She aspirates the coloratura just a bit (or perhaps is miked very closely), but otherwise she is actually quite vivacious and brilliant in voice and manner. I like it. Pretty, too. All of this adds up to a pretty good Cleopatra in this aria.
In the beginning is showed two albums. Danielle De Niese's Handel arias and Albrecht Mayer's ablum New Seasons...Well, Ablrecht's New Season includes oboe versions of Handel arias. So, it makes since that they put the two together. But you are right, there is no oboe in this aria, but I think it was beautifully done.
Agree besides what is the point of having the chance to post comments and discuss about the videos if you can't write any negative point of view? for the most of the people of youtube all the voices are beautiful and all the singers are very talented...if they are merchandised in the right way...just look Sarah Brightman "the best selling soprano"! and no Danielle de Niese is not a coloratura
She sacrifices a tiny bit of technique on actually acting. Thankyou! She brings life back to arias which have become boring after years and years of fame-horny directors trying to make an interesting stage-set of Giulio.
She seems oddly out of her element trying to sing this. It is murky and lacks the necessary precision and engagement. I prefer the renditions of Amanda Forsythe and Yulia Lezhneva to this, frankly.
Sorry. Tottaly over the top. I know one must feel the music in the bones but this is ranging in dance therapy -not to mention that she's often out of key. It didn't work for me.
Da tempeste il legno infranto, se poi salvo giunge in porto, non sa più che desiar. Così il cor tra pene e pianto, or che trova il suo conforto, torna l'anima a bear.
Is not the matter of can or can't sing a piece to give some critic, is about Know about vocal technique, to give a good critc about her singing. And I agree with PrimoUomo, her taste is the foremoste thing to critiquein this piece and also her excess of Vibrato
I suppose we should assume(given that it was an awards show) they thought they would combine two winners in one act? Personally I thought it worked very well, even if it doesn't appear in this combination in the actual opera.
Technical perfection is an absolute requirement. Interpretation is quite another matter. Danielle lacks technical perfection and all her enthusiasm, her exuberance, her attractiveness, her youth, her obvious hard work, her dance skills, etc. don't alter the the fact of her lack of technical perfection.
@RobinHautbois Yet, a singer should also a MUSICIAN before anything. Otherwise they are not only an insult to the other musicians who are accompanying them, but they are an insult to the composer and the thousands of singing musicians who came before them.
Not sure why this aria has been rewritten to include an obbligato oboe. I adore Mayer, but this is beyond the pale. And where was the B section? As for de Niese, I give her every credit for tackling this hideously difficult aria. However, her gesticulations and bodily agitations merely increase its difficulties. If she stood still and concentrated on singing properly, she might be able to get through a single phrase without having to take several unnecessary breaths that disrupt the musical line. A major disappointment, and a brazen, crass insult to Händel.
I think her coloratura is getting better articulated, but no, her top notes aren't the greatest. Her high C (really C#, but this performance is at A=415) did sound really effortful. But I don't think all those top notes are essential in Handel. I don't think Handel wrote any note higher than A in this aria.
Well, yes, the vibrato can be a bit distracting at times, but I can survive with that... But my point is this : what both you and I are reffering to seem to be technical problems, while most people here seem to be annoyed by her "stylistically inappropreate" performance. That really pisses me off. So what, if something is not "stylistically appropreate" it cannot be good? Would they also spit on Sills' Cleopatra and Ginevra? Grrr...
Leaving style aside, de Niese's 'performance' was laughably bad. Not one phrase was sung in tune, and she displayed virtually no vocal finesse: no breath control, no real coloratura ability, no chiaroscuro, no dynamic shading, no proper support of the voice...the deficiencies are endless. It was like listening to an eighth-grade talent show. However, she does have a twenty-three inch waist, and her husband is a big 'macher' in the opera world. It's not hard to see why she gets hired.
I dont like how the oboe player just plays long and out of style just to make sure everyone can hear his note playing. and how he did ornmentation right away in the first phrase. I would have liked to hear it plain one time first.
