Renata Tebaldi, "La mamma morta", 1960

[Maripudelmonaco]

LA MEJOR MADALENA QUE HA EXISTIDO, SU INTERPRETACIÓN ES DE ESCALOFRIOS, QUIÉN PUEDE DECIR QUE ERA  FRIA CANTANDO ?

[Kibouo]

Despite the dramatic soprano - the final "l'amor" at the end has the depth of a contralto! Amazing..

[vastolive8]

Second best after CALLAS....Maria was a great actress, a drama queen , she had that " je ne c'est quoi" ....althought renata gave an amazing performance of that song..amazing.

[tonicopm]

Great! This time she reaches the high note at the end perfectly! Powerful, beautiful and and moving interpretation, though of course she can't hold a candle to the greatest ever: Maria Callas.

[tebaldicallas]

Her voice was huge - also very beautiful - there is only one Tebaldi.

[conmaleta]

Whenever i listen to this tears can't stop appearing, i can feel her sadness

[fussballspieler20]

Madonna mia, bellisimo:

Madame Tebladi makes a difference I believe is the enunciation of the words something other sopranos straggle with.

[HERMOSABLACKROSE]

Bravo Tebaldi!

[andyloll]

GRANDE GRANDE !

[federic017]

Interpretazione di prima grandezza...grazie signora Tebaldi

[nikolaimedtner]

Out of this world....

[Fegen]

Only two sopranos ever moved me to tears in live performances at the Met

Opera House in New York City --- Renata Tebaldi and Lucine Amara for the sheer

beauty of their voices. This is a thrilling performance by the late Tebaldi. Although

gone from us her music lives on.

[Fegen]

Although Renata Tebaldi is gone from us she is never forgotten.

She left me in tears in performances at the Met Opera House in

New York City more then once because of the sheer beauty of her voice.

[mrantiquedealer]

The sheer size of that voice together with its absolute beauty was a one of a kind and she will remain so.

[operalament]

with respect to many of the comments below..There is no question that maria callas could infuse an aria with incomprable drama, she was extrordinary. The problem lay in that one never knew what the would get from her from a purely vocal standpoint. She was a fine musician, but she did not have a particularly great voice. Tebaldi was a vocal phenomenon.

[profgv]

As a big Callas/Tebaldi fan I would gladly return to the Met to hear anything close to them....To give so much.

[txamae2]

great voice!!

[choaskingdivine]

GREAT SONG!

[sonozoltan]

lovely refined elegant opulent superb

[calzada3063]

I remember meeting Renata Tebaldy on her dressing room against the framed picture of Kristen Flagstad, during her visit to Cuba Auditorium ( today Amadeo Roldan) and the beauty of her voice and limpid look of her beautiful blue eyes and grace left a lifelong impression on me. I was privileged to Adriana Lecouvreur, and Manon Lescaut and that was in 1959. Pedro Felipe

[tebaldicallas]

Incroyable - such a huge voice, gorgeous sound - It is so powerful - the greatest

soprano.

[tissetatten]

after callas ;)

[straina0070]

very nice , huge voice!

[operabeauty]

I saw this cast in a few performances that year, and it was all golden age singing. It will never happen again. Tebaldi was unique and great.

[Armenterosma]

I will never forget my meeting Renata Tebaldi two years before her death. I was just 10 years old, but she was so nice to me...she sent me autographed pictures and a CD with the arias that made her famous. until she passed away I cried so much when she died. Well, she is singing with the angels now...Marcel Dupratil (High school student, Marseille, France)

[stephenhkent]

@Armenterosma i was very touched by your saying this. how moving that a 12 year old boy feels this way. the power of music is wonderful. god bless you

[manora67]

It is a fact: Callas is great! But if you listen to this version by Tebaldi you keep thinking "Oh my GOD!!"... every single instant is magnificient, chills all the way through. Unique. An interpretation slower than Callas' version and because of that too, how could ever Tebaldi make this miracle? Stretching every note to the extreme possibility of human vocality!!!! MAGNIFICIENT!

[barrymccall]

Tebladi was the greatest and most improtant Italian Soprano voice in the 20 th Century,, She set a standard for Madalena, Butterfly, Aida , Mimi, Leonora in La Forza, etc.

[tissetatten]

well I guss she was the best Italian soprano. But we all know who the best soprano hands down really was! Ill give you a hint, its starts with a MARIA ends with a CALLAS! ;)

[tebaldicallas]

Callas was a great soprano with a lot

of flaws, but i did like her not as much as Tebaldi. They were both GREAT.

And there are not replaced yet.

[Vendimi3]

Bah. Renata TEbaldi had a gorgeous timbre, but her rivality with Maria Callas was merely mediatic. Indeed Tebaldi was a world league singer - Callas was unearthly, total, unreachable. The only singers I've heard in Maria's league are Claudia Muzio and Anita Cerquetti.

[tebaldicallas]

@Vendimi3 Callas was overated - she was a good actress, her voice

was not very beautiful not as powerful as the Great Tebaldi.

She is better known for her scandals than her voice.

[Vendimi3]

@tebaldicallas

Well, it's a personal opinion. Mine is different. Many singers achieved for beauty of timbre and elegance what Renata Tebaldi achieved: Milanov, Price, Sutherland (even better than Tebaldi, honestly), Moffo and other thousands. None, or almost none, equalled Maria Callas.

[tebaldicallas]

@Vendimi3 She was full of flaws, sometimes she had an ugly sound. Callas was overated and she is known from her temper and cancelling performances and fight with otehr singers. Don't bother me anymore.

