Santa Maria, rogai por todos nós que cremos e temos fé em Vossa intercessão junto ao Pai Todo Poderoso. Dele é o Poder Eterno, toda Honra e Toda Glória para todo o sempre, amém.
Tanta exquisita belleza me hace llorar. La voz de Jessye, combinada con la Filarmónica de Berlín, dirigida por el maestro von Karajan, son un regalo celestial. ❤❤❤
I believe Wagner wrote this beautiful music so that one day someone would come along and perform it as masterfully as Jesse Norman. Both were Masters of their craft, and this performance is a masterpiece.
The most perfect climax in opera ever. Everything is there. Love , sensuality. Where souls and bodies juste become one in a total fusion. Some women fainted during the execution of this liebestod at the creation. Guess why ? Listen.
This woman was one of the greatest singers in American operatic history. Her voice and musicality were at the top of any scale of comparison. You don't get better opera singers than this. God rest her soul.
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo: ISOLDE Mild und leise wie er lächelt, wie das Auge hold er öffnet --- seht ihr's Freunde? Seht ihr's nicht? Immer lichter wie er leuchtet, stern-umstrahlet hoch sich hebt? Seht ihr's nicht? Wie das Herz ihm mutig schwillt, voll und hehr im Busen ihm quillt? Wie den Lippen, wonnig mild, süsser Atem sanft entweht --- Freunde! Seht! Fühlt und seht ihr's nicht? Hör ich nur diese Weise, die so wunder- voll und leise, Wonne klagend, alles sagend, mild versöhnend aus ihm tönend, in mich dringet, auf sich schwinget, hold erhallend um mich klinget? Heller schallend, mich umwallend, sind es Wellen sanfter Lüfte? Sind es Wogen wonniger Düfte? Wie sie schwellen, mich umrauschen, soll ich atmen, soll ich lauschen? Soll ich schlürfen, untertauchen? Süss in Düften mich verhauchen? In dem wogenden Schwall, in dem tönenden Schall, in des Welt-Atems wehendem All --- ertrinken, versinken --- unbewusst --- höchste Lust! Isolde sinkt, wie verklärt, in Brangänes Armen sanft auf Tristans Leiche. Rührung und Entrücktheit unter den Umstehenden. Marke segnet die Leichen. Der Vorhang fällt langsam English Libretto or Translation: ISOLDE Mildly and gently, how he smiles, how the eye he opens sweetly --- Do you see it, friends? Don’t you see it? Brighter and brighter how he shines, illuminated by stars rises high? Don’t you see it? How his heart boldly swells, fully and nobly wells in his breast? How from his lips delightfully, mildly, sweet breath softly wafts --- Friends! Look! Don’t you feel and see it? Do I alone hear this melody, which wonderfully and softly, lamenting delight, telling it all, mildly reconciling sounds out of him, invades me, swings upwards, sweetly resonating rings around me? Sounding more clearly, wafting around me --- Are these waves of soft airs? Are these billows of delightful fragrances? How they swell, how they sough around me, shall I breathe, Shall I listen? Shall I drink, immerse? Sweetly in fragrances melt away? In the billowing torrent, in the resonating sound, in the wafting Universe of the World-Breath --- drown, be engulfed --- unconscious --- supreme delight!
Dear God I'm reduced to tears every time... I can't look at her face without being overwhelmed, I can't watch her emote the music without it affecting my soul... I can't hear this, without being deconstructed...
Only Jessye Norman could make me love anything by Wagner….she is literally the only singer that has made it bearable. She was a towering talent-and I am not talking about her physical stature-with a superlative voice given to her by God which she used so wisely, intelligently, so musically that it jumps off the screen, LP, or CD.
She is phenomenal, but your comment seems strangely motivated.Beautifull music is not meant to be a burden, sorry you find it so traumatic when it is sung by others.Maybe you could show the other great singers how they can be more bearable.Somehow I am sure Jessye Norman would appreciate other performances with such god given beauty as her own.Genius like Jessye always has that class.
Esta area de Wagner es una de las mas dificiles de interpretar.Jessye es sin duda la mejor voz que he tenido el placer de haber oido.El gran Karajan sabia a quien contrataba para oir a Wagner.El mejor duo que he podido oir.Muchas gracias a los dos.Puede que con esta audicion que acabo de oir sea la numero 120.Me encanta.
She was about the most regal dramatic soprano I’ve ever seen. I got confirmation years ago when the commentator announced, after her performance, that she had attained to “Seraphic Transformation.” As these are the ministers of fire that fly about God’s throne crying HOLY HOLY HOLY I perceive that’s the ultimate exaltation! PWG
Very few artists can endure lengthy Wagner operas--Tristan and Isolde lasts hours but it seems to be like an hour long. It is totally 100% emotional experience. I DO NOT CRY EASILY but this makes me weep and weep.
