Electrifying! This is Lady Macbeth!! Finally someone who really gets it! This is operatic acting at it's greatest! A vocally, verbally and physically committed acting singer!
She is amazing !!!! I would cross the ocean to hear her. Like others I don't understand why she is not worshipped as one of the greatest divas ever! Why do we have little girls at the Met who really belong in the generic young artist programs for like another decade.
While heavy vibrato may be intrusive, she easily makes up for it, delivering a very fiery performance. However, another popular Russian soprano who has sung this aria has developed what is now a worse, unfortunate wobble.
I have been following this singer from when she first performed on Dutch TV, she was 17 then. She has a great career, has an enormous repertoire, and is a great actress. She sang all the great Belcanto roles, and is going in to a different direction now. Last year she sang Eboli, Salome, Fidelio, Kundry, Poppea, Donna Elvira and Carmen!I find her a great artist,I do not understand why she is not known all over the world.
She’s special. Started as a lyric coloratura but with a dark voice. Now she’s done Eboli, Fidelio, Chrysothemis and God knows what else. Voice is not big but she seems to be able to sing like this forever so I guess she knows what she’s doing. I’m a fan!
A lot of the comments below are really rather silly. Too young? She's in her forties here and is only now getting to the heaviest stuff after something like twenty years of an enormously successful career. Struggling? Maybe but find me a Lady Macbeth who doesn't struggle. If your going to point out her flaws and then ignore the fact that Leonie Rysanek had the high notes and the temperament but little else and ignore that Nilsson struggled with most of the demands of the part (trills? coloratura? low notes? the role has more of that than loud high notes). Penda has all the notes, admittedly with some strain involved, her coloratura is leagues ahead of many who've touched this part, she can approximate a trill better than pretty much any contemporary currently singing this rep, and she's totally invested in the music and the text. Too small voiced? Lady Macbeth is not a dramatic soprano part. The lineage of dramatic voices in this role starts in the twentieth century.
the voice is great no doubt about that..her Elettra (Idomeneo) is fantastic...having said so I think her timbre is not the dramatic type for the VERDI Macbeth. I think for Lady MAcbeth there are certain requirements for it to be succesful. *size...yes of course *range and flexibility...yes *stage presence..yes (she has all these) But there's a tone quality that is needed that only a few can provide: Dimitrova, Shirley Verrett, Mara Zampieri (although she lacks other stuff), Leyla Gencer, Paoletta Marrocu and OF COURSE CALLAS.
+BetuliaLiberata This is simply your opinion based on the recordings of former divas who've sung it. Does she have the cut, the volume, the vocal acting for the role? The answer is yes. Verdi actually wrote this role for a mezzosoprano, specifying he wanted an "ugly" voice to sing this role.
@@josepheweeks I agree with most of what you say but Marianna Barbieri-Nini who created the role of Lady Macbeth, was not a mezzo-soprano, she had certainly a solid low register but was definitely a soprano if you look at the other roles she created and sang in her career like for example Gulnara in Il Corsaro or Lucrezia Contarini in "I due Foscari".
Имах щастието да чуя и се насладя на великолепната оперна певица Александрина Пендачанска в Националната опера в София! Концертът й беше божествен, а тя в страхотна форма! Това беше най-прекрасният подарък за Рождество Христово за всички, които бяхме в залата! Благодаря и желая от сърце Господ да дари Пендачанска и семейството й с цялата си благодат и щедрост! Светли и щастливи празници!
This Bulgarian soprano has been around for some times. Years ago she sang at. New. York. City. Opera,very successful!. I saw her in. Roberto. Deveroux and she was electrifying. She has more temperament that voice!! I like her conception of lady. Macbeth in this aria,even if she does not has,the voice requiere for this role or for this area. She is less famous than her counterparts bulgarians sopranos,but she is fascinating. Dressed very somber in black. I like the dress and her hair style,has to do with the aria and the action.
Le quedó grande. Bueno, si Netrebko también canta este rol a quien le extraña. Una lástima, debiese cantar a máximo los roles de spinto (Tosca) y dejarse tiempo para los roles dramáticos. Para darle más dramatismo de repente desaparece el "chiaro" de la voz.
