Have a look at the setting. She is doing a concert of many arias from many different operas, and not a staged performance of Carmen (as I have already pointed out a month ago).
She wasn't singing in the opera. She was doing a song recital and this was just one of the many numbers (she started the show with Tancredi's aria, then followed with Orphee's... before finally getting to the female character arias).
I thought it was great, different but great. For all those who think she's copying Callas? How so? Callas is a soprano, Kasarova is more of a mezzo, if anything she sounds more like Church than Callas
O, it's a fun concert. No harm in the audience enjoying the music, I think.
I love watching this performance as much for the youthfulness and the enthusiasm of the audience as for Kasarova and Spencer's music making. It's refreshing compare to the sea of gray hair in stiff tux I see when I go to the opera. It makes me hopeful that the genre will persist as long as young audience can 'get into it'... You know. :o)
I just heard her singing "Una voce poco fa," and thought her voice was wrong for the role. But she's perfect for Carmen. I love that dusky, rich voice. She'd be a Carmen you could imagine chucking your career for and running away with!
I think her debut as Carmen at Opernhaus Zurich last June was recorded for DVD release. :o) You can glimpse it if you search youtube for 'Jonas kaufmann Teil', part 5 has much of the final scene on it. :o)
Well, since a bunch of spineless trolls are going around down-voting perfectly good reviews just because they enjoy Vesselina Kasarova's singing (making them invisible because of the 6 strikes rule), I'm re-posting those comments here:
Operamusicfan - He shouldn't follow because when she tries to get back to the original rhythm, phrasing, etc. that is already gone once the pianist is doing other things as well. At least, that's how I see it.
... Now I'm interested to know what Kasarova would think of your singing. But then she is known to be a lot more civil to other people that what you've exhibited.
I am a bariton and i wrote this using the account of my girlfriend.believe me i am open in any critic!but i still believe that some artists are overestimated!Kassarova is one of these cases.i am sure she is a wonderfull person!no doubt!I know how a singer is always under pressure of the critics and the every night appearrance on stage.forgive me for that i stay on my opinion!Vibrato is quick,changing of the registers is not nice and homogane an i am not touched at all from her intepretation!
Constructive criticism is one thing I wouldn't confuse with what your 1st post was. Perhaps you would be willing to be criticized by someone who says you're a bad imitation of Fischer-Dieskau with fake voice, ugly vibrato, and an oversize ego. Or perhaps you would find the person a blow hard not worth listening to. Care to say exactly what you write (while hiding behind the computer-generated screen-name) to the artist's face? Word for word? Then go to her website and leave her your criticism.
oh my dear...i dont have too,...i just dont buy her cd's and videos.you feel so personaly insolted which is somothing that i dont understand...by the way i heard a lot about me and i'v been through more in my stage life than your sensitivity can stand!
Ha. I do have the final words. :o) While Smorg is not in the business of erasing comments (after all, a person's own words tell more about him than I could ever try), I do reserve the right to block trolls like these who don't recognize a second chance when they're graced with one.
Well, I am always surprised how opinions may differ. The vibrato is one of her greatest assets. And to call her rich voice a fake, frankly, I think you are either out of touch with music or you have a personal reason to bash this artist. Even her harshest critics wouldn't say such a stupidity.
lupelarzabal, I find you very critical. She does a good job here. It's not her best performance, but to claim that she's imitating Callas is preposterous. Callas' rendition is completely different. As for her colour, I really like it, especially the original way she uses her chest register. Now about her French, please ! Her diction is impeccable, says native speaker! I just can't wait to see her in Agrippina in Zurich in May 2009 with the marvellous Marijana Mijanovic, Hartelius & Bonitatibus.
Yup, it's a fun concert indeed. :o) Have you gone to the nposale site to see the whole thing yet? It's so cool that most of the audience is so young!! I wish opera and classical music is as big here in the USA as over in Europe. :o) Love the way they honk their boat-horn when she's done singing!
He shouldn't follow because when she tries to get back to the original rhythm, phrasing, etc. that is already gone once the pianist is doing other things as well. At least, that's how I see it.
