Leontyne Price "Inflammatus" Rossini's Stabat Mater

[ferraragi]

Una esecuzione splendida.Grazie per questo video che non conoscevo.

Voce adattissima per questa aria.

[Gary2837]

Thanks for posting this recording. I've never heard her sing this before and am extremely pleased!

[Josquinquin]

Sheer Brilliance!!!

[84812ful]

Wonderful as always. The precision of Leontyne's voice is amazing. Thank you for this recording.

[higharch]

I was there. It was glorious! Brava Diva!

[numetutelare]

Fuori repertorio!

[Kachureo62]

Trinite 33.........Baroque? Rossini?...please take a Art History Book and learn !!

[Orfeus80]

what's happening at 3:49??? those trills are in another key, completely off pitch. The rest of the performance is fine though, not my favourite but still good.

[whatever456]

she actually keeps the scooping to a relative minimum given what she started doing around this time and later. But this is really a beautiful rendition. It is meant for a spinto, not for a light voice. As much as I admire Lorengar she's several sizes to small for this. Just listen to the massed orchestra and choir. Its much closer to Verdi than the Rossini most are familiar with. Thank you for posting. Where do you find these?

[spintotenor83]

This is the best out here in youtube on this part of the work.

[balletgirl64]

To any critics out there............ stop and think. This magnificent, gorgeous singer is STILL able to sing long after all the others have given up. The proof is there. She is and always will be the one and only divine diva! I love the recording...... sent chills up and down my spine.

[happyorganist]

We just sang this, this past Sunday as the Anthem in the english. I love playing this on the organ!

[operamark1]

Very good performance, but if you want to her daring, the ultimate recording/performance of this piece is the old Florence Austral 78 rpm HMV . Her top notes were brilliant and I have never heard another come close to it. Thanks for posting. Price is excellent.

[jeffchester]

Price surprises always . Priceless

[basie8]

All this talk about style. Could someone please upload a recording of the 1842 premiere of Stabat Mater, so that we can all hear the correct style?

[AdelsonSalvini]

Possibly not absolutely in style, who takes care! Then all sang thus, didn't have begun the Rossini renaisance, doesn't invalidate what it became in those years.

She's wonderful, to the top to the bottom, the agility, everything.

Personally I prefer this that the minimum voices sing that it now

[65attila]

Price is tremendous here, I also like an earlly 50s performance of Tebaldi with good High Cs and the magnificent Florence Austral who is utterly magnificent..

[straumeeee]

Lei-tanto forte!!!Prima! Che -direttore?!Lei -conduita e tutti!:)))))

[jolucascan]

El Inflammatus requiere una voz de spinto que es lo que Leontyne tenía, además hace los trinos y las coloraturas muy bien. Estupenda! Otra cosa es lo que los directores de los 80 y los 90 nos quieran hacer, ceer que esto es para una soprano rossiniana estilio Fiorilla y no es así

[ebony1911]

As good as it gets. She's as good as she gets. Bravo! Bravo!! And once again, thanks Onegin.

[Chasson0318]

I must say, I agree with Meltzerboy...I prefer Caballe or Lorengar on this, and I'm normally partial to Mother Price.

That said, You get eight stars for finding this gem of a clip...and the photos alone - totally of the period during which this Diva was feeling her "superstardom". I hate be critical, but she sings this as if she's singing Verdi...with scooping no less...oh well, I wont be ungrateful.

[MorMar001]

Rossini' s Stabat Mater was released in 1842; the voice that requires this work is nearer Verdi than the Rossini that we know; this work isn't adapted for a light voice

[MorMar001]

I listened it, gorgeous. Thanks

[pjdonagh]

I agree but offer in mitigation that not only are the photos "totally of the period" but so is this "bigger" performance style.

It is exciting though!!!

