Eva Turner - Puccini - Turandot - In Questa Reggia 1928

[joanabanyeres]

Tres intéressant. Je crois que je l'ai entendue au met , mais j'étais tres jeune et je '¡ai pas pu apprécié la voix.

[ronneesam]

"See Naples and die!" Listen to Eva Turner, Isobel Baillie, Paul Robeson, Dinah Shore, Maria Callas, Dick Haymes, Clara Butt and many more. Stop carping! Put a cd on. If you choose to reply to this comment, I'm out!

[raaadja99]

A true marvel to listen to this. This lady was awesome!

[lornabegbie]

She was a wonderful singer and a fabulous person - what a legacy - so gracious and what a beautiful speaking voice. Thanks for sharing this. How lovely that she remembered to send you her autograph - she strikes me as being very humble.

[cms1947]

Unfortunately I never got to see her perform, But I have this recording on a 78 which was given to me by a friend who passed away a few years ago.

I bumped into Dame Eva in London many years ago, and asked for her autograph. She responded with " give me you name and address and your birthday, and I will send it to you. Sure enough, a few months later, on my birthday, she kept her word.

I still have both of course. To me there is no finer recording or singer.

[mannail888]

As is her wont, Nilsson uses to skate through performances, be it studio recordings or stage ones, without producing one single measure of legato, paying no regard to characterization, variation of vocal color, moderation of volume, and the middle register of her voice is weak and the bottom is almost non-existent. Not to mention the tone is as monochromatic as glacier. All she does, be it in the Italian or Teutonic repertoire, is getting ready for the next high C, of course from beneath.

[tenor220]

And that is the uneducated opinion of a Dmitrova fan.

[ronneesam]

@mannail888 When you have learned to speak English, please get in touch. 'Nilsson uses to skate through performances?' Uses what pray? Or did you mean 'used to skate'? Begs the question Nilsson used other means to get through performances - sledge perhaps?

[mannail888]

@ronneesam Loony does what loony does best, unloading tons of crab after another. Two posts: two totally disjointed, uncoordinated and incoherent garbage. Please, for the love of your family, check into a psychiatric infirmary, it'd do yourself and the world a lot of good.

[mannail888]

If that's how you fathom vocal arts, that Nilsson is so and so, no wonder the vocal arts of today's classical music is deteriorating to such a choatic pit, because Nilsson's dismal "vocal technique is still studied and admired by millions of opera singers everywhere."

[tenor220]

@mannail888 You clearly know absolutely nothing about singing. You're probably just some trumped up instrumentalist who likes to think he knows. When in reality all he does is make himself look like a fool. Go do some actual research before shooting your mouth off, because now you just sound stupid.

Domingo may be over rated, but Nilsson is anything but over rated. It's because of people like you, that bad things happen in the world.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 If you'd learn to just not talk about things you don't understand there would be a lot less hostility towards you.

Nilsson is one of the most technically sound vocal artists of the last hundred years. Her placement, breath support and control are exquisite. Her phrasing is excellent, and her over musicality was ingenious. She took a relatively light instrument, and through her solid technique became the worlds leading Wagnerian. You are an idiot, you know nothing. Don't speak.

[mannail888]

As much as I hate to put forth the truth, the fact is what you, tenor220, have written so far is down right unintelligent, almost to the point of incoherent. You really need to study and learn, not just in music and arts, but in all kinds of subjects to enrich yourself in every front, and in so doing become a competent human being, then and only then would you be able to engage in a conversation with other people in a civilized manner.

[tenor220]

This coming from a man who thinks Dmitrova is better singer than Nilsson. You'll have to forgive me for not giving a damned what you think.

You're clearly now a very intelligent person. Judging from your use of run on sentences I'm not surprised you're having trouble reading. When you're capable of forming a complete and coherent sentence, then and only then are you allowed to give your opinion on anything. Go back to school and try learning something, you're in dire need of education.

[tenor220]

You're on a video of a woman with vibrato that sounds like a goat, and complaining about one of the most accomplished vocalists of the last hundred years. You are by far the single most unintelligent person I've ever come across on this site.

Your insults would be much more affective if you didn't write like a twelve year old girl.

[mannail888]

Your intelligence, or more accurately your lack of it, renders you not to be taken seriously by the world at large.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 I actually cannot get over how stupid you are.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 "renders you not to be taken seriously by the world at large. " This is most poorly worded sentence I've seen in a long time. Pathetic.

[mannail888]

One of life's most daunting task is growing up: meaning one has to be responsible for whatever one's done, good and bad. If you so insist to tread the easy path, the one of ignorance bigotry, unreasonableness, irrationality, hatred.

[mannail888]

Then, I am afraid, you, tenor220, are heading for wretchedness. It's quite clear you're still unable to apprehend what you've done with your life.

[tenor220]

Dear god you're a Dmitrova fan, It all makes sense now.

[mannail888]

To quote Marschallin's famous line, I paraphrase freely, " Those weird things we've heard about, we didn't believe them because they are too far-fetched, too perverse. But when those things happened right before us, we've got no choice but to believe them." And that's explains the reasons why Nilsson became big time from the sixties onward. Of course, Nilsoon have a direct successor in the form of a tenor called Domingo. And these two people are the two most OVER-RATED opera singers of all time.

[mannail888]

Nilsson became big time in the classical circuit, particularly in the Wagnerian wing simply by default because there were so few dramatic sopranos then , not because she was great, pure and simple.

[tenor220]

Nilsson was one of the most technically sound singers of the last 100 years. Her technique is still studied and admired by millions of opera singers everywhere. Are you even a vocalist or just some guy who likes to think he knows more about singing than he does. Seriously. It's obvious you have musical knowledge, but I have doubts that you know what it's like to be a singer.

[mannail888]

Not to mention Nilsson's high note are taken beneath, be it on studio recordings and stage ones, never attack on the bull eye of the note.

[mannail888]

Anyone who's in the opinion that Nilsson is in anyway a great singer should have his/her brain checked. Her singing , be it in Italian or German, remains pretty the same, that is, with Nilsson, Verdi is sung in the same way as Wagner. No distinction is made between the Italian and the Teutonic style. No variation of phrasing, the tone is monochromatic, a total disregard to the one golden principle that governs all kinds of singing: legato, and characterization is as prominent as none.

[mannail888]

Much like Nilsson a generation later, totally over-rated.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 Did you just call Nilsson over rated?????????

[mannail888]

Yes, "tenor220", I do.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 You obviously know nothing about voice. Anyone with half a mind knows that Nilsson was one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos her generation. Nilsson is far from over rated. Maybe you should try really learning something about voice before saying stupid shit.

[mannail888]

No need to get over-heated and all nasty, we are talking the merits, or more accurately, the shortcomings of Nilsson and Turner, hardly life and death matters, so conduct yourself with courtesy and in a civilized manner, if you're capable of, that is.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 I suppose you view Netrebko as a great coloratura as well???

[petrina1022]

Her voice cuts like a razor, but that's needed for this role. AMAZING high C! Bravissima!

[SqueakyIri]

Wow! With the advent of electric recording, one really gets a real sense of the timbres of the singers during the Golden Age.

Brava and definitely one of my favorites!