she is incredibly sexy. Her singing may not be to everyone's taste, but I for one would take her (euh.. her singing I mean..;) over Bartoli any given day :)
Although perhaps she lacks some of the finess eof Battle, I do believe the voice deserves to be heard now. It has a rare vivacity and color and she is better than a lot of seasoned professionals I have heard. Her passionate approach to singing is a pleasure to watch, and it helps that she is beautiful as well.
my english is very bad, but I'd say that for those who have not understood yet her talent I'd suggest to hear her amazing interpretation of the difficult "tornami a vagheggiar". Her voice can appear as aggrssive at the beginning, but it really makes a sense because she puts this energy at the service of the music, it's quite stunning. Critics said hearing her album "she makes handelswing" and it's true. Do I have to remind when did she begin at the Met? She was 19 and it's AMAZING.
She is the best actress in Opera today, I would love to see her in a non-Operatic role. My money is on her being the best actress all around. I think the problem she has with the Opera nit pickers is her beauty and that the singing is used by her to enhance the story, to enhance the acting. We are so use to the music coming first that it's a shock to have someone put the story first- as actors are supposed to do. She is under 30. The best is yet to come. Enjoy her rise.
The Acis and Galatea at Covent Garden this year showed this young woman's virtuosity and perfect diction. She also danced with Wayne Mc Gregor's creation of the dead Acis (Edward Watson) very competently and movingly, though I feel she was a tad heavier than the ballerinas this very strong dancer usually elevates! She is a moving singer and very beautiful.
Her parents moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to help Danielle develope as a scholarship student at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica and then the Colburn School of Performing Arts. At age 16 she won an Emmy. At 18 she was hired to learn the role of Eponine in "Les Miaerables" and studied in NY with vocal teacher Ruth Falcon for years before enroling in Mannes College of Music beginning in 1997 where as Susanna in "Figaro" led to a Met audition for the Lindemann Young prog
Her background is very interesting. See The New York Times supplement magazine for Sunday, 9-20-09 and you will better understand her youthful exuberance and brave attack brought to challenging and/or exotic music. She is an amazing product of Sri Lankan parents: a part-Dutch banker father and a part-Scottish Swiss company manager mother -- who immigrated to Australia as teenagers. At age nine she won a national talent-show competition and blossomed in regional singing competitions.
I think the best quality of this singer is the Joy she have when she is singing. Her eyes speak for her, her gesture and her approch to the music. The tecnic is not very good. But it'isn important....the importand is the phatos she can make with her sing. She is similar to Bartoli. They are 2 singing heart.
Her only major problem is her apparent inability to sing piano. She needs more subtlety in her voice. Other than that, she seems to be a very promising young singer. I wouldn't doubt William Christie's judgement that easily. I don't think he is a man who would work with just anyone.
Well, I think she is smart enough to understand that you have to do something more with image and presentation to reach more than just the handfull music-experts. Often, you see people flight into it because of there lak of talent, or they flight into it because it simple brings them more money. But I think this Lady is very talentful and here interest in growing in music is much bigger than here interest in becoming just famous or having a big purse.
Totally mediocre singing,(that is actually being rather generous) conservatories all over the world are full of sopranos who are at least as good, if not better. But she is very pretty!
In such a competitive field as it is for a soprano in the opera world, it is VERY sad to see that such a mediocre singer has been promoted to such stardom. It is SICKENING to hear her sing. Pretty to begin with, then when you realize she's a one-trick pony, it's like, "what the eff is so special here?" Go and listen to Lorraine Hunt, David Daniels, even Beverly Sills, and you will hear full voices singing Baroque music with passion, artistry, and MUSICALITY. This here just doesn't cut it.
If Christie is working with her that must mean something, but I'm still not fond of her singing. Her pronunciation needs a lot of improvement. Let's hope she will manage:-)
She turns my spirit on with her energy! Why not? Finaly, a singer who can move in beauty and sings good! Not perfect. But who is, anyway?..Yes! I sang Handel, it's sooo difficult...I like the hole result. She is nice, pretty, sings fine. I am sure great to see live.
Since she started so young you can hear her vocal decline already check out her performances from 2004 she could sing now it sounds to forced and rough :(
Good singer, not just in Handel. She is a great musical actress, whether she will be a great Opera singer one day, who knows. But while the likes of Bill Christie [Who is great] and the record execs keep giving her star billing, she will be there for a while.
Gee, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad, Marilyn Horne, Gundula Janowitz, Regine Crespin, Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballe, Kiri Te Kanawa... and loads more people.
she's not my idea of an ideal Handel sop, (a bit of a histrionic voice for my taste); prefer Kathleen Battle/Rosemary Johua for example, but she was the best thing in the recent, awful, Covent Garden Acis & Galatea. I think Mozart would suit her better.
Watching Rosemary Joshua singing Handel is a wonderful thing! I agree , the post-Mozart repertoire would suit her much better than the Handel stuff...she is taking a stylish approach though.
It seems to me that you snobs disapprove of ANY singer under the age of fifty. If you had your way they would stop performing opera altogether because none of the performers would mett your lofty expectations.
There are many brilliant young singers out there, those of us who are bitter about de Niese and other so called "stars" are bitter that great singers who don't look like her don't get the opportunities.
