Montserrat Figueras sings "Dal mio Permesso" from L'Orfeo 

Figueras had the best interpretation of the music of this time.... bar none.

Who better than Montserrat Figueras, could represent the Music in the Orfeo of Monteverdi !

Who'd have thought that virbating air could bring one so close to divinity. Her voice is just breathlessly perfect. Spiritual from start to finish. Thanks for sharing this!

Jordi Savall on video! Nice intro. The man is a treasure, as is our singer here.

She was stunning to see. She was stunning to hear. She will stun the heavens with her presence. .. R.I.P.

Watched this opera today in class, never thought I'd like it. I got home and looked it up immediately. Amazing

I'm sad today , the last time I saw her was in june (19th) , she was so good and so beautiful I could not imagine her illness . I never forget her voice and presence on stage .

Wow.. She had a wonderful voice at her 60s.

Everything she touches turns into gold.

...e servo fé l'inferno a sue preghiere, gloria all'immortal di Pindo ed Elicona.. grande monteverdi! orgoglioso d'essere italiano.

Madame Figueras was a beautiful and sensitive artist, and so she remains in our hearts, forever.

My heart weeps for her loss. She was an incredible voice and artist... :(

What a goddess! Such a sad loss to the world

She is so mouving on stage, with her voice incredible, full of grace. She will always stay in our hearts

Quite Beautiful~~~~~ Lovely voice and melody. Great subtle strings.

Sublime. One of the most moving and beautiful presentations I have ever seen!

Montserrat Figueras & Jordi Savall 💖💖💖 Magnifici

Monteverdi Savall et Figueras le bonheur! !

Thank you for this gorgeous footage! Savall & Monserrat have done so much to revive "Early Music", and the more people hear it--and see it!--the better! Cheers from Eire!

Her Art lives forever!

Dulce Montserrat te recordamos

This staging is stupendous.

The introduction reminds me so much of of Harry Potter; I love the way the conductor makes his entrance, Lol!

l'italiano che era lui non siamo piu noi oggi. Altro mondo, altro popolo. Minori glorie musicali. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Quienes no estamos educados en la tradicion de la música académica agradecemos esfuerzos como el de Jordi Savall para incluir al oyente comun a esta modalidad musical. Excelelente iniciativa!

per me i più grandi interpreti di questa musica! magnifici!

Beautiful in the extreme

My favorite opera and singer the whole time. Thank you for posting!

weired and beautiful... loving the orchestra ensable ... they seem to be enjoying it!

Quelle merveille ! Merci pour ce sublime partage.

Non capisco nulla di tecniche vocali..ma adoro questa musica antica prodotta con strumenti musicali fantastici..e poi Montserrat Figueras è insieme bellissima e brava..Credo che questa rappresentazione dell'Orfeo sia stato qualcosa di magnifico

Descanza en paz ángel maravilloso y gracias por todo...

beautifull singing it is very enchanting

absolutely! I've attend her concerts since she started, Lisbon had had the major figures of the new ancient music as you may know or not.This was due not to an interest of the country in culture but to private reasons. And Jordi and his whife Monserrat were friends already with a portuguese musician...She was much more awesome at her begining before having surgery yo her vocal chords, she was orbiden to express that much as she used to do.Eversince she remains fabulous .

What an amazing voice xx

solemne, maravilloso!

Wonderful!! many thanks for posting this gem!

this is amazing...

This is so beautiful!

I LOVE CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI.

Que hermosa voz una entre Miles !!!

What a beautifull video, the shots are great, specially the conductor´s entrance followed by the camera. Very cinematographic. The setting, the clothes and the performers are equally good. I´m not an opera expert but she sounds very nice to me, very relaxing. Thanks for posting

Thanks for posting this. Very sad Monsterrat is gone.

Fantástico!!!

1:43 "The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: ‘Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

Stunning!

Rest in Peace, Montserrat Figueras...

Divino!

Entrada magistral!

