I often see evil comments on yt about Diana Damrau... those writting those comments are heartless and have no sence of Art Diana is a Goddess Amazing!!!!! Not just an opera singer but a full artist and performer. I love her!!!!!!
Performance fantástica!!! Alguns conseguem fazer tecnicamente bem... Outros se apresentam artisticamente bem... Diana Damrau vai além disso: ela "espiritualiza"! Alguns cantores ou cantoras cantam para uma plateia de "intelectuais" ouvir... Outros cantam para o Universo inteiro ouvir... Diana Damrau canta sempre como se estivesse falando com Deus!!!! Sem parâmetros de comparação com ninguém. Ela usa o vibrato para transformar o timbre de sua voz numa fonte dos melhores sentimentos. Ela é simplesmente incrível!!!!!
as we know, Stuarda is one of Donizetti's masterpeice. and ofcourse Damrau is our generation's precious belcanto singer. I'm so glad that I can see and listen her Preghiera here. I can not wait to see her other Tudor Queens such as Bolena and Elisabetta, scenes and the full album! now I'm waiting for her "ah se un giorno..." recordings! cause we know she already recorded "nella pace" scene befor! 😉 YAS QUEEN!
I am a little bit apprehensive for this new album. I cannot deny Diana Damrau's commitment to her art. However, after what I have seen in her recent performances as Maria Stuarda in Berlin, Violetta at the Met, and Ophelie also here in Berlin, her super top notes are going to go under serious, serious scrutiny, as it seems like she no longer has them. This does not help that Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, and Elisabetta I are roles designated for a dramatic coloratura soprano and Diana Damrau is far from being a dramatic coloratura soprano, but I could still salute her for bravely giving these queens a go in this new release. She is more of a lyric soprano disguising herself as a coloratura soprano because she was once upon a time really well-known as The Queen of the Night but transitioned to singing Pamina after her final Queen at The Met in 2007, which was a sign of things to come of where her voice was really going to in the lyric route and not the coloratura route. Even when looking back at some of her performances a few years back, a lot of her top notes ended up sounding like glorified squeaks and not like what they used to sound like back in the late 1990s to early to mid-2000s where the voice got heavier in the 2010s. It also did not help that she cancelled some performances such as Marguerite de Valois in Paris and Marguerite from Faust in London as well as Berlin only to be replaced by Lisette Oropesa and Mandy Fredrich plus Irina Lungu and Nicole Car in Berlin respectively. At least when she did Contessa Almaviva and has an upcoming Countess Madeleine from Capriccio in the works, I can see that she is someone who should endeavor to head towards the lyric soprano repertoire with roles such as Liu, Micaela, Arabella, Melisande, Charpentier's Louise, Blanche de la Force, Rachel from La Juive, Mimi, Concepción from Ravel's L'Heure Espagnol, Ellen Orford, and Nedda from Pagliacci and not the Bel Canto roles she still attempts to perform.
She has said in interviews as much - she is really a light lyric with coloratura facility. But she sang coloratura repertoire for years and years -zerbinetta, Aminta from die schweigsame Frau, Qotn, etc, ultra high roles that were always going to affect the chords negatively if that is not where the voice naturally sat. There’s no way she’s heavy enough for the full lyric/light spinto roles you mention - she’s left it far too late to transition to another repertoire if that is the plan.
I concur. Her singing is beginning to be more labored. This happens to the best of them (listen to the disaster Anna Netrebko has become). Often, this is due to labels or management pushing artists to do rep that is not really right for them.
Daniel Hughes Netrebko was never one of “the best of them” so that’s a horrible example. She is as messy and tasteless now as she was a decade ago. The only difference is now her supermodel looks are going away. All That said, Damrau was at one point a true talent and one that I really enjoyed. But, Now, she needs to take a break and focus on reconditioning her voice and technique if she doesn’t want to end up voiceless and without a career. She’s certainly not old enough to need retirement and she should just now be going into real vocal prime. It’s sad really she shouldn’t be having this much trouble as she hasn’t really pushed her voice that much.
Im so glad there still are people who hear what I hear. She's a wounderful artist no question. I sincerely hope someone in the field whom she trusts and respects tells her what we are hearing.
RECITATIVOS Na ópera Maria Stuarda, de Donizetti, vem a ária Deh! tu di un umile, com os recitativos de prece. Espalhe um véu sobre eventos dolorosos. A área Espiritual é bem sutil, pois realidade transparece. A transparência ou a clarividência dos fatos vem À tona, revelando o que nós trazemos no íntimo. A prece vem antecedida pelos atos que fervem Em nossa mente, optando-nos em manter ânimo. Os tempos da pandemia são tempos redobrados Para espalhar um véu sobre os eventos dolorosos Fazendo todos ao nosso redor sentir-se amados. A egrégora, que congrega os pensamentos, traz O clima favorável no ambiente, ficamos vigorosos Realçando o que prevalece pra todos nós é a paz. (*) (*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - RECITATIVOS (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.
