Not sure what happened during the edit at 3:35, but the full sentence is "However, when Aeneas shows up and proposes, she eventually accepts." Sorry about that!
Ernman is great of course, but shout out also to the two supporting performers, particularly the one cradling her, who have to emote without melodrama and without distracting from the central performance even though totally in the spotlight. The woman behind whose face is literally in frame the whole time does a super job. Wonderful professionals.
Thank you so much for the link! Loving baroque music I appreciate it immensly. I watched this production with Malena Ernman once on YT (I think or arte online), but sadly, it was made unavailable pretty soon after, and I have been on the lookout for it ever since. And thank you for the closer look at the aria. It's been a while since I listened to a piece analytically, and it was fun to get back to it for a moment. As for that specific production: I love the whole thing; staging, costumes, music, ensemble, casting. The acting on stage is a thing of beauty. What the singers do with their faces and body language gets to me every time. And the last scene keeps being heartbreaking no matter how often as I rewatch it. I tried other productions of the piece, but I think this one has ruined others for me. Coupled with the ensemble Les Arts Florissants as specialists in baroque music on contemporary instruments, this production is one of my favourite pieces of music. 😅 Having gotten that out of my system, I say thank you once more for letting me enjoy Dido and Aeneas in my favourite version again!
I've never seen this opera, so thanks for sharing. And, I had heard that Malena Ernman was an opera singer, but never heard her. Gorgeous voice. I looked her up and understand she also performs jazz and other more contemporary music. Wow- that's talent!
For people who have known someone who has died by suicide this aria punches 100x harder. Dido's words are all about the effect her suicide will have on those left behind. Her final wishes (no trouble in the breast of loved ones; and that they remember her minus her suicide) will certainly not be made in vain. There is something strangely healing about this heavy subject out to music in this gorgeous way and thanks for reviewing it.
Yet another opera I have yet to get round to...so much music, so little time! Thanks for the pointers: I will definitely add this to my 'must watch' list. And 'heavy' is good. We like 'heavy', it has a place in this world. Thank you Anna.
I find that this opera sometimes falls between the cracks because it's so short and is really early in the opera timeline. There are more arias in it for sure but none of them hit like Dido's Lament... Glad for your support! ❤️
Amazing. I stumbled over this aria while doing some research on Klaus Nomi. His interpretation of this aria literally blew me away...and I say this as a metalhead. Klaus Nomis voice is so unbelievably brilliant and clear, his body language minimalistic but so expressive. I put this on my funerals playlist. 🫢
Thank you Anna! I wish you will get more viewers and subscribers ‘cause your channel deserve lot more! I started to follow you almost one year ago… I guess, cannot remember exactly… I mean, I was not even interested in opera (even though I’m Italian so I guess I was in someway exposed to opera especially when I was a child) , I only knew some few arias; and now I am a fan. You’re passion for opera is contagious, so I decided that I will go as soon as I can to watch and listen live my first opera in a real opera house . My dream would be to find a ticket to Teatro alla Scala but I guess it is almost impossible since the seasons already opened - btw , check out the program they choose to open the season… because of that there were more protesters than usual this year at the prima. Here it is! This is another interesting topic … well at least for me… Opera and Politics, when, how, why they were so important in the history . Ok , I wrote too much… ciaaaaoo
Your comment has made my day!! Thank you so much for your kind words, and I hope you get to go to your first live opera soon 🤩 I'm also dying to go to Scala, I've never been 😭 I'll check out the controversy 😱 so glad for your support!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I loved your rendition of Dido's Lament!!! The first time I listed to your version, it broke me and I was balling my fucking eyes out, for the very reason's you were describing in your video. I felt the sense and feelings of deep loss and existentialism both in lyrics and the way you performed it!!
Brava Anna! Wonderful video. At 1:46 you made me think of Victor Borge with a line he said once, "Now the chorus comes in, and no one know why except Mozart, and he's dead." (Made me laugh when I saw Victor in that clip later in the video, LOL). Also, loved the 10+ so's at 14:10. It would have been funny to have them fill up the screen. Brava, bravissima Anna!
