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  • I love this piece so much i had to do my own version,checkout and let me know what you think>>>>title+by Noble

  • I want his shoes!

  • lascia ch'io pianga, mia crue da srote. E he sospiri la liberta! oh lord, have pity, let me weep, let me weep my cruel fate, and let me breathe freedom! Let sorrow break these chains, of my sufferings, for pity's sake

  • LOVELY

    ADORABIL

    MINUNAT!

  • Thank you.

  • I understand Farinelli's voice in the movie was the fusion of a countertenor and a mezzo voice

  • @lopezbon513 No it was a countertenor and a high soprano! not a mezzo!

  • Great film Riccardo Broschi is so cool, I wish his works were not lost because he projected the simple brilliance of Baroque perfectly where as Handel (a much more experienced and talented composer) captured human emotion without losing the structure and order of the Baroque style.

  • There must have been some major voice manipulation during the blending of this version of Venti Turbini because this aria wasn't included on the soundtrack.

  • Hatta er hópin góður tónleikur

  • it's not lip synch douche, it's his real voice

  • i'm not convinced by the actor's lipsyncing

  • WTF that's a GUY?????

  • @Mimieus A castrato

  • @Mimieus the voice was made by Cecilia Bartolli.... 

  • @cabirotti

    No. No, it was not.

  • he is sexy

  • @UnoriginalComposer: well Bach caned an unruly kid and called him a nanny goat bassoonist! Under the stress of commission these composers are bound to break sometimes!

  • Sings Ewa Mallas-Godlewska.

  • OMG love it

  • love this song

  • This is one of my favourite films ever! I think despite the historical inaccuracies the film largely stays true to the general facts of Farinelli's career. What I love about it is the whole film is just sheer magic from beginning to end, I now live in Turkey overlooking the Aegean. There is nothing quite so cool as playing Alto Giove from the soundtrack as the sun sets over the Greek Islands. Bring back the sun Farinelli!

  • Un solo Dio, un solo Farinelli!!!

  • there is alot of historical problems with this movie. Farinelli didnt sing venti turbini!

  • bravo!

  • Holy shit, that Andy Sandberg can SING!

  • I watched it and it made me cry, it's a beautiful movie and it shows a taugh reality: art needs sacrifice. Yes, Farinelli was an opera superstar at his time, but deep down in his soul it was a great suffering, being mutilated by castration. It's beautiful and sad, but it's worth watching it !

  • question... in this movie why is handel freaking out at the end of this clip? I only ever really saw this clip. somewhere in the comments I noticed soemone said "was handel really like that?" my reading indicates that he wasn't. He definitely had a temper and would express it but I dont think he would write notes like that and put his cane on people but then again... I never met him so who knows! the worst thing I read was that he threw a timpani but I tohught it was justified.

  • @UnoriginalComposer Handel apparently once picked up a soprano who was not taking notice of how he wanted something sung and held her out of a window several floors up until she agreed to take notice of him. Things were different then! However, he and Farinelli never did have this difficulty as far as I am aware, and Farinelli never stole his music.

  • @flowforms yes!! I read that too!! I am disappointed with how they made Handel look in this movie (from what I've seen) If someone stole his music (which I also have never heard I think its jsut for the sake of the movie) I think he would yell during the performance or something not sneak around in the balcony dropping secret messages.

  • question... in this movie why is handel freaking out at the end of this clip? I only ever really saw this clip. somewhere in the comments I noticed soemone said "was handel really like that?" my reading indicates that he wasn't. He definitely had a temper and would express it but I dont think he would write notes like that and put his cane on people but then again... I never met him so who knows!

  • @UnoriginalComposer

    I think at the end of this clip, Händel is not "freaking out" but suffers a stroke. Farinelli stayed in London from 1734 till 1737. In the clip Händel tells Farinelli to never write another opera again and indicates, that his own opera company is breaking down cause of Farinellis support to the "Opera of the nobility" the rival company to Händel. This indeed happenend in 1737 and in the same year he suffered a serious stroke. I think the movie only tries to evoke an....

  • @Arsamenes1 unhistorical link between Händels stroke and Farinellis beautifull singing which, earlier in the film, made the ladies allready cry and faint.. By the way, after 1737 Händel wrote another five operas (until 1741) before breaking with this form of music forever and focusing on oratorio.

  • I love it

  • 300 years later, and we are still listening to the music of Handel, and it is still as beautiful as the day he wrote it.

