She not only performs with PERFECTION. She also acts each role she sings with PERFECTION. You don't get that in a lot of opera singers male or female.

I love Diana Damrau 🥰, the way each note is sung so precisely is amazing, god gave people voices shame!!!!!

Happy Birthday dear Diana !!!

Meravigliosa, unica Diana!

Every Aria is interpreted as the artist feels it. It's like a painting, opera is not just about singing it is about how you feel the piece she is drawing a painting with her voice, and she is free to do it. Once, you have such great talent you can do that. She must feel the music and one emotion is not like the other. I bet those people who come here just for the sake of critic don't even know how to apreciate a masterpiece.

@James-sh7kx

5 жыл бұрын

It's not about emotion you tone-deaf moron. It's just we can all tell her so called "acting" is induced by her own laughable constricted vocal "technique". She literally sings every single aria in such manner.

wonderful!!!!

sublime.

Fantástico..obrigado.

I saw her years ago perform Lucia at The Met Opera. It was the most amazing performance I ever saw in my life (I also saw Natalie Dassey in this role live). Diana forever became my favorite opera singer, I still get goosebumps when I recall her incredible performance, her voice and acting.

@tylerpanar9396

6 ай бұрын

Eva Lind was also wonderful at her Basel appearance in the 1980ies

I think Damrau nails it. Her "acting" is her style. It separates her from your run-of-mill, technically perfect soprano. Although her technical skill is nothing to sneeze at! She has amazing power and range. I find her very entertaining. And I love the over-the-top histrionics! This is what opera should be!

@James-sh7kx

5 жыл бұрын

Good. It shows Diana's fans are watching music, not listening to music.

@avatar666666

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes she looks like she's orgasming while singing. Just watch her Arie di Bravura.

@minjunpark7032

Жыл бұрын

@@James-sh7kx Well, the “opera” is a comprehensive art. Opera singers must act well, not only sing well. Diana of course, she sings well, and her acting is impressing our fans. I don’t know how professional you are in Opera music, but you need to think about that :) Because I became an opera fan since I saw her amazing act in . And of course I agree that there are some repatories which go well with her voice, and some others don’t. But I love Diana, and you cannot say that simply about fans of Diana.

Perfection, as always. Thank you, dear Diana. 🤍

lol, it's hard to not get into character while singing this one... Great fun, great performance!

just amazing !!!

Wundervoll.

Wunderbare Stimme.

love this! ;)

Grandiosa !!!

The only Lucia who can compete with Joan Sutherland - and this time with the original glass harmonica! Out of this world!

@markdonnelly9443

9 жыл бұрын

Beverly Sills is spectacularly better in this opera than Damrau will ever be. Sutherland had vocal power but mushed her way through many passages. No one had the heartbreaking articulation, speed and agility of Sills...plus the glorious beauty of her instrument.

@markdonnelly9443

9 жыл бұрын

HA! Silly person.

@henriquepinto2417

9 жыл бұрын

Manoli Stavrinakis Damrau has issues and many limitations.

@markdonnelly9443

9 жыл бұрын

Very nice, but I have problems with Damrau, all of which are on display here. Beverly Sills version is still the gold standard, Dame Joan second.

@minjunpark7032

Жыл бұрын

Well I think music is on people’s taste. You can say who is better in this repertory in technical way, but I hope you guys do not rank them. All singers are best in their own way :)

Fantastic ✌❤❤❤❤

glorious

I like her as the Queen of the night,there she is breathtaking!

Fantastic interpretation from Diana. Beautiful voice, as usual.

So awesome. It's beautiful.

She has reinvented the definition of the word diva!

Vivat Romania 😉! from Estonia!

@selini52

4 жыл бұрын

Beau Mont why?

MARAVILLOSA EJECUCION

Her voice and technic are un comprable. Perfect crescendo and amazing pianissimos.

👏👏👏👏❤️

Diana IS and will be remembered as one of the greatest sopranos of our time, very likely one of the best in history. Stop criticising her individual approach and personality. Her singing is superb and she's in command of her instrument and the performance

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

She tried to be something she is not. Her top is screechy and her middle is unattractive with a huge wobble. The entire instrument suffered. Not only is she not one of the greatest, she was mediocre at best in her time. She is already quickly slipping into the past as someone who sang opera and not for any remarkable contribution she made to singing or opera.

wow shes gotta be the best soprano for many years...im stunned by her

finalmente il glassofono

brava considerably good

SUBLIME AUSSI CRISTALINE QUE LES VERRES §§§

O DOCE SOM A ária do 3º Ato Mad Scene - Il dolce suono, da ópera Lucia di Lammermoor, de Donizetti, traz a personagem Lucia que se apresenta no palco com um vestido opala Longo, branco, ensanguentado, vislumbrando a visagem Surgindo em sua direção e, diante de seus companheiros Do elenco, enfatiza: Ohimè, sorge il tremendo fantasma e ne separa! Lucia relembra os encontros alvissareiros Com o amado, junto a uma fonte. Surge o ectoplasma Comprovando a existência de almas errantes. A amável Lembrança do passado e as intrigas que de lá persistem. O amor vivenciado na fonte e a perseguição implacável. A Covid - 19 traz a reflexão do viver por nós apresentado Nos sonhos que são as mensagens de amor que existem Na simplicidade que nos traz o doce som acalentado. (*) (*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - O DOCE SOM (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.