Thank you so much for the link to the full opera. Malena Ernman is amazing. Perhaps you would be interested in reacting to her masterful performance as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus. I would love to hear your take on that.
It was a joy to see you geeking out on this lament, and I'm so glad you chose this specific performance. Not sure if this makes it more "authentic" Baroque or not, but I love her restraint and how she doesn't slather on obnoxious amounts of vibrato (like most other performances I've seen). Also love how Purcell harmonizes that descending tetrachord ostinato with so much crunchy chromaticism - really evokes Dido's agony. "Dude, stop... ugh" is the 100% correct reaction 😂 Have you ever had the chance to see it live?
So glad you liked it!! I love this aria so much and I recently started singing it myself...it's weirdly difficult! So simple yet so hard. It's so wonderfully written and staged here, but I've never seen it live unfortunately. I would love to..
Anna, I just bumped into your channel yesterday, and I have to confess, that I am captivated by your input to the genre.😊 Tomorrow is the opening of my favourite opera compay: Pinchgut, with precisely Dido. Keep an eye on them, as the ensemble , under the baton of Erin Helyard delivers always-always the best of themselves with joy and feeling for what they do and what entrances us as audience. This weekend I will buy you a coffee, Cara Anna! Wishing you all kinds of satisfactions, from Down Under Liliana
@@noronavarra2844 I just saw the Pinchgut production 2 days ago. The musical direction was as you said, brilliant; the energy among the musicians was a delight to watch as well as to hear. I was immersed the whole time in the beauty of the sound. So glad I went.
I LOVE this aria. Janet Baker and Jessye Norman do two of my favorite renditions but a very very close second (or should that be third) is Joyce diDonato
Nice version. But Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson's rendition was just the next level of heart shattering greatness. Listen & tell me what u think. Check out and review her transcendant, one in a lifetime live onstage aria "'As On Rosy Steps The Morn" from a 1990s Handel's "Theodora" production (included also divine Dawn Upshaw). Her acting and singing are unparlleled in their time-stopping, emotionality. Prepare to clutch your chest
Pity Purcell died so young! One of my favorite pieces from him is the so called "Cold song" from the semi opera "King Arthur." It was in the soundtrack of the movie "The wolf of wall street" when Leonardo da Caprio took the quaalude drug -it makes you feel cold and shiver like that aria! There were some English language operas before Purcell -one by Eccles for example but the first was probably the spectacular semi opera "The siege of Rhodes" by Sir William Davenant who some people claim was the illegitimate son of William Shakespeare or at least William Shakespeare's godson. But English language opera declined with the invasion of such greats as Handel and a host of great Italian and German composers writing in Italian!
GREAT aria!! Purcell truly composed terror when he composed the Cold Song. I remember it from wolf of wall street, I'll have to use it if i ever do another opera in movies episode!
I really should diversify the operas I watch/listen to. For a number of reasons (amlng them he's my favourite) I focus mainly on Mozart's works. But I really must check what's been done before.
@@operaanna I've read The Aeneid years ago, at least I think I did. Some of it anyway. Good companion read for this opera: A Vision of Battlements by Anthony Burgess, a retelling of The Aeneid in Gibraltar during World War Two.
I feel sorry for Malena Ernman. She had a solid career (from what I understand) as an opera singer, she had such a wonderful voice, yet she abandoned everything for her daughter's mission.
@ssancho I don't know. It's a worthy cause, but did her daughter achieve enough to make the sacrifice worth it? And did she really need to make this sacrifice in the first place? I'm not saying there's a right or wrong answer to these questions. And I understand every loving parent would accept to live in the shadow of their children. I know I would.
Absolutely, the vowel modification on a high B-flat is going to just be an 'ah', cause there's no real way to get a closed [i]. I was referring to here that it seems they're less worried about it necessarily sounding like a wrong vowel as long as the resonance is equalized, even though they otherwise had incredibly clear vowels. The tendency nowadays is to sing everything way too far back, so that you barely get any vowel differentiation at all... We've somehow become afraid of the squillo and chiaro qualities a voice needs to actually get over an orchestra.
