Agnes Baltsa "Nacqui all'affanno" La Cenerentola

Vienna State Opera, 1979

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[Dtenor87]

This is the kind of performance you SCREAM!! " BRAVA!! ENCORE!!!!" AMAZING!!!

[MarcuCezar]

the best ..ever..

[MariaCaIIas]

Mind-blowing...

[ryker25]

The audience at the end is deafening. Still be far my favourite performance of this area, ever (and better than her own 1987 performance).

[Cipri1001]

@Tibudina impresionante!!

[istonemind]

@philipc67

I agree and disagree. Baltsa is musically purer, but Bartoli is more lively. Both are very good. von Otter is much better than von Stade. The latter's voice is too weak, too dry and too thin and often too steely. Neither v comes close to either B.

[sirenadellopera]

Perfection in every way.

[Rospaint]

I like von Otter very much ( von Stade - just a bit less ) , and as for Agnes Baltsa... I think as a stage performer she`s got the most unique quality - the great vitality + the DISTANCE between her and the audience. Actually she`s always somewhere UP there, in the World of Art . You hardly could imagine her in everyday life. (It`s so easy - with almost all the other Divas!) And - with that musicality and that unique timbre... She`s a great living symbol of singing theatre for me!

me.

[philipc67]

She is fantastic, remember she was only 35 in 1979 and at the start of her major international career. The coloratura is accurate, the voice powerful and expressive, the high notes explosive. Baltsa became a tremendous stage performer, think of her Carmen, Octavian, Eboli, Amneris, Santuzza, Elizabeth I, Charlotte, Isabella, Klytemnaestra, I think even Kundry! Two other singers compare here, von Otter and von Stade. The hysterical, vulgar , show-off Bartoli does not even enter the discussion.

[Tibudina]

que maravilloso canta esta mujer por dios!

[vsuberc]

Very pretty. Her coloratura is a lot lighter than Bartoli's, which makes it sound more like ornamentation than actual defined notes. I'm not sure about Rossini's intention for the coloratura parts, but I think I prefer the way Bartoli accentuates every note - gives the aria a nice energy and power that it lacks here for some reason. But Baltsa definitely has a gorgeous color to her voice and much more presentable than Bartoli who distorts her face too much when she sings.