Bartoli & Fleming - Le Nozze di Figaro - Sull'aria

[McSuperfly101]

I like this but I can't help thinking it has too many notes.

[victorio1940]

Man is not just mud and dust. He is capable of great flights in far away worlds of unknown, unspeakable beaty. Yes, music is a revelation. And Shawshank was a great movie. It was indeed about freedom and untouchable, immortal beauty. Thanks, folks!

[Drummond1783]

:12. sur l'air .. si belle. mon cœur se serre à cette partie.

[DianaDistorted]

So gorgeous. I wish the Met released this on DVD.

[SirDebaser]

 I listen to this when I go trail running and it's the closest thing I'll ever have to a religious experience

[Rhopoe]

How often does the mezzo- outshine the star soprano? Here is an example. In the end, I find Bartoli a more adept musician. Fleming almost always sounds either passionless, or exaggerated. (I mean, I just don't get Renee– if any one can help me with that, by all means… I have the same misunderstanding of Birgit Nilsson– Help me see [hear] what others can!)

[jansumi]

@Rhopoe I wouldn't go so far as to say i don't get her, but Bartoli is far and away the more exceptional for me too.

[CICI332]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOZART

[Abdulmalik773]

The Shawshank Redemption brought me here

[PapagenoJuan2]

I love you Mr. Mozart

[mario62124]

I do not know what do you say these two women but I feel relieved when they heard a strange and beautiful sense of

[paulmickh05]

so what is it there actually sayin??

[scampben]

Saw this last night at the Staats Oper der Wien. Wonderful

[TheOldcrow1945]

Mozart...The greatest musical genius of all time

[mickeyb1000]

@TheOldcrow1945 apart from beethoven

[kevfulchester]

@mickeyb1000 Agreed. 100%!

[scampben]

Seeing this performed at the Weiner Staat Oper in late December!

[Poet2916]

I want a part in this so badly...

[hipdadiddy]

Anybody who loves this piece should also check out "Soave il vento" from another Mozart opera, "Cosi Fan Tutte". Very similar in its spine-tingling, otherworldly beauty. There's an excellent version featuring Susan Chilcott (Fiordiligi) & Susan Graham (Dorabella) on YouTube.

[darkenergy41]

i dont know why i love these song so much...and these two ladies made me fall into love with them too....love you...

[powe2550]

Two of the absolute greats!

[jnsii54]

Somehow I think even the

Italians are jealous.

Lovely and transcendent

[shadesofearth89]

the countess (in blue) is upset that the count is unfaithful to her because he is trying to seduce susanna (in red). the countess dictates to susanna to write a letter telling the count to meet susanna in the garden at night, where she will yield to him. little does the count know that the countess, dressed as susanna, will be the one to meet him and expose him as a cheater. susanna and the countess are smiling because they are cleverly tricking the count.

[WaheedaRahman]

i know this is gunna sound stupid but does anyone know the name of that opera song that goes like

da da da dun da da da dun and its a lady singing.

i hear it on tv like a background music but i don't know the name of the music.

please don't try and insult me because of this really bad comment :L

[Blackdogmma]

@WaheedaRahman Flower duet, Lakme. and it's more like (daaaa da da dun.)

[RatRaceAce]

@WaheedaRahman: Actually, it's a fair question. Lots of times we just remember some tunes and we would like to identify the song. There are now some software applications available online for this kind of thing. Hum the tune into a mic (as correctly as you can), and the software identifies the song for you (well, maybe not every song; it depends on the database). The "midomi" website (w w w d o t midomi d o t c o m) worked for me instantly. There are other sites out there too.

[ALEXSTEPHEN13]

Thumbs up if you found this through the greatest film of all time...

The Shawshank Redemption?

[karlakor]

@ALEXSTEPHEN13 I DID find this through the film The Shawshank Redemption.  When I heard it, I knew I had to find out what it was. Glorious!

