Beautifully sung, a regally beautiful woman, all accurate and lovely, textbook-like (listen to how she pronounces "nell'ora del dolor" and compare to Callas), a smooth Italianate sound, but she leaves me cold.
I want to know where I can buy a sit with same quality, must be so comfortable that she wouldn't live her beloved bottom that by any cost, well at the end she left, but you can see the quality was so good that at the end of the aria we know Tosca was suppose to be so sad and devastated. But emotionless Renata kept same face she had when she was sitting. Man I need that in my living room PERIOD
Wish this could be remastered so that one could get the glorious voice without all the messy stuff from the old tv...just love her voice, pronunciatioin, emotion!
i listen to her and i can say she is gorgeous, great control of the technique, and amazing quality of the voice... but i watch her and i don't feel anything. She is only singing, not interpreting. Callas performance is heartbreaking.
i listen to her and i can say she is gorgeous, great control of the technique, and amazing quality of the voice... but i watch her and i don't feel anything. She is only singing, not interpreting. Callas performance is heartbreaking.
Its a bit cold but I guess its due to the fact that it was a telecast, not the natural place where she was used to perform. Her performance of Tosca in Tokyo is very touching.
both excellent,no doubt on that,but callas had that little something in her that made her performance stand out of every other one...tebaldi has an excellent voice but she's not moving enough
@manumanulla callas aveva una voce diversa,io preferisco lei che alla callas perchè è una voce piu angelica e un vibrato meno traballante di quello della callas
@manumanulla perchè invece della callas si capisce qualcosa? Leggi il celletti e vedrai che parla della dizione della Tebaldi come una della migliori al mondo. Lascia perdere questa registrazione di scarsa qualitànsonora
Here in Japan, NHK broadcasts a regular classical music program, both concerts and operas, every Sunday evening. You just have to start writing letters and getting your local/national channel to start doing it again.
@tokyoisfun I was referring to the states. You don't even wanna know what the country has done to music and art programs though much of the states. When I was in music school I met foreigners who tested out of undergraduate music theory class because it was taught so well (and prided) as a general subject in their countries. If not that, they were well ahead of many others. I was lucky to be ahead of the game as well, whew, but not nearly as much.
Dijo Tosacanini de ella: Questa voce me e piu bella...Per me e La Voce dun angelo Y, El Gran Maestro, no se equivovo. Esta- mos ante La Voz En Su Mas Puro Estado De Gracia; Pocas, pero muy pocas, Voces poseyeron Tanta Belleza en Su Mas Pura Genuinidad; Estoy hablando de una voz que tiene el Sonido Mas Puro Que se pueda tener para cantar. Es Una En Un Millon, Que se puedan encontrar, Voces, como Esta De Tebaldi, Y De Tanta Cali- dad.
Yes, Leinsdorf provided very luxuriant tempi for Tebaldi and Bjoerling. I don't much care for his too straightforward TOSCA recording with Milanov. but his TURANDOT is pretty special. Tebaldi is my favorite Tosca ever. Callas has her insights, but for sheer vocal beauty, grandeur, and temperament Tebaldi wins hands down. Leontyne Price has a gorgeous voice but lacks Puccinian authenticity.
I knew Renata very well during the late 50s' right through to the late 70's and later when she was just Renata. We enjoyed many special times together with other friends and family. Her voice was absolutely one of a kind, we will never here again the rich, full beauty and power of the Tebaldi instrument. I totally believe that what set her apart from all other singers was her inner beauty and love. I miss you my dear friend.
I 've just found marcellas Pobbe's version and although I did like it, Tebaldi was a superior singer. Callas had the interpretation. Oh! I wish there were more singeres like these amazing ladies!
It's not too fast at all. In later years, just to get an excuse to drown the aria in sentimentality, it has been grotesquely stretched. It should be sung PURE just as she sings it...
@Detectivefiction Now everything makes sense. Having a great day? Have CALLAS CHAMPAGNE it will make you happy, laugh, the night will pass good, smooth.BUT! If you had a bad day, boss,family,traffic and they all pissed you off? Take Renata's Cognac and you'll see everything flying around,laughing hysterically, you'll get angry after, drinking more, treating others badly.I can see you at the AAA meeting saying.Hi my name's Mr.Opera fan and I had Tebaldi's Cognac today...(people) HI MR. OPERA FAN
I did not know who you were when you sang this piece so beautifully. I only wish I did so I could have spent the next 50 years loving your voice as I do now. You
will live in the heart of this 64 yr old until I
too go to that great Puccini opera in the sky. Con tanta rispetta Renata. JBW
Tebaldi sounds great here. The voice is right where is should be. I heard her in the theater. Whether it was a lirico spinto voice doesn't matter, was a huge voice. HUGE! We could use a few more like her today
Magnifique prière moi j'y entend une piété sincère la voix est magnifique et l'interprétatoin très pure (ce qui parfois fait défaut à la Tebaldi)Je suis un admirateur de Callas mais je crois que c'est une erreur de les comparer, elles me sont toutes les deux indipensables avec leurs qualités respectives. (Chercher à les comparer c'est comme chercher à comparer Toscanini et Furtwangler, Futile.)
@waynebrasler You are 100% right, but between us, when you are having a bad day...lol serious, just leave a comparing post at any Renata Tebaldi's videos and you will see how you can make your day lol
But you are right with every single word you said. I just can't be wise as you are.... I am just a average human, that adore Callas but recognize Renata's incredible talent.
