La Cenerentola, Rossini: "Là del ciel nell'arcano profondo"

[fatalistbg1]

Wonderfully idyllic work !!!

[Agorante]

I have posted the score of this aria in the original key and also transposed down a half step.

[foropera]

Killer aria for the basses... So high and exhausting. Plishka is doing quite a good job. Ramey had the same teacher, Armen Boyajian, and one can hear it.

[Oscarenedg]

Questo è uno dei miei preferiti Arie dell'opera.

Essere non ci fosse nessun cantanti, l'opera di Nizza fu! jajaja

[dangmills]

Stupid that they didn't place the soundtrack onto a cd

[zegermans750]

Saw flicka last month. She's old and wrinkly but she still has those eyes and that smile.

[Sylv6677]

I have a copy of this score, but didn't find an original

[DoryViolet]

Federica is just wonderful and looks so innocent as Angelina!!

[WotansSpeer]

There are so many better interpretations. e.g. Samuel Ramey, Wolfgang Schöne, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo,....

[DoryViolet]

also Michele Pertusi, I love his Alidoro.

[IMasnadieri]

WHAT!!?? Idebrando's is half step down and Samuel Ramey is great but not at this level compared with Plishka.

[zegermans750]

please post ramey singing this aria, he's my favorite singer

[papagena92]

I have the dvd of wolfgang schone!!! You mean salzburg festspiele 1988?

[WotansSpeer]

Yes Salzburg Festspiele with Gino Quilico, Walter Berry, Ann Murray, .....

[fontana2k]

Spectacular!!

[WotansSpeer]

Plishka's performance is inconspicuous. His vocal technique isn't the best! I think it's not his best role.

[Agorante]

Perhaps you don't quite understand what inconspicuous means.

[bobom1]

I agree... Anyone who can sing this aria this well has a first class vocal technique...

[ah332]

are you serious? he sings this incredibly difficult aria with such ease and beauty...i hope you were joking...

[Agorante]

Wonderful! I've never performed this role but I've studied it. It took me months to find the sheet music. Often the much easier aria "Vasto Theatro" is performed. If "La Del Ceil" is done it is often by a lighter bass baritone because it's so florid. Ramey of course sings it very well but not as well as this.

I remember once I saw Plishka riding on the outside of a cable car in SF. I stopped my car and yelled at him "Paul Plishka". He looked confused. I then yelled "I'm a fan". Still am.

[Agorante]

@nakedbass

I don't think I can help you. It was very hard to find the sheet music. Eventually I found an obscure company on the web. The copy they sent me was all marked up. I don't know why this particular aria's music is so hard to find. Seems odd.

[linalnrs]

E qua interviene Rossini in persona a dire la sua! Ci sta benissimo!

[93rardo]

What a great opera! Rossini; Il Maestro of opera.

[operasampling]

Magnificent voice!!

[tehen162]

Wonderful. The perfect Alidoro.

[loverflicka]

Magnífica la escena, y magnífica y bellísima y encantadora y... y..., Flicka.

[clarksc1988]

I second this, especially the last part.

[pennapennapennapenna]

splendido

[jrodrigoae]

Muy bello!!

[Arsace88]

Suggestivo!

[smnole]

Manifique!

[peppemary]

bella llinea di canto