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Poor Callas. She should have quit while she was ahead. Better to exit while you're still in relatively good voice instead of making a fool of yourself. I guess vanity went to her head.

Ah, un altro commento: nobody pulls off that last high note with such precision (and manages to hold onto it) as does Scotto. Nobody, including Callas! It is sheer heaven.

Quanto mi manca la Scotto. La volevo tanto bene.

@SeekThePaleSeptember You are right on the mark! They are a magnificent team and first-rate musicians. I can't get enough of this music. I listen to this same song several times a day and never get tired of hearing it. Does Mariza ever get to Chicago where I live?

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Tiene Ud. razón. Los cantantes de hoy no son como antes, lamentablemente. Ay, qué nostalgia.

Chicago audiences have proven time and again that they will applaud anybody on stage, no matter how bad the performance. I guess they're just trying to be respectful. Either that, or they just have bad taste and cannot distinguish one singer from another. The Italians in Italy would be booing whe...

Can she sing anything on pitch? If this is professional singing, we are in trouble.

Lady MacBeth is one of the most demanding soprano roles in all of opera. I'm sorry, but she's not up to performing this role. Wabbly voice, way too much vibrato, horribly off pitch. Zva26 heard the same performance that I did. Did you not notice how out of tune she was? You poor thing. The perfo...

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Her Portuguese sucks. She pronounces the word "ajuda" like they would be in Spanish, not Portuguese. She has no idea how to pronounce the nasal vowels in Portuguese. She mispronounces the final -m sound of the word "sim" (=yes). Need I say more? Don't be taken in by a pretty face. A typical igno...

Mariza, I love you to death! What a marvelous instrument, my God.