Pauline Tinsley Nabucco Anch'io disciuso

[andranik77]

Bon sang ! Je la connaissais de nom, mais ne l'avais jamais entendue... Elle me te nous vous fait le saut de deux octaves du récitatif comme s'il s'agissait d'une simple formalité... Ca ce n'est pas du soprano-marketing de salon, et quel tempérament ! Et de la technique aussi ! Encore une que les majors du disque ont oubliée...

[voicemad]

I saw Pauline in Fidelio at the Albert Hall in the early seventies. She just blew us away.

[Tenortalker]

Pauline Tinsley was an immense singing actress and known as a kind ,generous. lady. It's interesting how we all react differently to vocal timbres. I too find Renata Scotto's voice unappealing - even on her early Puccini/Verdi recital discs. It's that upper register that bugs me every time! Listening to Tinsley here is a more pleasant experience for me than listening to Scotto.

[gratecourt]

Thanks so much. Great performance and remarkable sound quality. Is this commercially available??

[mazzone1]

A much better singer than Josephine Barstow, but for some reason Barstow got the roles at the ENO & Coven Garden.

[mariahelleberg]

beautiful voice, a true spinto, and a great actress too - her Turandot and Abigaille were gems. why so few recordings? a fiery elettra...

[robertdonkers]

And very versatile as well, she performed Donizetti, Bellini, Wagner, Verdi, Strauss, Handel, Mozart, Mascagni, Puccini, Ponchielli, Britten, Stravinsky and many others. Greatly ignored by the record companies and Covent Garden!

[starrman22]

It's always a thrill to encounter Pauline Tinsley's magnificent performances. I was lucky enough to see her with Scottish Opera (Kostelnichka, Lady Macbeth) and what was then Sadlers Wells Opera (Donna Elvira, Elvira in Ernani) in Glasgow and Aberdeen. The Haddo House Turandot is another special memory, so I think I'll post an excerpt.. Thank you for sharing!

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Marvellous Pauline. I had the privilege to sing many Lius opposite her Turandot

[barneswriter]

@CharlotteinWeimar

I heard Pauline many times at WNO at the new theatre cardiff in the the 1970s and early 80s. She was fabulous. I have no idea where she is now. I think she is now in her 80s.

[tdi11]

She is now 83! At her 80 th birthday she was still singing marvelously. See her "Duet des Chats" de Rossini....

just amazing.

[SINGINGOPERAFAN]

a great colleague and a true artist!!

Greetings from the Bass/Baritone in Holland and in Germany!

[Rattywotin]

I had great fun singing in the "other parts" for her Turandot rehearsals at Haddo House in 1990, what a star, I love her and she's so easy to get on with, a true diva in voice but a gem of a person.

[shaun20483]

She's absolutely amazing!

[barneswriter]

I remember her roles at Welsh National Opera including an outstanding Turandot. A lovely dramatic singing actress.

[rockgor]

Wonderful dramatic soprano. Too bad we don't have more recordings from her and less from Scotto, the screamer.

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[CzarDodon]

It seems you praise Tinsley just as an excuse to make nasty comments about Scotto, that's bitchy!

[rockgor]

Part of being an opera buff. Love some, hate some.

If you can criticize me, surely it's fair if I criticize a public performer who is being paid big bucks.

[CzarDodon]

Sure it's your right to have your opinion and to express it.

My point was another: you don't criticize Scotto you just call her names, and your priase of Tinsley doesn't ring true, it reads as an excuse to have a bash at Scotto.

Scotto has indeed produced unpleasent sounds in her day, but there are other aspects of her interpretations that are truly unique.

As for the right to criticise being proportional to cachets! please leave that logic in your local shopping mall.

[albafango]

@rockgor Don't be rude La Schreecherola was a fine performer

[Nevilleauk]

Wonderful ! She is a personal friend and I consider her the definitive Abigaile, Turandot and Lady Macbeth and I have seen all the so called greats. She is still singing at the age of 80!

[Racheltaylordiva]

Amazing singing! Brava!

[robertdonkers]

Fantastic, real singing and yes she is a gorgeous person always willing to help others with their singing.

[iskenderuna]

Thank you for this rare treasure. I actually worked on a production of NABUCCO with her in Holland. Apart from singing the guts out of this role, she was an extrodinarily warm hearted lady, totally unpretentious. I seem to remember her spending most of her free time knitting or something of the likes. In private she was just like your favourite Aunty, but when she got out on stage, she adored being fierce and unpleasantand knocking out top C's! A remarkable woman!

[1Andiedrums]

She's my Grandmother in Law and that's a pretty good description of her!

[highbaritone]

Hello,

I have long lost Pauline's address it was in my passport that was stolen. I have tried to find her but to no avail. Would you please say the tall Canadian from Vancouver and now OZ says hello, and sends her my love.