Nelly Miricioiu

[Guido]

Just discovered this wonderful singer via clips of Armida on youtube and through a recording I own of Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra. Timbrally she reminds me a lot of Maria Callas, and she certainly seems to be in her line of singing - lots of bel canto and a dramatic intensity to everything she does.

Any other fans here?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuHAW4Wu6j0
(I see that other posters have also commented on the Callas similarity I hear, and just as many have denied this similarity!)

[mjwal]

I don't possess any recordings but I was a fan during the brief time that she appeared with the Frankfurt Opera in the 80s - I remember a superb Tosca and Manon Lescaut, but sadly I think i missed her Traviata. When I get home I will check my old programmes...She was less grand than Callas, though the timbre reminded one of that great singer; her general style of singing reminded me rather more of Olivero.