Emmy Destinn - D'amor Sull'ali - Il Trovatore - Verdi

[trov85]

simply priceless

[racheleleeba]

Just breathtaking. Thank you so much.

[ChristophePhilippe]

Can you imagine how great this performance would be if they didn't have to speed up the tempo to accommodate the vinyl? It would be the exemplar, period.

[bcndn63]

It's alway's a thrill/to hear a soprano/with voice big as the hills/trip off her tonque/runs,roulades,and trills!

[paulostroff99]

Sensational! TY.

[rodlarocque]

Brava!

[MegaIFKA]

Obrovský talent,nádherná žena...stále nedoceněná...

[maldoror26]

one of the best! thanks.

M.

[pychac127]

no to je strašný

[bakinek]

Ema Destinnová pěvecká ikona své doby, její talent by nesmírný, byla často označovaná jako nejlepší operní pěvkyně vůbec. Škoda že žila v letech kdy ještě nebyl dobrý zvukový záznam, takže se její zpěv stal tak trochu "čítankovým" pojmem.

[schlusnus]

Thank you for your qualified information.

Best Wishes.

[schlusnus]

Would you agree Chaliapin was naturally gifted at birth?

Some folks just have that fortunate gift, others try so

hard.

I do respect and thank you for your experienced

comments.

[MrCafiero]

Of course all the greats were gifted. I am just saying that talent can take you far, but the same talent with a limited technique cannot do what the same talent with a great technique can do. I believe there are still very talented and gifted people, but they severely lack technique. The approach that is taught in the universities today is severely limited. You should read, "The End of the Great Big American Voice" from the NY Times.

[Dtenor87]

I have to agree with you 100%on that. Anyone can be born with raw talent but without guidance, that talent is USELESS! Caruso, Ponselle, Callas, Leontyne Price, Merrill, Warren, Corelli, Del Monaco ALL had to learn in order to give us what we've heard from them. They didn't just pop out and talent led the way

[schlusnus]

Totally agree....you either have it or you don't, surely

thats why there's the difference..no amount of training

can make an average voice into a ..Schipa,Gigli, etc.

Look at Eliz: Schumann or Lotte yes 6 yrs of learning

before on stage, they were gifted from birth. That seperates the new voices from the old.Their Greats.!

[MrCafiero]

That is not the only reason why there is a difference. The teaching also has to be there and today it isn't. We have not changed physiologically and there are very talented people with very bad technique.

[65attila]

@schlusnus

There are plenty of wonderful talents who had poor

technique and either never made it or had short careers.

[MrCafiero]

@65attila That is right and it should not be that way. Too many fake teachers out there.

[schlusnus]

So interesting comparing the greats to the run of the mill.

Teaching is one thing, being born with the vocal gift is

another. Kathleen Ferrier the most perfect of contralto's

just had that natural gift, as do and did the greats.

After all how many real greats have there been?

[MrCafiero]

There is no substitution for talent. There is also *NO* substitution for great teaching and technique because no matter how talented you are, if you have a bad technique, you cannot utilize your potential.

[MrCafiero]

Caruso, Tamagno, Gigli, Völker, Björling, Tucker, Merril, Ruffo, Warren, Bastianini, Battistini, Milanov, Tebaldi, Callas, Ponselle, Destinn, Muzio, Stracciari, De Luca, Molinari, Tagliabue, MacNeil, Nilsson, Flagstad, Traubel, De Muro, Ludwig, Bumbry, Stignani, Elmo, Farrell, Farrar, Melba, Tetrazzini, Del Monaco, Corelli, Pavarotti, Di Stefano, Ghiaurov, Mardones, Siepi, Neri, Tibbett, Norena, Nordica, Kirkby-Lunn, and I could go on and on.

[schlusnus]

What a voice, if I was a student today I'd quit!!

Emma, Claudia, and Rosa ruled the waves! We mustn't

forget Miss Australia also.

[MrCafiero]

And Ponselle wrote that she admired Destinn and did not think she could reach that level.

[Dtenor87]

Ponselle was being modest :P

[ChristophePhilippe]

In an era heavy with technically-secure sopranos who knew how to sing beautifully, I believe Miss Destinn stands head-and-shoulders above them all, and this record is a good example of why. Not just perfectly executed, it puts you into the head of the woman suffering in the center of a hideouos drama.

[MrMusikRnb]

very beautiful ...omg....her vocals are very gorgeous

[growsonwalls]

I think she might win the contest for the best trills in this trill-heavy aria.

[operatube]

such a ductile singing line, and timbre of great warmth undiminished!

[jfsanin]

She was a great singer. Amazing, having into account, that the record has almost 100 years.jfsanin