What's with all the arm motion? Is that a new way of singing? Does Damrau use all of this motion on stage? I see that some enjoy all the arm-waving. Sorry, but I'm not a fan. It detracts from the music, IMO. It sounds like Damrau is at least ten years too late in recording this repertoire. The voice has gotten heavy and to my ear has pitch problems. It's too bad that things were more ideal as this music receives little attention these days. It's still hard to top Sills/Sutherland/Caballe - even Gruberova in these works.
They are recording a CD and this seems to help her phrasing. Of course she does not do this during live performances! You take great pleasure in your very negative critique. What conductor would allow those hand gestures during a live stage performance? Please think.
She was able to hold out the long held soft note, but it almost sounded like their was no soul or passion in it, and that it would collapse at any moment, but at the end of sustained note the high note she went up to screeched.
So many great singers end up uglifying their voice with these huge wobble with age or having been some time at the top... Is that due to overabuse and lack of care and practice once they are at the top? Look at what happened to Netrebko... And she is not even 50!
Albert Baulies Pérez it can be due to many things. One is that the Vocal chord’s do indeed slacken with age - it’s a soft tissue after all, and we know what happens to skin. However, if it happens prematurely, then it is usually due to abuse of the chords as you say - lack of support, over exertion in roles which are too heavy, or a host of other issues.
Vous avez raison : c'est moche. Pourtant les interprétations qui auraient pu la faire réfléchir avant de tenter l'aventure ne manquent pas : Gencer, Baker, Di Donato, Radvanovsky...
Even the conducting is off ... no bel canto is coming thru in this recording. I’d say it rather late (for Damrau) to endeavor the Three Queens, I cannot see how she can even attempt the remaining two
Ron Ronizetti Thank you so much, Damrau’s voice doesn’t flow, and thise little low note phrases of no no no or whatever at around :47 never sounded so bad. Even her c c c, sounded uninspired.
lora layons Thank you. The singing on this album is horrible. It even sounds like she has a wobble. She has a very shakey annoying vibrato too. Even Callas whose voice wasn’t always that pretty, sounded so much better in this music, atleast Callas would savor the words, and enunciate and sing with expression, feeling, and emotional intelligence. Listening to this performance of Diane Darmu is painful, almost every words and phrase she sings sounds the same. Another one of these younger singers, who are heavily marketed with glamour photos, but is seriously lacking in technique and is either singing the wrong repertoire, or is already in serious vocal decline, but these roles have been sung by coloraturas before. All one would have to do is listen to Caballe’s recordings of some of these arias from these operas to tell what is missing from this video. With Caballe you would here near perfect technique, extraordinary breath control, legato, and her voice would pronounce the words as easy as speaking, with expression, and then take the high notes with great ringing beauty as well as her soft floated pianissimos. Diana however sounds like she is trying to warble through each aria, bringing a cringing pain to her listeners who have any discernment, taste, or basic knowledge of how these arias sound sung by many other singers with good technique and a feel for these pieces, especially those singers many who were past their prime and started to retire from the opera stages in the 1980s, and maybe continued to sing some rectials or concerts. Caballe, Callas, sutherland, Sills and dare I say it even Renee Fleming sound much better singing these types of roles and arias than Diane Darmu. Does anyone know for sure what is wrong with her? and hear what one is missing
I got a bad feeling already with the first note (why the portamento?) and unfortunately it got progressively worse. Diana's voice is developing a wobble, she's also off beat quite often, not to mention the overall dry, whiny sound. This recording doesn't do justice to this beautiful piece of music. Luckily we have Marina Rebeka's wonderful version.
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I love how Damrau uses her arms to bring a visual dimension to the placing of her voice. It is beautiful x
Teapot 21 thank you so much 😘 xxx
Braaaaavo diana damrau is a wonderful sopran
Awesome Diana Damrau, Merci !!
Wow... Wonderful... From Brazil 🇧🇷
I can’t believe we have to wait until October for the whole album. We have suffered enough this year 😂
I listen to this everyday, sometimes twice. Moved and inspired for rest of the day
thank you
Bravissima!
She is just awesome! So beautiful!!
Bravi.
I often see evil comments on yt about Diana Damrau... those writting those comments are heartless and have no sence of Art Diana is a Goddess Amazing!!!!! Not just an opera singer but a full artist and performer. I love her!!!!!!
STAN A QUEEN🥺❤️✨
LOUDER!!!!!
Gracias ...
Performance fantástica!!!
Alguns conseguem fazer tecnicamente bem...
Outros se apresentam artisticamente bem...
Diana Damrau vai além disso: ela "espiritualiza"!
Alguns cantores ou cantoras cantam para uma plateia de "intelectuais" ouvir...
