Joyce DiDonato sings ''Ombra mai fu''

[johanson321]

amazing!!!!!



[czech698]

gatopfuelsaver

[H30ea]

Terrible sound quality. I can't listen to it, sorry.

[FunkTrunk5]

i wish there was some magic way to combine cecilia bartoli's phrasing with joyce didonato's voice. the perfect ombra mai fu. still, am so happy i live in the same world as these two beautiful singers... :)

[prince2000ful]

That last Piece she is doing exactly as one should start a pianissimo. Very brilliant

Technique.Thanks for the video. She is really good and I will se her from the Met opera HD sending "Le Comte Ory"

by Rossini in a fourtnight.

[ronwgood]

Thank you Jackie for your great singing of this aria at your first solo concert in Houston,you were stunning .We are looking forward to seeing you this year at the NY Met.Please sing Nessn Dorma there like you did in Houston.UNBELIEVABLE!!!

[la200o]

Wonderful! Wish the sound quality was a little better.

[DerfElcnu]

I stand amazed in the presence of this greatness. You must look up the translation.

10 yr old Jackie Evancho sang this at a cocert in Houston 2/18/2011

and brought the house down.

2 Angels 2 good for this world.

[ohmusic25]

I love this piece and she sings it beautifully. I love women singing roles made for countertenors. The ornaments are lovely and the piece is really short and sweet. I feel privileged to have just discover the sound of Ms. DiDonato. Thanks for posting!!

[paulostroff99]

Awesome! TY Homoclassicus for posting

[umroo2014]

saw her in concert tonight in our common hometown of Kansas City! my life is forever changed! :)

[AustenBiss]

Just curl up and melt. Pure and beautiful.

[46willem]

a discovery, a beautifull voice.

[MrKazukko]

音程が低すぎて、歌として心にひびいてこない。

[Nidoamor]

Bellissima voce e techica perfetta ma manca qualcosa , - purtroppo si sente l`accento straniero e manca il legato nello proprie parole, - dovrebbe farsi correggere la pronuncia perche` si sente una distanza tra la voce e lèspressione

[lucamanga]

emozionante.

[cuntylishus]

classicus is a homo...

[wstevensv]

Yes, it's a reserved performance...and it SHOULD be reserved! Awesome performance of the heart-rending aria...and superb directing!

[RoyKa2010]

Marylin Horne's "Ombra mai fu" is also very beautiful.

[jhb134]

A somewhat-reserved .. but excellently-sung version! Ms. DiDonato and Kathleen Ferrier, among others, are probably the BEST, female voices in this great aria. ... Some of us might, still, prefer Gigli, Bjorling, Pinza, Tauber and other male voices, but it's GREAT to listen-to what the ladies can do!

[Nevizations]

I did this song when I was 17 in vocal training.. fantastic song. <3

[garawall]

@yellowwitch1

no, not rreally,

just because i love this piece.

and when somebody deliver it at least like she did,

i'll definitely go and watch.

[lbm1iam]

What's up with the 5 people who gave this a thumbs down?!?!

[Allicia123mm]

I prefer the best that version of this voice! ；)))

[garawall]

I will pay good money to watch her deliver this piece Live.

To watch and listen will be such a treat.

[yellowwitch1]

@garawall and have a wank while at it!

[yellowwitch1]

can someone tell me? why are there so many versions of this thing on utube?

[SandyRiver24]

@yellowwitch1 because it is such a good tune

[razzking]

A) Because it's fruckin' beautiful and B) Almost anybody with even a half-assed ability to sing can sound good with it

[keydet72]

@yellowwitch1 Because it's a beautiful song, that simple.

[alyosha140557]

Madame X painted 1884 caused something of a scandal.

[caviper1]

que música tan hermosa

[zeekwolfe]

This photograph of Joyce DiDonato reminds me of a painting by John Singer Sargent. I can't remember what it's called.

[olympicfreak678]

@zeekwolfe R u thinking of Madame X? Very famous.

[zeekwolfe]

@olympicfreak678 I looked up John Singer Sargent and, yes, the photo is somewhat similar to "Madame X." Thank God young women did not put tattoos on their bodies back then. Can you imagine Madame X with coloured streaks up and down her arms or little cannibis leaves over each breast? Yuck!

[olympicfreak678]

@zeekwolfe actually, Mme. X's marks were on the inside: She was accused of several extramarital affairs. Actually, the painting itself was scandalous for depicting the subject with a dress strap hanging down while the other one is on her shoulder. Sargent fixed it to appease to the public. What we put up with today!

[zeekwolfe]

@olympicfreak678 I took a good long look at the original 'Madame X' via an old art book I had in the garage. You are correct about the strap situation and how society was scandalized. It's not the strap that amazes me...it is the sensuous way Sargent composed and painted the arms and fingers.

[543693The]

splendide Mezzo....merci beaucoup! je suis tellement heureuse de l'entendre....