The narrator shows no respect at all for the music, and never stops talking. Why can’t we hear Purcell’s music as written? The spoken commentary is very intrusive, vulgar and stupid. We don’t need this downgrading of great music.
Anna, I hope that you will not publish my comment. Can you please go a little bit easier with your profanity?. I enjoy your presentations very much and I will still keep listening. I so envy your fluency with Italian. It’s wonderful.
Hi Paula, this one was particularly bad, i apologize! If it does happen I will be sure to bleep it. I can pronounce it but i wish i could speak it without being confined to a libretto 😂
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Not sure what happened during the edit at 3:35, but the full sentence is "However, when Aeneas shows up and proposes, she eventually accepts."
Sorry about that!
Ernman is great of course, but shout out also to the two supporting performers, particularly the one cradling her, who have to emote without melodrama and without distracting from the central performance even though totally in the spotlight. The woman behind whose face is literally in frame the whole time does a super job. Wonderful professionals.
Absolutely stunning work all around! It's sometimes the reactions of the women around her that get me crying!
Thank you so much for the link! Loving baroque music I appreciate it immensly. I watched this production with Malena Ernman once on YT (I think or arte online), but sadly, it was made unavailable pretty soon after, and I have been on the lookout for it ever since.
And thank you for the closer look at the aria. It's been a while since I listened to a piece analytically, and it was fun to get back to it for a moment.
As for that specific production: I love the whole thing; staging, costumes, music, ensemble, casting. The acting on stage is a thing of beauty. What the singers do with their faces and body language gets to me every time. And the last scene keeps being heartbreaking no matter how often as I rewatch it. I tried other productions of the piece, but I think this one has ruined others for me.
Coupled with the ensemble Les Arts Florissants as specialists in baroque music on contemporary instruments, this production is one of my favourite pieces of music.
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Having gotten that out of my system, I say thank you once more for letting me enjoy Dido and Aeneas in my favourite version again!
You're welcome! It's a gorgeous production, so I'm glad i was able to find the whole thing. Glad your enjoyed it too 😁
I've never seen this opera, so thanks for sharing. And, I had heard that Malena Ernman was an opera singer, but never heard her. Gorgeous voice. I looked her up and understand she also performs jazz and other more contemporary music. Wow- that's talent!
Inevitably not to cry ❤❤❤, thanks, lovely Anna! 😊
For people who have known someone who has died by suicide this aria punches 100x harder. Dido's words are all about the effect her suicide will have on those left behind. Her final wishes (no trouble in the breast of loved ones; and that they remember her minus her suicide) will certainly not be made in vain. There is something strangely healing about this heavy subject out to music in this gorgeous way and thanks for reviewing it.
Thank you so much for this.
Studied Dido and Aeneas first up in Stage 1 music. So memorable - I still have the score - a treasure. ❤
Yet another opera I have yet to get round to...so much music, so little time! Thanks for the pointers: I will definitely add this to my 'must watch' list.
And 'heavy' is good. We like 'heavy', it has a place in this world. Thank you Anna.
I find that this opera sometimes falls between the cracks because it's so short and is really early in the opera timeline. There are more arias in it for sure but none of them hit like Dido's Lament... Glad for your support! ❤️
Amazing. I stumbled over this aria while doing some research on Klaus Nomi. His interpretation of this aria literally blew me away...and I say this as a metalhead. Klaus Nomis voice is so unbelievably brilliant and clear, his body language minimalistic but so expressive. I put this on my funerals playlist. 🫢
Thank you Anna! I wish you will get more viewers and subscribers ‘cause your channel deserve lot more! I started to follow you almost one year ago… I guess, cannot remember exactly… I mean, I was not even interested in opera (even though I’m Italian so I guess I was in someway exposed to opera especially when I was a child) , I only knew some few arias; and now I am a fan. You’re passion for opera is contagious, so I decided that I will go as soon as I can to watch and listen live my first opera in a real opera house . My dream would be to find a ticket to Teatro alla Scala but I guess it is almost impossible since the seasons already opened - btw , check out the program they choose to open the season… because of that there were more protesters than usual this year at the prima. Here it is! This is another interesting topic … well at least for me… Opera and Politics, when, how, why they were so important in the history . Ok , I wrote too much… ciaaaaoo
Your comment has made my day!! Thank you so much for your kind words, and I hope you get to go to your first live opera soon 🤩 I'm also dying to go to Scala, I've never been 😭 I'll check out the controversy 😱 so glad for your support!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Grandiosa Eeman!
