Oh! dear another Sunday morning spent sighing over Sumi Jo.
Definitely the best rendition of this truly wonderful sung that I have ever heard. Sumi Jo has performed it many times but this is the one that entrances me.
I have only heard her sing Mozart live and that was one of the very best evenings of my life.
Having lived life to the full for 54 years that is not lightly said.
@rmcinuk Well said rmcinuk. Jo Sumi is an under estimated and under appreciated talent in a business that glorifies mediocrity and showmanship. Her star has steadily risen over the last 25 years to cast her into the forefront of coloratura soprano's, holding her own on stage and on recording with her far more promoted male counterparts. She is a gift that most do not deserve.
listened to various renditions of this haunting song and i have to say this is definitely up there with the best and i agree with lordofthe trapdoors comments
I love this song, and I'm glad artistically she struck a medium between pop and opera. What gets me about this one is that genre-wise it is not firmly anything really. Even though it was part of an opera it really can be taken as a number of things depending on the stylistic preferences of the artists.
This beautiful song from the opera 'The Bohemian Girl' written by the Irish composer Michael Balfe has been given many treatments....it's difficult to beat this one....
Beautiful performance. I think her rendition is more expressive e refined than Dame Joan's (of course, Sutherland voice was another matter!) Just I think this version is lower than the original, but honestly sounds much better in this way.
@LordoftheTrapdoors You imply that Miss Jo can't sing as high as Dame Joan could. I don't believe that this is true. Sutherland had a huge easy voice with super flexibility. I heard her live many times. In my life time there was never anyone else quite like her. I had heard several famous Normas live before I first heard Sutherland sing it. Wow!
Sumi Jo live has a much more normal sized voice for this fach - rather small. OTOH her voice is probably a whole tone higher.
@Agorante I don't think Jo can't sing high as Sutherland (and however this aria is lower then top higher range of two both). I'm not sure but I think this version is half tone lower than original Balfe partiture (I think it's a stylistic choice, certainly not because she can't sing higher). About Joan; I never heard her live (and I heard Sumi Jo only once) so I can't compare them.
@LordoftheTrapdoors Sumi Jo regularly sings the Queen of the Night. Sutherland recorded the arias but the role was never in the center of her repertoire. Too high. Popoplo di Tessaglia goes higher yet (High G). This aria has been recorded by Dessay and Gruberova. Pierette Alarie also recorded it. I knew Alarie slightly - she was tiny as such super high singers usually are. Sutherland was big. She searched for a "tall tenor". She discovered this guy called Pavarotti.
I knew this song thanks to Enya, who makes an excellent version of it. I didn't know it belonged to a opera named "The bohemian girl". Thanks for uploading it and for teaching me.
ELLA CANTA BIEN....SU VOZ HA ESTADO TRATADA POR GRANDES DIRECTORES...PERO........EL AIREVOCAL DE UNA VOZ CONCISTENTE NO LO TIENE.....LE FALTA LA GARRA.......ADECUADA......Y PARA ESO HAY QUE TENER MUCHO CARACTER.....PARECE UNA CANCION ÑOÑA...PERO NO LO ES..........Y PARA ESO ESTA JOAN SUTHERLAND PARA DEMOSTRARLO......
@kamikazekate Do you know I love her singing this, it is so full of feeling she is the best voice I have ever heard. What surprises me is that people have to criticize her for doing what she does best, sing. I suppose its all in the hear. I just Wish people would stop with all the negative crap and just enjoy the music.enough said
@MrDavethebrave09 You misunderstand me Dave. She is an operatic singer who i really enjoy. I really do like her. This does not suit her voice.(but at the same time it should!) But she let herself down here thats all. This is a fantastic aria written by Mr. Balfe. If you really want to hear what it should sound like, listen to Joan Sutherland or Jesse Norman who in my opinion sing it beautifully.
@kamikazekate What's wrong with it? It's a beautiful song and a beautiful voice well modulated for the venue. They gave her a microphone so she doesn't have to project across a crowded theater over a full ensemble of actors.
