Celestina Boninsegna - Pace, mio Dio! [La forza del destino] - 1911

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  • Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
  • It would be difficult to choose which is the greater recording-this or Ponselle's. Not only is Boninsegna in exquisite form here-vocally and dramatically-but the recording itself is technically superior to her earlier Columbia version. Other uploads of this Edison test pressing are out of pitch. I've corrected that here and made my own minor enhancements to the sound.
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    This channel is primarily about vocal emission-aural examples of basically correct singing, correct impostazione-chiaroscuro, vowel clarity, firm and centered pitch, correct vibrato action, absence of throatiness or thickness, sounds free from constriction and from the acoustic noise that accompanies it-with occasional video examples that demonstrate what the body, face, mouth, jaw, and tongue look like when used with correct impostazione-the vocal emission of the one and only Italian school.
    Caveat: I'm biased in favor of baritones and baritone literature, but if you want to learn about and listen to all the greatest singers in the old-school tradition, explore this spreadsheet (voice parts are separated by tabs): bit.ly/2W4qmE3

Комментарии • 81

  • @vincentmancini6279
    @vincentmancini6279 Год назад +16

    wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAD VOICES THEN. The more I hear these old recordings the louder I want to say That. Thank you for sharing.

  • @giglistignanipinza
    @giglistignanipinza Год назад +9

    This is the most sensational soprano voice I have ever heard. Absolutely glorious.

  • @andysnashall6140
    @andysnashall6140 5 лет назад +31

    What an amazing and clear recording 108 years later. No modern voice compares

  • @germanissimo
    @germanissimo 5 месяцев назад +5

    My God! ... I was brought up on Italian Opera and the artists of the early 20th Century - but hadn't ever heard of Boninsegna until this evening! .... Her vocal mastery and artistry in this rendition is truly magnificent!

    • @wq6737
      @wq6737 3 месяца назад

      Bonisegna war auch eine der allergrößten Stimmen der Italienischen Oper. Diese Stimmen kommen nie wieder. Das sind Sternstunden der Schöpfung.

  • @65attila
    @65attila 5 лет назад +32

    She has the full voice and drama this aria needs.

  • @sebthi7890
    @sebthi7890 4 года назад +19

    better than all younger generations
    today will not find anyone like her
    😢

  • @franzitaduz
    @franzitaduz 2 года назад +12

    What I would give to hear THIS on a stage again. Thank you for bringing treasure out into the open again.

  • @wq6737
    @wq6737 3 месяца назад +2

    Göttliche Stimmen von Göttinen des Gesanges. Dieser Klang bei dieser Reinheit des Tones gepaart mit diesem Stimmumfang - einfach überirdisch !

  • @Radharani-gz5ot
    @Radharani-gz5ot Месяц назад +1

    AMAZING BEAUTY of character, voice and soul

  • @numetutelare
    @numetutelare 4 года назад +12

    Una voce dal timbro privilegiato, una linea di canto esemplare ed una interpretazione accorata. La scuola è di primordine e il legato, i passaggi, il medium ed il trillo sono affascinante oltre che perfetti... averne oggi, altro che le "sciantose" travestite da soprano ...

    • @andrealupini6769
      @andrealupini6769 3 года назад +1

      Sciantose di oggi poi..... Elvira Donnarumma cantava meglio di tantissimi soprani attuali.....

  • @matOpera
    @matOpera 4 года назад +11

    Thank you so much for uploading! One of the greatest voices we ever recorded gives us one of the greatest interpretations of this aria outstanding even among Verdi’s catalog.

  • @Pathetikos
    @Pathetikos 5 лет назад +14

    “...in mezzo a tanto, a tanto duol!”

  • @lewashcliffe
    @lewashcliffe 6 месяцев назад +3

    Magnificent! A true Verdi soprano! Singers like Boninsegna and Ponselle make today's sopranos sound ridiculous with their fake voices that need amplified sound systems to even be heard in modern opera houses. These were the best of times to never be heard again.

  • @operabilia
    @operabilia 4 года назад +8

    Personne ne pourrait égaler ce chant puissant, riche de pathos. Grande voix puissante et sombre, parfaite pour les rôles de "drammatico-sfogato"! Bravissima. Intramontabile!

  • @MichaelStBede
    @MichaelStBede 8 лет назад +10

    Absolutely marvellous : thank you.

  • @margaritatatis3332
    @margaritatatis3332 4 месяца назад

    Gracias a Dios por existir estas gravacionr

  • @laprimmadonna2341
    @laprimmadonna2341 3 года назад +8

    Qué hermoso cantaba estaba dama, preciosa interpretación. Una de las Arias más bellas, emocional y profunda del gran Verdi. Por favor suban más de estos registros, así no perdemos el verdadero sabor de la ópera. Mil gracias.