Outros cantam para o Universo inteiro ouvir...
Diana Damrau canta sempre como se estivesse falando com Deus!!!!
Sem parâmetros de comparação com ninguém.
Ela usa o vibrato para transformar o timbre de sua voz numa fonte dos melhores sentimentos.
Ela é simplesmente incrível!!!!!
amazing
Wunderschön❤️
She was supposed to sing Maria Stuarda at the Met in 2020 but covid hit and theaters were dark would have loved to see her
This is absolutely stunning.
Amazing! Her body language demonstrates the beauty of this aria. This is how Bel Canto should be sung.
You are the best recording audio studio
😭
This is awesome
as we know, Stuarda is one of Donizetti's masterpeice. and ofcourse Damrau is our generation's precious belcanto singer.
I'm so glad that I can see and listen her Preghiera here. I can not wait to see her other Tudor Queens such as Bolena and Elisabetta, scenes and the full album!
now I'm waiting for her "ah se un giorno..." recordings! cause we know she already recorded "nella pace" scene befor! 😉 YAS QUEEN!
2:00
DIANANANANANANAN
❤️✨
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Cada vez más se va perdiendo el sonido orgánico en las grabaciones de ópera :( se escucha la voz como aparte de la orquesta.
I am a little bit apprehensive for this new album. I cannot deny Diana Damrau's commitment to her art. However, after what I have seen in her recent performances as Maria Stuarda in Berlin, Violetta at the Met, and Ophelie also here in Berlin, her super top notes are going to go under serious, serious scrutiny, as it seems like she no longer has them. This does not help that Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, and Elisabetta I are roles designated for a dramatic coloratura soprano and Diana Damrau is far from being a dramatic coloratura soprano, but I could still salute her for bravely giving these queens a go in this new release. She is more of a lyric soprano disguising herself as a coloratura soprano because she was once upon a time really well-known as The Queen of the Night but transitioned to singing Pamina after her final Queen at The Met in 2007, which was a sign of things to come of where her voice was really going to in the lyric route and not the coloratura route. Even when looking back at some of her performances a few years back, a lot of her top notes ended up sounding like glorified squeaks and not like what they used to sound like back in the late 1990s to early to mid-2000s where the voice got heavier in the 2010s. It also did not help that she cancelled some performances such as Marguerite de Valois in Paris and Marguerite from Faust in London as well as Berlin only to be replaced by Lisette Oropesa and Mandy Fredrich plus Irina Lungu and Nicole Car in Berlin respectively. At least when she did Contessa Almaviva and has an upcoming Countess Madeleine from Capriccio in the works, I can see that she is someone who should endeavor to head towards the lyric soprano repertoire with roles such as Liu, Micaela, Arabella, Melisande, Charpentier's Louise, Blanche de la Force, Rachel from La Juive, Mimi, Concepción from Ravel's L'Heure Espagnol, Ellen Orford, and Nedda from Pagliacci and not the Bel Canto roles she still attempts to perform.
She has said in interviews as much - she is really a light lyric with coloratura facility. But she sang coloratura repertoire for years and years -zerbinetta, Aminta from die schweigsame Frau, Qotn, etc, ultra high roles that were always going to affect the chords negatively if that is not where the voice naturally sat. There’s no way she’s heavy enough for the full lyric/light spinto roles you mention - she’s left it far too late to transition to another repertoire if that is the plan.
I concur. Her singing is beginning to be more labored. This happens to the best of them (listen to the disaster Anna Netrebko has become). Often, this is due to labels or management pushing artists to do rep that is not really right for them.
Daniel Hughes Netrebko was never one of “the best of them” so that’s a horrible example. She is as messy and tasteless now as she was a decade ago. The only difference is now her supermodel looks are going away.
All That said, Damrau was at one point a true talent and one that I really enjoyed. But, Now, she needs to take a break and focus on reconditioning her voice and technique if she doesn’t want to end up voiceless and without a career. She’s certainly not old enough to need retirement and she should just now be going into real vocal prime. It’s sad really she shouldn’t be having this much trouble as she hasn’t really pushed her voice that much.
Im so glad there still are people who hear what I hear. She's a wounderful artist no question. I sincerely hope someone in the field whom she trusts and respects tells her what we are hearing.
RECITATIVOS
Na ópera Maria Stuarda, de Donizetti, vem a ária
Deh! tu di un umile, com os recitativos de prece.
Espalhe um véu sobre eventos dolorosos. A área
Espiritual é bem sutil, pois realidade transparece.
A transparência ou a clarividência dos fatos vem
À tona, revelando o que nós trazemos no íntimo.
A prece vem antecedida pelos atos que fervem
Em nossa mente, optando-nos em manter ânimo.
