. Personnel details and DVD available from amzn.to/2DML5EV Christine Schäfer and Simon Keenlyside sing "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute).
Oh, what a great actor he is, Keenlyside - beside of being an eavenly great singer! By the way, the acrobatics with the feathers during this performance is quite a thing. I don't think I'd be able to sing and act as fine as they do while I'd have to blow and catch feathers through the air... Fantastic in every dimension!
Lord I can't stop watching this, it's been a year since I've stumbled across this but yet I'm still here, can't put my emotions into words.. THIS is beyond the word beautiful I'm from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 and I wish one day I can gain the favour to watch them live ❤❤❤
This is a song about (idealized) love, not a love song - in the opera the characters are not in love with each other. Man and wife, and wife and man - reach towards divinity. Very good vocal quality in this recording.
THANK YOU for posting, this is the classic of the classic, textbook of stage performance beyond singing, they "value added" to the song itself, yet top quality voices in deed, so precious, such beauty of both... really top class to me.
Utterly charming but of course Mozart had a great deal to do with it. I wonder if the feather routine was spontaneous or rehearsed. No matter they both sing beautifully .
Wunderknabe76 selbstverständlich was hast du denn gegen moderne Musik ich nehme meine Flöte und hau den Frau im Takt auf den Kopf dann sollen sie verschiedene Geräusche von sich geben die eine soll schreien die andere soll stöhnen dann haben wir noch eine die sollen piepen was hast du denn gedacht was ich mache
I agree with you guys spider and Alex :) But there will be people who scream about "racism" because we dare to compare this masterpiece to rap music (which isn't even in the same league)!
DamnDrrtyApes Politely but firmly stand up to those people. Explain that you feel rap is garbage and that you have every right to listen to music that you like.
spideraxis I definitely prefer this. I'm purely into classical music now, while I was doing a lot of rock, hard rock, punk and heavy metal in younger years. Rap music isn't necessarily crappy by itself. There's a lot of art to discover in rap. Let's be tolerant regarding preferences. We don't have any right to judge others tastes. From "crappy" (?) folk music may emerge gems of highest art. And some of meant to be highest art can become "crappy"... ;-)
ONeirdaYou raise a worthy point. But from my experience, nearly all of the musical intolerance comes from people who adhere to rap, hip hop, hard rock, The Who. Unfortunately, those tastes in music often brings out the ignorance in some people.
I love their beautiful voices and the feather business, but Simon's nervously twitchy right hand, which shows up in many of his recitals, is on full and distracting display again here.
They both look stiff and uncomfortable. No chemistry between the 2 but, the male voice is the best here and at least, he tries to connect with the actress.
I disagree. They have the right chemistry to the piece in context. Remember the characters are singing *about* love, but they are not in love with each other