I do think she can be good for some funny stagings, but in a vocal or musical level... come on! I mean, this could be alright for a student, but I don't think it's something to be shown by a professional singer.
Nice voice... but it was all the same. No dinamics, no pianissimi, always the same and again and again. Is she having a career because she looks good?... that´s what it seems to me cause there´s nothing extraordinary in her voice or singing. Just a nice voice. Is was boring!
She sings so beautifully, and so emotionally, one gets lost in the song. She also looks stunning. She looks in good shape, has a beautiful face, and carries and moves herself with sophistication. The dress is lovely and has a hint of seductiveness with the one shoulder partly off. (This is a style for those who think her dress is "crooked")
Will listen to this over and over again. I love it.
Sublime. The best I have heard. This song is simple - but the simple things are also often the hardest. I love the way she interprets both the horror of the prison, and the love she feels for freedom...
I think she's better as in opera than in recitals. Please remember that this is live and most recordings aren't (they are heavily editted) so try not to compare this to non live recordings.
i love that people hate on her...it's ridiculous. She signs it very well...of ocurse not the best..but give her a break. She put her heart into singing this.
This wonderful woman has alot of haters....true the golden age of opera has now past, but these young artist are doing very well, shez bouyant, agile, and her technique is based off the Italian method which is different than then the Austrian Style, she reminds me of Cecelia Bartoli
I am thinking that maybe this singer was having an off day and was using too much dramma to help the voice along. Or maybe she is lacking technique for this very exposed peice. To my ear it was very off stylistically, The whole thing is missing elegance. And I feel the accent on libertà isn't correct.( she borught the b in too soon. The dramma was more for Verdì but this is Handel.
i hear a lot of people talk about her technique and that it will damage her chords or something later on...im just learning about stuff like that...can someone please explain??
Breath support isn't the only thing she lacks... try some talent/skill I could do without the grotesque faces as well. no need to look like a third-rate pornstar having fake orgasms on every word.
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And don't EVEN get me startedon that "pianist" that looks like he's fingerbanging the piano.. he might be fantasizing about the singer while he plays!
Sad but true, why is this woman's beauty enough to overcompensate for the fact that she is no where near a world class voice. Good lord, opera is dying.
@JavierMartinDuarte Of course I exaggerate about the minor ninth vibrato. but it gets the point across. The vibrato I hear every time I catch part of a Met broadcast is horribly wide and unnatural.
Too much gyrating, a stiller body would have produced better breath control and a more silvery sound. IMO The aria is more about internal anguish and resignation not Verdian drama.
her voice is weird, in the sense that it seems to get such varied responses from people. I've never hear a performer with such a black and white division of people either loving or hating their voice.
really beautiful but my only problem is its way to slow its dragging and its losses quality there. Also if she relaxed her jaws more it would sound breathtaking by clenching the jaw its not as free as it could sound. However she has done this song better then anyone else i have heard.
With the awful piano (I know he can play, but it was never meant for piano) it's too romantic for my taste. This aria is been done so many times before, and this isn't the best sung IMHO. I hope I never have to listen to this version again.
ok ok ive listened to this about 3x now the more i listen the more her voice annoys me I think its the straigth tone it just urks my nerves so bad ugh...
Is that dress meant to fall off her shoulder? I've just seen her in same dress singing same aria on BBC3 Youtube and it was falling off there! If not then it's a rather shabby attempt to sex up the presentation. I agree with the other comments here - I think there is too much emotion put into the aria rather than letting it speak for itself. I prefer Deborah York's interpretation - see verey strange production with David Daniels (who is fab as well).
I was reading your comment and I must agree with you , she is a beautiful girl that happens to sing as well. Her voice is not properly placed and if she doesn ´t work on it , she might have troubles later on.
The tempo is to slow, it's not majestic it is, what's the musical term for "standing still" the next note doesn't come. I find that I am listening to the rest-notes instead of the song. One note towards the end "sospiri" at 3.14 is a quite bad miss-out . Apart from that a beautiful and skillful singer. I look on the side while listening not to see all the weeping. A really sad person doesn't do that. Do they??
3:14 isnt really a miss-out on the note. If you studied Baroque musical style/composition, then she did something that would typically have been done. Baroque composers put dissonances on strong beats (beats 1 or 3) and resolved them softly which is what Danielle de Niese did there.