The first part of the version of Garrido is already uploaded by the user OedipusColoneus. The name of the file is: Claudio Monterverdi: L'Orfeo "Tocatta & Ritornello"

I can find nothing wrong with the capes, the ingresso of the Maestro and the players on the balconies... It's very baroque, this taste for excess and spectacularity

And that's something that any singer especially the ones who r still in training knows if they have had to sing Lasciatemi morire,the firts thing that i ever sang i choose cause it was the shortest one at seemed so easy but it ended being a pain in the ass..now im in a advanced level but it is still dificult and if you study more you'll find that is still more dificult...that's Monteverdi

meaning of the phrase. Monteverdi's librettos were written by extraordinary poets and he exploits every sound of every word to make it work with the music: should a singer fail to convey this, the rendering would be incomplete as it is unfortunately here.

Maravilloso, espectacular.

wonderful voice!!!

A mí también me extrañó,pero el Permeso (ahora Kefalari) es un río de Beocia ,cercano al monte Helicón. El nombre aparece en la Teogonía v.5 de Hesiodo.Allí las musas refrescaban sus pies para seguir danzando en la cima del monte.

requiescat in pace sra.Montserrat.

May her memory be eternal!

so so beautiful loverly post thank you j vincent edwards why do angels leave us so early love and peace x

Sublime

@idraote Vaig tenir la sort de ser al Liceu veien-t'ho. Quina meravella!

MARAVILLOSO

I believe that u r very well, in these days one could not say: THIS IT IS THE WAY TO SING! MONTEVERDI! Even so we most to take into account that what Claudio Monteverdi and the rest of the camerata fiorentina tried to do it was not opera,it was to try to recreate the Greek theater that they thought it was something among sung and recited

Пусть Земля ей будет пухом, и ЦАРСТВИЕ ЕЙ НЕБЕСНОЕ! НО: пусть ЕЁ благоверный как можно больше успеет сделать для МУЗЫКИ на этом свете: в НАШЕМ МИРЕ!!!!

stupendo....

@thehillcefis Also very true!!

RIP Montserrat...

@eduardobiaggi dont believe that shes a genious because of her singing. for you to be a genius, you must think. she doesnt think WHEN shes singing. she just feels. so i think shes a musa.

being Italian and a lover of baroque music I usually have no problem in deciding what kind of expression I want to give to the musical phrase of Monteverdi. my problem is that singing while keeping the correct pitch all through one of his pieces is very difficult for me: I often realise I'm below the correct pitch and it's frustrating.

I have been recording a lot of Monteverdi as instrumentals and after many not very good attempts I have discovered the secret is to read the words and work out what each phrase is about. For example if he suddenly starts singing about war you can make the articulation more martial or if its about love, more dolce. If you look up my youtube video of Quel Sguardo Sdegnosetto you will see what I mean.

You are quite wrong on 2 things here. 1: This opera was first performed in February 1607, published in 1609 and 1615. 2: It is not the first opera. The first opera was Jacopo Peri's "Dafne", performed in 1598. Most of that opera is missing. That opera was followed by two settings of Rinuccini's Euridice, both composed in 1600 by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini.

איזה יופי של מוסיקה

Um have you ever heard Emma Kirkby sing this part in Charles Medlam's recording?? Maybe you should.

Epic intro.

Y ahí va la prima hermana de mi madre gran montsserrat figueras!

this shit brings tears to my eyes

@basselyrique It's true that there is too much that is not understandable, although I understand her better in this version than in Bacholoj's, and I don't know why, since I presume both have the same origin.(!) Her gestures are classically true, I believe.

Montserrat Figueras RIP :((

I suppose I could also add: are they married to a world famous conductor? It surely doesn't hurt! Although, doubtless Figueras was accomplished enough before her musical partnership with Savall.

arg trop belle

@voxhunden monteverdi is more precious than gold, even without her.

A much better interpretation of "Dal mio Permesso amato" is given by Lynne Dawson on the EBS/Gardiner recording on DG/Archiv.

This must to be a recitativo not an opera aria, and the important parte here is how the music(figueras) interacts with the orchestra, the ritornello must be played with diferent instruments depending of the characters that the music is telling about

Ha giorno beatrice. Mi sol ha.