[Frequency404]

Translation -

First Lady: "If you like to gaaaaaamble~ I tell you I'm your maaaaaaan~ You win some, lose some, it's all the saaaaame to meeeee~"

Second Lady: "I dooooon't share your greeeeed~ The only card I neeeeed's~"

Together: "The aaaaaace of spaaaaaades! ~ The aaaaaace of spaaaaaaades! ~"

[PzKpfw]

@Frequency404 lolololololololol

FUNNY!

[Robtehman]

To this day, I have no idea what those two Italian ladies were singing about...

[cassandalabra]

what happens at 2:24, 2:26? YUCK. i guess i would expect better pitch from these ladies... (in all fairness, i think it's bartoli, but i can't be sure. seems to be a problem spot: kathleen battle was also sharp here, but so glaringly...)

[Aveplav123]

What are they singing about?

[Raed103]

Very emotional!

[v21e]

if you dont like this, you don't have to try to listen to Opera anymore.

[JaeMonroe]

So happy to have found this!! I was there! I was working at HMV records as the Classical dept Manager/Buyer and I got Gala opening tix for free!!! The performance was unbelievable. And this is my fave opera of all time. I also got to go backstage and meet them all. Altho I got to meet Bryn when he came into HMV to buy some records as gifts for his friends. What a nice guy!!! A giant of a man! But that performance is engrained in my head forever! It was a dream come true!

[mangledinal]

If the angels sing in Heaven, this MUST be how they sound. Lucky for us, Mozart knew they do, and he wrote it down, and it is sung here for all of us.

[TMZajc]

I had no idea to this day what those two italian ladies were singing about. Id like to think they were singing about something so beautiful you it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because you can't understand it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther that anything ever had in our dim little place, it seemed to make the walls vanish, and for the briefest of moments, every last man at shawshank felt free.

[devilxhlywood]

@TMZajc that's cute how a murderer who's been in jail since his teens and has no education whatsoever speaks so eloquently.

[Verile]

@devilxhlywood Riiiight because our most beautiful thoughts were all expressed by people who attended K-12 and graduated from Harvard. Education is oh so very important to speak eloquently.

[devilxhlywood]

@Verile actually, they are. the man who wrote the dialogue is an english major.

[Verile]

@devilxhlywood Ernest Hemingway begs to differ.

[devilxhlywood]

@Verile  how so?

[NicolaMangion]

@TMZajc They are writing a letter to a guy that Susanna (the one who is writing) likes......

[BlueberryLilly]

@TMZajc elles parlent de la meilleure façon d'amener un homme volage à tomber dans leur piège :D

So sorry pour le rêve brisé, mais ça fait rien, c'est tellement beau (non ?) ;-)

[rubexcube00]

@TMZajc If only Red knew the irony of that, maybe in a way ignorance is bliss.

[LottieCee]

@TMZajc What they're singing about actually isn't very pleasant. It's a trick, really. The one writing is jotting down a letter to other ones' "man" if you will. The husband has been caught cheating, so the letter is to lure the man to the garden where he will meet with one of them (I can't remember). Then the wife will catch him in the act. I only know this because I performed it a few years ago with a mate. The rest of the synopsis, I'm afraid, I do not know. I do agree; it is very beautiful.

[Giltano2008]

Excelente me encanta, muy buen detalle los subtitulos, muchas gracias

[jeffrypw4864]

I've probably heard this over a hundred times and it still gives me chills up and down the spine. Truly divine music.

[JEatsbabies]

Shawshank Redemption FTW



[lattiklein08]

wow that is beutiful



[flintflicker1]

It don't get much better than this !

Heavenly

[mmmbrunommm3]

I'm glad you posted it, that's my one my fav Operas !

[TheAguasvivas]

The Genius of The mind and the inspiration of the soul are powerful subliminal components of the human spirit. The music of the greatest are testaments of it.

[roomie4rent]

What the fuck does this have to do with the quran?

[biozamadotcom]

this is the height of culture right here.

Lady gaga is mainly music form homos and queers and she is almost already gone and forgotten.

Opera, classical, musicals, ....that's culture that will live forever. True taste and class. True beauty.

[ifeeltiredsleepy]

@biozamadotcom Because there's no "homos and queers" involved with musicals or classical music... no none at all.