Ardon gl’incensi... Splendon le sacre faci, splendon intorno. Ecco il ministro! Porgimi la destra... Oh lieto giorno! Alfin son tua, alfin sei mio, a me ti dona un Dio.

Anyone knows the instrument with glass tubes and wine glasses?

@jimp4170

2 жыл бұрын

yes

@angelauska

2 жыл бұрын

@Jacinta Acon It's a glass harp

@Elfenohr

Жыл бұрын

As @Angelauska said, it's a glass harp which serves a specific function in this scene. Not only does it have an eerie sound but glass instruments were said to induce madness in both those playing and hearing them. (Some suggest this may be because glass used to be produced with lead which can poison and irrevocably damage your brain.) That's why it is heard when Lucia di Lammermoor has completely lost her mind after murdering her husband

It's part of the current way of approaching opera that everybody needs to show how hard they are acting. I can't help feel that this is a bit overboard for Lucia's delirium, Lucia is supposed to be mad but she imagining what a joy her wedding should have been. This is just a bit too laboured. Calleja is the star for gripping the drama in that long last scene after Lucia has finished going bonkers and died.

@James-sh7kx

5 жыл бұрын

She sings like this in every single aria, even "Caro Nome" trollol. Leave opera if she really is so into Hollywood.

@selini52

4 жыл бұрын

James she acts this way and how could you sing this aria staying stiff?

@YortOK

2 жыл бұрын

The vocal line must come first. Pedantic histrionics are useless and it's why only the greatest singing actors are celebrated as such.

Great singer- but- i agree- it's a little like … Offenbach operetta...

Di solito Lucia è più dolce e tenera, la pazzia è più incentrata sul matrimonio.

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

With a voice as ugly as that what is there to expect?

Nice - with misgivings - Sills is better and far more heartbreaking.

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

You're generous. I wouldn't even call it nice.

Lovely voice, but that tempo seems very slow to me.

@henriquepinto2417

9 жыл бұрын

Bill Carr Because she is heavy and has no agility.

@Kaletiel

8 жыл бұрын

+Bill Carr Actually, that part isn't supposed to be fast. The original glass harmonica is a rather sensitive instrument, and the virtuoso parts were not sung as fast as today in the time. This is why today most conductors choose a verrophone instead.

@krowapaulinka4351

8 жыл бұрын

+Henrique Pinto I am sorry, no agility? Have you listened to her CD Arie di bravura? This is I think the greatest show of her agility. The arias there are practically all passages, coloraturas, staccato... How could a voice with no agility sing those? You need help, sir.

@billcarr54

8 жыл бұрын

I didn't say it was supposed to be fast, just not as slow as she's singing. But it's a matter of taste, and I'm accustomed to hearing Sutherland so no one matches her. BTW, rabid Callas fans, don't bother......

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

​@@krowapaulinka4351Listen to real coloraturas: Hoch, Peters, Oropesa and Damrau's faults will be abundantly clear

Give it up--No one can compete with Dame Joan.

OMG! Not the best by a country mile!

¡OH NO!, DESTAZÓ A LUCÍA D:

@henriquepinto2417

7 жыл бұрын

Completely!

Lach hat leider nicht die Stimme dafür

wackadoodle ...

Seems everyone commenting on this thread ie. her voice knows nothing about opera.

Why trying to make it so intense, all is in the music already! She doesn't sound mad, she sounds like the doll in the Tales of Hoffmann. Pity, right voice, wrong interpretation.

@James-sh7kx

5 жыл бұрын

She's always intense in every single aria. It tells you it's more than just so-called "acting". It's her vocal-tensing issue.

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

Wrong voice period. As soon as she started singing I cringed

@hervevincentyakasa

6 ай бұрын

​@@davidalbro2009 Same

@nonzky357

4 ай бұрын

@davidmarlboro or however uncall urself. So y the F listen and watch? Get a life.

what remarkably bad influence Natalie Dessay has been to opera, every Lucia now has to "act" crazy, and this is only a concert I can only imagine the circus atmosphere of Damrau on stage. In opera it's the voice that tells the story and there should be very little distraction. And it's not even good acting, as a matter of fact it stinks. As for the voice, it's there but why all this scooping? I hear very little precision and lack of focus.

