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  • que brutal! yo ni puedo llegar a esa nota!

  • Okay I'm a girl soprano and I can't even hit those notes... truly amazing!

  • wonderful performace, flawless, esp for a boy

  • Not fake...but definitely gay!

  • some of you have no idea what you are talking about....the highest note in this song is a F6, not a C5 or an A3...go to music school or take a music theory class before you think you know what you're talking about. Also, hitting a C5 before you reach puberty isn't really that much of a big deal...C5 is the top note for a MATURE tenor, nevermind a prepubescent boy soprano. None the less, I really enjoyed this video.

  • hsjkl dfcjrlv fr efafdd efdjdjg ròl

  • This is one of the better boy soprano performances of this aria, but his pitch is all over the place when he goes much above G or A.

  • too bad boy sopranos are always at their best just before their voice changes.

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  • man singing Gkey wow

  • C4 is Middle C on the piano. The highest note he sings in this is 3 Fs above that: the F an octave above the top line in the treble clef, F6

  • I love the distinguished way he says " high eefffs"

  • gorgeous

  • O this is soo beautiful!

  • impressionante...

  • ODDDIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO QUANTO è BRAVOOO NO DAVVERO ODDIOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • Its funny cuz he has no balls

  • @holymessi He has a wonderful baritone voice now.

  • The high F is certainly not always accurate!

  • @slaraffenlandia becouse he had'nt coloratura soprano range (Robin hasnt too). His hight F is by untrained falsetto. Two trils aren't good to but it was a great voice, f a n t a s t i c timbre, from C4 to C6 he was good.

  • @2010wieliczka .. and how do you think about the 16yo Alois Mühlbacher with this aria - currently at my channel...:)

  • @Hahnimkorb100 Ooooooooo!!!!!! I thought he is vocally "died", incredibile, fantastic, thanks!!! He was great as Oberto, perfect. His Queen of the night is very good too but as Oberto he is more apropriate, becouse it is boy aria (Haendel used for it a 15 years old boy!!!!!) and any woman or girl can compare to his interpretation. "Barbara" from Alcina by Alois- great, great performance, perfect. Clint is fantastic singing BWV51- probably the most difficoult piece wroten for the boy. Thanks!!

  • Dios mio, que voz!!!

  • bet he can't do that anymore LOL

  • !!!!! Wow and today he is a well know opera singer as a baritone!

    

  • ha un vibrato impressionante!

  • is it just me or is he missing a tooth?

  • THAT JUST BLEW MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    fantastic! great pronounciation! you can actually tell what words are coming out of his mouth unlike most opera pieces because his pronounciation is so clear!

  • I love how the audio recording device couldn't handle the high note. xD

  • cool shirt ;)

  • @dannerzme He is wearing a blue waistcoat and a jabot. it is the uniform of the Drakensberg Boys Choir, one of the foremost choir in Africa

  • @SoulMaestro93 awesome :)

  • The boy was great. Too bad his pianist SUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKEEEEEDDDD!

  • No words to describe this boy, incredible and grandious.

  • NO EMOTION!!!! terrible

  • no es niño soprano es contratenor

  • @camilabb01 de hecho si está cantando con la vibración de sus cuerdas vocales en registro de pecho o de cabeza, sí es soprano

  • @camilabb01 Que importa si es soprano o contratenor

  • So, boy, how was puberty ? I had a very late one myself (at 15!). Bummer, when you have to wait so long.

    You take advantage of it, though; a crystalline voice with power turns out to be pretty handy.

    Great job, kid !

  • The nice thing, compared to some othe treble recordings of this aria, is that he does not take it too fast. His technique and voice get shown properly this way. The only problem I have with the Robin Schlotz recording is that it is too fast and that's why I prefer Jacques Imbrailo over him.

  • Astonishingly gifted.

  • I think you are all missing the point that his is NO ORDINARY Chorister but one of the Greatestest Boy Sopranos of our time or at least in the history of recording (hi fi) as we are hearing a recordings from about 20 years ago You cant compare him to anybody using the same criteria you do for the "ordinary". even at 14 accomplishing the unique crystal Clear HIGH F naturaltally Motzart wrote this in and Im sure, to his personal preference, of not having to sacrifing his Testicles to do so :)

  • Stunning! MERCI

    Les Loupiots

  • that's what im talkin bout!

