I love to see puppeteering being taken seriously and I think this really shows the potential it has. It’s also such a unique artistic process I reckon.
and what in your opinion is puppeteering NOT being taken seriously? been one of the most popular visual forms since televisions creation, theres no need to be on your high horse about puppeteering.
I'll tell you one thing, there are many sopranos who could learn a lot about acting from this magnificent puppet. Strange isn't it to contemplate the reinterpretation of human emotion through a nonhuman surrogate
The soprano is amazing! I think the use of the puppet is very effective, like two attendants helping an old and decrepit Alcina. I want like to see the entire production.
I see the women as attendants to a great lady, great and beautiful. I didn’t know of this opera until now. But I don’t think she is old… a woman in love is never old, she is always… a woman
I don't know if this was intentional or not, but I found her being surrounded by other women very comforting - like, there's a certain deep neglected misery it seems all women understand, and that the only comfort sometimes is commiserating with other women when it hits.
The puppeteers here are just phenomenal, they've given such life to the puppet. Even details such as the rise and fall of it's chest as if it's breathing- utter attention to detail. Incredible
I really enjoyed this concept and I thought the staging was excellent. Many productions struggle to incorporate Alcina’s true form into the performance, as the singer is frequently young and beautiful and the audience forgets just how hideous Alcina’s appearance really is! A sincere lament of an old hag, loved it!
Eine wundervolle und künstlerisch hochwertige Aufführung in Gütersloh. Die Puppen werden so lebendig und vollkommen gespielt und bewegt, dass man fast vergisst, das es nur Puppen sind. Der Gesang, die Dramaturgie, das Orchester einfach alles auf ganz hohem Niveau. Bravo!!!!!!
Just listened for the third time in two days... that voice... magical. Oh! My heart! Oh! My heart! How scorned you are! Stars, oh gods! You spirit of love! Traitor you are! Yet you I love! Alone you leave me with all my tears? Oh my god! Oh why?
But, what makes Alcina weep and sob? Queen I am! And time is there for us: Stay or perish, pain on end, or again love me!
Could we have more of this? This is refreshing. This is the way modern opera performance should aim for, an added element that could elevate opera into something that's both visual and audio delight. With the puppets help, the emotional part of the aria is visually presented alongside the singing which singers could not do better other than being stately and motionless. By caricaturing the role, the director is directing the attention of the audience towards another dimension of Handel's music which otherwise could not be revealed through pure watching the singer standing alone on the stage.
This is the first time ive seen puppeteering like this! The fact that I can't even process the people controlling it is fascinatingly beautiful!! I hope to see a performance like this in person!
There is something so powerful, haunting and almost supernatural about this production especially this aria. I may being silly but I don't want to be alone with that puppet in a dark room and I'm probably going to get nightmares about this. There is *POWER* in this piece god save us!
Strange thing is that, when I'm hearing the lady behind the puppet singing. I'm almost convinced that it's actually the puppet who is singing this aria ...The seemingly strong emotional ties mirrored in the expressive artistry both as verbal and related toward both the singer, and of her puppet are what make this aria quite special indeed ...
Ho letto molti commenti positivi e negativi, che naturalmente rispetto pienamente. Guardando questa rappresentazione sono rimasto colpito positivamente da un senso di poesia e angoscia allo stesso tempo, una sensazione insolita e profonda che gli autori sono stati capaci di suscitare. Per questo i miei complimenti e un grazie per aver proposto questo video!
Ah, this pierced my heart! Haendel’s gorgeous aria, sung by a wonderful soprano, with a visual production that added so much to the pathos of this piece. I am so grateful!
ALCINA, ACT 2. Ora intendo perché l'arme vestì; crudei, spergiuro! di lui, di or farne vendetta io giuro. Ah! mio cor! schernito sei! Stelle! Dei! Nume d'amore! Traditore! T'amo tanto; puoi lasciarmi sola in pianto, oh dei! perché? Ma, che fa gemendo Alcina? Son reina, è tempo ancora: resti o mora, peni sempre, o torni a me.
