Raina Kabaivanska - Makropoulos Case Finale_Part 2

[momominnosh]

Fabulous performance, and the staging is like Beckett!

[cornucopia2]

Io ero a teatro, assolutamente meraviglioso, mai asistito a uno spettacolo più emozionante!

[CzarDodon]

This is an amazing achievment. For a woman of her age to take on such a complex role, a role that is so demanding for both singer and actress: the range is almost dramatic soprano, and she is on stage for almost the entire opera. The music is also very complex. But for a singing actress of Kabaivanska's stature it must have been also a wonderful challenge: the horror of an old woman inside a young body, in the end like the old countess from Pique Dame only to fall dead, a burnt black Butterfly.

[amlirco]

Thank you for all your remarkable insights. The Butterfly is certainly a code in Her Whole Art. I'd argue that exactly the experience is the decisive element for an interpreter to do such an achievement both in vocal and artistic and finally in philosophical plain. Raina has much to say (because this is the key: to have sth to say not just to sing a difficult part) and knows how to do this. The exceptional conservation of the vocal power and colour helps her immensely.

[amlirco]

I'm overwhelmed by the PROCESS Raina's able to recreate together with a musical portrait that is germane only to EM.

Talking about a process of transformation of a bored to death (still noble - a personal projection) woman inside a young body, we become witnesses of a striking metamorphosis. Getting older and dying like a burnt tree but finding internal peace and liberation, EM/RK in the end accuses the vanity of the world. Unbelievably strong message for а spiritual revival! RAINA is Mythical!