Royal Opera House, Please keep doing masterclasses such as this video! I have officially became a fan of Rachel Kelly! Bravo!

Mark Elder is just SO engaging . He makes everything so clear. Brilliant musical mind.

It is always healthy for a singer to be reminded of the essentials of the aria from a conductor's perspective. We have so much to cope with in one go - notes, rhythms, clean vocal technique, words, expression that sometimes basic things like arriving neatly on the beat so as to preserve the structure of the piece - which is what gives this aria its sparkle - can become slightly smudged. This is an enjoyable class with Mark Elder and the second half shows off Rachel Kelly's lovely voice.

What a beautiful voice! And a terrific performance too. I would happily listen to her sing the whole opera :)

Fantastic teacher and musician.

Thank you very much for great performance Appreciate you guys treat this masterpiece so very very very seriously This work is my all time favorite

Wow. Her voice is really warm and colorful.

Thank you Royal Opera House and Mark Elder for this most interesting and inspiring talk , I have enjoyed every minute and Rachel Kelly , what a beautiful voice and singer .

This is incredibly in-depth

Rachel Kelly is really lovely!!

A lovely tutorial

Rossini is the first composer whose music starts to sound modern, like a Broadway musical; it came as such a surprise to me that he is largely responsible for the whole belcanto romantic period in 19th century music, (along with Beethoven of course.)

she has a very beautiful, warm , clear and rounded voice, love it!

Such a cool video, Mark Elder is brilliant. No elitism going on with this cool man. Seen him sat in a public space working on scores and helping another conductor (I could here him pitching melodies. Found his perfect pitch astounding). Took time to speak to me once on the street and even crossed over a road to do it. This was when I worked at the home of the Halle. Made many fond memories of them all. Not many conductors that I met from other orchestras treated you as human.

@sherlockholmeslives.1605

8 жыл бұрын

I don't like Mark Elder! Despite the fact he is a big head. He is not that clever either!

@unabarry2476

6 жыл бұрын

I happen to know him and worked with him! Fabulous guy, and well liked in America too.

En México, los coaches de estos eventos son Lupillo Rivera, Espinoza Paz.

Wonderfull lesson and Rachel Kelly us bravissima!!!

isn't she the person who Joyce DiDonato taught on how to trill?

@noblesetsentimentales

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, she is.

My Favourite Pieces of Music - Venus - Holst Hill St Blues Theme - Mike Post Cliffhanger Theme - Trevor Jones William Tell Overture - Rossini 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky Fingal's Cave Overture - Mendelsohn Night on a Bare Mountain - Mussorgsky Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner Dance of the Hours - Ponchielli Procession of the Sadr - Ippolitov-Ivanov Ruslin and Ludmiller Overture - Glinka Panic - Harrison Birtwistle Interludes from Sadko - Rimsky-Korsakov Atmospheres - Ligeti Wooden Planes sung by Art Garfunkel - Jimmy Webb Cheers - Mike.

@ashleythorpe7933

3 жыл бұрын

How about Siegfried's death and procession.

@sherlockholmeslives.1605

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashleythorpe7933 That too!

What a brilliant singer! Brava!

Just Lovely!

perhaps the diminution the singer made was not appropiate because it was to early? Like first expose the theme and in the da capo you can do this? I would love to learn about these stylistic things too, great tutorial, thanks! and awsome singer ofcourse

Brilliant....more please

Bravissima!

Is Rachel a mezzosoprano? It sounds like a beautiful soprano to me. Specially it is audible in the top notes. They have the typical ring of a soprano.

@draganvidic2039

3 жыл бұрын

No she’s a soprano

I want to know the rules that Mark Elder explains are the same for serious Rossini?

Wonderful singing and enlightening video. Also thank this channel's administrators for finally using non-interlaced video. No more ugly horizontal line artifacts in your videos.

@Michael-mg3lu

9 жыл бұрын

***** This link is a virus, dont click it.

Awsome!

14:15 Rosina's aria

Unusual sounding piano, sounds partly like a harpsichord , not keen . Love all these insights into compositions .

Please traductino in spanish

What is the song called she sings on the end?

