Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Paride ed Elena- O del mio dolce ardor

[stuorme]

i can't find this aria in the key he's singing in. E flat minor makes it more epic than the D minor in the schirmer 24 italian aria book.

[runhardhooah]

One of my favorite Italian Arias that I've been singing for a year or so now. I will bring that song as far as I can.

This guy is great, of course.

[prince2000ful]

Sorry Dmitri , this is Baroque. Listen to Teresa Berganza.

[umbrarbara666]

he's too cold... very good, but cold.

[umbrarbara666]

he's too cold.

[eg31223]

i dont like the way ur voice sounded in this song too much dark where is the chiaro my frind all i hear is scuro

[41adem41]

I love you Hvorostovsky!

[MrBaritonevoce]

Hvorostovsky is the Master!

[gyaiff]

He needs to stop tilting his head forward, it isn't necessary and will prevent that dark tone. Prefer Bryn Terfel for this reason

[HungryHerbproduction]

@gyaiff This is a very dark song, requiring a darker tone, The man is a pro, Beyond all pro's. Would love to see a video response of your version. if your up to the challenge. If you do, ill do it too, lol,

[bleckybob]

me amore!

[classic01101238]

mi ídolo! :D

[82plamen]

Just terrible, listen Mattia Battistini!

[HunnyLamb26]

This man is a master Bairtone! And anyone who thinks he's not? Clearly needs ear training cause this is as best as it gets!

[celtdownunder]

saw him in Cardiff, and his is as amazing now as then, great voice, lets hear some of the critics attemps eh??

[eurydike]

@celtdownunder you mean at the singer of the world competition 1989:-))? really? did you guess he would win?

[celtdownunder]

@eurydike yup singer of the world, we were lucky enough to be with Joan [the chin] Southerland and Maralyn Horne. No I didnt guess he would win but he certainly made a great impression.

[eurydike]

@celtdownunder i like his aria of Posa, as he sang it in Cardiff, it is somewhere on youtube too.

[cfreetenor]

He forgot the words at 1:03 haha.

[MetagothSlayer]

@cfreetenor

You clearly don't know this aria

[cfreetenor]

@MetagothSlayer

It's "Ovunque il guardo io giro", which translates to "everywhere my glance turns"

Not "O Del Mio guardo io giro", which translates to "Oh of my glance it turns"

/watch?v=JahcTHi5uA0

And here you can follow along for yourself:

/watch?v=0tRLr4LFeXg

To think a little googling could have saved you from looking like a dick. 

[MetagothSlayer]

@cfreetenor

you put yourself as a dick with that comment

[logaboya]

he eats the sound...

[pablinkwilly14]

Tiene la mejor voz de Baritono que he escuchado. Maneja siempre la misma oscuridad, hasta en el FA. El problema son los matices. Es Piano el comienzo, y varias partes tambien, lo hace muy de opera Belica. Hay que escuchar a Florez y aprender, bueno o al mismo Pavarotti. Pero sigo pensando que tiene la mejor voz de baritono. Gigante.

[QHkowgirl]

His voice in beautiful. Need some american men like him. Gorgeous song and i hope to bring it justice when i preform on monday.

[micky9321]

j'aime sa voix

[marcellny]

further more turk... this man is a circus not a singer. good grief. a cardiff accident. you want a circus go see him. have seen him live, and dead and all of the above. man can't sing and pianists have to hold back... and with orchestras he gets over miked. sad, sad, sad. he is one of the operatic trageides of our time.

[zsoofiaa]

awesome

[calilovesben]

LMAO!! I love it!

[marcellny]

gosh this is horrible. who cares if larynx goes up or down. this man shouldn't be singing anything other than russian folk songs. a fluke of cardiff, he couldn't sound like bastianini under the best circumstances. i don't get it. did he have a translation of what this song is about? it's not a violent song.

[timurkush]

@marcellny You a retard!!! This is one of the best interpritations of this aria!!! You want a performance?< then go to a circus!!!

[marcellny]

@timurkursh.... you russian idiot. this is fake. this man is fake and he can't sing much of anything. mere posing. you are probably gay and love a gay man singing gayly such things. don't get it. he can't with the language, with the intensity of the poem nor gluck. dude... he can't sing... he can't act... he can't pronounce... you must also love dieskau don't you? sad...

[baritonebynight]

@marcellny Homophobia not needed here...thanks for playing.