Yes, Callas was great. So was Renata. But people seem to forget that the two of them were in completely different categories. Callas was a dramatic soprano while Tebaldi was a lirico-spinto soprano. Callas herself said that comparing the two was like comparing Champane with Cognac.
continueation of my comment: Note: I am only talking about her voice when it was in its prime, b/c it is true that she was having vocal difficulties late in her life. Honestly though, Callas was a very strong musician as well and i dont think she would sing knowing her voice sounded ugly...it was just the way her voice sounded...it was unique. Liking it was your opinion.
I dont think Callas's voice was ugly. I think it was just very different from what everyone perceived as beautiful... It was definitely a unique voice that polarizes the listener whether it's considered beautiful or not it was a signature voice and a great one (range and volume power)
All I can say is that Callas' interpretation brings me to tears and Tebaldi's, while technically superior, leaves me... well, just impressed. I didn't feel the connection.
Art is more than technique, and in that sense Callas beats Tebaldi IMO.
Sin duda una de las grandes interpretes del siglo, lástima que sea más conocida por ser la rival de Maria Callas que por su capacidades, y en relación con LA Divina, creo que no hay comparación; voces audiblemente extrapoladas una con otra, al igual que su poder dramático y melodramático a cuya poseedora no hace falta poner nombre...
Personalmente me gusta mucho más la Tosca de Maria Callas, por el sentido de la profundidad, o Caballé por su técnica tan bella. De Tabaldi, solo la voz.
do we really have to compare? if I choose to prefere callas does it have to mean that tebaldi was a dreadful singer? people please! they were two exceptional sopranos (as sutherland and caballe are, as dessay is, as jo is). I personally prefere callas because she gives me more emotion, but I do not despise tebaldi or anyone else. if only there were two as magnificent rival singers these days...
Renata is the best soprano ever. Watch Calla's version, she's out of tune in some notes and her vibrato is horrible.
And Tebaldi doesen't need to make all those faces to sound and be dramatic. Im studding opera and i can say that Renata Tebaldi is the best soprano. i choose her to follow.
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You are right Callas was never a great singer. A great actress maybe! That vibrato you mention was indeed a wobble which she was famous for even in her younger days. I do not understand the fascination with Callas. Not in Tebaldi's class vocally
I have to agree. I saw Maria in person only once, as Tosca at the old Met on 39th street (I think it was 1965 but not sure). My only real memory from that night is how disappointed I was. I thought her voice very pretty but not gorgeous, but I found her over the top mannerisms a bit difficult to swallow. It was an ugly performance, the direct opposite of what I expected. It didn't seem that she really wanted to be there.
Writing she has a glorious voice to hide your hatred, that will not give you more credit for all the false things you say about la grande Tebaldi.Vergogna!
If my memory is correct, Tebaldi, singing this aria was allowed the last encore granted in the SF Opera House. I believe in the early fifties it was when she made her SF Opera debut. I personally knew the Scarpia of that performance, Mr. Robert Weede, himself a great Rigoletto.
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What a beautiful voice! But who cares? It's just beautiful-period. No emotion, no depth... But, it still is a GREAT performance as a great performer but it is a bit cold still. To get a better glimpse of what a GREAT TOSCA IS LIKE, listen to any of Maria Callas' recordings and you'll be blown away!! Still, Tebaldi is a good spinto, and those comments on Price are not even CLOSE to being true!!
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She lacks sensitivity in every possible way! Can't possibly be considered THE GREATEST Unlike Callas, who had a such a remarkable range with an upper extension all the way to high E and had florid coloratura techniques, such an amazing voice.She could sing the heaviest dramatic roles to the lightest coloratura pieces while Tebaldi chose to focus on verissimo and late Verdi roles where her lack of florid technique and limited upper range wouldn't be a pronblem. CALLAS is simply THE BEST
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If she only would have stayed in the lyric soprano fach she probebly would have sang great 10-20years longer. Her intonation got bad in the late sixties because she had a teacher that tried to make her dramatic that´s tragic!
People talk without having the proper knowledge.Tebaldi never was a lyric, she was an soprano drammatico italiano since her early years, listen her 1950 Requien under Toscanini cunducting or any of her '50s Forzas and Toscas
She enjoyed a 18 prime years between 1944 to 1962.When she came back in 1964 she came right form and he even lightened a bit her middle to keep the top that's how she succedded so much as Gioconda, singing so many performances unmatchable in ulimited power and with her voice remaining technically top
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Bjoerrelli,
I think this is a magnificent vocal and dramatic version of this aria. Do you like it or not? I ask because from your comments, which some irrational fans dumped on, it is obvious you understood her voice. I agree with your general statements about Tebaldi. Some of the intonation problems are heard in the 50s. From 48-60, for me, in roles like Mimi, Manon Lescaut she had a vocal beauty and sensitivity of phrasing which are magic. After that it was hit or miss.
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I think this performance is really great. What I said about her decline was just the same as I would have said about Di Stefanos or Carreras. If you hear something fantastic you don´t want it to change to something that has lost the tonal beauty and pitch. I ´can´t for my life understand why anyone could want to change someone that sings like this.
