Antonio Salieri: Aria from Der Rauchfangkehrer

[southwestguy223]

bravisimo. I really like Salieri. i think hes too Under rated!

[loveandpeace71]

Ich hab wohl zuviel Opera Metal gehört. Ich warte jetzt immer wann es ordentlich abgeht. :(

[johannesytb]

her german is nearly not to understand.

[revolutionsetude]

@johannesytb

That is not true!

[AmericanEvita]

The singing voice of this soprano - Patrice Michaels - sounds similar to that of Beverly Sills. I thought it was Sills & was surprised to discover it wasn't. What a beautiful voice. This is from a German opera by Salieri (Der Rauchfangkehrer) which also surprised me since Salieri, an Italian, composed mostly Italian operas. The Viennese of this period enjoyed Italian opera; however it makes sense that Salieri also composed German operas as Mozart had done with Seraglio & Zauberflote.

[OperaMystery80]

@AmericanEvita Hi AmericanEvita. I also detected a similar timbre to Beverly Sills. Sills could have sung this quite beautifully as it's a coloratura showpiece. Sills sang German very well and I love Mozart (Zauberflote & concert arias), Schubert Lieder and Strauss concert arias.

[Vanchy58]

Estas aria se aproxima mucho a las compuestas por el maestro Joseph Haydn en su estilo y dinamica. Mozart tenía su estilo muy propio y que ninguno de sus contemporáneos logró igualarle o mucho menos superarle.

[sas147741]

@Vanchy58 No sera por que Haydn, Mozart y Salieri vivieron en la misma epoca, con los estilos musicales? Salieri fue sin ninguna duda un genio comparable a Haydn y a Mozart.

[MrUekou]

C major big aria!

[worldvote]

i love this music hey without emperor franz joseph of austria we wouldn't have music cuz he's the one who commisioned this music

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@worldvote I agree with you, only the emperor was Franz II (of the Holy Roman Empire) later Franz I of the Austrian Empire if this was written after 1792. Franz Joseph became emperor in 1849 and reigned till 1916. And if this was composed before 1790, it was the Emperor Joseph II who died in 1790 (the emperor in "Amadeus"). We owe much to the Habsburgs for making Vienna a cultural capital of Europe. Unfortunately, the present "republican" government is afraid of the Habsburgs.

[worldvote]

salieri should not have dissapeared so quickly.

[MrLupo23]

Salieri should be appreciated more!!

[WQ673]

Salieris Musik ist viel größer als sein Bekannheitsgrad es leider ist. Ein Vergleich mit Mozart erübrigt sich aus dem Grunde, als beide zwar zeitgleich schufen, jedoch jeder eine andere Ausdrucksart hat. Mozart ist "weicher und großräumiger", Salieri "härter und enger " in der Melodik. Ich kann es nicht besser formulieren. Beide sind großartig, jeder in seiner Art ! Thanks for this fine musik !

[besakamel]

@WQ673 Ich muss ganz aufrichtig zustimmen

[radaphhesig]

Mozart was not a revolutionary. From today's perspective his music does seem less interesting than Mozart's and thus "old-fashioned" and in general MOzart was definitely more talented but Mozart composed in (and fits very well into) the late-classical tradition and was not an innovator but a superb master of a craft developped by others (Haydn, for instance).

[Jaydoggy531]

@radaphhesig

I beg to differ. His so-called "dissonance quartet" (K465) is a great example. It was so chromatic that later composers and arrangers offered "corrected" versions of it years later until people finally understood the original.

[jradetzky]

@radaphhesig what?

[danielemanuelb]

This is what the world needs - more salieri, and less mozart! I love mozart but enough's enough!

[yotrshki]

"Ah non lasciarmi," sung by Diana Damrau. Just type the name of the aria and it will appear.

[tracywk]

I too have searched far and wide, high and low for this beautiful work. Finally now I have access to music that will give tremendous enjoyment to opera lovers everywhere.

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Thanks so much for uploading this!!! I've been looking for this piece for quite a while!!!