The youngest person since Mozart to conduct her own opera! That’s incredible

@Nooticus

Жыл бұрын

Is this true? It could be true but im curious what your source is?!

@mathildewesendonck7225

Жыл бұрын

@@Nooticusit was said in the trailer of this performance

@mathildewesendonck7225

Жыл бұрын

And I‘m pretty sure that not many other teenagers have written an opera at age ten, and conducted it themselves a few years later. I‘m an opera nerd and know quite many works, but I can’t think of anyone else but Mozart and Alma who has accomplished this

@autumnleaves2766

10 ай бұрын

@@mathildewesendonck7225 It's definitely true. Alma really did become the youngest person since Mozart to conduct the premiere of her own opera. What a club to be in, eh ? I know Alma doesn't like being compared to Mozart, but the fact is she is a genius and we are lucky to have her in the world right now.

We are lucky to be alive at this time to witness such wonders! Thank you, Alma:)

@annettedebie901

Жыл бұрын

She is a gift to the world and I am glad for the technology to follow her on u tube. Yes thank you Alma

@custommusic2433

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing she is just such an amazing musical genius! So happy and what she does and so passionate, and so happy again always because she just exudes happiness with her personality and her music! We are very lucky and should be inspired!

As she wished as a child, she is not the second Mozart, she is the first Alma! Beautiful, Courageous, uplifting music and words - I don't usually like many operas, but I love this!!

We are all so Blessed. Hope this is the beginning of humanity return to sanity and beauty and love and peace.

@mathildewesendonck7225

Жыл бұрын

So well said. Or as Dostoyevsky put it: „Beauty will save the world“

Thank you, Alma. Acts 3 and 4 were as wonderful as 1 and 2! Never have I seen a conductor more passionate than you. How can an 18-year-old girl make an old man laugh and cry in the same opera? Helen was as delightful as last time. Congratulations to you both.

This is... by far... the BEST performance i have seen in over a decade. Now all we need is a spotify release for this.. and then the dream shall be accomplished. Thank you Alma and everyone, including your parents who support you in this endeavour. Please continue releasing these kinds of thigs and give us a spotify album with these songs!! please!! -With love from Washington state

Congratulations to Alma and everyone ! It was a real pleasure to discover this new production of Cinderella !

So oft ich mir die Oper in Briefmarkengröße auf meinem Handy ansehe, berührt sie mich. Die Melodien, die Worte, die Instrumente, das Dirigat, die phantastische Hauptdarstellerin- Sternstunde der Musik. Und der absolute Knaller ist für mich immer wieder der vierteAkt, vom ersten Ton an. Das packt mich, in seiner virtuos komischen Dramatik, mein Hund liegt neben mir und wundert sich, weil ich so lache!!! Danke, geliebte Alma Deutscher

My teeths hurt from clutching them in a grin for two hours straight. This already feels like a real classic for the generations to come. Besides all obvious praise to Alma, what an extraordinary stage production. The cast, all those little quirks, just brilliant. My family will see Alma in Vienna in September and we are all already so excited. All the best to everyone involved in this.

@louisegogel7973

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is fun and brought a smile to me as well, but without any ache because had to listen in several sessions. One tiny spelling note, if you remove the S from teeth it gives: one tooth two or more teeth lol

@katsii1

3 ай бұрын

u are so Lucky, Vienna and Alma!!!

Congratulations, Alma. You are genius. It's hard to find someone with this type of natural talent.

Classical music that sounds good ! Just when I thought it didn't exist anymore ! Thank you Maestra !

Astonishing work! I would not have thought such an opera possible in the 21st century. Masterful writing through and through! Brava!

What an outstanding, extraordinary, genius Alma is! She's taken a familiar story and put an unusual spin on it. To compose an opera in four acts displays a mastery of large forms. Her conducting is precise and she passionately draws out interpretive expression from the orchestra. The orchestra has been well-rehearsed and plays wonderfully. Particularly interesting is a virtuoso-level trumpet obbligato that happens a few times. The singing is very fine. It seems that all of the singers have magnificent voices. Musically, there is a lot of musical humor with references to other operas. This young composer is a genius of historical proportions.

Thank you Alma for this lovely opera; the culmination of many years of hard work and a divine talent. The cast and production team and you and the orchestra made this production really special. The arias were definitely grand opera and the casting wonderful. Loved the witty plot.

