Tosca Final Nilsson Domingo (with scream)

[verdiwag]

Vocal chords of steel - brava Brunnhilde!

[belensperatti]

Santo Dios, que belleza!

[bodiloto]

a 2:20 perché ha messo la foto di Franco Corelli?

Per dire al pubblico:

-Non dimenticate che il Cavaradossi di Corelli era migliore!?!?!

[BestAmateurViolinist]

Lord Moron, you forgot. You responded to her suicide. But my objection is that she can scream whenever she wants. Screw Puccini. He isn't singing the part or acting in it. It's called "an INTERPRETATION, and it was very fitting.

Maybe you wouldn't scream, but you aren't a girl anyway.

However, from your statements, I still find you shallow and stupid. Everyone is a critic, but you cannot sing anywhere near the level being done here. Go screw yourself: you are not an expert, Mr. Self-Wedgie man

[LordMgls]

@BestAmateurViolinist Still being rude? If I were you, I would buy myself a 1 year trip ticket and take some psychologist with me instead of coming to YT with such rude terms in order to forget your own personal frustrations.

Learn to control and behave yourself in the Internet, coward!

[Paddy818]

OMG! Goosebumps!!!

[ezayi]

Have to say again... loved her screaming!!! LOVED THEM BOTH!!!

[dsenRuskin]

Robert Merrill once pointed out to Nilsson that she had sung with all the great portrayors of Cavarodossi of the 20th century, beginning with Giglia and the youngest being Carreras. She replied with something like, "Oh yes!  I've had a real good time!"

Great lady!

[heyhit]

im atonished! bravi per le due

[ezayi]

Both of BRAVISSIMI both of them!!!

Loved her screaming when she realized Mario was death. Just loved it!!!

Bravissima!

[gaytenor]

Where, pray tell, is Mingo(where's the Do) he's almost totally covered by the great diva!! Nilsson is fantastic and she, as always, represents what makes opera so special as an art form. The duet portion would have been better balanced if she were singing with Corelli (uh!!) or Tucker as they had much larger voices with more cut than Domingo.

[LordMgls]

I must say the AAAh when she discovered Mario's death was rather hillarious than dramatic. LOL :-P But the way how she cried "Mario, morto, finire così, etc" was very musical and dramatically in tempo. Although it makes all sense screaming when jumping to death, I think that was not the message in Puccini's music.

[spacebln]

@LordMgls Listen to Renata Tebaldi/Mitropoulos how she screams while falling....her scream is even louder.......as far as I know only Tebaldi and Nilsson screamed.....and the effect is superb......for you the first AAAh might seem hillarious, but consider that most other screams are no real screams due to protecting the voice cords....Nilsson could do it with her voice cords made of swedish steel.....

[LordMgls]

@spacebln And what a steel! Using the words I-don't-know-who used for Rosa Raisa, "Lungs of leather and vocal chords of steel"!

Don't misunderstand me, pal ;-) I love this. But I didn't like the first scream and the 2nd seems unnapropriated to me. What is the purpose of recalling Tebaldi+Nilsson with the only objective to state that they did---? I don't use Callas as a Bible (I'm actually much of a critic of hers), but she didn't scream in the end - and for me, it was almost perfect.

[LordMgls]

@spacebln PS: another interesting thing is how Giorgetta should cry in Tabarro...

[Drelnis]

@spacebln Singing teachers should go out to Nordic potato farms and acquire more of this... Swedish steel for today's stage. Talk about the Toscas of today's stage, nothing special at all ugh.

[MUSICALLAN]

@LordMgls has got it right - Just amazing that Nilsson could give a real scream like that. Hey, that's what verismo is all about. I don't want my Puccini to sound like Bach, do you?

[ketillflatnefur]

@LordMgls  who asked you? get over yourself !

[LordMgls]

@ketillflatnefur what?

[BestAmateurViolinist]

@LordMgls

Obviously, you've never had anyone die on you suddenly. The scream makes complete sense, unless you're insensate, or a total dolt. I think that with the death of a loved one, one could probably scream much louder than at one's own death. It's the horror or realization that you've lost the love of your life..........

Then it begs the personal question: have you never been in so deeply in love ?

Your comment reeks foul and is an insult.

[LordMgls]

@BestAmateurViolinist I have exposed my opinion and have objectively defended it more than once. If you don't want to read the older comments, that's up to you. Don't keep on with those rude accusations to my personal life...

But I will explain it once more. I would not scream if I was going to commit suicide. The sheet music does not even indicate Tosca should. When Puccini wanted that kind of things, he clearly indicated them. Example? The soft finale of Fanciulla's 1st act.

Happy?

[Laeghaire]

@LordMgls Even if it sometimes sounds a bit weird I simply love these "overacted" screams a lot. This is part of the individual interpretations of the musical theater, but I can also understand your point of view very well. What I don't understand is, why some people got so offended by your opinion, some don't get the irony behind it ;)!