Terrible, awful, and any other negative one can bestow on this performance. It's the most irritating ornamentation I've ever heard - not to mention her frequent departure from being on key.
George Sigalos Oh do give over George, She was and is quite wonderful. We are all entitled to our views of course, but perhaps you could disagree more graciously. Three hearty cheers for the lovely, exquisite, divinely gifted Danielle. Encore encore please.
she's been in the opera game for 10 years. A freshman she is not. I really love her voice on other recordings, but not here. Sorry. It shouldn't take a "PRO" to hear that :-)
Your knowledge of latin is better than that of the vocal technic.... she is great looking .. but if continues to sing like this , it won ´t last long ! too bad !
I don't understand what everyone is bitching about. Ok, yes, she seams to scream a bit more than she should, but other than that, I find her performance very interesting and worth listening to.
What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!?!? She is not bad at all... well, sure she is young, and as every singern she will grow with her voice. I mean she will become better and betther within the years, but for a "freshman" in the Opera Buisness she is not bad at all... I´ve heard singers in Opera Houses who were worse. I love her.... and she rocks at Händel Arias!!!! And yes, I know what I´m talking about... I´m a PRO
You are perpetuating the philistine modern myth that opera singers of the past were all fat, ungainly, and loud, and thereby excusing Danielle's utter lack of musicianship as being 'modern.' Anna Moffo, Lisa Della Casa, Shirley Verrett, Grace Bumbry, Gwyneth Jones, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Pilar Lorengar, and most importantly Maria Callas were all beautiful, elegant, glamorous ladies and actresses, in addition to being incredibly gifted and intelligent musicians and interpreters.
she is good very good......can you sing that? please if you can`t do it, don`t say anything.......she is very very good and she has her own style......she is good and beauty...
Good Lord, she is really quite awful...the vulgarity and hyper-ebullience of her performance is really embarrassing. I feel sorry for Albrecht Mayer and the other real musicians around her having to play the support act to her classless display of total narcissism.
anactorism What a wet blanket you are, and damned rude as well. Oh do go and do some more gazing of your dodgy navel. Am I rude as well? You jolly well deserve it.
She has enough voice; the problem is: the modern singer MUST to sell himself; she is sexy and young and has to use a moment. But it's a pity, it is too much - power, movings,etc.
Where on earth is the middle part? Ms De Niese please do not ever sing this aria again or any other baroque pieces. Try some romantic stuff and stay away from baroque!
The only problem I have with her is her Pavarotti-like inability to sing piano. Other than that, she seems to be a very interesting performer, maybe sometimes taking her interpretaions to the extreme, but hey, it's baroque, she is allowed to have some fun, right?
She is WAY too sexy to be a Classical/Opera singer. She should be a Pop/R&B/Soul/Dance singer, it would match her looks better. Don't get me wrong, she is great singer.
Wow, I think she sounds way better than in her Glyndebourne DVD. I guess that's only natural since on that DVD, she'd sung 7 numbers while acting and daning marvelously by the time she sang this aria. If only she sang the whole aria. I must quip that I find the oboe really annoying, on the verge of disruptive. I don't even think it's in the score. And of course, that weird cut. Ugh.
Everyone here talks as if they lived during the time of Handel. The truth is baroque opera is a dying and unpopular genre because nobody's allowed to interpret anything, knowing how annoying and small their audience is. This artist dares to feel the music she is given, and lo and behold, people become interested in baroque opera again. Personally, I don't care if the elitist "afficianados" - that can stifle any art form to death - stay behind while the rest of us attempt to experiment.
Graham aged 88 and showing it Danielle's performances seem to be made outside the barbed wire P.O.W. enclosures many of the above commentators seem to like their music to come from. My musical appreciation is not this sophisticated so I didn't care or even notice if she went out of tune occasionally I simply found her exuberance enchanting even impish, roguishly sexy and so, oh so refreshing.
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I dont get why people dont like her.... I love her so much!!!
Envy.
Danielle De Niese: the baroque FORSTER JENKINS!!!!!
Why doesn't anybody seem to realise the whole middle section of this aria was omitted?
