Renata Tebaldi - Pace mio Dio - La forza del Destino - 1953

[Maripudelmonaco]

Y, PENSAR QUE ERA LA PRIMERA VEZ QUE CANTABA ESTA ÓPERA . UN MILAGRO. !!!

[lallanzinho]

5:54 "She detains the best "Maledizione....!" of all and delivered it on every record she gave."

[SavHub]

Maria Slatinaru's voice is similar; a bit more powerful than Tebaldi's though.

[neneorganico]

@SavHub hahahahahaha !

[MrLeino77]

Anche se uno volesse fare l'iper-pignolo, mi dite dove possiamo riscontrare anche un solo difetto musicale od espressivo in questa esecuzione?

E' semplicemente IMPOSSIBILE!!!

[johnnybouhaha]

She surely owned this aria which fitted her like a glove. Perfection...

[Maripudelmonaco]

Cada vez que escucho este milagro de voz, me arrodillo y doy gracias al Cielo por haber podido oirla en directo, . No ha habido hasta este momento de la Lirica voz como la suya. Gracias  RENATA TEBALDI.

[waspman1633]

My God, my God the sounds she creates are unbelievable. If ever there was a voice from heaven, this is it. Bless you Renata - and thank you.

[Babywinona]

La mejor LEONORA que ha existido, su voz es tan pura y bella, que es cierto viene directa del Cielo. Por siempre RENATA TEBALDI , la MEJOR-

[83DeaththeKid]

Definita "voce d'angelo" da Toscanini, Renata Tebaldi possedeva una voce dal timbro cristallino, opulenta, morbida, vellutata (è stato coniato il termine di "velluto della Tebaldi") e nel contempo penetrante, da autentico soprano lirico spinto.

Wikipedia is the way, signori: soprano lirico spinto ;)

[numetutelare]

Una volta tanto si sentono delle messe di voce e dei diminuendo magistrali. Brava davvero

[JulesePu]

ogni occasione è buona x far volare insulti...

[titaruffo2]

Un des monuments du chant

[MassMusician88]

I have three "Forza" recordings to which I always return: Arroyo, Price, and Tebaldi. I like Carlo Bergonzi's Alvaro more than del Monaco's so I tend to listen to that one more, but this is the most incredible version of this aria that I've ever heard. She sounds completely in control of the sound (the first "pace" is proof positive of that) and yet she also lets it get huge when needed.

[tebaldicallas]

Huge sound - c'est presque incroyable.

[rodlarocque]

I HAVE THIS ON CD but never knew where/when! ABSOLUTELY THE BEST VERSION EVER

[ceb2633]

Oh, the wonderful Renata! This is so special,

[CalifaJohn]

TEN STARS !!! *********

[lelecoloco]

The tempo is so slow and yet she makes the aria happen MAGICALLY with that VOCE D'ANGELO!!!!!

THIS IS UNREAL!!!!!!

BRAVA, MILLE VOLTE!!!!!

[illfurter]

j'aibeau écouter toutes les versions^pour moi aucune ne me donne autant la chair de poule que Renata. Unique adorable , m$eme si je peux passer pour quelqu'un qui a mauvais gout!

[cannante]

tebaldi is the patron saint of opera singers

[Andante735]

@cannante

More simply, she had the most beautiful soprano voice in the history of recorded music...

[cannante]

@Andante735

simple? opera? :)

and I always thought of her as a live singer, the vocal SIZE was hair raising.

a former teacher of mine (asperbic catalog of a memory) used to stop and go into trance upon mention of her name. as if an imponderable: and then repeat: "that was the most beautiful voice i ever heard"

he taught several of the working voices of today. knew many others. the pausing after the mention of her name was as if re-checking 2 see if his memory was true. each time, was new

pax

[Andante735]

@cannante

I meant simple in the purest definition of the word. Sort of like "simply exquisite". I completely understand the experience your former teacher had; for me listening to Tebaldi is almost always like that. The beauty of that voice transcends words and metaphors. No, there's really nothing simple about opera technically, there's no question about that. Needless to say, the beauty of Tebaldi's voice is imponderable....

[Chilair1]

you can buy this version in itunes! Ive been listening to it incessantly!

[CalifaJohn]

Does the iTunes version of Tebaldi's Pace Mio Dio offer better sound quality than this YouTube version?

[d123h456]

Wonderful! I love Callas and Tebaldi and Price and many more. For a particular aria we prob all have our favourites, but when we criticize or compare singers like Callas and Tebaldi we should remember we are still talking about some of the greatest singers ever. Even Tebaldi at nowhere close to her best will still be better than the singers most of us will get to hear. Not because they are no good, but because she was so special. Thanks for the post - fantastic performance.

[assindiastignani]

@d123h456 Thank you. That's the point. The "faults" of a Tebaldi or a Callas would be virtues with the pretenders who run around nowadays trying to sing this rep. P.S. while we're talking abt. wonderful Leonora's, let's not forget Martina Arroyo - she was really quite special at her best.