To be able to hear and be graced by the talents of Tebaldi, Price, Callas is riches beyond imagining. For those of you who would rather put energy into keeping the legacy alive, do you have suggestions about how we could bring this music to people who've never heard it? I've taught film, but don't have formal education in music. I'd be interested in whether anyone has ideas about (or experience with) bringing music/art into the public schools -- esp the poorer ones. Any thoughts?
Orfeus80, you have a right to your own opinion. However, I do not agree with you at all! Price is my all time favorite. Remember, she sang well into her 70s, Tebaldi was vocally done at 50!
Tebaldi's Italian was better than Price's, yes! She was Italian. Price's English was better than Tebaldi's, she is American. There is no comparison between the two vocally! Price did not sing out of her throat and had/has a wider range, was a more refine singer who sang well into her 70s........
Well, in my opinion, there was no comparison between Price, Callas and Tebaldi. Leontyne Price was the better singer and vocal technician over these ladies. Price's singing was more consistent in pitch and technique. The two others were better actresses, I agree. Nothing more!
Absolutely correct. Leontyne absolutely nails every note. She was definitely the main singer in the mid 60s. Joan Sutherland took over after that. In music circles, Leontyne was more critically acclaimed than either Maria or Renata.
I was very annoyed by the comments about Leontyne´s singing. I think she is a shining example of someone who has held it together through her career. I can listen to different singers and say, "Oh she´s great" whithout having to pick on other great singers. Singing ain´t just a competition to me.
When you speak about range, yes Price recorded Eflat on disc but this is range depending on register.Price voice is more (much more!) smaller than Tebaldi voice.Cannot be compared Price notes on Bflat or C with Tebaldi unlimited power on those same notes in forte
Price had no sense of style, it was totally Brooklyn, nothing to do with Italian opera. Fine for Barber, totally wrong for Puccini, Verdi etc. Vocally she had a warm voice, well placed high notes but the middle was cloudy and the bottom hooty.
I don't agree. I love Tebaldi and Price. Price a good sense of stile and in Italy she's a very trausure. And this "the middle was cloudy and the bottom hooty" has pased her prime arround 1980, after middle was goegeous
Does not mean that i don't like Callas, but i am not of fan of Leontyne Price. Callas was far superior than Price. I was lucky to have seen Tebaldi and Callas live. Tebaldi i saw her 4 times - In Otello and La Gioconda and two recitals and Callas once in 1974 - voice was almost gone, but personality was still there.
Both women were stunning - I wish i would have seen Callas earlier but still lucky to have seen her. Otello was with Del Monaco and Gobbi and La Gioconda with Bergonzi and the mezzo was Rosalind Elias. Callas was wearing a beautiful red dress. Great memories. I will never forget.
The reason i saw Tebaldi more, because she was more active in 60 than Callas. She was not singing in 63 because of a vocal crisis. In 1964 she came back slim (lost about 40 lbs). Callas felt in love with that awful Onassis. It is a pity.
They are the two greatest of diva of this century, different but GREAT.
I meant to say that Tebaldi was not siging in 1963 - she took a year off because of vocal crisis and came back in 1964 singing La Boheme with a great success with a few changes in her voice.
@AMELIOPOULAIN - You are so right.
Margaux3200 3 weeks ago
ORGOGLIO DELLA GRANDE LIRICA BRAVISSIMA RENTA TEBALDI.
gvolpe100 1 month ago
DIVINA, MARAVILLOSA, SUBLIME !!! ME ARRODILLO ANTE TÍ.
Maripudelmonaco 1 month ago in playlist Renata Tebaldi 2
Gorgeous-- the musical choices she makes are incredible.
leoniemikele 2 months ago
Beautifully sung, a regally beautiful woman, all accurate and lovely, textbook-like (listen to how she pronounces "nell'ora del dolor" and compare to Callas), a smooth Italianate sound, but she leaves me cold.
philipc67 4 months ago
meravigliosa....
sttar1982 4 months ago
È così che si canta! voce calda, bellissima, emissione solida come una roca, molto bene riuscito il difficile Sib-Lab-Solb finale.
MaCaCoGa 4 months ago 2
Very beautiful, very sweet but not better than Callas. I can't find any problem in this video.
conghoan1998 5 months ago 2
I want to know where I can buy a sit with same quality, must be so comfortable that she wouldn't live her beloved bottom that by any cost, well at the end she left, but you can see the quality was so good that at the end of the aria we know Tosca was suppose to be so sad and devastated. But emotionless Renata kept same face she had when she was sitting. Man I need that in my living room PERIOD
RonaldBarone 6 months ago
what a beautiful voice... perfect technique, if she did little harder she could be as good as was Maria Callas
But you know... someone has to take the sec place right?
But still very good, almost perfect
RonaldBarone 8 months ago
@RonaldBarone that's because as you say she didn't have to be merely as 'good' as Callas. Tebaldi was the perfect Tosca.
Orfeus80 6 months ago
@Orfeus80 you are right.... that's why she had the nick name LA DIVINA right?
RonaldBarone 6 months ago
Callas' performance makes you cry. Here there is no emotion.
CyprusHot 10 months ago
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TheAzad0081 7 months ago
@CyprusHot ...this is bullshit. I am not a Tebaldi-Fan. I would love to hear a Singer like "Tebaldi" today. She is outstanding.
dg6da 5 months ago
Era of great Divas.
Wish I was born on that time.