Gracias, Anna(still con moda, no matter how many times I watch it every time I forward it to more friends)
thank you!!
I have already shared your enriching videos with my people.
WOW, I am captivated by them, please keep on treating us!
Hugs from Down Under 😊
Thank you so much!
Stunning - both Ernman and you - as always!!!
I loved your rendition of Dido's Lament!!! The first time I listed to your version, it broke me and I was balling my fucking eyes out, for the very reason's you were describing in your video. I felt the sense and feelings of deep loss and existentialism both in lyrics and the way you performed it!!
Please check out Dame Janet Baker in this role at Glyndebourne 1965. It sets the bar!
Brava Anna! Wonderful video. At 1:46 you made me think of Victor Borge with a line he said once, "Now the chorus comes in, and no one know why except Mozart, and he's dead." (Made me laugh when I saw Victor in that clip later in the video, LOL). Also, loved the 10+ so's at 14:10. It would have been funny to have them fill up the screen. Brava, bravissima Anna!
Ahhh that would've been great! I think i was tired of editing at that point 🤣 victor borge is so funny!!
If i saw this live id probably be crying UGH its so good that pianissimo at the end of the would end me
Right there with you!!
Thank you so much for the link to the full opera. Malena Ernman is amazing. Perhaps you would be interested in reacting to her masterful performance as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus. I would love to hear your take on that.
I'll take a look!
It was a joy to see you geeking out on this lament, and I'm so glad you chose this specific performance. Not sure if this makes it more "authentic" Baroque or not, but I love her restraint and how she doesn't slather on obnoxious amounts of vibrato (like most other performances I've seen). Also love how Purcell harmonizes that descending tetrachord ostinato with so much crunchy chromaticism - really evokes Dido's agony. "Dude, stop... ugh" is the 100% correct reaction 😂 Have you ever had the chance to see it live?
So glad you liked it!! I love this aria so much and I recently started singing it myself...it's weirdly difficult! So simple yet so hard.
It's so wonderfully written and staged here, but I've never seen it live unfortunately. I would love to..
bloody hell! that was an incredible performance - thank you..
Glad you enjoyed it! I also think shes stunning
Ernman, bravisssimo soprano❤😊
Brilliant, thank you Anna. For those who are smitten by this area look up Patricia Petitbon's 'theatralized' performance.
Anna, I just bumped into your channel yesterday, and I have to confess, that I am captivated by your input to the genre.😊
Tomorrow is the opening of my favourite opera compay: Pinchgut, with precisely Dido.
Keep an eye on them, as the ensemble , under the baton of Erin Helyard delivers always-always the best of themselves with joy and feeling for what they do and what entrances us as audience.
This weekend I will buy you a coffee, Cara Anna!
Wishing you all kinds of satisfactions, from Down Under
Liliana
Sorry to have overlooked mentioning that we are having tomorrow’s flawless Dido and Eneas by Pinchgut Opera in Sydney, Australia.
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@@noronavarra2844 I just saw the Pinchgut production 2 days ago. The musical direction was as you said, brilliant; the energy among the musicians was a delight to watch as well as to hear. I was immersed the whole time in the beauty of the sound. So glad I went.
Never heard of Pinchgut but hopefully I can see them one day! Thanks so much for your comments!
I LOVE this aria. Janet Baker and Jessye Norman do two of my favorite renditions but a very very close second (or should that be third) is Joyce diDonato
Great video!