  • too bad he's going to look like taddei when he grows up...

  • Wow!

  • @mistatomsom I distinctly remember using a different register as a child to hit the notes at the top of my range. I'm now studying music education, and know the difference between the feeling of singing in head voice and singing in falsetto. Pls tell me what register i was singing in as a child that felt exactly like my falsetto does now, if it is impossible for children to have falsetto. The falsetto is the register produced by isolating the high part of the chords, so why can't kids do that?

  • O.o

    so fast....

  • I wonder if he sang Miles while being a boy soprano?

    So odd to see him this young :D especially after hearing his super manly Billy Budd on cd.

  • okay.. well having to sing that song was bad enough, but why did they make him dress up in that getup, dammm...at least let him hold on to some kind of dignity.

  • @ricgomez1 you don't what you're talking about for a boy to hi a C5 is really big deal man!

  • @JoseCarlosCristiano I know exactely what I'm talking about, That song was meant to be sung by a women!!! and that get up doesn't look good, would you wear that??

  • @JoseCarlosCristiano and not only for a boy!! think of is already hard to hit a high C for many women!!!

  • @JoseCarlosCristiano There's no c5 in this song.. it's A3 i think. C5 is impossible to sing.. for a boy, for a woman.. for anyone.

  • @FallenEva00 duuuh? That's because that's the flute register, you can't sing over those notes, you can just hit it

  • Voice broke at 11 .... bass / baritone :) lowest note thats been recorded = low E in bass clef highest - High A in treble (sounded horrible btw ) >=D

  • that's what i meant yeah. i'm dying to hear a castrato voice. I know it's not ethical and moral and abominable, but i still wanna hear a full castrato voice... wouldn't that be great?

  • @mistatomsom search for Alessandro Moreschi. there are some recordings left, though with a horrible quality and over 100 years old^^

  • @HunterWoelfchen

    hehe I have a whole CD of his at home. My parter is expert on baroque castrati, so I'm pretty well acquainted with them and their story...

  • @mistatomsom as matter of fact there are some ancient recordings of the "Last Castrati" Alessandro Moreschi which were made later in his life after he had passed his prime. They are public domain and are free to download from archive.org and other sites including youtube. The recordings are very old and are of questionable quality. Plus his singing style is somewhat different from what we are accustomed to hearing today. but it is interesting to hear what he sounded like.

  • @patrick9648

    Dear Patrick, I have the CD at home. The recording is really bad and he was extremely nervous prior to this recording. Also the time of big operatic castratos was gone about 100 years before. Moreschi was a chorister, but one can still hear the magnificence of the voice. We can only imagine how Farinelli sounded.

  • This is why all children should be trained in Bel Canto singing. Shame that he couldn't have acted out the part some, but, ce la vie! Great singing.

  • immagine what it would be like to preserve that amazing voice also as he grew up!?! amazing!

  • @mistatomsom You mean surgically remove his testicles and make him a castrati?

  • Incredible =)!

  • AHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

    OMG..

    ahh, what a great laug- AAAAHHHHHHH HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

  • Proud to call him my colleague!! Last year he was an amazing Billy Budd at Glyndebourne Opera House! Bravo

  • im a trained soprano, and this boy can pull off this aria better than i can!

  • I swear if i didn't see the boy, i really tought it was a girl ahhahahah. But still he sings it good.

  • Marvellous, Mr Imbrailo was and is an excellent singer !

  • flawless!!

  • @blues2oo Not likely as it is a choir school.

  • @blues2oo yup by the jealous kids.

  • Truly magnificent

  • I saw this boy singing around this age! I was in the Des Moines Childrens chior, we had a festival and the Drakensberg Boys Choir came and this boy had a performance of this piece!!! Incredible, can't believe I stumbled on this video...beautiful singing

  • Call me controversial, but I think he sings this better than Clint Van Der Linde did... only just though :)

  • I like how at 1:24 he gets so high that it brakes the recording range of the audio recording device.

  • @TPurvis18 omg yea that happened to mine too~

  • Dude you sing very happy birthday. so God will continue abencoe.xauuuuuuuu Cheers and peace.

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  • Wow, Bunny Ashley Botha rocks. Well done Jacques - obviously a Drakie :) So proud!

