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  • is this performance available on dvd? if so where?

  • I'm sorry, but I prefer Callas, her voice doesn't have enough strengh. She has a nice voice, but not good enough, maybe with time...

  • I just can`t get over her. Her voice is sooo humanly perfect. It`s so freely produced. god I never heard someone like her nowadays. and so beautiful still

  • ¿Es mi idea o canta diferente el final?

  • this lady leaves me speechless... wow

  • Very good, not maria Callas, but very professional, and a fine actress.

  • 鳥肌たった!!!!なんて素敵!

  • @chocoberrykaren 私は 日本語が 分かりません。 困難ですから。 それから、 明日 しにます。

  • Shes really good. Not the best, but really good. I just wish she was less of a... how can I put it nicely?... a cow. Being talented does not give you the right to treat others like shit. Humility and good manners (or lack of it in Angela's case) may not show on stage but they do help others to like you.

  • @Operastar17 maybe but as an opera fan all I care about is her voice and talent. The rest is meaningless or at least it is to people like myself.

  • @truvianni As an opera fan, you may not care about what goes on backstage. But my DREAM is to become an opera singer and perform with all the amazing people she gets to work with. I just don't see the need for it. I mean, its not hard to be nice. I personally would want people to WANT to work me.

  • @Operastar17 being nice like many things is a point of view sometimes people think that those who demand or ask for something in a particular way are not nice but it is sometimes the stress of the situation.Btw I am not only a fan but I've also written a book and many articles about opera if you care to read one google "Truvianni,Sempre Libera" I also have many friends who are opera singers

  • @truvianni I respect your point :) However, opinions are not facts and therefore leave plenty of room for different points of view. And mine is that people shouldn't believe themselves to be irreplaceable no matter how good they are or think they are. And I did read your article. Am I wrong to say you are a fan of Angela?(you said: My Angela) Don't get me wrong, I like her. I just don't think she is good enough to treat people as if she were a superior being in any way. No one is that good.

  • @Operastar17 I am not saying I do not agree with you of course I know so little of her personality since I only care about her voice yet I feel you are putting to importance to the way she is as a person and not just as the singer she is. I also would like to thank you for reading my articles and hope you found them to your enjoyment

  • @truvianni You're welcome :) I did enjoy it very much. And yes I probably am giving her personality too much importance. Its just that I like to know that someone I admire as an artist, is a pleasant person "behind the scenes" as much as they are on stage. Like Kaufmann (who is my No1 Tenor alive) who I know is a delight to work with as well as a fantastic performer.

  • @Operastar17 My favorite tenor is Domingo (whose name is Spanish means Sunday) and I have heard he is a very nice guy both on and off the stage. Actually I even wrote him in my book "New York's Opera Society". What's your opinion on him?

  • @truvianni Oh yes! he is a fantastic performer! Plus, I love tenor voices with a dark, rich timbres such as his and Kaufmann's. Also he is the tenor who has played the most roles! And that is certainly astonishing. I don't know much about him off-stage though, but I have never heard complaints from people who have worked with him. I also don't have many recordings of him but I have a CD of The Tales of Hoffman excerpts he recorded with Joan Sutherland that is amongst my top 5 CDs of all times.

  • @Operastar17 I also wrote an article about him if you care to read it please google "Truvianni,Domingo"

  • @Operastar17 If Kaufmann recorded anything with Joan Sutherland then he must have been very young.

  • @TZEITEL10 hehe... I was referring to Domingo's recording with Joan :)

  • @Operastar17 :)) don`t believe anything the papers/press say... if you can meet her and make your own opinion. So who is better then her nowadays? I`m really curious:D

  • @Serinia4melodic... well, I personally like (and I know loads of people will disagree as usual) Netrebko when she sings the correct repertoire. Absolutely adore her. Also Eri Nakamura (spelling??) simply because she is a delight to work with. ps: I don't pay attention to media... I know people who have worked with her at the ROH and they all tell me how much of a diva she is.

  • @Operastar17 I don`t know anybody from the ROH, but In the Tosca transmission from this year, she told that she gets along with everybody:)) I really like her because her technique is splendid. Her voice has a more dramatic quality then Netrebko and she can execute coloratura really well for such a heavy voice. I think she worked her ass off and I appreciate that at a singer... like Callas,Moffo,Sutherland.. many

  • @Serinia4melodic Don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing her voice, technique or hard work. But if the Tosca you're referring to is the one she did next to Kaufmann this year, then I'm afraid the others she worked with weren't as happy with her. She is not easy to work with apparently. Sutherland (My queen) never threw fits because of outfits. Though she did say once that unless they made the stage brighter, "there isn't gonna be no F-----G Lucia" lol. I like debates like this. Controlled.

