dream of
mandreika1 10 months ago 4
6:57 to 7:00 shows some pretty scary singing technique that would hurt anyone's voice. Can't someone help this poor girl? Most of the rest of this clip does not show strong signs of straining in her vocal technique. But 6:57 to 7:00 is pretty scary stuff!!
trschaefer 10 months ago
@Cuteo05 I think saying Dessay's career "is over" is a little dramatic.
One has to consider that Dessay has been singing the high coloratura repertoire for more than 20 years, and the voice is bound to change with age and use. It is true that some of the coloratura and top notes in this performance were a bit labored, but she remains a wonderful singer and committed actress. She is shifting into more lyrical roles, and her career will likely continue with new and varied successes. Viva Natalie
MGHall07 10 months ago 36
I love very much Natalie! But her career is finished...
It remains nothing of the great singer she once was :(
Cuteo05 10 months ago
bravo Natalie!!!!!
callas777 10 months ago 2
I agree with the audience. She's great. Somebody here has a problem and it ain't Natalie.
MrHbc3 10 months ago 3
Mais de quoi s'agit-il ici, d'une cabale ? J'espère que Natalie Dessay ne tombera jamais malencontreusement sur votre chaîne. Honte à vous les dénigreurs pour votre ignorance et votre parti pris.
Elle entre dans la légende de l'opéra. Au prochain siècle, il ne restera que quelques noms d'artistes dans la mémoire collective. Elle en fera partie, aux côtés de Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Cécilia Bartoli. Ceux et celles qui, certains soirs, auront touché au sublime.
ocuptoi 11 months ago
I cannot believe all of these crazy bad postings of this great and complete artist!!!Who are you??? Great singers with great contracts at La Scala, the Met???...Amazing teachers that created artist like her???...Can you at least listen to the audience applause at the end of the aria? Get over it please...Showing no respect for such a big star like Dessay means you are so squared and uneducated, and that, regardless whether you like or dislike her technique, style, face...or what ever!!
chabs85 11 months ago 5
Yes. The audience's applause really showed their sorrow!!!!
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smoothiw 11 months ago
Really? And where were you when you posted this? In your underwear, picking your nose. Everyone has bad days, get over yourself and don't be a dick. Looking atyour channel it seems all you like to do is commemorate the faults of others. Petty much?
piccolophil13 11 months ago 2
I saw this again after a while and again... My God this was Awful!
MrSebtian 11 months ago
pas si dramatique que ca bisous natalie
wanchaan 11 months ago
Oooh...Natalie.....not so much. She needs to retrain her voice.
bigdigger87 11 months ago
It's just shocking how some people seem to perversely enjoy the shortcomings of famous people in general and opera stars in particular. Dessay is a great singer, a great actress, and audiences love her. Deal with it!
calogria 1 year ago 4
this can´t be brushed off with "not one of her best performances.." it is worse than mediocre, a horrible, thin voiced, sreachy interpretation. as bad to the ear as it is to the eye.
and the gullible audience is duped into applauding because a mighty PR machine assures them "she is one of the greatest operatic singers of our time...(!)"
if this is "video bashing" it is entirely justified. this kind of singing is the death of belcanto.
gestas60323 1 year ago
@gestas60323 she wears chanel my god and does her best to portray Marie!
velazquez2011 1 year ago
Dessay is an operatic fraud.
tklogan111809 1 year ago
this is a result of a non-proper fast speed vocal training and too much singing ......that represents our time singing........compare with Muzio and Ponselle and you will see where we are standing today!
rubyedelman 1 year ago
I expected a worse than horrible singing after such a negative description ! Brividocaldo, let's see how you would sing this aria ! Opera singers are human beings ! Remember that at once !
