Video-Nathalie Dessay in her prime is just making history in Haendel Alcina"Tornami a vagheggiar"

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  • @tbasset
    @tbasset 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Quelle performance Nathalie! De la joie.

  • @enriqueali
    @enriqueali ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Her interpretation of this role, and this performance in particular, have justly attained legendary status among opera aficianados.
    Brings to mind the old adage: talented amateurs practice until they can finally attain a certain level of excellence; professionals practice until they can never slip below a certain level of excellence

    • @Classicvideofan
      @Classicvideofan  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the last performance (which I did not record) she ended the cabaletta with a breathtaking TOP G !.... when we asked her backstage why she said it was just 'so fun ' to do it LLOOLL

  • @DueTrombe
    @DueTrombe 17 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I saw Natalie Dessay perform this in Chicago and she was awesome! Even when rolling around on the floor her voice rang out all the way to the back of the hall. She brought down the house with this aria and stole the show!

  • @jhvorotin
    @jhvorotin 16 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I've watched this video many times. It's amazingly difficult, sung with wonderful confidence, extreme precision, superb legato. And on top of everything, Natalie Dessay does this while acting, lying on the floor...WAW she drives me nuts!

  • @19Lirael
    @19Lirael 11 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Absolutely astounding how she can be so physical and maintain such clarity and dexterity of tone!

    • @juliannapirillo6608
      @juliannapirillo6608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sometimes it actually helps the singing to move. Especially for coloratura.

    • @juliannapirillo6608
      @juliannapirillo6608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Remember singing is a physical sport.

  • @MrHbc3
    @MrHbc3 13 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I've mentioned this before, but when I stumbled on this download, having been completely unaware of Natalie Dessay, I was overwhelmed. I've watched and listened so many times since I can't count them. Since then I have slowly become a Dessay fan, and between YT and buying her CDs I can say that my life has been enriched. She is not only a riveting actress and a singer of comedy and drama with bold strokes and unbelievable levels of subtlety, but she is a role model in terms of how she IS.

  • @bovnycccoperalover3579
    @bovnycccoperalover3579 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is such a wonderful aria to watch because Miss Dessay is having so much fun with it.

  • @Hypermnestre
    @Hypermnestre 16 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I already admired Dessay's technique, her clear-as-glass sound and her acting ability, and now she makes me giggle aswell!

  • @operadude32
    @operadude32 15 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was there in Chicago and was in heaven! I could have sat thru 3 more hours of da capo arias!!!

  • @Lilith89ibz
    @Lilith89ibz 17 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Natalie Dessay's Alcina is astonishing, great, glorious, fantastic, wonderful and lots of other nice things ^^ That high G in the end was... No words for that!

  • @hazelmsmith
    @hazelmsmith 17 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can't stop watching this and it keeps running through my head even when I'm NOT watching it. Just a note to Lilith89ibz-Nathalie is singing Morgana; Renee Fleming is Alcina. I love them both. Now I need to find a dvd version to add to my collection.

  • @iloneens
    @iloneens 15 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    the best version of this aria. very inspiring for me. :)

  • @Querzeo
    @Querzeo 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This woman doesn't exist!!! loooll
    Just perfect!! Every note, every expression, every move...
    Brava!

  • @catthh22
    @catthh22 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love it I love it I love it !!!!! Great aria !! Great singer !!!

  • @SolMayorga
    @SolMayorga 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i've seen it more than 45 times and it still drives my crazy... she is really awsome!

  • @heinzdelabar4592
    @heinzdelabar4592 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Höchstes Lob für die Darstellung und den Gesang von Natalie Dessay!!! und für Georg !!!

  • @belcantospecialist
    @belcantospecialist 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Does anyone have this entire production on DVD??? God I love to see it!!!! Was this done at The Chicago Lyric Opera? If not, where please? Dessay was flawless in it.

  • @idraote
    @idraote 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the staging is perfectly fitted to the music and Ms Dessay has a wonderful sense of timing, besides a luminous voice: it's very professional, very talented, I'd love to be able to sing and act with that precision

  • @grantes4969
    @grantes4969 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    INCREDIBLE technique! She is, indeed, an amazing singer.

  • @InternetFrame
    @InternetFrame 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bellissima voce, ... bellisima dona! ... e naturalmente magnifico Haendel!

