Rosa Feola, soprano Veronica Simeoni, mezzo soprano René Barbera, tenor Alex Esposito, bass-baritone Teatro alla Scala Orchestra & Chorus Myung-Whun Chung 5 March, 2021
Merci pour cette performance en une période si troublée. Merci d'avoir osé. Un bel acte de résistance aux contraintes si fortes que nous impose la COVID. Merci pour cet encouragement à vivre debout dans la douleur telle Marie au pied de la Croix. Merci à tous les musiciens, aux organisateurs, à tous, merci du fond du cœur. Que Dieu vous bénisse.
Muchísimas gracias por este concierto. Conocí esta obra gracias al concierto que el 4 de abril del 2022 se ofreció en el Teatro alla Scala, en el Concierto por la Paz. Gracias por lo que la música, el respeto, el arte y la reflexión muestran ante el dolor. La obra es significativa y valiente; da voz a quienes nos unimos en la distancia con el dolor de nuestros semejantes, esperando pronto se viva nuevamente en paz. Gracias Italia por su sensibilidad, gracias al director, a los músicos, cantantes, administradores y al público sensible y generoso. Por la paz, grazie. Grazie.
Magnifico, extraordinario!!! Felicitaciones al Sr. Director, solistas, coro y orquesta. Hermosa obra que tuve el inmenso placer de cantar como coreuta . Gracias,gracias por tan brillante interpretación. Desde Buenos Aires,Argentina.
I also had the honor and pleasure of singing this magnificent work in our college choir. It is immensely pleasurable to find performances like this on You Tube. What would I do without You Tube? I can wrap myself up in the long, dark red velvet cloak of opera with the fine gold embroidery and stay so clostered until the end of the terrors of the wòrld.. This performance is extraordinary. Chorus, soloists, orchestra and conductor have created a thrilling performance.
Splendida non dimenticabile edizione di uno straordinario commovente Rossini. Chung è un grande direttore, i solisti ottimi, Renè Barbera mi ha emozionato. Difficile, ma entusiasmante fare musica in questo periodo. Grazie per averlo postato
marzo 2021,non dimenticherò mai al cimitero di Bari le file di bare che arrivavano per la cremazione,tra questi mio suocero,che brutto momento.spero che sia tutto passato
How absurd is our present world! Here, in the famous La Scala, everyone is in mask and spacing, all standing and sitting in the auditorium, instead the stage. A strong experience.
Well if this considered an excellent performance then it’s proof of the low standard of singing today. The tenor and mezzo for example would have been of standard previously heard at a local amateur performance.
Una emocionante interpretación de esta inspirada y delicada obra no operística de Rossini. ¡Bravo por todos , orquesta coro, solistas y director! Aunque suena un poco triste...en la soledad del Covid 19
Un'emozione preziosa e che resterà nel tempo. Esecuzione bellissima. Chung, sono sicuro, avrà pensato al suo grande, indimenticato Maestro C.M. Giulini e a una sua memorabile interpretazione di questo capolavoro, in cui pure scelse, con un certo rischio, di far cantare il Quando corpus a tutto il coro. Grazie per questo dono!
Az ázsiai származású karmester profi módon és együttérzéssel vezényli az európai művet. Ez a felvétel nemcsak azért értékes, mert a művészek kiválóak, hanem abból a szempontból is, mert bátran dokumentálja a 21. század eddigi legnagyobb emberiségellenes botrányát.
Barbera sings a lovely, lyrical Cujus Animam. However, the voice is produced solely from the throat upwards to the Mask. It is a pretty sound but without much body though it suggests it. I wonder what he might have sounded like had Barbera involved the body = core muscles?
Well being René Barbera I can assure you my core muscles are very much involved in my singing. The vocal technique to which I subscribe does focus on singing in the mask, yes, but by no means does that suggest the rest of my body is not actively involved. The core muscles support the airflow and sound and what happens above that is placement. I do appreciate the compliment, however. I was incredibly nervous after 7 months without setting foot on stage and I am no longer used to that amount of adrenaline.
Also worthy of note - microphones do not tell the whole story of what a voice sounds like live. I wish we could have had a live audience in the theater but alas, Covid has done away with that for the time being.
@@ThatOperaDude Thank you for your very frank response. I am surprised because this is the first time anyone has responded - certainly in the manner and to the extent that you did. I am most favorably impressed and much appreciate that you took the time to write to me. Generally, comments of the kind that I make, are ignored - at best. It is rare, in my experience, that people devote the time to express interest in the serious subject of critique related to the vocal arts. So again, many thanks and of course, much success in your career.
@@ThatOperaDude as a singer, not at your level of course, I can attest to your statement about microphones. They take away a great percentage of overtones making the sound more muffled and weirdly metallic. In fact, if someone records me live, even from a phone but distant, the sound is much more vibrant. It is said that many times, people like Corelli and Del Monaco for example, placed the mics behind them! Because of tv production, mics are placed close to the singer when in fact, if they were placed far away, you would hear much more heft in all the performers. Maybe I’m wrong but to me it seems this way.
Что иожет быть безобразнее лица , закрытого маской ?! Ничего ...Лик , то есть лицо , это данность каждому от Всевышнего...и вы отказались от Него , закрыв лик свой мерзостью забытия и неверия в Его силы ...над вами всеми .
This one really sums it the hell up- conductor, La Scala orchestra and singers with their worthless faces bagged up and ritually humiliated and mocked. People who would do _that_ indicate their lack of insight and judgement, and hence aesthetic and artistic limitations. An end of an era indeed. At least the mask shows outwardly what people really are without having to bother meeting them.
A Scalaból közvetített Rossini mű, a Stabat Mater, sajnos ma is korszerű és időszerű. Lásd a maszkos, jelképesen is gyászoló közönséget és a muzsikusok egy részét!
Direzione pulita e sentita. Bene il coro e l'orchestra. Soprano e tenore, bravi. Il mezzosoprano non è all'altezza di questa produzione. Il bass-baritono non ha propriamente un bel colore di voce ma tecnicamente cerca di difendersi... Non sempre ci riesce.
This conductor betrays the fact that he is a pianist who never needed to breathe to produce a sound. His arm almost never helps the ensemble coördinate the breath before an attack. The chorus certainly does NOT appreciate having to guess when to breath before naked attacks, and they can be forgiven for discrepancies in the ensemble. Mr. Chung gives NO indication of where to place the syllables in crucial passages. HIs deficiencies are most apparent in the a cappella movement; observe from 34:10 to the end. Mr. Chung's recordings of Beethoven trios with his sisters are perfectly coördinated, but I suspect that's because the Chungs had been playing Beethoven trios in their living room from childhood.
Prima di concederci, bontà sua, tutta la sua grande competenza, si è reso conto delle condizioni in cui questi magnifici artisti hanno dovuto esibirsi, della collocazione del coro? (discrepancies in the ensemble!)
Mit Maske? Weg damit!, nicht nur weg mit der Musik, weg mit dem Orchester!! Braucht kein Mensch! Musik ist Freiheit, wer das so ensembliert hat den Wert von Musik nicht verstanden! Und wer den Wert von Musik nicht versteht, den brauchen wir nicht!