@catherinejones9396

Жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this Alma. Your whole conceptualisation of this work is quite outstanding. Your arias are playing in my head over and over. Thank you. Please follow your own dream right to its end, and you will trigger many other hopes and dreams for many many other humans.

Just watched both parts of Alma's opera Cinderella. Thanks so much for uploading it to You Tube so that more of us can enjoy it. An outstanding work, I am running out of superlatives to describe it. An opera which Alma wrote as a pre-teen and I imagine she has since revised it a little too. At times we hear Mozartian melodies, at other times the orchestrations remind me of Tchaikovsky, at other times there is even a Wagnerian quality to the music. But Alma is not imitating the great composers, she is bringing her own unique gift for composing melodies as well as some great inventiveness too. The arias are superb, memorable melodies that will not grow tired with time. The orchestration is gorgeous, a joy to hear. I was impressed with the quality of all the singers too and the costumes and stage sets were also beautiful. It was lovely to see Alma's sister Helen involved, a gifted musician in her own right. I don't know whether Helen composes too. ROH Covent Garden needs to run this wonderful opera for Christmas and New Year season, encouraging families to attend because children would love the story, such a clever adaptation of the original Cinderella. As an eight year old girl I played the Ugly Stepmother in the school pantomime version of this classic tale, and it has always been close to my heart. Both my older sister and I compose, albeit in very different styles. My sister started to write music at an early age, including a string quartet, ragtime-style pieces, music for a school play and a setting of a Christmas carol and she carried on into adulthood but has struggled to get inspired in more recent times. I'm a dedicated amateur improvising jazz pianist who plays by ear and cannot read music and I am coming up with some American Songbook-style compositions in recent years, inspired by the likes of Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin and others. So my sister and I are much lower down on that hierarchy of creativity that leads upwards to the greats of classical music and jazz. Alma, at just 18 years of age, is at the top of the ladder. However, for we mere mortals, her music is incredibly inspiring. It is truly great music and there is going to be tons more of it to enjoy over the coming decades. So it inspires us all in our own creative endeavours. I played a piece of mine before an audience a few days ago and it received positive feedback. Alma's genius and creativity definitely inspires me to do more with my own abilities in music, and also art and perhaps even writing too, which I have tried in the past. Cinderella really is a triumph and I hope to see it live one day. More opera houses need to bring it into their repertoire. A huge thank you to Alma. I trust that she and her family are well and enjoying life in Vienna.

Beautiful, thank you 🙏

Fantastic! Thank you for allowing us to enjoy this for free!

Alma you know you are a genius. This opera is getting better all the time.

​Awesome Masterpiece 10/10

Stunning! Just adored it, esp the interaction between the King & Alma, Hokey Cokey, elves etc, lovely to see Helen. Huge well done to all, what a joy! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 💐❤👑💜👑❤💐

A small tribute to the magic flute with the lovely choirs of elves 😊💕 Helen is doing great at both roles.

@mathildewesendonck7225

Жыл бұрын

I also noted a tribute to Wagner’s „Meistersinger“ (the theme at the beginning of the singing competition). Love it!!

@ulrichraisch3437

9 ай бұрын

@@mathildewesendonck7225 : Many Tributes To Famous Composers !

Wie wunderschön!

full of beauty and wit. What a performance!

It just keeps getting better!

This is a lovely musical fantasy world Alma has created. I can hear the magic

Most beautiful opera. Thank you, Miss Alma. I 💗 the changes in the story and the music was so lovely. If I have the chance to see this live, it will be awesome. 🎉

> Danke, Alma! Du hast uns gezeigt, dass man auch im 21. Jahrhundert noch eine "melodische" Oper schreiben kann, die sich erfrischend (und für unsere Ohren wohltuend) von all den atonalen Werken anderer Komponisten abhebt. > Thank you, Alma! You have shown us that even in the 21st century, it is still possible to write a "melodic" opera that stands out refreshingly (and soothing to our ears) from all the atonal works of other composers.

Can't believe how much the words, music and production have been enhanced still further, since the original. This is clearly a work of love on your part, Alma. Thank you, thank you!

Well done Alma on this production. A teenage composer & musician producing a n Opera like this in the 21st C is wondeful. I'll have watch from the start again. Keep up the excellent composing.

Where is the heart button?!?!!! I love the story and the songs and the funny bits and the cast and crew!

Treat of treats, bliss!! ❤🎉❤🎉❤

Congratulations, Alma! The cast, chorus, orchestra, all highly talented! Your creation is enchanting. I hope many children will see it and be enriched in their souls. Thank you for posting. Your sister is beautiful, too! Keep on keeping on, we are praying for you to continue to bring God's beauty to this world.