Tebaldi stands up in glory!
tenorland 10 months ago 4
A golden era of real Divas,
Tebaldi stand up , proud and ireplacable.
Viva La Diva!
news24tv1 10 months ago 3
Wish this could be remastered so that one could get the glorious voice without all the messy stuff from the old tv...just love her voice, pronunciatioin, emotion!
ger6704 1 year ago 3
Marvellous, only one complaint where were the double basses????.The orchestra did not do Renata justice.
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i listen to her and i can say she is gorgeous, great control of the technique, and amazing quality of the voice... but i watch her and i don't feel anything. She is only singing, not interpreting. Callas performance is heartbreaking.
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i listen to her and i can say she is gorgeous, great control of the technique, and amazing quality of the voice... but i watch her and i don't feel anything. She is only singing, not interpreting. Callas performance is heartbreaking.
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One word. Callas.
montecarlostar 1 year ago
@montecarlostar It's opera not bloody football!!
TheRealGneiss 1 year ago
She is beautiful. The voce of an Angel.....
She and Jussi Björling were great singing together. A great actor besides all her other mesmerizing attributes as a singer and person....
zlatantillifk 1 year ago 2
So great... Tebaldi was precision, Callas passion! We are lucky to enjoy both!!!
AMELIOPOULAIN 1 year ago 12
@AMELIOPOULAIN What a wise sentence from someone who understands the heart of music...
Greets from Hamburg,Germany
fendajazz 3 months ago
IL Supremo - Leontyne Price
kenrayez1 1 year ago
What a wonderful, beautiful voice, when I get the chills, she doesnt need to move. Its all there in her voice.
Beatrice4664 1 year ago
i love also much Hildegard Behrens
saturn999999999 1 year ago
Yes,all different.....BUT! Tibaldi's voice is so sweet and, I think, Callas could not do justice to this piece as an Italian woman might.....
outoftunefiddler 1 year ago 3
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One of the really great
Mansenal01 1 year ago
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amen5001 1 year ago
At her death Pavarotti said: "the voice of an angel has been silenced".
heigei1 1 year ago 2
who is conducting
Herfinnur 1 year ago
@Herfinnur Erich Leinsdorf.
billyguns2 1 year ago
I would kill to have a voice like hers...
OK, maybe not really, but you get the picture. :-)
Hadewijch 1 year ago
Its a bit cold but I guess its due to the fact that it was a telecast, not the natural place where she was used to perform. Her performance of Tosca in Tokyo is very touching.
Wotan123456789 1 year ago
I Like Renata's photo on "TIMES". It;s really cute! :)
Aetion 1 year ago
definitivamente tebaldi no es tan grande como callas, lorengar o gheorghiu, con ellas ésta aria es maravillosa y a tebaldi le falto bastante
paol912338 1 year ago
I like this. Two brilliant diamonds, but demand entirely different settings.
phil2u 1 year ago
Great technique and sung well, but there is something missing, I just can't tell you what.
QuiRan82 1 year ago
both excellent,no doubt on that,but callas had that little something in her that made her performance stand out of every other one...tebaldi has an excellent voice but she's not moving enough
illusen7 1 year ago
@illusen7
Callas was a STUPENDOUS actress - and let's not forget, acting IS a very important part of opera, especially in such a high-drama piece as "Tosca".
Tebaldi was not a very great actress (hence she did not "move enough").
Her voice, however, is incomparable, in my opinion.
Hadewijch 1 year ago 2
ma come si fa aparagonarla alla callas?
ma non si capisce una mazza di quelloc he canta!!!!!!!
manumanulla 1 year ago
@manumanulla callas aveva una voce diversa,io preferisco lei che alla callas perchè è una voce piu angelica e un vibrato meno traballante di quello della callas
luigipavabartolotti 1 year ago 3
@manumanulla perchè invece della callas si capisce qualcosa? Leggi il celletti e vedrai che parla della dizione della Tebaldi come una della migliori al mondo. Lascia perdere questa registrazione di scarsa qualitànsonora
80Mrmirko 6 months ago
i dunno WHAT it is...but she juss leaves me completely cold!!i can't 'put my finger on it'...just odd...very odd...!!
TheMrMarilyn 1 year ago
Once upon a time network television televised real music shows. Too, too bad that people are not exposed to this anymore on a regular basis.
ykaiilah 1 year ago 2
@ykaiilah
Here in Japan, NHK broadcasts a regular classical music program, both concerts and operas, every Sunday evening. You just have to start writing letters and getting your local/national channel to start doing it again.
tokyoisfun 1 year ago
@tokyoisfun I was referring to the states. You don't even wanna know what the country has done to music and art programs though much of the states. When I was in music school I met foreigners who tested out of undergraduate music theory class because it was taught so well (and prided) as a general subject in their countries. If not that, they were well ahead of many others. I was lucky to be ahead of the game as well, whew, but not nearly as much.
ykaiilah 1 year ago
@tokyoisfun Oh, we do have one national public channel who broadcasts classical music on a regular basis. I was referring to big name networks.
ykaiilah 1 year ago
brava! brava! brava!.... per sempre brava!
etadsum 1 year ago 3
i love when she blinks after the climax into the pianissimo. so cute
NecroSexy 1 year ago 2
@NecroSexy she's supposed to be crying lol..containing her tears.
