User talk:PucciniVivaldi

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=Callas Article= Eve Ruggieri's information on Callas seems to contain a lot of inaccuracies. The Vespri recording has been reviewed many times, and nowhere is there any mention of a high F until this book. Furthermore, if you simply check the commercial and live recordings against a piano, you'll see she sings an E natural, and that an F would be in completely dissonant with the piece. Dr. Robert Seletsky also makes an excellent point that as much as the young Callas loved tossing her high notes around, had she ever had sung and F in public, a recording would most likely be available. As it is, in every recording, the E is as high as her voice seems to be able to go, and sometimes, it's rather iffy. The only recording that even remotely sounds like an F is the finale of Armida, which most likely was played too fast in playback. If you look at the score, it is in the key of E, making an F a completely dissonant note. Just because Eve Ruggieri wrote a book, it does not mean that all the information in there is correct. It should be corroborated against all other writings as well as against recorded evidence. Shahrdad (talk) 15:09, 5 July 2010 (UTC)