You know you are in the UK when its raining cats and dogs and people just sit around casually on a field listening to an open air concert like there is no tomorrow.
This happens in Wales. Bryn is singing fifty miles from his home and it obviously didn't have the publicity back then, and he was protesting against Cardiff - you can't get tickets for Bangor now. But at every Eisteddfodd in every small village you can hear arias sung by good singers to an appreciative audience - we need to preserve this tradition to give the Bryn Terfels a chance.
Bryn was the very first Don Giovanni I ever saw on a Metropolitan Opera DVD production when I first got interested in opera. His performance made me fall in love with this opera. And now I’m enjoying his 2011 run as Wotan in the Ring Cycle 😀
One can't criticize perfection, at least I can't. Terfel uses language for its purpose, to transmit meaning. He is always very secure of technique and we understand every word he sings. I admire his singing in all occasions that I have heard him. Bravo Bryn.
Great performance by Bryn, as usual. I'm never tired of listening to him. Even his speaking voice has an enormous and so powerful resonance it's almost distracting haha..not the mention his good looks and incredible facial expressions. He's a true and complete artist! :) And he calls me at 2'51"! haha or the dark, brunettes, as it's the meaning of my italian name :)
КРАСАВЕЦ !!! великолепно исполнение просто класс необыкновенный ,сильный голос поет как дышит без напряжения слушать одно удовольствие .тембр голоса неподражаем потому как естественен.ОГРОМНОЕ СПАСИБО.
This guy has more music in his little finger than the whole RU-vid peanut gallery put together. No doubt none of the herein critics could come close to him if they had a millennium to try. They should be on their knees thanking their gods that a Bryn Terfel even exists.
I came across Bryn Terfel quite recently and he is one of my favourite bass-baritone!....and last but not least, his Italian pronunciation is perfect and clear; amazing!
Sir Bryn and Mr Dimitri Hvorostovsky were pitted against one another in the 1989 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, which the Russian won and the Welshman was awarded the Lieder Prize. You can find some of their iconic winning performances here on RU-vid.
What strikes me is that he sings as if he were at the Met but this is a Welsh village audience - this is how it was - you had to sing to impress the adjudicators in each village, and they were picky, and respected musicians, but what a good education!
Great voice. I really like Terfel, is by far the best baribass nowadays, i don't agree with those comparing his instrument with others great singers of the past. I go to the Opera house every time there's a new production, and the theatre of my city (the Teatro Petruzzelli) is in the top five of Italian halls. Never heard something even similar to Bryn, even from the most popular artists. Plus, although i'm not a professional musician, i'm a bass-baritone myself, so I can judge voices. Actually, Bryn's detractors aren't real music experts. And his Italian is quite perfect!
Marina Samoylovich The older I get the more I have to agree with you, Marina... In essence I find all women beautiful!! (But I love paying out on the British now and then...)
Madamina, il catalogo è questo Delle belle che amò il padron mio; un catalogo egli è che ho fatt’io; Osservate, leggete con me. In Italia seicento e quaranta; In Almagna duecento e trentuna; Cento in Francia, in Turchia novantuna; Ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre. V’han fra queste contadine, Cameriere, cittadine, V’han contesse, baronesse, Marchesine, principesse.
Don Giovanni didn't really "love" women. He used them, then threw them away like old worn shoes. Or whatever. But if you know the opera and watched it till the end, you know what became of Giovanni... well deserved :) Great performance by Bryn, as usual. :)
ah Marlene, I can sense your hate about the SEX oriented men. Big, big... BIG problem this difference between the Women's desire for Love and emotional approach and the strong, animalistic Men's urge to just have sex and go to the next woman, ha ?
E v’han donne d’ogni grado, D’ogni forma, d’ogni età. Nella bionda egli ha l’usanza Di lodar la gentilezza, Nella bruna la costanza, Nella bianca la dolcezza. Vuol d’inverno la grassotta, Vuol d’estate la magrotta; È la grande maestosa, La piccina è ognor vezzosa. Delle vecchie fa conquista Pel piacer di porle in lista; Sua passion predominante È la giovin principiante. Non si picca - se sia ricca, Se sia brutta, se sia bella; Purché porti la gonnella, Voi sapete quel che fa.
Από την κωμική όπερα του Μότσαρτ Don Giovani, ο Bryn Terfel στο απόσπασμα Madamina, με πολύ ωραία σχόλια προ του τραγουδιού, που από την μία χαλαρώνουν το κοινό και από την άλλη (μαρτυρούν) και το ιστορικό της υπόθεσης της όπερας. Όταν ο άνθρωπος αγαπά αυτό που κάνει, δίνει τον καλύτερο εαυτό του, αποτελώντας παράδειγμα προς παραδειγματισμό. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovani.
My dear lady, this is a list Of the beauties my master has loved, A list which I have compiled. Observe, read along with me. In Italy, six hundred and forty; In Germany, two hundred and thirty-one; A hundred in France; in Turkey, ninety-one; But in Spain already one thousand and three. Among these are peasant girls, Maidservants, city girls, Countesses, baronesses, Marchionesses, princesses, Women of every rank, Every shape, every age. With blondes it is his habit To praise their kindness
+Spikey Husky - Yes, in the story of the opera, Leperello is singing this aria to Donna Elvira who is from Spain, one of the 1003, she is of course disgusted and commits herself to get Don Giovanni to repent of his ways (he does not repent in the end and the earth opens up and he descends to hell straight away).
@Masassonia si sta cantando in modo diverso rispetto al solito....forse è il contesto meno serio che lo ha spinto a cantare in un modo diciamo meno tecnico...e poi come vedi si mette pure a scherzare...dai comunque è particolare
Yes, they do. It's a simplification to sing it better. It just sounds better to sing "milletre" instead of "mille-e-tre" with paused breaths in between. :)
This is more a "entertaiment performance", there is a performance by Erwin Schrott. And you can hear the difference between " easy singing" and a performance "opera style".