I wanted to see if she did the machine gun thing.
She took the opera out of the crypt and breathed life into it
вася пупкин exactly, incredible voice
and sent it to the cabaret
cat-a-strophe!
14 years ago wow. What a beautiful voice. And Albrecht got that in his face.
She aspirates the coloratura just a bit (or perhaps is miked very closely), but otherwise she is actually quite vivacious and brilliant in voice and manner. I like it. Pretty, too. All of this adds up to a pretty good Cleopatra in this aria.
... simply beautiful unusual performance ...
One if the best voices out there today.
OMG this is sooo scary!
WOW OMG TO SING LIKE THIS IS A SPECIAL GIFT SO PROUD OF U GBU
This was great, top entertainment.
It looks like people liked it.
Swinging like jazz.
guitarman1943, Norway
she is a storm, but undercontrol
Wow just wow, that woman has huge lungs !
In the beginning is showed two albums. Danielle De Niese's Handel arias and Albrecht Mayer's ablum New Seasons...Well, Ablrecht's New Season includes oboe versions of Handel arias. So, it makes since that they put the two together. But you are right, there is no oboe in this aria, but I think it was beautifully done.
I like has temperament and her lively appearance. If you are a classical singer it does not mean you have to be a stone statue.
BRAVISSIMA !
Agree besides what is the point of having the chance to post comments and discuss about the videos if you can't write any negative point of view? for the most of the people of youtube all the voices are beautiful and all the singers are very talented...if they are merchandised in the right way...just look Sarah Brightman "the best selling soprano"!
and no Danielle de Niese is not a coloratura
ma che orrore tremendo...
So wunderbar .... Händel, Danielle De Niese und Albrecht Mayer ... keine alltägliche interptretation, aber perfekt! Und diese Augen ^^
She sacrifices a tiny bit of technique on actually acting. Thankyou!
She brings life back to arias which have become boring after years and years of fame-horny directors trying to make an interesting stage-set of Giulio.
The dacapo ( the repetition of the main theme)
she sings here is far better of that she sung at Glyndebourne
BRAVA Danielle.
@pslaureenha well, she DID make her Met debut at the age of 19.
Sorry, not my idea of "beautiful singing" at all. Screaming?
She seems oddly out of her element trying to sing this. It is murky and lacks the necessary precision and engagement. I prefer the renditions of Amanda Forsythe and Yulia Lezhneva to this, frankly.
after hearing beverly sills sing this, I dont know how anyone could think this could pass as singing in the higher calibre.
Please don't compare this bad singing to Sills.
Any excuse to get a vid of Albrecht Mayer is worth it. Yes she's great, but a singer is still a diva and the oboist is a musician!
What a .... scary and disturbing da capo
well, she's very beautiful, and... take a look to Beverly Sills's rendition, I suggest
Sorry. Tottaly over the top. I know one must feel the music in the bones but this is ranging in dance therapy -not to mention that she's often out of key.
It didn't work for me.
+Allyson Smith Soprano I do not understand why she is seen as an international star, I suspect being the trophe wife of Gus Christie helps.
Da tempeste il legno infranto,
se poi salvo giunge in porto,
non sa più che desiar.
Così il cor tra pene e pianto,
or che trova il suo conforto,
torna l'anima a bear.
einfach grandios!
She is brilliant. One of the best voices around at the moment. Great skill and interpretation of Handel's famous aria.
Please have a look at Händel's score. This 'performance' was an incompetent, disrespectful travesty.
A singer must let the voice act for her. She seems to be doing the exact opposite.
Is not the matter of can or can't sing a piece to give some critic, is about Know about vocal technique, to give a good critc about her singing.
And I agree with PrimoUomo, her taste is the foremoste thing to critiquein this piece and also her excess of Vibrato
I suppose we should assume(given that it was an awards show) they thought they would combine two winners in one act?
Personally I thought it worked very well, even if it doesn't appear in this combination in the actual opera.
Herr Mayer, excellent as always, a true musician. Niese, excruciating listening. Handel should not be shrieked out like that, hideous.