Webarton 1 year ago
danibal54 2 years ago 3
Magical voice such beauty . We will miss her.
uaregreat1 2 years ago 3
Gone but never forgotten by we her fans who
were thrilled by her performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City
so many times. She was one of a kind.
12Fegens 2 years ago 3
the most beautiful interpretation of this area, will never by born a voice like her
paaratraznet 2 years ago 2
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The high note looked easier here than in her Stuttgart 1961 performance, but I can't help but note a certain rigidity in her body when she sings.
Bigman240 2 years ago
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I think Montserrat Caballe in Tokyo 1975 is superior. Thanks for the post!
misi2007 2 years ago
I personally love the slow tempo in this rendition.
tonyhan0903 2 years ago 4
Yes, Leinsdorf provided very luxuriant tempi for Tebaldi and Bjoerling. I don't much care for his too straightforward TOSCA recording with Milanov. but his TURANDOT is pretty special. Tebaldi is my favorite Tosca ever. Callas has her insights, but for sheer vocal beauty, grandeur, and temperament Tebaldi wins hands down. Leontyne Price has a gorgeous voice but lacks Puccinian authenticity.
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OH P-LZ, CALLAS had more feeling in her arias then anyone ells more expression, tabaldi just did it pretty with a pretty voice like everyone ells.
tissetatten 1 year ago
Everytime I listen again (and again and again and again...) to renata and her "Vissi d'arte" I just sigh... Brava Renata, we DO miss you!
cleanears 2 years ago
Su voz es la mas hermosa que jamás he oído... pero nada más
electracista 2 years ago
I knew Renata very well during the late 50s' right through to the late 70's and later when she was just Renata. We enjoyed many special times together with other friends and family. Her voice was absolutely one of a kind, we will never here again the rich, full beauty and power of the Tebaldi instrument. I totally believe that what set her apart from all other singers was her inner beauty and love. I miss you my dear friend.
dickshouse1 2 years ago
1 degree of seperation! You are so fortunate to have been so close with such an artistic treasure. Thanks for sharing your comments.
Wanli07 2 years ago
I 've just found marcellas Pobbe's version and although I did like it, Tebaldi was a superior singer. Callas had the interpretation. Oh! I wish there were more singeres like these amazing ladies!
espinaca79 2 years ago 2
Callas was the greatest singer/actress, but of course Tebaldi had the voice of an angel...
mozzrt 2 years ago 2
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tempo78 2 years ago
And Maria Callas looks exactly like the cleaning woman
maipisimo67 2 years ago
funny how some people are just unable to talk about opera without mentioning Callas, even if it's for bad mouthing
fontenayperi 2 years ago 3
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Thhat means that Callas = Opera. One cannot go around.
Aetion 2 years ago
I saw her perform as Tosca. She was the best Tosca I've seen.
cosmlayla 2 years ago 5
callas the greatest opera actress with the worst voice. yet you r captivated
11455RN 2 years ago 2
Worst voice? I disagree. I don't wwant to bemean, but Netrebko's is one of the weakest...
espinaca79 2 years ago 4
i agree netrebko will not be singing for long not a strong voice all hype
11455RN 2 years ago
Netrebko does have a weak voice.
tonyhan0903 2 years ago
It's not too fast at all. In later years, just to get an excuse to drown the aria in sentimentality, it has been grotesquely stretched. It should be sung PURE just as she sings it...
mozzrt 2 years ago 4
Callas was a great actress.Sadly her voive went down with her emotional state.Loved by many.
youseeityoudont 2 years ago
True, true
neherenia08 2 years ago
Callas hated her, saying that comparing her to tebaldi is like comparing champaigne with Coke. :\ What a shame!!!
neherenia08 2 years ago
First she did not say coke but cognac.
on 16 sept 1968 when Callas went backstage to see Tebaldi, she was very happy to see her after that she only had kind words about Tebaldi.
VivaTebaldi 2 years ago 5
I love Callas's voice, but that was a stupid Callas's comment. Not always the big ones says good things, she was envious
gonzalojosevb 2 years ago
@neherenia08 VIvaTebaldi is right. I read a Callas biography and she was misquoted. She actually said "comparing champagne and cognac."
Detectivefiction 6 months ago
@Detectivefiction Now everything makes sense. Having a great day? Have CALLAS CHAMPAGNE it will make you happy, laugh, the night will pass good, smooth.BUT! If you had a bad day, boss,family,traffic and they all pissed you off? Take Renata's Cognac and you'll see everything flying around,laughing hysterically, you'll get angry after, drinking more, treating others badly.I can see you at the AAA meeting saying.Hi my name's Mr.Opera fan and I had Tebaldi's Cognac today...(people) HI MR. OPERA FAN
RonaldBarone 6 months ago
Thanks for uploading. Brava. Beautiful. Gives me tears.
wolkowy1 2 years ago 2
Oh Cara Renata, I was a little boy in 1959
I did not know who you were when you sang this piece so beautifully. I only wish I did so I could have spent the next 50 years loving your voice as I do now. You
will live in the heart of this 64 yr old until I
too go to that great Puccini opera in the sky. Con tanta rispetta Renata. JBW
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dodi132 2 years ago
Tebaldi sounds great here. The voice is right where is should be. I heard her in the theater. Whether it was a lirico spinto voice doesn't matter, was a huge voice. HUGE! We could use a few more like her today
Houndentenor1998 2 years ago 9
Whoah TOO FAST Renata!!
cuddlyable3 3 years ago
come in jjster
dario
darioso5 3 years ago
fantastic
brankalucaric 3 years ago 3
beautifully achieved! Opera is such a fantastic experience when you hear a great singer performing like this!
