Olga Borodina -Samson et Dalila -Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix

[Ammillcare]

Роскошно!!! БРАВО!!

[bodiloto]

la castrazione moderna.

[operafan0anegnd]

Delightful performance. Superb voice, suits the part perfectly.

[Allotmenteer2]

Why the high note at the end?

[lredmon]

This is a poor recording.  That is the reason that lies behind the complaints. She does have a rich and expressive presense....and almost jumped out of that dress!

[Motskov1000]

Listen to the same aria with Shirley Verret and Vickers

[raaadja99]

She possesses a very beautiful voice that is absolutely undeniable. Unfortunately, having seen her live in concert I was really disappointed. She was very distant, cold and made absolutely no emotional connection with the audience. She even appeared arrogant in pauses. Her singing was technically absolutely supreme, though.

[ididete]

@raaadja99 Thanks for confirming my impressions! I have never seen her live but that's the impression of her personality I get from watching her here on youtube. I wonder why and how pianists are never like that (obviously because communication with the public is all they can offer, they don't have the possibility to blow them away with just a booming voice), while opera singers are most of the time pompous assholes, and not rarely, very uneducated people.

[SDCmorg]

@ididete That may just be her stage persona. I've heard very differently about her in real life (tho I don't know her personally). I think she's known as outspoken but sincere.

Most opera singers today are actually very educated (most are college grads with post-grad music degree) and very nice and down to earth! There are a handful who are pompous arses, yes, that's the same with every other group of people in life. It isn't fair to attribute the behavior of the very few for the entire group.

[65attila]

This is a good performance But I prefer a more lush sound. The extra breaths rob the piece of senousness, The slow rempo is trying and the legato is not smooth. I prefer Rita Gorr, Fiorenza Cossoto, Ebe Stignani,, Ewa Podles,, Giulietta Simionato,, Rise Stevens, Irene Minghini Cattaneo and Sigrid Onegin among others.

[paulostroff99]

Superb,simply superb.TY Gabba02 for posting.

[miguellevy]

Apart from Callas, i think it's the best performance i listened to.... Even then, i think they are both awesome, so wouldn't even rate either as better than the other.

[scargo1013]

she has the sexiest voice ever!!

[cottisa]

totally beautiful.

[Bee92iBella]

i've heard this from callas and now i can't like anyone else's interpretation. her breathing here is horrible, too often too strong. I also prefer a more piercing sound of the voice.

[Turand0t]

@Bee92iBella I love the Callas version too. It is really expressive. Even though she wasn't a mezzo, she sung it wonderfully. I have a recording of Samson et Dalila with Borodina and Cura. I like Borodina in that recording better than here.

[deadoroable]

meravigliosa

[tonyhan0903]

I've seen Borodina on the stage couple of times before and never thought she was great. This performance completely changed my opinion about her. Her singing was so moving that I was getting goose bump and chill for entire seven minutes and my eyes are welling up with tears. I don't even have words to describe this performance.

[Alce2008]

A superb DIVA.

Alce 2008

[MakovDmitry]

Да. К сожалению только тембр. Не дыхания , не легато. Главное - подать себя. Русская школа.

[sharonmary]

what a beautiful tone! Dont know about all the rest, but the tone!

[Mr064Alex]

Magnifique ! j'adore le timbre de sa voix.

[sukararar]

BRAVO!!!!

[ioan2000]

see also Elena Cernei!

[Tita398]

!Que maravillosa versión de esta sublime aria! Bravo Borodina, inmensa.

[Tenorbravo]

This interpretation is so BEAUTIFUL...tHANK YOU FOR SHARING IT. HER VOICE IS SO SWEET FOR THE SCENE OF THE TENTATION...JUST PERFECT..

[TenHanded]

Beautiful

[achavot]

Modanna singing better then her

[htshoward]

Love that dark rich coffee sound. Beautiful! Wonderful tone.

[khamikins]

Nah man!