I just found this through my video suggestions and I must say this is such a cool concept! This performance feels so tragic yet endearing. Also props to the singer. If it is hard in itself to display emotions while singing, imagine displaying them through someone/something else. That requires skill.
La Maschera rappresentata noi inguaribili Romantici che piangiamo di nascosto dagli sguardi degli altri assaliti dal dolore di un Amore illusorio e doloroso 😞 . Io mi ritrovo in questa scena....Ma riparto alla carica pronto a nuove sfide 🙏🎇✨🌌❤😊💪🐎
The vocal is so beautiful but also the doll shows the meaning of the lyrics. I am glad that I watched this before anything, I just started to learn this song. I understand the story so beautifully and dramatically. The doll is the most beautiful art Muppet in my life.
Julia Kirchner’s performance is incredible. Beyond the outstanding timbre and technical qualities, this performance distinguishes itself from others with gravitas and the incredible emotions poured into it. Kirchner’s performance gives this moment so many more wonderful dimensions - dimensions that other performances/productions lack. Brava!
la peinture, la sculpture , la musique, les artistes en résumé; il n'y a qu'eux pour réussir à ainsi transformer même les horreurs de la vie en beautés.... Merci infini à eux
I've... never seen anything quite like this. There's a kind of Japanese acting using puppets, this reminded me of it. This has somehow really affected me; somehow, the symbolism I see has done this (I don't know the story of what's happening in this opera).
Wonderful singing. Hearing it for the first time. The puppet is terrifying to look at, will give me nightmares tonight, yet I can't help but watch. Can't imagine singing while moving the puppet. Movement are surreal and mesmerizing but so expressive. Haunting, beautiful. Glad I found this.
Alcina es, lamentablemente, una ópera muy pocas veces representadas. En mi país (hasta donde yo recuerde) nunca se estrenó. He escuchado varias versiones y leído sobre el argumento, pero esta performance me ha dejado con la boca abierta. Y, frente a esta joya, mejor hubiera sido que la dejara cerrada. Las palabras sobran: emocionante hasta las lágrimas.😭
Muy buen y bellísimo trabajo. Tan delicado, tan hipnótico, tan sugerente. Es fascinante como una marioneta está en permanente cambio. ¡Se le cambia el rostro con el canto! MARAVILLOSA MAGIA BRAVO
Thank you for sharing 🙏I was lucky enough to have attended the performance the night before this one - this version of Alcina (which is one of my favorite operas) was very impressive - for me the puppets were as well members of the amazing cast as the singers, the puppet players , the musicians - I wouldn’t have wanted to miss any of them 👏👏👏👏👏
Les mots ne peuvent décrire la profondeur émotionnelle de ce dispositif vraiment impressionnant. Le trio, le tiers, l'artiste là et en même temps absent, l'émotion pure au devant soutenue par cette sublime musique. Merci et bravo à tous les artistes pour ce don, cette véritable performance et création qui manque tant à nos scènes aujourd'hui. Merci.
Ah mio cor! Schernito sei! Stelle! Dei! Nume d’amore. Traditore! T’amo tanto. Vuoi lasciarmi sola in pianto? Oh dei! Perché? Ma, che fa gemendo Alcina? Son regina, è tempo ancora: resti, o mora, peni sempre, o torni a me. (Da Capo) Libretto anonimo.
They probably used a puppet not because the director had "a special vision" but because they wanted to make the singer feel useless. -- Resentful sadism against a gifted musician who could do what the director would never be able to do in a million years: make beautiful music.
Alcina, the sorceress loses her magical powers and loses the man she fell in love with. Without the first act it is apractical way of conveying the supernatural quality of the plot.
the letter at the back: Verräter! Ich liebe dich so sehr. Wie kannst du mich verlassen? Warum? WARUM!!? Doch was seufzt Aleina? Bleib du, leide ewig stirb! oder KOMM ZURÜCK!!! Hell of a play. the puppet is really scary though.
