Eva Turner - The Definitive Turandot

Generally female voices were not captured authentically with the devices which were used in the first 40 years of the recording age. This in "In Questa Reggia" however is truly a marvel. I have NEVER heard such brilliant high C's as Dame Turner sings here. For me the greatest Turandot in history.

If Caruso hadn't passed away so tragically early, one could have premiered this opera at the MET with him as Kalaf, Turner as Turandot, Ponselle as Liu and Mardones as Timur !

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Primobaritono
• opera
• soprano

[fabrizzzio48]

Eva Turner's singing have something of the time's ardor and style.

In this opera, Nilsson was like the Berlin Wall, Eva, like

a mountain.

[dasterpol]

absolutely the greatest! Eva Turner the very best!

[JeeRant]

Me too! Fantastic voice.

[OperaLovingGay2]

Really fine. However it is disappointing how she slurs over the words before the last high c.

[batmanmd1]

fantastic! And I learned about her existance only last week because the review in Opera News of a book about her.

[baritonebynight]

Perhaps my favorite Turandot

[Dymension]

@ronneesam First of all leave out the hate. True German dramatic voices have a different tessitura, not range, than an Italian dramatic. The comment was about Kirsten Flagstad! Turner's interpretation is superb!

[ronneesam]

@trschaefer Have you heard Ralph Vaughan Williams's original version of 'The Serenade to Music' . Eva Turner sings in this tribute to Sir Henry Woods's jubilee. Isobel Baillie steals the thunder though! Just like her!!!!

Seriously this is the greatest music ever. R.V.W.'s 9th symphony runs it close - 5th, Tudor portraits

[ronneesam]

@miuzefreak What type do you like? Static? Immobile? Unmoving? Dead? Do enlighten us. There's room for the necrophiliac in all societies.

[ronneesam]

@Dymension Explain please the difference between Italian dramatics and German dramatics if you can extricate your head from your rectum. BTW for us ignoramuses tessitura means the range within which voices fall (OED) German voices have a different range from Italian voices? MM Ok I accept shrieky falsetto tenor Italian might not have Germanic equals. T.G. You fail to find beauty in a voice like Eva Turner's. You are to be pitied. Lark song is quite nice!

[ronneesam]

"Such loveliness is in immortal souls" Her voice with many others -Isobel Baillie's for one - is forever ringing in Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music possibly the greratest music ever written.

[trschaefer]

One of the most beautiful voices to ever sing this role!!!