Thank you so much for this incredible interview! I spent my summers with my Grandmother, Virginia Hackett, wife of Charles Hackett, the magnificent tenor, in Maine. And being great friends with Bidu, her mother and Danise, I spent a great deal of time at their home (Casa Bidu) on the water. They were wonderful to me and I have fantastic memories of them. I remember Danise trying to get my brother to sing correctly, not from the throat but with the diaphragm. He was so patient. A truly beautiful man. But Bidu and her mother, loved to fuss over me. They made me feel like a little princess. Such beautiful memories,
I took care of Bidu after she had a stroke and ended up having surgery in the Maine Medical Hospital, I was a young Nurse and had never heard of her however I received so many autographed photos that she asked me to retrieve from her suitcase in the closet in her room .... she was weak from surgery when I met her that first night having been out of surgery just over 24hours yet she was full of life.... she told me all about her life and I was in AWE... told me she had no children but did have either a niece and a nephew maybe both I cannot recall it may have been both... she loved living in Maine said she lived in the Rockland area... I wish I had been able to tell her I knew who she was as i found out that she was a BIG Opera Star, It made be feel that I didnt give her the respect she so deserved but she was understanding that I was only a 20 year old young lady when she had her stroke and she asked me what year I was born when I said 1963 she smiled and laughed a little and said she was sort of retired at that time
2:50, Bidy Sayao 5:40, Danise 7:40, Sayao 9:13, Sayao (sul problema di soprani che fanno repertorio troppo drammatico), parla della Tebaldi sul fatto che ha forzato la sua voce 10:35, su Birgit Nilsson 11:05, Denise parla di Tamagno, T. Ruffo e della Nilsson 12:00, Sayao ancora sulla Nilsson
I don't agree with Tebaldi losing the voice after years of pushing. I think she was simply getting old. Being singing since 1947, ten years are enough for the voice to feel tired, and she continued to sing rather well another ten years, and 20 years are enough to put any singer career to an end. Besides, pushing seems to actually degrade the voice with quick effect, by three years the damage would be more than obvious, like in Callas' case. Besides that Tebaldi, for example, never truly mastered the high C. And already by 1952 she was said to have a voice big as Flagstad. Of course, it just my opinion.
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Incredibly wise advice and intelligent opinions they have about Opera singers. That conversation could be taking place nowadays in the year 2022!!
Thanks so much for this - absolutely wonderful
Thanks for this wonderful recording! I am a huge fan of Danise.
Thank you so much for this incredible interview! I spent my summers with my Grandmother, Virginia Hackett, wife of Charles Hackett, the magnificent tenor, in Maine. And being great friends with Bidu, her mother and Danise, I spent a great deal of time at their home (Casa Bidu) on the water. They were wonderful to me and I have fantastic memories of them. I remember Danise trying to get my brother to sing correctly, not from the throat but with the diaphragm. He was so patient. A truly beautiful man. But Bidu and her mother, loved to fuss over me. They made me feel like a little princess. Such beautiful memories,
I took care of Bidu after she had a stroke and ended up having surgery in the Maine Medical Hospital, I was a young Nurse and had never heard of her however I received so many autographed photos that she asked me to retrieve from her suitcase in the closet in her room .... she was weak from surgery when I met her that first night having been out of surgery just over 24hours yet she was full of life.... she told me all about her life and I was in AWE... told me she had no children but did have either a niece and a nephew maybe both I cannot recall it may have been both... she loved living in Maine said she lived in the Rockland area... I wish I had been able to tell her I knew who she was as i found out that she was a BIG Opera Star, It made be feel that I didnt give her the respect she so deserved but she was understanding that I was only a 20 year old young lady when she had her stroke and she asked me what year I was born when I said 1963 she smiled and laughed a little and said she was sort of retired at that time
2:50, Bidy Sayao
5:40, Danise
7:40, Sayao
9:13, Sayao (sul problema di soprani che fanno repertorio troppo drammatico), parla della Tebaldi sul fatto che ha forzato la sua voce
10:35, su Birgit Nilsson
11:05, Denise parla di Tamagno, T. Ruffo e della Nilsson
12:00, Sayao ancora sulla Nilsson
I don't agree with Tebaldi losing the voice after years of pushing. I think she was simply getting old. Being singing since 1947, ten years are enough for the voice to feel tired, and she continued to sing rather well another ten years, and 20 years are enough to put any singer career to an end. Besides, pushing seems to actually degrade the voice with quick effect, by three years the damage would be more than obvious, like in Callas' case. Besides that Tebaldi, for example, never truly mastered the high C. And already by 1952 she was said to have a voice big as Flagstad. Of course, it just my opinion.