Bravissima!!!

Renata Scotto è un esempio luminoso di vero bel canto

Es la mejor Adina que he escuchado. La vuelvo a escuchar de tanto en tanto y me emociona cada vez más...La Adina que imaginó Donizetti parece vivir en la voz de Scotto..escucharla te acaricia el alma.. Brava!!!!!

I LOVE HER. BEL CANTO

Early Scotto can be delightful. Mid-late Scotto not enjoyable. This is very fine bel canto singing.

Bravissimo!!! The best " Prendi " Ever !!!

That last phrase. Superhuman and Astounding!

是厉害👍🏻

Súper agudo hermoso nitido

Divine !!!

MARAVILLOSA

Beautiful

Enchanting!

THE BEST ADINA EVER!!!

Two overrated singers in one video

Cretino!

Just a provocator

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Bravissima Renata!!

There was always a little edge to her voice but what a technique !

A perfect example of Bel Canto mastery ... Brava Renata

Just beautiful ... such an amazing voice and so so so exquisite! Love her!!

La sua perfezione assoluta.

The audience goes crazy and rightfully so....this is bel canto in excelsis!

This the Singing per excellence, Ladies and Gentlemen, though someone might disagree, thank you for sharing this gem of all gems

This has got to be one of the greatest examples of singing ever captured!

Perfection!

Presumably the eight people who disliked this have the rare anatomical anomaly where their ears are actually located up their backsides. Because this is SINGING.

Stupenda!

The One .... the BEST 🌹👏👏👏

Meravigliosa. Che padronanza della dinamica!

INMENSA!! BRAVISIMAAAAAAA, que fiato tan extraordinario... que técnica.

She is the best!!!!! Brava!!!!

The ultimate version of many great performances!:-)

I guess Gruberova studied at The Scotto Academy of Off-Pitch Singing.......

February 24th: Today's Birthday Happy Birthday Renata Scotto!

I have this DVD and think that it is the BEST L'elisir recorded. It is still available. I got it because of a young Bergonzi

Everything placed beautifully here. The sweetest legato, and superb breath control. Shame she sabotaged her career as stupidly as she did.

@Joe Miller Technically, though, Scotto was far, far inferior to Callas. That is an incontrovertible fact. Scotto tried to be a second Callas, and sing everything well, but she in reality she ended up singing nothing well, not even Adina. ‘Star quality’ does not determine whether someone is a good singer or not.

@XxSaruman82xX I never argue with popularity. It is not indicative of quality per se but it is indicative of having mass appeal and that is what makes Stars Sir. There might have been better voices and than Scotto, just as there were better voices than Callas, Scotto like Callas {who she seemed obsessed with} knew how to reach the public and how to make what God gave her pay ! She still is reaching the public and wowing audiences on the web. I liked Pavorotti's voice but thought him limited as an actor and limited in scope as an artist .I never got the popularity of Domingo or Carerras. I thought there were 20 or 30 tenors who were better than they but the Public loved them and they all became huge stars. I personally do not like the sound or quality of Andrea Bocelli but he is a huge star and many hail him as a great tenor .There are people all over the world who will fight you if you disagree that Mario Lanza was the greatest tenor ever. I do not agree but These people had something that touched and reached thousands of people. That star quality cannot be manufactured it is just there ! Scotto had that star quality and it is special!

@Joe Miller So what you’re saying is she’s popular? Since when has that ever indicative of quality? She hogged recordings from other quite frankly better singers like Zylis-Gara, Cotrubas and Cruz-Romo, just like the so-called Three Tenors.

@XxSaruman82xX We can debate this all day but only Time will tell ! Scotto's performances are still being seen on video and listened to. She was the Prima Donna of The Met in the 80's and filmed and recorded lot of Operas. Time will tell if the reputation holds up or not.

@Joe Miller No. She was never good.

scotto sempre meravigliosa. fraseggio, bellezza vocale, intensità espressiva, controllo del fiato. tutte qualità eccezionali

Bellissimo timbro, grande tecnica, sottile fraseggiatrice.... il legato é da antologia

il suo repertorio. è semplicemente meravigliosa.

