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New York - Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

operaclick.com

An opera like Verdi´s "Nabucco" needs a very strong cast, specially a soprano with a magnetic stage presence and a powerful voice that will do justice to the larger-than-life role of Abigaille. The MET had in soprano Maria Guleghina one of the best Abigailles of the last twenty years and, paired with the commanding Nabucco of Zeljko Lucic, this was a performance that did justice to Verdi's first masterpiece.....

.... Maria Guleghina is a force of nature when she sings a role such as Abigaille. Since the moment she enters the stage, you can't stop looking at her. She embodies the role both vocally and as an actress in such a way that you feel grateful to see such committment from a singer. She has blazing high Cs, Ds and even a high E at the end of the duet that caused an electrifying effect of Abigaille's desperation. Guleghina has the stamina to sing with lovely mezza voce and legato the aria "Chi s'avanza" and then turn into a tigress in the cabaletta "Salgo già del trono aurato...".
She also excelled in "Su me, morente, esanime".

Maria Guleghina brings Verdi’s ‘Nabucco’ back to the Met after 6-year absence

Nabucco - Metropolitan Opera

THE WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK — Maria Guleghina walked to the front of the stage, blew kisses to the crowd over and over and kept tapping her right hand against her heart. A diva curtain call from the golden age.

The Ukrainian soprano returned to the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Nabucco” as Abigaille on Tuesday night, a famously difficult role she sang when the staging debuted a decade ago. With penetrating, thrilling high notes, she dominated the entertaining revival and was rewarded with a standing ovation.

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Whether standing near the top of John Napier’s massive, rotating set in regal robes or running about like a warrior, Guleghina was commanding in a role sung at the La Scala premiere in 1842 by Giuseppina Strepponi, who later became Verdi’s second wife. This was a woman who loved power in a male-dominated society. If the pitch on some notes was uncertain, it was compensated by her ferocious intensity.

 

 

Worthy vocal moments in Met’s “Nabucco”

Nabucco - Metropolitan Opera

THE CLASSICAL REVIEW

Maria Guleghina sang Abigaille, a perennial role for her in this house, with great power and prowess, maneuvering between the coloratura passages and full-voice attacks with apparent ease. The Ukrainian soprano lacks beauty in her chest voice, unfortunately so, since the role has many moments of low-lying potential money notes.  Guleghina made up for it with dramatic intensity and sheer vocal power, enough to be convincing in the opening scene where she enters wielding a sword, and her pleading despair in her touching final scene.

'Festival della Melodia Belliniana' oltre 5000 spettatori

Norma - Taormina

LA REPUBBLICA - 09 settembre 2011

... - ha visto protagonista una straordinaria Maria Guleghina, al fianco di Aquiles Machado (Pollione) - ....

'Nabucco', en la costa

Nabucco - Peralada

EL PAIS - 18/07/2011

Nabucco exige en el abrumador personaje de Abigaille ?toda ella envidia, maldad, celos y traición? una soprano de armas tomar que no se encoja ante una partitura inclemente que la obliga trabajar demasiado a menudo en los extremos del registro. La soprano ucrania Maria Guleghina, que ya cantó ese papel en el Nabucco liceísta de 2006, resultó, una vez más, una Abigaille ideal, poderosa, imponente.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Nabucco/costa/elpepucul/20110718elpepucul_7/Tes

Die Macht des Schicksals

Il Corsaro - Dortmund

OMM - 14.06.2011

... Dass Verdi dieses Werk für die besten Sänger seiner Zeit geschrieben hat, wird auch im zweiten Akt deutlich, wenn die nächsten beiden Stimmakrobaten mit ihren Paradestücken auftreten. Nachdem der Chor der Haremsdamen, der vom Volumen im Gegensatz zu den Korsaren im ersten Akt durchaus mit dem Orchester mithalten kann, Gulnara, der Lieblingssklavin des Paschas, ihre Vorteile ausgemalt hat, die es mit sich bringt, in der Gunst des Paschas zu stehen, präsentiert Maria Guleghina mit hochdramatischem Sopran ihre Kavatine "Vola talor dal carcere", in der sie ihrer Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und ihrer Verachtung des Paschas Ausdruck verleiht. Dabei begeistert Guleghina mit einem gewaltigen Stimmvolumen, das im tieferen Bereich sehr samtig getönt und weich klingt, in den Höhen jedoch so scharf werden kann, dass sie Glas zum Klirren bringen könnte....

http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/festspiele2011/DO-2011il-corsaro.html

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