You might very well be right there. It is so fragrant that she would notice. The dissonance cuts through and if it is the intention of the composer then then she fulfills that. My compliments Danielle ..(bowing)
Indeed 3.14 imay be seen as a dissonance on a strong beat or even a kind of appogiatura but I must still concur with flemingway: It really doesn't sound well, it's a coma (1/4 tone) that generates too much instability at a crucial moment (the end of the musical sentence). The singers of that time used the coma in trills at the end but never this bad.
Nice interpretation, but there is some work. First off, I do prefer stronger voices for this aria. There has to be some desperation and desire in the voice, but no drama.
That's what makes this part so difficult. If you add too much power, the "weeping" loses its subtlety. On the other hand, the aria needs some passionate drive, and often singers seem to forget this.
All in all, a good attempt, but near the end she misses some steps in the tempo and the timbre.
Voice very uneven; and why cannot she let Handel´s wonderful vocal line convey the feeling, instead of the histrionics.Kills rather than intensifies the emotional content. Maybe I am cynical, but would she be so much flavour of the moment if she wasn´t so good looking?
She is very like Lesley Garrett was 10 years ago, in singing and in personality. Let's see if she is as versatile also. See "Lesley Garrett - Handel: Rejoice Greatly".
Well for a young girl that is weeping whilst singing about her ill fate and her sadness and is contemplating suicide, I think one shouldn't rush the tempo. I think in fact this is tempo is adequate, and interpreted in the correct sad and musing mood. I have heard her sing this aria more times and this is not her best version of this, but I do love her voice. And yes, she will improve. And no, she isn't wearing a push-up bra. Just saying. :)
Well I guess I should have put my comment where I meant it to be - after the one saying it was a horrible interpretation. The only objection I have to this is that it is slightly ponderous, otherwise she sings like an angel! I saw her on TV singing this with a Baroque ensemble, a little bit faster, and it was unbelievable.
Have just found this young lady she has such control and emotion and will like a good wine, mature with time. She does, however do more than justice to this wonderful aria
this interpretation is very genious, it touchs my heart, spokes from my soul. Danielle express with her voice and body what I feel hearing this wonderful aria by Handel
i loved the trill at then end of the song. it was perfect. and it was refreshing that she's actually putting herself in the songwriters shoes and showing emotion, but not so much that it's overdone.
I just saw her recital at UC Berkeley this afternoon. Her voice is really phenomenal. I didn't hear any unusual vibrato, and I was sitting right in front. She seems much more at ease than she is in this clip. She really feels the emotion of her songs.
This piece was taken slower than I am used to, and sounds like a drag. If the tempo was brought up a little faster, she wouldn't have sounded so flat at times and her voice would've had more resinance. Just a little work can be done to improve her projection and vocal quality. She is definitely on her way, just working more at it will get her to perfection.
And her facial expression made us feel her desire to be free and have peace.
Interesting how vicious the comments about this lady are. There *is* something there, but she needs an unforgiving vocal coach to enhance her strengths and minimize her weaknesses, control the ornamentation and OTT emoting--all at the risk, I know, of erasing her spontaneity and sincerity. Give DdN 5 years and see how she evolves. New stars deserve encouragement and constructive criticism, not bitchiness!
I've been going through a lot of the comments on her videos and it seems like all people want to do is knit pick her performance rather than sitting back and enjoying the whole piece.She's simply an emotional singer it's not necessarily to cover up her imperfections, its just how she performs. A lot of voice teachers would consider that to be a good thing. The ability to step out of ones self in order to evoke the true nature of the song is a quality few young singer posses
I agree with many of the comments made here and am wondering if the emotional exaggeration is an attempt to cover up what many have noticed- technical problems.
Granted, she is a talented lady in a place few have been and many have tried, but insofar as style, the Piano Forte as one gentlmen had mention coupled with this kind of romantic singing in the Baroque period, isnt ok. It can be argued that this type of evolution is great for the discussion, but in doing so traditions been lost.
Just because I dont like this particular aria, doesnt mean I trash all of her work. I really liked her Cleopatra, and I hope she will get a lot better since she is so talented.
As for the babe thing, frankly, I have seen more beautiful sopranos; she is exotic in that realm of caucasian females that opera tends to be, but I dont consider her a real beauty.
Here's a short sample of a fairly well-known singer doing this. I'm curious what you think of this version. Youtube's encoders do some odd things to the sound, it sounds like some kind of badly applied compression algorithm. The &fmt=18 at the end gives stereo audio.
