Crude Furie in English from Handel's Xerxes (Mezzo Soprano)

[Fliegenfaenger11]

She is absolutely great!!! An ideal of interpretation this extremly difficult aria!

[teddydiva]

I've sung this as a falsettist - the runs are easier for the falsetto voice

[pr21pr21pr21]

UGLY LIBRETTO

[rayuuhumizuki]

OHhhh my GOD! THat was SOOO GOOD! YESSSS!!!!

Orgasm in my ear!!!!

[LookAwaaay]

@rayuuhumizuki totally -- eargasm :D

[dandruffers]

fucking hell! great job!!!

[drtmuir]

GO GIRL!

[mhax3]

I dont like this version in english

[Berokymilk]

@mhax3 Me neither.

[lindafranca]

i think 250 now :))

[leprincebeaumont]

Favolosa! 

[cantanteporsiempre]

What the hell???? she is a soprano!! but sounds incredible

[stefflo712]

@cantanteporsiempre I agree, she indeed is a soprano. It can be heard from the first bar. However, she sure can sing :)

[drtmuir]

@stefflo712 She's been a mezzo for kind of a long time, though . . .

[chitarel]

My God, she is simply the Best Xerxes ever...

Unbelievable energy and power anytime I watch again

[cantanteporsiempre]

@chitarel  Yes, indeed

[3232siobhan]

Absolutely fantastic!

Brava Ann Murray!

(I'd like to see a counter tenor try this!)

The mezzos rule OK!

[cantanteporsiempre]

@3232siobhan lol, we rule!!!

[99Isher]

Bravissima. Tecnica eccellente, fraseggio perfetto anche nella coloratura. Bello!

[leprincebeaumont]

che brava!

[MrOperadirector]

Just THE best. Fab voice and perfect technique.

[Pharnaces1]

ann murray is the best! great timbre, great colorature and...great acting!

she's so funny!

[Chayastri]

I have watched and listened to this several times. If I have it correctly, Ms. Murray is singing "Rise ye furies from baleful abysses. Come bespatter me with your foul venom." I can't figure out the rest. Will someone else have a go?

[TFreckle]

The be part: xx blackened?... xxx eclipses...

xxx in my bossom.

Yeah, it's rather incomprehensible

[Chayastri]

Thanks Tfreckle,

Here is the English subtitles from another production.

"Let the world turn to ash

And the sun eclipsed

By my anger, till my heart bursts with fury"

I still can't figure out exactly what Ms Murray is singing.

[Chayastri]

Marvellous! I had trouble understanding the words, but her singing is terrific. Odd to see an opera written in Italian, being sung in English and subtitled in Italian.

Is this available on disc? Amazon has none and the other vendors are charging horrendous prices for USED DVDs.

[lindafranka]

i have seen it circa 122 times yet :p ... dream role for a mezzo

[micky9321]

SUPERBE  !

[horseyak]

It may be English but I still don't understand a word.

[compeld2sing]

So, it might as well be in any other language, like Italian, for example.

[horseyak]

Right.  Just the way it was written. You can also keep "Hansel and Gretel" in German, as far as I'm concerned.

[Thiktum]

Increible interpretación! Bravissima Ann!!

[peres010492]

What a pity that she sang in english

[TFreckle]

Oh my darned god a DESPICABLE vibrato (if it can be called that....)

Oh my darned god, such DIVINE colleratura!!!

[ellandelachapelle]

She´s off to Bedlam! :-D  (hypnotized the last sculpture haha.)

[sfkcbf]

I know that audiences are easily impressed & tend to give professional singers the benfit of the doubt & their adulation. And I am happy to see Handel performed so much. I do find, however, her heavy warble to be off-putting. I always hope to hear a more precise, controlled technique in Baroque operas. A looser technique is less noticeable in later operas, and audiences have become accustomed to hearing them that way, although superior singers like Gundula Janowitz never fell into that trap.

[wade1977]

The Queen of the Machine Gun coloratura!