Prissie and mabemawi, please stop exposing your imbecility in public. Had you ever heard a real voice, ever seen a real singer, or learned one fact about art, music, esthetics, you would not embarrass yourselves this way. You are HAPLOID MORONS .
She really sings well and is very beautiful. Saw her a couple of weeks ago in Orfeo... Who's the band in this video? I notice they're playing on baroque instruments. Thanks.
yes she is absolutely beautiful; I wish the Orfeo could have been a better match in the looks department, but she could SING very well! this video is wonderful too.
She's mugging for the camera. I agree with rlee1976 comment about Danielle being in a young artist program. She's very immature, both as a vocalist and as a person.
totally...this is really really rather light and not rooted on the body... lovely for youthful exhuberance but a bit worryingly overly passionate and no where to go vocal production... all hiding a lil' wobble tremelo flutter....hmmm well hope she has fun.
BTW, when you record music or rehearse you move your body to the music to get the musical as well as the lyrical interpretation right. You ppl are both rasists and old fashion idiots who know nothing about being a singer!!
She has a beautiful voice! And it's not small. OMG get over yourselves, you conservative idiots. Donald Duck?? Idiots! She is very very pretty and her voice is amaaaazing!!!!!!! Shut up! Why are you watching the video if you hate her so much??
Just so you know: I LOVE her voice AND her facial expressions. She is a person, she is alive, not a stupid dull standing still all the time!
THANK YOU. Indeed, why should singers stand there like immovable pillars in outdated dresses? Curiously, check clips with Sutherland and Horne looking like 2 hideously painted battle ships slowly adrift: everybody is so totally apologetic about there silly appearances - for it's S&H and so every aspect of them is wonderfullissimo - even when it plainly isn't. Thank God for the new generation: of course, we all have our flaws but the least of those would be to be alive and kicking!
My God why is making this ugly face expressions?? very small voice and but has good commend of it ....looks like someone is pushing her carrier up......
All I have to say is - although I am trying to refrain from sounding negative - on a critical standpoint, Danielle has POTENTIAL. But those with potential should be in young artist programs and graduate programs, not recording solo albums.
One final note - if you want to hear Handel arias for soprano sung by a soubrette/leggiero soprano with stage presence AND MUSICALITY...reach for the Battle! Although she does the most horrible things with her mouth movements and such, she is superb!
I dont think she should be singing Handel, i am an opera singer myself and i just dont think that she should be singing Handel at all. I heard her sing Vide Cor Meum and her voice was phenominal!! I was shocked when i realized it was her. She had a better tone quality and better control and her voice was absolutely beautiful. I think she would be better off more dramatic roles. I dont believe that Handel would want her voice singing his music.
todos los que comentan mal acerca de danielle de niese son una bola de envidiosos porque no tienen fama, pendejos!!! me burlo de todos ustedes envidiosos.
All the ones that comment badly about danielle de niese are a team of envious because you do not have fame, idiots!!! I make fun of all you envious.
I always imagine how the arias would have sounded when Haendel wrote them. I think some were written for castrates for a reason. Their pure high voice stands in contrast to the orchestra....and unfortunately this singer's voice is not clear enough to fulfill Haendel's expectations. She forces it a bit too much and it sounds like soul/r&b voice to me.
I would like to say to "Mirkostef" that you are really not interesting to say that danielle de niese like a monkey and look like your kitchenmaid blabla ......she is a very good singer who sing all over the world so you really don't know what you say so stop it please
It seems to me that the girl is unfairly deemed inferior and unsuitable primarily because she's so damn pretty. Some people just can't pass through that and give a girl a chance of objective listening. The fact is that she was a helluva Cleopatra in Glyndebourne. And this Handel album has more might and merits than some want it to be. (Shoot, Decca should pay me, or better yet, hire me!) It's possible for a pretty bimbo to be a decent, even a fabulous singer. Anna Moffo, anyone?
I find MirkoStef's comments repulsively racist. She is obviously not a monkey, but I guess we're more related to them than you'd think if you believe in evolution. By the way, Danielle is of Sri Lankan and Dutch descent and was born in Australia. So I'm pretty sure she's more cultured than your "Haitian maid". (slavery's illegal in North America, in case you didn't know, MirkoStef)
Not only are you ingnorant, but you are intolerably stupid!! Why don't you go have sex your mother becuase I feel that you suffer from an Oedipus complex. Do it and get it over with!
I saw Ms de Niese in Giulio Cesare at the Lyric Opera in Chicago last year and she and the entire production was wonderful. I admit she fares better in person. But she, and the production, made Handel fun, which is ought to be. And, may I say as a woman, she is drop dead beautiful.
she sings everything like it's a musical. a bad musical. about someone who can't sing. who cares how pretty you are if you sing like this? every time i watch the opus arte glyndebourne cesare, i want to wave my hand and turn her into rosemary joshua or someone equally awesome. she is...so awful.
Don't let your judgement affected by the fact that she's unusually pretty (especially for an opera singer) and that she can really move on stage and dance like a pro. She sings just as well, in fact, with admirable coloratura and attractive light voice. (She probably should stay away from the great sorceresses and stick to Morgana and youthful Cleopatra.) I heard William Christie's very hard to please. I can't believe there was someone even harder as to find this singer "awful".
Yes, Ms. De Niese, the ornaments are a treat, but what about the dramatic contrast that you must convey? you can produce amazing sounds, but opera should be more that high flying notes...in my humble opinion.