Yes, I have listened to it and I am still not convinced... sorry... but I really enjoyed her "V'adoro..", you know, when she played Cleopatra... but this, no no no no no...
Okay, a bit of trickery on my part. It's actually this exact same performance to which I added strings, reverb and stereo ambience to see if being in a different setting altered your perception.
I don't see what it has to do with classical singing! so now to be a opera singer you have to be a babe? ok so i think Monserat caballe is one of the greatest babe ever!
bad tone production etc. that would be a valid criticism, but I don't believe anyone could make a valid claim for that here.
Presumably she's studied with one or more teachers who know opera and has been achieving results that pleased them. Looking at her background it's clear she's not considered some lightweight amateur, she's certainly no pseudodiva like Charlotte Church, Hayley Westenra etc. I.e. at her level I would expect she has a solid grasp of how to approach an aria.
So I believe to base your expectations on what you think the original composers were after is flawed to say the least. Let's face it, if Caruso's exact clone with his exact technique showed up today, would he lauded as a god of a singer?
Another problem I have with this kind of critique is it presumes there's something obviously flawed with the performance which I don't believe is supported by the evidence. If she were showing gross flaws in basic technique - poor intonation, -cont-
YEs, I do base my expectations on that information and on the evidence of other renditions, since you explain what you call "evidence": Sutherland, Sills, Troyanos, Kozena, Flemming, Battle... I dont know if they used the historical background to achieve their renditions of Handel, but I can hear in their voices a lot of versatility. Sometimes Ms. De Niese can do that, sometimes she cant.
nope... does not do it for me... too much... this is a difficult aria, very emotional but very subtle at the same time, and Miss De Niese fails to do both here, at least for my taste..
I do think she can be good for some funny stagings, but in a vocal or musical level... come on! I mean, this could be alright for a student, but I don't think it's something to be shown by a professional singer.
DiomedesDioscuro 1 month ago
Horrible!! She should stay in the Whitney Houston territory and leave baroque gems untouched. Yikes!
dalifer 2 months ago
Nice voice... but it was all the same. No dinamics, no pianissimi, always the same and again and again. Is she having a career because she looks good?... that´s what it seems to me cause there´s nothing extraordinary in her voice or singing. Just a nice voice. Is was boring!
ezayi 2 months ago
kill me....this is hell......
vitroz 4 months ago
any woman who can truly sing earns my respect...
Kellogs43able 8 months ago
delightful
axelfalk1 8 months ago
I loved it. I too think she truly understands the meaning and the emotion which Handel wrote and wished to convey.
normallawrence 8 months ago in playlist OPERA SINGERS
fuck those contertenors, i love female voice, hers and bartoli's.
Erikk91 9 months ago
@51m0n77 well, perhaps you would prefer "...not to my taste..."
jakeyell 9 months ago
She sings so beautifully, and so emotionally, one gets lost in the song. She also looks stunning. She looks in good shape, has a beautiful face, and carries and moves herself with sophistication. The dress is lovely and has a hint of seductiveness with the one shoulder partly off. (This is a style for those who think her dress is "crooked")
Will listen to this over and over again. I love it.
Kittyququmber 10 months ago
Nothing special, but she looks great
jakeyell 11 months ago
@jakeyell yeah she looks fantastic but your criticism seem a little harsh.....
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MrSkylark1 11 months ago
Sublime. The best I have heard. This song is simple - but the simple things are also often the hardest. I love the way she interprets both the horror of the prison, and the love she feels for freedom...
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Sublime. The best I have heard.
BelleSud 11 months ago
Sublime. The best I have heard.
BelleSud 11 months ago
Great interpretation! She seems to imitate the broken voice of someone who is crying, really touching...
arnimkopp 11 months ago
pretty her voice & the dress,
awwyeahme2 1 year ago
I would guess that you don't like her hair color either?
gczwarkiel 1 year ago
Can someone explain to me why no one sings the recitative of this song? I love it,but it is incomplete,like starting a story in the middle. Elaine
elaine9010 1 year ago
@elaine9010 I don't get that either, I'll sing the recit and put it online. It's a beautiful intro to the aria
MganHbeck 11 months ago
Breathtaking......thank you for posting!! Wish I could play it on a loop...forever!
monicasuetannehill 1 year ago
De Niesse as Good as always!!! Brava!
liriango 1 year ago
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oplutao 1 year ago
wow, after knowing what this song is about this singers tries and does a great job with this piece.
daytripur 1 year ago
Mi amada amiga Danielle
fredy26lima 1 year ago
bravooo
fredy26lima 1 year ago
4:17 Her dress looks fucked up. It's all crocked.