[d123h456]

I agree - I love Arroyo too. I agree with an earlier comment too - from the very first beautifully crafted phrase we know this is going to be a special performance and the ending just makes me smile at her brilliance!

[couturesixfour]

okay...this is the #1 version that i have heard!! i love you endlessly Price, but she gives it to me on this one....her "inman" was a bit pale compared to Price's, but she is wonderfully mastering this piece!!

[hchristopher1]

Miracolo.

[LittlePasserotto]

magnifica...

[CalifaJohn]

Absolutely magnificent.

[assindiastignani]

P.S. The first phrase that Tebalda sings is, alone, worth the price of admission. What wouldn't we all give, to hear singing like that again live?!

[tebaldicallas]

The biggest sound ever.

There is no one like her.

Powerful and well controlled.

The sound is gorgeous.

Great Tebaldi.

[nkesin]

Absolutely brilliant dramatic voice!

[Lucernopera]

fantastica Renata Tebaldi!

[Cavaradossi1981]

That's right! I have talked many times with Signorina Tebaldi, and she ADORED Mitropoulos!!! Hear also her Tosca with Mitropoulos from MET with L.Warren as Scarpia and R.Tucker as Cavaradossi! Also a fantastic recording! Tebaldi loved to work with Mitropoulos and was deeply sad as he died at 1960.

[assindiastignani]

They all adored Mitropoulos - and with good reason. You know, that's the real question nowadays. Not "Where are all the great voices" there aare plenty of those. WHERE ARE ALL THE GREAT CONDUCTORS??

[salalavil]

How lucky you are to have departed personally with this greatest singer and person! i was lucky to hear her in person 5 times (Boheme, Aida, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Adriana) and these always remain unforgetable experiences. I'm not a one-singer maniac, but I surely adore her memory. (As an actress she was rather old fashioned, but that is not so important to me).

[SensusEtRatio]

Autentico miracolo vocale. La Tebaldi domina la tessitura con perizia e sicurezza strabilianti. Vi si aggiunge uno splendore timbrico che è impossibile non rimarcare. Si crea così un'atmosfera di totale eufonia che sottolinea il connubio fra il dolore provato dal personaggio e l'intima disperazione che ormai vede solo la morte come ultima speranza di pacificazione. Perfetti il fraseggio, l'emissione, l'articolazione verbale, l'alternanza dei registri, gli effetti di volume della voce.

[emilytransex]

@SensusEtRatio BELLISSIMO COMMENTO HAI PIENAMENTE RAGIONE!

[VivaTebaldi]

Incroyable, the bigest voice voice ever.

Such a powerful and it sounds so easy, that

is why it is so great.

[billyguns2]

This live 1953 performance of LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, conducted by the incomparable Dmitri Mitropoulos, captures all of the principles at their staggering best. 1953 was a very good year for Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del Monaco!

[tebaldinelcuore]

Renata con la tua voce dai pace al cuore!!!! Vibrato senza nessuna imperfezione... Voce angelica, di un altro pianeta... La tebaldi aveva una voce purissima e una tecnica perfetta.Belli i suoni della ottava bassa e di quella alta,un drammatico dagli acuti angelici... La tebaldi è la numero uno in assoluto... Dopo di lei potete mettere chi volete...La Callas?! Grande artista interpretativa, anzi grandissima... ma la voce lasciatela a chi l'ha avuta veramente!!!

[FSebastiano]

era un lirico spinto, non un drammatico...

[emilytransex]

@emilytransex IMBECILLI COLORO KE HANNO SOTTOVALUTATO IL MIO COMMENTO!!! RENATA TEBALDI ERA UN SOPRANO LIRICO!!!!! IGNORANTI!!!!!

[emilytransex]

@FSebastiano ALTRO ASINO! DOVE LA SENTI LA VOCE DA SOPRANO LIRICO SPINTO????

[FSebastiano]

@emilytransex Modera i termini dolcezza! Non mi pare di averti insultato, indi per cui vedi di calmarti. Se sei in preda a squilibri ormonali vedi di farteli passare in altra maniera!

[emilytransex]

@FSebastiano HAHAHAHAHAHA PRRRR

[VivaTebaldi]

You are right - both Callas and Tebaldi were great and very different, that why it is so exciting. Two of the greatest sopranos, they will not be replace.

[Elisabetta611]

Exactly, VivaTebaldi. We are lucky to have all these great divas. If only we had voices of that calibre today!

[hiyacupcake]

WOW!!! Plush, bright, gigantic, gorgeous!

[Andante735]

I agree with jioctios. No singer had the huge voice, squillo, exquisite legato line, and glorious beauty of tone that Tebaldi had, and no singer ever will. She was one person in opera history, like Callas, who will never be repeated.

