Renata Tebaldi gives some advice...

another great diva......another horrifying pupil....

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Music

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• renata
• tebaldi
• masterclass
• opera
• lirica
• soprano
• joan
• sutherland
• maria
• callas

[simisimi9]

HAHA...TEBALDI SHOULD HAVE TAKEN LESSONS....GIVING THEM ??? HAHA,HA

[simisimi9]

WHO WAS NOT CALLAS...HA,HA..YOU MUST BE JOKEN...LA CALLAS WAS AND WILL BE THE GREATEST IN ALL RELATED WITH OPERA....ALL THE REST ARE APPRENTICES !!!!!

[calaftheeast]

The student has an awful voice. It is the run-of-the-mill shrill soprano sound. Just because you can produce a soprano sound, it doesn't mean the voice that comes out is pleasing or pleasant. 

[pepeelsordo]

My dear commentators: Any one who has sung at the level of Tebaldi is capable of giving advise. Perhaps not the right one for everyone, but when you have made a carrier like her, you have mastered, at least YOUR technique. Nobody is GOD in this art. Nor even Kraus (oops). Every voice has its limitations. The technique is how to deal with them.

[MadonnaImperia]

@theinkbrain Thank you. I've been an admirer of Callas for many years and only recently did I come to realise that Tebaldi is also, in a very different way, a unique artist that I get a lot of pleasure from listening to. They are both great and they both have flaws, just as can be said of other leading divas of the period, for instance Sutherland, Price, Nilsson, Schwarzkopf etc. But I think it's more fair to judge each of them in their own right, not as compared to someone else.

[theinkbrain]

@AnnaBariacchis

Thank you!

It is good to hear a sane voice - I mean yours - amongst so much madness.

[AnnaBariacchis]

@theinkbrain I totally agree. It's pointless to compare such different singers, and besides, it's much more interesting to read praise or criticism of a singer based on what he or she actually does, NOT on what someone else does.

[theinkbrain]

first of all - do not speak ill of the dead. may they both rest in peace.

Callas and Tebaldi were completely different in character and style. they were both divas of a very high order.

What i find wonderful is how much both of them loved their art and their profession, and how keen they were to transmit and pass on to the young singers the wisdom and experience they had gathered in life. masterclasses are crucial to an art like opera which is at its best a repository of collective wisdom.

[simisimi9]

@LohengrinT I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU....HOW CAN SHE CALLED A SINGER?????