Opera Fanatic 2/2

[magicmonkichi]

"high notes errod the brain" o.O

[1988dongiovanni]

What gives with his bass laugh and the wee squeeky voice he uses elsewhere. so much bull%%^$

[sallpario]

zucker desided to find the voce di petto

[moghedien13]

giulietta still had it even when she was almost 90!

[dangmills]

What was the aria Fedora Barbieri sang from Verdi's Falstaff?

[dangmills]

What was the aria GIULIETTA SIMIONATO sang from Verdi's Travatore? 

[thesoundofmusic1991]

I'm sorry, that response to what was up with his voice was complete, incomprehensible BS.

[tadcastria]

Let me get this straight. This audiophile fetishist gets a chance to speak with this famous woman and he asked her what is the highest note you ever sang with and who she slept with?

[ungiornodiregno]

Oh what a fool he is, he was able to talk to these great singers and only stuck to this silly questions. I would give my right arm, if I have had the possibility to talk to Simionato for example.

[tenorismo]

per che ? e'du nu stupido

[Drelnis]

My god why is he this so..... GOSH!!! He's with someone much greater than he is and all he could do is.. act childish??

And what's with his speaking voice lol

[RVP57]

Stefam Zuker is a freak, an over-pampered ass whose fifteen minutes were up ages ago.

[SiEtIn1]

did he ever have even fifteen minutes? why would he be famous for even a minute? this movie was the first time i heard of this freaky creature

[iskenderuna]

I am sure he was sending himself and all those prima donnas up. Here is a guy who speaks in head voice (is that an act or a sickness?) asking Barbieri and Simionata if they ever used chest voice. They both had distinctive breaks between chest and head and yet, deny ever using chest voice. Lovely comment by Leyla Gencer cut in there!

[operafan85]

GREAT DIVAS! They are fantastic! But who is this man?

[Webarton]

He asks these questions to the singers because he is looking for an answer to spit back to others, instead of trying to answer himself. The truth is because he probably doesn't know crap about singing and needs to regurgitate the answers of experiences professionals to make up his own mind. That is called being a POSER.

Good job.

[HMW]

you can hear his real voice when he laughs

[morachioli1]

Bravissima Signora Pobbe, meritava

proprio una bella lavata di testa,quell'intrigante pettegolo di Zucker!

Al suo posto lo avrei omaggiato con una

randellata sul capoccioneeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[Colja1]

Singing was what Signora Pobbe did for her living, and to be treated as she was here is demeaning. Some professionals don't mind indulging the fans, but Signora Pobbe clearly has no wish to indulge in such camepery, whilst Mr Zucker comes across as infantile I'm afraid.

[suffisance]

"Non c'e bisogno di fare delle cose orrende" ahahah--and I love how Barbieri takes about half a minute to make the same point all the others are making :-P

[SiEtIn1]

"the higher the voice the lower the mentality" lol i bet stefan thinks he is very witty lol, but he has a very low mentality so he might be right

[drymyeye]

LOL!

[cabalettaverdi]

este presentador eesta como una regadera.......por diossssss

[espinaca79]

That man made a fool of himself. It was isulting for those marvalous singers to be treated like that. Their art was questioned by a complete idiot. I liked the delicacy of all them.

[moghedien13]

i agree. i do think there is such a thing as chest resonance but im a man and its different for us. but his questions were way too blunt and not worded correctly. i love how simionato tolerates him like she would a child.

[DivaDeb1234]

I agree..there is no chest voice...it is all in the mask....this guy seems to make fun of great singers here that sing in the mask on low notes! He doesn't seem to believe them.

I think quite possibly they know more than he does. So I thank him for taping the interview so I can listen to them ...not him..

[Grandtenore]

Yea the way i was taught is that, especially for high voices, the true voice is "head voice" and the voce di petto is a means by which to describe the sensation of allowing those tones access to a larger space in the throat and upper chest cavity for a fuller sound.

[espinaca79]

I agree with you and that makes sense to me. The singers in this interview also admit that the use of chest voice made them reach larger audiences because most people do not know how to distinguish among them. Still, they were all amizing.

[flaze3]

chest voice is just a label for thicker cord mass. It's pretty much irrelevant whether you use the label or not, so long as you can explain the physiology to a student.

[tosca8]

uno che ha quella voce vuole parlare ai grandi cantanti di risonanze e quant'altro...a me sembra ridicolo e poco educato per la voce l'ha usata per vivere ottenendo risultati e successi.

Rispetto della carriera e delle persone non esiste più..non capisco..lasciamo perdere il commento della leila...anche lei in qualche serata non era superba..

[operastud82]

Zucker is a complete idiot. How dare they ask La Pobbe to change outfits because the other one is prettier and as if that isn't bad enough, they TAPED them telling her that. His questions to these great singers are inane, idiotic, and lame. Zucker was one of the worst singers in history and knows absolutely nothing about giving interviews. It's great to hear these wonderful ladies talk, but a shame that there wasn't someone more intelligent and dignified behind the project.

[CONTESTAR]

He reduces opera to soap-opera.

However, although opera devotees want to believe this is an intellectual art, there is a big operatic audience out there with nothing more than a superficial knowledge (nothing worse than that) which lives of remarks about scandals, infamous cancellations and amateur descriptions of technique.

Live with it. This is no paradise. It is planet earth.

[ideiao]

Artists like to talk about art,they hate to talk about technics,high notes low notes etc...About others singers...almost all opera singers try to hide from mr Zucker.He's questions are not interesting at all.