  • Bastante bueno!!! =/

  • he is a wonderful baritone now. here he is playing the role of Morales in Carmen.

    watch?v=OdW1GmWrpQ4

  • This is the best boy soprano interpretation of the queen of the night aria that I've heard.

  • i doesnt has gots at all i supose xd lol.. he's cool

  • beautiful timbre and great technique.

    It's refreshing to see someone so young, with all the insecurities of beeing a teen, singing such a difficult aria so beautifully.

    I wish to see him sing as the years go be - I'm pretty sure he'll be a great opera singer - be as contra-tenor or tenor or baritone

  • @IgorLueska He just sang as malatesta at the royal opera house in london this past september

  • WOW; SUPER

  • one of my speakers is boken now, and now i'm not kidden!

    but is was great!

  • Bravo. (:

  • @Likeaperv

    sorry man, but this is stupid and it shows that u r stupid too cause not everything should be said, when words r silver then silence is gold.

  • Really amazing control of his voice ALL THE TIME !!

    Real high F's with no whistle cheating technique ! I could actually "see" the flute !

    Keep on going ! Keep the good work !

    Give a big fuck to all the jealous people who write shitty comments !

  • Superbe interprétation ! 

  • Well, he certainly did not ruin his voice! I just heard him today, now 13 years later at the ROH singing Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale. He was superb, the best of the cast.

  • Well RyanD, he certainly did not ruin his voice! I just heard him today, now 13 years later at the ROH singing Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale. He was superb, the best of the cast.

  • So I was listening to this and when he hit a high note my speakers popped and crackled and I had to stop it lest my speakers die.

    o_0

  • il est impressionnant !

  • he is singing folseto . wich will wreck his voice in the future .

  • @RyanD1862 Frankly I don't believe the boy is singing falsetto. I was a chorister for many years, and my voice didn't break until I was fourteen (and that was just when it started). I was still singing high soprano roles for awhile until it finished changing completely. The myth of singing falsetto ruining one's voice is completely false. If done properly, with the correct teacher, a singer cand extend their range, learn to have a better control of their lungs, without yodeling too.

  • @youhavegottabejoking I agree with you. There is nothing wrong with singing falsetto or male head voice unless done improperly which goes for any singing. And like you said, the boy is not even singing in falsetto. That's his lyric upper real-voice. So what are you now: a baritone, tenor, 1st tenor?

  • @okebaram My voice has a wide range. The natural limits are in the bari-tenor range, but because of the training, I have actually sang alto (contralto) solos in a falsetto voice.

  • @youhavegottabejoking I'll agree with that, and actually I think singing in chest voice can do more damage... the amount of singers being told to "belt it out" in chest voice these days are probably spoiling their voice in the long run.

  • @youhavegottabejoking agree...No way this is falsetto...

  • @youhavegottabejoking there is no such thing as falsetto in children. Their voice did not break yet, so they physically cannot sing in "falsetto"....

  • @youhavegottabejoking yes me to , I was sing very beautifly even at 15 and start to break at 16 I was able to sing any range, since I sing from childhood but now at 18 I rarly sing because of the desspiration that I have since loosing my flexible voice , I'll do anything to get it back:(

  • @RyanD1862

    Well, he certainly did not ruin his voice! I just heard him today, now 13 years later at the ROH singing Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale. He was superb, the best of the cast.

  • Amazing performance. And to stay on pitch which is very difficult in this selection and not sound like screeching. Mozart would be very proud.

  • Amazing execution. nice talent. I like!

  • He sings almost as high as Dame Julie Andrews!

  • God, he tosses this off like he's singing a pop song...easy peasy... It's really astonishing how effortless it seems. Pretty damn brilliant. I hope his voice is as brilliant, whereever his range falls, after puberty hits.

  • @lady8001 wow lol i checked out his adult voice soooo different but still great

  • I wish this kid was castrated. he would have been the perfect example of a modern day Farrinelli.

  • He's currently singing the title role in Billy Budd at Glyndebourne.

  • i love it!

  • What a beautiful voice..

  • Good intonation and high register (though the high F is sometimes a bit low); non as well good coloratura, but I'm sure studying he'll be a good countertenor.

  • Sorry, Robin Schlotz, this kid has you beat!

