Martha Modl as The Countess from Pique Dame

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Uploaded by on Feb 17, 2007

Wiener Staatsoper, 1992. This performance is a tribute to Modl's 50 years debut.

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  • I saw her in this role in 1981. Greater singing actress there was not in the whole world!!!!! These personalities don't exist anymore, for many managers choose just beauty and youth and are ruining opera with plastic, efficient but heartless artists. All is calculation, sex, agendas, marketing. There are lots of inmense artists that are stopped by perverse managers. No more Mödls, no more Nilssons, no more Tucker, just GOOD LOOKING NOTHINGS !!!! A toast to you up in Heaven Martha !!!

  • one of the few opera's I've heard with a singer who makes the lyrics discernible, without the needless fluff and ostentatious vibratos, and at the same time, so very beautiful in its own right

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  • sie hat diese rolle auch in graz gegeben, wo sie ja ihre laufbahn als opernsängerin begann und ich bin froh, daß ich sie, damals gesehen habe...

  • One misses the very end, dear Oneguin. I came back to this video, it is wonderful. What a personality, what an actress !!!!

  • Simply splendid

    

  • Si je me souviens bien c'est en 1986 que Marha Mödl est venue chanter la Comtesse de La Dame de PIque à Nice dans une splendide production de Petrika Ionesco dirigée par Berislav Klobucar...Le magnétisme presque félin de cette femme alors déjà âgée était frappant en scène, et l'interprétation si intense en dépit d'une voix affaiblie...Ecoutez là aussi dans le mythique Tristan de 1952 à Bayreuth dirigé par Karajan!

  • Every mayor European court adopted French as the Court language..In here the Old Countess is going back to the days of the Gran Russian Court.

  • Good french, its enough for the role of russian old woman, but Atlantov as an actor is really awful

  • I always saw the use of French as part and parcel of the Countess' expressive nostalgia for bygone days in aristocratic circles... the vogue for French in Russian court culture is something reflected in many novels, as well, e.g. Onegin, War and Peace, Anna Karenina.

  • supermartha!!!

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