Tebaldi`s English is so adorable also she is so beautiful, that incredible smile.

@iTube22100

2 жыл бұрын

Tebaldi was highly overrated as a rival to Callas. She was a good singer like many others but far below Maria

Thank you uncle Loui to put this together!❤

Eva Turner is an adorable lady! One day I want to meet her in Heaven! My favorite role of hers was Turandot - she sounds timeless!

@stevenmathers6661

3 ай бұрын

I met her very briefly outside the Royal Opera house, covent garden. She was emerging from the stage door after seeing her pupil (Gwyneth Jones) sing the dyer's wife in "Die frau ohne schatten" and I was waiting for autographs. I held the door and she smiled and said thank you.

La beauté physique et l'élégance de la Tebaldi tout à fait en accord avec sa musicalité et sa facilité pour l'émission. Elle avait de même un don naturel pour composer un personnage sur le plan dramatique. La douce et charmeuse beauté de Ljuba Wellitsch; quelle beauté dans son âme aussi. Régine Crespin avec sa voix imposée si grave et enrouée et son autorité de toujours. L'élégante Licia Albanese était la dauphine d'Arturo Toscanini. La tenue seigneuriale et l'allure distinguée de Léonie Rysanek qui était de même une des beautés viennnoises. La magnifique Maria Jeritza était l'élue de Puccini pour le rôle. Galina Vischneskaja avait aussi une belle prestance et une voix superbe. Grace Bumbry avait une extraordinaire voix hors-pair. Merci du partage de cette vidéo bien spéciale. Elle nous permet de soupirer encore une fois avec des voix qui nous ont fait tant soupirer autrefois.

What a treat! Thank you so much for posting this.

So good. Thanks for uploading this. So many good things and people to see

Thankyou for making this valuable piece of operatic documentation available for general viewing.

Montserrat forever! 💝💝💝

Thank you so much for posting!! Having a great chance working with K.S. Grace Bumbry in Vienna, and review this video just now, it brought me tears! Ms. Bumbry is still very discipline in eating and daily schedule. She still offers lessons for many you singers. As a young conductor, I am truly lucky to meet her in life!

Very enjoyable and the great ladies delightful. Thank you.

Thank you for this wonderful,insightful video.What an amazing array of dignified ladies.I have always loved Zinka Milanov’s silky tone,coupled with great dramatic expression.That still photo of her as Tosca is my idea of the perfect Prima Donna.

Incredibly, three of the divas featured in this film lived to be 101 years of age or older, and Eva Turner 98.

Thanks so much for uploading this. :D

I was indeed disappointed that one of the greatest Toscas of all time and my personal favorite was not a part of this wonderful video. Perhaps she was not available. Yet, a clip of Miss Price singing an excerpt as Tosca in English from the NBC-TV 1955 production would have been a great addition to this video. As you know, that TV production was Miss Price's first big break in opera, but she was the first black American to profiled in such a national manner in opera on television.

@davidsimmons654

4 жыл бұрын

berry divo agreed

@lakehayden

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, and with some interesting choices…I wonder how you’d get your hands on that NBC footage, sounds like it could be rare? Would love to see more of price in everything, but I only seem to find interviews

What a treasure of a film with all these ladies. Merrill was handsome and I adored him. 🌹

beautiful, thank you

I saw Leone Reysanek as Tosca. It was a transcendental experience.

The best part of the video is 106:20 to 106:55! Divine Caballe!

I liked Mdme. Olivera's comment the best. When she stated that each time she sang it was like the very first time.

Grandissimo video ! Grazie . ❤️ il vecchio 7:23 - 7:56 La Verità sulla posizione giusta della voce .

CHE CLASSE LA GINA CIGNA! ADORO!

This video is a proof, if needed, that there's no other Tosca than Maria Callas... forever !!

@davidvscalvim2836

2 жыл бұрын

If anything, your comment proves that she is YOUR FAVORITE Tosca.

@shirleyrombough8173

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. And the only Scarpia is Tito Gobbi. (sp?)

