When I was so much younger, I accompanied my father on pipe organ when he often would sing this aria. He would tell me that this was one of the few songs that would bring out a deep emotional connection either at weddings or at funerals - a measure of passage, optimism and hope. This rendition brings me back to his memory and for that, I am grateful.
I was watching an interview with the amazing, phenomenal, extraordinary Celeste "Callie" Day when she mentioned this aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel that I've never heard before. She didn't say who her favorite singer was to perform this so I clicked on this one. At first I thought the gentleman was just an actor in the video but when he opened his mouth I was in complete shock and awe (in the best way). I was blown away and delighted! I'm not sure if I was breathing because I didn't want to miss not one second. After it was done the emotional floodgates burst open and I did what is known as the "ugly cry". It took me several minutes and two paper towels later to regain my composure. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance and allowing others to "experience" this brilliant soul's voice. Splendid! Bravo! Take care and stay healthy. (Smile)
@XDranzer000 I agree with this characterization. Big is the right word. Beautiful nonetheless, but somehow you'd expect Ombra mai fu to be more ... (I will say it) castrato.
¡¡¡ Franco Fagioli es el mejor !!! Una interpretación nacida en el corazón, además de la suprema técnica vocal, cualidades que muy pocos intérpretes tienen, "sentimiento y técnica". No me canso de escucharlo una y otra vez. La mejor interpretación de "Ombra mai fu". ¡¡¡¡ Bravo !!! Desde Buenos Aires - Argentina
This is the music we should present for aliens if we ever had a visit. For me this embodies the essence of music and our species ability to create art. Thank you G.F Händel
Ayer cenando con una compañera del secundario de Franco me lo recomendó. No puedo creer la perla que me ayudaron a descubrir! Soy de Tucumán, Argentina al igual que este cantante exquisito. Saludos!!!
Franco Fagioli, para mi uno de los mejores contratenores. Una voz con mucho cuerpo, privilegiada, exquisita en matices y coloratura, a parte de una interpretación comprometida que denota la inteligencia y sensibilidad del artista!!! Orgullo que un latinoamericano nos represente así en el mundo!! Ojalá alguna vez tenga la oportunidad de disfrutar de su arte en vivo!!
Como já escrevi em outras mensagens anteriores, em outros canais sobre música lírica, sempre desconfio que há uma alma de mulher dentro do corpo (ou melhor, da voz) de um contratenor talentoso. E em se tratando de um cantor com a afinação e a emotividade de um Franco Fagioli, ainda mais em canção belissíma como essa, como se diz aqui no meu país, a gente simplesmente não resiste: é ouvir e deixar as lágrimas correrem fartamente por nossos rostos tão cansados da feiura do mundo. Muito obrigado!
@@doriedsonbelodasilva I share your feelings. Let's celebrate the beauty of this wold, and water and nurture it, so it may flourish and spred itself all over, and replace the weeds.
It's as if I were hearing it for the first time; all previous singers have ceased. They were in black and white; this is vibrant colour. Such emotion, such control.Sheer beauty.
Das sind Klänge wie aus einer anderen Welt. Eine der schönsten Counter-Tenöre, die ich je gehört habe. Die menschliche Stimme ist ein wunderbares Instrument. Danke für diese unter die Haut gehenden Klänge und das tolle Video.
This is simply amazing. Franco Fagioli is blessed with an amazing voice and uses it splendidly to bring one of the maestro's best arias to life. One can almost feel the gratitude of finding shade under a giant tree on a blistering hot day. Would love to hear him sing live.
The sheer beauty of his voice, takes my breath away & brings tears to my eyes. Franco Fagioli puts his heart & soul into his music, so profoundly, that I am moved beyond words. I have seen tears in his eyes toward the end of one aria, so deeply was he feeling the beauty of the music. He was so overcome, that it took a while for him to depart from the aria & slowly acknowledge the audience (clapping wildly) FF is so great, he’s in a class of one!
Magnifico: una perfetta gestione della voce, dal piano al forte, nei vari registri. / Magnificent: a perfect voice management, from piano to forte, in the various registers.
Sublime voice, tenderly moving. I love the look Franco gives at the end as he senses the tree’s response. And how clever the person who found this magnificent tree!