HerrWarja 1 year ago
Very pleasant overall.
Celticwomanfanpiano 1 year ago
prachtig weergegeven, hier kan ik van genieten . . . .
janalbert1954 1 year ago
lots of room for improvement, but at least Ms. de Niese tried this difficult piece
18064755 1 year ago
I think she's better as in opera than in recitals. Please remember that this is live and most recordings aren't (they are heavily editted) so try not to compare this to non live recordings.
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demarezmichel 1 year ago
Wow I love this song and she is beautiful....
pjbell1969 1 year ago
i love that people hate on her...it's ridiculous. She signs it very well...of ocurse not the best..but give her a break. She put her heart into singing this.
JavierMartinDuarte 1 year ago
@JavierMartinDuarte I agree completely! People are way too hard on her!
asx5252 1 year ago
I first heard this played in a very strange anddark movie with William Dafao "Antichrist" I loved than and love it now
daytripur 2 years ago
intonation is normal
nice
Budintiss 2 years ago 2
not bad voice bad intonation, but less injectables please, shame those are permanent, why would someone do that to their lips and face?
risan01 2 years ago
@risan01 You're an idiot.
Brixtone 1 year ago
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Is this the audition for the drag queen contest....
gobitz 2 years ago
@gobitz Yeah, you should queue down the hall you fat twat....
MickeyLove01 2 years ago
she has a REALLY BAD INTONATION, Ican't stand hearing those flat notes
zazza32145 2 years ago
@zazza32145 Please upload your wonderful singing video so that we may listen
Brixtone 1 year ago
This wonderful woman has alot of haters....true the golden age of opera has now past, but these young artist are doing very well, shez bouyant, agile, and her technique is based off the Italian method which is different than then the Austrian Style, she reminds me of Cecelia Bartoli
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La voz de una diosa. La canción de un compositor divino
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mmabrato 2 years ago
Great version. I like it !
jprock291158 2 years ago 2
I am thinking that maybe this singer was having an off day and was using too much dramma to help the voice along. Or maybe she is lacking technique for this very exposed peice. To my ear it was very off stylistically, The whole thing is missing elegance. And I feel the accent on libertà isn't correct.( she borught the b in too soon. The dramma was more for Verdì but this is Handel.
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oliviadivia28 2 years ago
i hear a lot of people talk about her technique and that it will damage her chords or something later on...im just learning about stuff like that...can someone please explain??
wubawubas 2 years ago
The emphasis is never on the voice--it's always on HER, on her face. Are these her "handlers'" decisions or is that her personality?
franceseattle 2 years ago
Maravilhosooo!!!!
donodootter 2 years ago
i feel as though she sings this song beautifully.
I dont like all the ridicule about how shes dressed.
These videos are here to critique then singing, and let people know your opinion on that.
She sings this nicely, she understands what the words mean, and she uses that to put some emotion in, and i like that :)
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oplutao 1 year ago
je n'aime pas, scolaire, pesant......
MrGAETAN909 2 years ago
There's a disturbing lack of breath support.
operaticxingenue 2 years ago
Breath support isn't the only thing she lacks... try some talent/skill I could do without the grotesque faces as well. no need to look like a third-rate pornstar having fake orgasms on every word.
gayboyTX 2 years ago
*DIES* That too. XD
operaticxingenue 2 years ago
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And don't EVEN get me startedon that "pianist" that looks like he's fingerbanging the piano.. he might be fantasizing about the singer while he plays!
gayboyTX 2 years ago
Sad but true, why is this woman's beauty enough to overcompensate for the fact that she is no where near a world class voice. Good lord, opera is dying.
FoggyRoad81 2 years ago
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She's not really all that pertty... I can't stand o look at her.. as one of my friends cal her.. she's looks like a kabuki actor
gayboyTX 2 years ago
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Or a really good drag queen, perhaps..
syrinx79 2 years ago
Also.. Opera has been dying for a long time.. Have you heard the Met lately? I can't tolerate the minor 9th vibrato they all seem to use.
gayboyTX 2 years ago
@gayboyTX minor ninth? umm no that'd be rediculous...btw kabuki actresses are beautiful
JavierMartinDuarte 1 year ago
@JavierMartinDuarte Of course I exaggerate about the minor ninth vibrato. but it gets the point across. The vibrato I hear every time I catch part of a Met broadcast is horribly wide and unnatural.
