cosi fan tutte - come scoglio - glyndebourne 06

[classicalmusic29]

I haven't even seen any other production of Così fan Tutte yet, but after watching this complete production, this has become my favorite opera. (Btw, this is coming from a person who typically does not enjoy listening to Mozart's music if that tells you anything.)

[phantom8472]

Listen to Carol Vaness singing this.

[HeidelbergSoprano]

@phantom8472 Carol is number one in my book ^.^

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic!

[wubawubas]

is fiordiligi supposed to be a mezzo?

[qw3rtydud3]

@wubawubas No, Dorabella is the mezzo role, Fiordiligi is soprano.

[stefflo712]

What kind of soprano is she? She sounds so "pushed", especially in the upper register, a bit too dark. I think she is a lyric soprano.

[qw3rtydud3]

@stefflo712 I can see what you mean, I think it's due to her breathing too high in the abdomen, it restricts the airflow to the head for the high notes, if you watch closely her chest expands too much when she breathes. That's the only flaw in her technique I can see that may cause this that I can see. I don't think it's to do with her "fach".

[qw3rtydud3]

@stefflo712 I also think she is a lyric soprano with the potential of becoming a spinto...your observation of her upper register is probably due to lack of support, her placement is good but she breathes too high into the chest, giving little grounding for the high notes.

[suzanneetmoi]

This aria strikes fear in even the most seasoned sopranos, with it's octave jumps and tone quality. Even the great Dame Kiri had to be walked through it by James Levine, to quell her doubts. Brava, Ms.Persson!

[HaydnFan1732]

Great technique, but I don't like this characterization of fiordiligi.

[avdk8]

Go Hopper24!

The coloraturas in this performance really are brilliant.

[MissMusicienne]

One thing I always appreciate about this soprano is her clarity of diction and pronunciation.

[ladivissima]

I'm sorry, but ...there is a very bad vibrato, so small stretto one, like a goat, for me a lack of good appoggio, and the legato...I'm sorry.. in her voice, and then, the lower notes, the poor one, she just does not has them...but the coloraturas are great!!!

[shellywatson]

Excellent. She is amazing. I enjoy her acting just as much as her vocal virtuosity. I am tired of "singing heads." Artists who just stand there for the sake of vocal technique are so boring to watch. This chick kicks ass...

[MissMusicienne]

I don't think she - or anyone - could do this any better. It's stunning. Beautiful intonation, diction, acting. Love it.

[kate251144]

@MissMusicienne Try Sally Matthews.

[himrien]

non mi renda audaci ancor non vi rendaaa audaci ancor

[HaydnFan1732]

It's 'laudagi --- ancor', not laudachancor!

[hopper24]

Oh, lord, why do you people always try to sound so smart. When actually, it's audaci ancor. And the pronunciation sounds good to me. And besides, when hearing a performance of Come Scoglio there are much more interesting things to criticize than the sopranos' voiced consonants. This is a great performance here, no pushing, good intonation. It's a rare thing for this aria. This whole production was quite fine. Go Miah.

[Jenniferhos]

The range is really tough in this aria. Youhave to have the highs and the lows. A bipolar aria. :)

[MisSty2589]

Fiordiligi is like that: highs and lows! :) I love hear Miah Persson singing "Per pietà ben mio perdona" :)

[Csanfer14]

Have you heard Renee Fleming performing this Aria ?

[Angeltots]

who are these people? does anyone know? where when?

[3629666]

This lovely woman is adorable in her singing, her acting and in any case probably in her loving! Thank you very much for posting..! And thank you much much more, MIAH PERSSON, doing this for us!!!

[vocalvideos]

Excellent!  Vocal, acting...all of it! Outstanding. Thanks for posting.

[triolka]

posso sentire questa l'aria per tutto libero.....lei per me e perfecta!

[ParideArduenna]

I really love this number... her voice is just perfect!

[MCGJ8]

una voz muy sólida! brava!

[lmspr]

I had never heard of Miah Persson before I watched this clip. Since I liked her a lot, I decided to buy her solo Mozart recital CD, which is called "Un moto di gioia". It is really beautiful. Thanks "mnemonyxx"

for posting this video.

[FrAnUrSPuNk]

il problema è che molte volte non sanno quello che dicono...o almeno cosi sembra..

[guappaione]

Pilar Lorengar and Dorothea Roschman are the only better versios of Fiordiligi than this on youtube

[birgitnilsson]

I guess you forgot Elizabeth Schwarzkopf...

[hillevifan]

Roschmann is the best...along with susan larson.

[birgitnilsson]

Come On!!!! Give me a break... Röschmann is good. Even though she doesn´t come near E. Schwarzkopf.

[linguistmuz]

She is absolutely extraordinary in the naturalness with which she combines her singing with expression and acting (of course ideally these shouldn't be separated at all in opera, but not many people are one with the music, the text and the part this much).

Not to mention her beautiful singing in itself...

[jimmymartinezzz]

goodness. the end of this is quite spelndid. those triplets are so clean! I quite enjoyed this clip.

[operaticxingenue]

Oh Miah, how I love thee. XD She is absolutely marvelous.

