I am no expert but I hear a beautiful fullness in her voice, I've not noticed before. I'm surprised this performance hasn't had more views, there's sadly lots of people missing out !
Wow...I am speechless. This is one of the best interpretations I have heard or seen. Unique, original and magnifique. Thanks for sharing this wonderful interpretation so we the opera lovers can enjoy it .
you dont understand italian, so you dont know what shes singing! if you like her voice, o.k. but please do not say her performance is the best. hear other singers! i like her voice, she sounds nice. also boring, it must be faster, easyer. this is not her temper and her caracter too...
Well, I'd imagine being among the top MEZZOS today, she knows better her own voice than some people on you tube. Have you heard her in Carmen? I have, and live, and she most certainly sounded like a mezzo and had no issues with low register.
Well, the way people show their emotions is just SO different :) Anyway, the TECHNIQUE that she has - the way she ornaments, as if it were the most natural thing in the world !
D'accord avec Ole Nielson, c'est sûrement la nouvelle Frederica Von Stade. C'est une magnifique Cenerentola mais aussi une merveilleuse Carmen !!!! J'adore !!
Awesome singer ... !! She's so Perfect.. a great artist !! Even when she sing in that speed is so Perfect and with a good taste and technique !! DiDonato , Bartoli are great but Garanca is amazing !!! Brava...🎼🎶🎵👈
She is the one that did followed rossini's articulations the best... Is even surprising to me that her Cenerentola is so perfect! She is not very often associated with this kind of repertoire.
The only problem with this is that she is so gorgeous and so perfect that the suspension of belief that she could be a downtrodden servant is EVEN more impossible than usual
Gorgeous! As in her predecessor Frederica Von Stade! They are equally beautiful - but isn't that why men fall in love - no matter what station in life their object of desire has? Downtrodden does not factor into the equation.
Love Elina Garanca's singing in "Bel Canto" style Non piu mesta. I enjoy the voice singing legato style even when manipulating the difficult runs, Too much stacatto after a bit becomes affected, to my ears.
Love, love , love Garanca. I think she is the new Frederica Von Stade. Beautiful voice, beautiful singing! The tiniest quibble I have (and it is tiny in the extreme) is that Garanca, like 99.9% of mezzos have difficulty sustaining lower notes - they simply run out of breath - as they reach the end of the note there isn't much left. Be that as it may, Brava Garanca!!
She certainly has much in common in common with Von Stade with her beauty, her countenance and her legion of loyal fans but she is unique within herself. She is great.
A la Sra.Bartoli...solo oirla. Es su tecnica lo se. A la Sra. Garanza es un placer oirla y verla..Todo fluye con una suavidad y naturalidad, que cautiva.
The more I listen to Joyce DiDonato, the more I realise her to be a soprano with great vocal range, impressive low register and brilliant coloratura (I heard her in Maria Stuarda and La donna del lago, two extremely demanding soprano roles). I too prefer her to Garanca, although I liked Garanca very much as Cenerentola.
di donato is a real mezzo, sorry! callas was a soprano! and garanca is also a mezzo soparono, but not a coloratura. for this role real bad, nice voice. people have to understand the story and the emotion that a singer have to give into every aria etc. belcanto is the transportation of the feeling and how you sing it, that everyone is hypnoticed!
La version de Joyce Didonato es diferente, las voces no se pueden comparar. Garanca tiene un encanto particular... a mi me gustan las dos por igual, pero soy totalmente fanatica de Didonato.
YES! Then there is Rigoletto they plan to have at the Met this year set in Las Vegas. I just hope this Age of the Director is going to end in my lifetime... But yes, I do agree about classical modern stagings that respect the stories yet make them look great.
The parents of a friend of mine, hardcore opera lovers, went to see that Rigoletto-in-Vegas...he told me they litterally walked out after the second act!