I know this would sound blasphemous, I'd much rather pick her version over Sills on the ground that it's more stylish, better informed, naturally with an immensely better accompaniment. I know there is almost half a century progress between the two, so it's kinda unfair for Sills--they just didn't know better. Besides, I just don't think De Niese sang it badly at all. She did more than an admirable job. I'd never pay a penny for the atrocious mutilation that is the RCA "Julius Caesar".
You must be a female. I think most males would say she is quite attractive. At this point she may not compare to Beverly Sills, Roberta Peters and a few others, but she does have a lovely voice with lots of promise.
ya know.... she's singing at BGSU for the festival series..... its gonna be great for her to hear actual sopranos and operatic voices..... [cos she ain't it]
Well I agree.. this is NOT an opeatic voice. The tone is flat and thin. Not one spinning top note. Chest voice is strung out all over the place. She belongs on Broadway. Please if you are going to compare her to the greats, please make sure you know what the heck you are talking about. And if she could just stand still a moment and stop "emoting" you would all get past her "looks" and "saccharine" performance. Agility is not necessarily good. Look at Bartoli.. Yelk!
Da tempeste il legno infranto... listen to her try to sing this.. you'll hear how flat it is... and boring.. even the tempi is slower to allow for the chestvoice to keep up... her staccato here is blah..
She's great to watch and I've seen her live a couple of times but I'd rather have a DVD of her than a CD; she's not a great diva (yet). Compare this Endless Pleasure with Renee Flemings's version. Daniella can flirt with the audience but Renee has multiple operatic orgasms.
she sounds wonderful to me.... a very youthful timbre, very light.. Ive seen other videos and I enjoy her acting, since I think that a good opera singer should also be a good actor/actress.... surely she will get more perfect with time...
And how do you dare to compare that ridicule manufactured product to la Battle? La Battle is a GREAT artist,with a fabulous technique and musicianship.Miss De Niaise isn't.
I like her.. at first I thought that she wasn't thta great sounding but as I listen I realize that my voice and hers are very similar in tone quality :) Plus shes gorgeous :)
Très mauvais. Un beau cul n'est pas l'essentiel pour chanter Haendel. Il faut aussi une technique,de qui se fout-on? Je m'en vais écouter Sills et Dame Joan.
Most overrated singer of the moment, close your eyes and all you hear is a sharp,mettalic voice. I also don't like her bitchy very prom-queen appearance. I don't believe a word she is singing.
why you don t write that with your name and your address?? It is easy write bullshits like that with a nikmane.. Danielle de Niese is showing herself with his face and his name..
I love this video! She is my favorite singer right now! So much passion & emotion is put into her singing, acting & dancing! Not to mention she's absolutely gorgeous!!! If you all have not yet seen her performance as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, go watch it! She's incredible!
She is a total babe, and knows how to flaunt her stuff. Part spice girl, part Allie McBeal, part Mariah Carey, a pleasure to look at. Say what you will, the voice (and how she uses it, not as suggestively as she uses her body) remains generic. She will likely be as hyped as Gallardo-Domas was. What happened to her, anyway?
She seems to be the Maria Montez of opera, a little spicy South Seas excitement for the grayhairs in the audience. She's already lost her coquettish sexiness though, like she had in Rameau's Les Paladins DVD, so what's the point?
If you want to hear great Baroque singing, you'll have to dig much, much deeper. Try Roberta Invernizzi for starters.
I just met this wonderful artist and she signed this album for me. I enjoyed every second of this CD and her "Giulio Cesare" here in Chicago. A long and sucessful career for her, I predict.
I have seen her live, and she is fantastic in Handel. True, she is a long way from her peak, but when she gets there, she will be something very special.
some of the greatest artist in my opinion move around a lot. For example Cecilia Bartoli, Natalie Dessay, Patrizia Ciofi, and Danielle de Niese. If you close your eyes, you will find emotion in the voices of all these singers.
she is incredibly sexy. Her singing may not be to everyone's taste, but I for one would take her (euh.. her singing I mean..;) over Bartoli any given day :)
firebreathone3 1 year ago
Although perhaps she lacks some of the finess eof Battle, I do believe the voice deserves to be heard now. It has a rare vivacity and color and she is better than a lot of seasoned professionals I have heard. Her passionate approach to singing is a pleasure to watch, and it helps that she is beautiful as well.
Manxypop 1 year ago
A beautiful talent, and a beautiful young woman. Brava!
philhealey1 1 year ago
Danielle de Niese - An absolute pleasure to watch and listen to.
TheScortUK 2 years ago 2
my english is very bad, but I'd say that for those who have not understood yet her talent I'd suggest to hear her amazing interpretation of the difficult "tornami a vagheggiar". Her voice can appear as aggrssive at the beginning, but it really makes a sense because she puts this energy at the service of the music, it's quite stunning. Critics said hearing her album "she makes handelswing" and it's true. Do I have to remind when did she begin at the Met? She was 19 and it's AMAZING.
ClemLovesOpera 2 years ago
dam, she smile while sing, this is nice....i love the way she sing!
lhendrixbr 2 years ago
Wonderful Passion. What à Voice .....She Moves so much because of that Passion BTW.......
ruudbrasil 2 years ago
Wow is amazing, the color-voice is like a Lesley Garrett, i love her!!
BlackLegend89 2 years ago
This is a breed of Cecila Bartoli & Beyounce.