[cernacerna]

beautiful, she sounds so natural. I think it's really important, my teacher says that every humans can actually sing like all the animal species, but our society "kill" this ability,we are never allowed to make noise,always "silence, please!" and then we forgot how to sing. I can't agree more. :)

[xgianpatrick]

Another lovely voice out of Sweden...I think i should move.

[sluttyRuth]

i love the "ugh" at the end, it sounds so authentic!

[andreatrucco]

she has a little difficlt to manage the low tones in this aria, she sounds a bit "sbrodolata" in the basses. Nice pronuciation, the high part is not very "blinking" but she sound nice, in few words!

[suffisance]

I wonder if you can name me a soprano who does not have "trouble" with the low part of "Come Scoglio." Almost wouldn't sound right, otherwise ... ;)

[vinemp]

Elisabeth Schwartzkopf

[aeru9]

Joke?

Schwarzkopf had too problems with this aria...

And Persson makes a really good Fiordiligi.

[vinemp]

Joke, indeed. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf had [not one] problem with this aria.

[andreatrucco]

yolanda ayuenet (probably the spelling is wrong of her surname) I work with her in COSì and she was great!

[oboistCONDUCTOR]

Lovely!It's make me remember someona that I know hehehe

[wwwoyzeck]

this is very good. she sings so easy and natural that it sounds almost artless - but it's all there: the intonation, the high notes, the low notes, the trills, the triplets, the expression, the diction. very good indeed.

[jamalakadea]

This is one of the best recordings of this aria I have ever heard - especially from "Rispettate, anime ingrate..." - she sings every one of those triplets properly - every note is there - not like most other recordings where the soprano simply 'brushes over' the notes.

[elias12186]

Is the conductor Pritchard?

[mnemonyxx]

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Conductor: Ivan Fischer

Stage Director: Nicholas Hytner

[sschimel]

Something strange happens on the decent from the high note at 5:24, but otherwise this is quite well sung. Fiordiligi and Kostanza really are sisters, tempermentally, although Mozart used a greater economy of means in this aria. What always leaps out at me when I listen to Cosi is how much of Fio's music lays in the most ungrateful part of a soprano's voice, particularly in a large or unmiked house. She's singing this at the met in a couple of seasons.

[silvr94]

Wolfgang is definitely proud...

[iTubeVlc]

Her Susanna is just amazing!! But not Fiordiligi.

[papagena92]

@iTubeVlc why did they hide your comment?

I find both her susanna and fiordiligi amazing!!!!

[masettoallegro]

@papagena92 No idea. Censorship maybe? Thanks for mentioning though.

[hillevifan]

Much better than her per pieta you posted before... but still go watch Dorothea Roschmann's version.. its better than this

[bradoperaman]

I like it so much better with this tuning. I often end up just hating this aria but this is quite nice. Her sound is very cool, controled and very vanilla. I guess it's appropriate for the rep. I personally prefer Fiordiligi to be a little more temperamental and not so cool. Dessi comes to mind.

[Silversorcerer]

she has a nice voice, but this aria's quite boring, lol.

[imacinne]

That's pretty funny. I could happily listen to this aria all day.

[jandejongh]

As a matter of fact, I do...

[Homoclassicus]

I hadn't heard much of her, but she's stunning! The voice is that of a lighter lyric soprano, but it has a fullness of tone and an ease through a large range that even heavier lyric sopranos lack. She sings the ornaments with accuracy and has true Mozartean style. And her acting is so believable and captivating, both modern and traditional!

[tenorman123]

Spectacular!!!

[kingjordana]

She really is quite stunning.

[fer1179]

OMG She looks and sounds kind of Renee Fleming!

[jasmineblossom84]

crazy. this is like a quarter or half-step down from what's written. I thought I was losing my mind, but, then I went to my keyboard. haha. but, it's great singing.

[sexybcl21]

That could be possible, because they tune to a different sound frequency in some places...Does sound a bit lower to me too...

[SieglindeMoos]

At Glyndebourne they use period instruments, and they vibrate better when tuned down.... Or better, they were made for a certain frequency.

[SieglindeMoos]

But it does lose that edge when tuned down, doesn't it?

[sexybcl21]

Ooo, thats interesting. I like the idea of period insrtuments. But yeah, it looses that spark and ring ing the voice...

[TheRocket78]

Actually, the lower tuning is closer to the original. Mozart and other classical composers who wrote for the voice, knew very well that only a tuning around C=256, or A=430-432, will permit a soprano/tenor register shift on F#. Higher tuning will arbitrarily alter the composers' intention, and is furthermore damaging for the voice.

[vitellia]

I just had to thank you for the great answer, TheRocket78. I wonder how it had changed so quick from A=415 for the time of Handel and Bach. I read that A=443 is the standard in some places. Let's hope this centuries-long trend of higher tuning doesn't go any further.

[TheRocket78]

It changed mostly because of Romanticism, i.e. the rejection of music as a lawful development of an idea, but rather being sensation and sound effects, which the "brilliance" of the higher tuning would achieve. Wasn't it the Nazis that standardized A=440?

[kingjordana]

Yes, I am with you. It is in large part the reason for singers with ruined voices.

[gmr2broadway]

ah! so gorgeous!