Home Town girl, Chicago. Berwyn--Oh it used to have so many great Bohemian restaurants! and of course her voice has gotten even better with time and she will be singing in Chicago as Aida this season. Her Tosca at the Met. recently was stunning . Brava and looking forward to hear her Aida at lyric opera.
Thank you, Sondra, for paying no attention to the idiots like the commenter below. Your performance in the Met's HD Il Trovatore was absolutely magnificent.
indeed she was a candidate for the absolute first class singers (the very high Circle). It is just that I dont think she will ever enter that circle anymore (stopped hoping)
I just saw her last night at the Met in Tosca!!! I didn't know much about her and as soon as she started singing I screamed (needless to say a very soft whisper to my friend next to me): She had a Verdiiiiiii Voice!!!! And I find this interview this morning...
She was charming in Tosca, but being a huge fan of Puccini and Tosca in particular, I wish I had have a true Puccini Voice. A true Dramatic Soprano with the heaviness and the darkness for the notes... But overall great performance!
Adorable person - she should use "bad luck removers" though :p
Her voice is a Ferrari that became a Rolce Royce after the surgery... wow... I just love the confidence of the people today - now I completely understand why she will never be a Goddess
I've been waiting for her to become a goddess for so many years now ... to get rid of her tonal inaccuracies and of the passages she so often sings like she was bored to death like singing them. Her recent Aida killed me, that was the work of an amateur She should know better to utterly love every single word Verdi wrote in his recitatives and not just show off blasting top notes.
If you dont pay attention to the recitativi then you dont understand opera
@LohengrinT With all due respect, I must disagree. She was merely trying to explain what kind of voice is required for Verdi, and she used the car metaphor, and she wanted to emphasise how fortunate she was that her surgery went well. She was not boasting. She was only joking and in fact I find her such a charming, modest and unpretentious person, and yet intelligent at the same time. She certainly understands operatic art.
had u ever heard callas or sutherland calling their voices Rolce Royce or Ferrari (like my dearest Fleming called hers?) Callas had described her own voice: as an instrument made by an uknown maker played by Toscanini (which implied her enormous effort to train her voice) as opposed to Tebaldi's instrument which was a Stradivarius (played by an amateur).
You never call your own voice Rolce Royce... especially when it is NOT! ;)
this woman's confidence is in absolute and total agreement with her failure to become what we were all expecting her to be. Over confidence is the Key to complete failure when you try to do something difficult in your life
the opposite. confidence drives success. the overconfident make mistakes of ambition; the underconfident make mistakes of sloth. it's better to make mistakes of ambition and to keep striving for your goal and believing in yourself. especially with something like opera where you have so much competition (and good competition at that). one needs to be a strong woman to sing opera, it's no place for the underconfident or faint of heart.
I partly agree with you but I totally agree with me :)
I have never met in my life someone overconfident who was truly succesful. Sondra's flaws which have by far prevented her from becoming an Assoluta are the result of her over confidence
Her voice is not one of just one succesful soprano but far greater. She hasnt reacher her potential at all because of the idea she has about herself
She comes across really sympathetic, down to earth, and passionate. She's been starting gain some notoriety in the opera community. We'll be hearing a lot more about her.
Sondra is an amazing singer. I had the pleasure of performing with her in Valencia, Spain, in Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac", with Placido Domingo. She was awesome. Such a thrilling voice. it's a pity this interview is so dull and takes absolutely no advantage of her engaging personality or musical knowledge. In any event, a chance for wide audiciences to meet a true talent and rare bird, singing live with piano accompnyment. Go Sondra! And come back to Spain soon!! We miss you..
Home Town girl, Chicago. Berwyn--Oh it used to have so many great Bohemian restaurants! and of course her voice has gotten even better with time and she will be singing in Chicago as Aida this season. Her Tosca at the Met. recently was stunning . Brava and looking forward to hear her Aida at lyric opera.