And it's a gentle ballad, so a gentle delivery is more suited than a full bellow you might want to use for a march or a drinking song. I thought the delivery was perfect for the composition.
And popular style? Oh, if only the current pop singers could sound like this...
She definitely knows how to use her voice under her control, especially with that crescendo/decrescendo at the ends. You know what, her voice seems to take on different styles that it contains none but her original own. Something about the upper register vibrato is chilling! The thing that bothers me is the disconnected notes/enunciation, which I've heard with many opera singers, especially, like at 1:01 ("but I also..."), that aren't legato. It's like a croakiness that always bugs me-sorry.
This song was a huge hit in Victorian times (thanks to sales of sheet music, before the age of recordings, if you can imagine that!) and is one of the rare songs from that era that still holds up today. Sumi Jo's interpretation is simply lovely; it doesn't matter if she's Celtic or not, the important thing is the feeling and the voice.
This an excellent version by a stunning singer. As a "Celtic" man myself, I wouldnt even bother listening to Enya's version. She has virtually a nil profile here in Ireland and, whilst talented, caters for what I would consider a tourist audience.
When I first heard this song in the Laurel and Hardy film, The Bohemian Girl on TV in the early 1960's I never ever forgot it. It has always remained clear in those deep recesses of the brain that magically hold onto treasured things that made an impression upon us so many years ago. Such a pleasant memory for me.
This is not the version of this song by Sumi Jo that I was expecting to hear. I don't know which rendition came first, but the other one was operatic in character and was far superior to this popularized version. I wonder if she changed it to suit the audience. This is not appealing.
Have you all abandoned any taste, any appreciation of art and skill, whatsoever? This is, quite simply put, awful, terrible, a travesty - a mockery. Quite simply, it is the worst possible interpretation which one can imagine.
This is, simply put, a travesty of a great aria - the voice is mediocre at best - and that's a compliment - and the orchestra is undeniably bland, incompetent and under-rehearsed: not to mention out of time with the soloist by significant fractions of a second.
@frufruJ i dont understand her version, im destructed.... its between Enya and Dame Joan Sutherland. Enya's version is amazingly ethereal... Dame Joan Sutherland is awesomely operatic.
Celtic Women are crap lol, that blonde one jumpin around with the violin in her hand irritates the crap out of me, maybe some day she will fall on stage ha ha ah
Magnificent.
fonteyn9 1 week ago
Oh! dear another Sunday morning spent sighing over Sumi Jo.
Definitely the best rendition of this truly wonderful sung that I have ever heard. Sumi Jo has performed it many times but this is the one that entrances me.
I have only heard her sing Mozart live and that was one of the very best evenings of my life.
Having lived life to the full for 54 years that is not lightly said.
rmcinuk 1 month ago
@rmcinuk Well said rmcinuk. Jo Sumi is an under estimated and under appreciated talent in a business that glorifies mediocrity and showmanship. Her star has steadily risen over the last 25 years to cast her into the forefront of coloratura soprano's, holding her own on stage and on recording with her far more promoted male counterparts. She is a gift that most do not deserve.
VaticanAssassin1 1 month ago
listened to various renditions of this haunting song and i have to say this is definitely up there with the best and i agree with lordofthe trapdoors comments
megapaulsimon 4 months ago
I love this song, and I'm glad artistically she struck a medium between pop and opera. What gets me about this one is that genre-wise it is not firmly anything really. Even though it was part of an opera it really can be taken as a number of things depending on the stylistic preferences of the artists.
tamanosou 5 months ago
This beautiful song from the opera 'The Bohemian Girl' written by the Irish composer Michael Balfe has been given many treatments....it's difficult to beat this one....
E8gisell 5 months ago
i love this version. i don't care for high voices at all.
lissycarn 6 months ago
Beautiful performance. I think her rendition is more expressive e refined than Dame Joan's (of course, Sutherland voice was another matter!) Just I think this version is lower than the original, but honestly sounds much better in this way.
