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  @atizaries55122 күн бұрын

  Callas used to say" Puccini is not good for voice ".She didn"t like verismo

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  @atizaries55122 күн бұрын

  How dare you bother her spirit , her soul, making up such despicable, fake " interview "???!!!

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  @leilani3194 күн бұрын

  Extraordinary! 📽 BRAVA BRAA BRAVA! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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  @leilani3194 күн бұрын

  What a brilliant video! ❤

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  @EandVEntertainment5 күн бұрын

  Thank you for covering this. I had a big conversation with a bunch of singers about this, how Tamagno had a bright forward sound and was the voice chose to debut “Otello” in contrast to singers like Del Monaco and other modern dramatic tenors. Even singers heavy dramatic tenors like Melchior sang much more forward and bright.

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  @EandVEntertainment6 күн бұрын

  Not only does Tamagno make it sound easy, he was known for having one of the largest voices in opera at the time, and debuted "Otello." The difference between his "Esultate" and someone lie Del Monaco's is crazy.

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  @e.l.27346 күн бұрын

  That was enlightening, thanks!

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  @turpasauna8 күн бұрын

  This was interesting and precious. I once heard someone say that you need to dare to look "ugly" when singing- or it just won't sound right.

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  @thehotvicaronamyl9 күн бұрын

  There is a better modern (modern relative to Calve) recording of this role than the excerpt shared here - namely this one by Milla Andrew from 1973. I don't know about fourth voice, but the exposed fragility of the high notes here is deeply moving. kzread.info/dash/bejne/X3ikz5SAqbGuoMo.html

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  @jiwanhawk9 күн бұрын

  Wow, great bit Manuel Garcia Didn’t say that, plus, what about the air control? Voice is air, don’t confuse the people

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  @aidandavis555010 күн бұрын

  The second example with head voice sounds way better imo

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  @amesakurako111 күн бұрын

  ‘There is no such thing as the best in art, they are just different’ - Rubinstein

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  @WISDOMKING1913 күн бұрын

  Do you take students ?? It would be an honor to learn from you.

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  @aidandavis555013 күн бұрын

  This is interesting because the low-larynx sound is exactly what I can't stand about opera. That and the constant vibrato.

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  @MarcsGarage14 күн бұрын

  La Diva forever ❤

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  @seeseembo16 күн бұрын

  I understood basically none of this and all of the clips sounded exactly the same to me other than recording quality 😭😭 and the most recent one having more vibrato, I could not understand the evolution of it at all. Have you done a video with more in depth explanation or analysis of the ways it changed? I am incredibly fascinated and this video drew me in I just do not have an ear for opera so I have no clue what I’m supposed to be picking up on. Like for example all of the Messiah excerpts sounded the exact same to me other than being different singers and different recordings. Idk what I was supposed to hear and other than the staticky old recording quality of the oldest one I could not place them on a timeline or anything. I want to learn more I am just so lost!

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  @seeseembo16 күн бұрын

  Absolutely loved the execution of the video otherwise, super creative way to deliver your message. Your style and level of research reminds me of ask a mortician and she’s one of my favorite creators. I’ll watch a few more videos and see if I can pick up on what you’re pointing out. Thanks!

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  @seeseembo16 күн бұрын

  I think like maybe if you did a few examples of yourself singing in the old style so the quality of the recording is closer to the singers you’re comparing the old style to that might help!

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  @jeansmart121 күн бұрын

  Brings to mind the time worn adage: "Those who can do"., CALLAS, "Those who can't. teach" ZIAZAN.

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  @PhantomsoftheOpera21 күн бұрын

  Or in this instance: the reason I haven’t been performing for several years is because I’ve been seriously ill with a spinal injury. It’s been very hard to make any videos at all. But I’m sure you’ll be glad to know that I’m finally recovering so that soon you’ll be able to judge my singing.

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  @MelanieAF20 күн бұрын

  It’s an overused banal cliche. If people didn’t have the capacity, not to mention the right, to judge performers and performances despite not being able to perform themselves, there wouldn’t be any need for performance at all. We could just say that everyone’s wonderful and stay home. Of course the audience has the right to judge performances and performers. At least Ziazan is an educated critic and knows whereof she speaks. She gave Callas plenty of credit, is she only allowed to say “complete perfection at all times without variance” and no more? If that’s all she’s allowed to say of Callas, what about other singers? Is that all she, or anyone, is allowed to say of any singer? I personally prefer a bit more information-education, if you will-from someone who knows more than I do. I can still decide for myself of course but I’m on firmer ground now in making that call.

