émouvant, la rencontre de deux virtuoses, extraordinaire Sumi, trésor de Corée et Vicenté, à mon avis le meilleur pianiste qui l'a accompagné pendant une partie de sa magnifique carrière !!!
Wenn man diese brilliante Leichtigkeit mit manchen anderen Versionen vergleicht, wächst die Erkenntnis: Sumi Jo ist einfach das absolut höchste Ergötzen!
It was the 4/4/2006 in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Ypu can see me in the middle of the third row. It was a great evening and a triumph for Sumi-Jo with a great parisian public!
Bueno yo soy cantante y profesor de un Conservatorio, y puedo opinar con cierta experiencia: Tanto Sumi Jo como la Batoli, son cantantes excepcionales, de las mejores en su genero, que hagan algo que no es para su tessitura, lo pueden hacer. aqui veo una gran agilidad en una autentica soprano ligera, buen ataque en el diafragma, gran fiato, trinos stacattos, fiorituras, muy bien colocados con brillos diversos. REPITO: Una cosa es que algunos no les gusta tal cantante, y otra que no cante bien.
and there she goes taking mezzo soprano roles! well at her beginning she thought she was a mezzo soprano so she surely has some mezzo skills. And what skills! her coloratura is excellent as always! flawless rendition! love sumi :)
Mezzosoprano = half soprano in Italian, and both voices share a good deal of their range (C4 to A5 is basically shared by both tessitura), with some mezzo being able to hit G3-A3 (typical contralto notes) and sopranoes being able to hit notes above A5, up to C6, sometimes reaching as far as F#6 for the lightest sopranoes.
VERY GOOD !! This is something different from Bartoli's performances. DON'T argue who is better. It's as green as children. " which is more stronger between tigers and lions?"
@Dorian G. doesn’t mean she makes a better sound. Contrary to popular opinion, Bartoli doesn’t really make such a stable, clean, nice and transparent sound. She has a lot of issues like Knodel sound and wobbly voice. If you watch a channel called: Floria Tosca you will know what I mean. Sumi Jo on the other hand, is rarely amazing in today’ opera scene! She’s one of the sopranos who are the closest to Old School singing.
just bear in mind that while she's having this recital, it's her father's funeral on the other side of the world. This recital is her tribute to her dead father.
I love how such an excellent coloratura sang this in a mezzo style and so different from Bartoli or Cangemi. All amazing for sure, but Sumi did flawlessly here in such a brilliant manner!
Interessante é perceber o retorno das árias de Vivaldi no cenário operístico atual. Poucos se recordam que o selo Naïve auxiliou na popularização de óperas antes esquecidas, além de cantores que se debruçaram no repertório barroco. Parabéns pela avetura
@jmsampietro En realidad solo es una versión distinta de lo que estamos acostumbrados a escuchar con esta aria, Sumi Jo da una buena y distinta forma de escuchar este tema pues ella es soprano y una de las más respetadas en su generación, una de las mejores voces actuales
Estoy harto de todo el mundo haciendo comparacion entre esta interpretacion y la de Cecilia. Si Cecilia era mejor, pero esta es una interpretacion valida. Y no era tan mala. Porfa! Dejala en paz y apreciala por lo que es.
Yes, this aria is written for a medium coloratura mezzo (originally for a male castrato), while Sumi Jo is a high lyric coloratura soprano. Her chest is developed enough for her to hit the main low notes (1:43), though you can hear her struggle in some of the more complicated low sections (2:57) and flat out re-write them (2:20, and she skipped the entire low B-section) in others. She is absolutely wonderful in this rendition in my opinion, given she’s the wrong voice type :)
bueno, soy flautista pero he hecho musica de camara con cantantes, en primer lugar no es una mala version, lo que pasa es que no es brillante; para un cantante segun mi experiencia, su interpretacion depende de muchos factores externos e internos y aunque se trabaje el 300% para la perfeccion simpre hay un margen de error, y ella canta esta aria de una forma decorosa, sabiendo que no esta hecha para su registro ella inteligentemente sube las octavas nescesarias, es una version muy racional!!!!!!
It is indeed hard to find her doing operas on RU-vid, though there are some great recording of her live operas if you dig a bit deeper~~ Like La Sonnambula, good luck on treasure hunting :)
Vivaldi was a composer who was utterly insensitive to the natural limits of human vocal capacity. (He wasn't the only one -- Beethoven and Mozart, among others, had a similar problem.) Agitata seems to have been written for a string virtuoso then transcribed for voice. All singers who try Agitata have difficulty with it, Including the remarkable Bartoli. Ms. Jo accepts the challenge courageously and does a fantastic job with an impossible piece. Brava! Well done!
@primohomme castrati are just brilliant haaa i cant remember who but one could do a thousand note passage in a minuet with one breath haa they were simply amazing but its a good thing they dont exist anymore :)
@MrCurryFan It's all a matter of personal choice! If you prefer Bartoli enjoy her, please don't come here making silly statements. I never never insult other singers, I simply don't listen to them. In my world Sumi Jo is and always has been number one.