Tomba 2, buona notte...beh, con Bergonzi poi dormi.

@fabrizio maria Garzi ah, oddio, pensavo parlassi di qualche pettegolezzo... Hai ragione. Vabbè, teniamoci buoni i suoi momenti migliori allora. Ciao e buona notte

Tomba 2, faceva le vocette e le mossuzze da topo.

@fabrizio maria Garzi cioè?

@TKimba 2 si, iperbolico...ma non si sa mai...la Scotto, detto tra noi, mi piace solo come Margherita del Faust...e l'ho ascoltata nei Vespri a Firenze..e li fu brava e mi piacque molto...anche se Topo Gigio era sempre presente qua e la'.

A pianissimo dflat!

stupenda

Bel. Canto. This is it. If anyone asks, this is it. Taking the time to spin out lines of vocal silk. Brava Scotto!

No. This is not bel canto.

Феноменальная певица,фантастическая школа.А музыкантское мышление запредельное.

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW that sure was stunning singing !!! a shame she didnt continue in this repertoire

earty Scotto in light Bel Canto was incredible.. then she went psychotic and decided she is Maria Callas and started singing the assoluta repertoire and she was Horrible

I agree. She went bonkers. Listen to this wonderful singing from a woman who went on to produce some of the ugliest sounds ever heard on staged — and be booed for them.

I have always been a great admirer of Scotto, and this is glorious. I had heard her in an early performance of ‘Sonambula’, and much later in ‘Macbeth, both at Covent Garden, there was always an edge to the voice, which became worse during the later heavier roles. I think it is true to say that she ruined her voice, but also there were great moments in her later career. She followed what she thought was her destiny, for better or worse, and I for one, admire her for it.

Scotto and Kraus both studied under Llopart. During the runs of Manon in Chicago, Kraus assisted her in renewing the lessons they both learned under this maestra. The results showed during the course of the performances.

I heard Scotto a few times during her "assoluta" period, and while the beauty of the voice was frayed by pushing beyond her fach, she still had the full toolkit of vocal and interpretive resources until 1985 or 1986. After an abysmal Adriana at the MET in 1983, I witnessed an amazing Manon in Chicago with Alfredo Kraus that showed how effective she truly was in that fach. That had to be same year or later. The piano, the legato, everything was there when she wasn't singing at full volume. We need to remember that she made the shift to Assoluta after singing the coloratura repertoire for 20+ years.

Well, if you say so.

Bravaaaaaaa

Why is she so sharp?

astroboy royale I have thought about that and I think it has to to with the nature of her voice sitting very high and the technique she had was focused as a spear. Especially in the liric coloratura repertoir that demanded a vig voice like her to be placed high in the masque. This was the same technique as callas, but Scottos voice was more liric sitting higher. This kind of singing don't allways record as well with close microphones as rounder smaller voices will, but has the possible to reach the back rows in the theaters and sound round live. Listen to Lina Pagliughi and other old school coloraturas and you will hear the same thing. How I would love to hear those singers live!!!!!

love.

Gets a bit tricky with this one. Outstanding!

This was the cast at the MET in the 60's, with Fernando Corena as Dulcamara and Mario Sereni as Belcore. But Scotto and Bergonzi were simply adorable together, and how they sang!!

Pics up jaw from floor

less bad than l thought

ABSOLUTA PERFECCION , DOMINIO DE LA TECNICA, Y VOZ ADECUADA PARA ESTE ROL Y OBRA.. SIEMPRE ESCUCHAR A LA SCOTTO ES APRENDER..... 

Excellent example of fil di voce and legato and fioritura.. Brava Scotto. Her placement and breath and line ..perfect. What an effect. 

LITERAL PERFECTION

Perfection!!!!

die beste

Impossible! Bravissima❤️❤️❤️

EXQUISITE!!! Brava La Diva!

maravillosa!

It Looks like the tenor got bored during her last C3 :) Perfect.