Edita Gruberova - The Art of Belcanto (2nd segment)

These are the best segments of the 2008 documentary about Edita Gruberova (english subtitles). (Courtesy of MEDICI ARTS/UNITEL CLASSICA).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• soprano
• edita
• gruberova
• documentary
• opera
• lucrezia
• borgia
• norma
• donizetti
• bellini

[DiegoMartinazzoli]

thank you so much for these two wonderful videos

[classicalgal14]

She is a legend! =)

[Thriller94]

Enough about her AGE!!! Pavarotti was 70 and he was STILL singing those glorious high C's!!!

I must admit that Eb at the end was quite horrid... More of a scream... But, she has such an agile voice!

[phortion]

That's a respectable E flat for ANYBODY, let alone a 62 year-old woman!

[phortion]

Ah, those jowls! She reminds me of Angela Lansbury in her 'Murder She Wrote' days.  But what a great singer, no argument there.

[edmanetti]

that's not Belcanto, that's the end of a big career in a bad  way...

[thomastmwc]

@edmanetti what's wrong with your ears?

With all due respect

[edmanetti]

There are so many bad notes, and the end of Lucrezia Borgia is really terrific...it's not a high E's , please!

[MrSebtian]

Super!!!

[waldotube]

@1:45 ewa Podles????.. OMG, my favourites artist.. Love you Gruberova!!!!! your Lucia is amazing!

[angryjalapeno]

LOL, hahaha @ 1:06 It is clear this pianist has been around long enough to know what to say to singers.

[tklogan111809]

Donizetti wrote Era desso il figlio mio specifically to punish the first Lucrezia, Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis. He didn't want flashy music to end the opera, not sung by a mother who had just poisoned her son by accident. He wrote dignified music for the end. Begnis refused, she wanted coloratura fireworks. So he gave her the most difficult piece he could come up with, with runs, trills, stacatti, low and high notes, thinking she would bail out. But she didn't and sang it brilliantly, we're told.