Hey!!! Very good! Sumi Jo does a very good job! I love this aria, and altough it's not for Cecilia's voice, I think Cecilia Bartoli puts a great energy to this aria.
En duo avec un piano, c'est plus difficile qu'avec un orchestre à cordes. Sumi Jo est exceptionnelle mais je pense que pour cet Aria, elle aurait à y gagner avec un orchestre.
I like this piece accompanied by an orchestra better than the piano. Prety though i do prefer Cecilia Bartoli when it comes to Baroque music. Sumi did a nice job though.
Agreed...the pianist is not great at all. However, Sumi Jo is incredible in this piece, although Bartoli is more polished. The comment about Asians is completely unwarranted though! As a Chinese-Canadian I take much offence to the comment you made - it sounds like Asians are not competent. "Not bad - for an Asian?" I don't think so. She's amazing!
@rmcinuk ... and how can you understand if you like a singer or not, if you don't begin to listen to them? :) moreover, i didn't insult her. i was replying to a person who said something not very flattering to bartoli. and then, why did you reply only to my comment when there are many many other comments about how much bartoli is better than sumi jo?
I don't get it, why's everyone bitching 'bout this? It's not THAT bad. And for your information, Bartoli doesn't own this aria. She owns Armatae Face, but not this. This one is better done by both Emma Kirkby and Veronica Cangemi. :)
I like Sumi Jo's rendition more than Bartoli's. I don't like Bartoli's voice, too mechanic. Not saying she's not good, but I prefer Sumo Jo 💕💗🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹bravoooooo
I have to agree. She just stands there and with much effort gets most of the notes out. It's more like a workshop recital. I always say, if you can't even pronounce what you're singing you shouldn't perform it at all.
@contatolirico el que esta fuera de foco eres tu! Vivaldi escribe esta aria para voces especiales que podian cantarlas SOLO tessituras unicas desde baritonos hasta sopranos y las voces tenian los colores de la voz diversa.
Non basta essere brave, fare i vocalizzi, studiare, esercitarsi....bisogna saper interpretare, emozionare, avere intensità e profondità...quindi o lei é sopravvaluta, oppure le mie orecchie sono abituate a qualcosa di meglio! It is not enough to be good, vocalize, study, practice .... you have to know how to interpret, excite, have intensity and depth ... so either she is overrated, or i have used my ears too well ll ne suffit pas d'être bon, de faire les vocalisations, d'étudier, de pratiquer ... il faut savoir interpréter, émotioner, avoir de l'intensité et de la profondeur ... donc, ou elle est surestimé, ou J'ai trop bien utilisé mes oreilles!
Antonio Vivaldi is my favourite composer, and Jo Sumi my favourite soprano, so you can imagine how much emotive is this performance for me. Heavenly voice, Jo Sumi.
She does look really uncomfortable. It sounds to me this piece is new to her (also to the pianist!). I wonder what made her decide to tackle this, especially after Cecilia Bartoli's perfect interpretation (fabulously accompanied by authenitc Baroque bands twice over) is branded in everyone's ears. Perhaps she's resentful that she never got to do all the great Baroque parts during her prime, which would've been superb. The informed Baroque performance movement missed her and vice versa.
Creo que no es una mala interpretación, sin embargo, no es la misma expresión vocal al oírla con las maestras Vivica Genaux o Cecilia Bartoli. Claro que los castrados si querían la cantaban con mezzosoprano o contralto y hasta soprano, si se les ocurría, vocalmente para ellos nada era imposible.
Thankfully we don't do such barbaric things anymore and I don't wish to return to the days of the castrati. We will never know what a good castrato sounded like (Moreschi wasn't a good one...he was only a choral singer).
Es sabido que no es para su registro, con sólo leer el libreto se consta. ¿ Por qué tántas críticas contra Sumi Jo ? Es una de las voces más grandes de éstos tiempos y por algo está donde está y se da lujos como éste, son versiones, al igual que a Caballé las desterraron por éste aria (recién ví el video y junto con él sus comentarios despectivos) a mi me daría verguenza faltarle el respeto de esa manera a una DIOSA como lo son ambas.
I PARTLY agree with you on Koreans: vanity, yes, lack of individuality bordering totalitarianism, yes, but stupid? NEVER! They are some of the smartest people. And Sumi Jo is one magnificent songbird, and that's all that matters here. This performance does not display Sumi Jo at her best (well, she's way past her prime anyway), but still it's more than respectable. She desperately needs Baroque specialists. She has the right instrument, but she has no style. She might get a great result.
Of course she perhaps to work on the style, she never said she is the queen of baroque period, anyway she sing nicely this piece and Whatever we can say on the style she we still stay THE sumi Jo. I think that on the fact that she is a really great soprano she has nothing to prove anymore... Beside that she is doing strange out of tone notes at 2:35 , I don't know why...