You Get GOOD MUSIC.
coolbunnyred 2 years ago
I think of her as the new Lesley Garrett. She too is an excellent Handel singer and all-round actress and personality.
McGravity1 2 years ago
My opinion that every idiot can sing doesn't hold here, she uses her voice really like an instrument. Wonderful!
tasteism 2 years ago 3
mymy so many jealous comments here. Her phrasing and acting is amazing
suffiice 2 years ago 8
why is she moving so much?
leoperarm 2 years ago 2
She´s utterly amazing in expression and phrasing
suffiice 2 years ago
E' innegabile che canti bene, con una magnifica espressività. magari la voce è più da repertorio ottocentesco.
omoetamo 2 years ago
She is the best actress in Opera today, I would love to see her in a non-Operatic role. My money is on her being the best actress all around. I think the problem she has with the Opera nit pickers is her beauty and that the singing is used by her to enhance the story, to enhance the acting. We are so use to the music coming first that it's a shock to have someone put the story first- as actors are supposed to do. She is under 30. The best is yet to come. Enjoy her rise.
PopeFlores 2 years ago
She is so lovely -- nice voice too
Belinsky69 2 years ago
I think she loves the art but she isnt exactly the best her vocals sound glabby :D haha
classicalgal14 2 years ago
I understand why she is successful. She IS INDEED very pretty to look at.
CatalinaDM56 2 years ago
have to admit I can stand to listen to her as well..
rumbidzai 2 years ago 2
i love how dramatic she is...<3
Rae56789 2 years ago
The Acis and Galatea at Covent Garden this year showed this young woman's virtuosity and perfect diction. She also danced with Wayne Mc Gregor's creation of the dead Acis (Edward Watson) very competently and movingly, though I feel she was a tad heavier than the ballerinas this very strong dancer usually elevates! She is a moving singer and very beautiful.
hedgechair 2 years ago
Her parents moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to help Danielle develope as a scholarship student at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica and then the Colburn School of Performing Arts. At age 16 she won an Emmy. At 18 she was hired to learn the role of Eponine in "Les Miaerables" and studied in NY with vocal teacher Ruth Falcon for years before enroling in Mannes College of Music beginning in 1997 where as Susanna in "Figaro" led to a Met audition for the Lindemann Young prog
RMartin973 2 years ago
Her background is very interesting. See The New York Times supplement magazine for Sunday, 9-20-09 and you will better understand her youthful exuberance and brave attack brought to challenging and/or exotic music. She is an amazing product of Sri Lankan parents: a part-Dutch banker father and a part-Scottish Swiss company manager mother -- who immigrated to Australia as teenagers. At age nine she won a national talent-show competition and blossomed in regional singing competitions.
RMartin973 2 years ago
I think the best quality of this singer is the Joy she have when she is singing. Her eyes speak for her, her gesture and her approch to the music. The tecnic is not very good. But it'isn important....the importand is the phatos she can make with her sing. She is similar to Bartoli. They are 2 singing heart.
Sorrentodellesirene 2 years ago
Her only major problem is her apparent inability to sing piano. She needs more subtlety in her voice. Other than that, she seems to be a very promising young singer. I wouldn't doubt William Christie's judgement that easily. I don't think he is a man who would work with just anyone.
lalagonegaga 2 years ago 2
There is kind of a singular dynamic to her singing that isn't Handelian, but heroic and a little gawdy.
coryisawake 2 years ago
Nice voice.
zbaby82 2 years ago
Why is she so much sexier than those rock n' roll and hip hop tramps?
RenoRaider 2 years ago 30
Well, I think she is smart enough to understand that you have to do something more with image and presentation to reach more than just the handfull music-experts. Often, you see people flight into it because of there lak of talent, or they flight into it because it simple brings them more money. But I think this Lady is very talentful and here interest in growing in music is much bigger than here interest in becoming just famous or having a big purse.
mulimansheid 2 years ago
Totally mediocre singing,(that is actually being rather generous) conservatories all over the world are full of sopranos who are at least as good, if not better. But she is very pretty!
chueca 2 years ago
In such a competitive field as it is for a soprano in the opera world, it is VERY sad to see that such a mediocre singer has been promoted to such stardom. It is SICKENING to hear her sing. Pretty to begin with, then when you realize she's a one-trick pony, it's like, "what the eff is so special here?" Go and listen to Lorraine Hunt, David Daniels, even Beverly Sills, and you will hear full voices singing Baroque music with passion, artistry, and MUSICALITY. This here just doesn't cut it.
rlee1976 2 years ago
como la debe mamar esta buenisima y canta perfecto je
esttrato4 2 years ago
I dont agree.She will improve!Im not a big expert, but I have good feeling with people.I feel when they will be successfull!
uranoinpesci 2 years ago 2
hell on earth
vitroz 2 years ago
If Christie is working with her that must mean something, but I'm still not fond of her singing. Her pronunciation needs a lot of improvement. Let's hope she will manage:-)
madhukara79 2 years ago 3
Not a big fan she doesn't wow me just another singer.
