Edita Gruberova - Pavol Breslik - Lucrezia Borgia - 2009

[CiboCeleste]

I saw/heard Pavol Breslik in Eugine Onegin, and was so pleased in his Lenski. This video only confirms that he is a great tenor. Bravo e bravissimi!

[jocmuc1]

das kann sein durchbruch sein.

sängerisch gleichbedeutend mit einer gruberova zu sein ist noch wenigen gelungen.

hoffentlich hält er das durch.

was für ein material

[CarlitosDessay]

that E...

[512gontran]

La révélation, pour moi, c'est Pavol Breslik !!! Un artiste complet.

[looza22]

Knowing that she was ill that evening .... A stunning performance

[gayoperadude63]

maybe the wigs are her trade mark like Pavarotti's Hanky?

[Eiswirth]

It's time for her to stop.

[orejarota]

Impecable Breslik

Edita Gruberova a grito pelado y SOBERBIA!!!

[orejarota]

Impecable Breslik

Edita Gruberova a grito pelado y SOBERBIA!!!

[craigwalters]

Fabulous! Her voice isn't as beautiful as it used to be but, who's is? This is true theater. She has changed the rules of the game to suit the talents she has now.

[coryisawake]

Does every queen she sings have to remove or play with a bizarre wig?

[gustopheles]

@coryisawake Haha! It's just two roles

[parpaillot1957]

Dieu du ciel, cette femme ne devrait plus chanter tellement son registre vocal est en phase terminale. Les aigus ne sont pas chantés, ils sont criés. C'est fort laid. Elle me fait penser à Joan Sutherland en fin de carrière. Il faut savoir se retirer quand il est temps. Elle est quand même expressive dans son jeu mais je n'aime pas.

[brolobear]

Bless her heart...she just doesn't have enough "voice" for the role...her timbre has really not deepened as she aged...all the gulps and croaking are an attempt to make it as dramatic as it needs to be when she doesn't have the natural voice to do it. And there's no reason to debate her wiry pianissimos that are out of character or the out of tune shrieks. Valiant attempt, but she really shouldn't attempt it again.

[vivaldiano]

non prende un suono giusto nemmeno a pagarla... cioè qualcuno mi dica a 2.50 se quello è un suono lirico...o a 3.13 OGGETTIVAMENTE PROPRIO NOOOOO... e poi tutti quei parlatiiii (CHE CI SONO CI SONO)....Lucrezia Borgia non l'ha scritta Berg!!!

maaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DiegoMartinazzoli]

@vivaldiano Io l'ho vista dal vivo e ti posso assicurare che la forma vocale è ancora eccellente. I suoni li ha "presi" tutti giusti e il sovracuto finale è stata una cosa formidabile. Mi spiace per questa registrazione che poco rende... Comunque presto uscirà un CD e potrà quindi dimostrare tutta la sua bravura in questo ruolo

[AchillesValda]

This is perfect generation duell :-) Breslik is only 29 yo !! :-) Very nice and interesting inscenation...

[worstsingeroat]

hard to understand that noone is even mentioning Pavol Breslik !? He´s a revelation, the best tenor of our times! "madre, io moro..." - simply magic!!! and on top of that, so handsome...

[eradesso]

my god. this woman is really making a fool of herself and is reminding more of Florence Foster Jenkins than anyone else.

WILL YOU RETIRE YOU SILLY TRAMP?!!!!!!!!!

and you Gruberova groupies get your ears dewaxed!!!!!!! you folks are the shame of critical listening!

[sevoflurane]

to pitch or not to pitch?

[hags]

By far the most hideous thing I've ever heard or seen in years

[castodivo]

I'll say one thing about Edita: you can't take your eyes off her. Gruberova is an animal of the stage; a natural performer. She's incredibly interesting to watch every moment she's out there.  Girlfriend is committed to this drama.

[TheTheArtOfMusic]

BRAVA! Such emotion, such feeling, such intensity. Gruberova is unique! BRAVISSIMA!!!

[giant469]

Well, thanks God there's still someone who seems to reason without worshipping the former goddesses.

I can't really understand how a singer like Gruberova, whose past successes are well known, can decide to spoil her whole career with such a ridicolous performance... She looks like a horrifying combination of an old drag queen and a bad actress of the 1920s.

Poor Donizetti, he should not deserve such a treatment.

[eradesso]

you forgot a part of the combintion "horrible singer". she should have shoved the wig down her throat to keep those horrible moans, chest implosions and squeaks from coming out.

[Scipiothello]

I agree. She is simply no longer in postion to sing such a demanding role. She doesn't venture to sing the low notes required by Donizetti and her " Sul mio capo" is one the ugliest I have ever heard.

[giant469]

Amazing?

I would say bloodcurdling...

Her "Sul mio capo" are among the worst notes I've ever heard in all my life!

[belcantofan159]

@giant469

I have seen three Lucrezia performances in Munich. Every time was phantastic and very moving. Read what the international press wrote. You just cannot tell how great Gruberova's performance was by listening to this poor sound-quality movie...

[giant469]

I'm glad for you, Belcantofan. For me there's no more emotion in that voice. There's plenty of singers that I love: Callas, Sutherland, Caballé, Sills and many others, Gencer. But I NEVER listen to their late performances, it's a sufference.

I prefer to remember Gruberova as the Queen of the Night. And if I wanna listen to Lucrezia, well, there's still Devia...

[luciacindy]

Wow, Edita in Bestform !!! 0.31 hoffentlich hat sich Pavol seine Knie nicht geschrottet.

[machatae]

Just saw her performance tonight- amazing!!

[DiegoMartinazzoli]

Me too, her singing was just perfect

[barleggero]

What the *uck?????

[gundhari]

Es ist schwierig die perfekte "Lucrezia" zu finden. Doch die Sänger sind gut. Unerträglich sind die heutigen modernen Aufführungen. Bedauerlich für Komponist und Darsteller. Welchen Sinn machen "realistische" Aufführungen? Will das der "Zuhörer"? Solche Realisierenden gehören in die Psychiatrie. Dass es auch geschmackvoll geht zeigt der "Don Carlo" der Scala von 2008. Es ist gemein, den Geschmack des Publikums Gewalt anzutun!!!

[ChaudeB]

Der Meinung bin ich schon seit langem, aber scheinbar sind wir leider in der Unterzahl und es gibt eine moderne Inszenierung nach der anderen, so daß mir wirklich manchmal die Lust an der Oper vergeht.

[belcantofan159]

This is a truly exceptional performance and proves -once again - that Edita Gruberova is the best coloratura soprano ever.

[belcantofan159]

Brava Edita!

[babycatcher2004]

Retire!

[ilfig1iomio]

She will try to push it another 5 to 10 years.

[MisterSoprano]

No she will not. She will do Borgia in Vienna and Anna Bolena in Barcelona in 2010/2011, but after that she will, so she says, retire. Still not sure about here last season (10/11 or 11/12), but for sure not after that. Yes, I know, I am gonna miss her too!

[ilfig1iomio]

This season she's doing Ariadne auf Naxos, Norma, I puritani, Robert Devereux, Norma. and Lucrezia Borgia. I wouldn't even recommend that schedule for a much younger soprano.

[MisterSoprano]

Of course you wouldn't. To do that schedule + dozen of concerts in between, you have to be smart and you have to know what you are doing, and, she does know: she is singing one at the time, 2-3 days of break between each performace, she's not edding new roles, etc.

[DiegoMartinazzoli]

Semplicemente fantastica. anche lui grandioso, in assoluto la migliore

[cepsluvr]

I hope that final high note is better than the one in this scene, which is just dire.