LordoftheTrapdoors 6 months ago
@LordoftheTrapdoors You imply that Miss Jo can't sing as high as Dame Joan could. I don't believe that this is true. Sutherland had a huge easy voice with super flexibility. I heard her live many times. In my life time there was never anyone else quite like her. I had heard several famous Normas live before I first heard Sutherland sing it. Wow!
Sumi Jo live has a much more normal sized voice for this fach - rather small. OTOH her voice is probably a whole tone higher.
Agorante 3 months ago
@Agorante I don't think Jo can't sing high as Sutherland (and however this aria is lower then top higher range of two both). I'm not sure but I think this version is half tone lower than original Balfe partiture (I think it's a stylistic choice, certainly not because she can't sing higher). About Joan; I never heard her live (and I heard Sumi Jo only once) so I can't compare them.
LordoftheTrapdoors 3 months ago
@LordoftheTrapdoors Sumi Jo regularly sings the Queen of the Night. Sutherland recorded the arias but the role was never in the center of her repertoire. Too high. Popoplo di Tessaglia goes higher yet (High G). This aria has been recorded by Dessay and Gruberova. Pierette Alarie also recorded it. I knew Alarie slightly - she was tiny as such super high singers usually are. Sutherland was big. She searched for a "tall tenor". She discovered this guy called Pavarotti.
Agorante 3 months ago
Just when I thought I'd heard the most beautiful that music had to offer, this one comes to my attention...oh yes !
harold9619 8 months ago
She has nowhere near the range that Meav has
Dragging1Canoe 8 months ago
That's a guy. no two ways about it
Dragging1Canoe 8 months ago
I knew this song thanks to Enya, who makes an excellent version of it. I didn't know it belonged to a opera named "The bohemian girl". Thanks for uploading it and for teaching me.
leveluz 9 months ago
I am so blessed to hear sumi singing . What a glorious voice... i m so movedㅠㅠ 자랑스런 수미조♥♥
orangjiya 9 months ago
Amazing ^^
GOHChesnokov 10 months ago
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Wonderful voice Sumi ... I am mesmerized ... I'm an ethereal Guitarist and would LOVE To RECORD with you ... my email address is: jeffpinfo@gmail.com
GuitaristPAX 10 months ago
Damn... that drag queen can sing!!! Sorry, distracted by that redonk dress she's wearing.
operachild 11 months ago
@operachild
Drag Queen???????
Guess you got your guide dog to type that for you :)
rmcinuk 3 months ago
Sumi Jo singing pop? Huh.
charleyNZ 1 year ago
@charleyNZ It's from an opera named The Bohemian Girl.
frufruJ 1 year ago 5
charleyNZ wat POP??? this is " I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" from the opera THE BOHEMIAN GIRL... its more than a century-old song.
katswordfish1 11 months ago
who sang this on the soundtrack of the movie Burke and Wills? I have been trying so long to find out. This is also a beautiful version.
solsticecelt1 1 year ago
I just heard this song on an Enya album and thought "na, this is too good to be hers". That's how I got here.
luizcadu 1 year ago
ELLA CANTA BIEN....SU VOZ HA ESTADO TRATADA POR GRANDES DIRECTORES...PERO........EL AIREVOCAL DE UNA VOZ CONCISTENTE NO LO TIENE.....LE FALTA LA GARRA.......ADECUADA......Y PARA ESO HAY QUE TENER MUCHO CARACTER.....PARECE UNA CANCION ÑOÑA...PERO NO LO ES..........Y PARA ESO ESTA JOAN SUTHERLAND PARA DEMOSTRARLO......
bellini7verdi 1 year ago
enya does the most famous recording of this and the best and most different!
this si good tho i am a sumi jo fan and she does it great x
trannystar 1 year ago
Oh look! It's an Asian that can pronounce English!
LudiHERMANkoknit 1 year ago
Just beautiful!