@RoyalOperaHouse

8 жыл бұрын

+O deer gawd Rachel is singing 'Una voce poco fa' from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (the aria is in a number of smaller movements)

@vierdubbeleziekte

8 жыл бұрын

Royal Opera House Awesome, thanks!

@sherlockholmeslives.1605

8 жыл бұрын

I don't like Mark Elder! Despite the fact he is a big head.

@SeikoMeetsWorld

8 жыл бұрын

Una Voce Poca Fa

@Ariadne-cg4cq

3 жыл бұрын

I deer gawd. Is is all one song from beginning to the end. It is called “Una voce poco fa”. It means “ I heard a voice just now”

Пожалуйста,сделайте субтитры !

What a colossal jerk. He's right, of course, but I admire it so much more when great people choose to lift up those around them. Which doesn't mean going easy on them! Joyce DiDonato shows how it can be done.

Mark Elder is Brilliant- so's the soprano

I absolutely agree with him on extra “colouring”… When you know the actual notes it sounds disappointing… Doesn’t Rossini enough colourful 🙂

Non e' cosi che si puo' insegnare "Una voce poco fa".

That piano looks like a grand, but sounds like an electric piano ??

@alejandrorojas6852

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Chilver No me gusto el pianista

So that's how Christian Bale will look when he gets older...

@callastoujours

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! hahhahaah

She's a soprano.

Who is this guy and how does he know and how Rossini meant his music?

@Lorenzo-be1nm

8 жыл бұрын

Because Art has parameters, because there are many many books written by specialists of how a composer is suppose to be sung, because of the score, because of the time in which was written, because of stories and reviews written in the time of Rossini's, because of conductors who have been passing their knowledge about these things from generation to generation, because there are people who have devoted your life to find out the true that there is to be found in "style"....

@unabarry5496

6 жыл бұрын

Because he is a musicologist, has done all the research, and highly respected in our profession.

Thank you for your obscene language.

he looks like Christian Bale

she should sing through the dotted upbeat before her high note...

Poor Rossini....

@cys8964

8 жыл бұрын

+felicefelice lesson learnt: if you are a composer, never write an Italian opera.

@giusepperometta2634

5 жыл бұрын

L opera deve essere compresa da tutti ...anche stranieri , senno a che sere ...

what is wrong with the pianist???

@aleksanchobanovcounter-ten1240

7 жыл бұрын

Nobody knows, sadly, if they have given him the score just 10 minutes before the recording... (it might well be the case) :D So - poor pianist...

@unabarry2476

6 жыл бұрын

Nothing! Could you do better????

@CamoflaugeDinosaue

5 жыл бұрын

Probably the first time he's played the piece. Rossini isn't something you can just pick up and play without a minute of practice, also this piano score was the more complex version of Il Barbiere Di Siviglia.

@oaaooaooaao

5 жыл бұрын

@@aleksanchobanovcounter-ten1240 no he is just a bad pianist Every pianist has played this aria

@mykytaoliinyk

11 ай бұрын

​@@unabarry2476excuse me, I respect your opinion. But! Music is profession and you have to be able to demonstrate some level, especially when you speak about correctness of performance. Some minimum level, at least, we have to play notes that composer wanted us to play.

I’m still not convinced she is actually a mezzo.

@violettawine5494

3 жыл бұрын

Most likely to soprano 🧐?

She is good singer.but she loos position sometimes and not in ritm

She is not a mezzo. She is a soprano.

This is recetativ, better to be in tempo

rozina is not mezzo soprano, you failed right at the beginning Mister...

@zuraiashvili8647

8 жыл бұрын

+Lalehan Lale lots of mezzos have done it.

@LalehanLale

8 жыл бұрын

yes you are right even altos can do it but bellcanto age rossini donizetti bellini requires coloraturas...thank you for the info..

@LalehanLale

8 жыл бұрын

bel canto loves coloraturas...rossini, donizetti, bellini, writes for coloraturas...as far as i know...

@jbouthiette

8 жыл бұрын

+Lalehan Lale Coloratura is not a range, it is a quality (quick florid notes). One can be a coloratura soprano or a coloratura mezzo (or a contralto even).

@marjie012000

7 жыл бұрын

Written for Coloratura contralto... but as there are not many around (they're all singing pop music)... mostly this role in opera is now sung by the mezzo soprano

She's not a mezzo, but a soprano, and she need to develop her chest voice

She sounded better in the beginning and worse by the end. Diction like that will kill any voice.

