Wow. what a great looking production, and grand performance! Can't imagine it much better.

❤🎉 quelle magnifique interprétation ! Bravo ooooo à vous tous. Paulo Bahia

La diction française est incompréhensible sans sous-titres. Une belle voix ne suffit pas.

Outstanding!

Muy Bién!!!!❤❤❤

Amazing! Great performance!

This aria always reminds me of Olympia's "Doll" Aria from The Tales of Hoffman.

@INOBT100

3 жыл бұрын

And Damrau been there, done that too

Is there a recording of this entire production of mignon?

@INOBT100

3 жыл бұрын

I wish; if there is, it must be unavailable

Watch that wand Madame. Introducing The always fervent, slightly butch and retainer of character of the queen of the night style coloratura soprano German through and through!!! : Diana Damrau. This is the most masc and yet floated version of this Aria I have ever heard. Even Sutherland’s Philine seems more round and ladylike. Production and costumes are magical.

@crazyorganist1609

4 жыл бұрын

Sutherland's philline was incredible

@INOBT100

3 жыл бұрын

That "Wand Madame" is Titania\Philine\Diana Damrau; And I love that Titania costume

@dannythemusiclover9366

Жыл бұрын

Sutherland waa incomparably better. Damrau sings all in the same manner. No nuance and subtleness. I liked her only as a Queen of the Night.

Brrrrrrrrrava !!!♡

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Fühle mich angesprochen :^) xD

Isn't it more beautiful, glittering and true to the plot to use period costumes??? Aren't we tired and sick of those idiot and outreageous modern "staging" which distort the very essence of the plot? Basta! A dream production!

@inesdeerausquin5658

6 жыл бұрын

operabilia amen. Nothing quite as wonderful as an opera in full costume, sung as it should be sung!

@crazy_Fred

6 жыл бұрын

operabilia I would normally agree, but isn't that boring after a while, to have dozens of production all over the world that looks just the same? That's why I like occasional "what if" productions and conceptual ones. As an audience member who likes certain opera and likes to see them repeatedly, I want to be challenged by the stage director.

@sunnytyler001

6 жыл бұрын

THIS. SO MUCH.

@cadoh8143

5 жыл бұрын

Agree 1000%. Beautiful.

@INOBT100

3 жыл бұрын

Each director sees something else in the piece.

her voice was not at her best here but still goooood

@crazy_Fred

6 жыл бұрын

Arnaldo carpio wasn't she pregnant while singing this? Maybe that's the reason why.

@No1OperaFan

3 жыл бұрын

@@crazy_Fred not only was she pregnant, she was so sick she could barely speak. (And I know this for a fact because I sang with her in this very production). It's a miracle she could sing this well! Internet "critics" have no idea about what goes on behind and on stage!

A somewhat lame affair. :-(

After watching this I have to ask; when did shrill, ugly, wobbly, mostly inaudible singing become the norm and so widely praised?

@ahogbin2644

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. It's one of the mysteries of our operatic time. She was promising at the beginning of her career (1984 - the opera at Covent Garden). But the voice got very shrill and wiry and a Lucia I endured at Covent Garden a few years ago persuaded me never to waste my time at another of her performances. Her acting is also so phrenetic. I guess she has a very good agent and also not much competition.

@dudeforcaster8630

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahogbin2644 I'm actually surprised by your reply and want to thank you. More often than not replies are usually nasty, mean-spirited, and defensive that at times they make one think (not often) that perhaps the problem is me, that my ears or musical acumen is lacking even after 37 years as a professional cellist. I first heard DD in 1996 and found her voice not at all pleasant and could not figure out why she was the next big thing and time has not changed my mind.

@ahogbin2644

3 жыл бұрын

@@dudeforcaster8630 Not at all. I do wonder sometimes whether people are taught to listen these days. I studied several instruments and singing also but didn't make a career at it. I was always brought up to think that singing should be above all beautiful. I wonder if audiences these days know what it is.

@dudeforcaster8630

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahogbin2644 I don't think audiences do, they are fed a lot of PR and believe what they are told. I think it all started when Bartoli rose to international fame. Never in all my years have I heard and witnessed such appallingly bad singing and onstage behaviour, phrenetic in an understatement. Her ego is quite monstrous (i worked with her) and music exists to serve her not they other way around. Now, she is emulated and copied and beautiful singing/voices are no more.

@ahogbin2644

3 жыл бұрын

@@dudeforcaster8630 The so-called "singing woodpecker"! Yes, it was certainly a tiny voice live - I heard her once in opera - Il Turco in Italia . I do not like aspiration in coloratura singing and so she was a no-no for me. The audience seemed to love her though. I the whole decline of pure operatic singing is quite a complex phenomenon but I count myself lucky to have heard Sutherland, Caballe, Horne, Te Kanawa, Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras, Kraus, Bruson, Cappuccilli to name but a few. I was lucky. I think this was probably the last generation of great singers. In any case. I think we are about to go through an enormous cultural shift that may well consign opera to the history books.

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