Gorgeous. From the 1982 year performance at the Met with Pavarotti, von Stade and Behrens. A stellar cast for the ages. I believe it was the first production of Idomeneo by the Met.
ILIA Solitudini amiche, aure amorose, piante fiorite, e fiori vaghi, udite d una infelice amante I lamenti, che a voi lassa confido. Quanto il tacer presso al mio vincitore, quanto il finger ti costa afflitto core! Zeffiretti lusinghieri, Deh volate al mio tesoro: E gli dite, ch'io l'adoro Che mi serbi il cor fedel. E voi piante, e fior sinceri Che ora innaffia il pianto amaro, Dite a lui, che amor più raro Mai vedeste sotto al ciel.
Why don't you try closing your eyes..perhaps then you will be ravished by the beauty of Ms Cotrubas lovely covered tones. She is one of our finest ever Mozartians and this is perfection.
learning this at the moment with my singing teacher, i'm kinda torturing myself by watching all these professional versions cos i know i'll never be that amazing lol
You will if you keep at it and try to sing it better every time you sing it. Practice is the key to getting this good and acquiring the techniques to master this. Many opera stars work with an acting and staging coach once they've learned the role, to put it all together. You WILL be this good if you aspire to it and work hard every day toward it! That's how they got this good.
@wanzenettl It's Mozart who cut the aria with arrival of Idamante (I wonder how it ends when it's performed as a part of a soprano concert): interruption is a significant feature of 'Idomeneo', and a unique one for the work's time.
Yes indeed, it also had Frederica von Stade and Luciano Pavarotti - and surely Idomeneo has been blessed with no finer cast in its more than 200 years.
Till today I do not understand how and with what this woman made a carrier!!??? No voice, all the time same in each role: wheezing over something, terrible vibrato… realy
