Just happen to be looking at old RUclips performances and reading the comments made here, some years ago. I'd agree that my voice at age 35, and 339 pounds was richer. But voices change during a very public, loooong career. Better then? Worse now? I can't begin to enter in to such a conversation: but to those of you who made horrible, personal, vindictive comments, anonymously sitting behind your computer screens in your judgmental little lives...about me AND my little dog? ......God bless.
at the risk of sounding like a sycophant (I lack patience for cheap compliments, and I doubt you have time for them), kudos for breaking the stigma around surgeries. like....did people want you to stay unhealthy? it would be one thing if you were one of those celebrities who got addicted to it, but you got a single surgery done and look better at 57 than you did 20 years prior. why is it considered "fake", "shallow" or "selling out" to want to be healthy and look good? people who make those kinds of comments piss me off more than the ones shouting "she sounds horrible now!", because at least the latter are being direct. the former hide behind the appearance of virtue by making the objects of their criticism sound "less real" in an ironic display of pretentiousness.
This takes me back...I was there when Deborah Voigt reopened the War Memorial Opera House and her Sieglinde in the SF Ring. And at the Met for her Ariadne and Kaiserin and Helen. Thank you for the wonderful nights of glorious singing.
No shaking jaw, no shaking tongue, no shaking neck, just beautiful, gorgeous, well supported and produced golden sounds. Young singers need to learn how to sustain a note without looking like they're chewing gum. It's an epidemic nowadays.
The best diction Ive heard from anyone in this aria, including from German speakers! Very careful and studious in her phrasing, and a rock solid Bflat! There’s nothing not to like in this. I even think she looks beautiful! So shoot me.
This is a reasonable but not completely accurate representation of Voigt's pre-surgery voice. In the house heard live [I heard her in six operas prior to the surgery and one after] the voice sounded much fuller than here, although with the same very rounded and smoothly produced sound. She could fill a large house [the Lyric in Chicago 4300 seat theatre] with such ease that it seemed a miracle. Even after the surgery she was able to fill the house as Salome, the first post-surgery role she took on. The great problem was Levine pushed her into singing Brunnhilde which was really not suited to her huge Straussian type voice. Also, I think it possible that she did not take quite enough time reworking her technique after the surgery before taking on the biggest Wagner roles. She was, of course, never less that professional and always gave herself fully to a role but the voice was one of steel and bronze rather than gold and silver after the surgery. Happily, she remained healthy and happy so none of us who speak about her here should be overly critical. It was her life and her choice. We are all lucky to have had the chance to hear her before or after.
Um excelente concerto produzido, apresentado e patrocinado pela Associação Patronos do Theatro Municipal de São Paulo. A TV Cultura foi convidada a gravar e exibir concerto .
Compared to this outstanding Voight from the not so distant past, the Voight of last winter's Ring cycle sounded like a Florence Foster Jenkins imitator.
Sincèrement, je ne vois pas ce qu'on trouve à cette chanteuse, dont le timbre est anonyme, et dont le chant ne transmet rien. Et en plus là, elle est à contre emploi et ne sera jamais une wagnérienne, comme ses prestations dans le ring de New York l'attestent. C'est bien. C'est tout.
+Zashorigin I do agree that this presentation has little musical nuance. Perhaps the influence of the conductor. And the tempo sounds fast, but I am hardly a Wagner scholar. Voigt is capable of much more subtlety. Her Strauss rocks.
Just happen to be looking at old RUclips performances and reading the comments made here, some years ago. I'd agree that my voice at age 35, and 339 pounds was richer. But voices change during a very public, loooong career. Better then? Worse now? I can't begin to enter in to such a conversation: but to those of you who made horrible, personal, vindictive comments, anonymously sitting behind your computer screens in your judgmental little lives...about me AND my little dog? ......God bless.
Debbie- these people do not even deserve a response from you.
You're amazing. You've got amazing performances that span your entire career. Big fan here, love you (and your dog) very much!
Wow, the real u. Big fun here
at the risk of sounding like a sycophant (I lack patience for cheap compliments, and I doubt you have time for them), kudos for breaking the stigma around surgeries. like....did people want you to stay unhealthy? it would be one thing if you were one of those celebrities who got addicted to it, but you got a single surgery done and look better at 57 than you did 20 years prior. why is it considered "fake", "shallow" or "selling out" to want to be healthy and look good? people who make those kinds of comments piss me off more than the ones shouting "she sounds horrible now!", because at least the latter are being direct. the former hide behind the appearance of virtue by making the objects of their criticism sound "less real" in an ironic display of pretentiousness.
You speak it, Debbie!!!