VocalTechin 2 years ago 2
She turns my spirit on with her energy! Why not? Finaly, a singer who can move in beauty and sings good! Not perfect. But who is, anyway?..Yes! I sang Handel, it's sooo difficult...I like the hole result. She is nice, pretty, sings fine. I am sure great to see live.
kassandra1977 2 years ago
good. There are many singers that sing like her. Her kind of voice is so common. Well this prove a singer must also be very lucky.
cantanteporsiempre 2 years ago
In a couple of years she will be the best!
uranoinpesci 2 years ago
Since she started so young you can hear her vocal decline already check out her performances from 2004 she could sing now it sounds to forced and rough :(
MusicKrystal 2 years ago 2
1:57 She's hot.
hansinluck 2 years ago
She has a great enthusiasm and energy for Handel's music and I think he would have adored her x She understands his music x
75goodies 2 years ago
Good singer, not just in Handel. She is a great musical actress, whether she will be a great Opera singer one day, who knows. But while the likes of Bill Christie [Who is great] and the record execs keep giving her star billing, she will be there for a while.
Bachsoboe 2 years ago
no one will ever be better than cecilia bartoli
xoxtinysingerxox 2 years ago
... you should branch out a little more.
There are a lot of people better than Bartoli.
(This is not one of them though)
jfbecks17 2 years ago
Who´s better than Bartoli?
lalauruska 2 years ago
Gee, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad, Marilyn Horne, Gundula Janowitz, Regine Crespin, Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballe, Kiri Te Kanawa... and loads more people.
jfbecks17 2 years ago
Anna Netrebko!
spqrmor 2 years ago
She is very like Lesley Garrett was 10 years ago, in singing and in personality. See "Lesley Garrett - Handel: Alcina"
McGravity1 2 years ago
Too much mannerism is present.
Great talent though!
Yoavmw 2 years ago
Natalie Dessay Rules!!!!!!
Dekida 2 years ago
So Beautiful, so exotic and thrilling all at the same time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bravo!!!!!!
cartiergl 2 years ago
she's so beautifu *_*
nisaidyeah 2 years ago
Amazing, just how wonderful is this woman - can't wait to see her perform live
chrishugill1 2 years ago
This version is much better than the other video. The acoustics in the other room must have been poor.
AriD2385 2 years ago
Cecilia Bartolli for ever..... :)
alexninko 2 years ago 3
beautiful!!!
valqueso 2 years ago
she's not my idea of an ideal Handel sop, (a bit of a histrionic voice for my taste); prefer Kathleen Battle/Rosemary Johua for example, but she was the best thing in the recent, awful, Covent Garden Acis & Galatea. I think Mozart would suit her better.
simoncarbery 2 years ago
Watching Rosemary Joshua singing Handel is a wonderful thing! I agree , the post-Mozart repertoire would suit her much better than the Handel stuff...she is taking a stylish approach though.
materialmyra 2 years ago
she sounds like a light lyric soprano still in development
classicalgal14 2 years ago 2
the best mezzo of sri lankan origin by far
koolu99 2 years ago
omg I just bought her CD and its such a marvelous song~!!
jesus10632 2 years ago
I totally LOVE this woman!!!!!!!!!!!!
lucamanga 2 years ago
me enamore
loup07 2 years ago
It seems to me that you snobs disapprove of ANY singer under the age of fifty. If you had your way they would stop performing opera altogether because none of the performers would mett your lofty expectations.
archer1949 2 years ago 3
There are many brilliant young singers out there, those of us who are bitter about de Niese and other so called "stars" are bitter that great singers who don't look like her don't get the opportunities.
FoggyRoad81 2 years ago 2
I like her! And I heard somewhere that she premiered at the Met at the age of 19, which makes me like her even more.
Going to buy this CD eventually.
Aniretak205 2 years ago
on a deperate level she was the only one that knew the small role she did lol
classicalgal14 2 years ago
ahhh...no, no
youfeda 2 years ago
Soyez honnêtes avec vous même; vous n'en avez rien à foutre que Haendel soit le compositeur.
jphlux 3 years ago
Prissie and mabemawi, please stop exposing your imbecility in public. Had you ever heard a real voice, ever seen a real singer, or learned one fact about art, music, esthetics, you would not embarrass yourselves this way. You are HAPLOID MORONS .
tightlygagged 3 years ago
She has a voice but is erratic. She would be wise to listen to CONCHITA SUPERVIA on You Tube
796824 3 years ago
Handel's vocal melodies are often extremely erratic
jbartz 3 years ago
She really sings well and is very beautiful. Saw her a couple of weeks ago in Orfeo... Who's the band in this video? I notice they're playing on baroque instruments. Thanks.
rustydog1236 3 years ago
The ensemble in this video (and obviously for the recording) is the Les Arts Florrisants, conducted by William Christie :)
Viahandel06 3 years ago
did you like her in Orfeo? I thought she was quite good, and lovely.
lindsaydenman 2 years ago
yes she is absolutely beautiful; I wish the Orfeo could have been a better match in the looks department, but she could SING very well! this video is wonderful too.
rustydog1236 2 years ago
exceedingly lovely.
RenoRaider 2 years ago
very good. great breath control
100flyingfish 3 years ago
HORRIBLE!
scarpia1965 3 years ago
She's mugging for the camera. I agree with rlee1976 comment about Danielle being in a young artist program. She's very immature, both as a vocalist and as a person.
skylark100 3 years ago
totally...this is really really rather light and not rooted on the body... lovely for youthful exhuberance but a bit worryingly overly passionate and no where to go vocal production... all hiding a lil' wobble tremelo flutter....hmmm well hope she has fun.
