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With her voice on an upward trajectory in the direction of tatters, Netrebko has been increasingly acting as floating global intendant on behalf of her husband. Where she sings, so does he, whether you like it/him or not.
His wife may be good, but then you watch & listen to Maria Callas at the height of her career, then you put her into perspective. There were greater singers in the past.
Callas’s career ran from about 1945 until about 1956 before vocal decline. Netrebko has been singing at the height of her powers since 1995, or more than twice as long. Role-count: Callas 36, Netrebko 34.
Not that it’s a horse-race.
don’t be ridiculous to compare Callas with Netrebko! There are worlds between them! Never ever would Netrebko comes close to Callas but let’s be happy she is around!
In every performance the best singer is the dead one.
Yes, there were great singers in the past, but to say that singers in the past were greater than singers today is an empty comment. If you want to hear opera in an opera house, those singers in the past are dead and not performing. If you are only listening to opera on CDs, then fine, stick to your Callas. I love Callas in many roles, but I go to the opera today to hear the singers of today. Comparisons like this are really quite useless. Netrebko beats Callas if you’re looking to hear someone alive in the theatre. Callas can’t compete because she is dead. Have you even heard Callas live or are all of your experiences through audio recordings? Also, Netrebko has managed her career and vocal resources far better than Callas did in her shorter career.
“Netrebko beats Callas looking to hear someone alive in the theatre” – Uhummm!!! …Callas was a consummate artists who didn’t need teleprompter, and she didn’t breath between the words, despite an occasionally worn out voice (!) – I mean, who re we kidding?!…
you totally missed the point…
If no teleprompter, Callas always had a prompter. She was known for feeling unsecure without one, even if she probably did not really need it. You can hear that on many live performances. And she never took the risk to sing in German (which was why the teleprompter was needed in Netrebko’s case). When she sang Wagner it was in italian. So your “points” are definitely not serious.
La Callas couldn’t see a teleprompter. She was extremely short-sighted
You must suffer from short-sightedness too – because this article is about Eyvazov.
you must be joking…..only one year of Callas would have beaten Netrebko!
Maria is peerless in every roles she sang as she did simply more than that
Singers have always been compared to the previous generation of performers. It’s about standards. Do younger performers meet the requirements set in the past? Do they improve on them, technically or dramatically? Today, we have recordings as a good reference for such a discussion. Netrebko doesn’t really measure up, but she is exciting, and live opera desperately need that.