So the puppets character is a sorceress with powers of seduction. Her true form is supposed to be hideous to behold and this songs about a man that she loved running off with her sister and then her immediate plans to murder them lol.
![[EXTRAIT] ALCINA by Haendel "Tornami a vagheggiar" (Sabine Devieilhe)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xa5W8GfflmA/mqdefault.jpg)
the most endearing part is that it feels like the actual actors are like hallucinations of the puppet, consoling her, singing with her
fodder for a future story mechanic
@@windmillmannequin awhat now
@@hessi_943they’re saying thats a good concept for a future story, as a main focus i think
@@beelzemobabbity ohhhhh
@@windmillmannequin right that makes sense!
I love to see puppeteering being taken seriously and I think this really shows the potential it has. It’s also such a unique artistic process I reckon.
So true
Here the character is literally changing her skin. Puppeteering is an Art in itself. In this play several forms of Art are converging.
- John Cusack in Being John Malkovich
and what in your opinion is puppeteering NOT being taken seriously? been one of the most popular visual forms since televisions creation, theres no need to be on your high horse about puppeteering.
@@indus7841 Yeah exactly. It’s my opinion. What’s YOUR problem?
This performace has given me goosebumps. One can feel the puppet is bitterly suffering.
me too. in a negative way.
It reminded me of this great Butoh performer who is so twisted by existence. th-cam.com/video/ZUjhQLB0hXY/w-d-xo.html
This is beyond a doubt the most fucked up yet also hauntingly beautiful episode of Sesame Street I have seen in my life
Yeah. The same heebeejeebies...but in a good way 😂
🤣
La vita spesso è complessa e inquietante 😊
If they both trip and that puppet is still performing I'd bolt the hell out of there
I'll tell you one thing, there are many sopranos who could learn a lot about acting from this magnificent puppet. Strange isn't it to contemplate the reinterpretation of human emotion through a nonhuman surrogate
Now they can't learn about acting through this.
It's so strange that it's even scary xd
Reminiscent of bunraku, Japanese puppetry, applied to Italian opera. I like it!
The soprano is amazing! I think the use of the puppet is very effective, like two attendants helping an old and decrepit Alcina. I want like to see the entire production.
I see the women as attendants to a great lady, great and beautiful. I didn’t know of this opera until now. But I don’t think she is old… a woman in love is never old, she is always… a woman
❤😢
I don't know if this was intentional or not, but I found her being surrounded by other women very comforting - like, there's a certain deep neglected misery it seems all women understand, and that the only comfort sometimes is commiserating with other women when it hits.
@@moustinguett well said :)
@@moustinguett Beautiful words!!
Безупречное исполнение. Столько эмоций. Потеря любви невозможность вернуть былое....😢
The puppeteers are a physical manifestation of how humans support each others stories, specially through the production and reproduction of art.
The puppeteers here are just phenomenal, they've given such life to the puppet. Even details such as the rise and fall of it's chest as if it's breathing- utter attention to detail. Incredible
I really enjoyed this concept and I thought the staging was excellent. Many productions struggle to incorporate Alcina’s true form into the performance, as the singer is frequently young and beautiful and the audience forgets just how hideous Alcina’s appearance really is! A sincere lament of an old hag, loved it!
Incredible performance 👏 🙌
Eine wundervolle und künstlerisch hochwertige Aufführung in Gütersloh. Die Puppen werden so lebendig und vollkommen gespielt und bewegt, dass man fast vergisst, das es nur Puppen sind. Der Gesang, die Dramaturgie, das Orchester einfach alles auf ganz hohem Niveau. Bravo!!!!!!
Just listened for the third time in two days... that voice... magical.
Oh! My heart!
Oh! My heart! How scorned you are!
Stars, oh gods! You spirit of love!
Traitor you are! Yet you I love!
Alone you leave me with all my tears?
Oh my god! Oh why?
But, what makes Alcina weep and sob?
Queen I am! And time is there for us:
Stay or perish, pain on end,
or again love me!
I will be listening to this all night. Please send help!
