Eva Mei: Son queste le speranze, Salieri (Axur re d'Ormus)

[techstepman]

wow thanks ive been searching for this i first saw the amadeus movie(it was at the start of the movie)...i must be searching it for 18 years!

[kellyb4]

It's very frustrating that I cannot find a single good recording of this particular aria. This one just doesn't do it for me. Very frustrating indeed!

[udayanchandra]

"Can you not recall no melody of mine ! I was the greatest composer in Europe, I wrote 40 Operas alone!" Salieri to the Priest in the film 1984 Amadeus.

[puddinpop12228]

@jnetusil She wasn't I'm saying this voice is more underwhelming than the voice in the movie.

[dancingrl5678]

what is the NAME of this song!!!! i cant find it with the title of this video

[nicksum29]

There are many, many, MANY fine operas by this man - some of which are far greater than some of his contemporaries - even The Holy One (who shall not be named)

[revengejeffrey21]

Wow, I love the Last Part. When the Soprano stirkes the high note.

[PeteAmachree]

I always loved this song from the movie Amadeus. I'm not sure if I could handle the whole opera though. That rule applies to Mozart as well as Salieri!

[AmericanEvita]

@PeteAmachree I love opera and can handle any one of them. I've seen Wagner operas and those are the longest ever. But I do admit that Salieri's operas seem to be more dull. Mozart's Don Giovanni is always thrilling to watch and Le Nozze di Figaro (4 hours long) is still very enjoyable comedy.

[AmericanEvita]

This aria's music is heard in Amadeus when we first see Salieri in the mental institution. When the Priest enters his cell, Salieri is playing this piece on his piano, recalling with sad nostalgia, the greatest success of his life - the opera Axur re D'Ormus, which the Emperor called "the greatest opera yet written".

[BoggiDTerminator]

Happy birthday Salieri!!! 

[scarletpie]

Very weak in my opinion. This song is fantastic though.

[soonalote]

i wish i could find the amadeus soundtrack version of this song......... this one sucks!!!!

[puddinpop12228]

@soonalote I Agree, I wish I can find it too. This version doesn't have the power or depth in her voice like she did in the movie. Then again, this sounds like a live version and the movie was probably digitalized a lot so I can't be too critical.

[ezev8logos]

Beautyfull!!!!!

[demravager]

despite what some may say of Salieri, he's still a million times more talented than today's pop musicians

[tenortobe]

I like the way the lady sings it in the movie better. Why on EARTH the entire aria (or even a fragment, for that matter) was not included on the soundtrack is beyond me. i think the aria's a little baby gem.

[Falstaff85]

this is clearly a live recording. I know eva mei can sing better than this.

Still, at least SOMEONE is doing Salieri operas live (I don't think bartoli has done this. Correct me if I'm wrong)

[Thrax1982]

I've heard that Bartoli really wants (or wanted) to sing Rinaldo in Salieri's Armida.

Apparently even she is not enough to get Salieri opera staged somewhere :)

[zliminator]

@Falstaff85 So then she sings better dead?

[moghedien13]

i wish suzanne murphy recorded the whole of this aria. shes the one in amadeus and it would have been great to hear that huge voice do this in full.

[Malegnius]

I've been wishing the exact same thing ever since I watched that scene in Amadeus :)

[LordMalthus]

such a lovely track

[littleshoeshopper]

Without the movie Amadeus I wouldn't know who Salieri was so I don't think it's any real skin off his back. I think this song is beautiful but without the movie I wouldn't of sought it out. IMO Amadeus kept Salieri's music alive.

[BoggiDTerminator]

I know. The ironic truth.

[Malegnius]

The sad part is I can't find ANY other version of this song on youtube or let alone the internet. It's very sad because the singer in Amadeus sang this MUCH nicer and slightly higher pitched at the ending which of course I liked :)

[littleshoeshopper]

I really wish they would have put this on at least the Amadeus (More) soundtrack. Salieri is in 90% of the movie; you would think they would of at least added this track. Oh well; I am grateful to you Thrax1982 for posting this song. I too have been looking for it without much success.