She pretty much has her own style and plays around a bit in concerts, I think. But why shouldn't her pianist follow? If he doesn't, the whole thing would just sound disjointed, wouldn't it? He isn't a conductor, but an accompanist and must show case the singer rather than dictate, I think. :)
How good she is and how proud I am that she is also Bulgarian...
evelina72 1 year ago
I dont think that is a correct place for a Diva like Vesseli Kasarova, but is nice anyway.
Willisses Douglas, Zurich. CH
BricksHappy 1 year ago
@Chilair1
Yeah!! I mean, it's even white... white?! -_-
PinkPixie155 2 years ago
Have a look at the setting. She is doing a concert of many arias from many different operas, and not a staged performance of Carmen (as I have already pointed out a month ago).
SDCmorg 2 years ago
why is she singing carmen in pants!!
Chilair1 2 years ago
She wasn't singing in the opera. She was doing a song recital and this was just one of the many numbers (she started the show with Tancredi's aria, then followed with Orphee's... before finally getting to the female character arias).
Happy Holidays! :o)
SDCmorg 2 years ago
I thought it was great, different but great. For all those who think she's copying Callas? How so? Callas is a soprano, Kasarova is more of a mezzo, if anything she sounds more like Church than Callas
Onry1 2 years ago
This looks just so wonderful and somehow casual. Dutch people and Amsterdam must be really great :)
byrzaovca 3 years ago
too bad about the retarded clapping
Teckwolf 3 years ago
O, it's a fun concert. No harm in the audience enjoying the music, I think.
I love watching this performance as much for the youthfulness and the enthusiasm of the audience as for Kasarova and Spencer's music making. It's refreshing compare to the sea of gray hair in stiff tux I see when I go to the opera. It makes me hopeful that the genre will persist as long as young audience can 'get into it'... You know. :o)
SDCmorg 3 years ago
Oh I know what you mean, I was just wishing I could hear the beauty of the music without the audience's intervention.
Teckwolf 3 years ago
I have to say I agree. The clapping is annoying and it takes away from the music. She didn't even invite the audience to clap!
strauss12345 2 years ago
I think it's wonderful that the audience is getting into the music enough that they want to participate!
bmh4d0k3n 2 years ago
I just heard her singing "Una voce poco fa," and thought her voice was wrong for the role. But she's perfect for Carmen. I love that dusky, rich voice. She'd be a Carmen you could imagine chucking your career for and running away with!
Largo64 3 years ago
I think her debut as Carmen at Opernhaus Zurich last June was recorded for DVD release. :o) You can glimpse it if you search youtube for 'Jonas kaufmann Teil', part 5 has much of the final scene on it. :o)
Happy Holidays!
SDCmorg 3 years ago
A "glimpse" of her is right. But I had not been aware of Kaufmann before. Wow, what a voice! Thanks for that glimpse!
Largo64 3 years ago
Well, since a bunch of spineless trolls are going around down-voting perfectly good reviews just because they enjoy Vesselina Kasarova's singing (making them invisible because of the 6 strikes rule), I'm re-posting those comments here:
Operamusicfan - He shouldn't follow because when she tries to get back to the original rhythm, phrasing, etc. that is already gone once the pianist is doing other things as well. At least, that's how I see it.
SDCmorg 3 years ago
Hillevifan - On a floating pontoon. I would love to try that! And I love how the audience starts clapping! So fun.Of course her singing is great!
Ministrant - PERFECT! That is all I can say! PERFECT!
Arashi110 - Ah, I love this woman. *_* The audience seemed to love her, too.
Operaeater - smorgy you're the best:)
Anyone wonder who the trolls are, simply follow the lupelarzabal trail and you'll find them on their profile comments.
SDCmorg 3 years ago
vulgarpurity - lol I almost didn't recognize the song at first. This is such a hard song to sing-she does it with ease. Brava!
SDCmorg 3 years ago
Also forgive me for some mistakes in my writing... I suppose i was writing maybe too quick...
I wish everybody to continue loving opera with passion and dedication.Ciao!
arisargiris 3 years ago
Iam sorry guys , i have a very big rispect for Her as an artist but i really believe she shouldn't sing Carmen...
In Zürich at least was not very convising...
Carmen is a very dangerous part...not only vocally but also as a personality...
