Handel's Almira: "Der Himmel wird straffen dein falsches Gemüht"

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  • @juliettechristian3132
    @juliettechristian3132 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Magnifique!

  • @fredericconolly4767
    @fredericconolly4767 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Donner undt Blitzen ! Bravo Amanda & Company. The best Rendition of a Handel Aria I have ever heard & I have heard quite a few. Musical Perfection all round driven by the thrilling Tempo of the magnificent Orchestra & Conductor. You have it all Amanda, Voice, Verve & Vivacity ! A Thrilling Perfomance. Grazie Mille ! 🤗💐

  • @do5691
    @do5691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This one and „Proverai“ are one of the best Haendel performances I ever heard, singing, music and choreography. I would like to see this production in Europe. 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @fabiolazzati6958
    @fabiolazzati6958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The best voice. What skills! Simply Wonderful.

    • @dbadagna
      @dbadagna 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't think constant wide vibrato was used until around the 1820s, and even then it was generally regarded as atypical and frowned upon. Can't vocalists specializing in Baroque opera suppress this anachronistic technique, in an effort to provide a more historically informed performance for listeners (the way the accompanying instrumentalists are doing so well)?

  • @braddavis6219
    @braddavis6219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Everything about this is flawless.

    • @dbadagna
      @dbadagna 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except that constant wide vibrato of this type wasn't used by operatic vocalists at the time this opera was composed. If the instrumentalists are performing this music in historically informed manner, it would be even better if the vocalists would also do so.

    • @pmdazzle
      @pmdazzle 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dbadagna Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis

  • @Miguel-bp6xs
    @Miguel-bp6xs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brilliant singing and staging

  • @redbrian3655
    @redbrian3655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    wow... simply wow. I always enjoy Amanda.

  • @valobarroco
    @valobarroco 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great performance!!!
    The text in German:
    Der Himmel wir strafen dein falsches Gemüth.
    Die Rache wir lohnen verborgene
    Tükke, verstören, verkehren, versehren, verheeren
    dein zeitliches Glück, dass Ruh’
    und Vergnügung sich deiner entzieht.

    • @omarzagmuttcahbar4896
      @omarzagmuttcahbar4896 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Valo!! mira donde te encuentro! Supongo que Mr Handel lo escribió en Italiano?

    • @anderswelt1641
      @anderswelt1641 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@omarzagmuttcahbar4896 Almira was written in German, but with some italian arias in it.

    • @omarzagmuttcahbar4896
      @omarzagmuttcahbar4896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thank you Anders!

    • @h.k9697
      @h.k9697 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anderswelt1641 Yes. His next 3 operas, Nero, Daphne and Florindo, were also German operas, but the music was lost :(

    • @AML2000
      @AML2000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@omarzagmuttcahbar4896 One of the peculiarities of operas written for Hamburg's leading opera house, the "Oper am Gänsemarkt", was their bilinguality. Most of the dialogue would be in German, with arias in German or Italian, seemingly at the whim of the librettist. As someone else has pointed out, the other three operas Handel wrote in Hamburg are the same way. This essentially made them unusable elsewhere, which may be one reason that the music for three of them is lost. "Almira" was saved because Telemann made a new conducting score for a revival in the 1720's when he was the opera director.

  • @guiradobrasil
    @guiradobrasil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Stunning singing! Great staging, bravo to all involved!

  • @albert.2848
    @albert.2848 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Omc! Amanda looks really like a Queen.
    Seems like she came from centuries to us . I am on your service Your Majesty (✿◠‿◠)

    • @ulrikedorner2877
      @ulrikedorner2877 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heart Surgery by Händel for broken hearts.

  • @h.k9697
    @h.k9697 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Almira, the first Handel's opera, composed when he was only 19 years old. Genius

    • @wilhelm-z4t
      @wilhelm-z4t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Genius? Eine Untertreibung.

  • @dion1949
    @dion1949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brava! What was that highest note?

    • @delyar
      @delyar 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      High D

  • @annamariabakosi6482
    @annamariabakosi6482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Húuu...Nagyon nagy! BRAVISSIMO!!!

  • @peteacher52
    @peteacher52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    omg!! Is Amanda Forsythe good or is she good?!

    • @jpcoll2011
      @jpcoll2011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think "good" is an insult to this professional artist. I won't swear as this a artistic channel but will say she is VERY GOOD 😄

  • @thierrylz
    @thierrylz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superbe ! Brava

  • @Avedissalitis
    @Avedissalitis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you so much for the upload. Just one tiny little suggestion: Could you correct the title? Instead of "straffen" (=tighten) she sings "strafen" (=punish). Instead of Gemüht it is (at least in this libretto) Gemüth ;)

    • @bostonearly
      @bostonearly  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for the message. I will bring this to our editor's attention. Our transcription of the libretto does include "straffen" and "Gemüht", but obviously it is possible an error was overlooked at the time.

    • @arnheiureiriksdottir25
      @arnheiureiriksdottir25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately nothing has changed. It looks as wrong as before... - and it looks a bit unprofessional for German eyes.
      I’m sorry!
      Perhaps like my English ...

    • @stefanfuchs7942
      @stefanfuchs7942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The orthography is correct. "Straffen" is the old spelling of the modern "strafen" (engl. punish) and "Gemüht" is the old spelling of "Gemüt" (engl. mind). Both words are written this way in the original libretto (1704, page D3). Chrysander modernized the spelling in his edition (1873, pages 69-74) as follows: "Der Himmel wird strafen dein falsches Gemüth" with "Gemüth" as a spelling used in the nineteenth century.

    • @Avedissalitis
      @Avedissalitis 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stefanfuchs7942 Thanks for the explanation.

    • @holgerbarthel8945
      @holgerbarthel8945 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stefanfuchs7942 very good explanation for me as a native German speaker

  • @filipeborges2432
    @filipeborges2432 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Der Himmel wird straffen dein falsches Gemüht.
    Die Rache wird lohnen verborgene Tücke,
    Verstören, verkehren,
    Versehren, verheeren
    Dein zeitliches Glücke,
    Daß Ruh’ und Vergnügung sich deiner entzieht.
    Der Himmel wird straffen dein falsches Gemüht.
    Heaven will punish your false heart.
    Revenge will reward your secret deceit,
    Will destroy, twist,
    Damage, and devastate
    Your temporary luck,
    That peace and pleasure will be taken from you.
    Heaven will punish your false heart.

    • @adityapurohit8232
      @adityapurohit8232 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks Mr. Borges for the lyrics of this beautiful aria & its translations.

  • @peterholmes3011
    @peterholmes3011 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those eyes.

  • @fredericconolly4767
    @fredericconolly4767 ปีที่แล้ว

    P.S. VaVaVoom ! 🤗💐🌋

  • @richardque4952
    @richardque4952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Any blue ray or dvd?

    • @bostonearly
      @bostonearly  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately no. While we would love to produce a commercial video release, the production costs would be many magnitudes higher than the cost of these archival videos. It certainly remains on our wish list if we can find appropriate funding partners, but we are grateful that we can release studio recordings of so many of our opera projects.

  • @anaisqtbabarroso9188
    @anaisqtbabarroso9188 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    CBAM

  • @dion1949
    @dion1949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ruff day.

  • @tomjeff115
    @tomjeff115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The singing is spectacular. What’s with the unnecessary dancing? This is the Seconda Donna’s exit aria to close Act 2. Amanda is such a spectacular singer, the production places this distraction and upstages what should be her solo onstage turn.

    • @kapellmeisterr
      @kapellmeisterr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      totally disagree, that's a baroque opera, not a cantata; and her vocal mastery turns everything else in mere complement.