She herself regards this as her greatest single performance. She really is sublime, the voice, long breath control, pianissimos, the forte high C, the ferocious attack of the heavier passages, clear phrasing (not always Montserrat''s strength), regal bearing, fantastic! Listen to her "Casta Diva" from this performance, such splendor defies description, easily the most beautifully sung version of the aria ever recorded. The 20th century saw 3 great Normas: Ponselle, Callas, and Caballe. Basta.
If the aria would sound better with an altered phrasing she would do it. She wanted perfection of the sound even though she had no problem with pronunciation. She spoke perfect Italian.
Damn! Her talent is otherworldly, and this is possibly the greatest performance of her career. Certainly it’s one of the most stunning in modern operatic history. I’ll never get over her magnificence... she leaves me bewitched forevermore. 😍🎶🎵❤️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌹
No you are not. The director who who staged and filmed, costume designer, cast, husband, brother, friends, etc came to be stunned that THE WINDS were so severe the performance was in ready to cancel but instead delayed that when the film of the performance did hope to create, WAS THE VERY 'ELEMENT or PROP' THAT WAS 'TO BRING ALL THE PARTS TOGETHER.' This WIND had reached 60 mile gales on and off, but was no doubt the piece of the theatre that only the SYNCHRONITY ARRIVED. when you do watch the full performance, you will see Caballe eye upon moments of 'the winds?' BUT CABALLE WAS A SEASONED PROFESSIONAL and had been through ALOT worse in her private life...SHE WAS QUITE A STRENGTH OF HUMILITY and HUMOR. A POWERFUL Aand MOST VALUED FILM was CAPTURED in ALL the CABALLE moments THAT SHE KNOCKED MANY MOMENTS OF HER GIFT OUT BACK TO THE GODS...🤗
Sangue Roman Scooooooooooooooorreran torrrrenti! She'll surely let them have it! The way she stands there with the dagger at Guerra, Guerra and those vindictive utterances... this is priceless and magnificent!
NORMA Ei tornerà. Sì. Mia fidanza è posta in Adalgisa. Ei tornerà pentito, Supplichevole, amante. Oh! A tal pensiero Sparisce il nuvol nero Che mi premea la fronte, E il sol m'arride Come del primo amore ai dì, ai dì felici. (Entra Clotilde.) Clotilde! CLOTILDE O Norma! Uopo è d'ardir. NORMA Che dici? CLOTILDE Lassa! NORMA Favella. Favella. CLOTILDE Indarno parlò Adalgisa, e pianse. NORMA Ed io fidarmi di lei dovea? Di mano uscirmi, E bella del suo dolore, Presentarsi all'empio ella tramava. CLOTILDE Ella ritorna al tempio. Triste, dolente, Implora di profferir suoi voti. NORMA Ed egli? CLOTILDE Ed egli rapirla giura Anco all'altar del Nume. NORMA Troppo il fellon presume. Lo previen mia vendetta, E qui di sangue, sangue roman, Scorreran torrenti. (Clotilde parte. Norma corre all'altare e batte tre volte lo scudo d'Irminsul. Trombe di dentro) CORO (di dentro) Squilla il bronzo del Dio! (Accorrono da varie parti Oroveso, i druidi, i Bardi e le Ministre. Norma si colloca sull'altare.) OROVESO E CORO Norma! Che fu? Percosso lo scudo d'Irminsul, Quali alla terra decreti intima? NORMA Guerra, strage, sterminio. OROVESO E CORO A noi pur dianzi pace S'imponea pel tuo labbro! NORMA Ed ira adesso, Stragi, furore e morti. Il cantico di guerra alzate, o forti. Guerra, guerra! Sangue, sangue! Vendetta! Strage, strage! OROVESO E CORO Guerra, guerra! Le galliche selve Quante han quercie producon guerrier: Qual sul gregge fameliche belve, Sui Romani van essi a cader! NORMA Sangue, sangue! Vendetta! Strage, strage! OROVESO E CORO Sangue, sangue! Le galliche scuri Fino al tronco bagnate ne son! Sovra il flutti dei Ligeri impuri Ei gorgoglia con funebre suon! NORMA Guerra, guerra! Sangue, sangue! Vendetta! OROVESO E CORO Strage, strage, sterminio, vendetta! Già comincia, si compie, s'affretta. Come biade da falci mietute Son di Roma le schiere cadute! NORMA Strage, strage! OROVESO E CORO Tronchi i vanni, recisi gli artigli. Abbattuta ecco l'aquila al suol! A mirare il trionfo de' figli Ecco il Dio sovra un raggio di sol! OROVESO Nè compi il rito, o Norma? Nè la vittima accenni? NORMA Ella fia pronta. Non mai 'altar tremendo Di vittime mancò. Ma qual tumulto?