I don't like Mark Elder! Despite the fact he is a big head.

@unabarry2476

6 жыл бұрын

He is our wonderful conductor of the Halle Orchestra in England, and a delightful man with his feet on the ground, and doesn't talk over people's heads or as snob!

@sherlockholmeslives.1605

6 жыл бұрын

He is an Egomaniac SCUM BAG!

@sherlockholmeslives.1605

6 жыл бұрын

To call him a Pretentious Tit is an understatement!

@katie8325

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you all over videos of him you freak?

A pianist who fails at side reading, a soprano without developed upper register who thinks she is a mezzo and a conductor who doesn't seem to take note of either of these facts. Curious...

I have opened this video by case and remained unfortunately more than disappointed. I didn't know that the level of the ROH was dropped down during the last 10 years SO rapidly. Mediocre conductor is trying to sell himself as "Rossini-specialist", mediocre pianist, the singer who should sing maximum in the chorus because her only musical quality is that she doesn't sing out of tune. She has absolutely NO VOICE because there is no timbre. And everybody is obediently applauding? Shame on you all!

@desideria747

8 жыл бұрын

***** Come back when you clean your ears you full idiot!

@desideria747

8 жыл бұрын

+Claudius Oh maestro Elder, I did not recognised you, sorry! ;)))

@celloguy

8 жыл бұрын

She was in the young artists program, not a main stage singer. Mark Elder is superb.

@Dadacomero

8 жыл бұрын

u're so right. It's so sad

@aleksanchobanovcounter-ten1240

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think you need to be so mean... level of ROH might not be what you expect, or just maybe you expect shaky sopranos with "timbre" well defined then overwhelmed by their vibrato of a fifth in both sides of the tone object of it. Rachel Kelly might not have colored everything in the way you expect, it is clearly she is working and achieving. So forgive her the fact she's not as mature and wise (neither native speaker) as Cecillia Bartoli (for example) would be to hit every possible color in this aria - after all she has all needed to make it shine and she needs to learn somehow how to use what is given to her. I, personally, find her voice lovely and convincing both in color and strenght - she will be an amazing Rosina one day, a day which is coming rapidly. Neither the director is that bad... he is charming in his own way and I think he says some interesting things. After all, it is not possible that everything will be as high scholarly level or language as you would like it to be, especially given the fact it has been produced for the "wide" audience. Besides nowhere in this video have I seen the director described as Rossini specialist, neither anybody in this video pretends for anything more than exploring the music through "Il Barbiere di Siviglia". Thus comment of hatred like this one, opens only the discussion of Your personal attitude towards ROH and I guess (out of Your comments) the director "starring" in this video. Please, get clear with Your inner demons and then comment again!

She is trying to sing like mezzo. Her vowels are too dark. She should sing like what she is, not like someone else. HE is showing diphthong in "o". It should be pure "o" , not "ooo-u". She also needs to understand declamation and sing softly on unaccentuated vowels. Her vowels not clear.

@charlesmcguffy

4 жыл бұрын

Do fuck off.

Lyric or even spinto soprano trying to sing as mezzo with unfocused fake darkened and nasal voice. Like so many out there unfortunately .

@Bumblebeebeebee

3 жыл бұрын

Sad jealous KZread commentators. Bleugh.

@johnschmid2453

3 жыл бұрын

I agree CM Indy Opera

@draganvidic2039

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnschmid2453 Thanks

"All music has to have pulse" - It's just like quite a stupid comment. Is he some sort of a music god? Not watching further

Elder is teaching how to destroy Rossini 🤬 Elder & the soprano are so horrible ...... what a shame 😅😅🤮🤮🤮😡🤬

@flaze3

3 жыл бұрын

ma di cosa parli? Lei è bravissima

It could have been a really informative and enlightening session. Unfortunately the speaker "plays to the gallery" and feels obliged to make a joke ever 2 minutes. The jokes are not particularly funny, at least for non-English people, and they detract from the topic. They are obviously crowd-pleasing but also very facile, sometimes bordering on the vulgar. I would gladly watch a version that was focused on professional advice and serious analysis.