  • @vegtamvanderveg
    @vegtamvanderveg 2 года назад +2

    I can't believe how beautiful this sounds!

  • @alexandrkolesnikov9062
    @alexandrkolesnikov9062 7 месяцев назад +1

    Спасибо за ваш канал!

  • @bodiloto
    @bodiloto 7 лет назад +18

    divina .

  • @edamundson743
    @edamundson743 Год назад +2

    What an exquisite voice!

  • @vegtamvanderveg
    @vegtamvanderveg 8 месяцев назад

    How I love listening to this recording. I think we should go back to recording with a gramophone. Her voice just floats like a clear beautiful bell!

  • @michelez3710
    @michelez3710 5 лет назад +5

    Bellissima!!! Brava!

  • @simone1966eire
    @simone1966eire 3 года назад +4

    Stunning! I'm particularly impressed that she does not drag her larynx down in the lower passages. Brava!

    • @St.Garoosh
      @St.Garoosh 2 года назад +4

      You mean she avoided becoming ingolata? Because she definitely sings in her chest register, and quite powerfully. The only way to do that is to lower the larynx. If you do it ingolata, you swallow the voice and it doesnt project. Modern singers have lost the knowledge how to do it correctly.

    • @KajiVocals
      @KajiVocals Год назад +1

      @@St.GarooshIncorrect. She literally sings it with a neutral larynx and a lifted soft palate.

    • @St.Garoosh
      @St.Garoosh Год назад

      @@KajiVocals Sorry Kaj, you cannot sing in the chest register by just lifting the soft palate. Go listen to Callas talk about it. The only way to access the lower register with the amount of projection and clarity and fullness is to drop the larynx. If you force it and swallow the sound, you become ingolata. There is a difference.
      All the old singers knew this and did this. Its modern singers who have lost the knowledge and abandoned the principles leading to it. Your ears aren't even trained to identify what you think you are listening to.

    • @KajiVocals
      @KajiVocals Год назад

      @@St.Garoosh I study voice science. Chest voice has nothing to do with your soft palate or your larynx. It’s to do with the pattern in your vocal fold vibration. You can produce chest voice no matter your laryngeal position or soft palate position. If anything, your larynx being too low will actually prevent you from going above a certain pitch. Before you say ‘your ears aren’t trained to identify what you think you are listening to’ look at yourself. Your entire statement is filled with inaccurate information regarding how the voice operates. And no, if you needed to lower the larynx to project, the likes of Ethel Merman in pre-amplified theatre in the first quarter of the century would not have been audible. Projection like that has to do with how you shape your vocal tract and adjust your formant coupling to cut through the orchestration.

  • @pietrodi1
    @pietrodi1 Год назад +2

    Meravigliosa!!!

  • @alfredoloyola921
    @alfredoloyola921 6 лет назад +5

    brava celestina!!brava!!comme scritto!!

  • @wieslawrudnicki2638
    @wieslawrudnicki2638 Год назад +1

    Bravissima

  • @opheliumzone4671
    @opheliumzone4671 2 года назад +2

    Madame Celestina Boninsegna!

  • @draganvidic2039
    @draganvidic2039 Год назад

    PERFECTION !!!!!!

  • @josephalexandergemmell9979
    @josephalexandergemmell9979 3 года назад +1

    just lovely!

  • @raynardi7243
    @raynardi7243 3 года назад +2

    Fantastica

  • @andysnashall6140
    @andysnashall6140 Год назад

    A much better version than the Columbia 1906 recording, clearer and more dramatic in many ways.

  • @vale86301
    @vale86301 4 года назад +1

    Incantevole ❤

  • @danieldaaniyaal2777
    @danieldaaniyaal2777 3 года назад +2

    Simply true opera

  • @venerarusso3774
    @venerarusso3774 5 лет назад +1

    Brava

  • @Zva26
    @Zva26 5 лет назад +15

    Now THIS is great singing!!!! You ain't gonna hear this aria sung like this today. I'd rank her right besides Milanov and Tebaldi, and even Callas on this aria. Awesome voice!!!

    • @terrance7220
      @terrance7220 4 года назад +6

      Larry Mitchell Pfffff Callas is not even invited.

    • @matOpera
      @matOpera 4 года назад +4

      Terrance Xu Why so? Callas’s rendition of this aria is the reason why I fell in love with her actually

    • @giglistignanipinza
      @giglistignanipinza Год назад +1

      None of the ladies you mentioned had as much pure voice as Boninsegna!

    • @genlyai5055
      @genlyai5055 Год назад

      @@matOpera Callas cannot EVEN sing the 'Invan la pace'--the single most difficult and vital part of the aria. Not to mention her wobble, her pushing, her lousy vocal production..............

    • @roland-qg3dh
      @roland-qg3dh 8 месяцев назад

      Lisa Davidson does not measure up to this, back in the time when sopranos developed true coordinated chest voice.

