Fiorenza Cossotto - Di Tanti Palpiti "Tancredi"

Fiorenza Cossotto in the main role from Rossini's Tancredi. This is from a performance for the italian television, she is lip-synching her own studio record.

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Music

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• fiorenza
• cossotto
• rossini
• opera
• music
• classical
• tancredi

[lmspr]

Excellent singing. I love this aria.

[sparklingMedea]

C'est un contre-emploi, on est tous d'accord... Mais il y a tellement de soi-disant "rossiniens" aujourd'hui qui n'arrivent pas à convaincre dans leur propre répertoire...

[montag1982]

...as well as it would be even more stupid if his or her fans would expect the same vocal performances that could be heard lots of years before. I well know that an artist remains an artist for all his or her life. It's almost impossible to close completely with the career, for an artist. Even if when you are really "elder" to continue to practice on stage it's really better for you and your fans to close completely with stage performances. In this case she could stil sing very well at his age.

[montag1982]

@lucasm123 I agree with you but not for the last sentence you wrote. I think every singer should close his or her career just before the own natural vocal decline. But I think it's just a pleasure for the "elder" singers and their fans both that concert performances like this can be done. The important things for everyone is to listen and to see with intelligence and respect. It would be simply stupid if the singer would try to show the same technical abilities and timbre homogeneities...

[montag1982]

@lehar You're perfectly right!! This is a very nice musical piece, and the introduction in particular is quite a bit similar to the melodic line of the second movement of Beethoven's sixth Symphony!! Simply lovable ;)

[semiramide1945]

@AmatureComposer Thank you very much for the information- I was not aware she had recorded the complete opera

[AmatureComposer]

@semiramide1945

I don't know about the film, but the soundtrack is extracted from her 1979 complete opera recording of this opera.

[AmatureComposer]

@lucasm123

This was recorded in 1979. Cossotto was in her "late prime" if you wish. The Tokio thing is obviously not up to this, but it's fun (at least for people who don't take it too seriously).

[lucasm123]

I suppose this was done in the early seventies, at Cossotto's prime. She could have been a great rossinian as this is sung marvellously. Probably she did not want to deal with all the coloratura stuff that made Bartoli justly famous though with less beauty of sound. This is the Cossotto I want to remember not the Tokio rendition of 2007 that should be removed from You tube as soon as possible.

[lehar]

The introduction is of a stunning beauty - it remains me of the second movement of Beethoven's 6th Symphony.

[chengducat]

Voice and versatility as is heard no more

[toupelitidl]

Evidemment que c'est une mezzo verdienne.

Mais combien de mezzos dite "verdiennes" aujourd'hui (y en a-t-il encore de sa classe?) seraient capables de chanter Tancredi?