Tristiano 2 years ago
The legato is predicting further wobbles. She should listen to ELIZABETH RETHBERG
796824 3 years ago
BTW, when you record music or rehearse you move your body to the music to get the musical as well as the lyrical interpretation right. You ppl are both rasists and old fashion idiots who know nothing about being a singer!!
Prissie28 3 years ago 3
She has a beautiful voice! And it's not small. OMG get over yourselves, you conservative idiots. Donald Duck?? Idiots! She is very very pretty and her voice is amaaaazing!!!!!!! Shut up! Why are you watching the video if you hate her so much??
Just so you know: I LOVE her voice AND her facial expressions. She is a person, she is alive, not a stupid dull standing still all the time!
Prissie28 3 years ago 6
THANK YOU. Indeed, why should singers stand there like immovable pillars in outdated dresses? Curiously, check clips with Sutherland and Horne looking like 2 hideously painted battle ships slowly adrift: everybody is so totally apologetic about there silly appearances - for it's S&H and so every aspect of them is wonderfullissimo - even when it plainly isn't. Thank God for the new generation: of course, we all have our flaws but the least of those would be to be alive and kicking!
mabemawi 3 years ago 8
She looks like a clown. Bartoli Copy. Terrible. I like Bartoli, but de Niese is a Hollywood Clown.
cyghovirus 3 years ago
When she sings She reminds me of Donald Duck when he is angry ha ha ha
Iaparulava 3 years ago
My God why is making this ugly face expressions?? very small voice and but has good commend of it ....looks like someone is pushing her carrier up......
Iaparulava 3 years ago
All I have to say is - although I am trying to refrain from sounding negative - on a critical standpoint, Danielle has POTENTIAL. But those with potential should be in young artist programs and graduate programs, not recording solo albums.
One final note - if you want to hear Handel arias for soprano sung by a soubrette/leggiero soprano with stage presence AND MUSICALITY...reach for the Battle! Although she does the most horrible things with her mouth movements and such, she is superb!
rlee1976 3 years ago 18
@rlee1976 SKIP THE BATTLE and go for the real thing: BARTOLI!
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
amazing tone and vocal control.....great talent!!...
aelfricbetera 3 years ago
She is amazing
suffiice 3 years ago
Is she trying to make Handel into hip-hop? I'm confused by her movements.
LovemHokies 3 years ago
I dont think she should be singing Handel, i am an opera singer myself and i just dont think that she should be singing Handel at all. I heard her sing Vide Cor Meum and her voice was phenominal!! I was shocked when i realized it was her. She had a better tone quality and better control and her voice was absolutely beautiful. I think she would be better off more dramatic roles. I dont believe that Handel would want her voice singing his music.
bcugirl09 3 years ago
i thougth that there wasnt an uglier face in opera since bartoli... i was mistaken
dopepenguin 3 years ago
Gracias por esa linda musica y tu carisma bella y nos alegra el alma desde INGTK Danielle de Niese mil saludos
fredy26lima2005 3 years ago
Love her.
pturcas79 3 years ago
This is technically fantastic, and for all of you who think she cant sing, try singing it yourself or get lost. Danielle Rules!!!!!!
pokopikuchan 3 years ago 2
Glorious!
What a great diaphragm work you have going on there, girl!!
liricachilena 3 years ago 2
The unmerited hateful/racist comments about such a beautiful voice is why our world is such a f#@k'ed up place.
saulsaenz79 3 years ago 2
todos los que comentan mal acerca de danielle de niese son una bola de envidiosos porque no tienen fama, pendejos!!! me burlo de todos ustedes envidiosos.
All the ones that comment badly about danielle de niese are a team of envious because you do not have fame, idiots!!! I make fun of all you envious.
35windu35 3 years ago 2
I love her voice! She was fantastic!
Operomania 3 years ago 2
I always imagine how the arias would have sounded when Haendel wrote them. I think some were written for castrates for a reason. Their pure high voice stands in contrast to the orchestra....and unfortunately this singer's voice is not clear enough to fulfill Haendel's expectations. She forces it a bit too much and it sounds like soul/r&b voice to me.
SilentSouffleuse 3 years ago
Im really "stretching my imagination" to see it...
mvconnelly 3 years ago
Wtf. Seriously?
hahaidontcare 3 years ago
ENTIRELY wrong repertoire. Stick to soubrette rep for a while, de Niese. Despina, Susanna, etc. PLease. Hope you figure it out
fundfreq 3 years ago 2
NO!! You figure it out, ass!! Where is your career?
nichtsleezy 3 years ago
Is that LaToya Jackson????
DrNamaroff 3 years ago 19
She likes the freedom of ornamentation? I wish she didn't have any. There is such a thing as losing the tune... :(
beckyberridge 3 years ago
W
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That's amazing singing right there.
willowpuff 3 years ago
I would like to say to "Mirkostef" that you are really not interesting to say that danielle de niese like a monkey and look like your kitchenmaid blabla ......she is a very good singer who sing all over the world so you really don't know what you say so stop it please
soprano543 3 years ago
monkey you, can you sing better than she?