Her singing is lovely! She deserves her success, she is one of the best mezzosoprano today. Anyway my favorite Cinderella is Cecilia Bartoli, her agility is softer and she is found of Rossini. Elina's voice is heavier, even good as well
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I can't believe some of the unpleasant, arbitrary, borderline racist comments I see here. People are entitled to not be a fan of Brownlee but he managed to have a beautiful international career and respect - hell, he was CHEERED by the toughest audience ever, La Scala, of all places. HE does stuff that I or other people CAN'T. At least respect that...especially if you can't even speak a correct Italian or French language even it saved your life.
@@grobanite4ever85 I do agree. The fort time I listened to him I realized his voice sometimes reminded me Pavarotti's. He is superb and a fine actor. I loved his Almaviva (Barbiere di Siviglia)
Absolutely! I own a pretty big collection of opera DVD's but I prefer the ones that were filmed before 2004 (only exception this 2009 Cenerentola) because I think the productions have turned the wrong direction for example /watch?v=ai6kI1v3WKs
Totally agree. I absolutely adore Garanca, she is fantastic. Other singers here are all fantastic too. As to the sets, it seems like the directors today declared war on the visual beauty. They can't even make a fairy tale look like a fairy tale, they want to "interpret" it whether we the audience want their interpretation or not.
I think the prince is too short fot her (they look funny :P) However, Elina is a great inspiration at least for me, just like teresa berganza, cecilia bartoli, olga borodina, ann hallenberg, frederica von stade... they are just awesome
Good questions. I'd imagine they stay because of singers. There were cases when the Met audience booed the productions, but it became less common - you are right about some being "converted" - there is a type of pseudo-intellectualism IMHO. I personally don't buy tickets for the worst Regie performances, but avoiding all bad productions is difficult if you want to hear best singers live.
@66eigen She said she has finished with bel canto after this role. Now she is singing Carmen, but who knows, may be some time she will want to sing this role again?
garanca is breathtaking! but idk theres something about bartoli that just blows me away more than garanca or even joyce didonato and she's pretty amazing aswell
Classical modern stagings are great because they use the technology we have today to make the original stories looks great without transforming the operas into monstrous and stupid stagings. For example I saw a production of La Bohéme were Musetta was "Marilyn Monroe" and there were giant brushes and pens all over the stage, it was horrible! Contrary to a Madama Butterfly were a boat (fake) passed behind the curtain before the duet "una nave da guerra...scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio"
I wrote a comment last evening on the Cecilia Bartoli performance, crying down her staccato coloratura, yes it is lever but it is also ugly, how lovely to hear this beautiful legato rendition.
You may be write about it, but not having supernatural elements doesn't mean the sets need to be dreary or plain silly. These days words "new production" at the Met feels me with fear and dread. When I read about some of the new productions, I am wondering if I should go for the tickets with great acoustics and no view at all. This is actually better than some of them.
It most certainly is a competition. Did you not hear when Alagna walked off the La Scala stage in the middle of an opera? The patrons that sit in a certain section are virulent critics and have been given a name! "The gallery is typically crowded with the most critical opera aficionados, known as the loggionisti, who can be ecstatic or merciless towards singers' perceived successes or failures."
Nahh! Cecilia Bartoli se la pasa por la raja en su version de La Cenerentola, solo en la parte final Cecilia sale corriendo y sube de forma tan agil las escaleras del pastel que parece deportista. Ademas la voz de la cantante del video suena como engolada, o tragada
I absolutely agree with you, but in defense of this stage director... Rossini strictly said he wanted no supernatural elements. I still think they took this direction way too serious.
Well I hope we are going backwards!! At least they had great like Tetrazzini, Galli-Curcci, Melba etc who could at least sing and quite frankly if I want acting I go to the theatre, if I want want music I go to the OPERA!!!
Well… agree, I too hate the stupidity of these trendy directors, but I would say your comment about the audience is questionable, why do they stay? Why do they applaud? I got tired of walking out in the middle of a performance and putting money in the rubbish to help them create rubbish, so unless I know I will get what I expect, I don't even bother going to the opera any more. New audiences are either “converted” or a bunch of cowards that don’t have the courage to say: Enough is enough!
