Magdalena Kozená VS Cecilia Bartoli
Magdalena Kozená singing the Rondo Finale from La Cenerentola (Non piú mesta) at the Royal Opera House on the 20th of December.
Cecilia Bartoli singing the Rondo Finale from La Cenerentola (Non piú mesta) the next day (21st of December) at the Barbican Centre.
Who's the winner of this Deathmatch?? Same role! same aria! same city! You choose who wins the battle!!!
AND!!! To make it even more tempting, here is 1,5 minute of the Rondo sang by Bartoli as an encore on the 21st of December! Just listen till the very end!
PS. It would be even more intriguing if we had a 3rd Cenerentola: Joyce DiDonato from the Barcelona performances (that premiered on the 23d of December) but up ´till now Parsi has no recording...
UPDATE!! Here's Joyce DiDonato singing the Rondo from Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on the 27th of December (just yesterday!)
I think it got even harder now...
And after listening to all these, what would you answer to this pooooor fella who claims to be a critic and writes for The Independent (but apparently is deaf)???
"In Angelina's "Rondo" finale from Rossini's La Cenerentola, the contrast with Magdalena Kozena at the Royal Opera only a few days ago was immense. Bartoli doesn't have Kozena's voice or technical "correctness" in the pyrotechnics, but she has a big heart and the joy she conveyed put us right there in the palace for Cinderella's defining moment."
This is the most hilarious review evah!....I know critics are dorks, but WAS HE EVEN THERE ???
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