Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale
As this has turned into a discussion of La Vestale on records, one more needs to be mentioned: Rosa Ponselle's 1926 RCA Victor of two brief extracts, often reissued. Tullio Serafin, who also conducts Callas's recording of the arias almost 30 years later, encouraged Ponselle and the Met to undertake the opera as a preparation for her Norma a few years later. One LP reissue quotes Edward Johnson, Ponselle's Licinius, as saying that "every vocal student should be required to listen to them (Ponselle's Vestale arias) at least once a week as examples of the seamless scale". I like Rebeka in the Bru Zane recording and her modern emotionalism, but at the same time I miss the classical vocal virtues of Ponselle, Callas and Serafin. The sound of every note, dynamics and how you move from one note to the next as part of phrases somehow seem to matter more to them!
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Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Stephen Wells July 30, 2023, 10:30 pm
- Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Ralph Moore July 31, 2023, 12:08 am
- Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Ralph Moore July 31, 2023, 12:14 am
- Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Nils-Göran Olve July 31, 2023, 8:27 am
- Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Jeffrey Lague July 31, 2023, 11:53 am
- Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Ralph Moore August 1, 2023, 8:50 am
- Re: Thoughts on some other recordings of La Vestale - Nils-Göran Olve August 2, 2023, 12:46 pm
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