Florida Grand Opera, Giulio Cesare, Da tempeste

[KarinaFrance1]

je ne reconnais plus le morceau avec tout ses changements.

[HandelLover1989]

I like it! Not typical performance, very emotional, expressive and in good way (vocally)

Please give some more videos! :)

[Rudolph03]

Some have criticized the elaborate ornamentation in thei performance. I agree that ornamentation should not change the original melodic line enough to make it un recognizeable. However, when one has heard a trillion and one interpretations of an aria, it is quite exhilirating to hear a fresh well executed impovise version of that piece. I think the artist here performs prodigiously in that context.

[nodross7777]

Amazing voice! You do need a challenge, though, that would compliment your agility. Over-singing this has robbed it of its beauty, but I would love to hear your Mozart!!

[CantoSemper49]

HOLY CRAP. she sure is a soprano!

[andreideathboy]

Beautiful voice...really nice coloratura but this is baroque not bel canto...this aria really works how it's written although some fine ornaments are always interesting and that's one of the points that makes it different from a singer to another...In this case it's too much; I'm wondering whose work dominates there Handel's or Leah Partridge's...

[BrentAudi]

Nice voice.

Great Body.

I think she is a Lyric Spinto Soprano or a future Mezzo.

Would love to hear her voice in a lyric opera aria.

[guitarblade1666]

Impressing voice, but I am not agree with over ornament the aria, it really loses the composition of the work, I can imagine the face of Handel listening this singer.

[MrYankeeTex]

So slow

[bobsopera]

Fantastic voice, but what is she singing ? This side is terrible.

[h0h1h2h3h4]

slow.out of good taste.notes for them selves.Not impressive Difficult , but not impressive.Personal opinion

[hollermahler]

yikes.

[shinawillful]

This reminds me of a story about Rossini. At one of his soirees a famous singer did a rendition of Una Voce Poco Fa, showing off her voice with fantastical ornamentation from first note to last. At the end of the aria, the Maestro said, not unkindly, "Nice song. Who wrote it?"

[georgirella]

cecilia would sing it best !

[ls33328]

Leahs was the only reason we didn't bolt after the intermission {like 1/2 the audience}

[tenorismo]

She has a big voice and the colorature is very difficult.

[marascar]

Ornamentation should not destroy the original melodic line...as always the line is a suggestion but must not dissapear!

Her tempo is a bit slow in my opinion but...it´s just me opinion, as everything else I said!

[CoreyLeig]

Another LOL by some hearing-challenged nitwit! Wtf are u to laugh I´d like to know, what´s wrong in oh so many ways is your head.

[lucamanga]

I think she should sing Verdi

[Rik77]

Nice voice actually, but musically it sounds like she is struggling to sing something else entirely and isnt comfortable with Handel. It's like she's got her fingers in her ears and thinking 'no, its not Handel, its really Verdi etc...'. Lol

[CoreyLeig]

struggling??? are u crazy? I´d like to see you attempting to do this. LOL? yes, at your stupidity.

[floridante2k]

yes.. i agree... i am usually very tolerant about atypical ornament in baroque music... but this is not an enhancement of the aria...

[minirausch]

well, considering that ornamentation in baroque time was probably about 4x as campy as is normal today, it's really not bad. don't much care for the voice, but it's poor audio quality, it's a little hard to tell.

[fot268]

I agree; wonderful singer but completely unidiomatic ornamentation. Listen to Marita Solbergs tasteful and extremely well sung version.

[KozenaFan]

There is quite a disconnect between the tempi of the orchestral ritornelli and the tempo that Ms. Partridge sings the aria. The faster tempo would've been more sylistically appropriate. I agree with the foregoing comments about ornamentation.. not in the best Baroque taste.

Partridge was one of the nieces in the Met's Peter Grimes and is profiled in this month's Opera News.

Beatiful voice. Beautiful woman.

[vitellia]

She must be a good singer with a powerful voice and great top notes and all, but man, I hear Handel rolling in his grave. It was almost ANTI-Baroque. It sounds to me that she hates Handel. It's so obvious she's wishing she were rather singing Lucia or something.

[DivaSoprano]

Ok we know you can sing high.... good for you....

[CoreyLeig]

hahaha, this comment is so bitchy it made me laugh, something Bette Davis could have said about a rival, green with envy by the way

[DivaSoprano]

Haha, I love her high notes, they're very good, but just not appropriate for this repertoire. As someone else said, she should sing Verdi.

[796824]

The voice is uneven, covered and she tends to sing on the harmonics

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

I like her voice.

Her range is excellent.

A- on the very high notes, but A on everything about her voice.

A real talent worth seeing!

George Vreeland Hill

[paminaase]

is this Haendel?

I didn't like the ornaments...

[pesciolinotriste]

Whoever wrote these ornaments has poor taste. Let's hope it's not our good friend Richard.

[morgaine531]

Yeah, I gotta agree about the ornaments...but wow, what a great singer!! Does anyone here know her name? Voice reminds me of my fave coloratura, Diana Damrau, at times. ;)

[ls33328]

Leah Partridge..This clip does not capture the true beauty of her voice..Live, she is awesome!

[PenneallaNorma]

I agree about the ornamentation. I saw her in La Sonnambula, and she did well with that, b/c I think she used Sutherland's embellishments. But I think these embellishments are a bit odd and not right for this music. To me they are somewhat campy.

[gransasso101]

Funny someone posted she looks like Netrebko, I just said the same exact thing on her other video. lol. I like her voice but HATE the ornaments.

[wobblatura83]

She looks so much like Anna Netrebko, I thought it was her. hahah

[tamerlano]

Fine voice, good top...really unidiomatic ornamentation!