[Malegnius]

The worst part is I checked my Dad's "Amadeus" soundtrack DVD he bought, they have stuff about 90% Mozart pieces which can be bought ANYWHERE but Salieri is so hard to find =[

[heydrichmuller]

Hear hear! And no one on Limewire has the damn thing either. Americans only see what the media shows them and never questions/search for the truth. True salieri was a contemporary of Mozart but historical evidence will suggest he was not as hostile as the film portrays him and so Americans ignore Salieri's music because he is villified in one film which I must say is almost on par with Mozart's.

[Jaydoggy531]

Actually, no. This is a problem throughout the world which was especially brought on by the rise of nationalism in Germany against the Italians. It's also not just this play but many other theatrical works, some of which in the 19th century even which portray Salieri as the enemy and Mozart as the hero. This is not just the USA, this is the world which needs to learn about the true history of Salieri and Mozart.

[adonisofthemodernage]

@heydrichmuller

Get off your European high horse. Take a straw poll of Europeans and find out how many have heard of Salieri. We dumb Americans can read and learn on our own.

Europe was the epicenter of culture... 100 years ago. The only thing you have on us now is fashion design.

I went on a vacation to Germany and on t.v. there was a game show where husbands used their wives' backside to pop balloons. So, I don't want to hear about how cultured Europeans are over Americans.

[ZiaddaiZ]

im from germany , of course we have many stupid assholes in our country, but european countries have got a core of cultured people you just watched the wrong channel. I dont wanna say that all americans are stupid but i belive that in the USA the "Stupidness" is more spread and common.

[adonisofthemodernage]

well, americans weren't stupid enough to elect Hitler and nearly wipe out an entire ethnic people.

It helped America out, the Jewish artists, intellectuals and musicians came over here and America took over post WWII as the cultural center of the world... plain and simple and that was my point.

We have the world's best filmmakers, Broadway, musicians, actors (although I'll give England all the props on acting), painters. The best universities Harvard, MIT. dont get me wrong i love paris london

[cruisebum7]

"This one brought down the house when we played it first!" lol

[Yakantheterek]

The biggest shame of all is that Salieri has never been given the recognition he deserved because he has forever been linked with the "rivalry" with Mozart, a rivalry that Mozart himself said never existed. I wish someone would finally tell the truth about Salieri and hopefully his music will finally receive a sort of revival. Even though I liked Amadeus, I disagree with the way it villified Salieri. He was certainly no "mediocrity" and if his music would get more exposure, it will bear me out.

[BoggiDTerminator]

I agree. This work of his in particular is extremely beautiful. It is truly a shame that this is only recently being recognized in spite of the fact that this work has existed for over 200 years.

[Astardis]

It's such a shame Cecilia Bartoli didn't include this on her Salieri album.

[heydrichmuller]

Yeah I bought it solely for this piece but found myself most irregular after I received it.

[LifeJuice90]

It is a shame this is the only recording you can purchase of the opera. I wish I was good friends with the metropolitan opera I would have Levine do a full out dvd/cd of it in dolby 5.1 surround sound.

[Thrax1982]

If I was a millionaire I would commission good recordings of many operas that have caught my interest. Sadly I'm no millionaire, quite the opposite as a matter of fact :P

My choice for this opera would probably be Rousset and his band, he has experience with both classical opera and Salieri.

[RunescapeEdano]

How on earth is it possible to get a good record of Salieri? I went to the biggest stores of classical music in Budapest only to find people not knowing a single thing of who on earth Salieri is.

[RunescapeEdano]

And also, this piece I can't seem to find it anywhere. Not even online? Is "Son Queste Le Speranze" really the original title of this piece?

[Falstaff85]

lol I think we went to the same store :)

Really you have to order his stuff online.