C'est de loin la meilleure version de "ombra mai fu", et la meilleure mise en scène aussi ... Un univers de sérénité merveilleusement interprété, charnel, baroque, divin..... Fagioli, un rêve.....
I first got to know this piece in an organ transcription played at Norwich Cathedral on an LP. It is so beautiful to have this perfromance, Fagioli is a master!
My view: the Persian boy king, in the midst of war, finds Love. While the advisors and diplomats yearn for leadership, the king only have his dispared lust for Love. His beloved tree becomes the apperition of unwavered Love and the sonata is the true declaration of innocence, longing and disruption of non-idealistics. A true masterpiece.
I was just listening to Jarrousky's version. They have very different performance styles. It sounds simplistic maybe but I wonder if there is a matter of nationality.Jarrousky's version is extremely polished, very French whereas Fagioli's is so Latin, such emotion, albeit beautifully formed and transmitted. For me, even tho' I am a fan of Jarrousky, for me this version has such heart, such palpable emotion that it wins hands down. Bravo, Franco!
Eine traumhafte Stimme. Hoffentlich bleibt sie sehr, sehr lange so schön. Ich wünsche dem Sänger viel, viel Gesundheit um diesen schönen Beruf weiterhin so erfolgreich auszuführen.
We are lucky to be living in a time of brilliant countertenors. Hundreds of pieces written for castrati have ceased to be the illegitimate domain of sopranos. Thanks, Euterpe.
Amazing. By the way, this is the most beautiful song ever written to a tree, and this is the first video of this song that I've seen that actually acknowledges that theme. In context, Xerxes is singing about the admiration and love he has for the shade of the plane trees.
I’m very new to listening to a counter tenor and I admit freely that it still confronts my expectations a bit awkwardly, but I think this wins me over, this seems quite beautiful.
This video clip is so beautiful ! The voice of Franco is so powerful and gentle in the same time . Beautiful idea the lady of the tree , so romantic . An absolut pleasure for the eyes and the hears
Ascolto spesso questo divino vocale ed ogni volta è un piacere per l'anima. Dire bravissimo è dire poco . Eleva l'anima adunò stato di sublime bellezza. Puramente divino
TOP EVER perform to the Real Splendour Itself aria by Saxon Genius HANDEL with Phenomenal Extraterrestrial Haute voix of Magician Time-Traveler FRANCO FAGIOLI ... Outstanding, Breathtaking, Hypnotizing.
Les images si apaisantes, sereines : voix de Paradis pour l'arbre du Paradis , beauté du soir unique où nous passerons calmement dans la Lumière éternelle... "La beauté est un pressentiment du Ciel" ( saint Odon de Cluny).
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What are your favourite countertenor arias?
Vo solcando un mar...by Franco Fagioli
Sol da te from Orlando furioso
Alto Giove,Sovente il sole,Vo solcando un mar (only from Franco Fagioli!),Le limpid onde.
Va tacito e nascosto'
my favorite countertenor is Andreas Scholl
Are we not all in agreement that the world is a better place because of this recording?!?!!? It's stunning
Oh goodness yes!
We are blessed indeed. 😊🙏❤️
It should be so but...!!!
Stunning, this voice crying out loud to us to hear.
Sure, that's true !!!!! No doubt !
So this has ruined my life - how can I call anything else beautiful once I have heard and seen this. Simply magical
When I was so much younger, I accompanied my father on pipe organ when he often would sing this aria. He would tell me that this was one of the few songs that would bring out a deep emotional connection either at weddings or at funerals - a measure of passage, optimism and hope. This rendition brings me back to his memory and for that, I am grateful.
The singing is astonishing but I also liked how in the video he submissively surrenders himself to the compassionate nature. That was so good.
I was watching an interview with the amazing, phenomenal, extraordinary Celeste "Callie" Day when she mentioned this aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel that I've never heard before. She didn't say who her favorite singer was to perform this so I clicked on this one. At first I thought the gentleman was just an actor in the video but when he opened his mouth I was in complete shock and awe (in the best way). I was blown away and delighted! I'm not sure if I was breathing because I didn't want to miss not one second. After it was done the emotional floodgates burst open and I did what is known as the "ugly cry". It took me several minutes and two paper towels later to regain my composure. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance and allowing others to "experience" this brilliant soul's voice. Splendid! Bravo! Take care and stay healthy. (Smile)
Out of this world...