@shirleyrombough8173

2 жыл бұрын

It is so wonderful to see these divas and to listen to their words. They swemed to agree that Tosca was a woman and must not be played by a girl too young to understand her passions.

@paragod333

10 ай бұрын

So the other sopranos should just give up on the role and no one will hear the opera live again. Sound foolish to me. Did you ever hear her in person?

@pedromiguel2675

3 ай бұрын

Réponse à @ tube22100 Cette appréciation est tout à fait surfaite et arbitraire. Vous devriez mettre votre cible à tâcher de vous sortir la Callas de la tête.

Zinka Milanov was such a special lady 😍

@jamesryan6008

4 ай бұрын

When I think "Diva" ,Zinka Milanov immediately comes to my mind. Fortunately, she had the talent to back it up.

This is just fantastic 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@shirleyrombough8173

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe we can come to uderstand Anna Netrebko's dilemma regarding being a Russian and an international singer. When ahe tries to explain she is revilied.

@shirleyrombough8173

2 жыл бұрын

This is just fantastic, agreed. There are too few opporrunities to see and hear successful women in opera.

@omarsomehow69

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirleyrombough8173 what Nedreadko has to do with this historical document? She is abomination for history of opera. Her singing on peasant level and she also "singing" for peasants like she is.

OMG so good

Zinka Milanov was Amazing 👏

1:26:20 LOL Love the little scream! What a great singing actress! :-D

@fan2jnrc

5 жыл бұрын

And 1:27:44 Amazing. Coo - o - Ooo - oOOo - siii...

@chembaliszt484

4 жыл бұрын

Who is that singer?

Montserrat is the best ,beautiful,visi darte x

My style was like Ljuba Welitch and Leonie Rysanek apparently; they told me on tour on my debut night as Robbins onstage, downstage: “ Calm down, brother…”. …”and he got it all up in his head too.”

Caballe' sang this Tosca at the Met. NYC. I taped it there.

@lissandrafreljord7913

5 жыл бұрын

Omg. I would love to see the whole clip. It sounds better than the other versions I found on KZread.

@vcartei

3 жыл бұрын

Do you haver with Caballé and Pavarotti (1985)? I have been looking for this everywhere without success. Could you publish this for us?

@PedroZamagna

3 жыл бұрын

This is all that was recorded?

@emitch9213

3 жыл бұрын

Did you tape for the Met or personally? Have you published for public? Or is the family trust protecting rights? I would love to see her and would appreciate seeing her at the Met. Please consider that you could share. Thank you!

@unclelouie3828

3 жыл бұрын

@@emitch9213 I have many videos which I have taped myself. I put 'everything' on KZread. Before I 'croak' I want to make sure my videos are available to everyone- rather than wind up in a dumpster.

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Welitsch was a fabulous and beautiful Tosca.

thank you! i hope you also have the movie il baccio di tosca...or do you know where i can find it?

@lizcooper6849

5 жыл бұрын

Try Amazon. I bought the DVD from there some years ago (Tosca’s Kiss).

Cute poodle.

Where is Mirella Freni?

Wonderful! How fabulous is Gina Cigna?

I love this! Guaranteed you’ll make it to 10,000 views just from me!

there isn't Raina Kabaivanska, one of the Great Soprano who sang Tosca for 40 years from 1971 and Leontyne Price too

Sad personal story that of Regine Crespin! I feel sorry for her.

Licia Albanse died at 105 yrs old and Magda Olivero 104 and 6 months !! They both died in 1914 when Puccini was still alive O.O

Hello Uncle Louie, is this channel still active? I am a student with a personal interest in collecting and preserving rare and obscure media, and I'm interested in where you got your La Puma Opera and Frantic Fran videos (mostly on your other channel UncleLouie687). In particular it seems that Fran had a whole show, although I can only find two episodes on your channel and a few clips on her tribute site. Is there more, perhaps, you're willing to share?

