Te Kanawa et Cotrubas utilisant la même technique,leurs deux voix sont parfaitement à l'unisson .Duo magnifiquement interprété! Ajoutons le plaisir des yeux ,nous sommes comblés.
This cast including Cotrubas, Te Kanawa and Van Stade remains my fav. This performance unites some of the greatest singers in this repertoire. The intimate and small stage serves both the drama and music perfectly.
What a wonderful duet! What a genius Mozart! I love Ileana Cotrubas especially! Of course, Kiri Te Kanawa is just lovely, too! But what a sweet sound of Ileana! Bravo!
I have this production on DVD, copied from an old VHS tape, and the entire cast was superb. Benjamin Luxon, sadly, lost his hearing and his life just a few years ago (he played Count Almaviva). Cotrubas and Te Kanawa were wonderful together, and the smaller theater (Glyndebourne) made the acoustics excellent. The audience is respectful and engaged, and the costuming is simply elegant and stunning. What a wonderful production. Thanks for posting this duet here!
I must agree with Red in Shawshank Redemption when he said, "I don't know what those Italian ladies were singing about. I don't want to know. I'd like to think it is something so beautiful that it can't be expressed in words." I am quoting from memory, but I think you will agree that this aria is so beautifully performed by Te Kanawa and Cotrubas that it must describe something so beautiful that it makes the soul rejoice for only having heard it.
Lassann . No matter how chained he was. A tear soaked melody plagued us all. Gave us all a brief glimps of something heavenly. It tore all of our hearts out, and gave them back, so they could feel. No one will ever know why the feeling came. But when those two Italian ladies sang-- it was sacred, it was love, it was something we never had, or ever will. We were left empty. This beauty is what we did not have. But now it is part of our heart. How could we have missed this ? It is Shawshank.
I especially love this version of one of Mozart's best duets ever. What is interesting about this version, is how much the two sopranos' voices sound alike. I have a recording of Mozart's C-Minor Mass, featuring the two of them (Te Kanawa and Cotrubas), singing the two lead sopranos' parts in it, and especially in the Kyrie Eleison, you really notice it. I love the effect. It's positively otherworldly... as though it might be the heavenly voices of the angels themselves.
The way they just hang their sound out there is amazing, it mean it just floats! I have seen/heard some performers push that ending and it just comes out horrible, it works much better when the sound is put outside the mouth, that way it doesnt come out with a muffled or swallowed sound, these two do it almost perfectly with crisp clean notes! BEAUTIFUL!!
Thay have SOOO wonderful voices. Kiri is beautiful and she is my dearest Countess. No one sings it like her. I sing this duet with my friend and I learn a lot from her performances . Dame Kiri is a Diva!!
I am sometimes so depressed over the ugliness and atrocities that man is capable of. And, then, I hear this, and it gladdens my heart to know of the beauty that God has intended for man to achieve.
Speechless! Te Kanawa is so full of grace: 0:23 - 0:30 = amazing moment! Cotrubas is also stunning. I think that moment is the only moment when Te Kanawa is 'above' Cotrubas: that sound around 0:28 it's coming from another world.
Dear anneyre: But... why ashamed? I'm a man of 58, and I can say you that I cry often hearing music... really the music is actually the only thing who made me cry (well, recently I cried too about the aircraft crash in my country). It's not a matter of sadness, but of beauty, of sensibility and, over all, because the music is the most intense and passionate art in the world.
I adore the part where both of the voices merge with what I call heavenly tones. 1.54 to 1.59. Really makes me believe that heaven is on earth. Simply superb
"Amadeus"=loved by God. And so, Psalm 92: 1 "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound."
1:53-1:58 is just amazing. Dame Te Kanawa is just amazing. She is my favourite Contessa hands down. She has a certain quality that just makes her perfect for this role. Just beautiful. I hope we find someone like her in my generation.
for years i have enjoyed opera , and it is a delight that every now and again i come across something that is as sublime as it is is beautiful. look behond the music the poise and elegance that Te Kanawa has is absolutely divine
Beautifull voices,magnificent interpretation,a musical juwel.They are each gorgeous in their own way,and that is opera about.Sincretism.Cooperation of more than one factors,(orchestra,direction,costumes,light,music,great singers,beautifull voices all meet in order to create the final enshantment).Thank you all for this master piece .
Kiri has that special aura that the sopranos singing with her rise you the occasion too. You can see how much warmth there is between Ileana and Kiri. The same applies when Kiri sings with Flicka.