  • @arsumanya
    @arsumanya 14 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It is a glorious high Е actually :) Really great interpretation!! Thanks for share!

  • @Gigglingatagas
    @Gigglingatagas 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well said!! I feel EXACTLY the same. The technique is just flawless, and has that point on the sound that is ESSENTIAL for effective coloratura singing.

  • @leoperarm
    @leoperarm 15 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    WOW!!!! this is so beautiful! Loved it!

  • @gibraltarrr
    @gibraltarrr 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    she's such an amazing actress!

  • @ОксанаВасильева-ч1о
    @ОксанаВасильева-ч1о 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    She's incredible!!!

  • @aworysse
    @aworysse 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    @Emily Amatulli - it's not wrong, it is baroque music performend on period instruments, and historic tuning at a=415' (half a step lower than today)

  • @InternetFrame
    @InternetFrame 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    bellisima voce, bellisima donna! ... e naturalmente grandioso Haendel!

  • @vitellia
    @vitellia 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I feel so grateful for Natalie Dessay. I would thank god if I wasn't atheist. She is simply perfect. By the way, that high note at the end is the high F (at A=415). To hear Natalie's awesome high G (at A=440), one should listen to the Mozart concert aria (Popoli di Thessaglia!). I wish this production was commercially available on DVD. The CD is one of my favorite Handel opera recordings of all time.

    • @2957485
      @2957485 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's actually an intense High E6.

  • @Classicvideofan
    @Classicvideofan  17 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I fully agree with you on this. But Mr Carsen is, IMHO, the most talented stage director of these days (one of the other great prod we had in Paris were his breathtaking Midsummernight Dream, and his so deeply clever and beautiful Rusalka - with renée - now both available in DVD). I know that Nathalie and Renée - both very much interested by the dramatic aspects of their roles and by stage direction issues - adore working with this great artist.

  • @ittango22
    @ittango22 13 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Lot's of Natalie fans on here, awesome...so...who's the other woman?

  • @gentidof
    @gentidof 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    C'est vraiment chaud avec Natalie ! Elle adore ça et l mise en scène a dû la combler. Cet extrait est en outre superbe musicalement et Natalie y donne toute la mesure de son talent. Et dire qu'elle ne veut plus chanter d'opéra...Reviens Natalie !

    • @FrancineIschi
      @FrancineIschi 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      C'est vraiment *EXTRA* !

    • @gentidof
      @gentidof 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fifi ce n'est pas encore classé X ...tu pouvais en mettre un, MDR...

    • @FrancineIschi
      @FrancineIschi 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      MDR !

  • @regulargonzalez
    @regulargonzalez 14 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I know it's passe to say things like "9 people missed the like button" but seriously, how can anyone not like this? Honestly curious here.

  • @nostopsnopurgatory
    @nostopsnopurgatory 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Her cadenzas are different in the video than the recording which is the most amazing recording ever.

  • @MrHbc3
    @MrHbc3 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    About four or five months ago I stumbled on this Aria, here, this production. I was completely unaware of Natalie Dessay. I also have watched/listened to it a number of times. Now I must have spent a hundred hours on you tube stuff by and about Natalie. I have bought a bunch of her CDs and love them. She has a good voice, not a super one... but she sings and acts so well, and the human characteristics she has are so appealing I am a fan like never before. She wants to "change opera", and is.

  • @floydordie
    @floydordie 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    je l'ai vu à l'opera garnier tt simplement sublime cet opera !!! :)

  • @idraote
    @idraote 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    she's Morgana, Alcina's sister.
    Joan Sutherland in her recording sang Alcina but she took this aria from the "sister's" role because she liked it

  • @Querzeo
    @Querzeo 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She is just the best singing actress of the moment!
    I like also Renee Fleming, but Dessay is even better, she's the BEST!
    Callas has found her pupil!

  • @OperaLover84
    @OperaLover84 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello, where have you been!?!?! Haha!
    Dessay -- listen, enjoy, love her!

  • @jhvorotin
    @jhvorotin 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOOOOOOW!!! She drives me crazy

  • @crivz
    @crivz 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I prefer this over Joan Sutherland's renditions, so far. It's a modern characterization (obviously due to the production concept) but Dessay plays more with the vocal line yet stays within the baroque style. Another gold star, Dessay!

