Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Saturday 17 September 2016, 17:47

Title: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 17 September 2016, 17:47
...isn't Anna Netrebko, but the largely unsung Sondra Radvanovsky. She's even recorded Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac, with Placido Domingo!
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: thalbergmad on Saturday 17 September 2016, 18:15
Unlike you not to provide substantial evidence ;D

Anyway, it is clearly Susan Boyle.

Thal
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 17 September 2016, 19:40
Take your pick:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sondra+radvanovsky (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sondra+radvanovsky)

And the greatest tenor in the world is Paul Potts  ;)
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 22 September 2016, 13:44
Well, it depends on whether we're talking about terrific people (who are sopranos/tenors by voice type whether or not they've ever raised their voice in song :)) or best (however judged...) singers qua singers in those categories.. :D
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 22 September 2016, 16:04
It was meant as a rejoinder to those whose critical faculties are apparently silent when faced with the latest recording by the over-hyped, overrated and distinctly overparted Miss Netrebko.
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: adriano on Thursday 22 September 2016, 18:12
Oh, and remember crazy tenor Stefan Zucker, who made that hilarious film about the "voce di petto", featurning Magda Olivero, Anita Cerquetti, Giulietta Simionato, Leyla Gencer? He though he was the best - and highest - tenor in the world, so I searched - and those Youtube I could get were horrifying. Let's better open a thread "the worst singers..." :-)
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 22 September 2016, 18:53
I'd never heard of Zucker - and now that I've sampled him on YouTube, I wish I hadn't bothered. There's definitely no Zucker in his Stimme...
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Thursday 22 September 2016, 21:23
Completely ohne Zucker
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: adriano on Thursday 22 September 2016, 21:30
Here we have him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zucker

and here is the film in question - don't get apoplexia by laughing! I first took it as a parody, but it's true!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R2mdzDhSvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYp-AwBY9U

Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: kolaboy on Friday 23 September 2016, 01:37
... and Robert White is the greatest tenor.
Title: Re: The greatest soprano in the world today...
Post by: matesic on Friday 23 September 2016, 08:56
I believe Stefan Zucker may have had a lot of influence on Sacha Baron Cohen. The best send-up artists are the sincere ones!