[Poet2916]

@biozamadotcom that's exactly what I've been telling everyone...same with rap! and all I get are these disgusted looks at my lunch table

[biozamadotcom]

@Poet2916 Same with rap, for sure. You seem to be way wise beyond your years if you are into classical music and classical poetry. It helps your mind become more rational and logical as well as creative. That other trash erodes peoples minds. You can observe it in their behavior.

[jagemobe]

this may very well be the zenith of human melody. Stunning and gorgeously resonant. I need Oxygen.

[jjnow23]

These two together. A dream.

[OperaMystery80]

This was in '98. Fleming & Bartoli were already opera stars, but this was their best career phase. They sang with purity of line, no frills or crazy embellishments which they do nowadays. Singing Mozart, which requires discipline & delicacy, was good for both of them. They're both now singing in such crazy styles that they don't do justice to the composers' original music as written. They're both now so full of themselves. I wish they could sing like they did in this Figaro again

[williamthebrit]

I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it.

[jagemobe]

breathtaking

[jam8o1874]

Anyone recognise the film?

[daiu1ro]

@jam8o1874 WAIT, WHAT?

[jam8o1874]

This is my sort of video. Seem this live in Edinburgh 3 years ago, beautiful.

[Querzeo]

This is prfection.

[joliegarrett]

Enchanting!

[TheAbstraction]

This and the Talons of Weng Chiang will survive until the Day of Judgement.

[AceofGallifrey]

@TheAbstraction I am in love with your comment, just so you know.

[ivelosthewilltolive]

Mozart creates an erotic dream for his women that no man can live up to. Well maybe Figaro, if he's Cesare Siepi, but certainly not the Count...

[marioelectrico]

to the 62 assholes who don't like go hear barking to bieber.

[obeynachito]

@marioelectrico Actually make that now 63! LOL!

[marioelectrico]

a los 62 pendejos que no les gusta, vayan a oir ladrar a bieber.

[96meimei]

The word genius is overused but Mozart certainly was one. These ladies are excellent!!!!!

[villonesques]

Sweet Jesus this is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard ... there's a reason this is still famous after more than two hundred years.

[egart1234]

i can sing this and i am only 13 years old still so the best song of the lot

[milikipoporz]

bellisimo



[milieu1]

@" I have no idea To this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know . Somethings are best left unsaid." ---

Truth is, one of the ladies is American. The one appearing on the left side of Youtube screen is Renee Fleming, well known soprano.

[TMitz1024]

This is one of my favorite arias. So beautiful

[TemperatureIndicator]

Amazingly brilliant movie and the piece 'le nozze' really catapulted me into music like this and classical music in general.

[TemperatureIndicator]

@TemperatureIndicator I wanna turn up the volume like Andy Dufrais

[MrMozarts86]

chiudete gli occhi e fatevi trasportare dalle dolci note.... *_*

[Serega7495]

Божественно

[VolDep45]

I've listened and watched this a half dozen times in a row and I had goose bumps with each experience. Mozart is a timeless genius whose works will never be equalled by any head-banger, rapper, or hippity-hop (so-called) "artist".

[VolDep45]

Does anyone have an English translation of the lyrics?

[devilxhlywood]

@VolDep45 here's a translation from the spanish subtitles in the video, without repeating any lyrics.

A song to the air of the night

That soft breeze

Blowing this night

Below the pine tress in the copse

He'll figure out the rest

Very true, he'll figure it out.

In the context of the opera it is a letter being dictated by the woman to her husband about where he should meet up to have an affair (setting him up)

[12azalkmaar]

I can't believe i'm actually crying!

[ballz711]

I want this to be played before I die

[minjeeter]

@ballz711 I'm pretty sure you listened to it before you posted this right? If so it was played before you die ;)

[kristalimo]

de toute beauté !

[harald144]

when mozart is sung and played with such emotion, heaven melts and come down to earth...

[anasur2000]

meraviglioso !!!!!!!