@unclelouie3828

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Spencer- La Puma videos I taped myself. Frantic Fran? That is all I have of her. She was taped on my old Betamax. She had a public access show in NY many moons ago. What you see (two episodes) is all I have of her. Amazing there's someone "out there" who is even interested in F. Fran. ps- I don't know what name I'm using now. I don't upload anything anymore. Most of my 'gems' are all there (different names) because youtube phuques everything up. Amazing I got to see this.

@unclelouie3828

6 жыл бұрын

LA PUMA I taped myself. Frantic Fran (she's gone now) had a cable TV show in NY- in the 80's. I taped this on my Betamax. She was, well, what can one say. Love Frantic F.

@unclelouie3828

3 жыл бұрын

I taped most of the non-commercial 'stuff'. La Puma? Early video camera. Frantic Fran? Cable TV. NYC.

I wish Madame (Leontyne) Price was in on this discussion too, that would’ve been a nice take

@liedersanger1

6 жыл бұрын

David Simmons Yes, she would have added another point of view you can be sure! And she was a great friend of Merrill's, but not surprising she didn't take part. She was very very careful about how she exposed herself. Only the best formats.

@davidsimmons654

6 жыл бұрын

David Perkins precisely!

@ginopietracupa4305

4 жыл бұрын

Leontyne Price was never Tosca in the theater, the recorded it twice but in the theater Price only sanf Tosca tow seasons 1962/63 1963/64 and no more

@davidsimmons654

4 жыл бұрын

Gino Pietracupa that’s incorrect she sang 9 performances at the Met... theirs a live album on Apple Music. It’s here on yt

@ginopietracupa4305

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidsimmons654 you read well my post ? I said Price sang Tosca only two years : 1962/64 and no more, that's why Price is not reference at all in that role. She may be reference in Aida but not in Tosca

12:08, Gina Cigna 13:44, Magda Olivero 16:22 Olivero 18:44, sulla morte del marito della Olivero 20:13, Olivero e la fede 21:20, Licia Albanese

@davidsimmons654

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

The Italian sopranos have lovely,, emotive voices- not like the belters of today.

@MySensualWorld

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed!

Can someone tell me what the hell is that...? 46:39 and that Vissi d`arte at the end... WTF???¿¿?¿

@unclelouie3828

6 жыл бұрын

Those people are "stars" of the La Puma Opera Co. NYC. A LITTLE HUMOR HERE. got it??

@siglinde86

6 жыл бұрын

And what are they here?

@BlakeJAskew

6 жыл бұрын

Brain damage ...

@spencerwinellcomposer

5 жыл бұрын

I guess they had to show the best and worst...

What year was this film made?

@siglinde86

6 жыл бұрын

14:20 Gina Cigna says "I'm 83 years old" She was born in 1900 ; )

One great is missing: Maria Jeritza on Tosca, although she appears in Grossfürstin Alexandra. And BTW who is the wrecked Tosca at the end in a B&W exerpt? Painful.

@siglinde86

6 жыл бұрын

Not only at the end.... look at 46:39 ... I think was something recorder early in the VHS and this Documentary is over that... can be? crepy damn.... haha

@operabilia

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, I think it must be a Florence Forster-Jenkins type of vocal joke! And the last "Tosca" tops it all, she has got nothing: no voice, no musicality, no style, no presence ... hilarious.

@siglinde86

6 жыл бұрын

haha yes, must be something like this, but at least... she sings with passion.

@operabilia

6 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

All this to prove what we all already knew: Tebaldi reigns supreme!

@ambardelpuerto2131

3 жыл бұрын

@silver bud they could have mentioned her anyway , no? 👀

@marilynmichaels8358

2 жыл бұрын

Tebaldi is so over rated.. sings FLAT!! and emotionless. Nice lady though.

@jamesryan6008

4 ай бұрын

When you're right, you're right.

Can anyone tell me where Caballe sang Tosca at 1:06:19?

@judyjones2475

3 жыл бұрын

You tube Google, many times ,best one of all x

@unclelouie3828

3 жыл бұрын

I Taped It myself at the Met. Remember the Met?