I was able to discover the library has a network to all arteries of other USA libraries, college/universty that one is able to check out and view...if you are in USA. I even learned that some extension does go as far as other countries. Further, a purchase is available on Amazon and other. I do suspect the Caballe TRUST Foundation has some control to limit and release.
Torrenti of voice !!!! Caballé reigns in one of her best live nights ❤❤
She herself regards this as her greatest single performance. She really is sublime, the voice, long breath control, pianissimos, the forte high C, the ferocious attack of the heavier passages, clear phrasing (not always Montserrat''s strength), regal bearing, fantastic! Listen to her "Casta Diva" from this performance, such splendor defies description, easily the most beautifully sung version of the aria ever recorded. The 20th century saw 3 great Normas: Ponselle, Callas, and Caballe. Basta.
If the aria would sound better with an altered phrasing she would do it. She wanted perfection of the sound even though she had no problem with pronunciation. She spoke perfect Italian.
L. F. And VULCAN too my friend. Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral
I. Which interview did she
must be the greatest voice ever heard....
Damn! Her talent is otherworldly, and this is possibly the greatest performance of her career. Certainly it’s one of the most stunning in modern operatic history. I’ll never get over her magnificence... she leaves me bewitched forevermore. 😍🎶🎵❤️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌹
That was a great comment from you, Principe Turandot!
Debbie Johnson ☺️ I just describe what I see and hear from such a marvelous performer. 💋🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🥇
Am I the only one who thinks the wind made this moment more intense and tremendous?
No you are not. The director who who staged and filmed, costume designer, cast, husband, brother, friends, etc came to be stunned that THE WINDS were so severe the performance was in ready to cancel but instead delayed that when the film of the performance did hope to create, WAS THE VERY 'ELEMENT or PROP' THAT WAS 'TO BRING ALL THE PARTS TOGETHER.' This WIND had reached 60 mile gales on and off, but was no doubt the piece of the theatre that only the SYNCHRONITY ARRIVED. when you do watch the full performance, you will see Caballe eye upon moments of 'the winds?' BUT CABALLE WAS A SEASONED PROFESSIONAL and had been through ALOT worse in her private life...SHE WAS QUITE A STRENGTH OF HUMILITY and HUMOR. A POWERFUL Aand MOST VALUED FILM was CAPTURED in ALL the CABALLE moments THAT SHE KNOCKED MANY MOMENTS OF HER GIFT OUT BACK TO THE GODS...🤗
She’s literally off the charts amazing.
Sangue Roman Scooooooooooooooorreran torrrrenti! She'll surely let them have it! The way she stands there with the dagger at Guerra, Guerra and those vindictive utterances... this is priceless and magnificent!
I SO agree
Georg M H!!! have no fury like a woman scorned. 🏃🏃🏃 Arnold Bourbon Amaral. You go 👧!!!
La démesure du chant, du jeu,de la personne, du génie tout simplement 😮😮👏👏👏
I LOVE Monserrat Caballé, she is so "theatrical" somehow I do catharsis listening and seeing her.
One of the fews that caught this roll well. Brava Monserrat!!!
