La Forza del Destino : Radio Days ( France Musique).available until 03/02/ 2014

 (screen capture from Bayerische live stream )
France Musique, available until 03/02/2014
Soirée Lyrique, Judith Chaine

Well, as the video link from the Bayerische Staatsoper disappeared  nearly as soon as it appeared we have the fantastic France Musique offer for some weeks left now. I realised the previous date had changed.
It compensates the lack of Cds  notorioiusly visible on Anja Harteros 's side.
For me she is a greater singer than some others and yet she has a meager discography.
She could have well made a "Verdi" celebration Cd as she has been singing Verdi soprano heavy roles for some years now: Don Carlo's Elisabetta, Simon Boccanegra's Amalia Grimaldi, Othello's Desdemona, Il Trovatore's Leonora and now Leonora in La forza...not counting Traviata at her beginnings.
Luckily,  on the internet we can enjoy her tremendous singing for a while, always neat, true to the character she plays with passion and musicality.
She feels this music and  has all the range of colours to make us  share her intentions. She is a marvellous colourist and her melody soars with sincere commitment. She is " true" with no affected poses like some other  soprani at the top of the scale... for me she is the most believable one.
Now we can enjoy the prayers, but are they prayers? Is it only a matter of faith expressed in these heartbreaking melodies ......
May be it is her feeling of fate and that is the reason why her voice is so true, sometimes harsh, and resounding in my heart.
I was unlucky at the Big Lottery tickets at the Bayerische Staatsoper, but I will not miss the two nights of her recital in Paris.
Salle Pleyel
Still I only managed to see her in two operas: Alcina at the TCE, the unforgettable couple with Ruggero- Vesselina Kasarova ( also underrated in some ways... will I travel to Cologne in March for her Dalila ? ), then also with Vesselina Kasarova in Tannhaüser... smashing memories...great singers... both DD  in their own ways.
What is obvious to an amateurish person like me is that they do not benefit of the record  industry like the mediatised Anna Netrebko or her singer partner Piort Beczala.
Or is it the Peter Gelb effect derived from the live cinema broadcast from the Met ... which I will resist as long as I can go to my nearest opera house.
At the  light of Anja Harteros career for several years now it makes me realise even more that business is not always concerned with top quality....