Natalie Dessay: "Amami, Alfredo" (Traviata, Aix '11)

[callastoujours]

HORRIBLE. Who made she believe that she could sing this!!!!!!?????

[SsteinwayS]

@callastoujours Well, she had to wait 20 years to sing it, but she finally did it because she's said in interviews, she has like 10 years of singing left she estimates, so she wants to do all of the things she wants to do: Violetta, Cleopatra, Mélisande, etc. I think she does so wonderful things in the lyric moments of the opera, but the big outbursts like "Amami" are for different singer! :)

[gustopheles]

@SsteinwayS Jesus, she actually thinks she has another decade left in her?

[SsteinwayS]

@gustopheles No, she doesn't. She taking a "sabbatical year" in 2015 to learn yoga, Russian, and the art of clown.

[SsteinwayS]

@SsteinwayS And I'm not kidding...those are her exact words. :)

[opricnik]

MIRACOLO! MIRACOLO! MIRACOLO! Hanno messo in scena "LaTraviata" senza Violetta! Ed il pubblico è arrivato al terzo atto senza mai chiedersi con chi stesse parlando Alfredo....

[SsteinwayS]

@LejeuneWerther "Clever" is definitely the right word...she fits Violetta to herself in a way no one has before. And it mostly works astonishingly in my opinion!

[pianisticoful]

Désolé mais pas la hauteur et l'italien un désastre.....

[SsteinwayS]

@pianisticoful Well, Violetta IS a French courtesan after all...