Le Nozze di Figaro-Dove Sono

[Borzoi86]

Superb -- notice also that her diction is perfect. Great dramatic presence too. Ms. Roschmann never disappoints!

[kestrelmuse]

sublime!!!!  Love her... love her and Mozart

[lovesGenet]

Jesus, i;m not a singer.How does anyone support such long banking phrases.the tempo of first part can't be urged on.How do they do it.Janowitz &Fleming are my faves of course.

[JasminaH79]

she grabs and holds every single pitch in her throat. it's painful to watch

[madziua90]

in throat? everything is in good place... she has problems with breath, it is the only bad thing in this aria.

she sings beautiful

[JasminaH79]

if you have problems with breath you automatically have problems with throat! Throat grabs to do the work your support (breath) should be doing. JMHO :) Lovely instrument though :)

[cc85kk]

我说,是不是有点音不准啊...

[harpguy18]

ummmm do i hear a little jeesey norman

[Aniretak205]

I love the set design and costumes for this production. Nice update for a classic!

[mrlammermoor]

the voice is under too much pressure that's why she has to brake so many phrases and lung for breath. the repetition of "dove sono" is not beautiful at all. i am deeply disappointed.

[twink1ebug]

The pressure also pushes the pitch down here and there. Deceptively difficult piece though.

[jschultze5918]

I personally love this performance. She has such a strong voice and sings it with such emotional desperation. She catches my attention every time.

[gclef2288]

I, sadly, prefer her Fiordiligi and Pamina to this. Renee Fleming's Contessa is perfection: musically and dramatically. I feel that this role is a bit dramatic and heavy for Röschmann.

Her Come Scoglio, on the other hand, is exquisite and exhibits LITTLE of the tension and phrasing trouble she has here.

[yulisaaa]

:-O!!...without doubt she sings "different"! Brava! especially I like that she takes breath where she wants and not wheres singing teachers say ^_^. Brava!

[Liwah]

Yea...urm...that affects the line and is definitely not good.

[leporello89]

Great!!! She's the best Countess! Thank's for post

[vitellia]

Her Contessa is a whole lot better than her Vitellia or Fiordiligi, for which she lacked some punch, I thought, especially in the bottom range. She's a good actress and makes such a youthful, fresh-voiced Contessa. I still wish she kept singing Susanna, Pamina, and Illia, though.

[wotansings]

Where was this? A great singer like Roeschmann who puts her hand on her ear means bad acoustic, that she didn't hear the orchestra not even herself et trys to stay in tune. obvisously in this performance she is in a difficult situation which is NOT her fault...

[maggeo78]

In salzburg! It was with D'Arcangelo e Netrebko, Harnoncourt and Wiener! The dvd is one of the Mozart 22 collection

[SwingingdoorSusie]

I myself like the acoustics of the house for mozart. Of course my opinion being the one of a non-professional does not count too much. Still i doubt that Ms. Röschmann would have sung the Contessa in the same house and production the summer after this and will further do so next summer, if she had such a hard time.

And just btw, this is not the only place where she ever put her hand on her ear .. in fact I saw her doing this in quite a few places.

[hillevifan]

could you please post 'susanna or via sortite' and the 2nd act finale

please?

[Wiegala]

Oh please... She looks like Miss Piggie!!!

[hillevifan]

Please deposit your stupid comments where they deserved-not here..Roschmann is the best and she does not look like the aforementioned Miss Piggy. goshhh

[norcalrobbie2]

In my opinion, it was Roeschmann and Roeschmann alone who saved this performance. I like the sets (I think it requires more than a staircase and white wall, however), but the direction is horrible, both the stage direction and musical direction. What on Earth has happened to Harnoncourt these days???

[hillevifan]

I agree...But you have to admit Christine Schafer (Cherubino) and Marie Mclaughlin (Marcellina) were excellent as well. All those singers had to cope with this weird-but brilliant-production

[norcalrobbie2]

Yes, I have to admit Schaefer and McLaughlin also sounded great.

[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!!!

[PAULVOLFONI]

On peut comprendre que vous n'aimiez pas son interprétation et sa technique mais pourquoi le faire en termes aussi insultant.Etes-vous capable d'en faire le millième ou même le centième?

[leoperarm]

I love it. Specially the end, really powerful.

[hillevifan]

Thats the best part (if I had to pick) of this wonderful production- NO Countess (even Te Kanawa I have to say) manages to express the countesses emotion at this moment

[leoperarm]

Well, Te Kanawa is the best! It was easier for her to do those relatively high notes for a lyric soprano.