Divine. There is no other way to put it. Handel would be delighted.
The timbre of his voice is exquisite.
His voice is eternal stunning
Sublime tonality.
Franco Fagioli is another amazing countertenor. We're so blessed to have singers like him living in this day and age.
majestic! it's incredible how he strikes the perfect balance of the masculine and the feminine tonality....just heartbreakingly beautiful.
Artistry at its highest level. Franco is pure genius.
no words to describe how magnificent his voice is. I'm simply speecheless
I'm sure you can find the words 😉
This area sung by a baritone is speechless too !
@@maried1879
Aria not area 😒
@@darchir2079 yes you are right , automatic correction 😉
never have I seen a more perfect joining of sound and vision
I used to love Jaroussky until I heard this beautiful human being, his voice hypnotizes me
AleLovesOpera I'm on the same page 😊
And it's July, I was looking for this hymn to the tree shade . Perfect.
@XDranzer000 I agree with this characterization. Big is the right word. Beautiful nonetheless, but somehow you'd expect Ombra mai fu to be more ... (I will say it) castrato.
Me too ... I'm lost into Splendour
I feel the same
I mean he's the best
¡¡¡ Franco Fagioli es el mejor !!! Una interpretación nacida en el corazón, además de la suprema técnica vocal, cualidades que muy pocos intérpretes tienen, "sentimiento y técnica".
No me canso de escucharlo una y otra vez.
La mejor interpretación de "Ombra mai fu". ¡¡¡¡ Bravo !!!
Desde Buenos Aires - Argentina
Mir geht es auch so.
The best in decades
Überirdisch....größere Worte fallen mir nicht ein. Mit soviel Herz gesungen....Dankeschön
This is the music we should present for aliens if we ever had a visit. For me this embodies the essence of music and our species ability to create art. Thank you G.F Händel
Fabulous voice and such a lovely artistic expression. The world desperately needs this beauty!
Que dire tellement c'est magnifique de musicalité, de poésie, de larmes...et quelle interprétation : Géniaaaaaaale!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The closest thing to castrato we’ll ever have, because his entire register is fully supported and equalized! Magical artistry!
Ayer cenando con una compañera del secundario de Franco me lo recomendó. No puedo creer la perla que me ayudaron a descubrir!
Soy de Tucumán, Argentina al igual que este cantante exquisito. Saludos!!!
Mein Gott, was für ein Geschenk, mein Leben durch diese Darbietung eines so süßen Liedes von Trost und Frieden verschönert zu haben. Danke.
From the first note....such emotional depth. Here with tears in my eyes
Absolutely wonderful. I can't get tired of watching it everyday. Thank you for making my life more happy with your music and your voice
Un esecuzione magistrale.
Una voce che fa vibrare i sentimenti.
Franco Fagioli, para mi uno de los mejores contratenores. Una voz con mucho cuerpo, privilegiada, exquisita en matices y coloratura, a parte de una interpretación comprometida que denota la inteligencia y sensibilidad del artista!!! Orgullo que un latinoamericano nos represente así en el mundo!! Ojalá alguna vez tenga la oportunidad de disfrutar de su arte en vivo!!
totalmente de acuerdo con lo que expresas
No sabía que era de latinoamerica.
Argentino de Tucumán 👍✌👏
Como já escrevi em outras mensagens anteriores, em outros canais sobre música lírica, sempre desconfio que há uma alma de mulher dentro do corpo (ou melhor, da voz) de um contratenor talentoso. E em se tratando de um cantor com a afinação e a emotividade de um Franco Fagioli, ainda mais em canção belissíma como essa, como se diz aqui no meu país, a gente simplesmente não resiste: é ouvir e deixar as lágrimas correrem fartamente por nossos rostos tão cansados da feiura do mundo. Muito obrigado!
@@doriedsonbelodasilva
I share your feelings.
Let's celebrate the beauty of this wold, and water and nurture it, so it may flourish and spred itself all over, and replace the weeds.
It's as if I were hearing it for the first time; all previous singers have ceased. They were in black and white; this is vibrant colour. Such emotion, such control.Sheer beauty.
Das sind Klänge wie aus einer anderen Welt. Eine der schönsten Counter-Tenöre, die ich je gehört habe. Die menschliche Stimme ist ein wunderbares Instrument. Danke für diese unter die Haut gehenden Klänge und das tolle Video.