Kloriex 1 year ago 4
Well, it wasn't THAT bad! Maybe not entirely comfortable, but her high register hasn't been the same for some time. What was really scary was the male chorus not being able to get with the conductor and being completely off.
brolobear 1 year ago
Yes she was not at her best but Not a disaster either. Bunch of hyperdemanding ears out there, it seems
Heroictenor55 1 year ago
Natalie Dessay is one of the world's most gifted sopranos. As an opera professional for many years I knew everything about the singer's lives and everything that could possibly have a negative effect on their performance. During the periods of menstruation and pre-menstruation many singers experience slight edema (swelling) of the vocal folds. There is a muffled quality in the low register. This is due to laryngeal water retention. The straining in the upper register is also due to hormones.
newlife2001 1 year ago 2
You gays are so cruel... maybe this was not her best night, but still... you are so demanding with someone who is just a human being... maybe you have to thank for the countless nights she gaves her best...
alfredolucero 1 year ago 2
Hardly her best performance, but Dessay is still fabulous, no matter what. Kaythanxbai.
RaWrZzZz 1 year ago
still sounds pretty nice to me, well apart from the necklace, which sounds a bit off key. ;)
aidavdbrake 1 year ago 2
Ok she's very fiery and expressive and has given us very energetic and charming performances but I think she put herself in grave danger by doing all those vocal acrobatics for many years - and also allowing many directors and conductors to take advantage of her passionate nature.She's obviously suffering here and pushing so much that the veins on her throat are about to pop...
margitarokkanal 1 year ago
HOW ABOUT THE CHORUS? They were off the entire time.
Rcoppin91 1 year ago 3
@Rcoppin91 Now that is soooo true.
emma41093 1 year ago
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Quel pessimiste¡ Vous l'enregistrez sous un mauvais jour. A penser qu'il y a des gens dont leur passion est de descendre des artistes==>allez voir un psy et foutez la paix à ceux qui aiment la musique, qui aiment Natalie. Ya dix ans on la croyait morte et la revoilà. For ever.
cven30 1 year ago
Quel pessimiste¡ Vous l'enregistrez sous un mauvais jour. A penser qu'il n'y a des gens dont leur passion est de descendre des artiste==>allez voir un psy et foutez la paiz à ceux qui aiment la musique, qui aiment Natalie. Ya dix ans on la croyait morte et la revoilà. For ever.
cven30 1 year ago
Beh, direi che dici tutto nella presentazione..... Cos'altro aggiungere? Come diceva Onassis alla Callas: "Ti si è rotto il fischietto". O qualcosa del genere.
opricnik 1 year ago
I think she is soo amazing!
I really see no problem with this performance.
LorraineCash 1 year ago
She is still one of the best coloratura out there today! <3
classicalgal14 1 year ago
Juste magnifique comme toujours... Personne ne peut le nier. Quelle voix !
craqiz 1 year ago
Okay, so she didn't quite hit those few notes... @brividokaldo do you realize how difficult this role is? And that particular spot is especially difficult! Besides that little hiccup, the aria was sung BEAUTIFULLY! So few opera singers commit to acting their part, and it's so refreshing to see someone with an outstanding voice like Natalie's actually put emotion and expression into their roles. Brava, Ms Dessay!
noj8484 1 year ago
@noj8484 Yes but she's paid a lot of money to not make those mistakes. It doesn't matter how hard it is, it is her job to make it seem easy and not make any mistakes!!
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emma41093 1 year ago
@emma41093 That's the most preposterous comment anyone has posted to this video. "Paid" not to make mistakes? You sound absolutely delusional. And I'm speaking as someone who has never liked Dessay.
gustopheles 1 year ago
@gustopheles WOW, I see this is a very controversial topic..... I forfeit!
emma41093 1 year ago
Did she just have an off night and all of you jerks are on crack and have nothing better to do than bash a great artist? I am out of the loop on Nat. What sort of problems has she been having and what have the docs said?
Lauritz1 1 year ago
beh, che cafone, Brividocaldo. Sicuramente non era in serata. Ormai capita sempre più spesso. Però, che inutile cattiveria scrivere una cosa del genere. E' stata e è ancora un'ottima artista.
ombramaifu 1 year ago
This was HORRIBLE. I remember her talking about how bad was Callas technique. Who has bad technique???... who had two nodes in her vocal cords???. Sorry to be so harsh but this was AWFUL!
ezayi 1 year ago
@ezayi Bad enough that you post a bunch of stupid criticisms of one of the very best singers of today... but if you are talking about the Charlie Rose interview you are lying. Natalie was very, very complimentary about Callas' singing AND acting. CR did say that some people did say that Callas did not have a perfect voice and Natalie agreed but stated emphatically that Callas had great musicianship and interpretive abilities along with perhaps the best acting abilities around.