[tidaliumpelo]

tout est toujours serieux ceremonieux avec ce chanteur , on dirait qu'il ne sait pas ce qu'il chante ( meme s'il chante tres bien)

[sparklingMedea]

Don't like it at all... Mr Hvorostovsky told in many interviews that he took Bastianini as a model, but Bastianini's rendition of this aria is way more correct.

[Buzaglod]

You can't really have a correct interpretation of any piece of music.... that would defeat the who purpose of music

[koala501]

This man has a great technique and to hear him sing live is very special indeed. His breath technique is truly great.

[singerlad34]

It sounds like someone stuck an apple in his throat.

[Eruption1910]

Absolutely not, the throat is open and the voice is correct.

[singerlad34]

The fact that you said that his throat is 'open' as a sign that his technique is correct is symptomatic of the fact that you are not qualified to determine the 'correctness' of his voice.

He depresses his larynx to sound darker, and it's very obvious in his posture and his sound.

[Eruption1910]

Maybe I should listen better but I would say that the larynx is low then the throat is open.

I reserve a new audience to understand better.

[singerlad34]

His larynx is not just low, he is *depressing* it, consciously, for a darker sound.

[jhgreenhorn]

NO the larynx has NOTHING to do with an open throat...when people refer to an open throat they usually refer to optimal pharyngeal space for better resonance.

[flaze3]

that's incorrect. Lower your larynx and you will FEEL the openness.

[Eruption1910]

In your opinion larynx is not low, in the correct position, but kept low by force in order to have a dark sound?

The position of the larynx must be low

[singerlad34]

I know that the larynx must remain stable, and that is not my opinion. The larynx must remain stable because of a balance in registration - Dimitri has improper registration and masks it by forcing down his larynx - something that should happen naturall with good technique.

This is not my opinion. Listen to Bryn Terfel for correct technique in a modern baritone.

[jhgreenhorn]

Right!

[jhgreenhorn]

The position of the larynx isn't suppossed to be low. Lorraine Nubar once told a group of us at a Master Class simply this: That the larynx should not move up as you ascend the scale. She did not say: Keep the larynx low or lower the larynx as one ascends the scale. The larynx should REMAIN STABLE not HELD LOW....this puts excess stress on the infrahyoid muscle group.

[flaze3]

Actually the larynx titls doown and forward as you ascend, if you are singing properly. The feeling is one of great ease and freedom.

Read William Vennard's The Mechanism and the Technique

[jhgreenhorn]

It does not tilt down, it remains stable.

[flaze3]

I'm pretty sure it moves actually. Even if only incrementally.

[HunnyLamb26]

@jhgreenhorn Actually, for higher pitches the larynx lowers a 16Th of an inch. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fluoroscope over a thousand Opera singers and every single one of those singers larynx lowered as the pitch got higher.

[Angeleaf]

Innanzittutto stiamo parlando di Gluck, compositore classico, e quindi ci vuole coraggio a mio avviso a trasformare un aria settecentesca in un aria verista. In secondo luogo originariamente l'aria era affidata ad un soprano nell'opera. Agghiacciante davvero.

[Eruption1910]

Parliamo di fattori culturali, di tradizionali e stilistici vero? La performance secondo me è buona!

[MagaJuPaula]

Great! I love this song and I love Dmitri!!!

[nubulus78]

enfin une voix sérieuse pour ce magnifique air!!!

Merci de nous le faire partager!!

Claire

[theartofsong18]

he sings it with no feelings at all, its supposed to be a love song and he sings it like hes about to kill someone! i think he as a singer has failed the song as he doesnt even know what hes singing about

[Triairius]

He sings with no feeling. And his head is tilted downwards the entire time, which is especially bad in with that large venue. I'm sure people up top in the back can see only the top of his head. I like his voice, but it is not suitable for this piece.

[TheLOLrus12]

His head should be level, as a downward tilted head provides additional tension on the larynx.

[ElliePearl]

*sighs* I love his voice. *sighs*

[zamadeapio]

This is a rather interesting interpretation... considering that Paris is one of THE great lovers in opera, this is just a little too strong, in my opinion. It sounds more like Paris is going off to war, rather than waiting for Helen to come across the sea.

[ElliePearl]

Perhaps he was a darker lover... rather like Rochester... He was a Trojan after all.

[MagaJuPaula]

I love this song. Dmitri was wonderfull here!

