Raina Kabaivanska "Final Scene" Suor Angelica
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Kaibivanska is fantastic. best suor angelica . I've seen her on stage in a bl production of Adriana Lecouvrer in 1980..the day I started to love opera.
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L-O-V-E Raina!
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@qyzuf I suppose there's no a simple answer. We cannot say if this is illusion or "reality" and where this final moment exactly happens.
Both variants are not easy for interpretation.
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i see what you mean, but:
I think it CAN be interpeted - as a illusion of a dying woman, thus making it just as dramatic and moving (not intellectual) without going too far.
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@qyzuf It could become too sentimental or melodramatic if there's no just measure that is not the case here; this passage between the life and death cannot be characterised otherwise than cathartic. Without child, it may seem more intellectual but I'm afraid almost impossible to interpret in a convinient way. That's why Puccini put the child, he was a great dramaturgist above all.
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Waaauw, great!
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I agree with you 100% - Whan a performance!!! You know who else is great in that role on YT? Victoria de los Angeles, but unfortunately there are no visulas
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I'm with you on that..
Renata Scotto in on YT doing the scene without the child physically there.
Really moving, breaks your heart.
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thanks!
I know that some productions have a child some don't. I prefer the second option because it's less sentimental.
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It's written in the score...
" the blessed virgin appears... and a fair child."
Sr Angelica is given a miracle of forgiveness "...in a glory of light"
Curtain falls
I am still crying ! She is absolutely marvellous, a great singing actress, great among the greatest. It doesnt matter she did not sing at the Met, she is an idol in Europe. What a " slancio ". Great, great ! And that when she was touching 60...
Greatfan 3 years ago 7
At the time she would accept a contract with the Met they proposed her to play a substitute for Scotto. Evidently this was not the right approach having in mind her enormous popularity in Europe, Italy in particular.
amlirco 3 years ago 5