Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Glyndebourne 1990 Count's aria Hai gia vinta la causa

[LeahWayEarth]

Oh god, spending half of the aria singing while sitting in a chair, that is just bad form.

[pizzi88g]

i watched kiarostami's certified copy today and i wondered why i couldn't see this good, intelligent actor on the other films before, now i've got it. he's a wonderful singer.

[hollaboutit]

this is the oritorio. sorry if i misspelled.

[rontomcol]

4 people are jealous of William Shimell getting to act with Juliette Binoche ;-)

[mouthmouse]

@rontomcol not jalous but I don't like the version: for me the pronunciation is awful 0:13 1:06 and many other... the voice is not beautiful, and extracts more spoken than sung 3:46 and many other things that make that I don't like this version

[AmericanEvita]

I've been looking at this 1990 Glyndebourne Simon Rattle Figaro and it's really very bad. It had some potential. The period orchestra is playing gorgeously but these singers focus only on drama. They don't sing their recitatives, they speak them. They really do treat this like it was a play despite the fact it's only based on a play and it's OPERA. William Shimmel's Count is terrible - poor diction, bad voice, and like with others they all look at the camera! This is a terrible Figaro.

[stickom]

Catastrophe , his diction, and this feeble, cumbersome orchestra… hmm… (shouldn’t L’ Conte be decisive rather than truculent, oppressive, in this aria..)

[Awesomemegaman64]

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mouthmouse]

strange pronunciation! horrible at 1:58 Generally bad unfortunatly!

[trevorm74]

sad really. really solid voice when he actually decides to sing. sloppy in a lot of places. great acting though. it shouldn't affect the singing as much as it did though

[alexandrevlad37]

Grande Shimell !

[breberto]

@alexandrevlad37 ma come grande! vorrai dire bello e affascinante - e lo si è visto nel film di Cannes - ma è un cantante molto modesto, pessima pronuncia italiana, troppo esagitato in scena. No davvero non sono d'accordo.

[Gregory10000000000]

Brilliant! A million thanks for posting this particular one.Last I saw this one was years ago .

[piasecznik]

Woah, half of the aria is just shouted, the other half incredibly sloppy.

[breberto]

@piasecznik You are right, very bad singer, bad performance.