Virginia Zeani "Se pieta" Giulio Cesare

[robertdonkers]

Handel was such a wonderful composer. This aria sounds wonderful whether it is perfomred by full voiced sopranos or the more current lighter voices.

[prince2000ful]

Thanks for sharing this lovely video and the warm and sensitive sopranovoice from Virginia Zeani makes you melting. What a fine rendition of this Barouque aria, by Händel.

[mmeeggggaann]

i honestly cant listen to any of virginia zeani's songs without closing my eyes her voice is so beautiful i dont know if that makes sense to anyone here but if anyone else here is like me and closes their eyes when hearing something so terribly beautiful then you understand

[abracadabranque]

Très belle voix!Absolument conquis.Pardonnez cette trivialité,j'en suis sur le c..!

[francesca7564]

@abracadabranque

Mon bel ami, diantre ...

[SENAFOREVER]

Madame Zeani makes me believe in God.

I would like to kiss her hands in tears and thank her again, and again, and again...

[francesca7564]

@SENAFOREVER

Magnifique éloge pour une magnifique artiste ...

Oui, on confine au divin ici .

[ilincaz]

Magnifica interpretare! Inchinaciune, doamna Zeani!

[CharlotteinWeimar]

At long, long last a major article will be published in OPERA magazine in November 2009 entitled THE LEGENDARY VIRGINIA ZEANI.

[pinkerton70]

Bella e bravissima!!! Grazie

[TenoreLirico]

Wow! Beverly Sills has always been my favorite Cleopatra, but this Zeani recording is to die for.

[RVP57]

Like Leontyne Price, this is another REAL singer singing Handel with a REAL voice. Such a welcome change from the voiceless, pale, bloodless 'correct' school of Handelian singing we sadly experience today. Brava Zeani!

[SENAFOREVER]

I agree with you 100%!!!!!

[marylambcarter]

bravoo

[sirenadellopera]

Yes!! I could not agree more. Thank you for this comment. I also adore the Price recording, as well as Zeani's.

[robertdonkers]

Always had a weak spot for the most beautiful Zeani, but then again I love so many of the ones that were forgotten by the record companies. She encompassed a very large repertoire at a high standard!

[liettennabenna]

meravigliosa Virginia. Grazie per questi post eccezionali.

[corellithebest]

As to the male roles, I personally prefer male singers singing male roles, so I am really happy that the bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and  the tenor Franco Corelli sang the two men, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.

[LobsngDmchoi]

Mark Anthony is not a character in Handel's opera Giulio Cesare. The other male leads are Sesto, Tolomeo (Ptolemy) and Achilla. Corelli probably sang Sesto in this prod. Originally Sesto was a trouser role for a soprano/mezzo, Tolomeo (like Cesare) a castrato and Achilla is actually a nice baritone part!

[corellithebest]

Thank you very much, dear Charlotte, for this wonderful clip. I am so glad to hear that in this performance sang Corelli and Rossi-Lemeni. And this aria impressed me very much indeed, especially Virginia's performance. I wonder if you have any other extract from the performance with Corelli or Rossi-Lemeni with Virginia?

[berganzita]

Thank you so much for posting this I had a chance of meeting her about 20 years ago and we talked about her Cleopatra and tonight thanks to you my dear CharlotteinWeimar I am recalling that wonderfull encounter,thank you my dear.

Adamo

[crimart2002]

very gooddd thanks

[xxxrealdreamxxx]

Thank you Cervancho for this great share

Sara

[Janibeva]

Ademàs de la bella voz, que preciosa mujer..ojos lindìsimos.

[aleiv]

bravissima, davvero. :)

[basenjidiva]

Zeani is the epitome of a lady, with impeccable taste, judgment, & personal style that govern her elegant phrasing & perfect interpretive skills.

Close your eyes, & let the warmth of her clear, refulgent voice engulf you; it doesn't get better than that!

Unerring interpretation, exquisite voice, & absolutely gorgeous...the ultimate package!

Cleopatra, herself, would have been envious, & justifiably so!

Brava, lovely lady! Brava, Diva! Brava, Zeani!

[ponchodevane]

fantastic!

[magicflute3]

Very beautiful. I would like to say that this performance is not only perfect in style and technique, but emotional! this does not exist that much today: musicians are very correct, deeply concerned with "philological sound", but often boring, normally galcial. Does somebody agree?

[zzzooooo]

Her face just like Sarah Brightman~HAHA

[CharlotteinWeimar]

I'm glad you have found Virginia Zeani here. But Zeani is a very great singer and a stunningly beautiful woman, not just a pretty girl. Now in her eighties she still looks and sounds amazing. See the other postings on my channel

[zzzooooo]

I'm absolutely great pleasure to listen her charming voice here!

Actually,I am fond of heavenly sparking "Se pieta" .so i search a loads of version!

Surprisingly,Virginia Zeani's singing is quite stunning and appealing!

Could you please post other lyrically peaceful as this great song?

Thanks!

[andigrim007]

I suppose you like Sarah Brightman !

[kgus123]

As good an example of "old school" Handel as one can find. As a certified Handelian, I'm more than impressed with Ms. Zeani's beautiful singing.

[brodsky96]

I have to confess I have to listen to that all the time... its not the music, its the voice.... its a lesson of belcanto... of PURE voice without anything else... la voce umana....

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Beautiful comment

[divagloriosa]

I couldn't have said it better myself! ah...they don't make sopranos like this anymore...

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Re: IlCaroSassone - This was very unusual repertoire for the 1950s, particularly for La Scala, and there are some conducting and editing problems [there is almost a full stop half way through, and no proper da capo ending]. But despite these shortcomings, like Senaforever, I find Zeani's own performance beautiful, very sensitive and quite haunting.

[SENAFOREVER]

Here is what we so miss in baroque nowodays: A LINE, pastosita, legato, messa di voce, equality of tone production... This is so perfect and how every single note seems to carry that powerfull elegiac feeling.

[brodsky96]

I dont find words!!!! This is best vocal quality!

[paulostroff99]

Superb! Bravo! TY.

[CharlotteinWeimar]

If only all Handel singing had such line, intensity and vocal quality.