This is why so many suffer with body images problems.
The "new" Adele is on the right. I pray this transition has not effected her beautiful voice.
Re: Adele
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 3:18 pm
by BoSoxGal
There’s no reason her voice should be affected by her weight reduction - there are plenty of healthy weight fabulous voices, the obese opera singer is not a model of how to build a beautiful voice.
Kudos to Adele for recapturing her health, I hope it sticks. I suspect her husband was enabling if not encouraging her obesity - that’s a very common marriage dynamic - and her divorce was a catalyst to change things up in a big way.
Re: Adele
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 3:38 pm
by Gob
I would.
Funny thing is , even though she has a good, (not great,) voice, I think a large degree of her success was in her appeal to young overweight women.
Re: Adele
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 3:41 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
So she's no longer that big Adele?
Re: Adele
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 4:37 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
There’s no reason her voice should be affected by her weight reduction - there are plenty of healthy weight fabulous voices, the obese opera singer is not a model of how to build a beautiful voice.
Just an opportunity (I know we had an opera thread a little while ago) to post one two of my favorite singers. I found this clip because I wanted to see what sort of job Anna Netrebko made of Offenbach's Barcarolle: but I stayed for Elina Garanca. Another example of the whole being more than the sum of the parts.
I just re-read what I wrote above - maybe a little clumsy. I was familiar with Netrebko so I knew more or less what to expect, but I don't recall hearing or seeing Garanca before. I love the contralto voice. And I won't deny that she has a certain visual appeal.
A couple of years ago I posted my favorite bit of opera in this thread: Anna Netrebko (soprano) and Elina Garanca (mezzo) doing the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffnung. I still love the piece (and it has not escaped my attention that both of them are fairly pleasant on the eye) but it's interesting how differently they see the current Ukraine thing. Garanca is Latvian and she has come out against Putin's adventurism in no uncertain terms and has canceled all her upcoming appearances in Russia; while Netrebko (Russian but now an Austria citizen) has said that she is against war (I expect Putin would say the same) but she has always been a Putin supporter and once said that she wished she could have been his lover. The Met have canceled her forthcoming appearances.
I'll give Netrebko the benefit of the doubt in that she probably has family in Russia who would be in danger if she went too far in dissing Putin; but she has definitely been on the side of Ukrainian Russian separatists in the past.
I was familiar with Netrebko so I knew more or less what to expect, but I don't recall hearing or seeing Garanca before. I love the contralto voice. And I won't deny that she has a certain visual appeal.
XKA: You may like this little bit of Berlioz with Elina Garanca I had posted back in 2015; the "visual appeal" (as well as incredible artistry) is on full display:
Re: Adele
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:45 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Thanks - I'd not seen that. OK there is no point in anyone ever again taking that role. It's been done. I think Berlioz had Garanca in mind 150 years ago.
Thanks - I'd not seen that. OK there is no point in anyone ever again taking that role. It's been done. I think Berlioz had Garanca in mind 150 years ago.
Oh, don't rush to judgment; there are a few other Habanera performances you might want to check out first -- although Carmen-in-a-gorilla-suit must be some very specific kind of kink. And then there's Milijana Nikolic, who is basically porn (I think this staging is cartoonishly over-the-top, but she's clearly right for the role).
Re: Adele
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 8:07 pm
by Big RR
One of my favorite performances of this and other Carmen Mezzo arias was from Kristin Chavez; I saw her at the San Francisco Opera and later had the chance to perform on stage with her many years ago(our conductor was a conductor at the Met where she was a young Featured performer), doing Carmen and Rigoletto favorites. the woman honestly oozed sex appeal--and she flirted with the chorus, throwing her mantilla over them and acting suggestively (very different from her reserve when not performing); the audience loved it. I saw her at the Met in a few pieces, but lost track of her. I don't have time to do it now, but if you google her name, I'm sure there must be some you tube videos of her (sadly, we didn't make one of that performance).