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago 3
Vista dolo l'interpretazione dello stesso brano fatta dalla Callas (1958), questa fa crepare dal ridere :-)
Diplopy 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this!
Ruffiello 3 years ago 6
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I'm sorry, I just dont like her...
OperaLover84 3 years ago
Magnifique prière moi j'y entend une piété sincère la voix est magnifique et l'interprétatoin très pure (ce qui parfois fait défaut à la Tebaldi)Je suis un admirateur de Callas mais je crois que c'est une erreur de les comparer, elles me sont toutes les deux indipensables avec leurs qualités respectives. (Chercher à les comparer c'est comme chercher à comparer Toscanini et Furtwangler, Futile.)
jacquesurlus 3 years ago 26
The orchestra played very passionately. Tebaldi's voice is lovely here
DivaDeb1234 3 years ago 11
Comparing Tebaldi and Callas indeed is a dead end. Different talents, different intellects, different voices. Both brilliant diamonds.
waynebrasler 3 years ago 72
@waynebrasler You are 100% right, but between us, when you are having a bad day...lol serious, just leave a comparing post at any Renata Tebaldi's videos and you will see how you can make your day lol
But you are right with every single word you said. I just can't be wise as you are.... I am just a average human, that adore Callas but recognize Renata's incredible talent.
RonaldBarone 6 months ago
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I actually prefer Leontyne Price and Maria Callas for this aria. The two (2) best opera singers ever!
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago
Tebaldi is owner of Vissi d'arte. Brava!!!
jolucascan 3 years ago 8
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it is beautifully sung, but it is also very sugary and she is immobile like a marble statue. Give me Callas'pathos.
vdhelst 3 years ago
Yes, Callas was great. So was Renata. But people seem to forget that the two of them were in completely different categories. Callas was a dramatic soprano while Tebaldi was a lirico-spinto soprano. Callas herself said that comparing the two was like comparing Champane with Cognac.
cindolin 3 years ago 3
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Ok, very nice, but listen Raina Kabaivanska, for me the best Tosca.
gonzalojosevb 3 years ago
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callas was better and thats what they didnt like when she first went to scala
mtenor 3 years ago
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1959?? It could have been 1929 by the way tebaldi is singing. A lovely voice but HOW BORING!
Matt54e 3 years ago
As usual,,,, GRANDE RENATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cleanears 3 years ago 12
continueation of my comment: Note: I am only talking about her voice when it was in its prime, b/c it is true that she was having vocal difficulties late in her life. Honestly though, Callas was a very strong musician as well and i dont think she would sing knowing her voice sounded ugly...it was just the way her voice sounded...it was unique. Liking it was your opinion.
flouraki 3 years ago
I dont think Callas's voice was ugly. I think it was just very different from what everyone perceived as beautiful... It was definitely a unique voice that polarizes the listener whether it's considered beautiful or not it was a signature voice and a great one (range and volume power)
flouraki 3 years ago
All I can say is that Callas' interpretation brings me to tears and Tebaldi's, while technically superior, leaves me... well, just impressed. I didn't feel the connection.
Art is more than technique, and in that sense Callas beats Tebaldi IMO.
Cojones777 3 years ago 5
Dear(s), for sure Renata Tebaldi was a beautiful voice in the range of great singers. But Maria Callas sang under God's
dictation. There's not even to compare.
Vendimi3 3 years ago
Sin duda una de las grandes interpretes del siglo, lástima que sea más conocida por ser la rival de Maria Callas que por su capacidades, y en relación con LA Divina, creo que no hay comparación; voces audiblemente extrapoladas una con otra, al igual que su poder dramático y melodramático a cuya poseedora no hace falta poner nombre...
Personalmente me gusta mucho más la Tosca de Maria Callas, por el sentido de la profundidad, o Caballé por su técnica tan bella. De Tabaldi, solo la voz.
Alleeexoscm 3 years ago
grande tebaldi
kikoencasa 3 years ago 6
And Callas and Tebaldi were marvelous sopranos, it depends of you which do you like more.
Myself I like Tebaldi more cause she has pure soprano voice and amazing natural act.
I don't say that Callas has the same, but Tebaldi does it better.
Haristotel 3 years ago
i was sad day tebaldi died. no one can compare to renata, may she rest with the angels
bobboy4642002 3 years ago 7
do we really have to compare? if I choose to prefere callas does it have to mean that tebaldi was a dreadful singer? people please! they were two exceptional sopranos (as sutherland and caballe are, as dessay is, as jo is). I personally prefere callas because she gives me more emotion, but I do not despise tebaldi or anyone else. if only there were two as magnificent rival singers these days...
katerina41704 3 years ago 5
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He escuchado múltiples grabaciones de la Tebaldi......y con todo respeto no me gusta!.
Sin dudas alguien que hace esa aria suya y que domina a la perfección el final de la misma es: Montserrat Caballe!!!
colibridelapampa 3 years ago
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she's out of tune during most of it....