SHICOFF1 3 months ago
Thank you, Sondra, for paying no attention to the idiots like the commenter below. Your performance in the Met's HD Il Trovatore was absolutely magnificent.
racheleleeba 9 months ago
@cuoredeinidi
indeed she was a candidate for the absolute first class singers (the very high Circle). It is just that I dont think she will ever enter that circle anymore (stopped hoping)
LohengrinT 11 months ago
I just saw her last night at the Met in Tosca!!! I didn't know much about her and as soon as she started singing I screamed (needless to say a very soft whisper to my friend next to me): She had a Verdiiiiiii Voice!!!! And I find this interview this morning...
She was charming in Tosca, but being a huge fan of Puccini and Tosca in particular, I wish I had have a true Puccini Voice. A true Dramatic Soprano with the heaviness and the darkness for the notes... But overall great performance!
minkoss 1 year ago
Adorable person - she should use "bad luck removers" though :p
Her voice is a Ferrari that became a Rolce Royce after the surgery... wow... I just love the confidence of the people today - now I completely understand why she will never be a Goddess
I am a god of beauty and intelligence btw lol
LohengrinT 1 year ago
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gerardsatamian 1 year ago
@LohengrinT
If she's not a Goddess yet, She will be on April 30 2011 and thereafter. Wait and see!
gerardsatamian 1 year ago
@gerardsatamian
I've been waiting for her to become a goddess for so many years now ... to get rid of her tonal inaccuracies and of the passages she so often sings like she was bored to death like singing them. Her recent Aida killed me, that was the work of an amateur She should know better to utterly love every single word Verdi wrote in his recitatives and not just show off blasting top notes.
If you dont pay attention to the recitativi then you dont understand opera
LohengrinT 1 year ago
@LohengrinT
To me and many others, she is already a Goddess.
You don't like her, then don't listen to her! As simple as that!
gerardsatamian 1 year ago
@LohengrinT With all due respect, I must disagree. She was merely trying to explain what kind of voice is required for Verdi, and she used the car metaphor, and she wanted to emphasise how fortunate she was that her surgery went well. She was not boasting. She was only joking and in fact I find her such a charming, modest and unpretentious person, and yet intelligent at the same time. She certainly understands operatic art.
corellithebest 11 months ago
@corellithebest
had u ever heard callas or sutherland calling their voices Rolce Royce or Ferrari (like my dearest Fleming called hers?) Callas had described her own voice: as an instrument made by an uknown maker played by Toscanini (which implied her enormous effort to train her voice) as opposed to Tebaldi's instrument which was a Stradivarius (played by an amateur).
You never call your own voice Rolce Royce... especially when it is NOT! ;)
LohengrinT 11 months ago
@corellithebest
correction: played by Paganini not Toscanini :p
LohengrinT 11 months ago
@LohengrinT
this woman's confidence is in absolute and total agreement with her failure to become what we were all expecting her to be. Over confidence is the Key to complete failure when you try to do something difficult in your life
LohengrinT 11 months ago
@LohengrinT
the opposite. confidence drives success. the overconfident make mistakes of ambition; the underconfident make mistakes of sloth. it's better to make mistakes of ambition and to keep striving for your goal and believing in yourself. especially with something like opera where you have so much competition (and good competition at that). one needs to be a strong woman to sing opera, it's no place for the underconfident or faint of heart.
raigekimaru 8 months ago
@raigekimaru
I partly agree with you but I totally agree with me :)
I have never met in my life someone overconfident who was truly succesful. Sondra's flaws which have by far prevented her from becoming an Assoluta are the result of her over confidence
Her voice is not one of just one succesful soprano but far greater. She hasnt reacher her potential at all because of the idea she has about herself
LohengrinT 8 months ago
She comes across really sympathetic, down to earth, and passionate. She's been starting gain some notoriety in the opera community. We'll be hearing a lot more about her.
dougbalt 1 year ago
What a gorgeous womanly woman!!
Shahrdad 1 year ago
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Sondra is an amazing singer. I had the pleasure of performing with her in Valencia, Spain, in Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac", with Placido Domingo. She was awesome. Such a thrilling voice. it's a pity this interview is so dull and takes absolutely no advantage of her engaging personality or musical knowledge. In any event, a chance for wide audiciences to meet a true talent and rare bird, singing live with piano accompnyment. Go Sondra! And come back to Spain soon!! We miss you..
jonigartua 2 years ago 4