[makkakman]

this language is longer to speak than to read . from a canadien french

[makkakman]

most beautiful thing

[karine6081]

mui certo

[jasonlloyd33]

Wolfgang A. Mozart is perhaps one of Gods greatest gifts to humankind. IMHO

[brrcms2009]

Music in its most beautiful form. Yet most forget what true beauty of form is.

[michaelmarage415]

This is quite possible, the most beautiful thing I have ever heard

[CriticalListener]

Perfectly sung! This is what duet singing is supposed to be: balanced, lightly tossing the lead to each other, neither hogging the lead or the limelight. What a joy to listen to!

[pogoniasis04]

really good. Enjoy listening to this.

I am 10 years old and if you can have a listen to me. thank-you.

Katie.

[crapcom1222]

Amazing how it seems so happy, but once you know the interpretation, it just seems so dark and devious :P

Brava, Signoras Bertoli e Fleming!

[Sharrison213]

"i don't want to know what their saying, some things are better left unsaid" - Morgan Freeman

[MUREX641]

Fleming-Bartoli ; l'Amour au féminin............

[danielpope75]

Will someone please let “lady” Ga Ga know what music is about?

[ohger1]

@danielpope75 Waste of time. Gagag knows not what music or singing really is. She's famous because she's an over the top celebutard. If her only exposure was audio, no one would know her today.

[him3zz]

@danielpope75 well said...fucking very well said....

[personlalafa]

@danielpope75 Hate to tell you this but Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga)

Actually probably knows more about music than you do. She began the piano at 4 and wrote a ballet ballad at 14. She was involved with theater in highschool and she went to NYU for college. So, she knows a shit ton about music. She just throws her talent away by trying to be different and producing what the mass bee drone grabs at. She could be doing a lot more with her talent and knowledge but nah. lrn2read

[OliverRosierPictures]

@danielpope75 No matter should one try,she won't listen,because she doesn't understand...

[Stantzs]

@danielpope75 it's funny because people said the same thing about Mozart

[Lisztman88]

@danielpope75 She actually used to be a classical musician, quite good at piano. And then she sold out...

[JaeMonroe]

@danielpope75 I'm sure she knows if she was a music student at NYU...I was in a punk band in my teens, everyone loved my voice, so I then decided to sing opera in college. Being an opera singer is like being in a shark tank! Doesn't matter how good you are everyone else thinks they know better. To make $ as an opera singer is almost impossible. To make $ in pop music is easier. So after 15 years of singing opera, I reformed my punk band and still not making money but at least having a great time

[1AdrianR]

Why must these films be brought into Mozart?

[novasafo]

Terfel, Fleming, Bartoli... this was one of the best Marriage of Figaro productions ever put on stage, and we have the good fortune that it was also captured on video. I still remember this production well from when I saw it first broadcast. Thank you for sharing!

[joncmorley]

Keep on getting this confused with The Flower Duet, but hey I came here from the Shawshank Redemption so must be an uneducated idiot. Props to the real music snobs who liked this first before we say it on't telly.

[ShawDAMAN]

I'm getting a little tired of seeing the same movie quote on practically every posting of this clip on youtube. I loved this music long before that movie and that wasn't even a particularly outstanding recording of it. >_>

[Kanashto]

@ShawDAMAN Do you know a recording that is nicer than the movie's? I would love to hear it.

[ShawDAMAN]

@Kanashto Oh the movie recording is perfectly fine I didn't mean to down it but there are others I personally prefer- I like a slightly quicker tempo for one thing. Do you really want some suggestions? :)

[Kanashto]

@ShawDAMAN Yes, really :D

[Micantropo78]

Anyway....tell to an american opera singer who sings italian aria like an Italian, isn't insult! Is a big compliment for her! Hurrà for Renee!!!

[comedian618]

@Micantropo78 I agree!

[asgard88ification]

einfach genial-musik vom meister!

[asgard88ification]

einfach genial- musik vom meister!

[asgard88ification]

einfach genial- musik vom meister!

[laveritabella]

Certo certo!



[flyer198]

200+ years later we are still enjoying this. 400 years later...