  • @johncooper6413
    @johncooper6413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the interpretation G.F. Handel watches and listens to in heaven.

  • @flavioscorner
    @flavioscorner 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes, it is a High F at 415 (that is, an E, aprox., in modern pitch)

  • @CesarePonti
    @CesarePonti 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Una demostración de que no está reñida la buena técnica de canto con la interpretación escénica.Brava Natalie Dessay¡¡¡

  • @polveredipalco
    @polveredipalco 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    tutto stupendo e scena meravigliosa

  • @TigerRose246
    @TigerRose246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HOLY GOD what a note!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Classicvideofan
      @Classicvideofan  ปีที่แล้ว

      It is very rewarding that you appreciate this clip ;)) Don't hesitate to like the video and subscribe my chanel, it will be helpful to continue this work of sharing many exclusive documents in future especially with Nathalie ;)

  • @Toelzerfanclever
    @Toelzerfanclever 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Händel´s opera "Alcina" with a Toelzer boy soloist (Elias M. ?) as Oberto in July 2015 at ARTE: presse.arte.tv/apios/press_release/1522.pdf

  • @vitellia
    @vitellia 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She sings like any true great diva in the operatic history and looks, acts, moves like a Broadway superstar. She's the true phenomenon that we should ever be grateful to be contemporary with. By the way, that high note ain't G, it's F, in the lowered Baroque pitch (A=415). No disrespect meant; fact is fact. Her true high G can be heard in that amazing Mozart concert aria, "Popoli di Tessaglia..."

  • @hazelmsmith
    @hazelmsmith 17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know the text in so far as it is based on the poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, completed in 1532. I am not criticizing Nathalie's costume; in fact, What I was trying to say was that she is lucky enough to be able to wear it. Joan Sutherland could not have done so. Robert Carsen has done another great job of bringing opera seria into the 20th and 21st century. I'm happy for that. It gives me one more version to enjoy and with my favourite singers.

  • @cuicuimusic
    @cuicuimusic 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perfection.

  • @iloneens
    @iloneens 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    as I hear, it's one tonality lower than original in B flat. is it right?
    but version - great. :)

  • @EbenezerIan123
    @EbenezerIan123 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Terrific aria - I think she wants to be his friend ....

  • @talkingbowl
    @talkingbowl 17 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hee! That's one heck of a "little French maid."

  • @gracegueyes31
    @gracegueyes31 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Natalie est la meilleure!!!!!!!

  • @susanna1803
    @susanna1803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely love this!

  • @wuyuqiao0820
    @wuyuqiao0820 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i like her voice

  • @hazelmsmith
    @hazelmsmith 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sour Lemon: Joan ALWAYS wore very elaborate, period costumes. Most sopranos are built such
    that a skimpy, modern costume would render them ludicrous. Nathalie is lucky in her physical size. However, a French maid's outfit is certainly not REALISTIC for the time in which Handel's opera is set. That being said, I'll listen to Joan Sutherland AND Nathalie Dessay no matter what they are wearing. Enjoy both interpretations.

  • @JorgeAlbertoMussuto
    @JorgeAlbertoMussuto 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    me encanto esta mujer tan pequena de cuerpo y que VOZ que tiene que Dios la bendiga:)

  • @killerbunny123123
    @killerbunny123123 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    uhm clssicvideofan, u said she hit a high G somewhere in this opera...can u tell me in which aria she did this??

  • @thomastmwc
    @thomastmwc 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BRAVA!

  • @bbgum12345
    @bbgum12345 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    for those of you who have seen this, what is going on here in the scene? is that a woman she's kissing?

  • @Lilith89ibz
    @Lilith89ibz 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah, I noticed just after posting the comment that it was not THAT high... lol I wish I could have heard it. I'm so jealous of you! =)

  • @Classicvideofan
    @Classicvideofan  17 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wrote that se hit the HIgh G at the last perf. This is not the last perf ... so of course it is the 'regular' E ...

  • @Classicvideofan
    @Classicvideofan  17 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is an E not a G ... she did the G "for fun" only at the last performance ... I was there but did not tape it unfortunately ... it was ... incredible ... never heard something like that before or after in a theater ... weird in a way ...