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  @jeansmart120 күн бұрын

  @@MelanieAF Actually, I would classify “Those who can do, Those who can’t Teach” as an adage - “a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.” It is, of course, a phrase taken from Man and Superman, written by the Irish playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw. (Who was in turn skewing Aristotle.) What Shaw was suggesting in his eloquent verbiage (that you find banal) is that there are those teachers who have arrived at their positions because they have failed in their discipline: that they are the embodiment of the unsuccessful artist who is deficient in their disciplines requirements for an active, successful engagement, and so turn to teaching. Shaw’s phrase may be over-used, as you suggest, but in this instance I used the adage because Ziazan has promoted herself as the “last exponent” of Bel Canto, and yet she has no career in Opera, and, in my judgement, will never have a career in Opera, because she just doesn’t have the endowment necessary for a career as a Prima Donna. Sorry if that is blunt, and I was going to let this conversation drop after Ziazan’s response, but since you have pressed the issue, I have heard Ziazan sing, and in my estimation, (and I have been attending the Opera for close to 50 years in Opera houses from San Francisco, Lyric in Chicago, Metropolitan NY, Covent Garden, to Rome, ….and heard many of the Greats, of the last 50 years) she just doesn’t have the talent necessary for a career as a principal in Opera. Her real career seems to lie in her being a teacher, and in self promotion. I’m sorry if this sounds critical, but as a long-time audience member of the Opera I am following your proposal and exercising, as you put it, my “right to judge performances and performers.”

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  @MelanieAF20 күн бұрын

  @@jeansmart1 She doesn’t have to have the ability to sing at star level to be able to critique or to teach. Most art critics cannot, themselves, paint at that level. This doesn’t disqualify them to be able to critique art, even, or especially, professionally. And of course you have, as has everyone, the right to judge for yourself. My point is, why is it necessary to engage in a personal attack on her for having an informed opinion with which you disagree? Why can’t you just disagree? Maria Callas’ stature as an artist is such that the critique of one person is hardly likely to affect it. As for teachers being bitter second-raters who couldn’t hack it-well, for the sake of anyone they teach, especially children, I hope and believe that this is seldom the case. I just don’t see why the personal attack is necessary. She didn’t attack Callas, she tried to be even-handed in her opinion of Callas as a singer-not as a person mind you, just as a singer. Callas is fair game for critique on her profession, as is any public performer. No one attacked her as a person. She wasn’t “attacked” in any aspect.