[pipolll58]

Una Dalila poco coinvolgente. Di Baltsa ce ne una sola..... ed insuperabile

[ah332]

so intimate

[babby1998]

I love you

[ShamusMacGuffin]

What breath control! It's simply mind boggling. I attempted this aria in my private study and I'm a 6 foot 200 pound tenor and my lungs are pretty much a tank, but even I had so much difficulties controlling the breath. To take this tune as slowly as she is and hold the breath that long....it's powerful.

[khamikins]

check Jessye NOrmans version, it is even slower. and absolutely amazing

[muhziah]

Her voice is simply exceptional. Bravo Olga

[lojundolo]

I think that she could sing Strauss an Mahler lieder and chamber music, it seems not a voice for opera staging. Bb is not so good as somebody commented.

[senilangakali]

thank god for Borodina...

[ybegni]

Her singing is so tuching, loved her gentle and at a time, stong voice . Thanks for posting it.

[luvinblume]

I never tire of listening to Borodina, She is incomparable. and lovely to boot. My heart goes out to callasexperience

Thta hr or she can only criticise perfection.

Luvinblume

[neronnenn]

Bella voce ma una Dalila un po' noiosa...

[DivaDeb1234]

I thought it was very beautiful.

Very difficult to sustain that slow temp

but she did it very well.

A beautiful B flat.

[Heraopera]

This is singing...one of the last real skilful and talented Mezzos of our days..... Brava!

[pasielu]

bella voce,su tutto il registro.

anche l'orchestra tenuta sotto controllo dal direttore.

[callasexperience]

mmmm, sounds too masculin

[callastoujours]

I love it!!! The best Dalila for me.

[agabusdawatchman]

I love Olga

[Yasmund]

A perfect Russian Dalila (Irina Arkhipova as archetype...)

[cellomikel29]

oh my god that french! its just DRIPPING with beauty!

[StetsonSOMusic]

no, it's in the score- for samson...the solo version has delilah singing it to fill in the gap in the music left when samson's not around, hehe.

[idraote]

what's the meaning of that finale samson je t'aime not in the score? just to show off her high notes?

[callastoujours]

That's the way this aria is done in concerts, of course, not every Diva can do it with this kind of mastery.

[corellithebest]

Borodina's performance is outstanding! What a dark, seductive voice, just as Dalila was intended to be!

[pslogge]

Olga, i always thought you are a great artist!

[negroenfermo]

bueno loco!segun mi opinion ya que se muchod e esto esta mina es mezzo!y nada de discuciones!! es asi! loco! y tiene ese registro chau !

eso me dijo maylen! ese amigo

[Voluptuossa1234]

This is my favorite rendition of this aria. She sings it so beautifully and tenderly! Samson had no chance.

[amandemil]

What a beautiful voice and you can understand her french!!! Brava!! Is that Gergiev conducting?

[jazzfanjohn]

Looks like Gergiev indeed - conducting without a toothpick!

[amandemil]

You know him!!! Used to be a pencil....or nothing "fingers,fingers"!

[cherishiskisa]

Yes it is!

[herlovly1]

BRAVA, and she is a mezzo, listen to some of her Rossini!

[141407078989]

I see many people think that olga is a contralto and I understand it perfectly, her lows are so good (but not so low)as Anderson's, she is known as a mezzo but she sounds like a contralto, her high b flat is amazing, her voice reminds me a little bit of Horne's and no doubt: she is the best Dalila ever!

[arredifestivi]

fantastica donna

[KILLERADVICE]

Beautiful voice but a nonchalant Dalila...

A taste of oratorio.

Needs french vitamines!

[senilangakali]

HAhahahahahahaha!

[Voluptuossa1234]

She is my favorite for this role. She sings this song beautifully and so tenderly that even I am seduced by her. She makes one understand why Samson fell prey to her!

[lamoureternelle]

so far my favorite

[lessandri]

por favor, no sean tontos! Que tienem en contra las contraltos? Y pq creen que callas es la mejor? existem cosas que callas no hace , y obras en que elige ciertas cosas que no quedan muy bien. La verdad és que todos tienem caracteristicas que tornam su voz, expectacular, como ella, soy contralto, y se quanto cuesta para hacer lo que hizo olga...y bueno, no es facil! me gusto bastante, go olga!