35windu35 3 years ago
It seems to me that the girl is unfairly deemed inferior and unsuitable primarily because she's so damn pretty. Some people just can't pass through that and give a girl a chance of objective listening. The fact is that she was a helluva Cleopatra in Glyndebourne. And this Handel album has more might and merits than some want it to be. (Shoot, Decca should pay me, or better yet, hire me!) It's possible for a pretty bimbo to be a decent, even a fabulous singer. Anna Moffo, anyone?
vitellia 3 years ago
I still think she looks like a monkey , her face is hideous, my haitian maid looks better than her LOL
MirkoStef 3 years ago
I find MirkoStef's comments repulsively racist. She is obviously not a monkey, but I guess we're more related to them than you'd think if you believe in evolution. By the way, Danielle is of Sri Lankan and Dutch descent and was born in Australia. So I'm pretty sure she's more cultured than your "Haitian maid". (slavery's illegal in North America, in case you didn't know, MirkoStef)
SsteinwayS 3 years ago
I can't believe that you're 35yo and still haven't evolved... You're a sad story.
actionsrlouder 3 years ago
Not only are you ingnorant, but you are intolerably stupid!! Why don't you go have sex your mother becuase I feel that you suffer from an Oedipus complex. Do it and get it over with!
nichtsleezy 3 years ago
I saw Ms de Niese in Giulio Cesare at the Lyric Opera in Chicago last year and she and the entire production was wonderful. I admit she fares better in person. But she, and the production, made Handel fun, which is ought to be. And, may I say as a woman, she is drop dead beautiful.
Elvira1003 3 years ago 2
she sings everything like it's a musical. a bad musical. about someone who can't sing. who cares how pretty you are if you sing like this? every time i watch the opus arte glyndebourne cesare, i want to wave my hand and turn her into rosemary joshua or someone equally awesome. she is...so awful.
mymokshashocksya 3 years ago 4
Could you do better?
sunstorm007 3 years ago
Don't let your judgement affected by the fact that she's unusually pretty (especially for an opera singer) and that she can really move on stage and dance like a pro. She sings just as well, in fact, with admirable coloratura and attractive light voice. (She probably should stay away from the great sorceresses and stick to Morgana and youthful Cleopatra.) I heard William Christie's very hard to please. I can't believe there was someone even harder as to find this singer "awful".
vitellia 3 years ago
She is very beautiful (dare I say, especially for an opera singer!) but this cynical marketing video is pure cheese of the smelliest denomination.
RSylveste 3 years ago 7
I agree completely. The "acting" is completely and utterly fake.
SsteinwayS 3 years ago 3
not a Händel voice.
gabohuaroc 3 years ago 4
Right you are. I don't think she's got any sensitivity for Händel, jumping all over the place and acting strangely.
kanssasi 3 years ago
Yes, Ms. De Niese, the ornaments are a treat, but what about the dramatic contrast that you must convey? you can produce amazing sounds, but opera should be more that high flying notes...in my humble opinion.
alejandra379 3 years ago
Ah, I forgot: Beverly Sills "Da tempeste" is magnificent, Ms. De Niese comes to a safe distance...
alejandra379 3 years ago
I know this would sound blasphemous, I'd much rather pick her version over Sills on the ground that it's more stylish, better informed, naturally with an immensely better accompaniment. I know there is almost half a century progress between the two, so it's kinda unfair for Sills--they just didn't know better. Besides, I just don't think De Niese sang it badly at all. She did more than an admirable job. I'd never pay a penny for the atrocious mutilation that is the RCA "Julius Caesar".
vitellia 3 years ago
...somebody please tell this bitch to stop singing. i shudder to think this is the future of opera...and i'm 17
IfYourMomWereATaco 3 years ago
She is a very good singer but in my opinion her voice is not as beautiful as her face or her smile.
FChopin 3 years ago 2
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"Word." - Crindoro
Crindoro 3 years ago 2
Am I the only person who thinks she's not even pretty?
wobblatura83 3 years ago 4
she is absolutely gorgeous...
she just has so many awkward moments...
neisseriaking16 3 years ago
I don't find her attractive..she's just sort of, well-maintained..oh, and I certainly don't admire or like the voice..
33blueberries 3 years ago 4
You must be a female. I think most males would say she is quite attractive. At this point she may not compare to Beverly Sills, Roberta Peters and a few others, but she does have a lovely voice with lots of promise.
Rudolph03 3 years ago 3
ya know.... she's singing at BGSU for the festival series..... its gonna be great for her to hear actual sopranos and operatic voices..... [cos she ain't it]
ubiCARITASetAMOR 3 years ago
Me i think that danielle de niese give fraicheur to the opera and i like her because i'm not boring to hear her voice and it's a very good quality
soprano543 3 years ago
This is awful! At least she's pretty I guess...
humbaritone 3 years ago 3
Well I agree.. this is NOT an opeatic voice. The tone is flat and thin. Not one spinning top note. Chest voice is strung out all over the place. She belongs on Broadway. Please if you are going to compare her to the greats, please make sure you know what the heck you are talking about. And if she could just stand still a moment and stop "emoting" you would all get past her "looks" and "saccharine" performance. Agility is not necessarily good. Look at Bartoli.. Yelk!
operawhore64 3 years ago 4
You're way off the mark! I think she's glorious!
Mozmike 3 years ago
start listening to 214 and the slow sections you'll hear not one head voice tone.. flat .. try to get past the microphone enhancements..
operawhore64 3 years ago 2
Da tempeste il legno infranto... listen to her try to sing this.. you'll hear how flat it is... and boring.. even the tempi is slower to allow for the chestvoice to keep up... her staccato here is blah..
operawhore64 3 years ago 4
whoa...not an operatic voice? She's wonderful, but still quite young.