[straumeeee]

@Chasson0318 she sing is  the romantik werssion:)))))

[Trinite33]

You are wrong. Price is perfect here. She is fearless and sings with complete freedom and abandon; nothing tentative or in any way cautious, as I find with Caballe's performance, which is fine but tends toward boring because of her caution. Lee is full throttle involved and profoundly dramatic. Scooping? You are totally mistaken. Every note is a clean, fierce attack to the direct center of the tone. And her coloratura is amazing and perfectly articulated for a voice as huge as Price's.

[Chasson0318]

@Trinite33

The "Freedom and abandon" that you speak of is purely a trait of the egomanical Leontyne, with very little care of the style, which she is totatlly aware of as one can see in later years during performances. When "Lee: is full of herself, she can take those freedoms a little far. Yes, I may be mistaken in terminology regarding scooping, but there is quite evidently audible sliding going on.

[Trinite33]

No, Price's freedom here is a trait of the Diva's complete dominance of this music, singing it perfectly as called for, as the audience enthusiastically appreciates. Also, personal attacks do not belong to artistic criticism..

[Chasson0318]

@Trinite33

Not personally attacking her, I love her! I just prefer CAballe as originally stated

[egymagyar1111111]

you are completely right and precise she is La Divina again and for ever, this is what is in this music,

[basie8]

Price is a true diva in the best sense of the word. Everything she sings she make it her own.

[meltzerboy]

I love Caballe's singing of this, and Leontyne Price's performance here is just as wonderful! When Melba sang the piece, it was said her tone flooded the auditorium and was projected in a three-dimensional manner. Thanks for sharing.

[Trinite33]

This is absolutely stupendous! Awesome! Leontyne pulling out the stops and reaffirming her baroque super credentials. You go, Diva of all divas!

[Orfeus80]

@Trinite33 lol. Baroque???

[Trinite33]

@Orfeus80 "Baroque" references here the bravura of the fierce florid singing of La Divina Assoluta Leontyne Price, not the arbitrary definition of an historical musical period, i.e., 1600 to 1750. Relax. Not everything is as precise as all that. Breathe a little and expand your breadth of musical understanding and appreciation without all the ingracious criticism which can be construed as mere envy.

[Orfeus80]

@Trinite33 Hehe, you're making it worse. No baroque bravura in her singing here man, sorry to dissapoint you. Lets appreciate Price for what she was, not what she wasn't (unless you have her singing Son Qual nave ch'agitat which I seriously doubt, lol). 

[Trinite33]

@Orfeus80 Your point is not well taken. The Great Price sings Handel to magnificent effect and began doing so early in her career with Julio Cesare, not to mention her beautiful Where E'er You Walk from Semele, and of course her gorgeous Care Selve. The latter two arias I also sing along which a huge amount of JS Bach.

[Orfeus80]

@Trinite33 Then you'll know that there's no bravura in where e'er you walk or care selve. These are lyric arias without any bravura singing. Thanks for pointing out Price's Handel performances though which are as interesting as those of other famous lyric sopranos (Caballe, Tebaldi etc) who touched Handel. In any casek, Rossini's Inflammatus has nothing baroque or bravura about it.

[Trinite33]

@Orfeus80 Well, I guess you have never sung Where E'er You Walk and do not really understand its bravura demands. The vocal requirements of an aria are not found in listening only. That is found in doing, in actual singing. Your point is not well taken.

[Orfeus80]

@Trinite33 wrong again, I have sung where e'er you walk as well as other Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Bach, Lully, Monteverdi, Buxtehude, Scarlatti works on stage and in concert and studied them with great musicians but I doubt my experience will convince you so just enjoy Price and allow me to have my own opinion. ciao

[Trinite33]

@Orfeus80 Wrong again? Hmmm. I wonder how you sing this repertoire without bravura, and in an especial way Where E'er You Walk. Interesting. As to your opinion, which is precisely what it is, an opinion, you are most welcome to it. Enjoy your "singing."

[aaronsande]

Fantastic! I love the videos you've been putting up lately, of this great singer of the past and other contemporaries of hers!