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Title: Terrible!!!
Review: I don't really understand all the fuss around Jane Eaglen. She's perhaps the most overrated singer of our times. Comparisons to Flagstad and Nilsson are just preposterous and a disrespect to them. Eaglen has a big middle voice and that's it. No top or lower register. Why would a soprano would like to sing Gioconda, for example, without some measure of chest register? But if this recording is vocally uncompelling (not to say completely inapropriate) it is also blemished by a lack of any interpretive insight: every aria is approached in the same way as the previous one. It is so sad that such a mediocre singer and actress is being hailed as the most important hochdramatisch soprano of our times. If there is some hope to find a successor to Flagstad and Nilsson clearly Eaglen is not it. She lacks the voice, the class, the temperament. An awful singer, a terrible recording.
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