Vesselina Kasarova - A Portrait
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1996-11-12
Music Label: Sony Classics
Soundtracks:
- Rinaldo: Or la tromba in suon festante
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Che farò senza Euridice?
- Le nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete che cosa è amor
- Don Giovanni: Batti, batti, o bel Masetto
- La Cenerentola: Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Una voce poco fa
- L'Italiana in Algeri: Pronti abbiamo e ferri e mani...Amici in ogni evento...Pensaalla patria
- Anna Bolena: Sposa a Percy...Per questa fiamma indomita...Ah! Pensate che rivolti
- La Favorita: Fia dunque vero...O mio Fernando!
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio...La tremenda ultrice spada
Music reviews of Vesselina Kasarova - A Portrait
Music Review: Kasarova and the Amazing Multi-Colored Dream Voice
Rating: 4 Stars
This was my introduction to Vesselina Kasarova CD. I first saw her in a clip of Il Barbiere di Siviglia (singing Una voce poco fa) on Classic Arts Showcase program one night and was amazed at how beautifully she sings the coloratura piece while doing complicated acting manuevers on stage.
The really great thing about Kasarova is how she communicates the essence of each aria with her voice. She doesn't sing 'Konzertzant'. Her instrument, for some reason, doesn't sound as big on recording as it does live (where it is quite plenty big, very lusterous and agile), and she uses many vocal colors to bring out the different character of her roles (a lot of time in the same aria to show the change of emotion). It is unconventional, but it works really well in the story telling.
Her coloratura is amazing. It is fast and fluidly effortless sounding... and she sings all the notes!! A true Rossinian mezzo with great extension at the top. She also incorporates the ornaments into the music so well it gives the piece a character rather than standing out at odd with the music. Kasarova is so subtle in her interpretations that each time I replay an aria I catch some nuances I missed before.
Her 'Che faro senza Euridice' may sound 'simple' on the first try, but it is quite understatedly wistful and gives the picture of a devastatingly drained Orfeo who has lost all hope. It gets better the more closely you listen to it. Her 'Voi che sapete' is of a Cherubino who is young and enthusiastically in love.
She uses wider vibrato in her bel canto pieces which fit the music well. Her Rosina has a split personality demarcated at 'ma', a note that turns an perky love-struck young thing into a potentially vengeful witch in such dramatic way that I can visualize her eyes narrowing and her fangs growing just by hearing it. Her renditions of 'o mio Fernando' and 'Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio' are unforgetable. Kasarova gives you all she has and it is wonderful.
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