Favolosa!!! Ho avuto i brividi nel declamato della lettera... Però, mi perdoni chi leggerà questo commento: il concertatore, dovrebbe dirigere le uova (solo per fare un esempio). La sua gestualità è raccapricciante! Non si rende conto di cosa sta dirigendo!!!!!!!!!!! Senza considerare che non ha rispetto per i tempi narrativi di questa magnifica cantante. È meglio che mi fermo qui... Distintissimi saluti.
I think she focuses more in a slightly darker color (it kinda messes up other things she has) and yeah, her voice in her prime days was amazingly good.
She'd had 25 years of career by then, with Queen of the night, Esclarmonde, Ermione, Devereux .. chillax and let artists have some fun and strain if they feel like it
Tous les désagréments de cette voix moins grande qu'on le dit ici (la couleur peut tromper!) sont réunis pour constituer le portrait vrai, tant musicalement que dramatiquement, d'un rôle dont Verdi ne souhaitait pas qu'il fut servi par un bel organe. Ses vœux sont comblés! Efficace; pour le moins.
Her overacting is better than Damrau's.. at least Pendatchanska has the voice to support such overacting, Damrau looks like a fool sometimes with her tiny voice and over the top acting
She's too young to be having these many vocal problems; she began singing heavy repertory too young and without formative years and enough training. The strain she displays is alarming. She should go back to the classroom and emerge in five years. And she drop the Callas schtick; it's been done.
Peter Callahan Actually, this repertoire is to big for her. Traviata is as big as she should sing of Verdi. And her vibrato issues really should be dealt with.
Today is the first time I've heard her....Saw the debut video when she was 17...and this one...and a couple in between. I wondered where the "youngster" went as I haven't heard of her along the way. Eclipsed by Netrebko? I like this voice better than the latter and can here in each the darkening that might come with age, and a bit of the vibrato that is decried in other comments in this post, but I find the vibrato here "dramatic" and in Netrebko, who I much liked earlier in her career, a result of trying to be more than she is and a lack of physical fitness....Her weight must be difficult to lug around whilst attempting to be an actress with her body as well as voice. Is this the creep of the NFL into opera...."use them up there are always a new crop of bodies waiting in the wings?" I think Verdi was a blessing to the world...but I'm much happier to singing Handel and Shubert and even Rossini although I think he had something against tenors....or mayhap it was just his own ego, wanting only the rare voice to be able to sing his arias in which he inserted notes above "high C" as a commonplace. I can do them, but to what purpose? Ho hum, Handel and Schubert are much more "evocative" to me. I hope "Penda" has good teachers that help her cherish her voice and not end lipsynching pop tunes as I saw Anna Moffa doing in her later years....a voice used up by taking bad advice.
She is absolutely brilliant. Love her voice. Beautiful, beautiful voice fantastic technique.
In a certain way, she remains me of the great Edda Moser: a tragedian with a fascinating voice.
Electrifying! This is Lady Macbeth!! Finally someone who really gets it! This is operatic acting at it's greatest! A vocally, verbally and physically committed acting singer!
Paddy818 certo.
Una intenzione perfetta, eccellente per questa parte. Una cantante seria e concentrata. Bravissima
She is amazing !!!! I would cross the ocean to hear her. Like others I don't understand why she is not worshipped as one of the greatest divas ever! Why do we have little girls at the Met who really belong in the generic young artist programs for like another decade.
so underrated !
While heavy vibrato may be intrusive, she easily makes up for it, delivering a very fiery performance. However, another popular Russian soprano who has sung this aria has developed what is now a worse, unfortunate wobble.
+opradan43 Pendatchanska is Bulgarian.
She has always had that vibrato even early in her career.
I kinda feel like I've been waiting for her to sing this forever without even realizing it!
I have been following this singer from when she first performed on Dutch TV, she was 17 then. She has a great career, has an enormous repertoire, and is a great actress. She sang all the great Belcanto roles, and is going in to a different direction now. Last year she sang Eboli, Salome, Fidelio, Kundry, Poppea, Donna Elvira and Carmen!I find her a great artist,I do not understand why she is not known all over the world.