This takes me back...I was there when Deborah Voigt reopened the War Memorial Opera House and her Sieglinde in the SF Ring. And at the Met for her Ariadne and Kaiserin and Helen. Thank you for the wonderful nights of glorious singing.
No shaking jaw, no shaking tongue, no shaking neck, just beautiful, gorgeous, well supported and produced golden sounds. Young singers need to learn how to sustain a note without looking like they're chewing gum. It's an epidemic nowadays.
The best diction Ive heard from anyone in this aria, including from German speakers! Very careful and studious in her phrasing, and a rock solid Bflat! There’s nothing not to like in this. I even think she looks beautiful! So shoot me.
Which aria?
Lovely woman. Extraordinary career. Fantastic voice. She sounds much better here prior to her weight loss.
Deborah Voigt it's always my favorite soprano
This is a reasonable but not completely accurate representation of Voigt's pre-surgery voice. In the house heard live [I heard her in six operas prior to the surgery and one after] the voice sounded much fuller than here, although with the same very rounded and smoothly produced sound. She could fill a large house [the Lyric in Chicago 4300 seat theatre] with such ease that it seemed a miracle. Even after the surgery she was able to fill the house as Salome, the first post-surgery role she took on. The great problem was Levine pushed her into singing Brunnhilde which was really not suited to her huge Straussian type voice. Also, I think it possible that she did not take quite enough time reworking her technique after the surgery before taking on the biggest Wagner roles. She was, of course, never less that professional and always gave herself fully to a role but the voice was one of steel and bronze rather than gold and silver after the surgery. Happily, she remained healthy and happy so none of us who speak about her here should be overly critical. It was her life and her choice. We are all lucky to have had the chance to hear her before or after.
I agree with you.
SOU LOUCO POR ESSA MULHER!!
Beautiful voice. Great rendition of this aria👏👏
Deborah Voigt 's Isolde in 2012 is even greater to me.
BRAVA!! Thank you, Debbie!
Belíssima apresentação! Bravo!!!
Eu estava lá... no coro lírico! 🤩
This is obviously before her surgery. Anyone know what year? Gorgeous voice and technique she had then!
Absolutely love her
Um excelente concerto produzido, apresentado e patrocinado pela Associação Patronos do Theatro Municipal de São Paulo. A TV Cultura foi convidada a gravar e exibir concerto .
This is the Deborah I love...
wow fantasticsinging for sure
... ainda tenho o programa... autografado...
The voice was much richer then, but I'm glad that she's much healthier now.
That Lohengrin is divine.
plaser en tu canto voigt gracias
In what year did this take place?
1999
@@nai36821 Thanks!
Brava ❤
#Bliss ❤️ .
Isn't this singer supposed to be A DRAMATIC soprano? Here, she sounds more like a spinto soprano...between the lyric and the dramatic.
She transitioned to dramatic roles later.
Compared to this outstanding Voight from the not so distant past, the Voight of last winter's Ring cycle sounded like a Florence Foster Jenkins imitator.
Ridiculous comment. Also, mean-spirited and unkind. As well as untrue.
I'm just wondering, has she ever sung that final note in tune?
Was that question just to show how smart you think you are? Really?
Actually, she did here and I am quite sure she also did many times before and after.
Sincèrement, je ne vois pas ce qu'on trouve à cette chanteuse, dont le timbre est anonyme, et dont le chant ne transmet rien. Et en plus là, elle est à contre emploi et ne sera jamais une wagnérienne, comme ses prestations dans le ring de New York l'attestent. C'est bien. C'est tout.
hideous gown... jessye norman knew much better how to dress and she was bigger than voigt
I'm not sure the gown gives gift to singer.
Dion Beukes Maybe, but I'm not sure the dress is very important... However, I agree with you both : this singer is not as gifted as Jessy Norman. :)
+harry roldie God, the dress is awful. The color is not bad but ... oy! The voice, however. To die for.
She has a nice voice and sings easy but it is so generic and no pianos. I like her but it really doesn't do much for me.
+Zashorigin I do agree that this presentation has little musical nuance. Perhaps the influence of the conductor. And the tempo sounds fast, but I am hardly a Wagner scholar. Voigt is capable of much more subtlety. Her Strauss rocks.
She was arrested for DUI in 2018 and destroyed her career and name for ever .
live big @live big. Your libelous comment is vile. You’d be ashamed if your were capable of genuine feelings. Delete your post.
Yea....wassup with this and how can she ruin her life? She's a human and who hasn't been DUI...GET THE FUKK OUTTA HERE!!!!
LIVE BIG JACKASS
@@tcewmg3430 She’s a horrible human being very malicious and arrogant . She’s not humble at all . I wish her the worst
She was never a great wagnerian soprano. Even as a soprano, of course better than Sondra R., but very inferior to Aprile Millo.