It's available from amazon(dot)com. It's a Glyndebourne production(1973) with John Pritchard conducting. Look in dvds under Le Nozze di Figaro-yesterday, when I checked, it was the 2nd dvd on the list.
Exactly right :-) The greatest composer in the world, sung by the greatest singer (Kiri of course!) Ileana is quite amazing herself too! Together, it's indescribable
this is the song of life...... thats what I would like to hear on my weddingday and my funeral..... (butm not planning the last one hopefully for another 40 years)
This was meant to be replying to the gentleman from Romania. Both singers are wonderful. There are few good versions on yo of this song. All are wonderful.
I love the sadness in Dame Kiri's eyes at the very last phrase. Many don't realize the Beaumarchais play (source for the libretto by Da Ponte) actually quotes a popular song of the day, the reference for Sull'aria. That's why "Il capira"--"he'll understand".
"even though i had no idea what those two ladies were saying, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard." From Shawshank Redemption, when Timothy Robbins's character sneaks into the PA system and plays this over the whole prison's loudspeaker. great scene, great piece.
Ileana Cotrubas is a sensational singer, but see how hard she works to sound as good as Kiri Te Kanawa - Kiri is so relaxed she seems like she is just talking. Beautiful. It's a cruel world,.
LJ Da Silva Cotrubas is just fine. She also has the higher Soprano part in this duet. They are both STELLAR. Cotrubas was the much better artist as it was portrayed in each role she played. She had an incredible high E flat & was considered by many to be the best Traviata in the 70's. Tekanawa had a beautiful voice but her acting was very wooden as many OPERA Directors would say. I loved them both my friend. 🌏🌎🌍👱👴🎸🎼🎵 MUSIC WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
I just watched the three versions on here..and here's my opinion 1. Kiri Te Kanawa/Cotrubas 2. Flemming/Bartoli 3. Popp/Janowitz I love this version. Kiri's tone is out of this world....she blows my mind
I woould like to have this song played when I enter the church on my wedding day next year....It is so beautiful it must be about love and hope. As the main theme in shawshank redemption
Honestly the best one on her in my opinion if is the Carol & Kathleen battle duet, no one talks about that but I like it the best, but of course this one is good to
Te Kanawa et Cotrubas utilisant la même technique,leurs deux voix sont parfaitement à l'unisson .Duo magnifiquement interprété! Ajoutons le plaisir des yeux ,nous sommes comblés.
And now it's 2024 - none of the magic is lost from this stunning piece - It's a cruel world.
This cast including Cotrubas, Te Kanawa and Van Stade remains my fav. This performance unites some of the greatest singers in this repertoire. The intimate and small stage serves both the drama and music perfectly.
What a wonderful duet! What a genius Mozart! I love Ileana Cotrubas especially! Of course, Kiri Te Kanawa is just lovely, too! But what a sweet sound of Ileana! Bravo!
I love the pairing of these two marvelous sopranos; they sound so very much alike, so neither's singing overshadows the other's.
I have this production on DVD, copied from an old VHS tape, and the entire cast was superb. Benjamin Luxon, sadly, lost his hearing and his life just a few years ago (he played Count Almaviva). Cotrubas and Te Kanawa were wonderful together, and the smaller theater (Glyndebourne) made the acoustics excellent. The audience is respectful and engaged, and the costuming is simply elegant and stunning. What a wonderful production. Thanks for posting this duet here!
I must agree with Red in Shawshank Redemption when he said, "I don't know what those Italian ladies were singing about. I don't want to know. I'd like to think it is something so beautiful that it can't be expressed in words." I am quoting from memory, but I think you will agree that this aria is so beautifully performed by Te Kanawa and Cotrubas that it must describe something so beautiful that it makes the soul rejoice for only having heard it.
Tout à fait
When two great voices make themselfves compatable with the most gentle inspiring music, it is truly life and faith sustaining. Thank you!!
Quite possibly the most beautiful music I have ever heard.
Hay miles de millones de personas que pasaran sus vidas sin a ver escuchado esto!la pena mas grande que puedo imaginar!
This is the definitive performance of this. It is as close to perfect as it can get!
Lassann . No matter how chained he was. A tear soaked melody plagued us all. Gave us all a brief glimps of something heavenly. It tore all of our hearts out, and gave them back, so they could feel. No one will ever know why the feeling came. But when those two Italian ladies sang-- it was sacred, it was love, it was something we never had, or ever will. We were left empty. This beauty is what we did not have. But now it is part of our heart. How could we have missed this ? It is Shawshank.