Os tempos da pandemia são tempos redobrados
Para espalhar um véu sobre os eventos dolorosos
Fazendo todos ao nosso redor sentir-se amados.
A egrégora, que congrega os pensamentos, traz
O clima favorável no ambiente, ficamos vigorosos
Realçando o que prevalece pra todos nós é a paz. (*)
(*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - RECITATIVOS (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.
How long does Diana hold that note while the company sings?
Essa ópera dá um sentimento mesmo de salvação mesmo a gente indo a condenação
What's with all the arm motion? Is that a new way of singing? Does Damrau use all of this motion on stage? I see that some enjoy all the arm-waving. Sorry, but I'm not a fan. It detracts from the music, IMO.
It sounds like Damrau is at least ten years too late in recording this repertoire. The voice has gotten heavy and to my ear has pitch problems. It's too bad that things were more ideal as this music receives little attention these days. It's still hard to top Sills/Sutherland/Caballe - even Gruberova in these works.
I totally agree. I'm sure it's a distraction from the fact that she's really not that great a singer!!
They are recording a CD and this seems to help her phrasing. Of course she does not do this during live performances! You take great pleasure in your very negative critique. What conductor would allow those hand gestures during a live stage performance? Please think.
You're the stupidest person I've ever seen. It a studio recording She can move how ever she what's, it's not a stage!
@@friedrichwilhelmnietzsche8950 You've never seen me. Just saying...
@@mgbsecteacher Whatever...
Assoluta! Brava, brava, brava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She was able to hold out the long held soft note, but it almost sounded like their was no soul or passion in it, and that it would collapse at any moment, but at the end of sustained note the high note she went up to screeched.
A girlish voice timbrally with a huge wobble. So sad to hear.
So many great singers end up uglifying their voice with these huge wobble with age or having been some time at the top... Is that due to overabuse and lack of care and practice once they are at the top? Look at what happened to Netrebko... And she is not even 50!
If you could learn to tell the difference between a wobble and a vibrato you’d do everybody a favor
Albert Baulies Pérez it can be due to many things. One is that the Vocal chord’s do indeed slacken with age - it’s a soft tissue after all, and we know what happens to skin. However, if it happens prematurely, then it is usually due to abuse of the chords as you say - lack of support, over exertion in roles which are too heavy, or a host of other issues.
Vous avez raison : c'est moche. Pourtant les interprétations qui auraient pu la faire réfléchir avant de tenter l'aventure ne manquent pas : Gencer, Baker, Di Donato, Radvanovsky...
Even the conducting is off ... no bel canto is coming thru in this recording. I’d say it rather late (for Damrau) to endeavor the Three Queens, I cannot see how she can even attempt the remaining two
Ron Ronizetti Thank you so much, Damrau’s voice doesn’t flow, and thise little low note phrases of no no no or whatever at around :47 never sounded so bad. Even her c c c, sounded uninspired.
Surprised by the amount of laudatory comments. This is the worst Preghiera I've heard.
lora layons Thank you. The singing on this album is horrible. It even sounds like she has a wobble. She has a very shakey annoying vibrato too. Even Callas whose voice wasn’t always that pretty, sounded so much better in this music, atleast Callas would savor the words, and enunciate and sing with expression, feeling, and emotional intelligence. Listening to this performance of Diane Darmu is painful, almost every words and phrase she sings sounds the same. Another one of these younger singers, who are heavily marketed with glamour photos, but is seriously lacking in technique and is either singing the wrong repertoire, or is already in serious vocal decline, but these roles have been sung by coloraturas before. All one would have to do is listen to Caballe’s recordings of some of these arias from these operas to tell what is missing from this video. With Caballe you would here near perfect technique, extraordinary breath control, legato, and her voice would pronounce the words as easy as speaking, with expression, and then take the high notes with great ringing beauty as well as her soft floated pianissimos. Diana however sounds like she is trying to warble through each aria, bringing a cringing pain to her listeners who have any discernment, taste, or basic knowledge of how these arias sound sung by many other singers with good technique and a feel for these pieces, especially those singers many who were past their prime and started to retire from the opera stages in the 1980s, and maybe continued to sing some rectials or concerts. Caballe, Callas, sutherland, Sills and dare I say it even Renee Fleming sound much better singing these types of roles and arias than Diane Darmu. Does anyone know for sure what is wrong with her?
and hear what one is missing
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I got a bad feeling already with the first note (why the portamento?) and unfortunately it got progressively worse. Diana's voice is developing a wobble, she's also off beat quite often, not to mention the overall dry, whiny sound. This recording doesn't do justice to this beautiful piece of music. Luckily we have Marina Rebeka's wonderful version.
Ma esattamente cosa mima con le mani in alto. È una preghiera non la scena della pazzia della Lucia si Lammermore
Direzione indegna con altrettanto indegna cantante
She used to be good...
I totally agree with you !!!
She is bad