  • @Operastar17 Yes, the one with Kaufman. I do not know her, although I am also from Romania:( but she really seams a nice person in interviews and stuff... haha did Sutherland really said that? Haha lol. I know something about her and the blond wig from Faust... the truth is she looks horrible with that wig or with blonde hair... if I would be as good as her I would refuse the performance too:))

  • @Serinia4melodic Oh yes, the wig. It was from Carmen wasn't it?? I believe it was with the MET in a tour to Japan that Volpe (the MET opera manager) said "The wig is going on, with you or without you!" and it did! I found that hilarious. On the other hand though, Angela claims to be strong-minded about things like costume and other things for the sake of Opera itself. And THAT I can definitely appreciate even though, being Latin (like my self), her methods are bit... well... Latin! :)

  • @Serinia4melodic If you saw the cinema transmission of Faust last year then you will have heard Angela say that she does not object to the blonde wig she wears ,i think she looks ok.

    Why get so worked up about her hair style/colour?concentrate on her voice.

  • @TZEITEL10 I was actually talking to somebody. I think she doesn`t look good blonde and I hate the wig... it`s like ok... Margetite is blonde in the book and stuff... but at least do her make-up so that she looks like a young blonde girl. And I didn`t get the thing with short hair... modern stuff.. I really think they overthink it somehow. They make the public concentrate on the aesthetics instead of the voice....

  • She is THE Violetta of our age.

  • @operachef1 and glad I am to live in an age that has her and not only untalented popera singers like well why mention them on the same page with Angela

  • LE FALTÓ EL E FLAT FINAL!!

  • This is my favourite rendition of Sempre Libera. Callas with her coarse strident metallic voice doesn't even make my top 5.

  • @SavHub Callas sings a high E flat in the end...

  • This interpretation is good but you can't compare it with the one by Callas or (my personal favourite) Zeani....

  • uuuuuu, there was no E-flat 3 at the end :( is that possible at all?

  • She looks so young! Like a twenty-year is singing this. Amazing! She looks as beautiful as she sounds.

  • Gorgeous, but she had some problems with the pronunciation of the letter G :)

  • who's is the male voice? x

  • What a treat. Her physical beauty can almost rival her vocal beauty. To me, the looks of a singer is secondary to his voice. But when a singer is so beautiful, I just have to say God is too kind to have given us someone like this.

  • Simplesmente ESPETACULAR ...

  • And two days after discovering this video, I can now say I've watched it forty-seven times... it's an INCREDIBLE performance of one of my all-time favorite arias! My brain just goes numb every single time!

  • Stunning, absolutely STUNNING performance! It's as Angela herself said: "popular music is for the body, but opera is for the soul."

  • This was my first opera I listened, when I was just six years old, Angela Ghoerghiu has an important place in my heart because I decided to study Opera after I listened La Traviata. Thank you, Angela, now I'm 15 and the next year I start to study as a soprano. I hope to enter in the Conservatory (I live in Milan and the Conservatory of Milan is very important in the world!!)

  • The best vocal performance of Sempre Libera on youtube in my opinion!

  • Every note in this performance is beautiful.

  • Sometimes I just need something incredible like this to remind myself of why I sing...especially during times when I lose motivation. I have already commented on how brilliant she is, and I have to say it again! What great motivation for me!

  • Please google my name "Gianni Truvianni" and "Angela Gheorghiu" if you wish to read them.

  • I am a huge fan and have written many an article about her in many operas. Please google my name "Gianni Truvianni" and "Angela Gheorghiu" if you wish to read them.

  • Great voice but acting just terrible!

  • @classicalgalNYC .Non è italiana. Ma è talmente brava che le si può perdonare l'accento

  • wow

  • non può essere un termine di paragone

  • buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • does anyone else think that sometimes she sounds a bit like Callas?

  • @mapoyt gheorghiu is much more better than callas in this!

  • @silviutz28 no one is better than callas in this. Lets be honest here.

    

  • so beautiful..wonderful

    

  • Gheorgiu's timbre has always reminded me of Callas. For Violetta, I prefer a lighter, lyric voice, such as Anna Moffo, Beverly Sills or Edita Gruberova. Dramatic big voices don't really do it for me. Character wise she is fragile and dying of TB so I feel the voice must be on the softer side. Gheorghiu is a great singer however and her costume here is fabulous...she's clearly evoking the Muse Maria Callas for her performance.

  • Que feo vibrato caprino guakkk!!! iwal Stefania Bonfadelli es mejor

  • Que feo vibrato caprino guakkk!!!

  • THE best Violetta hands down nowadays!