LizN90 3 years ago
She's great to watch and I've seen her live a couple of times but I'd rather have a DVD of her than a CD; she's not a great diva (yet). Compare this Endless Pleasure with Renee Flemings's version. Daniella can flirt with the audience but Renee has multiple operatic orgasms.
ws3vj4 3 years ago
ever heard the Kathleen Battle rendition? endless pleasure indeed...
alejandra379 3 years ago 2
she sounds wonderful to me.... a very youthful timbre, very light.. Ive seen other videos and I enjoy her acting, since I think that a good opera singer should also be a good actor/actress.... surely she will get more perfect with time...
alejandra379 3 years ago
she is so much better in the coloratura stuff in Handel than the slow and exposed arias.
gransasso101 3 years ago
She sometimes looks like a moderator from ViVa O.o But luckily, she is not like her in the slightest way :P
Well, she's not the prettiest, but she's gorgeous!
There is a lot of beauty in her voice, despite what some dumb people say... -.- And I love the emotions that she shows when singing ^.^
celebritie 3 years ago
Dear Sir,
you are gay (with big capitals) - but what's the problem? You are not listening music with your ears, may be with other parts of your lovely body.
kellenbenzw 3 years ago
And how do you dare to compare that ridicule manufactured product to la Battle? La Battle is a GREAT artist,with a fabulous technique and musicianship.Miss De Niaise isn't.
FABRIZIO82 3 years ago
That's right baby,I'm GAY and if you were too you would be more focused on the singing,which is crappy.Are you threatening me? Go to hell!
FABRIZIO82 3 years ago
I like her.. at first I thought that she wasn't thta great sounding but as I listen I realize that my voice and hers are very similar in tone quality :) Plus shes gorgeous :)
SnuggleBunnyBaby 3 years ago
once more again: it's a so delightful, sensitive interpretation, marvellous!!!
kellenbenzw 3 years ago
Assolutamente fantastica!
PillyCremina 3 years ago
Assolutamente fantastica!
PillyCremina 3 years ago
Très mauvais. Un beau cul n'est pas l'essentiel pour chanter Haendel. Il faut aussi une technique,de qui se fout-on? Je m'en vais écouter Sills et Dame Joan.
FABRIZIO82 3 years ago
D'accord. I would pay to NOT hear her sing.
33blueberries 3 years ago
Most overrated singer of the moment, close your eyes and all you hear is a sharp,mettalic voice. I also don't like her bitchy very prom-queen appearance. I don't believe a word she is singing.
pedrillo36 4 years ago
The woman looks good, and that is the only reason she got the jobs
Sadiesexy 4 years ago
why you don t write that with your name and your address?? It is easy write bullshits like that with a nikmane.. Danielle de Niese is showing herself with his face and his name..
panosJ3 3 years ago
I love this video! She is my favorite singer right now! So much passion & emotion is put into her singing, acting & dancing! Not to mention she's absolutely gorgeous!!! If you all have not yet seen her performance as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, go watch it! She's incredible!
MusicalMermaid9 4 years ago
She is a total babe, and knows how to flaunt her stuff. Part spice girl, part Allie McBeal, part Mariah Carey, a pleasure to look at. Say what you will, the voice (and how she uses it, not as suggestively as she uses her body) remains generic. She will likely be as hyped as Gallardo-Domas was. What happened to her, anyway?
Gobbi2007 4 years ago
I do not know, but hypes dissapears...
Sadiesexy 4 years ago
She seems to be the Maria Montez of opera, a little spicy South Seas excitement for the grayhairs in the audience. She's already lost her coquettish sexiness though, like she had in Rameau's Les Paladins DVD, so what's the point?
If you want to hear great Baroque singing, you'll have to dig much, much deeper. Try Roberta Invernizzi for starters.
LoneConformist 4 years ago 3
Fabulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tamasha58 4 years ago
FABULOUS!!!!!
tamasha58 4 years ago
UGH!
ljackson2007 4 years ago
I just met this wonderful artist and she signed this album for me. I enjoyed every second of this CD and her "Giulio Cesare" here in Chicago. A long and sucessful career for her, I predict.
turandot82 4 years ago
Saw and heard her last night at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Cleopatra. Sensational in all respects.
tomradoszewski 4 years ago
I have seen her live, and she is fantastic in Handel. True, she is a long way from her peak, but when she gets there, she will be something very special.
Bachsoboe 4 years ago
What an awful thing to say, from experience or not. Let's just listen to her voice and comment on exactly that before nasty rumors start.
DvaGurl 4 years ago
she moves too much i wish she could act with her voice not her body and not move around like a moron.
hobo197 4 years ago
Is that how morons move around?
Act with "just her voice" when she has a body like that? I guess you prefer the two ton tillys of yesteryear. They could barely move.
Fiddlerfrank 4 years ago
some of the greatest artist in my opinion move around a lot. For example Cecilia Bartoli, Natalie Dessay, Patrizia Ciofi, and Danielle de Niese. If you close your eyes, you will find emotion in the voices of all these singers.
mbaggarly 4 years ago
She's a total babe.
RenoRaider 4 years ago
Extraordinary body language. Beautiful voice. A phenomenon.
MFanon 4 years ago