[VivaTebaldi]

Incredible singing, powerful - a wall of sound. Nobody has that kind of voice today.

Thank you for posting this.

[FSebastiano]

Bellissimo... Anche se preferisco "La forza" di Napoli 1958.

Comunque Renata è sempre immensa, la adoro

[Orfeus80]

Some roles have been matched for eternity with a single singer, Tebaldi and Leonora di Vargas is one of them. More than half a century later, I still haven't heard a Leonora with a firmer, even sound and grand personality. But in my opinion her 55 performance at La Scala is even better, I'll try to upload bits of it.

[jicontios]

All Tebaldi Forzas are the best, but I agree my opinion the best are '55 Scala, '58 Naples and '60 New York.This '53 Florence was debut performance as Leonora and she sings the Greatest "Pace mio Dio" ever sung but on first act and convent scene entrance "Son giunta ...madre pietosa vergine" she is even more perfect on '55 Scala and '60 New York and '58 Naples

[Elisabetta611]

Try Rosa Ponselle...

[Orfeus80]

I have, Tebaldi is still my favourite

[bonanplu]

Avoid Rosa Ponselle awful fisso and white final Bflat.

Ponselle version is fine except her very bad final Bflat in the last maledizione.Ponselle note is thin, white and it does not vibrate.

Tebaldi final Bflat is a glorious and enormous note and the complete version is perfection

[Elisabetta611]

Utter nonsense. I looooove Tebaldi but neither she nor Callas can match Ponselle when it comes to vocal splendour. And actually...Tebaldi's Bflat is often flat (LOL, a flat Bflat).

[bonanplu]

oh yes flat, this is what we are listening here, the glorious and PERFECT and enormous Bflat Renata is singing here as in her '58 Naples Forza and any of her Forzas.

Flat IS exactly the SAME note of Ponselle version.You have the courage to say all the shit.You name Callas HAHAHA!!! Now it is reasonable, your bitter is so intense, typical from a Callas fan.Poor stupida , lier

[Elisabetta611]

PLEASE, learn how to spell. Even Tebaldi's greatest fans admit to her tendency on going flat on high notes and that she did not have a trill. (And while Ponselle had no trill either she never sang flat high notes. In her case it was a tendency to go sharp after her prime.)

[Andante735]

You are absolutely correct, and I must be one of the most HUGE Tebaldi lovers the world has known :). Does it matter about going flat, or going sharp, when we have the two greatest soprano voices of our time to listen to and love? It diminishes nothing about them. Why is she an "evil,typical, Callas Fan"? Because she made an honest statement? Do you think they were deaf and didn't know? Is it true that you only post in Tebaldi videos? I doubt it, and why anyone be that pathetic?

[dolcefico]

I agree completely! I love them both; what the one lacked, the other possessed. Neither was perfect. In the ways that they were good, they were in fact great and in many respects peerless. Move on, folks, and enjoy what each offers.

[mrrk]

A stunning performance. Only one I have heard better was from Ponselle.

[jicontios]

I admire Ponselle too but I am sorry, Ponselle has no the incredible opened squillo and the slancio of Tebaldi unbeleivable huge fff final Bflat.

[Elisabetta611]

Yes, she had all that and more...

[bonanplu]

In your dreams.

Ponselle Pace mio Dio is fine but she is poor man's Tebaldi.

[Elisabetta611]

Honey, Ponselle came first, not Tebaldi.

[bonanplu]

oyyyyy and what happened to Ponselle ? In all her recorded arias , all her notes on Bs, Bflat, A and even Aflat are NOT good.Ponselle high notes does not vibrate well in any of her recorded arias.

Totally the opossite, Tebaldi recorded many, lots of glorious Cs and all Tebaldi recorded Bs, Bflats, As very very beautiful and close to perfection like no other soprano

[Elisabetta611]

That is utter nonsense. Read what Henderson, Kesting and Serafin had to say about Ponselle. Of course, the recording quality of the twenties is very different from the fifties and sixties. However, that doesn't change the fact that Ponselle's top notes were exquisite during her prime. (Same goes for Tebaldi. Love her high notes in her early Forzas and Aidas)

[bonanplu]

Ponselle final Bflat in hee recorded Pace mio Dio is thin, white, fisso and flat.

Ponselle A at the end of Otello Ave Maria is NOT good, Ponselle voice becomes slender on top, and has no vibration.

Tebaldi has opened squillo high notes with unlimited great power slancio.

[bonanplu]

Friends: Elisabetta611 is so evil stupid girl she is green because of the poison she has inside her.She is a typical Maria Callas fan.She only post in Tebaldi videos because of that

[cek1111]

Tebaldi=Leonora. Others? I don't care.

[Andante735]

Not better, different. Ponselle had an exquisite voice. I personally think this is the finest I've heard, but to each his own. She sings the s--t out of it with her huge middle register, and big high notes. Nobody had that.