Roberto Alagna sings "Source délicieuse" (Gounod)

[tenorschofield]

Great music sang by a wonderful tenor!!!, thanks for sharing!!! Mr. Alagna is one of the best of the best in actual lyric world. He has the warm and vocal extension to aboard almost any repertoire, but must say I like him very much in the romantic one. Bravo Alagna!!!!

[zs1968]

Certes il ne peut se comparer à Vezzani ou a Luccioni mais c'est très bien chanté.

Pourquoi diable n'a-t-il pas persévéré dans cette voie au lieu de se fourvoyer dans des emplois trop lourds pour lui?

[MrAndredekock]

Pity the orchestra is so overwhelming, but Alagna is wonderful. Get his very first CD and listen to this on it, it is sublime. His voice here is beautiful but the conductor has no pity on him and totally drowns him with his orchestra!! There are such beautiful nuances of light and shadow that Gounod wrote into this piece, with the tenor using piano singing, but it is lost with this poor conductor. Bravo Alagna!

[mitegive]

Es dauert nur ein Wort: brillant; Roberto Bravo

[JomeAt10]

I would like to have been at La Scala

[nuovofrack]

his beard-type all-around the mout is called "cagador" in argentina ...

[WorldCupSeoul]

DISGUSTING INTONATION with the brass and winds. how sick.

[colora40]

colora40  Gounod has beautifull music and Alagna feels it.Every time he sang Gounod it vas so beautifull.I loved his voice when he was younge ,but I still love his voice and in my ears he has most beautifull voice.Ilove him

[fan2jnrc]

Ah! Qu'est-ce qu'il chantait bien à cette époque! Absolument splendide (malgré la note finale loupée)...

S'il avait continué à ce niveau, il aurait pu inscrire son nom au Panthéon des ténors français, à la suite des Muratore, Thill, Lucionni, etc... Il avait le potentiel.

Mais... Plus dure fut la chute.

[DonONealLeBlanc]

When was this performance?  He is in wonderful voice here!

[ximenadore]

ROBERTO FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ximenadore]

WONDERFUL!!!

[sopranosd]

I find the last note a bit tense and peremptory, but in general quite lovely singing. Dig the '90's hair!

[sorbellu]

if you love this aria please listen Jose Luccioni ... the best one

[HernanCortes1521]

You need balls of steel to sing this aria and Alagna is superb!!

[InformedListener]

This is such a great aria by Gounod...it's a pity that other great tenors hadn't recorded it...like Vickers, McCracken, Corelli, Carerras and Gedda. The rest of the opera is uneven, but this is a gem. The last 20 seconds truly test the skills of a lyric tenor, that ascending phrase to the B-flat kinda lets us know that the aria honestly requires a true lyric-spinto with great breath supply to pull it off like a conqueror. Alagna does a pretty good job here. Thanks for posting this rarity!

[mike8616]

BRAVO!!!superbe voix...et quel bel air!!!

[jenni4claire]

Bravissimo!

And its nice he's a total babe, as well. He must be the first genuinely handsome high-quality tenor since Corelli.

[SOPRATENOR]

GRANDIOSE!!!!!!

[Turee85]

peccato che si è lanciato in ruoli che non gli appartengono, perchè avremmo ancora una voce così nel 2009.. peccato

[bajulum]

Vous avez hélas raison. On lui doit cependant beaucoup, spécialement s'agissant de la diction enfin débarrassée du R français (gascon) et de la redécouverte d'un répertoire en déshérence.

[gcalvet81]

Superbe interprétation. Bravo Roberto

[Tenortone21]

ya.....ya....YAAAAAAAAA!!!! LOL

[siyawash]

he is great,bravo bravo bravo.

[gaytenor]

This is NOT GOOD SINGING, ITS GREAT SINGING. I'm kind of tired of the La Scala comments since they boo at will and the Celeste Aida wasn't great but I've heard a lot worse.

[JCLAWS]

@gaytenor

I wish alagna still sung like this. Great vocie wen he was younger. It is still good. His french roles are almost always superb.

[jncrlsgrnr]

@gaytenor

This IS great singing , at La Scala was NOT.

[girardje70]

très beau ,magnifique

[sadelvictor]

Sin duda alguna el mejor interprete de la opera Francesa¡

[tacealanotte]

Ce temps est bien loin . Attaque plus direct , grave non grossis, voix plus saine & sans limites enfin un léger flottement quand même sur le dernier aigu , conséquence des DON CARLOS fait en 1996 ? ... Pas ce qu'il pouvait donné d'entendre à Orange 2008 !

[koutak1s]

amazing

[VladWaterBall]

"Source délicieuse, en misères féconde,

"Que voulez-vous de moi, flatteuses voluptés ?

"Honteux attachements de la chair et du monde,

"Que ne me quittez-vous, quand je vous ai quittés?" (Pierre Corneille, "Polyeucte" Acte IV. sc. 2).

Bravo !

[s3par3knumalas]

BRAVO !!!

[whyvehess]

les années 90 , années de gloires pour notre rototo national! quel artiste! il triomphait partout alfredo a montpellier, romeo et rodolfo a toulouse....que de souvenirs !

[KaminaOne]

I have never been an Alagna fan, never found his singing to be musical...or at least in the Italian rep...but this...oh wow...Bobby is Buh-Bad! Beautiful phrase shaping, and a very intimate knowledge of the language, of course. I kinda wish that he'd have given us more B-flat at the end, but hey-- that's nothing to complain about. This is good singing.

[parabat7]

Try and get Tille singing it - even better!

[cjondoran]

agreed, i just wish he would stay with this kind of rep, instead of stuff that is not right for his voice. they never would have booed him at la scala for this performance.

[flaze3]

really? They like only their favourites; anyone else they're prickish to

[mateorococo]

vraiment fantastique

quel est l'occasion de ce concert?

[MUEZZAB]

Il s'agissait des Victoires de la Musique Classique de 1997...

[girardje]

très belle pièce magnifiquement chanté par Roberto

bravo

[DIVOTENOR]

Beautiful!

[Tenor5274]

Yes... this is one of my favorite French arias sung by Alagna. Indeed, French repertoire is truly his hallmark and should therefore stick to it.

[guilhem32]

Amazing, astonishing, how can he sing this way ! His voice is a pure diamond !

[classikclems]

Quel chanteur ce Roberto! Magnifique!

[tosca31]

Wow

[tomasjuhasz]

Roberto haw it doing bravo bravo bravo

[FABRIZIO82]

Merveilleux!