Mozart: Idomeneo: Act II Placido e il mar (Salzburg 2006)

[tamerlano]

Ah, gorgeous chorus...sang at a freshman in music school...and Harteros really is a fine Mozartienne...elegant singing.

[MrMozarts86]

I <3 Mozart!!!!!!!!!!!!! very amazing!

[LaaChlofacee]

Learnt the chorus when I was ten. Still haven't forgotten it

[amonduultje]

pure schoonheid

[sithlord1983]

Fuliginosus, you should see Idomeneo smashing chairs in the current show in brussels! It is a great play and i love the scenery in this one in Salzburg!

[UnderTheBamboooTree]

@sithlord1983

cool... i'm going on the 28th :)

[sithlord1983]

@UnderTheBamboooTree

so how did you like Idomeneo the other night? Didn't you think that Idamante was a bit insufficiant?? I 'm thinking of going to Medea one of these days..

[wade1977]

My high school choir did this back in 1995. Wonderful piece.

[dermotafan]

Idomeneo is such a great opera, I love the choruses especially. I can almost hear Rossini and Verdi in them. Forget about the staging, If you don't find it to your liking. I rather like it anyway.

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[lilaspastia1]

Isn't this chorus just glorious? Once you've heard it you just can't get it out of your head. It's just so peaceful, and it fits the action so well. One of my very favourtie moments of all opera.

[vnessie1]

@lilaspastia1 You are so very right...it's simply amazing!!!!

[idiotbunnyproduction]

god this set design is insane!

[owtkt]

i like this song a lot. the music and mood convey the meaning on the lyrics nicely!

[idiotbunnyproduction]

The opera is beautiful....and wow...we have some mean commenters.

[Fuliginosus]

I think it's the music that fires people up with rage and spite. After listening to this chorus I want to start smashing furniture!

[Segis84]

That's just... weird. This is harmony at its best.

[reneplatini]

Idomeneo, re di Creta es la mejor ópera seria del universo, por supuesto ¡Larga vida a Mozart! le deseamos desde México

[hotbaroque]

you are an horror; sing it by yourself and let us your you chicken voice

[SDCmorg]

O, never mind the troll, mate. This is surely the double account of that Heraopera troll who is going around making comments like that on all clips of Anja Harteros on Youtube. I'm blocking this account as well, tho it might just resurface under another pseudonym. What a sorry waste of DNA that lady is. I'm letting the comments stand, tho. They reflects more on Heraopera/lamusicahera than on the artist(s) she tries to spit on.

Happy 2009! :o)

[SatoTM2]

@hotbaroque a horror

not an horro

"let us your you chicken voice" wtf?... srsly

[TimonyErt03]

I sang this chorus my first year in college. It's one of the more beautiful choruses in all of opera. Bravo!

[bdhardwick]

I saw Magdalena Kozena sing Idamante at the Met in 2006 -- be still my heart!

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[mrlammermoor]

very good! i like her. not this terrible Frittoli-wobble!

But also check out Christiane Boesiger singing this bit of Elettra. She is unknown but totally fabulous, too.

[Heraopera]

She is not able to use the correct legatobut she named herself "bella voce"!La Frittoli e un soprano vero per il Mozart!& C. Vaness! A.H. knows how to get into connect. u will never have ideas about this ugly woman & lyric soprano, She is able to get into relations only for her career! & she is half greek not able to speak this language! By the way her german is also underclass - for a person named bella voce...Viva la B.F.! Viva la Vaness & go home to Mr. old W. K. -pleaaase....

[SDCmorg]

Frau Harteros will forgive me for not erasing this totally tasteless comment by Heraopera. Trolls' comment are the best evidence of their troll-iness. Though she can rest assure that one Heraopera will no longer be commenting on my youtube clips since s/he has now earned the Block.

And may Ms Vaness have the luck to not be associated with more of such a vicious fan either.

[hotbaroque]

and you are so stupid brainless swiss that you could win dht eworld championship foir this idiot comments

[Orfflevel2]

She is no BArbara Frittoli. She sings out of tune way too often. She looks so ugly and makes some awful faces when she sings.

[SDCmorg]

Wow... Barbara Frittoli would be proud of you... if only she isn't a nice gal that she is. What a disservice you do to Frittoli going around mouthing off at her colleague as if Frittoli can't be praised on her own merit, but only at the expense of other singers.

[nessie96]

Only someone touched by heaven could have written this....some of the most incredibly sumblime and beautiful music ever written!!!

[hillevifan]

could you please post arbace's recitative and aria? thanks a bunch!!!

[altodivo]

Herteros is so divine. It is a luscious, creamy instrument. Why is she not Prima Donna Assuluta at the Met or Covent Garden? Netrebko has stolen the career which rightly belongs to Herteros.

[SDCmorg]

She is divine indeed! :o) And is a very big star on the international scene.

There's plenty of room for Harteros and other soprani like Netrebko at the top, I think. AH is quite busy in Munich and Vienna (both pay more than the Met). I bet these gals don't mind sharing the work load. Can't be everywhere at once and have to go home sometimes, ya' know? :o)

It isn't a competition. They're colleagues.

[Fuliginosus]

So far as I'm concerned, this is one of the best thing Mozart ever wrote.

[hillevifan]

Do you have any clips from the Don Giovanni production? I am dying to see Christine Schafer's interpretation of Donna Anna's Arias!!!

[SDCmorg]

Oooh, I'm afraid I don't, mate. She's quite good as Cherubino in the M22 'Figaro', though. :o) I'm curious to hear her as Donna Anna, too... But right now I'd do almost anything to get that clip of her singing Schoenberg's Pierre Lunaire out of my head! She's good, but the music bugs me! ;oP

[hillevifan]

Yes she is...Actually i'm a countertenor and right now I am learning Pierrot Luniare. It does take some getting used to!

[altodivo]

I sang it in Feb in a programme of Schoenberg and Weill. Was lots of fun to sing, cause I could use the countertenor and the tenor in the lower phrases. Good luck!

[terezqa]

Wonderful! Thanks for posting!

[nevetia]

she's great!