É só isso o que ela fala, ou tem mais? Onde encontro a tradução completa?
@@justanotherguy469I believe in the *power* of music and I tell you there is something supernatural about this performance!
@@gerardjagrooAbsolutely!
@@stephanyluiza2675this is all, most lines are repeated throughout the song like in most arias
It’s very good but very creepy at the same time…luv this aria and her voice…magnificent!
Could we have more of this? This is refreshing. This is the way modern opera performance should aim for, an added element that could elevate opera into something that's both visual and audio delight. With the puppets help, the emotional part of the aria is visually presented alongside the singing which singers could not do better other than being stately and motionless. By caricaturing the role, the director is directing the attention of the audience towards another dimension of Handel's music which otherwise could not be revealed through pure watching the singer standing alone on the stage.
This is the first time ive seen puppeteering like this! The fact that I can't even process the people controlling it is fascinatingly beautiful!! I hope to see a performance like this in person!
There is something so powerful, haunting and almost supernatural about this production especially this aria.
I may being silly but I don't want to be alone with that puppet in a dark room and I'm probably going to get nightmares about this.
There is *POWER* in this piece god save us!
Strange thing is that, when I'm hearing the lady behind the puppet singing. I'm almost convinced that it's actually the puppet who is singing this aria ...The seemingly strong emotional ties mirrored in the expressive artistry both as verbal and related toward both the singer, and of her puppet are what make this aria quite special indeed ...
Yes.
I love this aria and I thought the idea of using a puppet was fantastic. The singer is wonderful.
I must have done something right for the algorithm to recommend this to me. Amazing.
Yo también
OH MY GOD This was so entrancing such a layered performance. Between the vocalist the puppet i'm not sure who I enjoyed watching more. So beautiful!
Ho letto molti commenti positivi e negativi, che naturalmente rispetto pienamente. Guardando questa rappresentazione sono rimasto colpito positivamente da un senso di poesia e angoscia allo stesso tempo, una sensazione insolita e profonda che gli autori sono stati capaci di suscitare. Per questo i miei complimenti e un grazie per aver proposto questo video!
It's the most beautiful scene I've ever seen. Delicate and realistic move, the soprano's fantastic voice, everything was perfect.
Ah, this pierced my heart! Haendel’s gorgeous aria, sung by a wonderful soprano, with a visual production that added so much to the pathos of this piece. I am so grateful!
i love how the puppeteers feel like the right and left sides of her brain - emotion and physicality. they just seem like part of her psyche
ALCINA, ACT 2.
Ora intendo perché l'arme vestì;
crudei, spergiuro!
di lui, di or farne vendetta io giuro.
Ah! mio cor! schernito sei!
Stelle! Dei!
Nume d'amore!
Traditore!
T'amo tanto;
puoi lasciarmi sola in pianto,
oh dei! perché?
Ma, che fa gemendo Alcina?
Son reina, è tempo ancora:
resti o mora,
peni sempre, o torni a me.
This is exactly what I was looking for!!! Thank you!!!😙
A FELLOW STRAWBERRY!!!! Hi!!!!
I'm not into opera, but this performance has drawn me into it. It's so fascinating.❤
Wellcome !! You'll enjoy !!
I just found this through my video suggestions and I must say this is such a cool concept! This performance feels so tragic yet endearing.
Also props to the singer. If it is hard in itself to display emotions while singing, imagine displaying them through someone/something else. That requires skill.
timeless grief and pain. And a great performance by the singer.
Hauntingly beautiful!
This❤
the one of the best stagings i have ever seen, who came up with this genius idea
Потрясающее впечатление, замечательный вокал, Гендель и кукла страдающая...
Very unusual. I’ve never seen this before. Quite beautiful.
This was amazing, the emotions are truly captured, even the puppeteers looked like consoling family, everything was just beautiful.
Watching like the tenth time, still fascinating!