[allanaki]

Signora Pobbe, ti chiamo Signora perchè lo sei. Hai ragione. Vengono gli intervistatori a casa Tua e devono parlare della Tua Arte e non fare pettegolezzo. Ti trovo molto diretta e leale. Tutto tranne stronza. Con me sei sempre stata molto gentile e paziente. Grazie Marcella.

[vergoti20]

Marcella now after you were found died and rotten , your body was decayed in your dirty apartment and your evil soul now is in hell.Now you are in burning in hell.Can you heard me Marcella ?You never did important things as you saied, you were only un ugly and cheap whore

[MariadelMonaco]

@vergoti20

You must be a very rude person to give a comment like that. It is inappropiate. I give you some good advice, if you don't mind, first learn English and then show a bit decency.

[Ricocarrino1]

@vergoti20

Against you Marcella Pobbe was a saint.

You are only a stinking heap of shit.

Hopely you are destroyed by the cancer.

The rats should eat the damned stinking rest.

[vergoti20]

Marcella Pobbe was found dead in her apartment, she died alone and her body was rotten, by staying many days and only pudrid smell remember she had existed.Can you hear Marcella Pobbe ? Now you are in hell forever , burning like the miserable witches deserv

[MariadelMonaco]

@vergoti20

ya,ya,ya you repeat yourself.

[31122051]

@vergoti20 : si vergogni di scrivere simili assurdità su una GRANDISSIMA cantante passata a miglior vita. La Pobbe era una vera SIGNORA, BELLISSIMA e vocalmente SPLENDIDA e sarà ricordata nei secoli come un soprano straordinario. Sa che ha cantato con C. MacNeil, G. Raimondi, M. Del Monaco e F. Barbieri, tanto per fare dei nomi ??? Se a lei questa sembra una carriera di second'ordine, allora la saluto. Ripeto, si faccia un esame di coscienza e si vergogni di scrivere tante cretinate.

[vergoti20]

Marcella Pobbe was so idiotic and mediocre as it was her cheap career.She was so mediocre and she was so full of shit, she even failed in an interview.Stupita, streghona she lived all her life into the shit

[MariadelMonaco]

@vergoti20

Maybe, she was not a nice woman in private life, but you don't write things like that about a dead person. But your comprehension and your intelligence quotient must be very low, maybe that's why you don't understand.

[iubanne]

Leyla sei grande...una spina ma grande.

[alceste66]

cara Gigliola, non è che hai fatto un po' di casein?

[DivaDeb1234]

I'm still wondering what is wrong with his personal voce!

[fl0relie]

maybe he tried to sing in "chest voice" all his life and wrecked his cords haha

[xilpix]

This guy don't know the difference from chest voice and resonance. But the singers don't use only the chest but also the head as box (?) of resonance. Cassa di risonanza, insomma.

[DivaDeb1234]

What is wrong with his voce di petto. ?

[DivaDeb1234]

Did anyone check the pitch she ended on? I DID...!!! It is an E natural below middle C..! Holy cow...that is super low..so ahead ....try it. ..!!!

[xxForeverlambxx]

I'm sure she could've gone lower...maybe to the C below middle C.

[DivaDeb1234]

That is very low singing for a woman!

[fl0relie]

I can hit G natural below the below the middle C so about 1.5 octaves? below middle C .. and upper range is up to F ~ 2.5 octaves above middle C. Range helps but I'm more concerned with improving my musical creativity.. knowing which notes to sing when improvising etc

[fl0relie]

*so if C4 is middle C, my lowest note is G2 ..very low for a chick apparently!

[HMW]

BS...

[ilbacioditosca]

did you hear Zucker singing? and interviewing Jerome Hines, Franco Corelli? did you see that when Pobbe get mad with him he even record his reponse to her when she is not there with him? he is not respectfull to her.

He looks like he has a mental problem, how he got into this radio program and talk about opera??

[youfeda]

w Gavazzi

[tealeh2]

What was she dying from? Her view that she insisted on filming was way sad and depressing.

[trepicioni]

Marcella Pobbe was an idiot, it is noticeable in this clip she was a nasty person.WHO CARES YOU Marcella Pobbe ? You were an horrible third rate singer!You are in hell now!Can you hear me dirty bitch ?

[operastud82]

You are disgusting.

[epa300]

The Italian Cultural Ministry should ban him from all of Italy.

[mhwon3]

"95$ of them (the questions) wont be answered; those that will be answered will be answered poorly; we'll come away with nothing"

WHY ASK THE STUPID QUESTIONS THEN?

YES THE PROBLEM IS WITH YOU!

GEEZ... I FEEL LIKE STRANGLING THIS GUY!!!

[espinaca79]

Shame, Shame on Stefano. What a marvaleous opportunity he had but totally screwed it.

[teddymeldrum]

Stefan makes the silliest and weirdest explanation possible at the end of the clip; after the young lady asks "How do you cope with everyday life with a voice like yours?"

Although I tried, with the best of intentions, to accept the guy's voice as it is and his manners (or mannerisms), his totally inaccurate / unnecessary questions and his never-changing, kitsch and seemingly polka dot shirt, I do admit; after that answer he gives I truly detest him.

[gesztenye]

Maybe Stefan is a fanatic but I think he does not have any clue about the opera singers and does not understand this world...

[LittlePasserotto]

oh...i hate him...he's totally stupid or he has no rispect for those great singers...

[BelliniNorma1]

Poor Marcella Pobbe but at least the woman had plenty of spunk !

[LittlePasserotto]

:-)...yes

[BelliniNorma1]

Yes but please lose STEFAN in the process !!!

[LittlePasserotto]

yes i hate him...

[steainsy]

ahaha. Please(!!!) post more of this film!