  • göttlich! the best ever. Händel!

  • he has no balls

  • @bisys2 ofcourse. Back then if you had a excelent voice as a young boy, they would castrate you so your voice would stay the same pitch and not go any lower...

  • @bisys2 good thing that another one is normal^^

  • Muy weno pero estan ablando en frances no? =P

  • corny!!!!

  • Je viens de voir ce film en Alliance Française Manille... Ah... J'aime Farinelli...

  • Ahh les pov' 6e ils apprendrons çà bon courage youpi je l'apprendrai pas !!! C fou sa voix j'aime bien

  • this is just a movie, not history. Handel and Farinelli did not have this relations hip at all nor did he steal Handel's music...... However at some stage he did stop public performances and went off to live with the King of France who suffered from depression. Farinelli sang for him daily and apparently stopped the depression - became very rich and more famous there, and involved in all sorts of music performances within the palace...

  • @flowforms

    It was to get away from London's intrigues arround Handel and Castratis, that Farinelli gladly accepted the invitation of the Queen of Spain, who's husband suffered from accute depression, unable to attend to the affaires of the Kingdom. Farinelli sang for the King, hiden behind a curtain each nigth at bed time. Eventually the King lived ten more years fullfiling his dutys. This illustrates how Music can cure.

  • @flowforms Well, actually, Handel had tried to engage Farinelli for the Opera many times. It was around about 1734 or so when Farienlli went to live with the king of SPAIN to cure his depression by singing him the same four arias everynight. I should know...lol. I've done this reasearch everyday for two years now.

  • ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT

  • @ilikenirvana2 YouTube is International.

  • @ilikenirvana2 - I am very angry that You Tube accepts to publish such DIRT!

  • How did they castrate him if he was wearing undertrousers? It surely was quite difficult

  • bravisimo farinelli

  • EPIC 6:26

  • me gusta mucho este video es mi favorito0 jajaja esta muy chido voten por el video

  • es una excepcional interpretacion, magnifico.

  • This scene is giving me tears in the eyes, when I hear and see it.

  • my favorite part of the movie. still love it to this day.

  • El tiple que alcanza esta soprano es hermoso. Ésta es la mejor interpretación que jamás haya yo escuchado.

    ¡Bravísimo Farinelli!

  • I prefer this version of the song to any one else.

  • Essa é uma das mais belas músicas já feitas até hoje. Ela emociona qualquer um que a escute. A primeira vez que a escutei foi com a minha professora de canto em uma escola de música no Rio de Janeiro. Todos do auditório ficaram emocionados.

  • @mont955 disculpame no hablo el portugues - pero he entendido lo que ud escribe -

    si le gustan las bellas voces - le aconsejo escuchar a el mejor contra tenor frances philippe jaroussky - es extraordinario !!!, especialmente cuando él canta un aria vedro con mio diletto de antonio vivaldi - yo pienso que philippe és el mejor contra tenor actualmente en el mundo - buenas noches - marianne de belgica

  • @lapetitereveuse

    Vale. Algunas arias le quedan bien a este contratenor soprano (Philippe Jaroussky), pero en otras no alcanza lo que al menos oigo en interpretaciones como las de esta película. Claro, sé que él como contratenor tiene una voz más limitada en comparación con una soprano real, y qué decir de una mezzosoprano o una contralto reales. Yo por ejemplo le voy más a Andreas Scholl, quien quizá por su voz obscura cante excelente dentro de los espectros vocales de mezzosoprano y contralto.

  • @oceanodefuego1 amo a andreas!!

  • @MrDarknesslover

    Vale, pues entonces eres afortunado. Yo pienso que cualquier espectro vocal es un grandísimo don, pues no cualquier persona tiene el privilegio de decir: "soy tenor, mezzosoprano" etc.

  • @oceanodefuego1 PERO YO KIERO SER BARITONO KIERO TENER ESE COLOR DE VOZ!! :(

  • @MrDarknesslover

    Vale.

    No sé qué edad tengas, pero hasta donde me ha dicho un maestro de canto, no siempre se tiene el mismo color de voz cuando ya se canta profesionalmente. Quizá tú seas uno de quienes experimenten cambio de voz. Por ejemplo: la maestra Marilyn Horne inicio como soprano de coloratura y cambió hasta mezzosoprano lírica rossiniana. Fácil compite esta mezzosoprano con la maestra Ewa Podles, quien es contralto pura.

  • @MrDarknesslover

    Vale.