La Maschera rappresentata noi inguaribili Romantici che piangiamo di nascosto dagli sguardi degli altri assaliti dal dolore di un Amore illusorio e doloroso 😞 . Io mi ritrovo in questa scena....Ma riparto alla carica pronto a nuove sfide 🙏🎇✨🌌❤😊💪🐎
What an amazing voice ! Singing with such ease and focus despite having to handle the puppet. Just incredible
The vocal is so beautiful but also the doll shows the meaning of the lyrics. I am glad that I watched this before anything, I just started to learn this song. I understand the story so beautifully and dramatically. The doll is the most beautiful art Muppet in my life.
Meravellós... l'expressivitat de la titella , l'actriu que la mou, Alcina, la soprano i els músics... Quina versió,!! regal pels sentits...
Absolutely brilliant!!! The singing is superb!! WOW!
This performance is utterly breathtaking. Julia Kirchner's voice and expression are stunning.
Julia Kirchner’s performance is incredible. Beyond the outstanding timbre and technical qualities, this performance distinguishes itself from others with gravitas and the incredible emotions poured into it. Kirchner’s performance gives this moment so many more wonderful dimensions - dimensions that other performances/productions lack. Brava!
A fantastic voice invited me to the dream palace.
Same
O....MY......GOSH! Why have I never seen this before?? SO beautiful!!
la peinture, la sculpture , la musique, les artistes en résumé; il n'y a qu'eux pour réussir à ainsi transformer même les horreurs de la vie en beautés.... Merci infini à eux
I've... never seen anything quite like this. There's a kind of Japanese acting using puppets, this reminded me of it. This has somehow really affected me; somehow, the symbolism I see has done this (I don't know the story of what's happening in this opera).
Noh
incredibly beautiful and moving. the talent displayed by the two women on stage is tremendous.
omg hi buttress
SOOO true buttress ! their working in concert to make the puppet move like that is so 😳😳😳 omg
Qué magia tremenda lograron. Bellísima voz e interpretación. Brava la artista que dió vida a la muñeca. Muy expresivo❤
Wonderful singing. Hearing it for the first time. The puppet is terrifying to look at, will give me nightmares tonight, yet I can't help but watch. Can't imagine singing while moving the puppet. Movement are surreal and mesmerizing but so expressive. Haunting, beautiful. Glad I found this.
wooooooooaaaaaah 🥰 one of my favourite interpretations of this aria!
ABSOLUTELY MASTERPIECE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
Wow! Magnificent. Gorgeous
人偶的動作那麼流暢自然，聲音就像人偶自己發出的一樣，也喜歡在人偶身後演唱+操控的歌手非常投入
Sublime voice, impressive puppeteering, amazing effect
Magical performance, great singing, incredible puppeteering ! Thank you for this work of art.
Was für eine wunderschöne Stimme!
Her voice is like an angel I got goosebumps so much power in there she's very strong vocalist
Bravo from Spain!
Alcina es, lamentablemente, una ópera muy pocas veces representadas. En mi país (hasta donde yo recuerde) nunca se estrenó. He escuchado varias versiones y leído sobre el argumento, pero esta performance me ha dejado con la boca abierta. Y, frente a esta joya, mejor hubiera sido que la dejara cerrada. Las palabras sobran: emocionante hasta las lágrimas.😭
Grotesque and beautiful.
I think the greatest betrayal is knowing that at the end of the day this puppet would lay lifeless. They sold us the illusion of life so perfectly!
Голос и культура пения потрясающие..
Spectacular singing
Muy buen y bellísimo trabajo. Tan delicado, tan hipnótico, tan sugerente.
Es fascinante como una marioneta está en permanente cambio. ¡Se le cambia el rostro con el canto!
MARAVILLOSA MAGIA
BRAVO
Marvellous stage craft as much as singing.