I think that the combination of power and sweetness in his voice is lovely!

He has charm!

[xface17]

I love this song, he sings it great but I do think he sings it too aggressive. Its supposed to be sweet!!

[s2broadwaybabys2]

id like it if he brightened up the tone a bit. hed b amazing if he did that

[rosachka2]

OMG HE"S AMAZING

[Belcore14]

He apparently does not enjoy singing in German.

What a shame!

[JuillHope17]

...this is italian.

that was superbly stupid of you.

[Belcore14]

No, it was superbly stupid of you to fail to read the comment below mine. The song Erlkonig is German lieder.

Way to go, champ.

[Leporello001]

LOL!!!

[fatimademaria]

yes i think it too, look a boy's video where u will see a true young singer... is really good or more!!! put "AUDITORIO RICARDO PALMA" and enjoy it.

[fatimademaria]

i think he's only working and not that hes amazing jajajjaj ..is boring..mmmm feeling are neccesary!!!!!!

[antiperspirantti]

wow, great and dramatic voice he has. I want to hear he singing erlkönig.

[Solecit00]

I like very much this song !! And in Dimitri's voice sounds very good. I'm in love :D

[ItellLosersOff]

I completely agree with you.

[joshmills04music]

I love it when some people on youtube comment on professionals like Dmitri, saying .. he should do this .. he should do that when they clearly don't know what they are talking about. Hehe.

[baritonebynight]

@joshmills04music Exactly! I love it when kids in their 20s still in music school or non singers like to give advice to world class singers.

[MrCtblade]

@baritonebynight The kids in their 20's that are still in music school are learning about diction and aural skills and blah blah blah right now. It's fresh in their minds right now. There are points in this piece where his diction was not the best. Don't look down upon someone's ear. Maybe they do not have all the training that Dmitri or you (I am assuming you have had years of training due to what you said in your comment) have had, but an ear is still an ear.

[baritonebynight]

@MrCtblade I certainly want these kids to work hard in school and do well and do not look down on them. However, musicianship and the skills that are associated with it are not freshest when still in school. They continue to improve greatly when you use them on the stage, in the studio, in the classroom or wherever one finds work.

[sopranoms]

He is the best of all baritones!

[Plantaeforce]

WOW. That's the best I've ever heard a man sing this song and he is very AMAZING! BRAVA!!!

[imegann]

daaaang amazing voice.

[arhar001]

Think that this is great! I mean no live performance will EVER be perfect...

[foropera]

A macho, not elegiac version of this aria;-).

[00jimbo00]

beautiful voice but i just don't anderstand a word haha

[principecalaf]

You don't understand a word 'cause u are not italian. I am and I can say his pronunce is good.

[viv3147]

i love it

[scusemuse07]

I didnt like this version much - too dark for my liking.

[operarts]

I think he was very nervous for some reason. I also think he almost forgot the words in Ovunque il guardo...he tried to sing O del mio dolce...Apparently it was one of those days that you have your head somewhere else...it happens to all of us.

It is so beautiful to see the progress of a singer, though!

[lamezzoenfrancais]

I adore him... soooooooooooo much. =]

His voice is without comparison. It's so gorgeous and dark that I want to keep it all to myseld. hehe.

[mahooty]

I can't tell is this still in F minor?

Ps. I dont care for the harsh consenants, it takes away from the crescendos and decrescendos that technically lie within every phrase...

[scusemuse07]

its in Db minor im pretty sure the key is in db

[ragnarkisten]

o vunque o vuuuuuuuuunque! Thats very important. He should had an italian teacher before trying to sing this piece. But by all means, as we all know a lovely voice.

[ancientarias]

LOL, even professionals make mistakes. I think he started to sing "O del mio.." then realized his mistake and without missing a beat switched back to the right lyrics. I don't think he doesn't know what the right lyrics are.

[moonflower1221]

lol, no kidding. It's hardly noticable unless you know the song.

[amsc76]

I love this particular performance. Wish I had a voice like that.

[redbroccoli]

he's has a nice voice but his dictions is terrible in some parts; and he doesn't sing well the tremolo parts. Sumi Jo even though a woman sings it like no one.

[kennyboyo1]

Ditto to all!

[dushe]

absolutely beautiful

[tosca31]

well sung!

[Gerardeus]

bellisima cancion y bellisima interpretacion, estubo de lujo

[robinorene]

wow, what a voice! and passion.