    No sé qué edad tengas, pero hasta donde me ha dicho un maestro de canto, no siempre se tiene el mismo color de voz cuando ya se canta profesionalmente. Quizá tú seas uno de quienes experimenten cambio de voz. Por ejemplo: la maestra Marilyn Horne inició como soprano de coloratura y cambió hasta mezzosoprano lírica rossiniana. Fácil compite esta mezzosoprano con la maestra Ewa Podles, quien es contralto pura.

  • @lapetitereveuse

    Pero como dice el dicho: "en gustos se rompen géneros". A mí, en lo particular, me gustan más las voces obscuras, por lo que los contratenores mezzosoprano o contralto me deleitan más; al igual que las voces de las mezzosopranos y las contraltos, los barítonos y los bajos... Un saludo

  • @oceanodefuego1 de acuerdo contigo!! aunque sea tenor y kiero ser barítono mi profe dijo que jamas lo seré... :(

  • SOOOO WONDERFULL!!!!

  • Does anyone know where I can watch this movie?

  • @silverwings771 stagevu.com/video/gqekhzbwavnu

  • Okay, so this Halloween I'm dressing up in mid 1700's European fashion. Where can I get a costume to fit my theme (for male)!!! Help YouTube world!

  • 懐かしい やっと見つけた

  • geil !!!

  • шедевр

  • Magnificent movie, many thanks for posting.

  • fantastique voice 

  • Farinelli. Tragedy, brothers, emotion, baroque

  • @JP2010117 Not baroque at all, actually...

  • @3F93 Is it not? Then what is it? I always though this was baroque, but I'm happy to learn new things. :)

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  • @daydreamer1991white It's baroque music, well, but not in baroque style, that's what I meant. Handel wrote the role of Rinaldo for contralto, these arias here are too high (even for Farinelli, I think, as according to Wikipedia he could reach C6 only vocalising and it nowadays would sound about like a B5, here in the cadenza of 'Lascia ch'io pianga' he has a very long C6...). Plus, modern intonation (A=440 hz) and different setting of the voice (too much vibrato, not clear pronunciation ecc.).

  • was he bleeding??? :/

  • @AziahSoArroGant the cut of his testicles, thats why hes bleeding. That was how you became a castrati. keeps the voice high into adult hood

  • The fat man who scold Farinelli is Handel?

  • @chantsun2

    i was thinking about that too...damn Handel is like that?

  • My tears come out every time I watch this movie.

  • Lascia ch'io pianga, MIA cruda sorte

  • Già, peccato che Farinelli probabilmente non cantò mai il Rinaldo

  • @wellbn1 cantò però della arie di Handel.

  • 3:08........he shouldnt blame Farinelli if it was Farinellis brother who wrote everything! including the scores he may have stolen! the singer simply sings what is presented to him! he is not the author of vile intrigues!

  • @acerb45666555

    Well the thing is, in the movie Farinelli stole Handel's original manuscript of this opera.

  • Not that this matters but this clip has the scene in F major, but on the DVD it's in E major. All in all however, this is such a wonderful movie. For us guys however this scene was awkward pain to watch in an 8 o'clock music history class.

  • Gorgeous. I want to see the movie now.

  • i wanna watch this movie now this looks really interesting.

  • OK guys and girls! Lascia ch'io pianga IS THE ONLY PIECE in the film that is in fact sung by ONE artist alone - Ewa Godlewska. A minimum of on-line research can determine that. Furthermore, if you have a good ear, you hear it. For me, that just adds magic to this perfect piece of music. Cheerio!

  • is this the full piece?

  • @BLOP888 Lascia ch'io pianga? Yes! Venti turbini prestate? No! Search Venti turbini prestate on Youtube or Spotify if you wanna listen to the entire aria.

  • @BLOP888 yes, it's! =)

  • Is the singer really a man (countertenor) or is it Cecilia Bartoli?

  • they blended a male and female voice for farinelli- no it is not cecilia bartoli.

  • I am literally dying every time I hear this piece. Magnificent!

  • =D que bonito =D!!!!

  • probably one of the best achievement of history of music. just comparable to the Messiah, the Matthaus Passion of Bach and the Requiem of Mozart

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  • I think that movie gave people a very wrong idea of what a castratos voice must heave sounded like.

  • @janaherde Well no one can really now how they sounded like back then.

  • Well, you can listen to something from Timur Okutman, he is something like a natural castrato, and that must be very similar... go to his website, and tell me....

