Natalie Dessay - Lucia mad scene - Met 2011

[jewelmarkess]

Thank you very much for posting the full scene in one clip. It's a beautiful performance.

[EllenB1977]

Absolutely incredible.

[karenbrandan]

Dessay genia! Te escucho una y otra vez y me encanta!

[AngieGGangsterG]

I'm so happy she's performing again!!!!

[mumularatona]

no one aplaude at the end of the first cadenza :S it was weird. like ackward silence.

[lfernan85]

@mumularatona when is that? if you please can show me, thanks!

[mumularatona]

@lfernan85 12:17 :/

[mouseodoom]

This is truly beautiful, like the other posters, this brought me to tears. Her acting, her voice, the staging is all perfect.

[jewelmarkess]

@mouseodoom I'd agree on everything except for staging unless you mean specifically the part that relates to acting, then I'd agree. But there was no need to update the action, the libretto doesn't make sense in the Victorian era. I found the syringe both anachronistic and distracting (although not nearly as bad as the photographer in the sextette). It should've been staged where it is supposed to take place - in the late 17th century. But the performance is indeed amazing.

[shikikzter]

Dessay is opera!!

[TheBaronVitelius]

There is nothing that is not awesome about this. Thank you for posting.

[sweetpepper36]

I'm glad someone posted the full scene, it definately needs to be viewed in its entirety.

[deboy2011]

did Andrew Lloyd Webber steal the think of me intervals from this opera at 11:20 to 12:10 ...... sketch!!!

[jewelmarkess]

Great performance! Don't like the production -- why do they need to have some guy give her a shot (of what?). It's not in the story, it's anachronistic even with action transported to Victorian era (which results in a number of scenes not making sense). Why are the today's directors feelt hey must transpose the action somewhere? What is wrong with the original settings? Great singing and acting.

[tinasaturn]

Nathalie Dessay is a great singer (Sängerin)  very great.....

[velazquez2011]

so very wonderful! Lucia is Dessays best role to my idea!

[jorgepda]

i saw her live and it was magnificent. she's truly a great artist.

[glmiri]

@jorgepda me too ! I was already crying when she had just opened her mouth :-D and I think I sat in the very last row of the met....

[MrHbc3]

This is the best version of her Lucia mad scenes I've seen yet. I've watched these "mad scenes at the met" over and over and I always end up with tears in my eyes. Part of it is her acting, part her singing and part that I just like her so much. No I have never met her.

[tokumbo]

@MrHbc3 I was at this performance. I was not the only person in my vicinity crying after the mad scene.  It was electric!

[MrAndromaque]

Dessay created their best work.

[sachmetixchel]

crying :'(

[goldenthroat86]

WTF happened to the flutist?

[erginakif]

At 10:45 the flute player had to go pee?

[FoxyGrandpa]

@erginakif I think since there was no glass armonica, she decided to do it acapella

[erginakif]

@FoxyGrandpa She also didn't sing the E-flat at the end of that cadenza, right?

[FoxyGrandpa]

@erginakif She's only done that in the 2006 Paris production

[minkoss]

@erginakif hahahahahahahhahahaha, that was the best joke ever!!!

[DessayBestSingerII]

please don't take me everything... I want to upload some videos too!! :-P

[sour7lemon]

@DessayBestSingerII ...really?

[DessayBestSingerII]

@sour7lemon yeah ! for once I have the video too xD