MariusRocknroll 1 year ago
Weak, warbling shadow of the great Sutherland version.
rouseg7 1 year ago
@rouseg7 will try to remember to chalk up your vote !
harold9619 8 months ago
She sings beautifully
53820351 1 year ago
Well this is not celtic music, this is british bel canto and Sumi Jo is singing it as a pop song.
primohomme 1 year ago
I'm a celt, and I think she does the song justice, but our very own Enya is hard to beat.
solsticecelt1 1 year ago
Like it, i love it!
La Stupenda has to take 1st for this aria but Sumi Jo somehow doesn't get it & I love Sumi Jo
wilfull1 1 year ago
What the hell is she doing? Why did she try to sing it in a popular way. her strength is opera and THIS IS AN OPERATIC ARIA??? Terrible!
kamikazekate 1 year ago
@kamikazekate Do you know I love her singing this, it is so full of feeling she is the best voice I have ever heard. What surprises me is that people have to criticize her for doing what she does best, sing. I suppose its all in the hear. I just Wish people would stop with all the negative crap and just enjoy the music.enough said
MrDavethebrave09 1 year ago
@MrDavethebrave09 You misunderstand me Dave. She is an operatic singer who i really enjoy. I really do like her. This does not suit her voice.(but at the same time it should!) But she let herself down here thats all. This is a fantastic aria written by Mr. Balfe. If you really want to hear what it should sound like, listen to Joan Sutherland or Jesse Norman who in my opinion sing it beautifully.
kamikazekate 1 year ago 2
@kamikazekate What's wrong with it? It's a beautiful song and a beautiful voice well modulated for the venue. They gave her a microphone so she doesn't have to project across a crowded theater over a full ensemble of actors.
And it's a gentle ballad, so a gentle delivery is more suited than a full bellow you might want to use for a march or a drinking song. I thought the delivery was perfect for the composition.
And popular style? Oh, if only the current pop singers could sound like this...
Hikikomori013 1 year ago
She definitely knows how to use her voice under her control, especially with that crescendo/decrescendo at the ends. You know what, her voice seems to take on different styles that it contains none but her original own. Something about the upper register vibrato is chilling! The thing that bothers me is the disconnected notes/enunciation, which I've heard with many opera singers, especially, like at 1:01 ("but I also..."), that aren't legato. It's like a croakiness that always bugs me-sorry.
chyorneycat 1 year ago
This song was a huge hit in Victorian times (thanks to sales of sheet music, before the age of recordings, if you can imagine that!) and is one of the rare songs from that era that still holds up today. Sumi Jo's interpretation is simply lovely; it doesn't matter if she's Celtic or not, the important thing is the feeling and the voice.
Vagrarian 1 year ago 4
What a breathtaking performance!
Best live show so far. thanks for sharing!
hunkrey 1 year ago
This an excellent version by a stunning singer. As a "Celtic" man myself, I wouldnt even bother listening to Enya's version. She has virtually a nil profile here in Ireland and, whilst talented, caters for what I would consider a tourist audience.
TheGman1004 1 year ago 2
one of her uglier costumes. she has much beautiful costumes. anyway,she is now the best soprano in the world so bad mouthing her is stupid.
sumimimi0 1 year ago
When I first heard this song in the Laurel and Hardy film, The Bohemian Girl on TV in the early 1960's I never ever forgot it. It has always remained clear in those deep recesses of the brain that magically hold onto treasured things that made an impression upon us so many years ago. Such a pleasant memory for me.
finlayson101 1 year ago
stylish orchestration,gorgeous woman,superior rendition,lovely melody,[from my hometown],thank you utube.
richieliberties 1 year ago
Fabulous voice and fabulous rendition.
mgmaistry 1 year ago
Fantastic voice. She still looks like a pre-op though...
moppettshow 2 years ago
Breathtakingly Beautiful.
angelus2002 2 years ago
Was für eine Stimme!! Grandios umgesetzt das Lied! 10000 Punkte
o0dschinny0o 2 years ago
Very nice, and she doesn't have to be Celtic!