@The_Barefoot_Bass

9 жыл бұрын

tklogan t What is she supposed to do then? Stay as a wooden doll? Of course she acts. Your opinion of opera is very old fashioned.

@kyungsoosmoles

9 жыл бұрын

tklogan t Lol, How is it Dessay's fault that others can't act?

@elizabethveron9542

5 жыл бұрын

@Caracol Col Col lol,be careful to your grammar,both of them have beautiful voices but different type of voices

Doesnt do anything for me. After Callas nothing does....

tasteless like always. and top note screamed.

@willthebest1

3 жыл бұрын

I take it that you are extremely jealous!

@vitabella6481

3 жыл бұрын

If you dont like a meal in a restaurant are you jealous? What a stupid suggestion...I guess surchoix has more idea of opera than you. Thats it.

@willthebest1

3 жыл бұрын

@@vitabella6481 start chewing with real teeth, then you will taste good food instead of your denture paste! Best wishes to you and surchoix! 😊

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

Thank You! Damrau is a relentless screamer and so many people love it!

On second - and third hearing - it's actually a little boring.

6:10 se devi prendere la ricorsa (con un gorgheggi oltretutto orribile) per arrivare a quell'acuto, meglio che lasci perdere Lucia, visto che negli allunghi in basso hai spezzato più volte la linea di canto, in alcuni punti hai parlato anziché cantare, e che smorzi le mote che vanno in appoggio. Non fa per te.

I am embarrassed for her .

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

Did you see the comment above about "maybe one of the best of all time". 😂 At best she was mediocre for her own time

Какой кошмар

Chi l'ha consigliata?Tutta calante.Terribile.

A ridiculous singing and acting in a Concert Hall !!!!!! Even with STAGING the Mad-scene is never done this way!!!! Facial expression would have been enough ! There is NO italian tradition, No SENSE in what she is doing! I cannot find adequate words for this Mickymaus performance! A remarkable Coductor would have NEVER gone on stage with her....I know that times have changed..for the worse...and some audiences are applauding such singers like her and Netrebko and Co... because some really cannot identify anymore between GOOD and BAD.. All is PR...and Self-Show.. POOR DONIZETTI.......

@MonsieurLu77

9 жыл бұрын

Bibi Johns Bravo for your comment!

@felicerosso2223

9 жыл бұрын

Bibi Johns i like her voice but you are right!

@billcarr54

8 жыл бұрын

+Bibi Johns I don't much like her voice or her version of this either.

@paudiazt

6 жыл бұрын

honey, when you learn the aria you learn the mimic too, and of course this is the song of a mad person, you are seeing a neurotic crisis. Her voice is amazing, you can enjoy or not mimics but to say this is bad....you have no idea my dear

@adam3d851

5 жыл бұрын

Who are you to tell the masses what's good or bad? Yes things can change, it's called Evolution.

It's good. But Lucia is grieving and angry. This sounds a little like "oh look, Lucia's lost her marbles." Diana is a wonderful soprano, but she puts to much pressure on the emotion of the song. Tone it down...just a little.

Moving her arms shoulders and head is detrimental. The vocal line must come first and if you can't feel the role in that alone all other histrionics are pedantic nonsense.

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@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

Her technique is awful. Just listen to her voice. (And you can see the ridiculous constrictions in her face which destroyed the whole apparatus)

I'm just not feeling it. Diana's one of the best sopranos, but not suited for the role of Lucia.

@davidalbro2009

6 ай бұрын

This fach was her whole career. 😂 If she can't sing this well she can't sing anything well. (Surprise, surprise she can't.)

Bibi Johns : Thank you for your comments. Why ? Why these very distracting concert histrionics ? I saw a soprano do a "cartwheel" after singing an aria during a CONCERT. Conductors are definitely guilty for letting this happen, but the audience that reinforces this embarrassment with not only applause but "Bravos". ( It's worse than "booing"! )

@MrGottlanze

3 жыл бұрын

You can't understand? Its just because you are totally out of place.

@cliffgaither

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrGottlanze ~~ Oscar, may I use "Oscar" ? You're right ! My opinion _is_ out of place ; out of time, space, era. People are accepting the lesser of opera, like the lesser of two politicians :: Good, youthful looks from the singers, but not necessarily great voices. Heavily microphoned singers. Extreme histrionics as a diversion from not-so-great vocalism. ( Beyonce :: great light-show ; costumes ; dancing ? or just hip-gyrations ; background voices & dancers -- all a distraction from a "mediocre", microphoned voice. ) Technology & techniques to dazzle, bewitch, bother & bewilder. _It's all working !_

Ridiculous overacting (as always by Damrau) with no contribution to what’s the dramatic content of the scene is. She has a better voice than many contemporary sopranos, but a lack of melodic flow in the high notes. Here it isn’t actually Legato, but in general Legato certainly isn’t her strong side