@lissandrafreljord7913

3 жыл бұрын

@@unclelouie3828 Do you have full footage of the performance? Her execution to reach that climatic high note is so impeccable, that I get shivers how open and free it sounds.

What the hell is that at the very end? Some idea of a spoof???

Puccini's favorite Tosca (and first Tosca ever) was MILKA TERNINA - Not Maria Jeritza

@alexanderzaphir721

6 жыл бұрын

aleksandar stavric The incomparable Hariclea Darclee ,created ,Tosca,Iris & La Wally.

@aleksandarstavric2226

6 жыл бұрын

Legendary singer indeed but Milka Ternina was the VERY FIRST Tosca - not Hariclea

@alexanderzaphir721

6 жыл бұрын

aleksandar stavric everywhere is written about Darclee's creation of Tosca.Even her most famous pupil Stella Roman said that.If your sources are more accurate ..ok

@donaldlevine1420

6 жыл бұрын

Hariclea Darclee was the first Tosca. Milka Ternina was the first Tosca in New York at the Metropolitan Opera and in London at Covent Garden. The world premiere at the Costanzi in Rome on Jan. 14, 1900 was Darclee, Emilio de Marchi and Eugenio Giraldoni.

@alexanderzaphir721

6 жыл бұрын

Donald Levine the problem with a lot of persons ,it's not that they are wrong.In opera or in real life. Is that while being wrong ,they continue to insist ,considering...being right.Especially in opera, where they think that knowing Callas,tebaldi,Sutherland ,they know the field ,or the singers.Milka ,certainly could not imagine by then ,,that her most famous pupil ,later could become the queen of the Met

Only Montserrat Caballé can hold that B-flat at the climax of “Vissi d’arte” and transition out of it ON ONE BREATH

I only have one bit of advice......watch it until the absolute end. You can thank me later!

Poor Birgit! Having to sing that great aria prostrate on the floor!

@Janen74

6 жыл бұрын

She did because she could... But I agree with you that it's a mean director to have the singer do such a thing.

@magnusbratt6067

6 жыл бұрын

She did it "a la Jeritza" Also in Vienna at the same time.(Late 60:s) Useing the floor as resonas for her fabulous voice. It was her "Partygame" and the audience, including me, loved it! The pianissimo at the end was overwhelmingly.....!

I love this documentary but you can't deny that it is sunny as fuck, especially Kiri te kanaka and Eva turner chatting and Eva going yes yes! Indeed! And renatas and lebitsch English is hilarious and of course the wonderful and charismatic Nilsson made me laugh too, but there's someone missing, it's Callas

oops that soprano was Leontyne Price

Maria Callas

The woman at the end ruined what was a fascinating documentary. If it was meant to be a joke, it wasn’t remotely funny. Having her in the same film as Eva Turner and Birgit Nilsson just makes a mockery of two of the greatest dramatic sopranos who ever lived.

@unclelouie3828

5 жыл бұрын

Go take a dump.

@lizcooper6849

5 жыл бұрын

If that is your considered response to a legitimate comment, you need to educate yourself. End of chat.

What the hell was that at 46:38???!!!!

@MOV1983

3 жыл бұрын

Bubbadeaux, Exactly! What the hell is that? Also at 1:25:06 ?

@unclelouie3828

3 жыл бұрын

That was Trump's sister.

And then came Leontyne Price....

I wish most of these comments/people would just enjoy the film for what it is (with a little of my humor thrown in) and shut the fuk up. Have a nice day.

@tobiasandrews3778

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was HILARIOUS!!

Rolling her R's to excess during conversation is so affected.

Merrill says tusca instead of Tosca LOL

Renata, Eva, and Zinka were one to talk without substance.

Kirsten needs to go back to diction class.

Maria + Montserrat + Renata. Stop.

Cigna's high notes are bad, flat...sorry, it's true.

@jefolson6989

Жыл бұрын

Tebaldi too, was always a hair flat on high notes. Just enough to make me crazy. Saw a clip with Tebaldi and Bjoerling who sang a tad sharp. I guess they cancel eachother out!

Caballe maravillosa!!!!!