Renata Tebaldi "Ancora un passo or via" M. Butterfly

Arena Flegrea Napoli. August 9, 1958

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Opera
• Puccini
• Madama
• Butterfly
• Cio-Cio-San
• Renata
• Tebaldi

[enrym86]

All'epoca era usanza avere il suggeritore che "dettava" praticamente tutte le battute di tutti i personaggi, coro compreso. è normale. non vedo perchè ci si debba scandalizzare tanto -.-'

[micioamilano]

Lei come al solito stupenda però devo dire che il suggeritore è insopportabile!!!

[operachad]

Wonderful. Whatever crazy people who say she wasn't a good butterfly are either haters or idiots.

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

loudest prompter on record?? LOL

[hazelssister]

Puccini is so brilliant I cannot stand it !

[ChristophePhilippe]

Can you imagine how great Tebaldi would have been if she hadn't sung flat on every note at the upper end of the staff? This is painful to listen to.

[TheValdoro]

you are all crazy!! 1st., the chap shouting out the words does that throughout the opera as that is his job! 2nd puccini did not write a high c sharp at the end of this aria. It is sung at the end of the duet because the duet is i half tone lower than the aria!!!£rd., a lot of sopranos especially the ones that you cant hear all the way up the hill the only note they do is a screeched out C sharp and not the patrician emition of golden tone you have just heard from Tebaldi !!

[robertdonkers]

Renata always struggling with the high tessitura, flat flat flat especially at the end

[leonardovittori1]

@SiEtIn1 It was this lack of a real top and the fact that she had a powerful middle and low voice.. . the voice quality was sopranoish, the range was not. Clearly classifications of voices must be made considering both. Domingo for the first ten -15 years had B natural and High C;s and sang them.. As he grew older, they became more difficult. he is clearly a tenor to me. I never thought he wasn't .. Tebaldi on the other hand... was not comfortable after 1959 at anything over A flat.

[leonardovittori1]

@SiEtIn1 With patience, sigh... I do understand you and now I will ask you to listen to me. I listen to singers in the first ten years of their career to hear, what I consider to be their proper rep and vocal category. Tebaldi never had a good top, not even young except on good days only and they were few.. She frequently strained for notes like High B flats and was frequently under pitch on them.. Seldom did she have easy High B's or C's and never a thing above that.

[SiEtIn1]

@leonardovittori1 *with patience* she was a soprano with a short top, and she was not the first nor will she be the last. just like Domingo was a tenor with difficult high notes. She was a soprano because her tessitura was high as a soprano, which is very easy to hear. did you understand now? I hope u finally understand. kidding, Im sure you will insist she is a mezzo. I have a question: in your world, is Plácido Domingo a baritone?

[leonardovittori1]

@SiEtIn1 Kindof a non sequitor as the soprano is supposed to be the highest of all vocal categories.. so she should be comfortable with her upper register. Or she really should not be called a soprano.