[hydra333]

Oh, por Dios eh vivido engañado, creía que Borodina era Mezzo, no contralto je. De Callas se admira su fraseo, dicción y penetración en esta aria.

[hydra333]

Ojo, que no digo que Olga haga un mal trabajo, de hecho es una Dalila deliciosa

[141407078989]

A mis oidos, olga es una contralto con muy benos agudos, sus graves son todavía mejores, pero se autodenomina mezzo porque si fuese contralto, no tendría mucho repertorio operístico que cantar, incluso como mezzo, el repertorio no es suficientemente generoso

[hydra333]

No hay que basarse en el color de la voz siempre (sino L. Price seria mezzo o Kozena soprano) sino en su registro vocal... repertorio hay, es cosa de buscarlo ve a Podles, Ferrer, Anderson... cuando hay talento y deseo siempre hay repertorio

[141407078989]

Pero coincidirás conmigo en que las sopranos tienen muchísimo más repertorio que las mezzos y todavía más que las contraltos. Estoy totalmente deacuerdo con lo que dices del timbre y el registro, lo de Borodina contralto también lo decía por su registro, si tienes la oportunidad de escucharla cantar "song and dances of death" de mussorgsky, verás que es una contralto con carrera de mezzo, thanks for reply me, siempre es un placer hablar de estas cosas...

[sem105]

huje ia u nei nichego eshe ne slishal. shepchushiaia Borodina. mojet bol'na...???

[robbie3013]

I love her voice....

[gofioboy]

Creo k no tienes ni idea de quien es la Borodina, ni siquiera de opera.

[rcontre1961]

Después de escuchar a Callas, cualquier cosa es pequeña.

[primadivo]

not my favourite vocally but she understands the aria better than other singers

[mm9913]

not bad for a contralto, talk about a blind B flat, she got it. Great expression through out.

[anaolga]

she's a mezzo

[marcocito]

Hobo197 : Tu es un ignare! Abstiens-toi d'écrire des conneries!

[PonselleLover]

Si que es, y ademas incapaz de argumentar su inmotivado juicio de valor. Claro que ella es la mejor Dalila de nuestros tiempos.

[marcocito]

Cette femme chante très bien! Ce que vous pouvez être chiant avec vos remarques désobligeantes!

[rmegna]

Je suis completment d'accord -elle comprend absolument les idees centrales et le sentiment de cet air. Assez belle rendition. Son francais est excellent. Bravo!

[PonselleLover]

Parfaitement. De plus, aucun de ses "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" ne ressemble aux autres. Certains sont pianissimo, comme celui-ci, d'autres plus opulents; tous sensibles, d'une rare intelligence et d'un velouté et d'une opulence de timbre rares.

[jdeslauriers]

It was a very tender rendition. Not the best vocally. But I'd rather hear it sung this way than a runaway bull in a china shop.

[ypofero86]

Maybe her singing isn't so good on here, but I have just seen her yesterday as Dalila and she has gotten much better at it, clear French and much more dramatic and sensible. Her voice has also become more flexible towards the high notes. But she has gotten a very big Diva allure, she wouldn't come greet again on stage after the performance because the clapping wasn't hard enough for her!! she's going the same way as Battle I'm afraid...

[Raquelly]

If this is to destroy an aria... I can't believe what I am reading, indeed! Borodina has a velvet voice and has a perfect fiato which enables her to perform this tempo as well as a command of her breath which allows her to do the pianissimi.

I loved it!

Thank you to the person who uploaded this clip.

Raquel Barbieri

[escamillo78]

I do agree. Borodina is a Dalila with expression and a voice that allows her to sing pianissimo - that's very rare today.

[hobo197]

destroyed the aria.

[oOFleurDeLisOo]

Really? I disagree, i thought it was sweetly sung, not the best by any means, but still sweet. Her French is clear too.

[Ludwig5554]

Sorry, but Tendrésse is not french! She sings very beautiful, but from the seducive passion is noting left over, she seems more a Michaella.