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daanok 2 years ago
Too much gyrating, a stiller body would have produced better breath control and a more silvery sound. IMO The aria is more about internal anguish and resignation not Verdian drama.
vigwig 2 years ago
her voice is weird, in the sense that it seems to get such varied responses from people. I've never hear a performer with such a black and white division of people either loving or hating their voice.
UyFrankito 2 years ago
She looks f*cking hot. Also she's a great Soprano. When she comes to my area, than I'm going to her concert.
SuperstarX 2 years ago
this performance is nor average at all you liberal shmuck
andreybeci 2 years ago
An average performance at best - she looks physically great though :-)
vctvi 2 years ago
me prece que lo hace un poco mal, no?
TeslaTemplars 2 years ago
Dalielle de Niese besitzt eine wunderbare Stimme. Prädestiniert - nicht nur - aber hauptsächlich für Händel. Die Stimme wird
wunderbar geführt. Ausdrucksstark und einer guten Aussprache. Ihre ganze Erscheinung ist Sympathie pur. Sie gehört zu meinen Favoritinnen.
einherzundeineseele 2 years ago
really beautiful but my only problem is its way to slow its dragging and its losses quality there. Also if she relaxed her jaws more it would sound breathtaking by clenching the jaw its not as free as it could sound. However she has done this song better then anyone else i have heard.
sm12630 2 years ago
With the awful piano (I know he can play, but it was never meant for piano) it's too romantic for my taste. This aria is been done so many times before, and this isn't the best sung IMHO. I hope I never have to listen to this version again.
rinaldus 2 years ago
ok ok ive listened to this about 3x now the more i listen the more her voice annoys me I think its the straigth tone it just urks my nerves so bad ugh...
immature0916 2 years ago
Is that dress meant to fall off her shoulder? I've just seen her in same dress singing same aria on BBC3 Youtube and it was falling off there! If not then it's a rather shabby attempt to sex up the presentation. I agree with the other comments here - I think there is too much emotion put into the aria rather than letting it speak for itself. I prefer Deborah York's interpretation - see verey strange production with David Daniels (who is fab as well).
Altivelzian 2 years ago
she is so beautiful!!!... wonderful voice to!!!
immature0916 2 years ago
Beautiful and inspiring, quite a performance in the setting of a small studio with distracting background
coryjactu 2 years ago
I was reading your comment and I must agree with you , she is a beautiful girl that happens to sing as well. Her voice is not properly placed and if she doesn ´t work on it , she might have troubles later on.
Har det sa bra !
bachianasbrasileiras 2 years ago 2
The tempo is to slow, it's not majestic it is, what's the musical term for "standing still" the next note doesn't come. I find that I am listening to the rest-notes instead of the song. One note towards the end "sospiri" at 3.14 is a quite bad miss-out . Apart from that a beautiful and skillful singer. I look on the side while listening not to see all the weeping. A really sad person doesn't do that. Do they??
flemingway 2 years ago
3:14 isnt really a miss-out on the note. If you studied Baroque musical style/composition, then she did something that would typically have been done. Baroque composers put dissonances on strong beats (beats 1 or 3) and resolved them softly which is what Danielle de Niese did there.
Motetftw 2 years ago
You might very well be right there. It is so fragrant that she would notice. The dissonance cuts through and if it is the intention of the composer then then she fulfills that. My compliments Danielle ..(bowing)
flemingway 2 years ago
Indeed 3.14 imay be seen as a dissonance on a strong beat or even a kind of appogiatura but I must still concur with flemingway: It really doesn't sound well, it's a coma (1/4 tone) that generates too much instability at a crucial moment (the end of the musical sentence). The singers of that time used the coma in trills at the end but never this bad.
Hradrik 2 years ago
Nice interpretation, but there is some work. First off, I do prefer stronger voices for this aria. There has to be some desperation and desire in the voice, but no drama.
That's what makes this part so difficult. If you add too much power, the "weeping" loses its subtlety. On the other hand, the aria needs some passionate drive, and often singers seem to forget this.
