Barbara Frittoli "Final Scene" Suor Angelica

[gentelc]

This is one of the best productions of Suor Angelica that I have ever seen. The ending is especially effective.

[kamojamo]

Rebecca Cassidy wins.

[MatteoDesigns]

Wonderful technique!

[schoolhousenews]

I've waited so long for Il Trittico from the Met, but never had the chance to see it. Thank you for posting. Is there any chance you have the rest of the performance? (Il Tabbarro and Gianni Schicchi) If you do, is there any way you could upload them? Thank you for posting!!

[Fegen]

Barbara Frittoli's performances at the Met have always been wonderful and here

she is outstanding.

[ViardotVSGrisi]

they sure love to overuse that tracked camera...left right right left...repeat...

[JockamoGoon]

i feel that so much of the sound is lost in these recordings. saw her live the other night in simon boccenegra and she has such a deeper sounding top. maybe it was just that night...

[Otellogv]

@JockamoGoon I'm glad you said that because I've often thought that when hearing Frittoli on here. I was lucky enough to see her Maria Stuarda a few years back and the live sound was incredible. Don't get me wrong, the recording is excellent but her voice had added depth in the theatre. Glorious voice!

[ukrola]

fnatastic singer!!!!!

[megashoo]

You gotta love the applause when she hits the note! everyone complains i know, but im sure every artist secretly loves and relishes it! relax people,when did it all get so serious? apart from the great music the composer also wanted to entertain the senses,if not he wouldnt have put in those crazy high notes! ha ha

[vocalpianist]

@megashoo well said! haha

[JasminaH79]

I was there when they recorded it . I freaked out when the door opened and the kid appeared. I looked like a zombie with my mascara running down my face and onto my shirt,. I couldn't contain myself. I probably lost my voice screaming afterwards. This was one of the best performances I've ever seen live.

[spizzell1]

@JasminaH79

I wish I could have been there. This is just fantastic.

[stridje]

wow!

[hnybee113]

This by far is the best Suor Angelica I have ever seen. Frittoli is a master of Puccini and this role. I am sobbing right now. I can only wish to be a Suor Angelica or her caliber. And the acting. This is what an acting opera singer should look like. All singers should study Ms. Frittoli. It is natural, because she sings the text and feels it and we feel it. Wow I am so stunned and moved right now.

[jglass54]

Frittoli is my favorite Angelica, too. I love this scene. The lighting cue for the cross to be illuminated was like an on/off switch. Yech.....should have been a gradual illumination.

[alvarito45]

Barbara en Puccini no falla: Bravissima!!!!

[MrLupo23]

bravissima!!!! My favourite angelica.

[logenisti]

I like how at 6:24, Levine has the offstage sopranos end on a high C instead of the written lower C.

[Grey159]

@logenisti Actually, the sopranos are written to end on a pianissimo high c. Everyone is singing unison there with the sopranos on C6, children and altos the octave below that, and then the tenors, and basses each an octave below the voice above it.

[logenisti]

I beg your pardon. I didn't know. Because I've heard that passage often done without the high C.

[Grey159]

@logenisti No, it's fine. I wasn't trying to be catty and a know-it-all. I truly am sorry if I came across that way. I assume most places don't have choir sopranos that can sustain a high c softly for two full measures.

My university is doing Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi right now so I am pretty familiar with them.

[SuperJox]

Will Green! It's Xavier! I found you on youtube. lol

[wizardcesarbv]

@Grey159 oye grey me puedes explicar eso... esque me interesa adaptar una obra

[rumpwrestler]

PUCCINI AT HIS BEST!

[Mononokeylune]

I love you Mr Puccini

[jhuredhead3211]

I saw this production this week at the Met with Patricia Racette as Sister Angelica. When you read the storyline, it sounds so dated and corny, but in the theater, wow, it rips your heart out! What a gem!!

[Grey159]

@jhuredhead3211 How was the production of Schicchi? I have a friend singing in it right now.

[coriumboy]

Donde fue esta puesta en escena?

[MrLupo23]

Al metropolitan de New York.

[youfeda]

Piango.

[DivaDeb1234]

That was really well done!

[MrLupo23]

the best angelica!!

[roshjaky]

The sf opera is performing this now. It's wonderful.

[carloge77]

Bravissima!!!!!

[tweedy127]

What I would liked to have seen is this clip last a little longer to include the curtain going back up to show Barbara's ovation. The crowd are going mad with applause and cheers. Who can blame them. Staggering performance.

[carochaves79]

Impresionante la puesta! Impresionante Barbara! Sin palabras...

[benjaminvox]

I didn't count myself among Ms. Frittoli's fans until this very moment. Exquisite and highly dramatically effective. Brava!

[CONTESTAR]

Me too. At the beginning of her career I was not convinced she deserved all the credit she got.

But this is an artist that matured over the years. Good for her. Bravissima.

[IAGUSSSSS]

Stupenda davvero!

Ma secondo voi i capelli se li è tagliati davvero o era un parrucchino?

[idraote]

Ms Frittoli is one of the best lyric soprano available but this part is extremely heavy and is simply too much for her. She is a real professional and she manages but her voice gets thin and strained.

I hope she will reconsider her repertoire lest she loses her clarity and brilliance far too early.

Unfortunately in a time when competent dramatic sopranos seem to have thinned out there has been a shift: high sopranos usually sing as lyric and lyric as dramatic

[JessTea]

I saw this live. It was one of the most moving things I have ever seen. So beautiful!

