Dolora Zajick "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" Gala Tucker 98

[Huaimek861]

Oprabaritone624

Steady on , with your Americanisms !!! Though I am aware that Mezzo Sopranos do have a reputation for being more than usually libidinous .

I agree that this is very beautiful singing and enterpretation of the aria .

Thank you Onegin65 !!!

[jovanathan]

that last note was heavenly... could of used a lil bit more of seduction... but that end.... whew.... one of the best endings i have heard

[21457896547]

Elle est une déesse, sa voix tout simplement enchanteurs

[tcradical]

Dolora Zajic is an angel from heaven. She is one of the most honest human beings I have seeing on this earth and that is why her interpretations are so real in every aspect, her sound, her musical line and her approach to the characters she takes on.

[spdrunner]

Dolora Zajick has no need for facial expression - if you can't hear or feel the joy, the sadness, the pain or whatever emotion she is conveying when she's singing, then it's totally lost on you.

She is a brilliant artist, and one of the very few mezzos who truly understands her own instrument.

[ALEXISVASSILIEV]

Bravo chère Dolora! Grand art! Merci! AV

[Pywacket2]

Brava!

[edithmz]

Mon coeur s'ouvre a SA voix!!!

[abandapart568]

I obviously worship her so I don't ask this to criticize, but in listening to this again, did she have a lyrics blip at the beginning of the second verse? Or is this an alternate version of the aria?

[abandapart568]

This woman redefines the mezzo-soprano for her generation. There is nothing like her tone quality, her artistic interpretation, or her astounding control throughout her registers. Brava.

[iriisblue]

@abandapart568 Yes, she's singular, and that's sad. We have a spate of these lyric mezzos post Bartoli, but the dramatic repertoire has suffered.

[musoph21]

lord jesus that Piano Bflat at the end!

[QueenMab66]

OMG this woman is amaaaaazing.

[operawhore64]

boring.. just a boring voice.. it is nasal in the middle and belty at the top.. However, he pianissimi are sometimes quite nice.... I perfer beautiful tone to volume... although both are terrific... she just doesn't have it...

[Tenorbravo]

VIVA DOLARA..She does of this are a piece of ART. Thanks you. This is a gem to enjoy.

[martello79]

Dolora Zajcik is a very very good singer and I love her voice. But to me her voice has a little too much vibrato for this aria: It makes it sounds a little unresty, where a somewhat less dramatical en more lyrical voice would more spin the legato lines....

[CONTESTAR]

This is a charismatic voice and she sings the B-flat the only acceptable way: in piano.

Actually, in the drama of a complete performance building up to the seduction scene, a tenor would sing it forte and it would be appropriate. But with the aria taken out of context and after the enormous arched lines, I find he B-flat rather vulgar to be sung by the mezzo at all. It is not for her anyway.

However, if the mezzo can do it pianissimo it doesn't destroy the atmosphere and is at least... allowed.

[jomoses07]

i can't stop listening to that B flat...makes me so happy

[Nahui0llin]

por siempre Dolora!!!!!!!

la mejor Dalila

[BeatlesLove11]

I absolutely love dolora zajick, but I don't think this was her best performance by any means. Listen to Marilyn Horne do it, it is absolutely amazing.

[NKWIAM]

I was just thinking about Horne doing this so much better when I read your post. It seems she is just off in this performance.

[romondesbert]

No listen to french singers : Hélène Bouvier, Germaine Cernay, Denise Scharley, Simone Couderc or the belgian Rita Gorr. Marylin Horne has no idea of french style.

[FaVenegas]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! I love Dolora!!!! she´s amazing singer!!!

[pasfresh123]

She has a nice voice but: she breathes in the wrong places, her pitch is unstable, her vowels are often wrong, often she changes the vowel while she is holding the note (o-a-o), her consonants are not crisp enough. She gets the words wrong in the second part. And except on the higher notes, she looks like her jaw is locked. And it's dreary zzzzzz but not as much as Borodina.

[coryisawake]

UGH THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS.

[mm9913]

and she is the premier singer on the Met roster.

[pasfresh123]

I KNOOOOOW! Ain't that the funniest thing! LOL

[opera1dan2]

Have to agree - normally I like her. Maybe this was an off day!

[pasfresh123]

Let's all hope so, for the sake of opera.

[rlee1976]

@pasfresh123

I agree. Give me Verrett anyday...

maybe not the later recording, but the one from the TV special from earlier (B&W video)...

I don't know what all the fuss is about... she did not move me at all. She has no expression on her face whasoever. If any singer even in a master class or something sang it this way today, it would be like go and get some acting coaching and also more technique - she breathes as if she is running out of breath in inappropriate places.

[jd7x7jd]

@rlee1976 I guess we don't mind because of the glorious sound she makes :)

[Oprabaritone624]

omg, this is fucking incredible

[jorgepoveda]

No es necesario conocer lo que la letra de esta parte de la opera desea comunicar. Independientemente de que se la cante en ruso o en frances ,la emocion de la cantante es parte integral y muy necesaria para "transmitir" lo que el compositor puso en el pentagrama . Esta mezzosoprano lo logra con gran facilidad, al igual que Grace Bumbry en una de sus grabaciones de fines de los años 60 para la casa Deutschte Grammophon.