All in all, a good attempt, but near the end she misses some steps in the tempo and the timbre.
djangobelgo 2 years ago
Voice very uneven; and why cannot she let Handel´s wonderful vocal line convey the feeling, instead of the histrionics.Kills rather than intensifies the emotional content. Maybe I am cynical, but would she be so much flavour of the moment if she wasn´t so good looking?
chueca 2 years ago
i think it is called acting. i am enchanted by her and it is not because she is beautiful - which she clearly is- but because she is so good
schubertrocks 2 years ago
A beautiful rendition by a beautiful lady
joxbrough 2 years ago
She is very like Lesley Garrett was 10 years ago, in singing and in personality. Let's see if she is as versatile also. See "Lesley Garrett - Handel: Rejoice Greatly".
McGravity1 2 years ago
I like it. Her song is powerful and sweet as well.
julieinbath 2 years ago
It is taken a little slow - that's all.
CinnAlla 2 years ago
Well for a young girl that is weeping whilst singing about her ill fate and her sadness and is contemplating suicide, I think one shouldn't rush the tempo. I think in fact this is tempo is adequate, and interpreted in the correct sad and musing mood. I have heard her sing this aria more times and this is not her best version of this, but I do love her voice. And yes, she will improve. And no, she isn't wearing a push-up bra. Just saying. :)
wieck81 2 years ago
Well I guess I should have put my comment where I meant it to be - after the one saying it was a horrible interpretation. The only objection I have to this is that it is slightly ponderous, otherwise she sings like an angel! I saw her on TV singing this with a Baroque ensemble, a little bit faster, and it was unbelievable.
CinnAlla 2 years ago
Aha, fair enough lol, that changes things
I saw that too, I think! Have you seen her in the BBC 'The History of British Music'? It is downloadable from the website. It's unbelievable :)
wieck81 2 years ago
Yes, it was that BBC series.
CinnAlla 2 years ago
I saw that and thought it was wonderful as well. :)
QG3 2 years ago
Have just found this young lady she has such control and emotion and will like a good wine, mature with time. She does, however do more than justice to this wonderful aria
ThePastorale 2 years ago
well, she's pretty successful.
Chilair1 2 years ago
Moet je bij opera altijd zo moeilijk kijken, of alleen bij deze? ;-)
minivar1 2 years ago
Bravo!!!!! ,,,,,,,,,,,
cartiergl 2 years ago
that's it! Im going to go to the gym, straighten my hair, wear a pushup bra and become a famous opera singer.
Chilair1 2 years ago
Jealous? I think so.
yesblanche 2 years ago
this interpretation is very genious, it touchs my heart, spokes from my soul. Danielle express with her voice and body what I feel hearing this wonderful aria by Handel
geraldkoenig 2 years ago
this is an absolutely horrible interpretation of this peice
hindemith29 2 years ago
Not horrible... but it doesnt do the piece justice.
I think the over working of the jaw is a little distracting....
She seems to have a lot of tension in the body, and her head is tilted back... shocking for singing...
caladhielr 2 years ago 7
troppo lento il tempo...peccato...mi sorprende lockwood che e musicista di esperienza e qualita...lei e semplicemente bella da morire....ciao
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amman2003 2 years ago
this is genious... wish I could get the high one's as she does..
evanfan18 2 years ago
hi friends someone knows where can i find the notebook from this song please??
saturn999999999 2 years ago
google "lascia ch'io pianga score"
vankan0 2 years ago
@saturn999999999 IMSLP has it in e-flat major
HerrWarja 1 year ago
ahhh yeah,, she looked real...well not very pretty when she sings..
wildshotsintheair 3 years ago
Who looks good with their mouths wide open? She's gorgeous now and probably always will be, maybe in ten years she'll be able to sing.
gerryrains 2 years ago 2
I like the way this saraband REALLY comes accross dance-like. Very nice.
rustydog1236 3 years ago 4
I love how the cameraman keeps going on to buses as they pass the window! Lol!!!
