I saw her doing this at the Met! It was absolutely flawless, the house roared and clapped forever. Then to top my night, I got to meet her - such a sweetheart! Brava Jennifer!

she's my cousin. im very proud.

This One Of The BEST INTERPRETATIONS of " Nacqui all affano...Non piu mesta that I have ever seen. A very talented mezzo-soprano, also very Original and Unique. Thank you for sharing it.

I love this aria. It's like running a marathon, but she makes it look so easy.

Wow! She's the real deal.

ahh, what a voice! Such a great range! I love the little trinkets she puts on the melody to make it her own too

She is EXCELLENT! I adore her dark, chocolaty voice and her marvellous coloratura technique. And I quite like the production, too. I don't understand why some people here seem to dislike the production. The costumes are really beautiful and authentic.

Ella es estupenda. Una de mis divas preferidas..jaja

she is so unique! i love her singing and acting.

Great Artist!!

The lovely Jennifer Larmore !!!!!

She's wonderful.

she's the best

Simply EXRAORDINAIRE!!!

The best one! she makes me shiver

Tout simplement BRAVA! Génial! Merci et bravo AV

She's great, I love her!

she is one more great angelina

¡¡¡La mejor versión!!!

@OutsideEdgeJr i luv her--she is very pretty seem to have a pleasant personality an a passion for this era of art. :)

Well said!

I AGREE !!

honestly, i agree. a great voice is a great voice. and for all those people fighting over her "fach"...check the descriptions of each, then you must know how to classify a fach...not just by range or stuff. larmore is one of my favorite lyric mezzos...if you don't agree, it's ok ;)

Jenny est tres belle chanter

Just look at her singing! Isn`t it a pure pleasure? Well, she`s singing it with such a terrifying easiness and beauty of tone. I`m sorry for her competitors.

Really nice and joyful. Larmore's articulation is not as precise and awe-inspiring as Bartoli's, but she makes up for it in beauty of tone and much less distracting facial expressions.

i agree with you! i hate to compare her to ms. bartoli. but one thing is sure: ms. larmore's coloratura is NOT aspirated. also, she does not look ugly when she sings!

Buenissisisima

Cecilia who????

Beautiful performance. Thanks for posting. She her twice in Cenerentola here at the Met in NY in a very silly production. The only caveat? Lucia Valentini-Terrani was better is all these Rossini roles - God rest her soul! Liked von Stade in this too.

She's pretty darned great, but she's also another example of the hammered, machine-gunned, aspirated coloratura technique so prevalent now. Where are the effortless, legato, expressive colortura techniques of Callas and Sutherland nowadays, where the voice played and danced joyfully on the notes?

No podemos comparar las peras con las manzanas... lo mismo pasa con Larmore y Bartoli. son totalmente distintas, las dos igual de buenas. La Bartoli hace más rápido las agilidades, y la Larmore tiene más graves y más color de mezzo pura. Pero para mí las dos son increíblemente magníficas ^^. Todo un modelo para mí ambas dos ;)

Altanotte, I agree wholeheartedly. I can't stand Bartoli. Not only is her colorature breathy and aspirated, but to me, she always looks insane. Larmore is such a natural actress.

mostra poderosa voz pastosa

Have you ever read Rossini's score?

@idaspe vedi anche la versione cantata da Sonia Ganassi e anche Cecilia Bartoli Saluti

De acuerdo contigo. Esta mania de comparar sistematicamente es penosa... BARTOLI ES UNA BOMBA, LARMORE tambien a su manera. Yo he escuchado al vivo las dos y me quede ENTUSIASMADA; Igual pasa con los que comaparan a JDF con BLAKE; vAMOS Qque es de un ridiculo !!

Sin llegar a la altura de la Bartoli,pues ni tiene su tecnica ni su fraseo ni su "coloratu- ra";hay que reconocer que es una de las primeras mezzos del momento.Le falla el "trino" en los graves.Muy buena.Brava!

she is definitely one of the greatest cenerentolas ever and the only one who embellished up to high C#!!! now that's FIERCE!!! the production looks pretty awful, however. she deserves a cool new production every season!

screaming UH.. anyone?

Haha, 5:26 I think Jennifer scared herself there :-p

@sillyboydeux Luckily, we now don't have to just trust what we are told! We have the technology to go and watch these videos and find out for ourselves. Trying to judge someone's skill on a popularity contest (such as curtain calls) is probably not the wisest thing to do in music...otherwise Britney Spears wins.

--------gttttttttttt

@CatalinaDM56 Callas was a wonderful singer and one of my favorites, but I disagree. Callas's coloratura were not natural and effortless like Sutherland's. she had a solid technique, but Sutherland's was absolutely perfect and effortless. Maria was wonderful at the rep that suited her (spinto roles, sfogato roles), but in the realm of coloratura soprano, Sutherland dominates her (this is no insult. anyone 1/4th as good as sutherland is a good coloratura in my book =)

you mean mushy color.

I don't agree acting should take second priority, because if's just about the singing, I can go to a concert. But it's an opera, so it must have the acting part too.

He could blow out Bartoli with his voice. The same with Larmore would be harmful for him. Just an opinion.

Fabulous! To compare this to Bartoli's over-aspirated, breathy rendition is an insult to the artistry of Ms. Larmore. Larmore is a true lyric mezzo with a smooth transition through all her registers. Bartoli is a "short" soprano with manufactured chest tones.

Wonderful singer. But she sings as she was in a recital, not an opera production!

sutherland has phenomenal coloratura, callas' voice was big, sloppy and wobbly. her vibrato was often slower than the coloratura passages in the arias shes sang

Difficile Rossini, forse troppo per la Larmore ! Rossini è agile, scattante con finali esplosivi talvolta lei invece è lenta e pesante; inadeguata. Brava cantante ma per ruoli diversi.