Negative Positive
Title: you all are missing the point
Review: This Norma is not as good as the Caballe/Vickers, Sutherland/Horne, and Deutekom/Troyanos, and even the Sutherland/Caballe one.Simply, Callas does not have the voice to sing Norma, Period!This is all hype. None of you ever heard Callas live. These recordings are made to make her sound as good as possible. I've heard her and she is extremely inconsistant. In one Lucia, she cracked on three high notes.What we have here are a few samples in which Callas got lucky and sang relatively decent performance. While in life, she is good about once in ten, at least.But her stage presence, and the lack of super talents in her period made her memory great.She is ordinary stuff. And that is the truth.Try giving some of today's artists like Renee Fleming, a voice recorded to sound as she really sounds on stage. Not fabricated to cover Callas's hugh scratchy sound and pitched high notes.
Is the review positive or negative? 