Englishtenor2 3 years ago
TOO MUCH faces expressions ...!!!
harmoniques 3 years ago
i loved the trill at then end of the song. it was perfect. and it was refreshing that she's actually putting herself in the songwriters shoes and showing emotion, but not so much that it's overdone.
good job!
kaylamichelle28 3 years ago
estupenda!
alexcotts 3 years ago
merci beaucoup!!
rufus39 3 years ago
I saw her in Orfeo ed Euridice at the Met Opera. Perfect duo with Stephanie Blythe.
kephren20 3 years ago 2
I just saw her recital at UC Berkeley this afternoon. Her voice is really phenomenal. I didn't hear any unusual vibrato, and I was sitting right in front. She seems much more at ease than she is in this clip. She really feels the emotion of her songs.
LizN90 3 years ago 4
I think she was singing in Amsterdam :P
callimacos 3 years ago
To much vibrato, and the speed of vibrato is the same al the way through. Somewhat destroys the very nice tone of her voice. In my opinion
hootersnooter 3 years ago
Brava Patricia, Bella mu!sica Grazia Francioli Bitttner
gbittner 3 years ago
she should try Puccini cause baroque is not her thing
Heartlessiceboy 3 years ago
Oh no. . . Extremely disappointing - overwrought and we won't even mention the singing.
mwk12kev 3 years ago
oman, slow...and very unimpressive.
Lutzenberger 3 years ago
look at the train passing by behind her, as if inside the time stands still and outside life just goes on
joetjoeb333 3 years ago 5
amazing with great emotion n passion!!Bravo!!
downeshead08 3 years ago
I agree--just saw the HD of Orfeo she did so well! Brava Grazia F.
gbittner 3 years ago
Ah, Niese's Handel Aria segment is better. And maybe not a fair comparison but, Cecilia Bartoli's version tops this.
miburke2007 3 years ago 2
Almost any other version tops this!
skylark100 3 years ago
I like her voice and I agree with Cristina. Also, seems like she played it safe - didn't deviate much from the original music.
miburke2007 3 years ago
wayyy too slow :(
XxXxSongbirdxXxX 3 years ago 3
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fredy26lima2005 3 years ago
I am sorry guys but but I fell a sleep here
Iaparulava 3 years ago 3
This piece was taken slower than I am used to, and sounds like a drag. If the tempo was brought up a little faster, she wouldn't have sounded so flat at times and her voice would've had more resinance. Just a little work can be done to improve her projection and vocal quality. She is definitely on her way, just working more at it will get her to perfection.
And her facial expression made us feel her desire to be free and have peace.
-Cristina
loveistheessence 3 years ago 3
te klassieke interpretatie;..tis en blijft barok....
miesmarie 3 years ago
Ze heeft zo'n mooie stem. Ik heb deze aflevering gezien. Was meteen we van haar. Een week later had ik haar cd in huis ^^.
devilgirl255 3 years ago
magnifique
girardje70 3 years ago
ahhhhh diphthongs....love her voice though...
gclef2288 3 years ago
Interesting how vicious the comments about this lady are. There *is* something there, but she needs an unforgiving vocal coach to enhance her strengths and minimize her weaknesses, control the ornamentation and OTT emoting--all at the risk, I know, of erasing her spontaneity and sincerity. Give DdN 5 years and see how she evolves. New stars deserve encouragement and constructive criticism, not bitchiness!
lordstarlink 3 years ago 4
just Perfect ...
musicismylifegrazia 3 years ago
I've been going through a lot of the comments on her videos and it seems like all people want to do is knit pick her performance rather than sitting back and enjoying the whole piece.She's simply an emotional singer it's not necessarily to cover up her imperfections, its just how she performs. A lot of voice teachers would consider that to be a good thing. The ability to step out of ones self in order to evoke the true nature of the song is a quality few young singer posses
acee790 3 years ago
Agreed, its like a no-talent art critic would would rather appraise a painting than sit back and absorb its beauty.
kev3d 3 years ago
I agree, try to listen at it without seeing de Niese
onna00 3 years ago
I'm doing just that....
here are my thoughts:
She sounds whiny, particularly, [i] vowels.
Her vibrato is inconsistent in terms of application to line and rate (speed).
She had a nice trill at the end of the B section.
She isn't demonstrating legato (maybe that's how it's written though...)
She's really singing right now... it's near the end of the piece.
Maybe that's the real issue. She gets so caught up in "being Baroque" she can't Just Sing. It would create some issues. It makes sense to me.
g4thz 3 years ago
I agree with many of the comments made here and am wondering if the emotional exaggeration is an attempt to cover up what many have noticed- technical problems.