  • the E flat wasn't written by the composer.

  • where's the E flat?

  • @khamikins There's no high E flat in the score and some sopranos just take the last Ab up an octave on a fermata, which I think sounds better, but that's just my preference and I guess it's left to personal taste.

  • You saw that Poplavskaya girl?:))))))))))))))))))y couldn`t stop laughting about it...shame on MET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!seems they are broke(can`t afford singers like Gheorghiu any more....of course because Gheorghiu is from another planet!!!!!

  • I am definitely not a fan of Gheorghiu. Love this aria, but :10-:13  really? ew

  • I can''t lie, this performance makes me cringe, as does this soprano. Nice voice, but too harsh for bel canto. And this is one of my favourite arias T.T

  • @RaWrZzZz this isnt bel canto....verdi was known for verismo...soulful opera LOL.other than this aria..most of the opera is pretty lyrical and soulful..

  • I just watched this exact recording of this opera with my music history class today...and when she sang this aria (and pretty much everything else in the opera) I was completely mesmerized with my jaw dropped...

    ...I have NEVER heard anything like her before!!!

    I have always adored Natalie Dessay (and i still do!), but Angela has now taken that first spot on my "favorite sopranos" list :-D

  • Glorious! She puts Netrebko and Dessay in the shade!

  • I love here sing she is the best.....after la Callas...!!!!

  • its to hard song for her

  • Wow..like Sir Georg Solti said...she can do anything

  • this recording is the very reason i love opera so much. this is one of the first recordings of opera that I've ever listened to and it literally changed my life. love her!

  • Magnifique performance vocale ! La voix de Gheorghiu est somptueuse et donne beaucoup de rythme à la musique. Les envolées lyrique sont de haut vol. Malheureusement Angela évite la difficulté principale du final à savoir "la montée dans les aiguës". Sa voix est légèrement comparable à celle de Maria Callas. Je pense comme Happyfer ci-dessous : 2ième Angela Gheorghiu et toujours "indéboulonable" en tête la divine Maria Callas.

  • fabuleuse interpretation ! que du bonheur

  • I just <3 music. It is so great listen many different style music. I liked this, but some day the Best is real PUNK ROCK! Strange :-) ?

  • She's The real diva! Love her voice

  • She is absolutely stunning...even without the E flat at the end it was a flawless performance. Brava!!!!

  • sunteti superba:X,sublima,mirifica:X

  • E flat in the end is just for coloratura sopranos is that right???!!!

    Angela's voice was not coloratura, she's in fact a lyric soprano!!!

  • @reydogoloyugo23 Gheorghiu had an E-flat and used it in the first rehearsal of this run of performances. But Solti instructed her not to use it because it is not written in the score. He apparently said that Verdi's score should be performed exactly as written with no additions or cuts. She sings an E-flat at the end of her recording of Qui la voce (I puritani) in the Casta Diva album.

    This is marvellous.

  • Without the high E flat at the end something is missing... Anyway, great voice!

  • omg, and she was only 30...

  • I saw her yesterday at covent garden, she's fantastic!

  • @jmec7 lucky!

  • Anybody here has EVERY heard about MAGDA OLIVERO???? Look for her here in youtube and let´s not write so many exaggerations. And, later, look for Negri´s version here too. After those two, come back here again and... go back to reality. Best regards.

  • Quièn pudiera cantar asì, que envidia le tengo.

  • I was never a huge fan of Angela Gheorghiu for a while, I thought she was a great singer, but it never clicked...and then I watched her in Traviata and she COMPLETELY changed my mind. She is so wonderful in the role of Violetta, I love her in the repertoire!

  • I had the good fortune to be in the theatre for this performance.  My first attendance at Covent Garden. Imagine!

  • wow...ESPECTACULAR! esta cancion siempre me ha gustado desde k la vi en operalia 1194 con placido domingo y una cantante de Gorgia...q no recuerdo

  • My favourite Violetta of all time. Brava Angela.

  • This aria from her Covent Garden performance is unbelievably good.

  • bravíssimaa!!

  • she seems to me like the daughter Maria Callas would have loved (in music industry) this is my second favorite performance after the Callas one

  • @Happyfer i think the same :P

  • Astonishing! I always liked her but i never thought that she is this good! Brava!

  • @Happyfer And, they even are kinda similar vocally, aren't they :) ? Gheorghiu also seems to be perfectly able to sing all kinds of things (in terms of range, that is) from coloratura to mezzo repertoire.

  • Beautiful dress and hair, obviously inspired by Sisi/ Elisabeth of Austria.

    This interpretation is amoung my favorites. Her lower range is outstanding and her clarity is marvelous.

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