Tosca-Magda Oliviero-Vissi d'arte vissi d'amore

Interpreti:
Tosca: Magda Olivero, Cavaradossi:A.Misciano,
Scarpia: G.Fioravanti
Dirige: Fulvio Vernizzi

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tosca
• magda
• oliviero
• misciano
• fioravanti
• puccini
• torture
• scarpia
• vissi
• d'arte

[eleniathens1985]

It gets to my nerves when people compare two opera singers!!Every singer has her own distinctive and unique voice! You may like one more the other but that doesn't necessarily mean that she is actually better!!!! Tastes in opera are very subjective!

[JosephCercy]

The words are so clearly pronounced and so full of emotion.  Devasting!

[piax00]

@fabrio if you are talking about mass media, that is a good argument, but unfortunately, we will never be able to test it because she did date Onassis. Callas' dramatic weight loss before Onassis and fashion sense inspired magazine ads for weight loss using her name, and documentaries, and these images could be used in the future, making people remember her. Moreover, dating Onassis made her sing less; if she hadn't dated Onassis she might have appeared in more films than the one by Pasolini.

[fabriou]

@piax00 I think not.There had been famous and scandalous sopranos and tenors before,while and after her,and after she died they disappeared from the memory(I dont't mean the memory of opera-interested people but the memory of mass-media).For instance I spoke with people who were always at LA Scala and they assured me that at that time GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO was AS famous AS callas,and Del Monaco,and Corelli,but they didn't date any onassis ..and today they are not remembered by mass media as Callas

[piax00]

@fabriou Where did I ever say that Callas was the best? There are many good sopranos in different roles. She was seminal, sure, but voices are different for different purposes. You say you are being objective but you are assuming a lot of things that aren't true, and you are doing this by emotionally reacting. Before Callas met Onassis, she was already a star and had a lot of recordings and scandals. She would have been remembered even if Onassis never existed.

[fabriou]

@miki181092 Concordo...purtroppo il timbro era brutto, se possibile ancora piu' brutto di quello della callas)

[fabriou]

@piax00 My god!the difference between me and you is that for you Callas is the best soprano but you are not objiective;for me Callas is the best soprano ever but I try to be objective.Opera is(sadly) a field which has never been "fashionable"There had been most famous opera singers in the 19 and 20th centurys but when they died their memory died(sadly)Callas and Pavarotti's memory go on not because of their artistry but for other reagions(about callas it was Onassis affair,about Pavarotti other)

[piax00]

@fabriou No. Her affair with Onassis began in 1959 when her career was on the decline because of her many no-shows and scandals. And Onassis may have been the most famous Greek (whom the old rich Gks looked down on precisely because of his sleazy connections and for being charged with fraud by the FBI), but Sir Winston Churchill was still alive and was on the same yacht trip where the affair began. Onassis was certainly not more famous than either Callas or Churchill.

[tebaldicallas]

@tebaldicallas I still think the voice is shaky and the sound not too beautiful

unllke Tebaldi - Milanov - but i still like her in other operas IE: Fedora or Adriana.

Tosca is not for her IMO.

[fabriou]

@piax00 you have re-invented the history your way...onassis was a NOBODY?...he was the most famous man in the worlds and had connections to every mafia , evey price, every count..every princess of the world...through HIM she could get into the huh society...so when she died she got a glamourous image...not due to his art (in which she was very good) but due to these connections...please don't joke around with history

[piax00]

In two radio polls in the 50s/60s people chose Olivero over Callas as their favorite. You have to realize people back then listened to opera broadcasts over the radio. Today Olivero is not as known as Callas for the simple reason that she did not record a lot. She was a latecomer to the Met (1975), where she made her debut at the age of 65, to what was said to be the longest standing ovation in Met history. Why did the Met take so long? Well, its the US, so money takes precedence over art.

[piax00]

@tebaldicallas I don't think her voice is shaky, I think it is just a very fast vibrato