Smart ideea, Dufrense was cheated by his wife and in this song is basically the idea is to expose the infidelity
I especially love this version of one of Mozart's best duets ever. What is interesting about this version, is how much the two sopranos' voices sound alike. I have a recording of Mozart's C-Minor Mass, featuring the two of them (Te Kanawa and Cotrubas), singing the two lead sopranos' parts in it, and especially in the Kyrie Eleison, you really notice it. I love the effect. It's positively otherworldly... as though it might be the heavenly voices of the angels themselves.
The way they just hang their sound out there is amazing, it mean it just floats! I have seen/heard some performers push that ending and it just comes out horrible, it works much better when the sound is put outside the mouth, that way it doesnt come out with a muffled or swallowed sound, these two do it almost perfectly with crisp clean notes! BEAUTIFUL!!
Wonderful. This is pure muisic from heaven. Fantastic singers.
Thay have SOOO wonderful voices. Kiri is beautiful and she is my dearest Countess. No one sings it like her. I sing this duet with my friend and I learn a lot from her performances .
Dame Kiri is a Diva!!
I am sometimes so depressed over the ugliness and atrocities that man is capable of. And, then, I hear this, and it gladdens my heart to know of the beauty that God has intended for man to achieve.
two beautiful voices that are completely in sinc, a doubly rare find.
Speechless! Te Kanawa is so full of grace: 0:23 - 0:30 = amazing moment! Cotrubas is also stunning. I think that moment is the only moment when Te Kanawa is 'above' Cotrubas: that sound around 0:28 it's coming from another world.
Dear anneyre:
But... why ashamed?
I'm a man of 58, and I can say you that I cry often hearing music... really the music is actually the only thing who made me cry (well, recently I cried too about the aircraft crash in my country). It's not a matter of sadness, but of beauty, of sensibility and, over all, because the music is the most intense and passionate art in the world.
Menos de tres minutos impagables que se recuerdan toda una vida... ¡qué regalo, qué dos sopranos... QUE MUSICA, DIOS MIO!
If only we could find somebody with just half of it, they would still be a extraordinary genius.
My two favorite sopranos, sounding preternaturally gorgeous. Thank you for sharing!
I adore the part where both of the voices merge with what I call heavenly tones. 1.54 to 1.59. Really makes me believe that heaven is on earth. Simply superb
"Amadeus"=loved by God. And so, Psalm 92: 1 "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound."
The best version of the duet! Let alone the best countess and the best Susanna! I'm very impressed! BRAVA!
Esa mirada al final de Kiri Te Kanawa es ORO PURO!
I agree this is one of the best. Kiri's voice is as always ravishing and the tempo is just about right for this aria.
1:53-1:58 is just amazing. Dame Te Kanawa is just amazing. She is my favourite Contessa hands down. She has a certain quality that just makes her perfect for this role. Just beautiful. I hope we find someone like her in my generation.
Te Kanawa's is the best voice i've ever heard.! She sings like an angel...
I agree.....Kiri is simply Devine!
Simply stunning, this warms me as a person everytime I hear this! Music for the soul!
Bravo!
hands down my favorite production of le nozze de figaro (kiri is my favorite too!)
Dame Kiri sounded THIS good in 1997 @ the Met doing the Countess. She is incredible!
Waiting breathlessly for my DVD from Amazon to arrive. This is my favorite of all the versions I've seen or heard...
Amazing beautiful moment! Speechless - the moment when they sing together!
Ileana Cotrubas and Kiri Te Kanawa! Heaven!
Magnífica música interpretada con amor y sensibilidad
for years i have enjoyed opera , and it is a delight that every now and again i come across something that is as sublime as it is is beautiful.
look behond the music
the poise and elegance that Te Kanawa has is absolutely divine
Both sounding amazing!
stunning- no one can beat this!
Damn, Kiri looks so cute, and both sings like angels!
Beautiful Lady indeed. Dame Keri 😊
Te Kanawa is completely captivating.
I miss opera that looks and sounds like this . . . it's now a thing of the past . . .
die Beste Vorstellung dieser Art!
Best performance ever
Quite wonderful indeed. Sung a little fast but by two voices which are well matched and produce a delightful " frisson " upon hearing them.
The way it was meant to be sung..... It's poetic and hypnotic.... Wow!
the beauty of humanity in your ears
Beautifull voices,magnificent interpretation,a musical juwel.They are each gorgeous in their own way,and that is opera about.Sincretism.Cooperation of more than one factors,(orchestra,direction,costumes,light,music,great singers,beautifull voices all meet in order to create the final enshantment).Thank you all for this master piece .