MrHbc3 2 months ago
How come "brividokaldo" seems to upload clips of singers having a not-such-a-good day? I mean really-singers are people,not robots-if you want a perfect rendition every time stick with CDs. And the names of your clips are horrid: "Natalie Dessay....a singing dead", "A disastrous Traviata", "Poor Renee", Horrific fillato"... I mean what do you do for a living-sell tickets at the opera? Is that why you're so bitter? GET A LIFE
LoganSrbin 1 year ago 2
Opera fans are always making extreme comments - the less they know about music, the morte abrupt comments they make.
Personnally I find this very beautiful.
AlainNaigeon 1 year ago 22
@AlainNaigeon
as long as we dont see her tits onstage she is acceptable nowadays. When she starts showing her tits onstage or have someone eating her pussy or jump like a retard around and on the tenors just because she is too much of an actress!! (her words) then she becomes unbearable.
Abrupt comments reflect abrupt and ridiculous singers
You go ahead onstage and show your tits and have your pussy eaten by the tenor and you ll see what comments you ll get :)))) And you ll deserve them
LohengrinT 8 months ago
this was an off night, she doesnt normally sound this bad, even at the present. All things considered I dont think she sounds that bad (though, im no fool, i know this isnt pristine); shes 45, most coloraturas voices have considerably deteriorated byt his point, and shes had 2 different node surgeries, give the woman a break. the "supreme" divas were no exception either, sutherland and callas both sang horifically before they reitred
skitzo429 1 year ago
Abuse of one's instrument is ultimately that individuals responsibilty. Stop trying to attribute "drama" to bad singing and unhealthy vocal technique. Bad singing has led us to this point, where a Dessay can get away with grotesque singing by covering it up with flapping her arms or turning a cartwheel and some call it "art". Perhaps listening to a Sutherland, a Verrett, a Nilsson might clear out your ears...but I doubt it. The damage is done...forever.
tosca121 1 year ago
@tosca121 it seems that she has trouble even singing in her tessitura. (maybe she was sick). The voice is unpredictable. Remember you can't cancel a programmed event so easily. It is a commitment you have.
I respect her so much. It is not easy to get on a stage. I've only done it once and I was very ill a few days before (anxiety). You need control of yourself. That's pretty hard
I think here you are putting your vocal health on danger, just listen the staccato notes 7:58 . She needs a break.
necrogoddess 1 year ago
I am sick and tired of ignoramuses throwing around the "Callas" name to defend indefensible singing! Why do you think she quit? Do any of you think for one moment La Callas didn't know what she sounded like? That she couldn't feel what those sounds she was making felt like? Whatever the reasons for the decay in her vocal health, she quit because she wouldn't continue making sounds that she wouldn't have tolerated from anyone else.
tosca121 1 year ago
@brividokaldo Pffff, you're very stupid to put that title ........... Just remember that we're human, not perfection, nobody, even you . And singing like she's doing with 2 vocals surgeries. Come on !!!! You can say it wasn't her best day but be cool !
PS : it wasn't that bad ! Show me what you can do ^_^ i want to compare !!!!!
PS 2 : do high notes when you're ill and you'll understand
titoo7584 1 year ago
Well, after 20 years as the coloratura queen of the world (alongside Gruberova) this is outstanding. Her talent, musicianship and excellent way to express herself making her divine, nothing else. Such writing as the "up-loader" made is the most of misery you will find here. Please brividokaldo. Get som taste and knowledge before you act this cruel and childish again. Every word from you is a shame. Ms. Dessay has triumphed hundreds of times on stage, this performance included!!! BRAVA!!!
dannymaestro 1 year ago
Terrifying? Misery? No art? Lack of technique? What are you all talking about? This was a daring, no-holds-barred performance. Dessay has a fabulous technique and is a brilliant actress. Like Callas, she's not afraid to sacrifice the perfectly-produced tone for dramatic emphasis. Anyone who has seen her live knows this. The naysayers here sound a little jealous to me.
Couperin44 1 year ago 2