La bohème - Donde lieta usci (Puccini; Sonya Yoncheva; The Royal Opera) 

Its like wine for the ears..so intoxicating and each voice is different

It took me 35. It is intoxicating

I saw this 3 days ago and felt the same as you, although I know very little about opera I felt this lady was simply fabulous her performance touch me deeply.

The best? No no!

For the high register her voice is fluctuant, depending of the time in the year and health condition... For all the rest she is crazy good, musicality and nuances

@@davidgray5964 I agree. The nuances , musicality and colors are great and a great understanding of the characters.

@@dragicaklomp9810 I have seen roh Bohème 4 times in cinéma...! Each time with tears in the eyes at the end... For high notes, maybe she was better in Met à few years ago for Bohème, less vibrato and more stable high voice... But she remains a very good Mimi! In the passage "Sono andati..." in act 4, her voice is completely astonishing and we wonder if someone can sing better this moment, even the great divas from the past! :) I saw her in baden baden singing Desdemona last year, and she was close to ideal, without problem on high notes

@@davidgray5964 I also had the luck to Yoncheva live.. as Mimi at the Staatsoper Berlin in Januari 2016. She is very moving singing actress. And Desdemona is also a great role for her. Critics on RU-vid exaggerate when they say that her voice is in ruins.

I heard her live in one of her breakthrough performances of Faust at the ROH back in 2014. Her top back then shimmered, so I can confirm that the unsteady top is definitely something that has gotten worse since then. Note too how a lot of her vowels, particularly in the lower-middle, are now bottled and not clear (e.g., 0:03, 1:05, 1:59, 2:40, 3:09). I think she is a huge talent, and I like her sort of timbre. So I say all of this with regret.

Plastically I prefer Zeffirelli production, especially act 3, but the actors work is very good for roh Bohème... We are completely inside and it creates a lot of emotions, simple things

I've been 3 times watching this production at ROH😁

Dragan Vidic sad!!

A lot of sopranos would like to be compared to Anna Netrebko!! After hearing her the last year's in Met or ROH...! Anna Netrebko is fantastic... The voice of sopranos is changing with the time, and some mistakes can be done with too heavy roles... In the case of Sonya, it's true she sang Norma and Tosca very young, and now she sometimes has large vibrato or unstable top voice (no very high notes anymore)... Her voice is fluctuant for high register, but so beautiful... I saw her in Desdemona in baden baden, she was crazy good, and also in Imogène in Madrid she was fantastic (only high notes not perfect)

David Gray You’re lost. Both Netrebko and Yoncheva are horrible.

@@draganvidic2039 Not sure it is worthwhile to continue the conversation with you after hearing such stupidity... If you compare to the best of opera history, sure they are under, but Netrebko and Yoncheva are two very good sopranos... Look on opera internet websites the post of specialists who know opera from the 50ies and 60ies... And you will see that the don't say the same as you... ;)

David Gray They are horrible. Good you don’t hear it. Enjoy!

Na fita

Yep. She's working on a wobble.

Douglas Tina why are opera video comments so damn critical? You guys need to learn how to enjoy the music and stop nitpicking. Y’all seem miserable! No wonder why opera is dying! Yuck!!!!

@@watermelon520b you would think that some people just like to look for something to pick on. They should keep their misery and negativity to themselves.

She basically went from baroque to spinto in a day. It was gonna do some damage.

Yes, but do You know what you are hablando about?

Opinion of an "expert".

Irmantas Karuzas It’s not an opinion, you can almost measure a wobble.

Irmantas Karuzas you’d better believe it.

@@irmantaskaruzas4492 The voice of Sonya is fluctuant depending on the time in the year and the role she sings. Sometimes she can have large vibrato, but not always. It's due to the fact she sang very heavy role very young (before 35 years old) such as Norma or Tosca... Also her voice is now larger and has become more beautiful in low register, but in the same time she lost the highest notes that she had when she was 25 35 years old...(singing Manon or pêcheurs de perle or...) For Bohème maybe she was better for high notes, less unstable or with less vibrato, in Met a few years ago... But I heard her in Desdemona in Baden Baden last year and she was fantastic even in high register... So there is no definitive point of view. The voice of sopranos is changing with time... Even Callas has a few voice problems in some periods, and everybody forgot about it...! Sonya is a great musician and has a great musicality, and somptuous "timbre". And she transmit a lot of emotions in her voice, which is for me the most important for a lyrical artist... The compréhension of the role, the interpretation and the emotion :) After this, if you compare to the best of opera history in the 50th 60th or 70th, you will say maybe that it's not as good as great divas did... But it's already very good!!

@@alexgomez2 your words do not make sense.

I have seen it 4 times at the cinema in Paris and each time people went out with tears in the eyes... I believe so they had a lot of emotions!!