Maria Guleghina "Salgo gia del trono aurato" Nabucco

[liricapura]

SPECTACULAR!

[scaricoergosum]

L'ACUTO FINALE E' PROPRIO DIFFICILE... NON VIENE BENE QUASI A NESSUNA... NEPPURE ALLA GRANDE GHENA DIMITROVA

[Marcocucciolo91]

Una voce veramente straordinaria:per poco non veniva giù il soffitto! B R A V A !!

[Lindow]

What I have always found unbelievable about her is how she could produce that huge sound while hardly supporting it physically at all. It does show no question but still I find it quite mind blowing. So many technical flaws but she has sung with them for decades and still manages to sing these roles somehow.

[MultiFabian89]

una maravilla hasta con variaciones

[MultiFabian89]

una maravilla

[kh3205]

I find her behind the orchestra a lot. Is it the problem of her or the conductor? She seems starting to sing each note on the beat instead of slightly before in order to produce the sound on the beat. Or is she simply producing the consonants on the beat?

[MsChilbilmil]

BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA!!!!!! BRAVISSIMAAAAARIIIIIAAAAAA!!!!­!!!!!!!

[brinchatt]

This performance brought me to tears it SO exciting!! I want the DVD this is from! He'll, I'd even take a VHS tape!!!

[rockgor]

A very exciting performance. I saw the NYC opera do ATTILA in the 70s.

Have never seen a live Nabucco though.

You can find CDs of Guleghina on The Opera Lovers site. Has a Pique

Dame which I don't think she has recorded commercially.

Souliotis and Linda Roark Strummer also have great CDs of Nabucco.

Tnx 4 the stirring post.

[leonardovittori1]

This is very rough singing.. she ignores the written trills before the High C's.. and in general the coloratura is not crisp enough.. The High C's are flat a bit and effortful.. The whole thing does not sound like a true dramatic coloratura.. They do not have this much problem with this music.

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic! I have yet to hear a better rendition of this aria.

[andreideathboy]

I don't think she wants to be Dimitrova or anyone else...I find her interpretation quietly personal; her acting is really good, her ornaments are fine for a dramatic soprano; this role has been composed for the rare dramatic d'agilita soprano voice..buy anyway, Guleghina does a very good job in the "killer role"..

[vibrateascending]

I think I just heard mountains crash to the ground.. this is totally the delivery I envision of this aria!

[MrOpera67]

A nice performance but she tries to place ornaments on her singing during the second half. This Aria should be good without ornamentation in my opinion.

[ilfig1iomio]

@MrOpera67

In Italian Opera it should be okay for the singer to ornament the da capo. I guess the thinking is that people don't want to hear the exact same thing twice.

[MrOpera67]

@ilfig1iomio I guess, I just haven't really heard any other singer ornament throughout the whole second half.

[ilfig1iomio]

@MrOpera67

This is a difficult role, and this cabaletta in particular is very florid, requiring many ascending trills. It's hard enough to sing what Verdi wrote, so most singers don't ornament the da capo, but it's not forbidden.

[MrOpera67]

@ilfig1iomio It was just a mere statement.

[ilfig1iomio]

Guleghina is STACKED!

[raigekimaru]

if her high Cs weren't flat, it would have been a fair performance, but that kinda ruined it for me

[sbellato]

Maravilhosa!!!

[agladd]

Il coro è mostruoso

[washguitar]

Yes... Dimitrova was better than Guleghina, but she was not ALWAYS in tune as you said. Check her singing this cabaletta in Orange '89 and you'll see that she misses some high notes and the final high C was transposed down.

But she was still better than Maria, whose effort to sing this just proves that she can't.

[1970heinz]

@washguitar: it's true, but in Orange 1989, Dimitrova missed something in this cabaletta but were almost perfect in the rest of opera, like in Rome 1997 (I watched her live) where she still reached a good high C after missing the final G of cavatina; otherwise, Guleghina rarely was in tune, as here as in many other performances... (sorry for my bad english)

[washguitar]

@1970heinz I completely agree with you. No one is perfect, but in my opinion Dimitrova is closer than Dimitrova.