Euridice Acte 1 " Dal mio Permesso" Opéra italien composé par Jacopo Peri en 1600 sur un livret d'Ottavio Rinuccini1 (d'après le mythe d'Orphée). L'Euridice de Peri est considéré comme le premier opéra véritable , même si Peri avait apparemment déjà composé un Dafne en 1597 (perdu), et participé à la composition des intermezzi de La Pellegrina en 1589, qui était une sorte de proto-opéra. Le livret d'Ottavio Rinuccini tire son argument des livres X et XI desMétamorphoses d'Ovide, qui est une version canonique du mythe d'Orphée : l'histoire de ce musicien fabuleux dont le chant enchantait même les bêtes féroces, et qui à la mort de sa bien-aimée la nymphe Eurydice va descendre aux Enfers pour tenter d'émouvoir Pluton dans l'espoir de revoir sa dulcinée. Il s'agit du premier opéra abordant ce mythe, qui deviendra l'argument le plus populaire du genre : en moins de vingt ans, Peri, Caccini, mais aussi Monteverdi, Domenico Belli et Stefano Landi composèrent chacun un opéra sur ce thème. Pour la composition musicale, Jacopo Peri se fit aider de Giulio Caccini, qui avait déjà participé avec lui à l'aventure de La Pellegrina, et représentera lui-même son propre Euridice en 1602. D'un point de vue musical, l'Euridice met en place de nombreux codes qui deviendront canoniques dans l'opéra. Notamment, il introduit la succession des parties en solo lyrique, en duo et en chœur. Il alterne aussi des passages plus ou moins dramatisés auxquels correspond un phrasé plus ou moins chanté, ce qui va du langage parlé normalement à l'aria en passant par le récitatif. De même, la complexité des harmonies et le nombre d'instruments en jeu se veulent signifiants dramaturgiquement. Par ailleurs, chaque personnage semble avoir, en plus de sa tessiture de voix, une base harmonique qui lui correspond, et sur laquelle vient s'ajouter la tonalité particulière de chaque scène. On note enfin déjà des audaces musicales, comme le recours à des exclamations arythmiques, à la dissonance, ou à des extravagances burlesques de la basse.

@055697 haha, i said that because they are very different from each other, baroque doesnt have order in sonatas, while in clasicism there is

The first Peri/Corsi opera, "Dafne", as I said, is lost except for a few small excerpts. I have, however, seen facsimiles of both the "Euridice" original scores from 1600 (Peri and Caccini), and have heard recordings of both in their entirety. Having studied all three scores, this is the first "good" opera, but definitely not the first opera. Most people who call this the first opera have read their material from inaccurate or outdated sources with little to no academic credibility.

Yo propongo que para su próximo "show" Saval caiga de un avión en paracaidas. . . . . bueno, si de entradas majestuosas se trata.

Monteverdi it is an speciallity in sing like Rossini for example,no everybody just sing Monteverdi i far more complex that it seems

@kyrpap1981 is it...

why is it so hard to find this with english subtitles??? it doesnt exist

I agree...maybe she should listen to the instrumentalists?

Manific Monteverdi !

Ms Figueras has always been a lovely musician with a lovely voice. Her problem here is that her volume is not much and is not enogh for a theatre: she wisely avoids forcing and pushing and retains the purity of her singing. Another problem of her is that she never could master the Italian pronunciation: she sings as a musician would play, with a nice sense of the vocal line and a graceful rendering but, besides some annoying mistakes, she never uses the sounds of the language to convey the

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didn't know that Cher did classical :D

If you only knew...My comment has obviously started a good "conversation", but when people start calling other people by names, that's when the maturity level comes to question. I am far from an amateur. As far as voice production, the study thereof wasn't as advanced as it is today or even during Rossini's time (that's when it began to be greatly comprehensible)......

nice video.OK. sayonara my friends.

2:20

Well, I just thought your original post sounded a little presumptuous. But perhaps I over-reacted, I find RU-vid tends to get people excitable and opinionated, myself included; probably because one is never very likely to meet the individual you're in communication with in person. I have heard of Basel, and I also think you're very lucky to be in a school with a focus on ancient music. Good luck!