Absolutely gorgeous! The emotion in the voice and the movement of the puppet was amazing! The woman singing has amazing talent 💕
That was unexpectedly powerful
Whattttt kinddd of black magic is thisssss 🤯🤯😍😍😍😍
Thank you for sharing 🙏I was lucky enough to have attended the performance the night before this one - this version of Alcina (which is one of my favorite operas) was very impressive - for me the puppets were as well members of the amazing cast as the singers, the puppet players , the musicians - I wouldn’t have wanted to miss any of them 👏👏👏👏👏
Потрясающее исполнение!!!! А кукла - реальный крокодил. Мумия.
she was always the most talented Muppet 🤩🙏
What a beautiful blend of agony and hope. I would love to see the behind the secens and hear thoughts of producers❤
Gorgeous voice
Какое тонкое, прекрасное и проникновенное исполнение!
Magical.....
Beautiful voice!
This performance is absolutely exceptional! Heart-breaking
So etwas Schönes bekommt man selten zu hören/sehen...
Les mots ne peuvent décrire la profondeur émotionnelle de ce dispositif vraiment impressionnant. Le trio, le tiers, l'artiste là et en même temps absent, l'émotion pure au devant soutenue par cette sublime musique. Merci et bravo à tous les artistes pour ce don, cette véritable performance et création qui manque tant à nos scènes aujourd'hui. Merci.
Beautiful, immortal music that makes a person think about the deep truths of being...
Wow!!!! Thank you for posting the video!!!!
Epuré, juste incroyable ! Magnifique 🤗
Magnifica voz y puesta en escena.
this is insane. those two women moved so fluidly as a unit t bring this puppet to life! so cool.
❤
I feel like this is what humans really are, except there are many, many puppeteers for each of us. Sorrow, anger, lust, ecstasy, analysis, creativity
Stupendous singing! Woweee!
Beautiful, and right on the edge of a nightmare-producing visual.
Pantomima impressionante. A boneca canta, se expressa, sente profundamente! Enleva.
Ah mio cor! Schernito sei!
Stelle! Dei! Nume d’amore.
Traditore! T’amo tanto.
Vuoi lasciarmi sola in pianto?
Oh dei! Perché?
Ma, che fa gemendo Alcina?
Son regina, è tempo ancora:
resti, o mora, peni sempre,
o torni a me.
(Da Capo)
Libretto anonimo.
I found my attention gradually going more to the singer and her performance and wishing that the puppet would go away. The singing is beautiful.
They probably used a puppet not because the director had "a special vision" but because they wanted to make the singer feel useless. -- Resentful sadism against a gifted musician who could do what the director would never be able to do in a million years: make beautiful music.
@@geoffreyriggs6331 I don't think so. The puppet stands for loss and mourning as an example in all times and lifes. The singing is great indeed.
Your name fits
Alcina, the sorceress loses her magical powers and loses the man she fell in love with. Without the first act it is apractical way of conveying the supernatural quality of the plot.
The puppet will never go away, it will enter the dreams of those who malign it
Que preciosidad.
Nunca habia visto una cosa igual,, que se pudiera ejecutar en nuestra queridisima ooera.
Espectacular
Stunning...
waittt....im obsessed with this..
Nikolaus Habjan und allen
Beteiligten Gratulation und
C H A P E A U ❣
Amazing thank you for this wonderful treat
I'm usually not a huge fan of opera, but this is gorgeous! And with the puppet thrown in the mix, it's absolutely mesmerising!
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Perfect match with the melancholy .
Bravo.
My hat off to you. Not only did you convey the deep longing so proper for the musical style but simultaneously with natural puppetry. Well done!
I don't usually listen or watch either opera or puppets but this is so incredible
the letter at the back:
Verräter! Ich liebe dich
so sehr. Wie kannst du mich
verlassen? Warum?
WARUM!!?
Doch was seufzt Aleina?
Bleib du, leide ewig stirb!
oder KOMM ZURÜCK!!!
Hell of a play. the puppet is really scary though.
So the puppets character is a sorceress with powers of seduction. Her true form is supposed to be hideous to behold and this songs about a man that she loved running off with her sister and then her immediate plans to murder them lol.
great thx!@@nicklewis470
¡Qué maravilla! ¡Qué delicadeza!....Bravooooo!!