[Canadis]

@flyer198 It is music meant for the mind, heart and soul. Brings them all to their roots. For years to come, this music will still be enjoyed, don't you worry.

[laveritabella]

Oh my goodness! Two goddesses singing together!!!

[666408]

simply beautiful...

[adina12100]

Sull'aria es un fiel exponente del más refinado clasicismo que encarna la figura de Mozart.Buen gusto y armonia van de la mano para guiarnos por los derroteros de la exquisitez musical.

Un cordial saludo desde Barcelona!

[grooverheliboy]

Song makes me want to run NAKED down the High Street shouting "How's this for an impersantion of a carrot and 2 onions"

[Loobs666]

Renee Fleming is a strange one, as Diva's go she's one of the oddest. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden she's notorious for her refusal to use any toilet except her own personal bedpan. She turns up at rehearsal before anyone else and is the last one to leave... and all the time she shits and pisses into the same porcelaine commode and won't let it be emptied until after she's left the building. And according to back-stage legend, this is a woman who can really lay a stinky cable!

[gelmir666]

@Loobs666 WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS???!!!!

[Loobs666]

@gelmir666 Because if I told you what Lesley Garrett gets up to when she's all alone backstage you'd probably vomit!

[spenzur]

@Loobs666 lol, you just ruined my image of Renée Fleming. You should write story's.

[Dangreable]

Like a bird released (Anthony Burgess) a beautiful competition between acapella and ochestral musical styles!

[Dangreable]

Like a bird released, the expression of freedom in ones heart or soul!

[tequ1L4]

`I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it.`

The Shawshank Redemption

[najika852]

this is "The Marriage of Figaro" Act 1 scence 6 and 7 right? i need to make sure!

please tell me ASAPP!!!!

[Micantropo78]

@najika852

no, this is from Act 3 

[comedian618]

" I have no idea To this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know . Somethings are best left unsaid." ---

"I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than any one in a great place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man at Shaw Shank felt free!"

Morgan Freeman- aka Red

Shaw Shank Redemption.

[jimincairns]

@comedian618  You should have checked prior posts....hehehh!

[saltcitystud]

@jimincairns Huh?

[comedian618]

@jimincairns Huh? What are talking about?

[jimincairns]

@comedian618 ...I posted the same thing last week.

[comedian618]

@jimincairns So what. If you checked prior posts you'd see that i posted it last year. Sorry yours didn't get any thumbs up. Who's the handi-cap now? Dope.

[comedian618]

@jimincairns At least I know how too! I posted this a while back. Sorry that getting credit for it is so important to you!

[grooverheliboy]

@comedian618 LOL Just watched the film last night...

[saltcitystud]

@grooverheliboy Its a great one. What a classic!

[grooverheliboy]

@saltcitystud Agree with you buddy !

[Platinum400]

@comedian618 LOL I love how he asumes that they're Italian.

[saltcitystud]

@Platinum400 Ci!

[comedian618]

@Platinum400 I agree. This is one of the best parts and probably my favorite part of this movie.

[HersheyD55]

@comedian618 Renee Fleming is not Italian - she is an American opera singer. She also sang those high notes in LOTR - Return of the King.

[saltcitystud]

@HersheyD55 No fooling! I am a big fan of hers. I'm not calling her Italian. Read the post next time and you'll see that its a QUOTE from a MORGAN FREEMAN character. Ever hear of a movie called Shaw Shank Redemption?

[comedian618]

@saltcitystud Thanks but its no use. People do not read the posts on here before they remark!

[comedian618]

@HersheyD55 Fleming isnt an Italian name?Really? Try reading the whole post this time. Come on, you can do it!

[alicefromholland]

@comedian618 the best scene ever in film history



[ebuz218]

@comedian618 GEE WILLICKERS, COMEDIAN618, WHEN I GROW UP I WANNA BE JUS LIKE U. FAIL. RETARD.

[charissamarluk]

@comedian618

so beautiful... comedian618

[jesseiat]

so amazing i can't stop listening

[jimincairns]

...and fifty-two uncultured oafs ran off to listen to rap.

[mikesomething]

@jimincairns dont make fun of handicapped people