Muchas gracias, Oneguin65. Caballe is very dramatically expressive while keeping the bel canto line and sound. (A little funny to see a Pollione wearing glasses.)
You can purchase a CD which i own of Scotto and Freni performing operatic duets and it starts at "Dormondo entrambi" and finishes at "si fino all'ore estreme" it;s about 25 mins of good music. I downloaded the album from iTunes. i hope you find this helpful..:D
the vulgarity is not the D or not at the end.. is people on theatre.. "applausi" and "bravo" only ofter the end of music and not when the orchestra play the last music coda!!!! respect for the player not only for the singer!!!
Well, I think also that omitting complete words which ARE written in the score or finishing "O non tremare!" on a chest (!) middle C which not even Fedora Barbieri in Ponchielli would sing can be a vulgarity...It depends on how you see it.
if "glottal shouts" are vulgar HAIL VULGARITY! I love it! Caballe was my first NORMA at the MET in 1975. It was the night of her husbands (Bernabe Marti) debut and the Adalgisa was Verrett. I was 13 years old and it was a blizzard of coloratura, interpolated high notes (Verrett) and drama. I knew I had died and gone to heaven! I LOVE this clip!
As far as Caballe's glottal shouts,she used often in dramatic passages as being very much in fashion during the end of the 19 th century and the begining of the 20th.Vulgar?not sure but sometimes very effective in dramatic passeges.
I am a great fun of your postings!.The original Bellini score was changed a lot and brought down a whole tone just because Giuditta Pasta couldn't cope with the tessitura.Malibran was the first Norma to sing it in the original key and most likely the high D at the end of the trio,Sutherlad has been the first this century to have sung Norma as it was first written.
Well, I was wondering about the differnt keys for Norma. I orignial key is too high for most mezzos and even sopranos. LOL
I sing Norma duet currently and do it a whole tone down from orignial. I feel I'm in good company now. ! The tessitura is a bear in the orignial key. But Sutherland and Tyronas do it original key. Man ...lots of high C s !
indeed, mariogorga and DivaDeb1234. besides, i don't see what the big deal is. it used to be perfectly acceptable performance practice to adjust keys to the singer's tessitura so as to better serve the music. not to mention our contemporary performance A being higher than it used to be.
The diction is non-existent here.
operassassin 1 month ago
@operassassin Probably... But so many more other things are that nobody cares...
GeorgiNM 1 month ago
You wait for the music to end. Then, you clap.
thehackler25 7 months ago
this is the Caballé the world fell in love with. Brava!
gettyO89 9 months ago
Muchas gracias, Oneguin65. Caballe is very dramatically expressive while keeping the bel canto line and sound. (A little funny to see a Pollione wearing glasses.)
ploplisphilin 1 year ago
And who is the wonderful conductor holding all this together?
ploplisphilin 1 year ago
@ploplisphilin Enrique García-Asensio
Oneguin65 1 year ago
is that a cat at 1:40???
belcunto 1 year ago
People might find this too youthful a voice for this role at 1970, but I love this. You really see Caballe worked a lot to get this role right.
GeorgiNM 2 years ago
en este periodo la caballe se elevo como una de las GRANDES NORMAS,GLORIOSA DE VOZ Y DE ESTADO DE GRACIA VOCAL!!!
gencerito 2 years ago 5
A great moment.
But don't forget Leyla Gencer in this kind of roles.
lojundolo 3 years ago
@lojundolo Funny, while I love Gencer, I prefer Caballe's Norma, but Gencer's Anna Bolena and Elizabeth in Roberto Devereux are unbeatable.
Dymension 1 year ago
La Caballe is such an exciting singer in addition to having an exceptionally beautiful tone ! Brava, Montserrat, es magnifica !
rmegna 3 years ago 2
Meravigliosa Montserrat, superlativo Robleto Merolla
tenorite 3 years ago 2
i have this freni/scotto album its where great performers just do music together another one is caballle and verrett just pure music
franrat 4 years ago
You can purchase a CD which i own of Scotto and Freni performing operatic duets and it starts at "Dormondo entrambi" and finishes at "si fino all'ore estreme" it;s about 25 mins of good music. I downloaded the album from iTunes. i hope you find this helpful..:D
Joeleole 4 years ago
the vulgarity is not the D or not at the end.. is people on theatre.. "applausi" and "bravo" only ofter the end of music and not when the orchestra play the last music coda!!!! respect for the player not only for the singer!!!
kingwindsor 4 years ago
Well, I think also that omitting complete words which ARE written in the score or finishing "O non tremare!" on a chest (!) middle C which not even Fedora Barbieri in Ponchielli would sing can be a vulgarity...It depends on how you see it.
xafnndapp 4 years ago
No comedy of errors,please! I wrote vulgar effects as PARLATO or SPRECHT into the melody.The glottal COLPO is often helping BEL CANTO.
saverioorlando 4 years ago
if "glottal shouts" are vulgar HAIL VULGARITY! I love it! Caballe was my first NORMA at the MET in 1975. It was the night of her husbands (Bernabe Marti) debut and the Adalgisa was Verrett. I was 13 years old and it was a blizzard of coloratura, interpolated high notes (Verrett) and drama. I knew I had died and gone to heaven! I LOVE this clip!
laddnyc 4 years ago
As far as Caballe's glottal shouts,she used often in dramatic passages as being very much in fashion during the end of the 19 th century and the begining of the 20th.Vulgar?not sure but sometimes very effective in dramatic passeges.
mariogorga 4 years ago
I am a great fun of your postings!.The original Bellini score was changed a lot and brought down a whole tone just because Giuditta Pasta couldn't cope with the tessitura.Malibran was the first Norma to sing it in the original key and most likely the high D at the end of the trio,Sutherlad has been the first this century to have sung Norma as it was first written.
mariogorga 4 years ago
Hi ,
Well, I was wondering about the differnt keys for Norma. I orignial key is too high for most mezzos and even sopranos. LOL
I sing Norma duet currently and do it a whole tone down from orignial. I feel I'm in good company now. ! The tessitura is a bear in the orignial key. But Sutherland and Tyronas do it original key. Man ...lots of high C s !
DivaDeb1234 4 years ago
indeed, mariogorga and DivaDeb1234. besides, i don't see what the big deal is. it used to be perfectly acceptable performance practice to adjust keys to the singer's tessitura so as to better serve the music. not to mention our contemporary performance A being higher than it used to be.
erin129 4 years ago
PARLATO no Bellini.Virtuosity belongs to opera's history....
saverioorlando 4 years ago
Caballé is amazing. I love all the colpi di glotti. Is there a baby crying in the background?
viverito 4 years ago
wow...what glottals at the end of "oh non tremare"! That last shouted note was...an unusual (hopefully artistic) choice.
BeauTenor 4 years ago