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  @jeansmart115 күн бұрын

  @@MelanieAF Hi Mel!!!! Can I call you Mel?!! I like to get chummy right away with someone who’s trolling me! Sorry I’ve been too busy to respond to your latest assault in a timely manner. I wanted to give you the attention you deserve, so now that I have a day off…. let’s take the points of your argument one by one. “She doesn’t have to have the ability to sing at star level to be able to critique or to teach.” So true Mel, good for you!. In fact, if she could sing at star level she’d have better things to do, wouldn’t she? That was my point from the beginning: “Those who can do, those who can’t teach.” I’m glad you’ve come around to my opinion in this regard. “My point is, why is it necessary to engage in a personal attack on her for having an informed opinion with which you disagree?” “I just don’t see why the personal attack is necessary “ OK. I see how that works…… If Ziazan gives her informed opinion it’s a critique. If I give my informed opinion, it’s an ATTACK! You accused me of “attacking” Ziazan five times Mel!!! That’s the easiest and most unprincipled thing to do: If you don’t like someone’s opinion, vilify them. You don’t like someone’s evaluation, attempt to cancel them. Did you interpret my having an opinion other than the one you hold as a micro aggression?… Previously, Mel, let me remind you, you said that the criticism of performance artists was essential. And nowhere did I attack Ziazan as a person. I don’t know her, I don’t have any interest in her person.. Shame on you for intimating that I had attacked her person. I gave my opinion of her as a professional, and as a performer, and as the self proclaimed (her words),“last exponent” of Bel Canto. As someone who has positioned herself as the last great hope of Bel Canto, she should be able to back that up. In my previous critique of Ziazan I have been restrained, but since you again press the issue…..Have you listened to Ziazan’s performances? She primarily performs works written by her sister Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian that have been tailored to her limited gifts.. Ziazan seems to have dropped her last name, Horrocks-Hopayian (perhaps because she’s like Madonna and just too famous for a last name?!) and the fact that they are sisters is never mentioned (perhaps to avoid the appearance of nepotism???). Even so, in these less than challenging works, or in her performance of Home Sweet Home (that you can view on line) another work that is not technically difficult, Ziazan does not impress me as an exponent of Bel Canto. When Ziazan can perform the cabaletta from Anna Bolena’s mad scene (Coppia Iniqua) with musicality and lipid beauty, or Sempre LIbera from La Traviatta, I will accept her as Bel Canto’s Messiah, until then, my option of her as a singer has not changed: She’s just a minor talent who is a major self-promoter. But don’t concern yourself with Ziazan with being wounded by my assessment of her as an artist… her ego will sustain her. “As for teachers being bitter second-raters who couldn’t hack it-well, for the sake of anyone they teach, especially children, I hope and believe that this is seldom the case. “Mel, Mel, Mel……You can not put YOUR words into MY mouth to prove YOUR point!!!! Nowhere did I say “teachers (were) bitter second-raters.” This is a duplicitous argument and a dishonorable attempt on your part. Many people join the teaching profession because they want to nurture young minds, and no-one appreciates and applauds their efforts more than myself. That being said, there are many many teachers who may have entered into a field with initial intentions of a career in performance, and decide for a variety of reasons to redirect their efforts into teaching, and as long as they do it well, god bless them. I myself had a Drama instructor in school that originally wanted to be an actor, but was unsuccessful in that pursuit, so turned to teaching, and a professor of music that could of had a career in performance if she had attempted it, but for personal reasons decided the sacrifices she would have to make to her personal life weren’t worth it. Both were excellent teachers. “Callas’ stature as an artist is such that the critique of one person is hardly likely to affect it.” You got this one right Mel!! Callas is immortal, and her recordings continues to outsell any other performer, dead or alive, by a large degree, almost 50 years after her death. And because of this, many people are eager to exploit and monetize her stature, with youtube posts, or putting her on their personal website. (Ziazan, in both instances, for example.) 100 years from now people will still be appreciating Callas’s genius. Callas of course had critics during her lifetime, some who proclaimed her voice as ugly. No-one remembers them. Critics end up in the dustbin of history, and it is the public who decide who is imperishable. And whereas Callas was a legend in her own time, Ziazan is merely a legend in her own mind. Ok, Mel. I have no more time for you, so go back under your bridge, and live your best life!

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  @williamanthonynow23 күн бұрын

  Please perform for us, you are brilliant ❤

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  @nixfirebrand859527 күн бұрын

  I do believe in historic performance practice, in fact some of my earliest education in opera was learning proper baroque vocal stylings and ornaments, when vibrato was appropriate to use (hint: not all of the time), and how they used acting gestures. I do think some of the advances in vocal science and pedagogy have been important for keeping the health and sustainability of the voice, and my teachers always preferred clarity l, accuracy and bringing meaning to the text. Vocal power comes with time and must be used wisely. Frankly I never thought Anna had good diction. I think there is a problem in the professional world with young singers being encouraged to blow out their voices, but a good teacher/mentor will prioritize things that are developmentally appropriate for their student and check in when they are learning a role. However, much of the new opera music was written with modern techniques and modern tastes in mind. You're never going to get rid of that.

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  @livrowland17127 күн бұрын

  Brava for the interesting tribute to her on Great Lives on Radio 4 ❤

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  @celloguy29 күн бұрын

  She’s so much better than any of these singers we have records of who sang with Puccini and Verdi. I’m always staggered at how underdeveloped their voices are, just so wiry and thin compared to the depth of Callas’ sound. Muzio, Ponselle, Lehmann were three comparable but lesser singers who had the beauty and depth of sound

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  @celloguy29 күн бұрын

  What a painful sounding crack at the beginning

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  @rainbow900729 күн бұрын

  I was surprised to hear that beautiful voice come out of you. I’ve never heard you before, you remind me of Joe Stafford a lot. You even have the dress Ava Gardner wore in touch of Venus. You really do a nice job on this song, few do. I wish this music was in style today! People that don’t love it don’t deserve it

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  @joaoguilherme5625Ай бұрын

  Maria Callas was the most brilliant opera singer of all times. In the last years of her career had multiple health problems, but the major problem was that man Onassis, that were a celebrities hunter, an opportunist that broke her heart.

