'Der Holle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen'ㅡJoan Sutherland (1962)
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to have heard/seen her live in her early years would have been so amazing equally i feel with pavarotti. though as a young tenor she pointed him in the right direction for learning correct support for his voice
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@preppybeast6293 no in this part she is not. it is edda Moser without any question. she has the voice, the impetus and the language. but of course in other roles she was the greatest!
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The voice.
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@AmorediPazzia And it's still not quite in tune up there even transposed.
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That makes sense. For her very large dramatic coloratura voice, the Fs would have been very difficult to consistently have. I would much rather hear it transposed than squawked out. Plus, when Mozart wrote it, tuning was such that E natural is more where it would have sat. Thank you for sharing this; it's a real gem.
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@marc75624 .....
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@preppybeast6293 Deutekom's Queen wasn't bad either.
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@flyboytim Callas was outrageously off? Not a scrap on Sutherland? You are deaf.
Does anyone else think Joan looks downright beautiful as the Queen?
ChrisStockslager 2 years ago 22
I think some people are being a bit tough on her for the transposition. (Similar to Callas's voice in this sense), Sutherland's voice was very big; it is astonishing that she can sing wonderful high Es, let alone touch a high F (as she does in O zittre nicht ). And of course, the remarkable flexibility of the voice goes without saying. So, I think transposing down half a step in limited circumstances like this one is perfectly acceptable.
VivaMariaCallas 1 year ago 4