  • I love the sound of his voice and the great control he has over his voice, my only issue is with the tempo, it was too fast and it didn't give time to sort of "linger" on the higher notes and really show off his voice up there.

  • Amazing Voice...Horrible Outfit. Bravo!!!

  • Wonderful! He is a baritone now.

  • @glnptrv hmm, surprises me he isn't a tenor.... and one hell of a tenor ;)

  • @souler999 Whot do you mean? Somtimes boys voices change very much after pubertation. No surprise that he is a baritone.

  • @glnptrv

    Oh! I do know that, but according to me I was more surprised by hearing he was a baritone now than if you told me he was a tenor, don't you agree?

  • @souler999 Yes, certainly I agree. It is really surprizing that he is a baritone now.

  • did his voice changed?

  • horrible!

  • this is exactly how I pictured it should sounds! there is just something in a woman soprano's voice that is not satisfying on those hight notes, and I love the easy grace he has when he hit the notes!

  • there's something with the tunning but still A-MA-ZING

  • watch?v=OdW1GmWrpQ4

  • Wow. Pretty amazing. I wonder where he is now.

  • @annabneal he's one of the best young baritone on the international opera circuit right now.. Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne...

  • BEST one yet. of the younger boys. BRAVO!

  • @Musicalandmore Andreas School

    Look for him. Ofcourse they'll be happy. More money, more talented :)

  • yes. his voice indeed changed. he is now a baritone.

  • O_O my go-

    That's scary, and excellent.

  • I very much wish that the guy who sang this in Des Moines, IA in 1996 were on YouTube. He was about 5'11.... :D This guy is good too though.

  • Baie goed gedoen, veral met die hoë note!! =D

  • haha!! knap hoor!!!

    very high!!

  • Done very well. If this was in 1993, his voice may well have changed. I saw some more recent stuff by Robin Schlotz and he still can sing well, but not as high, of course.

  • Re: pUnkln's comment - no kidding. clearly amazing in all regards.

  • Wow.....a lark! Bravissimo!

  • WOW!

  • WHAT?

  • I was lucky enough to be taught by Christian Ashley Botha, and was in the same class as Jacques. His coloratura is one of the most amazing I have ever heard in a boy. I was unlucky however. By the time this was recorded my voice was mezzo soprano, I could never reach those notes. If I had that voice, I would have become a castrato without a second thought.

  • You're sick.

  • Bravo.. I wasn't expecting that!

  • Amazing - it must takes years of practice to be able to do that. Go the boys! Also check out 9 year old Alex Chorley singing Walking in the Air. Not so operatic but he really can sing and is very charismatic.

  • wow thats depressing hahaha im a girl and a soprano and i cant sing that lol... he did great!

  • didn*t matter ;)

    his voice isn't dropped actually...

    all boys can sing this highs before theire voice is dropped

  • woooow this boy is fantastic!!

  • That pianist is making mucho mistakes!!!

  • Its a wonder it didn't throw the countertenor off. This guy is either having a bad day or not a good accompanist.

  • for all those who have a problem with boys singing high, you guys are pretty dimwitted. he's a kid therefore his voice hasn't matured yet. jeez. now if this was a grown man, or a castrato, maybe i would be more light-hearted but come on....

  • don't waste yout time responding to the spammers

  • @kishchou44 there are no more castrati opera singers nowadays,

    a countertenor can posibly do this...if this is sung by a mature man

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  • @lostWinchester I can't believe that's coming out of a boys mouth...This kids is talented!

  • @lostWinchester sung...not sang

  • @shailor13 , yep. Sorry, slip of a pen.

  • By now that voice doesn't exist.

  • This guy is now the most amazing baritone. I saw him at the RAH in London just recently singing the title part in Mendelssohn's Elijah. Impeccable!

  • that's usually how it works. the highest boy sopranos become basses and baritones

  • I hate to say this but I don't and will never agree with letting anyone under twenty sing this aria, regardless of whether it is a male or female. Singing this type of repertoire at such a young age instills bad habits that are hard to break. I'm 24 and a countertenor and though I have a high C I don't live my musical life above the staff, I leave that for the women. No man will ever play the queen of the night unless they are in drag so asking a little boy do it downright preposterous

  • omg thats high he must hav something tied round hes balls (tight!)

  • you're so dumb

  • y do u say im so dumb

  • I think it was clever.