DanyelHawkes 3 years ago
it's time you tuned your piano
Orfeus80 3 years ago 5
Renata is the best soprano ever. Watch Calla's version, she's out of tune in some notes and her vibrato is horrible.
And Tebaldi doesen't need to make all those faces to sound and be dramatic. Im studding opera and i can say that Renata Tebaldi is the best soprano. i choose her to follow.
melinaimhoff 3 years ago 2
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You are right Callas was never a great singer. A great actress maybe! That vibrato you mention was indeed a wobble which she was famous for even in her younger days. I do not understand the fascination with Callas. Not in Tebaldi's class vocally
lpvcrcd 3 years ago
I have to agree. I saw Maria in person only once, as Tosca at the old Met on 39th street (I think it was 1965 but not sure). My only real memory from that night is how disappointed I was. I thought her voice very pretty but not gorgeous, but I found her over the top mannerisms a bit difficult to swallow. It was an ugly performance, the direct opposite of what I expected. It didn't seem that she really wanted to be there.
opera535989 3 years ago
e levati la colla dalle scarpe
aconito81 3 years ago
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Ella no se está entregando...
VIVA LA CALLAS!
yosoypunko 3 years ago
the best Tosca what she is known for the greatest Tosca that has lived...callas only lived Tosca life to bad she couldn't sing like her
oprah22 3 years ago 2
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Mister pedoni, ti arrabbi tanto perché evidentemente colgo nel segno. I miei rilievi sono dati di fatto che non puoi smentire. La tua è solo rabbia
carlo331 3 years ago
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Ha voce splendida e canta bene, anche se i filati dopo l'acuto sono un po' calanti. Come interprete e attrice, in effetti, è fredda e compassata.
carlo331 3 years ago
Have you no shame ? You didn't stop to write messages showing your hate to la grande Tebaldi but in a cynical way.
pedoni5 3 years ago
Writing she has a glorious voice to hide your hatred, that will not give you more credit for all the false things you say about la grande Tebaldi.Vergogna!
pedoni5 3 years ago 2
Io colgo nel segno about your cynical personality.Your messages only shows your hatred to the artist
pedoni5 3 years ago
If my memory is correct, Tebaldi, singing this aria was allowed the last encore granted in the SF Opera House. I believe in the early fifties it was when she made her SF Opera debut. I personally knew the Scarpia of that performance, Mr. Robert Weede, himself a great Rigoletto.
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JoelBWeisberg 2 years ago
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Definitely no emotion here.
latraviata1853 3 years ago
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What a beautiful voice! But who cares? It's just beautiful-period. No emotion, no depth... But, it still is a GREAT performance as a great performer but it is a bit cold still. To get a better glimpse of what a GREAT TOSCA IS LIKE, listen to any of Maria Callas' recordings and you'll be blown away!! Still, Tebaldi is a good spinto, and those comments on Price are not even CLOSE to being true!!
Frufrucucu 3 years ago
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She lacks sensitivity in every possible way! Can't possibly be considered THE GREATEST Unlike Callas, who had a such a remarkable range with an upper extension all the way to high E and had florid coloratura techniques, such an amazing voice.She could sing the heaviest dramatic roles to the lightest coloratura pieces while Tebaldi chose to focus on verissimo and late Verdi roles where her lack of florid technique and limited upper range wouldn't be a pronblem. CALLAS is simply THE BEST
Frufrucucu 4 years ago
Frufucucu
What do your comments have to do withis performance?
63Attila 3 years ago
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If she only would have stayed in the lyric soprano fach she probebly would have sang great 10-20years longer. Her intonation got bad in the late sixties because she had a teacher that tried to make her dramatic that´s tragic!
Bjoerrelli 4 years ago
People talk without having the proper knowledge.Tebaldi never was a lyric, she was an soprano drammatico italiano since her early years, listen her 1950 Requien under Toscanini cunducting or any of her '50s Forzas and Toscas
bordonovo 4 years ago
She enjoyed a 18 prime years between 1944 to 1962.When she came back in 1964 she came right form and he even lightened a bit her middle to keep the top that's how she succedded so much as Gioconda, singing so many performances unmatchable in ulimited power and with her voice remaining technically top
bordonovo 4 years ago 2
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Bjoerrelli,
I think this is a magnificent vocal and dramatic version of this aria. Do you like it or not? I ask because from your comments, which some irrational fans dumped on, it is obvious you understood her voice. I agree with your general statements about Tebaldi. Some of the intonation problems are heard in the 50s. From 48-60, for me, in roles like Mimi, Manon Lescaut she had a vocal beauty and sensitivity of phrasing which are magic. After that it was hit or miss.
Best wishes-John
63Attila 3 years ago
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I think this performance is really great. What I said about her decline was just the same as I would have said about Di Stefanos or Carreras. If you hear something fantastic you don´t want it to change to something that has lost the tonal beauty and pitch. I ´can´t for my life understand why anyone could want to change someone that sings like this.