Alma is much more than a wonderfull composer. For the first time I understand the deeper meaning of the fairytale Cinderella. Thank you Alma❤

@andredelacerdasantos4439

Ай бұрын

Yes, Alma pierces through the meaning of this age old tale like cinnamon on a winter night

Greetings from Turku, Finland. Congratululations 25:54

I loved every minute! Thank you very much - Whish to see it live one day, its so lovely done too with so much detail in costumes and scenery😊

What a great talent. To write such beautiful music in this youth! I'm very impressed and lucke to listen this opera. The new and fresh old style is living!

DANKE für dieses großartige Geschenk von Herzen !

❤❤❤❤❤ Oh how deliciously fun and wonderful… and to see Helen in there too.!

She’s unquestionably one of this century’s geniuses. Bless her and her music ❤❤❤

I am go grateful to be able to watch this here in New Zealand. What wonderful music and a magnificent production. Alma, your conducting was out of this world. Thank you for this.

Wonderful

You're a very conductor as well. 😊 I love the nod to Mozart in a couple places.

Thank you so much Alma for sharing with us your masterpiece! I like both versions of it, the changes you’ve made in the second one are interesting…. Bravo Alma!!🎉🎉🎉

Just watched part 2 of this impressive opera. It has a great story, beautiful music and it is really great to be able to watch this opera while it is conducted by the composer herself. Hopefully soon it will be possible to watch her new opera as I am very curious

I'm in love with the anthem of the land. The whole opera is a masterpiece.

SO beautyful! Thank you so much Alma!!!

This is the most incredible thing I've seen all year! Well done Alma! This was absolutely fun to watch! Thank you for making this accessible to everyone!

Absolutely loved this opera..the romantic world created by Miss Alma...so incredibly portrayed by the singing, the acting, the beautiful costumes, the gorgeous scenery and lighting..all to this incredible music composed by Miss Alma!!! Laughter, tears, goosebumps, joy, happiness...Thank you Opera Company for believing in Miss Alma by performing her opera!!! And to all those behind the scenes who helped make this performance a success!!!!

*Alma Deutscher...WELL DONE...*

Was für eine großartige musikalische Botschaft ! Ich habe es geliebt .Dieses Werk von einem jungen Mädchen komponiert gibt wirklich Hoffnung . Schein Heiliger liebes Strahl ! Wenn Hoffnung erwacht entflieht die Nacht ! Hell strahlt die Welt im Glanz der Liebe, tönt bis ans Sternenzelt unser Liebestraum ! Von Herzen danke liebe Alma ❤möge Deine Musik viele Herzen öffnen und Hoffnung geben 🌟🌍🌟🌏🌟🌎🌟

Such a great work.🎉

We have watched whole opera with my wife this Sunday. It was really beautiful, I would say conservative and yet very fresh work of art! Bellissima direttore d'orchestra!

Acompanho a Alma a mais de 10 anos...sem palavras para expressar tamanha emoção. Fico tão feliz por ela ter disponibilizado esta magnífica obra aqui no youtube. Se não fosse isto jamais poderia ver. Parabéns Alma.

MERVEILLEUX EXTRAORDINAIRE GÉNIAL

Thank Alma for sharing this beautiful art piece on you tube for us who were not able to assist Prima in the opera! You great, generou person who realy make the world a better place!

Happy she has chosen the classical harmony... beautiful

Thankyou Alma for a work to lift the spirit for sure, and THAT's what it's all about.

I dreamt I was stuck in school with no shoes, they weren't even to be found in the lost and found! I had to walk home barefoot and it sure wasn't nice. When I awoke, I searched for the symbolism of shoes and, of course, Cinderella was at the top of the list. Shoes are a symbol of status and to be barefoot can be humiliating. Being shoeless is also a symbol of humility and of a deep spiritual connection. Cinderella by Alma Deutscher is, somehow, deeply elevating and humbling. Alma's achievement is so spectacular, people almost forget she is a woman! And as befit them, Alma and Natalia Santaliz shook the world by giving it one of the grandest narratives in the most beautiful of ways, proving again that woman are just as good, if not better, than any men idealized as semi-gods in any field. It certainly is an incredible time to be alive to witness woman like them take the lead in redefining what classical music can become!!

