Maria Callas & Gianni Raimondi - S'ei t'abborre (Anna Bolena)

Amazing and dramatic duetto from Anna Bolena, the low laying phrases written for the diva are proof that no singer without a well developed middle and low register should sing Anna Bolena or any other assoluta role. Maria brings a beautifully mezzo/contralto-like chest voice and a magnificent metallic soprano.

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• anna
• bolena
• donizetti
• maria
• callas
• gianni
• raimondi
• bel
• canto
• soprano
• assoluta
• sfogato
• giuditta
• pasta
• mezzo
• contralto

[kgarmaker123]

What is evident here, is that Callas did not have as the critics said during those days, three different voices, with noticeable gear shifts.. She had ONE seamles sound.. a sound like this, with this kind of range and power they had not ever ever heard, and had not been heard at La Scala in over 100 years.. This is why she was maligned.. because many were green with envy, and she was an impeccable musician on top of it, with a thorough understanding of the text and the language.

[primohomme]

@kgarmaker123

Well, Maria did have a perfect column of sound with no drops in volume (support), but what critics don't understand is that you cannot sing a powerful low G and sing a powerful high E with the same color.

[CatalinaDM56]

Which little bitch are you referring to?

[primohomme]

@CatalinaDM56

All the little idiots who try singing this role and can't even project the requires notes; Edita Gruberova, Mariella Devia, and next year at the MET both Anna Netrebko and Angela Meade (though this last one critics say she has a well developed low register, but I simply don't hear it, even Beverly Sills with a lighter voice than had a better low register).

[galehout]

@kgarmaker123 yes exactly. Anna Bolena is a dramatic role with lots of coloratura passages, but it is not a light role. Unfortunately, is entrusted to voices less dramatic than that of Callas, who, I remember, began his career singing: Cavalleria, Fidelio, La Gioconda, Isolde. Maybe his voice is not so dramatic in nature, but her approach was appropriately dramatic. And at that time, Norma (witten for the same singer of Anna, Giuditta Pasta) was entrusted to the dramatic

[TheWisemonkey8]

@primohomme lol...

[kgarmaker123]

@primohomme Boy to I agree with you. Edita, Mariella, Angela Meade, and Netrebko.. they ARE NOT sfogato soprano voices.. They are NOT. and they are not dramatic coloratura voices either.. They are simply High voices.. some of the very small sounds ( Gruberova and Devia, especially.).. Sills did indeed have a better lower register than these singers.

[CatalinaDM56]

LOL