maria callas

[Marye]

Thank you Nicole

[Nicole Marie]

Da nada!

[Marye]

Jessye Norman choice .... just excellent Nicole... many many thanks

[OperaTenor]

Hmmm... We seem to have a soprano fan here... Better not let Donna get wind of this....

[dkm32]

Originally posted by Nicole Marie:
Da nada!

Isn't that Sha Na Na ???

This Maria Callas gal's a soprano, huh? Nuff said.

[priya978]

Was a soprano.
I'm sure you would've liked her Donna. :p

[dkm32]

Originally posted by eugene a.:
[b]Was a soprano.
[/b]

Dead, huh? Well, depite what you are all probably thinking...I didn't do it!

[bignaf]

lol Donna. she was a good in acting with her voice. but she ruined her voice early in her career so she was screechy, woblly for most of her career.

[dkm32]

Originally posted by bignaf:
she was screechy, woblly for most of her career.

And, how did this differ her from other sopranos?

[priya978]

lol
She was still one of the greatest sopranos of the last century.
(God, I'm asking for it )

[bignaf]

Birgit Nilsson was not screechy and wobbly. Kathleen Battle is not etc.

[priya978]

I said "one" (that is, if your talking to me Big

[bignaf]

I know Verdi said that. I like perfection.
I saw someone complain about Pollini that his playing sounds like a machine and he can't hear the human in the music. I thought: "great! I just can't stand humans, I don't need them getting into my music."
ok I'm exagerating.
Oh and the last post should've been adressed to Donna. (who was asking about the existence of non wobbly sopranos).

[priya978]

Those horrendous humans huh Big?
Then that last post was a waste. Hahaha! okay. Pardon my stupidity.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

I don't wobble. Stagger occasionally, but no wobble. Honest.

There are a few old recordings of Callas before her voice went, and it was drop-dead lovely. I don't know if it was lifestyle that did her in, or if she just had a fragile instrument that wasn't up to the career stresses, but the later recordings, which are better recordings, don't have the same voice in it. When she was younger, her voice was richer, stronger, and had wonderful depth.

I know some of yez complain bitterly about us sopranos, but honestly, it's hard to squeak lovely. Hard, I say.

[Marye]

[Shapley]

I don't suppose there would be a decent recording of Deanna Durbin in the B.com library, would there?

V/R
Shap