[ARReith]

The last 30 seconds are so touching. Did Angelica find her son? Was she pardoned?  Is she happy?

[mwalsh2008]

I think that the music itself powerfully tells us that she is redeemed and reunited with her son, without any doubt.

[idraote]

Puccini deliberately leaves this to speculation: whether the final angel choir is real and she is saved through divine intervention or whether all is a result of a mind confused by poison.

Everyone can choose what one likes to think: I find this ambiguity a touch of genius

[tweedy127]

ARReith. Yes, she was pardoned. And she's happy she can now spend eternity with her young son.

[youfeda]

Ragazzi, ma scherzate, vero? è tutto meraviglioso questo video. Non mi accorgo nemmeno se la Frittoli non ci "arriva" alle note...

[mrbubble906]

Is this available on DVD?

[Jaydoggy531]

It's not, nor on HDDVD or Blue Ray, at least not for the time being - I think the Met is still trying to figure out if they want to side with HD or BR.

[JockamoGoon]

lol HDDVD?

read a newspaper for once.

[Ilzampieri]

A me la Signora Frittoli piace ma quila trovo al limite delle sue possibilità.Forse non era in serata.Peccato!!!!E'un'artista sensibilissima e musicale.

[silsio]

...la solita "bufala"....l'eterna promessa della lirica! Non è per niente vera, anzi, assolutamente artefatta!

[pasielu]

del Trittico,Puccini all'opera suor Angelica ci teneva di più,e ha dovuto a malincuore tagliare "l'aria dei fiori" riamessa poi anni dopo.

Bella interpretazione di Barbara Frittoli del dramma di questa suora,che praticamente diventa pazza,quando viene a sapere che suo figlio è morto.

[GiuseppeSaronno]

Ha una reazione da Madre negata, negata dalla cultura bigotta e ignorante dei suoi tempi

[MrLupo23]

mica tanto solo dei suoi tempi...

Cmq è bellissima questa intepretazione.

[GiuseppeSaronno]

Ignoranza e grettezza sono i nostri piu grandi mali...

[tenorismo]

RENATA SCOTTO non other.

[Andante735]

Si,si!! Bravo tenorismo!

[Alexpasini93]

Ottima interpretazione del soprano e ottima regia!

[PepinoJusticiero]

Divino...

[glukupikron]

Solo Barbara riesce a farmi piangere per il "vero" che porta in ogni cosa essa canti. Grazie...

[isinglouderthanu]

perfection... absolutely.

[operalover23]

to me she overparts her lyric soprano - that's why she already has a trmolo in her voice

[magghot]

grandissima attrice la frittoli..commovente..intensa senza strafare come altre che avvolte esagerano rasentando il ridicolo..voce splendida..

[guy1938]

j'ai ce video , très belle performance

superbe . bravo

[emilyloowho]

GAH. I always cry when I watch this.

[tenorismo]

Me to I can't help it

[guy1938]

j,aime beaucoup cette performance

[ciociosan]

i LOVE the nun's french tips!

[Fraederik]

WHY, why, why do Met-visitors ALWAYS applaud right through the final music?!? It is so beautiful if the music dies away and then... silence for at least ten seconds...

[malniit]

I agree!! Have you seen the concert version of Suor Angelica with Cristian Gallardo-Domas? The audience is silent for at least 10 seconds. The conductor and soprano were emotionally exhausted.

[ElisabettaVS]

@Fraederik A thing that is, sadly, most common in opera houses...

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

@Fraederik

YES IT IS MADDENING!!!!!!!

[RCA1978]

no one's better then Victoria de los Angeles, under Serafin. And of course, Barbieri's Zia.

[emilytransex]

commovente la frittoli brava bravissima bella voce anke se la parte e molto acuta ma la frittoli canta bene e commuove come sempre..il coro discreto...troppi contralti e mezzosoprani....

[tim3648]

Puccini is a GENIUS!! I ABSOLULEY LOVE THIS ENDING!! BRAVA!!

[543johnson]

A moving interpretation, but can you post the confrontation scene with Stephanie Blythe?

[verdiguy]

Amazing!

One of the most powerful and moving things I've ever seen.

Barbara Frittoli leaves everything on the

stage, immersing herself completely into

the fate of this poor young woman. On the

live broadcast, the announcer said that

she had to be physically lifted from the

stage before the curtain went up and no

wonder!

Brava Barbara and thanks for posting!

[mrlammermoor]

@verdiguy...

this is the most ridiculous thing i ever read...

[RADAMES1983]

grazie molto!!

Io sempre piangio quando ascolto del finale della questa opera...

[operissimo84]

Bravina, ma grida come un'aquila.

Molto meglio Gallardo-Domas!!!!!!!

[mrlammermoor]

boring in comparison to gallardo-domas

this set is for people with little imagination.

[Ruxton]

I don't go to the opera to imagine sets

[waterfordwinstons]

Brava

[gheeah]

this is really very beautiful and touching...

[sagalat]

Just 3 things can make a 63 year old jew cry at the opera every time: This Suor Angelica Finale, the Tannhauser Finale, Butterfly, Boheme & Tosca finales. Gorgeous posting. Thanks. Now I'll go kill myself.

[gheeah]

hope you didn't after all...

[spizell]

You know, there is something about this music that is so amazing, it does move one to tears.

[spizell]

This music is amazing. So Moving. I love the strength and how fragile her voice is all at the same time. I love this performance.

[spizzell1]

I love this also. I don't see how people can listen to any of these and not be moved.