  • @jsmd32 I see what you mean. Since they have mixed the voice here with a female singer in postproduction it sounds more female. I also listened to the female voice used here in her on version of this aria. It sounds almost the same only with out all of the high notes in the end ^^ I guess the only way to know for sure is to castrate some poor young boy, and I don't think that would be very popular :P

  • @HerrWarja It's not that far off, Alessandro Moreschi left recordings, and it's quite similar

  • @daisyvision Haha, how scary that you say that! I listened too him yesterday here on youtube. I didn't like it that much. It wasn't that overwhelm about his voice, but maybe that had to do, atleast some part of the old recording, so I would prefer a countertenor voice. Philippe Jaroussky is great for example! I look up his range on wikipedia. It said that he could hit B5 but I don't know if thats true. His voice is still good.

  • @HerrWarja I don't care for him much either.. but I think he was only popular because he was the last one, you know? I bet the real Farinelli was incredible, though =D Something just tells me..

  • @daisyvision I belive you are right. IF he wouldn't have been a increadible singer there would have been so much written records of him being a good singer ^^

  • I think that if you hear him you'd be disappointed. In this day and age we have the benefit of the accumulated knowledge of the ages as well as the ability to be instructed by the greatest teachers on the planet. Back in the day you studied with whomever was teaching in your town.

  • Why does Farinellis brother speak in french and then in the end of the dialoge with Farinelli says the english word "finally"?

  • Ricardo Broschi does not have a speaking part in this video. I think you mean Handel. And he says "Farinelli" at the end. Not finally. But good observation though. I like the fact people pay attention.

  • @pianoman1812 Oh I see, sorry about that. Farinelli/Finally :P Well if its Händel its wierd how a male castrato sings the role of a female character. That aria is supposed to be sung by a female charater. At the premier at 1711 a woman sung the role. :P

  • @pianoman1812 I must sat again that I was comfused bacause I think his brother wrote operas and I haven't seen the movie but i will try to do so :P

  • LIke I said before...good observation. Riccardo Broschi is in the movie. He is the guy you see in the rafters. I know it is wierd that a male would play Almirena. In that time, the biblical verse "Let Women keep quite in Church" was taken seriously. So It was common for castrati to appear as both the men and women in opera. When Rinaldo was premierd on Feburary 24th, 1711, a woman did play the part. However, this isn't the first performance. I think this may have been around 1737.

  • Oh...and Riccardo Broschi did write operas....he was a very good composer in my opionion.

  • @pianoman1812 Well could you explaine why i found a c´lip from this movie where Farinelli was singing Cara sposa. An aria of Rinaldo i belive. Was at all-Farinalli oera night or what? :P

  • well, I can explain that. Common practice for a baroque opera house that was under staffed would have singers playing multiple roles. Although Farinelli was a great...very great castrato so the compnay may have had him do both just because.

  • @HerrWarja

    ......and Handel used 3 languages in the movie: french, english and - one time - german "wo ist denn meine Partiroure?" when he was searching for the stolen opera. It seemed funny to me when somebody is stressed he speaks in his mother language.

  • He doesn't say "finally." Listen again and watch his lips... he says "Farinelli"

  • interpretazione pessima....

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  • Great recording, but why is it in F major? Isn't the original video in E?

  • The original is in D i think, but the recetativ is in A

  • @bestbillm voice for singing Farinelli has added from natural recording of two singer. first was falsetto, second was my compatriot soprano Ewa Małaś-Godlewska. its not computer mixing, but recorded as duet.

  • everyitme i hear this piece of music..it reminds me..that some musik,regardless of when written..has no timelime..it it effortless,and limitless.

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  • Lascia ch'io pianga la cruda sorte,

    E che sospiri la libertà!

    E che sospiri, e che sospiri la libertà!

    Lascia ch'io pianga la cruda sorte,

    E che sospiri la libertà!

  • @jocafofocas

    MIA cruda sorte!

  • Amazing and marvellous...

  • To marpicentertainment

    Thank you very much for the information. It must have been an amazing experience to be involved in the way you were - and I am very impressed that you learnt the score by heart. Wow! I would have loved to watch Stefano perform (mime) these pieces in the flesh. He always seems so self-contained, so your comments about him seem to fit. Any more interesting anecdotes about Stefano or the experience would be really appreciated. Thank you so much for replying.

  • (Continued)

    We spent around 10 days for the scenes that were set to be in London. It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of waiting.