[Dtenor87]

@tebaldicallas lol I was gonna ask "are you stupid" but that would be stating the obvious LOL!

[tebaldicallas]

@Dtenor87 I told you not to bother me again with your Callas,

i have no time to waste on your stupid reply. LOL.

[Dtenor87]

@tebaldicallas lol and you sure wasted a reply by stating something stupid lol I didn't even mention Callas

[Turand0t]

@tebaldicallas Why are you using Callas' name in your nick when you apparently don't like her?

[tebaldicallas]

@Turand0t Everybody knew that her voice was not beautiful, She was a good actress also she had ugly top notes.

[Turand0t]

@tebaldicallas It was not always beautiful in the way that Moffo's voice was, but it had a raw, untamed beauty to it that I cherish even more. She sung to the extreme with an expression that could bring you to your knees, crying. You did not answer why you use her name in your nick. If you don't like her, don't use it!

[saverioorlando]

@tebaldicallas

[kgarmaker123]

@tebaldicallas You are nuts... Tebaldi could not sing the dramtic coloratura rep at all.. She did not have the coloratura, the fiortura or the top notes for it,, and you call Callas voice not as powerful? Let Tebaldi sing High C's D flat,s, D. , e flat and e naturals consistently and we will see what her voice sounds like.. A shriek is what it would be.

[barrymccall]

@kgarmaker123 Tebaldi never claimed to be a coloratura. As far as your comments on high notes. Tebaldi's were exciting with lots of squillo. A true lyric spinto Italian voice.

Callas' top notes had a "WOBBLE" that a truck could go thru.

[barrymccall]

@kgarmaker123

Obviously you never heard Tebaldi in her PRIME years. 1944 thru 1966. In the NY Times on Feb 12 1970 Schonberg stated " Tebadi Earns Triumph in Fanciulla Role"

I was at the broadcast performance and her high D flat was right on target and brought down the whole house.

[barrymccall]

@kgarmaker123

Obviously you never heard Tebaldi in her PRIME years. 1944 thru 1966. In the NY Times on Feb 12 1970 Schonberg stated " Tebadi Earns Triumph in Fanciulla Role"

I was at the broadcast performance and her high D flat was right on target and brought down the whole house. In her later years she had developed vocal problems indeed. I won't go into Callas's vocal deterioration because that is not fair either.

[Turand0t]

@Vendimi3 Halleluiah!!! I agree! They were absolutely unearthly. Although I must admit that I do like Tebaldi as well.

[barrymccall]

Callas had Great stage presence but vocally she had many flaws. She went down the wrong path to vocal destruction before its time. Her WOBBLE was pathetic and unlistenable. Those who followed her example destroyed their voices too: Suliotis, Scotto, Sills, Sass and presently Dessay who does lots of screaming in mad scenes.

[bBabuz]

@barrymccall Who do you like the more? Tebaldi or Callas? I'm not an expert, but I think callas is power & tebaldi is harmony

[barrymccall]

@bBabuz

Tebaldi by a long shot. Callas had tremendous dramatic qualities that covered up her unattactive sound of voice and many register breaks in the voice. Callas made the mistake of thinking that "everything was possible" which destroyed what instrument she did have. Tebaldi was more honest with her voice which was powerful, beautiful, passionate with wonderful pianissimi. She had tremendous "squillo" which could soar over chorus and orchestra as it did in her famous met 5 Aidas.

[bBabuz]

@barrymccall Thank you very very much for your exhaustive, competent and gentle answer: wich -i'm italian- makes me proud...

[Apollogranforte]

My god! What a cast!

[rjdelosreyes]

I can say that this version and Callas' is one of the best. Just astounding.

[perfumedlife]

When ever i hear Andrea Chenier i can only thing of one and only Madalena. TEBALDI.

[VivaTebaldi]

Incroyable - Such beautiful interpretation.

Huge voice. Rich tone.

[risash]

la tebaldi nel 60, qualche primo segno di declino ma in piena maturità espressiva.

un torrente di voce che inebria i cuori e le menti di sublima bellezza!!!!

[SensusEtRatio]

Ecco Renata Tebaldi prestare la voce alla nobile Maddalena di Coigny. I colori della voce superbi, iridescenti, multiformi, variati e variegati sono proprio quelli che occorrono per un'aria della "giovane scuola". Vi si aggiunga la perizia della Tebaldi, che non tradisce alcuna difficoltà di fraseggio, di legato, di volume, di emissione, di alternanza di registro. L'esito è limpido, fluido, toccante, capace di raffigurare la coppia oppositiva luce / buio che è la cifra dell'aria stessa.

[elfomusic62]

La Sua tavolozza di colori fra sinonimi, affini e contrari e mirabili aggettivazioni ,ricca ed esausta assieme, di

fronte a tanta arte ,e sublime, dopo lo stupore, ed il consenso,e la piena empatia, mi fa chiedere :perchè oggi non più?Perchè debbo coniugare "piacere" al passato?...Ecco vorrei dividere con Lei il mio misero sapere ;mi piace come scrive, mi piace la doratura presaga............ma poi,dice: leggete Celletti!!!!..........mi spiace,io so solo di polvere e tavole........forse!

[Andante735]

Tebaldi in top form. Ultimate phrasing and legato, huge, rich, throbbing middle register. This is sung the way only Tebaldi could have - pure magnificence and command. The greastest of the Italian soprano.

[claraprellitensky]

GREAT !