1983 MET100 GALA:L'italiana in Algeri. Rossini

[lallanzinho]

I love Moser but she misses the tempo and the repiration here 6:34 . And she should sing "ding, ding ding ding" as Elvira not "ah ah ah ah" like the Queen of the night.

[MrBaddel77]

i love the part at 7:31

[911jp]

gorgeous BRUSCATINI leads them all :-)

[Rattywotin]

viva mosser xx

[qwertyoop]

Nice work Dad :)

[Toscavsky]

Bravissimi!!!!

[VMDICKS]

This was a special event unlike any other since. Shame on those who fail us all by not putting out the entire Gala on DVD. Is there anyone out there who could be so kind as to loan me a copy as I have never seen any thing near a complete version. I was overseas with the military at the time and only heard of it second hand. Contact me at vinfirsttenor@aol.com

[ShockBoy93]

Super super super !!

Love

[bitterclevelander]

I love the part at 8:43 where Moser unleashes The Beast and drowns out the other soloists, the choir, and the entire orchestra. Rossini may not have been her cup of tea, but by God, what a fucking voice.

[tomasburi]

@bitterclevelander Exactly my thoughts. This tone is completely dipped in any other rendition...

[Hwillijonl]

This is just so so great.  I have watched this so many times.

[timpage54]

Moser is terrific, and no defense is needed. This is some of the most imaginative music ever written. I guess I can see rating singers in the lesser Italian composers -- Cherubini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi -- but this is ROSSINI and the singers are only servants to the Master's vision.

[kungura]

bravo!!!

[musicalgeek10]

i love this finale!!! so much fun, but its better when there is more acting being done... i get this is a concert but seeing it in an actual production is very different!

[Hwillijonl]

This is one off the most fantastic operatic performances I have ever heard.

[rhapsodyaaa]

MMM noc que le paso a la moser en años siguientes sonaba excelente, recuerde que ella es soprano spinto y las voces denominadas spintos tienden a deteriorarce muy rapido, pero reitero lo del principio en los años siguientes le escuche mucho mejor

[zimnaya]

Who is the very distinguished looking bass-baritone? The chap with moustache and wonderful Italian nose? Beautiful voice!

[conmaleta]

@zimnaya Hi! if I'm not wrong that is Ara Berberian.

Greetings!

[LiahimVolvap]

@zimnaya it's John Darrenkamp :)

[odioigialli]

i love rossini

[daydreamdede]

I'm trying to download this exact song, but it is so hard to find, I keep getting an instrumental without the opera behind it....If anyone can tell me who sings/does this song, and under what exact name it is I would appreciate....thank you

[skitzo429]

this is uncomfortably fast, moser is really struggling to get all of the words out

[R7Baritone]

Please... Could you tell me what role does each singer?

Thanks!

[MrAnimaeGenus]

they are all great artist , stop.

nowadays we can only imagine and wish tish type of voices

bow to them so.

just shut the fuck up and bow!

[lilmonibabe]

i have three weeks to learn all of Zulmas part in this song! omg i have ALOT of work ahead of me haha!

[nicolaations]

me da pena la cara de moser :(

[tneprescintr]

how tall is moser??

[skitzo429]

very tall haha

[tneprescintr]

no wonder her voice was so big...

[nectenorboi09]

Okay, in defense of Moser here, she was a DRAMATIC coloratura. The voice was not suited to the soubrette-style chirping that this role requires. Having to constantly over-lighten her sound in order to make it through this ensemble must have been horribly tiring. Shame on whoever was assigning the rep for this gala - much better use of her extraordinary talent could have been made!

[tneprescintr]

The most accepted theory is that she's a lirico-dramatico capable of coloratura.

But i'm totally with you on this. So not the part for her...

[skitzo429]

first off, elvira is not a soubrette role, like most bel canto soprano roles, its best suited to a lyric coloratura. Her sound here is not due to "overlightening," her voice was on its way to being destroyed by this point, it had really began to decline by the time she was in her 40s. Though no one knows the actual cause, its not unlikely its from pushing her big dramatic voice into high coloratura stuff, if youve ever heard her sing poppoli di tessaglia, with the high Gs youll understand why

[silvr94]

@skitzo429 she said she had a hormonal disease which the doctors only recognised too late. i believe she had dangerously low oestrogen levels...

[skitzo429]

@silvr94 perhaps, I think ive read something about that once before. Bigger voices have a tendancy to decline in their 40s somewhat, june anderson had a similar vocal decline in her 40s. However, i refuse to believe that her choices of repertoire had nothing to do with her vocal problems, listen to her recording of poppoli, the high Gs sound like shes ripping her larynx out through her nose haha

[beginner57]

Io trovo il tutto molto godibile e divertente e vorrei vedere quanti di quelli che sparano a zero dulle voci, la pronuncia ecc. saprebbero fare di meglio.

[baryton08]

Viva la Dubinbaum!

[youfeda]

ma l'italiano è orribile

[skitzo429]

poor Edda Moser, she ruined her voice, she was only 45 here but she sounds terrible

[silvr94]

it was an illness she had that caused the terrible deterioration of her voice...

[MisterSoprano]

BRAVO Bruscantini!!!! Un vero basso buffo! He is superb!

[Xnoxi]

La seule mauvaise est, étonnement, Edda Moser; quelle horreur! Mauvaise soirée, la pauvre...On dirait qu'elle se fait égorger...

[silvr94]

c'est à cause d'une maladie... elle était vraiment une pauvre. je suis désolé pour elle parce qu'elle avait une voix superbe...

[JanoFliberreti]

Vey Nice !

By the way, Miss Dubinbaum drives me crazy with that dress and that hair xD

[Ishraphael]

Hey author, ist bruscaNtini with the "N"

[Ishraphael]

grandi..

grande bruscantini!

[verderiano]

Una de las mejores arias comicas que se nombrar , Rossini realmente ha sido un grande de la musica

[jOsselinsantos]

hahahaha! =D i love it! and lily'z too!

[JanoFliberreti]

Rossini and Wagner... amazing composers!

[mkart9]

Love it! Love Rossini!

[jontenorboy]

God, It thought we took this almost too fast at Mn Opera, but this doesn't even compare speed wise!

[beginner57]

"Nella testa ho un campanel..." wonderful, sublime well-organized total chaos!!!

It makes me cry!!!

[condeceprano]

Poor Kesling, singing besides the powerful like thunder voice of Edda Moser, makes her sound like a comprimario singer...

[andreoccius]

Magnifico!

[pozzil]

great!!!