Christian Wijnoogst I know her since she was at
New. York. City. Opera!!in the 80s!! A great Bulgarian soprano with a lot of temperament!!!
She’s special. Started as a lyric coloratura but with a dark voice.
Now she’s done Eboli, Fidelio, Chrysothemis and God knows what else. Voice is not big but she seems to be able to sing like this forever so I guess she knows what she’s doing.
I’m a fan!
Alex Penda? Did she change her name? And why!
Yes, because of better speaking...
Io questa Lady l'andrei a vedere di corsa a teatro. possiede una mimica sia facciale che con il corpo che incanta. Incarna la strega che Verdi voleva
floriano masi certo.
A lot of the comments below are really rather silly. Too young? She's in her forties here and is only now getting to the heaviest stuff after something like twenty years of an enormously successful career. Struggling? Maybe but find me a Lady Macbeth who doesn't struggle. If your going to point out her flaws and then ignore the fact that Leonie Rysanek had the high notes and the temperament but little else and ignore that Nilsson struggled with most of the demands of the part (trills? coloratura? low notes? the role has more of that than loud high notes). Penda has all the notes, admittedly with some strain involved, her coloratura is leagues ahead of many who've touched this part, she can approximate a trill better than pretty much any contemporary currently singing this rep, and she's totally invested in the music and the text.
Too small voiced? Lady Macbeth is not a dramatic soprano part. The lineage of dramatic voices in this role starts in the twentieth century.
Peter Callahan you are right about her!!!!!!
the voice is great no doubt about that..her Elettra (Idomeneo) is fantastic...having said so I think her timbre is not the dramatic type for the VERDI Macbeth. I think for Lady MAcbeth there are certain requirements for it to be succesful.
*size...yes of course *range and flexibility...yes *stage presence..yes (she has all these)
But there's a tone quality that is needed that only a few can provide: Dimitrova, Shirley Verrett, Mara Zampieri (although she lacks other stuff), Leyla Gencer, Paoletta Marrocu and OF COURSE CALLAS.
+BetuliaLiberata This is simply your opinion based on the recordings of former divas who've sung it. Does she have the cut, the volume, the vocal acting for the role? The answer is yes. Verdi actually wrote this role for a mezzosoprano, specifying he wanted an "ugly" voice to sing this role.
+Emile Weeks This is OUR opinion...yours is hardly written in stone.
+BetuliaLiberata Ah, the self-involved opera queen and her sacred cow. How they compliment each other.
Actually, I think she’s better for the role than Leyla Gencer.
@@josepheweeks I agree with most of what you say but Marianna Barbieri-Nini who created the role of Lady Macbeth, was not a mezzo-soprano, she had certainly a solid low register but was definitely a soprano if you look at the other roles she created and sang in her career like for example Gulnara in Il Corsaro or Lucrezia Contarini in "I due Foscari".
She is great.
Bravissima. Ferocious, exactly the way it should be, and reminding me of Callas.
questo non è canto.
è semplicemente inascoltabile.
è una parodia pura.
a true great drammatico
ahahahahahahahahahah !
Имах щастието да чуя и се насладя на великолепната оперна певица Александрина Пендачанска в Националната опера в София! Концертът й беше божествен, а тя в страхотна форма! Това беше най-прекрасният подарък за Рождество Христово за всички, които бяхме в залата! Благодаря и желая от сърце Господ да дари Пендачанска и семейството й с цялата си благодат и щедрост! Светли и щастливи празници!
