I listen to this every evening. It is how I sort things out.

Magnifica Aria , grande Anja Harteros

Brava,Anja! You're (still) my favorite.

Bellísima Aria

These opera critics will kill opera. I wonder why they are critics instead of performers. Opera is art, not “idealism”. It’s the so-called imperfections that make it beautiful and compelling. How is it possible for there to one way of doing something that is art. Harteros like many of the current crop of leading voices are at the top of their game because they are good.

Thank you!!!!!! I loved her performance, it would be fantastic to see her Madre Pietosa Vergine!!!

Wonderful done! Brava 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️💯( impressive breathing)

I love her.

Grande soprano direi sublime per la sua giovane età le auguro una lunga carriera di successo meritato" sono pochi i soprano alla sua altezza-

Bravo, Bravo, so wundervoll!

Beautiful woman, beautiful singing and musicianship. I saw her first many years ago in Cardiff singer of the world. Wish she made more recordings.

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

Romanza meravigliosa! Brava Anja. Verdi orgoglio italiano!!

BRAVO :))))))))))))))))))))))))))

OH MY GOD......... she is so wonderful.... really amazing voice.....

このDivaが大好きです。美声で情熱的で演技も素晴らしい！アンドレア・シェニエのマッダレーナなど情熱的な役柄も似合うけど、ヴェルディアーナですね。

Anja est sublime !! 💕💕💕

Thanks

What a trouper this soprano is to give us great singing while managing to have amazing professional patience in dealing with the idiotic staging surrounding so much of her fine work. Euro trash productions can not fortunately compromise her wonderful singing.

Merveilleuse artiste

Sounds just the way a Verdi soprano should sound! But should she be wearing heels after five years in solitude in a hermitage?

Queste croci bianche sono un dejà vue, come la solito la scenografia di questo teatro fa c.....are

She has a really wonderfull technique, and she sings wonderfully. But I hope she improves her tendency to sing slowly than the orchestra.... Brava Anja.

The timbre of her voice always reminds me of Milanov

I liked her, better than other new singers that sing the role. It's a pity they never finished that building they were building on stage so they had to pile all that together and she only had 2 square feet to sing.

Bravissima

Brava.

I consider her ability to sing against the established tempo to be one of her greatest strengths.

There might be two kind of reflections we can make on evaluating this performance. The one based on the previous renditions of this role,and so starting mentioning Price,Tebaldi or any other who have put their strong imprint on Verdi's heavy roles, thus constructing a kind of "mentality" to us, on how this roles should be executed . But we also can make an evaluation based on the score, the technical and emotional assets, and all singing elements required. I would rather prefer the second way of evaluation. Harteros impeccable technique gives her the chance to deliver her voice easily through the orchestra, without screaming or emitting unpleasable sounds. She has a military voice control that never allows any scratch or noise slide out of the "God's path". She has a well elaborated phrasing and diction even though she could have worked a little bit more on the word endings especially where they finish with consonants. Sometimes they look merged and without space on her way of pronouncing them. Her exceptional "game" between forte fortissimo piano pianissimo includes also a lot of vocal colors poured on a single line. In the case of this aria I would have to say that this is a very good rendition, though it lacks a bit of expressiveness which I hope she will get it during time, since this time was her role debut. And if I could add something more, maybe I would have preferred a less clean rendition, in return of some passionate vocal-emissions

le fette di pane tedesco sono il massimo!!!!

Creo que es tan fácil criticar desde tu silla...

Nice piece of bread

bela interpretação;mas há vibratos em certos momentos que não me agradaram.

staging is done without any understanding of time or taste.....

This ridiculous setting is a tragedy on its own. Why set directors are so arrogant nowadays? They seem to have a desire of competition with the compositor, a wish of showing that they can make things better than the "old men". The result is a disaster, as usual.

She's above average in places, but never really memorable, though I especially admire her ability to sing around a landfill of crosses. The whole wheat bread was a remarkably unremarkable prop.

Terrible staging damn! Last Maledizione meeeeh

It would have been really realistic and better that she cralwed step by step the "CROCE" decor and loose step by step her clothes with blood ... there is not enough passion in this staging ..

She sounds very tired. Forza's a killer. Why can't sopranos realise that it's a dramatic soprano role similar to Lady Macbeth, Abigaile and Odabella. It's the Verdi role that links Santuzza and Tosca to Norma and the early Verdi beasts. Me Pellegrina ed Orfana is a beast of an Aria for a soprano to start fresh with. Singing over the choruses of act two, Madre Pieta and La Vergine leaves any robust dramatic desperate for a break. The opera generally heavily and badly written for the soprano. Very much a prelude to La Gioconda

Anja Harteros...mah..croce piu' croce meno….

Great voice. Tempo slightly on the slow side. HORRIBLE production!

Very good! She always has difficulties with the B-flat pianissimo though.

Acuto finale gridato

Meh

Ужасная постановка. Хартерос спела ноты, но никак не арию. Да и то, к этим нотам есть претензии.

Good, but her Italian isn't that good and in my opinion it is so important to have an impeccable pronunciation!

Une jolie petite voix, mais qui ne laissera pas de traces dans les annales. On est loin des Price, Caballé, Millo et j'en passe.

Geez, what happened here? This is toward the end of the opera but she sounds like she didn't have enough warmup. The voice is juddering and the vibrato is too pronounced. The diction is very unitalianate

non mi piace affatto.

I don´t know why people - who usually haven´t seen the whole thing - are so nasty about such productions. What is wrong here? We see the inside of a monastery, we see many crosses and Leonora breaking a loaf of bread. Start thinking, people instead of constantly ranting.

She certainly has got a voice and her pronunciation is good. But there too many things missing to call this a faboulous perfomance: intonation is not perfect, the high B is too "open", and her vibrato is too large here in there. It's a professional performance that deserves respect. That's it, IMHO of course.

Une mise en scène toujours aussi minable et stupide et des costumes anachroniques. Cela devient de plus en plus dramatique de bêtise. Confiez la mise en scène à des gens qui aiment la beauté et n'ont pas un ego démesuré comme tous ces metteurs en scène névrosés!!!!!

Horrible production! Nice voice much nicer than Sondra on this particular Aria......

One needs lots of imagination to think that this has something to do with Milanov...the only similarity is related to the early pitch issues of Milanov....But Milanov also had a great voice....which is not really the case....Harteros is flat everywhere, ugly top and so on. I have seen her live and she was flat even in German repertoire where they say she's good...But her fame is brought by other means than her talent for sure....

This not worthy of Verdi life and insipration... And also Catholic and Protestant .. The Opera is also political voice

Horrible set. Ridiculous vibrato and throaty singing. Verdi is rolling in his grave.

Why does she scream so badly ? She does not have sense of Verdi' rhythm. She does not sing the third " maledizione " before the final note. Well it's not so good. Miss Harteros must probably sing better lyric soprano roles than dramatical ones.