Tosca Final Nilsson Domingo (with scream)

Hear Birgit Nilsson scream while falling....enjoy this great dramatic performance with Placido Domingo....New York, Metropolitan, 1969.....Cond. George Schick.....

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Music

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• Puccini
• Tosca
• Birgit
• Nilsson
• Placido
• Domingo

[LordMgls]

I must say the AAAh when she discovered Mario's death was rather hillarious than dramatic. LOL :-P But the way how she cried "Mario, morto, finire così, etc" was very musical and dramatically in tempo. Although it makes all sense screaming when jumping to death, I think that was not the message in Puccini's music.

[spacebln]

@LordMgls Listen to Renata Tebaldi/Mitropoulos how she screams while falling....her scream is even louder.......as far as I know only Tebaldi and Nilsson screamed.....and the effect is superb......for you the first AAAh might seem hillarious, but consider that most other screams are no real screams due to protecting the voice cords....Nilsson could do it with her voice cords made of swedish steel.....

[AmericanEvita]

Callas wasn't the only Tosca interpreter and this one's got Nilsson so everyone ought to be discussing Nilsson...I own the Decca recording with Franco Corelli and Dieskau as Cavaradossi...Nilsson was in top form for that recording as she is here...in the 60's she had the voice to take on Salome, Turandot, Elektra and Tosca...her Tosca is passionate and grand..even with a human gleam..it's not Italianate but Nilsson delivers...Domingo has always been the best Cavaradossi to me...enough said!

[robsonfeli]

That's a great performance!

How dramatic sounds Mrs. Nilsson.

Thank you!

[verdiwag]

Vocal chords of steel - brava Brunnhilde!

[MUSICALLAN]

@LordMgls has got it right - Just amazing that Nilsson could give a real scream like that. Hey, that's what verismo is all about. I don't want my Puccini to sound like Bach, do you?

[belensperatti]

Santo Dios, que belleza!

[bodiloto]

a 2:20 perché ha messo la foto di Franco Corelli?

Per dire al pubblico:

-Non dimenticate che il Cavaradossi di Corelli era migliore!?!?!

[LordMgls]

@BestAmateurViolinist Still being rude? If I were you, I would buy myself a 1 year trip ticket and take some psychologist with me instead of coming to YT with such rude terms in order to forget your own personal frustrations.

Learn to control and behave yourself in the Internet, coward!

[BestAmateurViolinist]

Lord Moron, you forgot. You responded to her suicide. But my objection is that she can scream whenever she wants. Screw Puccini. He isn't singing the part or acting in it. It's called "an INTERPRETATION, and it was very fitting.

Maybe you wouldn't scream, but you aren't a girl anyway.

However, from your statements, I still find you shallow and stupid. Everyone is a critic, but you cannot sing anywhere near the level being done here. Go screw yourself: you are not an expert, Mr. Self-Wedgie man

[LordMgls]

@Laeghaire The only time I clearly called a guy "dumbass" on YT was when someone wrote, under some Stravinsky piece, something like this "I always like conductors because if they are conducting they are professionals and therefore are certainly doing it right"...

I don't understand the point of these guys who come out of nowhere (almost a year later) saying in rude terms they do not agree with us...

[Laeghaire]

@LordMgls Even if it sometimes sounds a bit weird I simply love these "overacted" screams a lot. This is part of the individual interpretations of the musical theater, but I can also understand your point of view very well. What I don't understand is, why some people got so offended by your opinion, some don't get the irony behind it ;)!

[LordMgls]

@BestAmateurViolinist I have exposed my opinion and have objectively defended it more than once. If you don't want to read the older comments, that's up to you. Don't keep on with those rude accusations to my personal life...

But I will explain it once more. I would not scream if I was going to commit suicide. The sheet music does not even indicate Tosca should. When Puccini wanted that kind of things, he clearly indicated them. Example? The soft finale of Fanciulla's 1st act.

Happy?

[BestAmateurViolinist]

@LordMgls

Obviously, you've never had anyone die on you suddenly. The scream makes complete sense, unless you're insensate, or a total dolt. I think that with the death of a loved one, one could probably scream much louder than at one's own death. It's the horror or realization that you've lost the love of your life..........

Then it begs the personal question: have you never been in so deeply in love ?

Your comment reeks foul and is an insult.