La Favorita Contest - O mio Fernando - Fiorenza Cossotto

[55werther]

¡¡¡GRANDIOSA, MAGNIFICA. UNA DE LAS GRANDES MEZZOS, ENTRE, LAS MAS

GRANDES!!!. SE ENCONTRABA, EN ESTE VIDEO, EN UNO DE LOS MOMENTOS

MAS GLORIOSOS DE SU CARRERA. DUEÑA Y SEÑORA, ¡¡¡ABSOLUTA!!!.

[bodiloto]

La Simionato,La Nicolai ...

[lpvcrcd]

Game set and match! Quality of voice you are born with. You can train it to perfection but the tone and quality are with you from the beginning Cossotto has a texture - a focus- a velvet like tone yet brilliant . Even when she pushes the voice the tone remains Zajick's voice, though flexible has not this golden texture and tends to get shrill and sound shouted when pushed. I heard Fiorenza sing live in 1970 as Santuzza . Her's was a voice to be heard in the flesh

[jmahlon]

this is all true. However Zajick's technique has gotten better as she has aged, where Cossotto's vocal production started to suffer towards the end of her career. I also believe that Zajick is a more flexible artist, capable of doing a wider variety of roles. Both women brought/bring incredible gifts to the stage..Lets celebrate them both!

[lpvcrcd]

Agreed

[spiritbearpeace]

Diva assoluta!!!!!!!! La piu grande delle mezzo soprani!!!!!!

[Jeanne90275]

I loved this so much, I got the video and the1974

studio recording. The audience really got its money's worth in this performance...she was

on fire that night!

[DasIstMirWurscht]

Lamas grande es la Fiorenza!!! Como ella canta

es un maravilla. Ahora no hay una Cantante como

ella!!!!! Ella es muy grande

[VerdiMezzo]

BRAVA!!! I LOVE YOU FIORENZA!! Wherever you are!!

[Jachonda]

escuchen a Oralia Dominguez, para mi la mejor mezzosoprano que hay. No se si cante esta aria, pero en verdad escuchenla

[olauu]

Brava Cossotto!!!!!!!!!! Cossotto for ever !!! Ella junto a Stignani y Simionato son las tres mezzos definitivas del siglo veinte le pese a quien le pese...el resto es silencio. ¿Como les duele a algunos, no?

[eternauta72]

Elena Vasiliyevna Obraztsova was born in Leningrad, Russia, on July 7, 1939.

Fiorenza Cossotto.

Born on April 22, 1935 in Crescentino di Vercelli, Italy.

Esos son los datos de las edades de ambas cantantes, asi no hay trucos...

[eternauta72]

pero yo les paso los datos:

Verdi - Il Trovatore / Bonisolli, Plowright, Zancanaro, Cossotto, Washington, Giovaninetti, Verona Opera (1985) si la consiguen, van a ver el papelon que hace Cossotto en ese rol a la casi misma edad de la Obratzsova...

[piruja61]

callate penosa.

Brava Cossotto ! Obratzsova is only a poor man's Cossotto

[eternauta72]

busquen aca en youtube:

Elena Obraztsova "Condotta el'era in ceppi" Il Trovatore, peuden elegir tanto la en vivo con Carreras del 85 o la del concierto del 78...las dos sos EXCELENTES!! Y luego vean la de Verona de Cossotto donde no puede con su centro de vos y donde Rosalind Plowright la hace trizas!! eso si van a tenerla que evr fuera de youtube proque lso fans de la cossotto la esconden esa version por lo mal que esta Fiorenza...

[trombarecosi]

BASTA! ma vatene a fanculo figlio della mignota

[eternauta72]

hahaha

que desleal comparar a Cossotto en el 71 con Obraztsova en el 2001!!

porque no comparamos la Azucena de Obraztsova a la misma edad??? los invito a ver ambas Azucenas a la misma edad y sin de lealtad a ver quien gana...

[trombarecosi]

Che brava !

La più grande!

[olauu]

Cossotto la dea, unica, superba! la piu grande del secolo!!!!

[fazendasantoexpedito]

What a pleassure to listen to an aria and be able to say this is 5/5 !!!!

[Venezzo]

Me encanta el timbre de la Cossotto, es una de mis mezzos favoritas...

5/5.

[tristanidyll]

I like the color of Cossotto's voice the best among all these mezzos...even more so than Zajick's. I would say that Zajick's voice has a lovely quality, but her diction is poor compared to Cossotto's (not just the French/Italian difference, given that she sings O mon Fernand, but I think she squinches some of her vowels too much for my taste).

Cossotto is also one of the most involved singers I've ever heard in the roles she assumes. I'd say that I'd give her a 5/5.

[leadingbyxample]

she nailed the singing, but was not at all in character...5/3

[BAMBAM8993]

I'm surprised. I don't I would like it more than DZ. 4/5

[spizell]

Very good. Not quite Zajick. 4/4

[caspiman]

5/5

"I wish I could hear this voice"....

Despite her funny, self-enjoying acting. :-)

[soundfond]

Cossotto's acting has been criticized but it isn't all that bad in here. I just find it hysterical that she has no problem dropping the character the second she finishes the final note and widely embraces the ovation. The voice, epitome of the spinto mezzo-soprano, incisive metallic tone not to everyone's taste, but I love it. Now, was it the conductor's idea to cut the cadenza? Not good... BRAVA 5/4

[d123h456]

Got to agree - she's just too pleased with herself at the end! Great performance though and I personally love her voice. She's great with Callas in La Gioconda - where i first heard her voice. 5/4

[fazendasantoexpedito]

Listen to Stignani, Barbieri and Simionato. At that time both the cadenza and the second part of the cabaletta used to be cut (not only in "La Favorita" but in most of the italian opera). Don't forget Cossotto became a "world star" in 1962 at Alla Scala when she replaced at the last minute Giulietta Simionato.

[LindoroRossini]

A bit too much verisimo for my taste, but she really is in character and that final note. A 4/5, definitly.

[hardybee]

I like the voice and the singing - but I am not clear about how to differentiate singing/characterization. What does it mean "she really is in character"? - If anyone can help me.

[primadonna13]

It means that she really IS the person who she is meant to be playing!! Which in my opinion here she is not!! But that is my opinion!!

[hardybee]

Thank you, primadonna13

[Orfeus80]

5/5 I wish I could hear this voice in theatre. Few other mezzos excite me as much as Cossotto. A bit old fashioned in style but I immediately noticed this is someone who know's what she's singing about. The words make sense.

[vitroz]

Im not a fan

[operadm]

5/5 brava

[curiequ]

4.5/5

[drdre333]

She's close to Zajick for me. 4.5/5

[nickbigd]

5/5

[patjan92]

My grades speak for themselves.  5/5

[BeauTenor]

You know, this has never been my favorite voice. BUT, this was really really good (apart from the nonsensical cut in the cabaletta that ruined the line). She sounds gorgeous. 5/3

[burns63]

Brava!!  5/5