[MarioLubenov]

Je viens d'écouter à la télévision le Requiem de Verdi avec L. Price, F. Cossotto, L. Pavarotti et N. Ghiaourov (jeunes), et H. von Karajan. Ca c'est de l'opéra et du chant, de l'émotion. Quand ce type d'interprètes et d'artistes n'existent plus, alors la place est libre aux gens comme Guleghina et ses roucoulades, toujours à côté de la justesse. Quel mauvais goût. C'est pitoyable.

[flicfan416]

i saw her turandot a few weeks ago at the met. she was hella pitchy

[bellinianodoc]

Ma, sarà che non me ne intendo, ma tutte queste critiche contro la Guleghina non le capisco. Cè chi dice che non sgrana le note nella coloratura; ma dico io: la sentite che razza di musica ha scritto Verdi? A me pare già un miracolo che si possa cantarla, figuriamoci. E poi anche la continua critica sullintonazione: mi si può dire quale nota è stonata? Forse il do diesis finale? Può essere, ma allora i cantanti che non stonano sono il 10 % del totale. E comunque vivaddio che grinta!

[Marcocucciolo91]

@bellinianodoc La gente parla senza cognizione di causa;io penso che la Signora Guleghina abbia cantanto in maniera davvero egregia e con una potenza vocale fuori dal comune,senza peraltro dire che si tratta di un'aria proibitiva.Sono d'accordo:le difficoltà tecniche sono parecchie,ma il risultato,almeno in questo caso,è eccellente.

[nadopera90]

@Marcocucciolo91 è imprecisa nelle colorature.

[Poetapersempre]

@nadopera90 Quasi tutte le sono.

[nadopera90]

@bellinianodoc comunque è un Do naturale :)

[bellinianodoc]

@nadopera90 Scusa, non voglio sottilizzare, ma la nota della Gulega, bella o brutta, è un do diesis; almeno questo è un fatto oggettivo. :)

[PietroAntoni]

Guleghina has had a great career. It's personal taste...... much of the time.

[CatalinaDM56]

Such a wannabe.

[lozkhris]

WTF !! Is this a free variations on Salgo Gia theme?!

Disgusting !! And on top of that - OFF KEY !!!!!

Girl, do NOT try to sing this again

EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sillyboydeux]

This stinks. Listen to the ascending chromatics, she doesn't even bother to differentiate one note from another. And she's hooting like a barn owl. Boooooooooooooooo!

[Dogaradodia]

Certificate Intergalactic! Guleghina molto eccitante!

[leprincebeaumont]

Solo tanta voce, ma emessa rozzamente e con dei cali d'intonazione pazzeschi!

[anselgoya]

buena interpretacion,pero esta puesta es otra basura de levine.

[genanikolay]

I hate the fact that so much people compare dimitrova with guleghina!!! It's incredible! How can you do that?

[Spieldenberg]

GUleghina's voice has just the power of Dimitrova's voice. Just it.

[BetuliaLiberata]

Not even that!

[csapaugh]

dimitrova and guleghina are the best in this role. hands down.

[bettiniroma]

HORRIBLE .... I guess she should be legally sued :-)

[MattiaCavalli]

questo è cantare!

[caspiman]

Excellent performance!

[sincrotto]

Concordo con zitto60, non ci sono note calanti. Forse la potenza della risonanza media, con un attacco più centrale della nota, non permette di cogliere completamente gli armonici superiori che, per l'emissione caratteristica, appunto più centrale, sono meno forti e più difficili da sostenere. Ne avessimo di cantanti così in Italia, dove l'equivoco della leggerezza degli acuti ha fatto sbiancare e smorzare la poche voci promettenti. Andremo a imparare in Russia dalle loro grandi cantanti

[alfillirico]

Ma se i due do scritti gli sono venuti degli urli calati, perchè perseverare e chiudere con un altro do alla fine, intonato proprio per grazia ricevuta?

[lantis323f]

Questo essere.... perchè così bisogna definirla, non ha tecnica, canta male, a colpi, senza legare, senza dare espressione alle frasi musicali, urla e sbraita e non ha una nota grave! E' qualcosa di osceno! Io non so chi continua a farla sbraitare ancora per i teatri!

