Black Glam

Madame Leontyne Price. Profession : Diva.

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Elina

Garanca... profession : diva.

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Diva - Berlioz Heroine

Susan Graham...



- the death of Cleopatra -

It's difficult to apprehend this "scène tragique" as Berlioz wrote it, because the singer also has to convey all the drama of a woman put to slavery and resulting to death in about 20 minutes and 3 different pieces. The first one and my favorite is the moment where Cleopatra remembers all of her glorious past, how she appeared on the rivers, triomphant in beauty and power, and how far those moments seem to be. Susan Graham manages quite well to build the crescendo at the end even though she pauses too long, the voice is light and clear. Of course, one would remember Janet Baker... but Graham really is royal.

- D'amour l'ardente flamme -

 Again Berlioz, less at ease while acting, Graham definitely uses all the colour of her voice to sing this piece. Very different from romatic arias of the time, the song finds interest in the different tempos you can hear throughout the song and the acceleration right in the middle of it.  While certain singers do find this comfortable, Graham makes the most of it.

- Autrefois, un roi de Thulé -





- les Troyens -

Difficult to talk of Berlioz gigantic opera (4 hours) without this song, one of the finest duo in it, it requires a well harmony of the two voice , which is somtimes quite difficult to achieve since the tenor is often a loud one for this piece since he has to be able to stand the 4 hours. But there the result is actually a success. Souriez à l'amour.

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The Rising voice

Diana

 

Simply Diana...



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Wild Kiri

and you dared think she was boring !

It might make an interesting combination though, wild hair !

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Juliet

well Romeo's not there but we have our lovely Juliette.

We'll explain : our favorite star/diva/icon/actress/woman has her own myspace, well the crazy fan behind her mostly, since she's glowing with heavenly stars now. And he's just uploaded another "sequence" (spoken moment dubbed with music) and he's done it with the Shakespeare play "Romeo and Juliet" and our unique Miss Seyrig;

We're obsessed with her voice just so you know, so we might be high for a few days. That's a perfect Valentine's gift no ??

so check the object of our obsession :

www.myspace.com/torememberdelphineseyrig




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Leonora

...of course there are others... but She did defintely carve some roles into stones.... This one especially is especially wonderful, considering the story is just plain. But this character has so much nobility and her arias are so beautiful that it 's just nearly impossible to ignore them.

"Miserere" was played at Verdi's funeral.