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eres una genia
best vid of the year... tears in my eyes
Yeah, pretty great
I like that you give a lot of context beforehand
Yay me too! Sometimes I worry that it's not appreciated but I think its sooo important to the story!
I think Malena does an exemplary work here.
Agreed!
Nice version. But Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson's rendition was just the next level of heart shattering greatness. Listen & tell me what u think.
Check out and review her transcendant, one in a lifetime live onstage aria
"'As On Rosy Steps The Morn" from a 1990s Handel's "Theodora" production (included also divine Dawn Upshaw). Her acting and singing are unparlleled in their time-stopping, emotionality. Prepare to clutch your chest
Pity Purcell died so young! One of my favorite pieces from him is the so called "Cold song" from the semi opera "King Arthur." It was in the soundtrack of the movie "The wolf of wall street" when Leonardo da Caprio took the quaalude drug -it makes you feel cold and shiver like that aria! There were some English language operas before Purcell -one by Eccles for example but the first was probably the spectacular semi opera "The siege of Rhodes" by Sir William Davenant who some people claim was the illegitimate son of William Shakespeare or at least William Shakespeare's godson. But English language opera declined with the invasion of such greats as Handel and a host of great Italian and German composers writing in Italian!
GREAT aria!! Purcell truly composed terror when he composed the Cold Song. I remember it from wolf of wall street, I'll have to use it if i ever do another opera in movies episode!
you called the line in the bass an ostinato wouldn't it be closer to a ground bass (very common with purcell)
I really should diversify the operas I watch/listen to. For a number of reasons (amlng them he's my favourite) I focus mainly on Mozart's works. But I really must check what's been done before.
He's a good guy to love! But i definitely recommend D&A, and it flies by compared to anything else 😅
@@operaanna I've read The Aeneid years ago, at least I think I did. Some of it anyway. Good companion read for this opera: A Vision of Battlements by Anthony Burgess, a retelling of The Aeneid in Gibraltar during World War Two.
I feel sorry for Malena Ernman. She had a solid career (from what I understand) as an opera singer, she had such a wonderful voice, yet she abandoned everything for her daughter's mission.
It is quite sad...but i think she's doing musical theater locally and hopefully she still does opera locally too.
@@operaanna The things you do for the love of your children.
Well, she did for the planet too... I guess it is legit, isn't it?
@ssancho I don't know. It's a worthy cause, but did her daughter achieve enough to make the sacrifice worth it? And did she really need to make this sacrifice in the first place? I'm not saying there's a right or wrong answer to these questions. And I understand every loving parent would accept to live in the shadow of their children. I know I would.
Not for her mission, but her daughter's health. Greta was 11 and almost died because of eating disorder, Malena was saving her life
Typo on the title, typo on the title.
Thank you!!
Annie Lennox's version is fabulous
Kind of pissed you didn't stay for the chorus too, not going to lie 😢
Absolutely, the vowel modification on a high B-flat is going to just be an 'ah', cause there's no real way to get a closed [i]. I was referring to here that it seems they're less worried about it necessarily sounding like a wrong vowel as long as the resonance is equalized, even though they otherwise had incredibly clear vowels. The tendency nowadays is to sing everything way too far back, so that you barely get any vowel differentiation at all... We've somehow become afraid of the squillo and chiaro qualities a voice needs to actually get over an orchestra.
The narrator shows no respect at all for the music, and never stops talking. Why can’t we hear Purcell’s music as written? The spoken commentary is very intrusive, vulgar and stupid. We don’t need this downgrading of great music.
Anna, I hope that you will not publish my comment. Can you please go a little bit easier with your profanity?. I enjoy your presentations very much and I will still keep listening. I so envy your fluency with Italian. It’s wonderful.
Hi Paula, this one was particularly bad, i apologize! If it does happen I will be sure to bleep it. I can pronounce it but i wish i could speak it without being confined to a libretto 😂
Climate Greta's mother 😂
Climate Greta's mother 🤣