Lotte Lehmann - aria from Mignon (Thomas)

[Raggedy9]

Two things (among many others) I love about Lehmann's singing: she really sinks into the low notes, and no one else sings the vowel ü with such a beautiful color!

[cantorandopera]

Beautiful, and so effortless.

[AulicExclusiva]

Is this a different take??

[merrihew]

No, I just forgot.

[AulicExclusiva]

You meant to post the Styrienne! ;P

[illfurter]

Quelle voix! quelle tenue de timbre parfait! Qui chante aussi bien maintenant?

[espTAIRI]

étonnant

thkss

[SopranoKayla1992]

It's cool how the German fits as perfectly as the French. I wonder what Je suis Titana would sound like in German...

[LLehmannfan]

@SopranoKayla1992 You should search for Frieda Hempel. As I remember her German rendition of "Je suis Titania" can be found here on youtube.

[kleetraveler]

Thank you very much for this beautiful German rendition of aria I treasure immensely. Last week end I went to NYC to attend a meeting and found a time to visit Morgan Library & Museum. Boy! was I intimidated by his rare and first book collections! I found the original first edition of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" and that brought me the memories of Opera Mignon and aria "Connais-tu le pays" and the Original German poem.

Thank you, thank you!

[merrihew]

Its comments like this that encourage me to continue posting!

[SopranoKayla1992]

Did they have Faust there too?

[kspm01]

Thomas is a sadly neglected composer; this wonderful version does it justice.

[paulostroff99]

A great performance from one of the greatest.