Thank you for sharing this lovely recording.
How sublime. Kiri you are a marvel and I adore Ileana.
Shawshank Redemption introduced me to this, I am taken by the vibrating harmony produced by the entangling of their two voices. Simplicy amazing.
Kiri has that special aura that the sopranos singing with her rise you the occasion too. You can see how much warmth there is between Ileana and Kiri. The same applies when Kiri sings with Flicka.
It takes me to wonderful places
It's available from amazon(dot)com. It's a Glyndebourne production(1973) with John Pritchard conducting. Look in dvds under Le Nozze di Figaro-yesterday, when I checked, it was the 2nd dvd on the list.
Exactly right :-) The greatest composer in the world, sung by the greatest singer (Kiri of course!) Ileana is quite amazing herself too! Together, it's indescribable
beautiful piece of music
Bellissima esecuzione, con un ritmo non eccessivamente lento. Great performance.
THIS SOOO LUVRLY....MAKES THE HAIRS ON MY NECK STAND UP
beautiful voices, beautiful blend.
this is the song of life......
thats what I would like to hear on my weddingday and my funeral..... (butm not planning the last one hopefully for another 40 years)
First time I heard it was because of Shawshank Redemption ofcourse...then very cheeky I had it played during our wedding ceremony
Sublime...perfetc interpretation. Tempo, voices, everything.
Absolutely stunning
Wonderful!
Sublime . . . Simply sublime.
Lassannn... You took the words right out of my mouth
I am so proud of the Romanian sopranos, and Ileana Cotrubaș is one of the best!
This was meant to be replying to the gentleman from Romania. Both singers are wonderful. There are few good versions on yo of this song. All are wonderful.
Gracias por el video!
Close to perfection
Lovely!
stunning!
Gorgeous!
Bravo!!!!!!
I love the sadness in Dame Kiri's eyes at the very last phrase.
Many don't realize the Beaumarchais play (source for the libretto by Da Ponte) actually quotes a popular song of the day, the reference for Sull'aria. That's why "Il capira"--"he'll understand".
"even though i had no idea what those two ladies were saying, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard." From Shawshank Redemption, when Timothy Robbins's character sneaks into the PA system and plays this over the whole prison's loudspeaker. great scene, great piece.
I thnk that's why they used it in The Shashank Rendemption. It sure made a impression on the prisoners. I love this duet. they are the best
No need to. Romania has plenty of great sopranos! Cotrubas is one. You can see how great she is in this.
Sencillamente BELLO!
Perfection!
wow! I love cotrubas but kanawa takes it away on this one! excellent post!!
Ileana Cotrubas is a sensational singer, but see how hard she works to sound as good as Kiri Te Kanawa - Kiri is so relaxed she seems like she is just talking. Beautiful. It's a cruel world,.
LJ Da Silva Cotrubas is just fine. She also has the higher Soprano part in this duet. They are both STELLAR. Cotrubas was the much better artist as it was portrayed in each role she played. She had an incredible high E flat & was considered by many to be the best Traviata in the 70's. Tekanawa had a beautiful voice but her acting was very wooden as many OPERA Directors would say. I loved them both my friend. 🌏🌎🌍👱👴🎸🎼🎵 MUSIC WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
such beautiful voices. I love that pink dress. isnt there a name for such dress?
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!!
BELLE DONNE
I just watched the three versions on here..and here's my opinion
1. Kiri Te Kanawa/Cotrubas
2. Flemming/Bartoli
3. Popp/Janowitz
I love this version. Kiri's tone is out of this world....she blows my mind
2:11 is perfect harmony!
Each time I hear this aria, I cry.
What a simplicity... and what a beauty!
excelente me gusta mucho
kiri realmente es magnífica su voz resalta mucho más ^^
i hope the paradise is like that
i totaly agree!!
Gorgeous *-*
I woould like to have this song played when I enter the church on my wedding day next year....It is so beautiful it must be about love and hope.
As the main theme in shawshank redemption
To those who disliked this video, just exactly WHAT is this duet, in your estimation, supposed to sound like?
hey now !im 19 (the future)and this is one of my favorites! i even know the all words and can sing git . so don't worry about the future:)
Veja como Deus se manifesta nessas vozes tão divinas! Que beleza! Que encanto!
She certainly has. Ileana is the best! Just wonderful.
I think best duo this mozzart ^^
Honestly the best one on her in my opinion if is the Carol & Kathleen battle duet, no one talks about that but I like it the best, but of course this one is good to
A Dream Duet!