Brava!!raro dopo anni avere una lady...e una stupenda voce
This Bulgarian soprano has been around for some times. Years ago she sang at. New. York. City. Opera,very successful!. I saw her in. Roberto. Deveroux and she was electrifying. She has more temperament that voice!! I like her conception of lady. Macbeth in this aria,even if she does not has,the voice requiere for this role or for this area. She is less famous than her counterparts bulgarians sopranos,but she is fascinating. Dressed very somber in black. I like the dress and her hair style,has to do with the aria and the action.
sorry, but she looked like she was struggling there
Le quedó grande. Bueno, si Netrebko también canta este rol a quien le extraña. Una lástima, debiese cantar a máximo los roles de spinto (Tosca) y dejarse tiempo para los roles dramáticos. Para darle más dramatismo de repente desaparece el "chiaro" de la voz.
Bravisima!!!!
Semplicemente MERAVIGLIOSA !!!!!!
Bravaaa!!! Stupenda!
Favolosa!!!
Ho avuto i brividi nel declamato della lettera...
Però, mi perdoni chi leggerà questo commento: il concertatore, dovrebbe dirigere le uova (solo per fare un esempio).
La sua gestualità è raccapricciante!
Non si rende conto di cosa sta dirigendo!!!!!!!!!!!
Senza considerare che non ha rispetto per i tempi narrativi di questa magnifica cantante.
È meglio che mi fermo qui...
Distintissimi saluti.
Wow!! Amazing Soprano!!! BRAVA!!!!
nel do sovracuto e stata squillante wooow *_*
brava.
Strain in spades. But worth it.
I wonder how she could wreck her voice so much ; this is still absolutely thrilling, but her instrument was so much better in her early years...
I think she focuses more in a slightly darker color (it kinda messes up other things she has) and yeah, her voice in her prime days was amazingly good.
She'd had 25 years of career by then, with Queen of the night, Esclarmonde, Ermione, Devereux .. chillax and let artists have some fun and strain if they feel like it
Bravissima. E la migliore che sento tra i soprani di oggi.
Prekrasno izpalnenie na Makbet.Bravo
Tous les désagréments de cette voix moins grande qu'on le dit ici (la couleur peut tromper!) sont réunis pour constituer le portrait vrai, tant musicalement que dramatiquement, d'un rôle dont Verdi ne souhaitait pas qu'il fut servi par un bel organe. Ses vœux sont comblés! Efficace; pour le moins.
Bien vu
Her overacting is better than Damrau's.. at least Pendatchanska has the voice to support such overacting, Damrau looks like a fool sometimes with her tiny voice and over the top acting
This is was OPERA means....
She's too young to be having these many vocal problems; she began singing heavy repertory too young and without formative years and enough training. The strain she displays is alarming. She should go back to the classroom and emerge in five years. And she drop the Callas schtick; it's been done.
Too young? She's 43 in this clip and had already had an enormously successful career for twenty years at the time of this performance.
Peter Callahan Actually, this repertoire is to big for her. Traviata is as big as she should sing of Verdi. And her vibrato issues really should be dealt with.
vocalità poco adatta a questo repertorio.
tecnica poco convincente .
l'interpretazione - idem .
il vecchio
Today is the first time I've heard her....Saw the debut video when she was 17...and this one...and a couple in between. I wondered where the "youngster" went as I haven't heard of her along the way. Eclipsed by Netrebko? I like this voice better than the latter and can here in each the darkening that might come with age, and a bit of the vibrato that is decried in other comments in this post, but I find the vibrato here "dramatic" and in Netrebko, who I much liked earlier in her career, a result of trying to be more than she is and a lack of physical fitness....Her weight must be difficult to lug around whilst attempting to be an actress with her body as well as voice. Is this the creep of the NFL into opera...."use them up there are always a new crop of bodies waiting in the wings?" I think Verdi was a blessing to the world...but I'm much happier to singing Handel and Shubert and even Rossini although I think he had something against tenors....or mayhap it was just his own ego, wanting only the rare voice to be able to sing his arias in which he inserted notes above "high C" as a commonplace. I can do them, but to what purpose? Ho hum, Handel and Schubert are much more "evocative" to me. I hope "Penda" has good teachers that help her cherish her voice and not end lipsynching pop tunes as I saw Anna Moffa doing in her later years....a voice used up by taking bad advice.
Voce meravigliosa... ma ce da migliorare molto il parlato!!! Lettura della lettera pessima!
This sucked so bad