  • @JamesCantorneCTT
    @JamesCantorneCTT 6 месяцев назад

    3:57 that some solid chest voice, I post war sopranos would often do that too

  • @tullypotter
    @tullypotter 3 года назад +1

    A great soprano who retired too soon because she was worried about what she looked like on stage. I love Caniglia in this role too. Also Ligabue and Leontyne Price.

    • @contraltissima
      @contraltissima 3 года назад +4

      Price? How can you like clear voiced songers like Bonisegna and than Price who sung muffled and constricted, with no clarity and lots of hot air?

    • @tullypotter
      @tullypotter 3 года назад

      @@contraltissima Quite easily, thank you.

    • @tonshaad1230
      @tonshaad1230 2 года назад +2

      Price offers nothing to this piece though besides an aspirated voice and collapsed middle and head voice.

    • @liedersanger1
      @liedersanger1 Год назад

      Leontyne Price is an exquisite interpreter of this piece.

    • @jillpotter5134
      @jillpotter5134 Год назад

      @@liedersanger1 Agreed

  • @duy-anhnguyen5890
    @duy-anhnguyen5890 5 лет назад +5

    4:16 is weird because with her vocal strength, that high note couldn't be that small. Do you think she did that on purpose or because the technology couldn't handle the volume, so they asked her to sing from the longer distance and then came back closer at lower notes? Birgit Nilsson talked about the same problem.

    • @trrill
      @trrill  5 лет назад +12

      She's probably singing piano on purpose *while* they had her back away from the horn. The old acoustic method of recordings required the singer to be physically moved toward and away from the horn in order to capture quieter singing and to protect the recording from registering a blast when the singing was voluminous or intense.

    • @i5185
      @i5185 4 года назад +5

      Duy-Anh Nguyễn In the score this note is pp .....

    • @philipcarli3718
      @philipcarli3718 3 года назад +7

      @@trrill "Blasting" was less of a problem with Edison discs because they were hill-and-dale rather than lateral cut, and by 1911 Edison's staff had developed fluid-gasketed recording diaphragms to decrease the possibility of it happening even further; there was little physical adjustment of performers in their studios once tests had been made prior to recording. At this date the Edison disc system was still somewhat experimental and most of the London recordings were auditions of a sort; very few were ever commercially issued because Edison's taste in voice and accompaniments intruded far more into disc development (which he felt peculiarly extra-proprietary about) than already-established practices employed in the company's cylinders.

    • @trrill
      @trrill  3 года назад +3

      @@philipcarli3718 Thank you for this informative response!

    • @ledadadephilly2540
      @ledadadephilly2540 2 года назад +4

      Its marked piano
      And traditional interpretation is expected by the audience, esp the first set tion and this piano high note.
      It sounds like an amazing piano that isn't produced today

  • @paolot1181
    @paolot1181 2 года назад +2

    come sentir cantare gli angeli

  • @piotrsztucki9623
    @piotrsztucki9623 2 года назад

    Dzisiejsze śpiewaczki też mogłyby tak śpiewać ale musiały by wrócić do tamtych technik.
    Dźwięk wydobywany z gardła, poprzez odpowiednie ustawienie między innymi języka, zupełnie inny. Oni śpiewali na tzw. głosach otwartych i, dlatego też śpiewali krótko.

  • @αικατερινημελισσαροπουλου

    Yes...A great soprano,because she sings in an clear modern way..far from her cencury...

  • @XlikeZero
    @XlikeZero 3 года назад +2

    Is this really 1911 or 2011?)

    • @KajiVocals
      @KajiVocals 3 года назад

      1911

    • @ransomcoates546
      @ransomcoates546 3 года назад

      He may have meant that the sound seems manipulated by modern technology.

  • @jamescantorne3720
    @jamescantorne3720 10 месяцев назад

    in modern operatic world, she would be classified coloratura soprano lol 😆😅

  • @liedersanger1
    @liedersanger1 Год назад +1

    The bleating exaggerations of the chest voice are interesting, and common among singers of the early decades of the century. Perhaps Rosa Ponselle, with her exquisitely coordinated lower and middle registers, ended the practice?

    • @genlyai5055
      @genlyai5055 Год назад +1

      Erm....You get so much wrong there's no way to correct most of your errors. I'll just say that Price, one of your favorites, has one of the worst bottom registers/misuse of chest ever heard. I'm a Price fan, by the way, and heard her many times, but her chest usage was criminal. Ponselle is hardly a good example of anything that was ever heard again on the planet, and even she had a short top. *galactic eyeroll*

  • @pauldeanify
    @pauldeanify 2 года назад

    A proper soprano! not a jumped up might be.

  • @ransomcoates546
    @ransomcoates546 3 года назад

    Caruso disliked singing with her. A great singer, but apparently bad BO.