Bjoerrelli 3 years ago
To be able to hear and be graced by the talents of Tebaldi, Price, Callas is riches beyond imagining. For those of you who would rather put energy into keeping the legacy alive, do you have suggestions about how we could bring this music to people who've never heard it? I've taught film, but don't have formal education in music. I'd be interested in whether anyone has ideas about (or experience with) bringing music/art into the public schools -- esp the poorer ones. Any thoughts?
crooner62 4 years ago
bjorling ha ha!
nlsnbebang 4 years ago
Orfeus80, you have a right to your own opinion. However, I do not agree with you at all! Price is my all time favorite. Remember, she sang well into her 70s, Tebaldi was vocally done at 50!
benderpm 4 years ago
Tebaldi's Italian was better than Price's, yes! She was Italian. Price's English was better than Tebaldi's, she is American. There is no comparison between the two vocally! Price did not sing out of her throat and had/has a wider range, was a more refine singer who sang well into her 70s........
benderpm 4 years ago
Price never had a refined voice.
She was ok, but not very feminine.
Also her diction was mushy, and no personality on stage.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
Price's voice was refined enough to have a trill, unlike Tebaldi. Seriously, must you bash every singer who "threatens" Tebaldi's fame?
Elisabetta611 4 years ago
I'd give my right arm to see this
operadonna 4 years ago
Strepitosa!
giuseppecaruso2 4 years ago
Bravo per gli italiani, come intendere bene quando si canta bene le sue opere
Oneguin65 4 years ago
Well, in my opinion, there was no comparison between Price, Callas and Tebaldi. Leontyne Price was the better singer and vocal technician over these ladies. Price's singing was more consistent in pitch and technique. The two others were better actresses, I agree. Nothing more!
benderpm 4 years ago
Absolutely correct. Leontyne absolutely nails every note. She was definitely the main singer in the mid 60s. Joan Sutherland took over after that. In music circles, Leontyne was more critically acclaimed than either Maria or Renata.
swanningaround 4 years ago
Tebaldi was a better singer than Price.
Price was not a refine singer, and Tebaldi's voice is also bigger and better diction. Price
was ok that is all. Also Tebaldi had a clearer and firmer voice than Price.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
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VIVA TEBALDI
IMO Tebaldi had a more beautiful voice than Price. But Price had greater control over her voice than Tebaldi, greater range and flexibility.
Saying that, Tebaldi in her golden years left a pallette of tonal beauty which to me has never been surpassed. This performance is great.
I heard her in 1971 as Desdemona. It was a shattered off pitch voice. It was embarassing.
I feel fortunate to have heard Price and Tebaldi. Some of the comments about Price are racist.
63Attila 3 years ago
I was very annoyed by the comments about Leontyne´s singing. I think she is a shining example of someone who has held it together through her career. I can listen to different singers and say, "Oh she´s great" whithout having to pick on other great singers. Singing ain´t just a competition to me.
Bjoerrelli 3 years ago 3
attila63,
When you speak about range, yes Price recorded Eflat on disc but this is range depending on register.Price voice is more (much more!) smaller than Tebaldi voice.Cannot be compared Price notes on Bflat or C with Tebaldi unlimited power on those same notes in forte
bordonovo 3 years ago 2
Price had no sense of style, it was totally Brooklyn, nothing to do with Italian opera. Fine for Barber, totally wrong for Puccini, Verdi etc. Vocally she had a warm voice, well placed high notes but the middle was cloudy and the bottom hooty.
Orfeus80 4 years ago
I don't agree. I love Tebaldi and Price. Price a good sense of stile and in Italy she's a very trausure. And this "the middle was cloudy and the bottom hooty" has pased her prime arround 1980, after middle was goegeous
Pawobrat 4 years ago
In this aria I prefer Callas and Price. Both sang it in a more heartbreaking way.
Elisabetta611 4 years ago
IMO Tebaldi sings this aria better than
Callas and Price - Tebaldi has a refined voice and clear diction.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
Well, tastes differ. That makes the world interesting. :)
Elisabetta611 4 years ago
Does not mean that i don't like Callas, but i am not of fan of Leontyne Price. Callas was far superior than Price. I was lucky to have seen Tebaldi and Callas live. Tebaldi i saw her 4 times - In Otello and La Gioconda and two recitals and Callas once in 1974 - voice was almost gone, but personality was still there.
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VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
*Jealous* :-D
Elisabetta611 4 years ago
Both women were stunning - I wish i would have seen Callas earlier but still lucky to have seen her. Otello was with Del Monaco and Gobbi and La Gioconda with Bergonzi and the mezzo was Rosalind Elias. Callas was wearing a beautiful red dress. Great memories. I will never forget.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
The reason i saw Tebaldi more, because she was more active in 60 than Callas. She was not singing in 63 because of a vocal crisis. In 1964 she came back slim (lost about 40 lbs). Callas felt in love with that awful Onassis. It is a pity.
They are the two greatest of diva of this century, different but GREAT.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
Callas lost weight between 1953-1954, not in 1963.
Elisabetta611 4 years ago
I meant to say that Tebaldi was not siging in 1963 - she took a year off because of vocal crisis and came back in 1964 singing La Boheme with a great success with a few changes in her voice.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
Beautiful interpreation. Great singing.
Stunning.
VivaTebaldi 4 years ago
Tebaldi is good here but not perfect. Callas as Tosca and generally is superior in every aspect - voice, artistry, charm, dramatics and etc.
rezojorbenadze 4 years ago 2
Callas is good but not perfect. Tebaldi as Tosca and generally is superior in every aspect - voice, artistry, charm, dramatics and etc.
Pagudo 4 years ago
yes you are right no one like tibaldi there is a defront between them tibaldi &callas
ragaaeldin 4 years ago