She learns her music from listening to recordings. Not a musician nor a good singer. But very pretty.
what would you say about this
Olga Pasichnyk as Cleopatra sings Da tempeste
Technical perfection is an absolute requirement. Interpretation is quite another matter. Danielle lacks technical perfection and all her enthusiasm, her exuberance, her attractiveness, her youth, her obvious hard work, her dance skills, etc. don't alter the the fact of her lack of technical perfection.
simply one of the many overrated singers who are popular because they look good not because they sound good
4:10 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@RobinHautbois Yet, a singer should also a MUSICIAN before anything.
Otherwise they are not only an insult to the other musicians who are accompanying them, but they are an insult to the composer and the thousands of singing musicians who came before them.
Not sure why this aria has been rewritten to include an obbligato oboe. I adore Mayer, but this is beyond the pale. And where was the B section? As for de Niese, I give her every credit for tackling this hideously difficult aria. However, her gesticulations and bodily agitations merely increase its difficulties. If she stood still and concentrated on singing properly, she might be able to get through a single phrase without having to take several unnecessary breaths that disrupt the musical line. A major disappointment, and a brazen, crass insult to Händel.
only cute? only pretty? O.K. I feel enough it. I love Bartoli, but I love Danielle, too. Do you have claim???
Just too self-gratifying for my taste...
+Jessica Coe Much like the singers Händel himself had to work with... But we can swallow it, because of the divinity that they produce.
Hmmm....I don't know....
I think her coloratura is getting better articulated, but no, her top notes aren't the greatest. Her high C (really C#, but this performance is at A=415) did sound really effortful. But I don't think all those top notes are essential in Handel. I don't think Handel wrote any note higher than A in this aria.
I am lucky that she is alive!
if dont' like you, why watch this video???
Nope. Too much floundering, mugging and out-of-tune singing for me.
Bringing superb technique and Callasian emotion together. Just great.
Why oboe? There Is no oboe ni This aria.....
Well, yes, the vibrato can be a bit distracting at times, but I can survive with that... But my point is this : what both you and I are reffering to seem to be technical problems, while most people here seem to be annoyed by her "stylistically inappropreate" performance. That really pisses me off. So what, if something is not "stylistically appropreate" it cannot be good? Would they also spit on Sills' Cleopatra and Ginevra? Grrr...
Leaving style aside, de Niese's 'performance' was laughably bad. Not one phrase was sung in tune, and she displayed virtually no vocal finesse: no breath control, no real coloratura ability, no chiaroscuro, no dynamic shading, no proper support of the voice...the deficiencies are endless. It was like listening to an eighth-grade talent show. However, she does have a twenty-three inch waist, and her husband is a big 'macher' in the opera world. It's not hard to see why she gets hired.
I dont like how the oboe player just plays long and out of style just to make sure everyone can hear his note playing. and how he did ornmentation right away in the first phrase. I would have liked to hear it plain one time first.
Terrible, awful, and any other negative one can bestow on this performance. It's the most irritating ornamentation I've ever heard - not to mention her frequent departure from being on key.
George Sigalos Oh do give over George, She was and is quite wonderful.
We are all entitled to our views of course, but perhaps you could disagree more graciously.
Three hearty cheers for the lovely, exquisite, divinely gifted Danielle.
Encore encore please.
she's been in the opera game for 10 years. A freshman she is not. I really love her voice on other recordings, but not here. Sorry. It shouldn't take a "PRO" to hear that :-)
Your knowledge of latin is better than that of the vocal technic.... she is great looking .. but if continues to sing like this , it won ´t last long ! too bad !
I don't understand what everyone is bitching about. Ok, yes, she seams to scream a bit more than she should, but other than that, I find her performance very interesting and worth listening to.
What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!?!? She is not bad at all... well, sure she is young, and as every singern she will grow with her voice. I mean she will become better and betther within the years, but for a "freshman" in the Opera Buisness she is not bad at all... I´ve heard singers in Opera Houses who were worse. I love her.... and she rocks at Händel Arias!!!! And yes, I know what I´m talking about... I´m a PRO
oh MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
IS IT A JOKE ??????????
something happened to my body at 3:51. I don't think she wanted to sound like that lol
albrech .....