123pumpupjam 2 years ago
So now we thumbs down Asians for not sounding Celtic? I thought it was beautiful.
Sweetseve 2 years ago 24
Clear strong beautiful voice, and persona,breath taking thanks
thomascow1 2 years ago 15
This is not the version of this song by Sumi Jo that I was expecting to hear. I don't know which rendition came first, but the other one was operatic in character and was far superior to this popularized version. I wonder if she changed it to suit the audience. This is not appealing.
eyesk8er 2 years ago
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She sings it like a karakoe song
summerstwilight 2 years ago
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I'm sorry, but it's just awful. When Enya sings it, this song is ethereal, it transports you in another world. Here it's just a ... variete song.
Codita25 2 years ago
On est presque à la frontière de la variété ici... Balfe, c'est vraiment le meilleur du lyrique anglais au XIXe siècle?
Plutôt sympathique au demeurant!!
Erismena 2 years ago
many people who are saying bad about her is just jealous about her
sumimimi0 2 years ago
She's so beautiful! Well done!
fifthdaughter 2 years ago 2
Yes, Brilliant, enjoyable lovely voice, thanks for posting.
lurcher789 2 years ago
wow wonderfull. I love her....congratulations from Honduras
Jaimemonaime 2 years ago 2
wow god she's lovely in her dress & she sang it Beautifully, that was Brilliant
UrharRar 2 years ago 3
HER ENGLISH IS ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT
CatalinaDM56 2 years ago 4
and her german and her etc etc.. she's pretty awesome
0o0doir0o0 2 years ago
This is a great song but no-one seems to do it the way I want! It's either operatic or folky! Neither seems right to me. Yes, I know it's just me...
mrkafooman 2 years ago
she did it beautifully man
UrharRar 2 years ago 2
Absolutely. You are not alone. I don;t like this versiion - bit better than Celtic Women's or Jeeye Norman's. Just
anyotherbizniz 2 years ago
Brilliant! A superb version of this great song.
wizofus 2 years ago
As if you can do better........
Love Sumi Jo, thanks for posting this song.
hermione838 2 years ago
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What? This just about the most rubbish version I've ever heard. It's so bad it's laughable. This is Muppet show stuff!
maass16 2 years ago
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tisanewcombe 2 years ago
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Have you all abandoned any taste, any appreciation of art and skill, whatsoever? This is, quite simply put, awful, terrible, a travesty - a mockery. Quite simply, it is the worst possible interpretation which one can imagine.
This is, simply put, a travesty of a great aria - the voice is mediocre at best - and that's a compliment - and the orchestra is undeniably bland, incompetent and under-rehearsed: not to mention out of time with the soloist by significant fractions of a second.
maass16 2 years ago
Wow, awesome version.
adznruses 2 years ago
oh my gosh,,,her voice sounds so marvelous!!! beautiful...fans of this song may like Enya's rendition also
canadianclarke 2 years ago 10
May. Or may not... :-)
frufruJ 2 years ago 7
@frufruJ
The latter, for sure. Sumi's rendition is, by far, the very best.
ysethemuse 1 year ago
@frufruJ i dont understand her version, im destructed.... its between Enya and Dame Joan Sutherland. Enya's version is amazingly ethereal... Dame Joan Sutherland is awesomely operatic.
this one?... i dont know...
katswordfish1 11 months ago
yeah...Enya's isnt as nice
canadianclarke 2 years ago 3
ever heard the Celtic woman? :)
storm675 2 years ago
Celtic Women are crap lol, that blonde one jumpin around with the violin in her hand irritates the crap out of me, maybe some day she will fall on stage ha ha ah
UrharRar 2 years ago
First Class . Bravo!!
135026 2 years ago
awesome!
this is magnificent, she sings so well, and the harp is stunning!
of course the strings are awesome too...
Thanks for posting!
MissLimLam 3 years ago
By far, the best rendition of this song out there. Absolutely mesmerizing. Sumi is the best!
ysethemuse 3 years ago 2