Granted, she is a talented lady in a place few have been and many have tried, but insofar as style, the Piano Forte as one gentlmen had mention coupled with this kind of romantic singing in the Baroque period, isnt ok. It can be argued that this type of evolution is great for the discussion, but in doing so traditions been lost.
mvconnelly 3 years ago 2
I really DON'T like it:/:/:/
gehaktmolen 3 years ago
how can they dare make it with a pianoforte?
It is not fair to the prime want! And she sings like a romantic singer! It's ugly!
fag06 3 years ago
Just because I dont like this particular aria, doesnt mean I trash all of her work. I really liked her Cleopatra, and I hope she will get a lot better since she is so talented.
As for the babe thing, frankly, I have seen more beautiful sopranos; she is exotic in that realm of caucasian females that opera tends to be, but I dont consider her a real beauty.
peace.
Alejandra.
alejandra379 3 years ago
Here's a short sample of a fairly well-known singer doing this. I'm curious what you think of this version. Youtube's encoders do some odd things to the sound, it sounds like some kind of badly applied compression algorithm. The &fmt=18 at the end gives stereo audio.
Obviously replace the (dot) with a .
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=r_sCYsGRyQE&fmt=18
docsavage20 3 years ago
Maybe I am doing it wrong, I cant get to this adress... care to leave a message in my channel?
thanks.
Alejandra.
alejandra379 3 years ago
I assume by now you've listened to it. What did you think of it? Other than YouTube's encoders doing odd things to the dynmic levels.
docsavage20 3 years ago
Yes, I have listened to it and I am still not convinced... sorry... but I really enjoyed her "V'adoro..", you know, when she played Cleopatra... but this, no no no no no...
alejandra379 3 years ago
Who do you think it is singing?
docsavage20 3 years ago
I think is De Niese...
alejandra379 3 years ago 3
Okay, a bit of trickery on my part. It's actually this exact same performance to which I added strings, reverb and stereo ambience to see if being in a different setting altered your perception.
;-)
docsavage20 3 years ago
And you're forgetting a very crucial fact - she's an absolute babe.
;-)
docsavage20 3 years ago
I don't see what it has to do with classical singing! so now to be a opera singer you have to be a babe? ok so i think Monserat caballe is one of the greatest babe ever!
climatechangekills 3 years ago
climatechangekills - You'll notice my tongue firmly tucked into my cheek.
docsavage20 3 years ago
bad tone production etc. that would be a valid criticism, but I don't believe anyone could make a valid claim for that here.
Presumably she's studied with one or more teachers who know opera and has been achieving results that pleased them. Looking at her background it's clear she's not considered some lightweight amateur, she's certainly no pseudodiva like Charlotte Church, Hayley Westenra etc. I.e. at her level I would expect she has a solid grasp of how to approach an aria.
docsavage20 3 years ago 2
So I believe to base your expectations on what you think the original composers were after is flawed to say the least. Let's face it, if Caruso's exact clone with his exact technique showed up today, would he lauded as a god of a singer?
Another problem I have with this kind of critique is it presumes there's something obviously flawed with the performance which I don't believe is supported by the evidence. If she were showing gross flaws in basic technique - poor intonation, -cont-
docsavage20 3 years ago
Did I say anything about composers?
YEs, I do base my expectations on that information and on the evidence of other renditions, since you explain what you call "evidence": Sutherland, Sills, Troyanos, Kozena, Flemming, Battle... I dont know if they used the historical background to achieve their renditions of Handel, but I can hear in their voices a lot of versatility. Sometimes Ms. De Niese can do that, sometimes she cant.
alejandra379 3 years ago
She delivered it as if she meant it. I believed her. The piano performance was a perfect complement. A beautiful rendition!
nibiru48 3 years ago
heel mooi!!!
prachtig gezongen, eerlijk, tmocht een beetje triester ;-)
Guitarhero1800 3 years ago
je la préfere dans les airs gais et rapides.....c'est une fille tellement positive qu'elle n'arrive pas a etre émouvante dans les airs triste.......
boisfarine1970 3 years ago
nope... does not do it for me... too much... this is a difficult aria, very emotional but very subtle at the same time, and Miss De Niese fails to do both here, at least for my taste..
alejandra379 3 years ago 2
alejandra379: Have you listened to Becky Jane Taylor's shorter version of this aria?
Bish29 3 years ago
no, Im afraid not.. is it posted in youtube?
alejandra379 3 years ago