[bitkar1]

3:29 nice

[ColinMeloy91]

My favorite part!!!!!!!!! I want to buy the score and a Recording of this Opera.!!!!!!!!!!!

[aoimozart]

the melody is something.

[feaso]

preciosa aria y preciosa voz, grazie maestro Salieri

[LifeJuice90]

I wish they would release the Neville Marriner-Amadeus version that is the best ever.

[yotrshki]

I found the score for this aria in Sibeliusmusic.

[SiFiFantasy]

where can you download this song?

[DropDeadModest]

Beautiful, but her voice is kind of off.

[kittenic44]

well let's hear you do a bit better!

[elias12186]

The words are very tragic, why isn't the music?

[contessabrilliante]

Yah! It does sound kinna happy, doesn't it?

[Thrax1982]

I don't quite understand what you hear here.

Do you mean the final fast section?

Even then I can't say that I agree.

[elias12186]

Yes the end section

in braccio all'empia sorte non mi lasciarrrr ancor

[orphan567]

@contessabrilliante classical period music rarely doesn't sound happy. But the lyrics are kind of depressing (e.g. last verse - Death, pitiful death, give me an end to my suffering)

[nicksum29]

Wow.  Very beautiful.

[tneprescintr]

really beautiful... how unfortunate salieri was to have been composing at the same time as mozart... if only he had been born fifty years earlier...

[ciavattarmy]

Grazie maestro Salieri!

[operagirl81]

Thanks so much for posting this!!! I tried to get this whole opera on DVD but I think it's out of print.

[Thrax1982]

There's no DVD of Axur but there is one of the French version Tarare (there's two clips from it in Youtube too by the way).

[luisitokevincito]

JAJA that was funny.

[moghedien13]

yeah it was kinda funny, but she is very good. dont like her in this. i wish suzanne murphy had recorded this, she sang part of it in amadeus and it is awesome.

[Thrax1982]

She's very young here.

[catman351]

I love this song. From what I gather, it was a very popular tune in its day. It brought down the house!

[KarlAmade]

hehehe, good said:)

[jeepster02]

@catman351 You Sir, are a very funny man!

[catman351]

@jeepster02

Why thank you, signore!

[LifeJuice90]

they shoulod release another Amadeus soundtrack with the few songs they left out like this one and marten allen marten from seraglio

[operagirl81]

I know!! I always wondered why they did that!

[ChrisStockslager]

I kind of miss the high C's(?) added into the part from the movie "Amadeus."

[KarlAmade]

You have right, but this isn't a very good sample from this opera.

[kittenic44]

Great music, but all i can find on the storyline is that a woman gets taken from the king, and there's an evil duke. Like mozart's abduction from the seraglio

[Thrax1982]

It's about a king who becomes jealous of his popular general, kidnaps his wife and attempts to get him killed.

[Hypermnestre]

Absolutely beautiful and thanks so much for posting.

[haydnsalieri8]

salieri was a fantastic composer.I want to find his last requiem in D minor

[nealtun]

What a wonderful piece! I love Salieri and his work. He has always been underestimated, but wrote some of the most wonderful operas ever!

Viva Salieri!!!

[SteelCorV]

Rare gem.

[fasteddie17]

You don't know the words? Can you recall no melody of mine? I was the most famous composer in Europe. I wrote 40 operas alone!

[elias12186]

Do you have the words?

[Thrax1982]

No, can't find the libretto anywhere.

Perhaps someone could write it down, I can't make out all the words myself.

[Thrax1982]

Found it! Son queste le speranze che il misero mio sposo di pace, di riposo, di gioia aveva per me? Dopo i sudor ch'ei sparse, dopo i sofferti affanni, crudel, tu lo condanni a lagrimar per te? Morte, pietosa morte, dà fine al mio dolor; in braccio all'empia sorte non mi lasciare ancor.

[badbit0]

Thanks! Where is it?

[Thrax1982]

Where is what?

[fasteddie17]

Thanks so much. I have been looking for this song forever.