    I wear glasses but it was not possible to wear it on the set (due to historical reasons). So I had to learn all the scores by heart because I couldn't read them :-)

  • To welshbigbird1:

    Stefano was always relaxed at the set, but very focused.

    The whole thing was very exciting. It was filmed in the "Markgräfliche Opernhaus" in Bayreuth, a small town in Northern Bavaria.

    All the extras (e.g. the audience and orchestra) were hired there, including me.

  • That last comment was to the man who commented that he was one of the violinists on the set when they filmed Venti Turbini etc

  • I love the way Stefano Dionisi interprets 'Venti Turbini'. The way he looks directly at the camera (at us) as he takes his hands away from his eyes, swings his arms and turns away with a precocious look on his face. At the end of the first phrase Stefano also gives a little smile too and what perfect lips! It's compelling viewing. I wonder if he had a blast doing Farinelli or if he was in a constant state of worry to get it right?? Would love to ask him a million questions about it...

  • apparently the filmers digitally combined a soprano and a counter tenor to get this voice felt to be the closest to a castrato as possible. Google it and find out the names....

  • They combined the voices of the soprano Ewa Małas-Godlewska and the countertenor Derek Lee Ragin to re-create this voice, both of them great singers!

  • so touching...elegant singing.

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  • GRANDIOS !

    it's a wonderful film !

  • wooow, great effects! I almost cried in Laschia ch´io pianga

  • gatos, las voces están computalizadas

  • Most beautiful rendition by a sopranist.

  • Who is singing?

  • I assume it is the sopranist singing. It doesnt' sound to me like the voice of a real soprano. Now, I believe I read after my last posting that it is Bartoli's voice, but I am not sure.

  • bartoli's? eh... I don't think so... I don't know WHOSE voice it is... but i don't think it's lady Cecilia's

  • I checked out your channel. If you are one of the gorgeous ladies singing Franz Biebl Ave Maria in that beautiful cathedral, then I will have to accept your word that it is not Bartoli because you certainly know your voice. Your singing was simply heavenly!

  • It is a combination of the soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska and the countertenor Derek Lee Ragin

  • TheZacharyArneson,

    Thank you the clarification.

  • I found it.... her name is...

     Vivica Genaux

  • Thanks.

    She certainly did a great job.

  • @kkwilson27 Actually THE major problem with the soundtrack is that it DID sound like a female soprano NOT a male or castrato voice. They concentrated on trying to find a countertenor voice and a soprano voice that matched fairly well; however, they did not understand subtleties and nuances of the required sound. Andreas Scholl + Maria Kristina Kiehr (who did sing Baroque together) would have had a far more accurate and successful sound. Listen to their Caldara recordings. Great Handel though.

  • EduardoBrasil10000, deixa de ser ignorante. Esse vídeo é sobre um castrato, pessoa que quando criança foi castrada e, por isso, tem a voz fina.

    Se não me engano o Farinelli nem era homossexual. Aproveite a música e pare de ficar proferindo comentários preconceituosos.

  • C# 6 :)

  • I was there in Bayreuth on the set fot this scene! I played one of the violinists. It was and is amazing being part of creating this wonderful movie.

    But you would not believe how much time you spend waiting fully dressed until "your scene" is shot. But when you see the result, everything is forgotten.

  • Oh, fantastic!! Can you tell us a little more about what is was like. How Stefano Dionisi handled the challenge in particular. Would love to know loads about it - so fascinating.

  • @marpicentertainment That's awesome. I saw the Marriage of Figaro there a few years back. That's quite an opera house.

  • Sejamos francos: é muita viadagem. Nos primeiros segundos ele parece uma biba louca brincando de esconde-esconde com o bofe. Ui!

    Mas isso não desmerece a obra, absolutamente. Vou procurar assistir esse filme.

  • Inacreditável!

  • For interested viewers, an informed explanation of castrato history and also Farinelli can be found on the website MaleSopranos with the articles "An Amazing Life, Carlo Broshi Farinelli," and "The High Male Voice, An Introduction."

  • 5:14 great

  • I visited the Theater where the film was recorded, it is locate din Bayreuth, a small town in Bavaria, Germany. The theater is small, but magestic!

  • In response to the video description, if you wonder why the people and Farinelli are so sad when when he is singing then you should question your humanity...

  • tout simplement sublime de l'art à l'état pur!

  • I recently bought the farinelli cd. I'd get the DVD if I was availible in australasia.