LA TRAVIATA - Sempre Libera

Teresa Stratas in the cabaletta "Sempre Libera" from Verdi's La Traviata

Category:

Music

Tags:

• La
• Traviata
• Sempre
• Libera
• Teresa
• Stratas
• coloratura
• opera
• aria

[igipereira]

big voice. great actress, but coloratura... :P

[flouraki]

not a voice for this role but briliant nevertheless

[Feisenbach]

@MENSOERR That's what I thought - just kidding. :-)

[MENSOERR]

@Feisenbach Violetta Valéry*

[Feisenbach]

@MENSOERR Who is Victoria Valerie??!!

[verdgner1]

puede no tener una gran colorotura, pero su interpretación es PERFECTA,TE LA CREES,algo que se puede decir de muy pocas...NO OLVIDEMOS QUE LA OPERA TAMBIÉN ES TEATRO

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[RocioElizarraras]

Cuando vi esto por primera vez realmente supe que quería ser cantante de ópera. Teresa ha sido una de las grandes las más grandes cantantes-actrices de nuestro tiempo.

[johnyzero2000]

I really don't understand all the criticism because i'm watching and listening and she is Violetta a movie opera is far different than a staged opera. On film you have to act as well as sing on stage you just stand there and sing and occasionally walk around.

[matthieusarah]

@MastersoftheOpera

[matthieusarah]

Obviously, by the way she looks she IS Violetta.... But I am not found of her singing, especially for this aria (personnal opinion and I respect the ones who love her performance)... She is kind of screaming, isn't she? Anyway, I definitely prefer a Cotrubras, a Callas, a Sutherland, a Sills or a Freni here. But I read in a post that herself knew she wasn't made for that role and told Zeffirelli who still wanted her for her Violetta.

[hobbesfan85]

4:37 wow, just wow.

[Vsevolod14]

An amazing "performance" in terms of acting, but I believe Stratas was ill when the recording was made. She was never in posession of a boringly beautiful voice, but she could certaibnly sing Violetta better than here. There are live recordings of her in the theatre that prove this. Nevertheless, she captures Violetta's desperation and tragedy, even though this is hard on the ears.