  • @Classicvideofan
    @Classicvideofan  16 ปีที่แล้ว

    yes I posted other higlights of the same prod

  • @marvelousmrsnunya
    @marvelousmrsnunya 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "I kissed a girl and I liked it".. ;P

  • @EmmoWHAT
    @EmmoWHAT 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can someone explain? I have sheet music for this song (in the Schirmer Opera Anthology) in Bb.. is it being performed down a half step or is the music wrong?

  • @Classicvideofan
    @Classicvideofan  17 ปีที่แล้ว

    i THINK YOU HOUD READ THE TEXT AND HAVESEEN THE COMPPLETE PRODUCTION TO MAKE A JUDGMENT :-)

  • @killerbunny123123
    @killerbunny123123 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow! first time i see Dessay kissing a woman! @_@ anyway....wut year is this? im pretty sure its before 2000 right?

  • @FoxyGrandpa
    @FoxyGrandpa 17 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think she's hitting an F here.

    • @2957485
      @2957485 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      An intense High E6.

  • @JDOopera76
    @JDOopera76 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    well said :):):)

  • @anonymoususer2271
    @anonymoususer2271 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:46
    OH MY GOD

  • @yanakolomiets3908
    @yanakolomiets3908 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s E at the end of the aria)

  • @Heartlessiceboy
    @Heartlessiceboy 16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's pointless to compare Natalie Dessay with Joan Sutherlan both r amazing singers,there r not identical humans,and there r no indentical voices,specially when they r not even the same type of soprano voice,both performances r amazing...besides why Natalie Should even try to sing Turandot anyway? that's not for her voice type
    Natalie Dessay is going to figure as one of the top sopranos of our times
    and it will never going to be another Joan Sutherland

  • @Classicvideofan
    @Classicvideofan  17 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am sure that if you just read the text you will find out !... :-))

  • @cherubello9340
    @cherubello9340 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imperdibile, Strepitosa. La parte tecnica è probabilmente meno nitida e meno calligrafica di altre interpreti e di come probabilmente sarebbe richiesto.
    La voce è piccolina (ma penetrante) e folleggia in acrobazie spumeggianti. Quello però che seduce perdutamente è che ti trascina in una intensità recitativa/canora che svela la fragile inclinazione di Morgana a perdersi nella pura passione, nella voluttà di sciogliersi in un innamoramento impudico reso intrigante ed estenuato dall'ambiguità della situazione. Questo puro abbandono ai sensi, rende eterno il contenuto della genialità di Haendel: quale eternità si custodisce con supremo egoismo sull'isola di Alcina, se non il sogno di possedere l'eterna bellezza, propria e altrui? E quale musica e quale teatro, se non quello di Haendel regala a piene mani la bellezza eternamente pura in sé stessa, l'idea sublimata e fatata di bellezza?

    • @fabriziomariagarzi5534
      @fabriziomariagarzi5534 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cherubello, immagino chetu scherzi.

    • @angelabender8132
      @angelabender8132 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dio mio che geniale analisi!
      Il sogno di mantenere e possedere la belta' in un contento amoroso e seducente.
      Questa e' la gioia e la dannazione di noi fragili umani
      Grazie
      😙

  • @nicolamoccia8543
    @nicolamoccia8543 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    E gli Dei ,a consulto,decisero di fare un dono a l'umanità:crearono la Sig.ra Dessy

  • @川口健太郎-l1b
    @川口健太郎-l1b 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    ☆☆☆☆☆

  • @coegrrl1
    @coegrrl1 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually the high note at the end was an F

  • @LLCoolPass
    @LLCoolPass 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Umm.....

  • @yiudiumui
    @yiudiumui 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    like the singing but really not a fan of the acting

  • @flouraki
    @flouraki 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    great acting.....I just wish her voice was as big enough....it's pretty but it has often been said that she needs to be miked, b/c the voice is too small

  • @arvanitsa
    @arvanitsa 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh yes, this is wonderful. However, don't go through the trouble of watching the complete recording of this performance. It is overwrought and frankly rather tedious. No, not Alcina, but this particular performance

  • @SolMayorga
    @SolMayorga 14 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i've seen it more than 45 times and it still drives my crazy... she is really awsome!