You are perpetuating the philistine modern myth that opera singers of the past were all fat, ungainly, and loud, and thereby excusing Danielle's utter lack of musicianship as being 'modern.' Anna Moffo, Lisa Della Casa, Shirley Verrett, Grace Bumbry, Gwyneth Jones, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Pilar Lorengar, and most importantly Maria Callas were all beautiful, elegant, glamorous ladies and actresses, in addition to being incredibly gifted and intelligent musicians and interpreters.
she is good very good......can you sing that? please if you can`t do it, don`t say anything.......she is very very good and she has her own style......she is good and beauty...
De gustibus and coloreibus not est disputandum... but she is great
I agree with you ..... listen to Cecilia Bartoli ... this girl is only pretty ... too bad she did not have a good singing teacher !
change of key? Modulation? Of dear..out of control!
in my opinion,she breathes too heavy.
and sometimes it sounds like chest voice.don't like it so much.
are you f****** kidding..
@UnoriginalComposer i noticed that as well... hahaha
Good Lord, she is really quite awful...the vulgarity and hyper-ebullience of her performance is really embarrassing. I feel sorry for Albrecht Mayer and the other real musicians around her having to play the support act to her classless display of total narcissism.
you're so boring...
+anactorism Amen :) I feel the same!
anactorism What a wet blanket you are, and damned rude as well.
Oh do go and do some more gazing of your dodgy navel.
Am I rude as well?
You jolly well deserve it.
-- omg O_ooooo
She has enough voice; the problem is: the modern singer MUST to sell himself; she is sexy and young and has to use a moment. But it's a pity, it is too much - power, movings,etc.
Danielle de Niese have a great voice!!!!
Where on earth is the middle part? Ms De Niese please do not ever sing this aria again or any other baroque pieces. Try some romantic stuff and stay away from baroque!
I think onieshka is woman ;)
The only problem I have with her is her Pavarotti-like inability to sing piano. Other than that, she seems to be a very interesting performer, maybe sometimes taking her interpretaions to the extreme, but hey, it's baroque, she is allowed to have some fun, right?
Overrated, I do not understand why she is so famous.
Lee Martínez don't be ridiculous, she's perfection
Oh Schreck, da gibt es bessere Sängerinnen zum Beispiel Cecilia Bartoli, die das excellent vorträgt.....
She is WAY too sexy to be a Classical/Opera singer. She should be a Pop/R&B/Soul/Dance singer, it would match her looks better. Don't get me wrong, she is great singer.
Chad Guindon we need more sexy classical singers!
Horrible, desagradable, sobreactuada, no he podido terminar de escucharla. Esta cantante es profesional? Parece una mala aficionada.
Wow, I think she sounds way better than in her Glyndebourne DVD. I guess that's only natural since on that DVD, she'd sung 7 numbers while acting and daning marvelously by the time she sang this aria. If only she sang the whole aria.
I must quip that I find the oboe really annoying, on the verge of disruptive. I don't even think it's in the score. And of course, that weird cut. Ugh.
Everyone here talks as if they lived during the time of Handel. The truth is baroque opera is a dying and unpopular genre because nobody's allowed to interpret anything, knowing how annoying and small their audience is. This artist dares to feel the music she is given, and lo and behold, people become interested in baroque opera again. Personally, I don't care if the elitist "afficianados" - that can stifle any art form to death - stay behind while the rest of us attempt to experiment.
You're talking out of your bottom!
Graham aged 88 and showing it
Danielle's performances seem to be made outside the barbed wire P.O.W. enclosures many of the above commentators seem to like their music to come from. My musical appreciation is not this sophisticated so I didn't care or even notice if she went out of tune occasionally I simply found her exuberance enchanting even impish, roguishly sexy and so, oh so refreshing.
Terrible
Iught !!!!!!! Horrible!
Terible!!!
A total embarrassment.
you are jealous of she, because you are not famous.
And you're stupid because you're just stupid!
Yuck.