Mrs Kasarova is great in the repertoire that she was(Still is) singing until now.Anyway, bir respect!
arisargiris 3 years ago
lol I almost didn't recognize the song at first. This is such a hard song to sing-she does it with ease. Brava!
vulgarpurity 3 years ago
She is absolutely amazing. I love this song. Awesome, completely awesome. No doubt about it.
LeTraveler09 3 years ago 3
Ah, I love this woman. *_* The audience seemed to love her, too.
Arashi110 3 years ago
ugly vibrato, fake coloured voice and a bad immitation of callas!!!!!
pity!!!
and her French?
oh my God! what french??????
lupelarzabal 3 years ago
... Now I'm interested to know what Kasarova would think of your singing. But then she is known to be a lot more civil to other people that what you've exhibited.
SDCmorg 3 years ago
I am a bariton and i wrote this using the account of my girlfriend.believe me i am open in any critic!but i still believe that some artists are overestimated!Kassarova is one of these cases.i am sure she is a wonderfull person!no doubt!I know how a singer is always under pressure of the critics and the every night appearrance on stage.forgive me for that i stay on my opinion!Vibrato is quick,changing of the registers is not nice and homogane an i am not touched at all from her intepretation!
lupelarzabal 3 years ago
Constructive criticism is one thing I wouldn't confuse with what your 1st post was. Perhaps you would be willing to be criticized by someone who says you're a bad imitation of Fischer-Dieskau with fake voice, ugly vibrato, and an oversize ego. Or perhaps you would find the person a blow hard not worth listening to. Care to say exactly what you write (while hiding behind the computer-generated screen-name) to the artist's face? Word for word? Then go to her website and leave her your criticism.
SDCmorg 3 years ago
oh my dear...i dont have too,...i just dont buy her cd's and videos.you feel so personaly insolted which is somothing that i dont understand...by the way i heard a lot about me and i'v been through more in my stage life than your sensitivity can stand!
have a nice life!!!!
lupelarzabal 3 years ago
Ha. I do have the final words. :o) While Smorg is not in the business of erasing comments (after all, a person's own words tell more about him than I could ever try), I do reserve the right to block trolls like these who don't recognize a second chance when they're graced with one.
SDCmorg 3 years ago
Well, I am always surprised how opinions may differ. The vibrato is one of her greatest assets. And to call her rich voice a fake, frankly, I think you are either out of touch with music or you have a personal reason to bash this artist. Even her harshest critics wouldn't say such a stupidity.
1958Zarina 3 years ago 4
I hope it's obvious that my reference is to what has been said by lupelarzabal. I very much favor Smorgy's elegant reply.
1958Zarina 3 years ago
lupelarzabal, I find you very critical. She does a good job here. It's not her best performance, but to claim that she's imitating Callas is preposterous. Callas' rendition is completely different. As for her colour, I really like it, especially the original way she uses her chest register. Now about her French, please ! Her diction is impeccable, says native speaker! I just can't wait to see her in Agrippina in Zurich in May 2009 with the marvellous Marijana Mijanovic, Hartelius & Bonitatibus.
rayangreene 2 years ago
PERFECT! That is all I can say! PERFECT!
Ministrant 3 years ago
smorgy you're the best:)
operaeater 4 years ago
You're too kind. Thanks! :o)
SDCmorg 4 years ago
On a floating pontoon...I would love to try that!! And I love how the audience starts clapping!!! So fun...Of course her singing is great!!
hillevifan 4 years ago
Yup, it's a fun concert indeed. :o) Have you gone to the nposale site to see the whole thing yet? It's so cool that most of the audience is so young!! I wish opera and classical music is as big here in the USA as over in Europe. :o) Love the way they honk their boat-horn when she's done singing!
SDCmorg 4 years ago
He shouldn't follow because when she tries to get back to the original rhythm, phrasing, etc. that is already gone once the pianist is doing other things as well. At least, that's how I see it.
operamusicfan 4 years ago
She pretty much has her own style and plays around a bit in concerts, I think. But why shouldn't her pianist follow? If he doesn't, the whole thing would just sound disjointed, wouldn't it? He isn't a conductor, but an accompanist and must show case the singer rather than dictate, I think. :)
SDCmorg 4 years ago
She's playing around with rhythm and phrasing and that pianist is following her, and he shouldn't.
operamusicfan 4 years ago