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  @eleanorwebber4127Ай бұрын

  P.S. love the zebra ghost.

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  @eleanorwebber4127Ай бұрын

  This is a great addition for May HEDS Awareness Month Thank you!

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  @leonardoorozco6143Ай бұрын

  Hello, I'm new to the channel and I really liked the information. Once you teach arcane belcanto classes, until now I haven't seen a teacher talk about this topic.

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  @lebayati2059Ай бұрын

  How could there be three registers when there are only two groups of muscles responsible for creation of voice?

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  @martineylesАй бұрын

  Confused a little, because whenever I suggest I don't like the heavy vibrato of opera, people tell me it's necessary to project over the orchestra, which would suggest it was always just as heavy.

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  @livrowland171Ай бұрын

  ❤

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  @t6c756Ай бұрын

  It sounds like Bel Canto is the Olympic-level standard for singing skill, not just obscure tradition. I think that fun competition, with rewards and prestige, will provide the necessary drive for excellence. Such competitions will need patronage of influential people with large followings (and deep pockets) that want to see a resurgence in a culture of merit - striving for excellence.

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  @user-zi7yx9uc3tАй бұрын

  Maria Callas had the greatest voice of all times, no matter what you are saying about expression. Some of your comments are very disappointing.

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  @Fons53Ай бұрын

  A very nice video! You imitate Maria very well......even the small movements and manners 👍👍👍👍

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  @burmesecolourneedles4680Ай бұрын

  Wonderful, thanks so much for posting this!

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  @NasAnas-fu4hyАй бұрын

  She speaks perfect English, Greek, Italian, French - WOW!!!

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  @DougieKelly-cz9szАй бұрын

  Shut up

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  @jenniferhiemstra5228Ай бұрын

  I may not be chronically ill but boy her point about how little you do for music the more you do it? That’s some hard truths for us all.

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  @gobnait7855Ай бұрын

  Thank you for your lovely channel Madame. All your fans are hoping to see and hear more of you soon. Courage et merci! 🎶 ❤ 🍀🐞👍

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  @AWS2210Ай бұрын

  Thank you for this great lesson!

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  @AWS2210Ай бұрын

  Simply, touching!

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  @AWS2210Ай бұрын

  I do love your channel! Thank you, for all you have taught me!

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  @HenryDrivesАй бұрын

  oh god! De lucia! left me without breath

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  @KBGWorld29Ай бұрын

  My goodness, I really dislike Netrebko’s singing 😅

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  @onlyyou9930Ай бұрын

  Fabulous teacher!!!!

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  @wolfman-vt2zrАй бұрын

  I love this exposition of Belcanto. I always thought classical music had to be sang with clarity of vocals, diction, a clear tone and less of a wobbling vibrato. Do you wanna train a high tenor in the pure belcanto and agility techniques?

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  @deezynarАй бұрын

  I cringe when I hear Callas sing. Her voice is ugly.

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  @wordscapes5690Ай бұрын

  The dark, covered, cramped, wobbly, tone deaf, and squeezed voices of today are horrendous to me. Even some of the “big names” are painful to me. I won’t say who because I am tired of getting attacked online. But if you grew up going to the opera at least 40 years ago, you will understand the stark contrast between our modern “singers” and the singers.

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  @Eric-Alex2709Ай бұрын

  Sorry, kind of creepy for me. Like talking to her ghost... may she rest in peace...

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  @gobnait785524 күн бұрын

  This wonderful channel IS called "Phantoms of the Opera".

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  @Eric-Alex270924 күн бұрын

  @@gobnait7855 Touché! ;))

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  @pedrofernandes8596Ай бұрын

  Imagine a soprano singing the final note of “Caro Nome” in that register. Just imagine. 🤩