[LordMgls]

@Laeghaire The only time I clearly called a guy "dumbass" on YT was when someone wrote, under some Stravinsky piece, something like this "I always like conductors because if they are conducting they are professionals and therefore are certainly doing it right"...

I don't understand the point of these guys who come out of nowhere (almost a year later) saying in rude terms they do not agree with us...

[robertocasitenore]

Che emozione grande!!!! Grazie...ho ancora i brividi!!!

Roberto.

[LordMgls]

@robertocasitenore How old are you? Now that I see your comment I was curious about it :-P

[steakopera]

Bravi.........................­..e brava.

[AlexDeLarge1973]

What is the name of the music that starts playing at 6:35 ? It's beautiful.

[65attila]

I was lucky to hear Nilsson as Tosca in Philly early 60s. While running away from the guards she threw her cape at them and knocked most of them over causing laughter. What a performance !!!!!,

I saw Domingo as Cavaradossi in Newark. NJ @ NJ he was terrific as were Teresa Kubiak and Titto Gobbi.

I saw PD and BN in Turandot afain in Newark. Licia Albanese unretired to sing Liu and as I remember she crawled on the stage very melodramatically..

[isabelle070209]

Elle domine totalement. Mais on comprend mieux la carrière de Domingo.

[isabelle070209]

je savais pas qu'il avait eu la chance, l'honneur de chanter avec Nilsson.

Je voudrais que ça existe en cd.

[mrsRogue]

Ce n'est pas pour rien qui est devenu le premier lauréat du Prix Birgit Nilsson :-) Elle lavait choisi elle-même en admirant sa « superbe prestance et sa voix magnifique » Dommage qu'on puisse pas l'acheter, j'adorerais entendre le reste...

[isabelle070209]

Totalement d'accord avec vous/

[flyboy172r]

O, Scarpia! Avanti a dio.....! Brilliant.

[strauss1987]

my first impression was that her voice wanted to tear out of this music like a snake too large for its skin----especially at the beginning, it just sounded like her voice was too big for the music. But hell, if you can sing Wagner, you can sing anything aye? She does a a stellar job and I love her! AND THAT SCREAM AFTER PRESTO SU IS BETTE DAVIS WONDERFUL!

[werther11998877]

this woman is god

[cashelnd]

OMG! This is completely over the top -- and wonderful!

[Anibaal]

En un momento Nilsson se come a Domingo. Pero bueno es Nilsson. Y ese grito, ¡Por Dios! ¡Qué final! ¡Qué dramatismo en toda la escena, una suba de tensión culminada en el grito!

[conmaleta]

¡¡¡Magnífica, fantastica, poderosa....que voz y que actuación por Dios!!!!!

[maxpertile]

grande Nilsson!!

[robsonfeli]

That's a great performance!

How dramatic sounds Mrs. Nilsson.

Thank you!

[SPTN58]

One of the things I looked forward to back in 1974 as I prepared to embark for Vienna and music study was the chance to see great opera at the Staatsoper. The very first production I saw was Tosca with Nilsson. I saw her sing many of her signature roles there, and also at the Met. I'll never forget the wonderful evenings in that marvelous house (the chance to be an "extra" in some of the performances and an on-stage singing audition later in 1987).

[AmericanEvita]

Callas wasn't the only Tosca interpreter and this one's got Nilsson so everyone ought to be discussing Nilsson...I own the Decca recording with Franco Corelli and Dieskau as Cavaradossi...Nilsson was in top form for that recording as she is here...in the 60's she had the voice to take on Salome, Turandot, Elektra and Tosca...her Tosca is passionate and grand..even with a human gleam..it's not Italianate but Nilsson delivers...Domingo has always been the best Cavaradossi to me...enough said!

[jerrya1979]

she is amazing in this....Bravo to domingo for being heard when he was against that force of nature! However, nothing compares to the di stefano/ callas recording of this scene

[cleanears]

Ah... Birgit. sigh

[erar01]

You can argue how much you like that Callas own this part. But I simply love Nilsson's laser sharp high notes in Tosca. I feel a bit sorry for the poor tenors trying to be heard next to her. (And Scarpia never sounds terrifying next to Nilsson's Tosca). Magnificent recording of two of the best singers of the 20th century. Thanks!

[nilsmorner]

LOL! - I love that; "And Scarpia never sounds terrifying next to Nilsson's Tosca".

[Milordvega]

Oh wow, Nilsson's "Avanti a Dio!" sounds like the cry of a Valkyrie!  Brava!

[Drelnis]

that's because she IS the valkyrie :)

[Milordvega]

The one and only!

[OettingerCroat]

great high B from domingo at 2:58

[robcaper]

I agree. He did it effortlessly.

[yes4albert]

Wow, what a great performance!!! Thanks for posting.

[MrCafiero]

Where did he go?? ;^)

[TreblesBasses]

AWESOME NILSSON AND DOMINGO!

[altodivo]

The scream at 08:47 is pretty good too!