A miracle of singing.
absolute beauty
Magnifik! Storartat! Regards from Sweden.
Viva la Montserrat! 💜💜💜
MAGNIFICO. BELLO. MARAVILHOSO.
Guerra Guerra! Sterminio, vendetta, strage strage sangue vendetta....
NORMA
Ei tornerà.
Sì. Mia fidanza è posta in Adalgisa.
Ei tornerà pentito,
Supplichevole, amante.
Oh! A tal pensiero
Sparisce il nuvol nero
Che mi premea la fronte,
E il sol m'arride
Come del primo amore ai dì,
ai dì felici.
(Entra Clotilde.)
Clotilde!
CLOTILDE
O Norma! Uopo è d'ardir.
NORMA
Che dici?
CLOTILDE
Lassa!
NORMA
Favella. Favella.
CLOTILDE
Indarno parlò Adalgisa, e pianse.
NORMA
Ed io fidarmi di lei dovea?
Di mano uscirmi,
E bella del suo dolore,
Presentarsi all'empio ella tramava.
CLOTILDE
Ella ritorna al tempio.
Triste, dolente,
Implora di profferir suoi voti.
NORMA
Ed egli?
CLOTILDE
Ed egli rapirla giura
Anco all'altar del Nume.
NORMA
Troppo il fellon presume.
Lo previen mia vendetta,
E qui di sangue, sangue roman,
Scorreran torrenti.
(Clotilde parte. Norma corre
all'altare e batte tre volte
lo scudo d'Irminsul.
Trombe di dentro)
CORO
(di dentro)
Squilla il bronzo del Dio!
(Accorrono da varie parti Oroveso,
i druidi, i Bardi e le Ministre. Norma
si colloca sull'altare.)
OROVESO E CORO
Norma! Che fu?
Percosso lo scudo d'Irminsul,
Quali alla terra decreti intima?
NORMA
Guerra, strage, sterminio.
OROVESO E CORO
A noi pur dianzi pace
S'imponea pel tuo labbro!
NORMA
Ed ira adesso,
Stragi, furore e morti.
Il cantico di guerra alzate, o forti.
Guerra, guerra!
Sangue, sangue! Vendetta!
Strage, strage!
OROVESO E CORO
Guerra, guerra! Le galliche selve
Quante han quercie producon guerrier:
Qual sul gregge fameliche belve,
Sui Romani van essi a cader!
NORMA
Sangue, sangue! Vendetta!
Strage, strage!
OROVESO E CORO
Sangue, sangue! Le galliche scuri
Fino al tronco bagnate ne son!
Sovra il flutti dei Ligeri impuri
Ei gorgoglia con funebre suon!
NORMA
Guerra, guerra!
Sangue, sangue! Vendetta!
OROVESO E CORO
Strage, strage, sterminio, vendetta!
Già comincia, si compie, s'affretta.
Come biade da falci mietute
Son di Roma le schiere cadute!
NORMA
Strage, strage!
OROVESO E CORO
Tronchi i vanni, recisi gli artigli.
Abbattuta ecco l'aquila al suol!
A mirare il trionfo de' figli
Ecco il Dio sovra un raggio di sol!
OROVESO
Nè compi il rito, o Norma?
Nè la vittima accenni?
NORMA
Ella fia pronta.
Non mai 'altar tremendo
Di vittime mancò.
Ma qual tumulto?
Thrice she smote the shield of Irmensul and all attending heard the bronze of god
Oak daddy, I like your comment. She sure did!
Gesangskunst in ihrer Perfektion und Hingabe.
La superbe!!!
If I were a roman I would run
5:31 reminiscences de norma
Minuto 3:32.
Sublimeeee
Where is the complete opera, please?
I was able to discover the library has a network to all arteries of other USA libraries, college/universty that one is able to check out and view...if you are in USA. I even learned that some extension does go as far as other countries. Further, a purchase is available on Amazon and other. I do suspect the Caballe TRUST Foundation has some control to limit and release.
Stupendous