[ruggerbruno]

Excellent singer under embarassing simplistic direction. If you want to make a more serious Nozze, go for it, but you have to choose your moments of despair--from what I have seen, it's ALL despair, and thus all nonsense.

[Wiegala]

This is an insult to Mozart and to the great singers who have this role! Give me Schwarzkopf and Te Kanawa instead!!!

[hillevifan]

I think that Roschmann superceeds those two! I love them both deearly but Roschmann is a much more vibrant and sympathetic Contessa

[gransasso101]

This is so poorly sung! She is taking too many breaths and breaks the legato line continuously. She is "angry" on high A's because she is pulling them out of her ass. She's laboring so hard through this aria, it's painful to watch. No ease and command of the piece. (Watch Renee Fleming and you'll know what I mean)

[Evitasoprano]

I think, she has a fantastic voice. It's true she's breathing a lot, but I think it's also part of her interpretation of the role, to show her inner conflict. She's a great actress.

[nedeljko18]

She is a complete artist

,suprime soprano with emotional involvement "breathing a lot",which is dramatic requirement of the role.

[KatherineXIX]

Blame it on horrible direction, coaching, and conducting. Watch Röschmann's Fiordiligi clips on here and tell me what you think of her singing then =)

[norcalrobbie2]

I've seen this production on DVD. It does not seem like an Opera Buffa (comic opera) because of the stage direction. But I must say, the performances by Ildebrando D'Arcangelo and Dorothea Roeschmann are both top-notch (and probably the factors that save the production from falling apart altogether.) Roeschmann is a great actress and singer; she has the greatness of those before her, but more tortured.

[Tigermuc]

Phantastic voice - saw her several times at Munich Opera House.

Christiann

[D9l3tt]

could you please post the recit before? e Susanna non vien. would be great to hear what roschmann does with it.

[yn65he]

What a completely unique interpretation! I have never heard a contessa sing this with so much rage at the end.....the high A's are screams of suffering. As a woman in that time, who could never voice her anger and pain out loud, except in private..... the intensity and strength of Dorothea Roschmann's performance bring up so many issues....

[contediwarwick]

This is probably the worst "Le Nozze di Figaro" ever committed to disc. Unbelievable.

And this was the stage where Jeritza, Janowitz, Novotna, Shwarzkopf, Della Casa, Cebotari, Berger and all made wonderfull Mozart.

[Shinicha]

wow, this is really the best version i ever heard!

[KatherineXIX]

Well, damn. Who would have thought the best "Dove sono" I've ever seen would have come from what looks to be the worst "Figaro" ever? Brava Dorothea!

[ddbancel]

Maybe because you're wrong? I honestly believe it's one of the most disturbing AND wonderful NOZZE I've seen and heard. Harnoncourt FOREVER ;-))))

[dannymaestro]

Interresting that you talk about "the worst" Figaro ever. I hope you´ve been to Aarhus, Bern, Boston, Düsseldorf, Bratislava, Toronto, Riga, Pensacola, Nantes and about 50 other operahouses the past 2 years and seen their Figaro before you will call this one for the worst Figaro ever...

[KatherineXIX]

I said "looks." A "Figaro" that entails Cherubino dying (WTF?), a three-way girl-on-girl scene (who cares if one was playing a boy...gratuitous to the core), and that can be described as "disturbing" is not destined to do well. It's an opera BUFFA, not a smutty melodrama. Furthermore, Harnoncort turns every number into a dirge. I pity Dorothea Röschmann and the miscast Marie MacLaughlin (whose Susanna bloodies the nose of Netrebko's) for being involved in this shit. Just my opinion.

[dannymaestro]

Ok, I can accept it and it´s terrible that directors and conductors are turning a masterpiece into a mish-mash-drama-pathetique

[srj450]

The Mighty Dottie has sung Susanna, every bit as magnificently as this, in an earlier DVD. She's just gorgeous and perfect in everything. Go Dottie Go!

[armida23dalila]

I love her voice but her Susanna is the best.why countess why not susanna.her voice character like susanna's.

[ottaviolatino]

too many fiatos.

[sluttyRuth]

I am going to marry her...

[hillevifan]

no i am

[PepoPeretz]

I just cried

[wenarto]

i agree with hillevifan. I have the DVD...amazing. Viva Dorothea.

[hillevifan]

Best Dove Sono I have ever heard!!!! Words cannot describe how wonderful that was!!! And the acting toward the end...left me speechless!!! Keep em' coming Dorothea