[malvinbeethoven]

Perfect! Very sensitive singing. (^^,)

[malvinbeethoven]

Perfect! Very sensitiv singing. (^^,)

[brunotaddeo]

you take subtle, i'll take robust any day... i want to cry over it, not think about what she's doing with conductor, etc, and if you have to slide into a note... well... not a nice sound to my mind... i'll try again with this voice,.. i hate to miss anything but i think i'll end up happy to miss this dreadful voice.

[horseyak]

@brunotaddeo ( and walkerc5c5) Boys, boys.....It's just an aria.  I still think Paula Rasmussen sings this the prettiest. Check out her version.

[RennieSpins89]

tryin to learn this for a school play! sound great to me!

[RussellK9]

How beautiful, a new favourite. Kathleen Ferrier's was the standard for me, however, as other people have pointed out, this contrast is magnificent.♫♪♫♪☺

[brunotaddeo]

jesus ! how this woman got on i'll never know... she sings off key and her phrasing is awful !!! she slides into the first note and what a dreadful sound !!! she thinks that if she does a few trills here and there her voice will pass as acceptable ! .

what a horrible sound she makes... just compare her with janet baker !

[sagagossard]

Are you deaf dont you?

[brunotaddeo]

no not deaf, just not taken in by something wrong, maybe it's the water these young singers drink ? half is beautiful so people are taken in, but the other half is shit, off-key, slides into the note, and often sings under the note, anyway, for me the quality of the voice is not good.

[walkerc585]

I suspect that it's really just a matter of your taste. This version is more ethereal than Baker's, which, while correct and lovely in its own way, is obviously more robust than subtle. DiDonato (along with the conductor) makes the emotion an elusive, uncertain thing (which accounts for what you call "sliding into the first note). By contrast, Baker (along with her conductor) is in no doubt. As for off key, I doubt you could demonstrate that to be true. I think you just don't like it.

[musicmanm2005]

you have to realize that the Baker version is Pitch in Baroque pitch.....

[sairamnagarajan]

while battle sings somewhat on cue and with almost negligible feeling, this makes such a contrast. perhaps its the stretched mezzo voice that sounds so.. real. not the inhuman beauty of battle's voice. funny the way human minds work!

[cooltiger333]

Très bien fait mon cher. Vous êtes très excellent.

[manrico29]

This unbearably beautiful presentation left me completely stunned. Certainly one of the greatest recordings ever of this aria.

Brava, Joyce !!!

[thecelticspirit]

Oh my. Unbelievable. Amazing. Thrilling !

[dodi132]

Oh it is SO SO beautiful.........

[lamsalgado]

Beautiful ! Thx! I loved Homoclassicus that you´ve left the aplauses at the end too, so well deserved...

[PARISA7777]

Very nice version :) !!!

Thank you so much for sharing . . .

[leoperarm]

What a beautiful aria! beautifully sung!!!

[paradoxicus]

¡Sublime.!

[oyamicanto]

A baroque song must be sung just like this (Minimum vibrato, right comment) .. Some of singers sing this like a Puccini or Verdi aria, but a Handel aria must be performed like this. Style is completely baroque, congratulations...

[1966oslo]

Spectacular!

[Lohengrin]

This girl is a Diamond

Her opening crescendo on Ombra brought me chills

I wish to her she sings all the Bel Canto centralle roles (Stuarda, Adalgisa etc) plus Handel's Rinaldo, Imagine her Cara sposa!!!

[1973stefania1]

@Lohengrin Emozionante

[vitellia]

Simply fabulous. I've heard this aria sung by singers of all colors and sizes, male and female, of every voice type, and this ranks truly way up there.

Never heard before the appoggiatura to the high F at the end (on "soave PIU"). It sounds so foreign even though it's really totally appropriate. Probably because, again, I've never heard it before done that way. Regardless, just stunning, everyone involved.

[RussianDivas]

Second only to Scholl, IMHO and for me, that's a high compliment, indeed:)

[wowmom1976]

I agree!

[p3x4x]

GJ Joyce

[theANNELISE]

wow!!!!!

[darnmat]

Wow...

[pixxxellle]

is it with Ensemble Matheus? if so I was playing with her... just a great voice, inside a great heart. I just love this version!

[onna00]

I also thank Scholl was the best but I changed my mind...is there a cd by Di donato with Ombra mai fu ?

[noncondition]

Really no words. Amazing Joyce.

[BlkMuscGent]

This is my favorite version of OMBRA MAI FU.

[Donkey7570]

I thought Andreas Scholl was the only person to do this justice, till now that is.

[lexsex69]

Exquisite...

[lexsex69]

Exquisite...

[Njamh]

Sublime!!

[meforopera]

Beautiful color in her voice. Brava!

[paulostroff99]

Gorgeous! Brava! TY

[operatube]

Lovely, just right :)