[CONTESTAR]

If she keeps such healthy sound after so many years in the most dramatic repertory, she must be the greatest technician singing today!

[zdenko1945]

She sings like a godess...

No wonder she is a Slavic woman, half Russian half Ukrainian.

And Dimitrova was Slav too, from Bulgaria...

[operamusicfan]

She's half Ukranian and half Armenian. Her husband is Russian.

[operamusicfan]

@zdenko1945 Guleghina is half Armenian half Ukranian. Only married to a Russian

[PietroAntoni]

If you think Guleghina did no justice to Abigaille your're all nuts. I saw her perform it at the Met with Ramey and Gavanelli in 2004 and it was thrilling.

She has had a wonderful career.

[1970heinz]

Sgradevole e trascinante allo stesso tempo... Discreta interpretazione, acuti abbastanza retti, ma troppe note in meno sulle agilità, quasi non sembra un primo Verdi.

[barleggero]

that was half a tone higher, darling...

[zitto60]

Chi ne dice il contrario, ripetendo i soliti luoghi comuni e fesserie (calante ecc)vada spesso dal dottore per farsi lavare le orecchie!! NON C'É NEMMENO UNA NOTA CALANTE INFATTI!! I teatri la chiamano ovunque, grazie a Dio, e la sua carriera vola a vele aperte!! Evviva Maria!!!

[zitto60]

La Guleghina é fantastica!! In genere ma in questa Abigaille é proprio straordinaria - con forza drammatica e bellezza timbrica incredibili! Senz'altro é una delle migliori nel ruolo di Abigaille della storia -- per me é LA MIGLIORE!

[zuz84]

Ammazza che fatica...

[tetrazzini]

flat flat flat flat flat....

[lantis323f]

Questo essere.... perchè così bisogna definirla, non ha tecnica, canta male, a colpi, senza legare, senza dare espressione alle frasi musicali, urla e sbraita e non ha una nota grave! E' qualcosa di osceno! Io non so chi continua a farla sbraitare ancora per i teatri!

[grubiforever]

aveste sentito che razza di abigaille ha fatto quest anno a verona...da mettersi le mani nei capelli..il ruolo è difficile e il denaro fa gola..ma ci si rovina..

[lantis323f]

Ma la fanno ancora cantare quelle gallina? Povero Verdi!

[hswatnik]

very nice set-...& staging.

[xafnndapp]

where are all the notes and trills written?...

Only screams!

[Turand0t]

Indeed! I have never seen them in the score...

[xafnndapp]

well, they ARE in the score, but not in this performance!

[Turand0t]

Talking about the notes she's singing... hehehe... I know what the score says.

[JessyeNormanFan]

Guleghina looks and sounds so much la Dimitrova. I love them both. Great performance.

[Turand0t]

Maybe there's a slight likeness of apperance, but that's where the likeness ends. There is no Abigaille like Dimitrova. Guleghina doesn't have the stamina or technical control to do it anywhere nearly as good. The reason she's done such a career on this is that we hardly ever hear sopranos with the right voice and technique for this rep. Maybe she does have the right voice, fantastic material, but not the technique, which is appaerant in more recent live performances of this...

[pirocagrande]

She TRIES to sound like DIMITROVA...Dimitrova's voice was POLISHED, full of dynamics and steady HIGH notes ALWAYS..huge ones always in tune and what's more COLORATURA....Check her cabaletta of Lady Macbeth in 'or tutti sorgette'.

Guleghina is just a shadow of what Dimitrova was...

[Turand0t]

Hails to that! Halleluja!!! There's nothing wrong with my ears afterall!. ;)

[guy1938]

très bonne interpretation de Maria Guleghina

j'aime beaucoup cette artiste bravo

[Klassizismus]

It's very exciting if a singer risks everything at one evening! Abigaille, Medea, Norma, Lady Macbeth and Turandot are such roles, which require so much from a singer - and it's a real triumph when she succeeds!! Brava!

[dorotheafayne]

Nice!  D.

[osvaldito55]

It's nice that she executes a few changes in the reprise of "Salgo già," but one misses all the trills.