I've waited so long to watch this opera! Thank you so much, Alma! It's simply beautiful 💞

Wow this work is amazing...... I wish music was appreciated more in the part of the world but all the same i love this work @amal am your biggest fan from Nigeria ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you Alma for posting this ❤❤❤

Thanks for the traslations. Love it, best regards from Argentina!

Alma has been blessed with breath-taking New Golden Age Divine Talent for all to see... Humanity is moving out if darkness into LIGHT... and My God's Pure Love Bless Us All..

Alma you are truly a gifted wonder in the enthusiasm and shear Joy that you are able to to give us with your music.

I love it Alma! Keep being amazing 🙃

I find it very interesting to have the original version of the composer as a conductor together with the highest performance sound. If in the case of Mozart we only guess what he wrote and how he would have wanted it to sound, this time we know exactly what it is about. Thank you Elma.

Magnifique ! Bravo !

Simply amazing. Will definitely try to see you somewhere in Europe the years to come. Bravo !

Alma is the new Mozart of the music.

@hydrolito

Жыл бұрын

Who's the new Beethoven is that John Williams or someone else?

@hirtenhund1964

6 ай бұрын

Clara Schumann ;-)

This must be the funniest opera ever!

1:49 _"and _*_i_*_ can help him spend his money"_ I believe her!

Loved this so much. Masterpiece. Beautifully done❗️❗️❤️❤️

1:09:50 ...and Helen still nails that foot stomp 😎 moral of the story: don't mess with flower girls

LOVE 💖💖

Exceptionnel !!!! Thank you very much indeed !

watching from the Philippines!! congratulations Alma!!!

Thank you, Alma Deutscher, for this beautiful story and wonderful music. ❤

Bravo, Alma! Loved your Cinderella!

Fantastic! I wish i could be there and watch live!

Amazing work, amazing performance thanks to you Alma, good luck.

Une pure merveille !

She is just such an amazing musical genius! So happy in what she does and so passionate, and so happy again always because she just exudes happiness with her personality and her music! We are very lucky and should be inspired! I also praise her parents for having, raising and nurturing such an amazing human being! Thank you 🙏🌹

יופי, אלמה. תודה לך. Bravissimo!!!!!

Beautiful

I am amazed at the quality of this production! Alma, you are my new idol!

Extraordinary

That was a great performance! Somebody tie Stacey Tappan down. Seriously, though, these are each and every one incredibly talented singers and performers, and each in his and her own right has phenomenal gifts. This composition also puts those gifts to the test most marvelously! Not written on a napkin while eating at a diner. Bless your pea-pickin' heart, Alma Deutscher.

That was awesome! Thanks so much for sharing this!

Love the highly romantic Wagner- like sequence at about 58:00

absolut amazing thank you Alma for this great Cinderella

…such energy and vitality…

5:55 Slightly reminded of "Der Er Et Yndigt Land" ...

Incredible job

gorgeous

Lovely

Alma, your opera is great. I was surprised you didn’t use the song Cinderella wrote as the identifying melody (and song) that the Prince used to try and find her. That would have been even more special. More operas please! 😁

@vladzakrevsky1129

11 ай бұрын

Simply cause the song was stolen, and everyone at the ball heard it already 😊

@shermansmart4369

4 ай бұрын

The whole point of the story is that Cinderella isn't special simply because she has a tiny foot as in the original story and he is not special simply because he is a handsome prince. The beauty of his poem touched Cinderella deep in her soul and that melody she wrote touched the prince just as deeply. They are kindred souls.

Finding the lady by her melody is reminiscent of the legend of the minstrel Blondel singing to locate Richard I.

Does anyone know if the beginning takes inspiration from any classic operas? It just sounds so familiar to me

I feel the hokey cokey episode descends too far into banality even for the ugly sisters - but more importantly, for Alma. This should be re-written. Apart from that, the work is close to perfection.

English caption please!

@sadams12345678

Жыл бұрын

Click the cog wheel and select "English"

@bobupchurch1916

Жыл бұрын

@@sadams12345678 Neither part had subtitles available when they began. They became available later. I’ve now checked the 2 linked parts in AD’s playlist and everything works fine there. Thank you.

@louisegogel7973

Жыл бұрын

@@bobupchurch1916It is lovely and so helpful to have the captions on and be able to follow the words along the way!

@andredelacerdasantos4439

Ай бұрын

@@louisegogel7973 Yes, I cannot watch any opera by the old greats since I can't follow the words! It's truly a wonderful time to be alive!!