This is simply amazing. Franco Fagioli is blessed with an amazing voice and uses it splendidly to bring one of the maestro's best arias to life. One can almost feel the gratitude of finding shade under a giant tree on a blistering hot day. Would love to hear him sing live.
The sheer beauty of his voice, takes my breath away & brings tears to my eyes.
Franco Fagioli puts his heart & soul into his music, so profoundly, that I am moved beyond words. I have seen tears in his eyes toward the end of one aria, so deeply was he feeling the beauty of the music. He was so overcome, that it took a while for him to depart from the aria & slowly acknowledge the audience (clapping wildly)
FF is so great, he’s in a class of one!
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Me tooo... my husband loved his voice. He just passed away 4 weeks ago.. I'm in tears now 😢
Magnifico: una perfetta gestione della voce, dal piano al forte, nei vari registri. / Magnificent: a perfect voice management, from piano to forte, in the various registers.
Бог мой! - Как это красиво! музыка льётся и гипнотизирует. Гендель один из величайших композиторов всех времен!
Wow! OMG, that video producer is really good, and the female spirit of the tree is a genious idea!! The countertenor is amazing btw
pour moi impossible de choisir la voix de fagioli est tout simplement divine, toujours
Utterly sublime and I love the muse in the tree! Exceptionally well sung and filmed! What a gift!
Heartbreakingly beautiful. I think there is no more incredible singer alive.
Song of my life. The best.. I feel like my soul is cleaned by this beautiful sound when I listen to it every single time.
I believe you are the best vocal artist of our time. Your baroque singing makes me cry most of the time.
No
@@InGodWeTrust3_16 you want to mean; " no, you dont believe." ??
@@gothips no best
@@InGodWeTrust3_16 learn english first. that it is my belief. I didnt say hes the best but in my opinion hes the best i wanted to say.
@@gothips you right, sorry
The Best Voice .
Ever !
Quelle chaleur dans sa voix. Merci.
Sublime voice, tenderly moving. I love the look Franco gives at the end as he senses the tree’s response. And how clever the person who found this magnificent tree!
Hermosa interpretación de esta aria tan bella. Felicitaciones Franco. Bravísimo!!
C'est de loin la meilleure version de "ombra mai fu", et la meilleure mise en scène aussi ... Un univers de sérénité merveilleusement interprété, charnel, baroque, divin..... Fagioli, un rêve.....
Version baritone la version est aussi incroyable !
Impresionante Franco, felicidades de nuevo entre tantas muchas!!
Là ,on.est frappé en plein coeur par tant de beauté ! Mr Fagioli est renversant de talent !Sublime!
I think an artist who is abundant sensitivity.
Franco Fagioli `s sensitivity makes me love even special experiences .
beautiful beyond words.
Voi e solo voi con la vostra splendida voce avete il raro dono di calmare il mio respiro.
...........Che spettacolo......l'arte la musica..........non hanno genere.......perche' sono armonia.........
I am moved to tears. Musical and visual perfection. Thank you for making me a better man.
日本語ですみません。気持ちが落ちている時この曲を聞くと暖かい気持ちになれます。
The most beautiful performance... i adore it...and Franco Fagioli is the best countertenor in my opinion.
The first time i heard a guy sing counter-tenor is andreas scholl. Now Franco Fagioli!.. amazing, wonderful..what a gift from God...
A phenomenal voice . Stunning beyond all speech .
I first got to know this piece in an organ transcription played at Norwich Cathedral on an LP. It is so beautiful to have this perfromance, Fagioli is a master!
My view: the Persian boy king, in the midst of war, finds Love. While the advisors and diplomats yearn for leadership, the king only have his dispared lust for Love. His beloved tree becomes the apperition of unwavered Love and the sonata is the true declaration of innocence, longing and disruption of non-idealistics. A true masterpiece.
Magic just magic this is the voice of angels singing to God!!!!
GREAT VOICE, great unterpretation. Thank you
Every time I hear that I have to cry. It is just so divine.
Wow, this messa di voce, inimitable! Franco's voice makes me cry - what a beautiful interpretation!
thank you for this what a wonderfull sound
Che voce sublime....poesia dell anima...che pace ...musica immensa
Awesome and Stunningly Beautiful ❤❤❤
I have tears rolling down my cheeks listening to this, firstly because it beautiful and secondly because it was part of my late uncle repertoire.
