Antonietta Stella "Morro, ma prima in grazia" Ballo

[mriltrovatore]

For all these online critics, if you ever heard Stella live you would shut up your mouths forever. No one around nowadays who would/could sing like this.

[SweetFiness]

SHE IS FANTASTIC!!! Yet I know nothing of her??!!!

[31122051]

BRAVA ANTONIETTA ! BRAVA ! 

[MrCafiero]

SHE ROCKS!!!!!!

[tena2]

brava voice.

[chengducat]

She sang with the best. Enough said

[IsabeleANGE]

PARFAITE !

[tonyhan0903]

Why is it so hard to find huge soprano voices like this these days? Does anyone know why?

[mjmacmtenor]

See earlier comment about the way the chest voice is incorporated and balanced in her WHOLE voice. That was a major part of Italian voice teaching, especially in this generation (40s-60s). Voice teachers nowadays are afraid to touch the chest voice which is why we so rarely have voices like Stella, Tebaldi, etc. anymore (Not to mention tenors)

[robertdonkers]

Believe you me, they are around but it is now so fashionable to put light voices in the spinto repertoire that when one hears a true spinto these days people think she is a dramatic soprano. I also believe it is to to with how the voices are trained.

[MrCafiero]

@robertdonkers Exactly right.

[plutoniangirl]

cause classical music has dropped and there are people who have naturally huge soprano ranges are not aware of it or do not persue classical music because it is not making money right away

[antequem]

Belle chanteuse, interprétation séduisante, joli timbre, technique affirmée...comment n'a t'elle pas fait une carrière plus exceptionnelle?que ceux qui encensaient la ventriloque Mme Callas s'en mordent les doigts pour l'éternité!

[tusaichi]

fantastic! Stella is very great singer of verdi above all!

[MrCafiero]

Incredible. Listen to that chest voice so well incorporated and balanced in her WHOLE voice! Fantastic!!!!! No one sings like this today!

[beacoloratura]

No one sings like that - it is so fabulous and yet we know nothing about Antonietta Stella as compared to Lesley garrett.

[MrCafiero]

The ears of the "educated" have long been corrupted. Ask anyone on the street who is not classically educated in voice who is better and they will tell you...STELLA!!!!!

[beacoloratura]

STELLA!!! STELLA!!!! STELLA!!!!

[sefo68]

straordinaria!

[zafireh]

Callas was the best! but stella is good! until now i didn't know her, but she's really good!!!!

[sirenadellopera]

Not onlt the greatest Maddalena, but certainly one of the best Amelias of all time, as well. Like her "Ecco l'orrido campo" better than this aria...but it's all fabulous. How wonderful to hear a soprano approach this role lyrically! Why ever did that go out of style??

[antigeni]

Lasciamo la Ricciarelli a chi piace così tanto da preferirla a questo strumento perfetto e meraviglioso. Discutere con i sordi è impossibile e frustrante...

[MysteriousSymphony]

sono d'accordo!

[angeloyoon]

grande maestra....

bravissima....lei e` veramente grande!!!

[camandrula]

brava¡¡¡¡

[gransasso101]

She's got a great voice but takes too many breaths that break the phrase and it's very annoying.

[catbali07]

Good performance, but I appreciated more Ricciarelli's.

[iAMturandot]

I agree. Ricciarelli's is better.

[MysteriousSymphony]

how true!