Absolut me too .The best i Ever heard
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I was just listening to Jarrousky's version. They have very different performance styles. It sounds simplistic maybe but I wonder if there is a matter of nationality.Jarrousky's version is extremely polished, very French whereas Fagioli's is so Latin, such emotion, albeit beautifully formed and transmitted. For me, even tho' I am a fan of Jarrousky, for me this version has such heart, such palpable emotion that it wins hands down. Bravo, Franco!
Charles Rae listen to Leonardo Vince on TH-cam you never heard anything like that ,artaserse
@@selini52 Don't forget Andreas Scholl !
Jarusski has much weaker voice
Why must it be a contest?
@@markhh It's not a contest; there is no-one better than another, just slightly differing nuances.
Realmente increíble, que voz tan bonita y técnica perfecta
je ne lassa pas d'écouter "ombra mai fu" par fagioli . Quelle voix sublime .
Eine traumhafte Stimme. Hoffentlich bleibt sie sehr, sehr lange so schön. Ich wünsche dem Sänger viel, viel Gesundheit um diesen schönen Beruf weiterhin so erfolgreich auszuführen.
Bravo you and Bartoli .
Words don't really suffice. It's Music form the Gods.
Ще такого прекрасного чоловічого голосу я не чула в житті. Яка краса.
Très. belle vidéo .Tres bon interprète .Tres belle aria .Toute la magie de la musique On ne veux plus en sortir Le rêve.
We are lucky to be living in a time of brilliant countertenors. Hundreds of pieces written for castrati have ceased to be the illegitimate domain of sopranos. Thanks, Euterpe.
Magical. Pure beauty. Highest artistry.
Che meraviglia voce e video splendidi.
No le conocía, como es eso posible?....cuanta calidad tiene!!!!.......Bravo, bravo
es una voz bellisima y un gran musico . Bravo !
Amazing. By the way, this is the most beautiful song ever written to a tree, and this is the first video of this song that I've seen that actually acknowledges that theme.
In context, Xerxes is singing about the admiration and love he has for the shade of the plane trees.
That was almost too beautiful to be true.
I’m very new to listening to a counter tenor and I admit freely that it still confronts my expectations a bit awkwardly, but I think this wins me over, this seems quite beautiful.
The voice, the video: sublime.
Brava bellissimooo♥️ es un angel en la Tierra su voz es un encanto🌻te dejo todo mi amor y buena vibra desde PERU🇵🇪
The magic of the internet: painting with a simple pencil, listening to this magnificent voice while i stay here in my home.
one off my favourite perform. Amazing
Bellissima esecuzione!Una voce perfetta
This video clip is so beautiful ! The voice of Franco is so powerful and gentle in the same time . Beautiful idea the lady of the tree , so romantic . An absolut pleasure for the eyes and the hears
Grande franco ,grandísima interpretación ,como siempre espléndido.
Ascolto spesso questo divino vocale ed ogni volta è un piacere per l'anima.
Dire bravissimo è dire poco .
Eleva l'anima adunò stato di sublime bellezza.
Puramente divino
Magnifica voce e musica! Continuo ad ascoltarli.
Certainly one of the better countertenors
Bei dieser Interpretation von Ombra Mai fu könnte man weinen, so wunderschön, fein und grazil ist sie
TOP EVER perform to the Real Splendour Itself aria by Saxon Genius HANDEL with Phenomenal Extraterrestrial Haute voix of Magician Time-Traveler FRANCO FAGIOLI ... Outstanding, Breathtaking, Hypnotizing.
Che meraviglia, anche il video emozionante.
Felicitaciones al realizador de esto. Es una maravilla
Franquito, simplemente FANTASTICO!!! Piel de gallina y lagrimas de emocion todo el video!!!
Te felicito!!! Besos y un fuerte abrazo
Les images si apaisantes, sereines : voix de Paradis pour l'arbre du Paradis , beauté du soir unique où nous passerons calmement dans la Lumière éternelle... "La beauté est un pressentiment du Ciel" ( saint Odon de Cluny).
impresionante... hermosa producción, bella voz y una perfecta orquesta...
E il tempo" larghissimo "è irrestibile !
The voice orchestra and film fill my senses