Annick Massis : "Je suis Titania la blonde" (Mignon)

[mgsineriz22]

I think she is just marvellous. if you could listen in stead of watching the video, you would notice that she is a very good soprano. people who thinks she is cold and emotionless expect to see her doing big gestures. but she keeps it sobre and focused on the music. brava!!!

[OperaLoverL]

so,e of her better singing - very nice

[MYRHAH]

un des plus beaux sopranos français: sa voix pure et souple, sa musicalité, sa diction nette se conjuguent avec une assurance tranquille, une stabilité, loin des grimaces et singeries d'autres chanteuses plus médiatisées; c'est une valeur sûre. Elle est fine et agréable à regarder, et c'est très bien.

[MrAndredekock]

She chose the tempo herself I'm sure and so I'll live with it but I LOVE this lady's voice and technical abilities! Bravissima!

[bmh4d0k3n]

Beautiful singing, SLOOWWWW tempo. Get the conductor some coffee, stat!

[wsudance85]

Merveilleux

[mlaygo]

What an utterly whimsically fanciful dress! I must say, her voice sounds majestically salubrious! ^_^

[Nidoamor]

Bravissima ! La piu brava del mondo !

[harvinsky]

j'aime beaucoup annick massis! elle chante ce chanson tres bien

parfaitement en francais.

[cleanmyroomforme]

delightful!!!

[Kivimusic]

Proper! xD

[Pywacket2]

Lovely voice. Lovely dress. Very French, like the diva. Check her youtube Sempre libera aria. Big, big sound in a very form fitting red dress.

[mzenaida]

Lovely woman, lovely voice, the dress looks like a giant blood clot. Wear something that highlights, doesn't distract.

[skyhunk]

beautiful voice and technique! only comment is that the voice seems small, but perhaps that is because she's a lyric soprano?

[raigekimaru]

@skyhunk

I think she's a dramatic coloratura. her high notes have that shimmering ring that only dramatic coloraturas possess, listen to her bel raggio and you'll see what I mean.

[killerbunny123123]

very good control and technique.....far better than the usual professionals im used to seeing here on youtube

[SuzelleDeGrace]

Comme chanteuse, je te trouve excellente et d'une fraïcheur dans cet air. J'adore ton timbre de voix. Je sais ce qu'il faut pour arriver à une pareille maîtise.

Suzelle DeGrâce canada

[flipsyboy]

That dress looks like it's attacking her.

[callastoujours]

Hhahahahhaha, you're right!!!

[tetrazzini]

.@flipsyboy HAHAHA ! that's it !

[yesblanche]

Wow such harsh words towards Ms. Massis on this post. Let's not forget she is one of the world's foremost lyric coloraturas. I'll agree that this isn't necessarily her best showing...but to label her as 'awful' is ludicrous.

[StacieDiva]

she moves her mouth a lot, my teacher teaches me to do the absolute opposite, but everyone sings differently these days

[leosuperb]

some people have to try too much in order to open their throat properly...i don't think it's too bad that she is moving her mouth too much!!!

[okebaram]

I don't really care for this kind of singing (opera singing, head voice vibrito singing). But I can say that if I did like this singing, I'd say she sounds great. Good control too. But then maybe this is average for the opera world which is full of singers with great control.

[lyv4him]

beautiful - I've heard better though.

[SopranoKayla1992]

Someone post English and French words because I want to learn this song.

[LDiaz457]

It's refreshing to her this sung with a proper French accent. What a beautiful voice! I love it!

[zafireh]

sorry, but i don't think that it was the first time that she sang in public. so why should she be nervous and how do you see that she has no self-confidence?

it's incredible, how many "know it alls" there are on youtube, who think that they are able to judge about the technic of a singer, while they can't do it better. certainly almost nobody of them has studied music.

[maryjivinjane]

I'll be the person just shallow enough to say it: Beautiful voice, but my God-- that DRESS! O_o

[1calaf]

The mouth is too wide open in the passagio...

[ciociosan]

yes! what is the term? voce chiusa? i think it is voce chiusa.

[rubenmsk]

she has a beautiful voice, clear, it's seen clearly she was a little nervous, but she needs to practice more his high notes and to try to open a little more toward the sides so that she strain not so much the throat

[Voluptuossa1234]

I think her voice is great. She seemed like she was nervous, though, and the tempo just didn't help. I think that there is a lot of potention here and I expect to see better from her in the future.

[pasfresh123]

I like this very much, except of course the extreme slowing down near the end. She should have worked on her speed and self-confidence, she would have been great. She seems to be to worried about what the conductor is thinking, and vice-versa. Full steam ahead, girl! Entertain your audience! Let'er rip! The conductor will follow YOU.

[pasfresh123]

Like Dessay, she also rolls her Rs in the back of the throat, like in modern spoken French (the influence of Michel Dens and Mady Mesplé, who advocated "singing like you talk"), but these arias were not written in 1975, they were written in 1900, when people rolled their Rs in the front of the mouth, like in Italian and Spanish.

[petelovesbevsills]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM polite applause.

[sschimel]

let's face it... there are very singers of any voice type who look great in close up when they're singing. I trained as an opera singer and was taught that everyone has a different way of making sound. Little of it is pretty, however, particularly at the far ends of the voice. But as long as we're naming names, June Anderson. Leontyne Price. My biggest problem with this is why is it so slow after about the 4:30 mark?

[hardybee]

Pleinly - delightful

[Fraederik]

Okay I agree, it isn't the most exciting version in history, but here very 'healthy' sound and her superb diction is a joy to listen to. Her wide-open mouth I consider rather funny, but it is rather silly to diskwalify her because of that. Sutherlands mouth wasn't that pretty either, just like Battle or Gruberova, but the sound of these ladies...

[pirocagrande]

I though she was gonna eat me up from the screen...Gosh,,you are right...what a big MOUTH!

[jalex11]

I you think that's scary look up Cecilia Bartoli in La Cenerentola

[SimSutcliff]

Quel timbre magnifique, quelle diction impeccable! Oui, la robe n'est pas très jolie, pas plus que le décor d'ailleurs qui fait songer aux entrailles d'une baleine... Mais la chanteuse est divine!

[felicianocapicia]

that dress makes her look like a purple wooly mammoth. my god. i've never seen such a fashion nono.

[FABRIZIO82]

Magnifique!

[Alannathegirl]

I think Maria Callas' version is the best

[angel0exterminador]

oiseaux first, eclair second, the first time she sang this...

[Kendrick2021]

This is a lesson in support.......she used her entire chest to support her light tones.....wonderful technique and an imposing lady. FINALLY, a modern soprano that does not swallow her tones.

[belgian]

Sorry, you are wrong! This lady is fabulous : the voice is great and the french diction superb. By the way I speak French, I should now....

[skipnyc]

Such an average voice. To sing this role, you at least be able to Trill. This poor child should listen to Beverly Sills sing this Aria......... This is so very average............ very Blah......... NEXT!

[nicevidbro]

ugh, just enjoy the music, mr. pavarotti.

[soprano768]

Her last note was out of tune, but other than that it was technically good. Emotionally is another story.

[europelove]

i agree with most of the other comments. tempo too slow, voice is yes very beautiful but moves too slow here (im sure she is much better in other roles, this isnt for her), theres just NO buildup and NO energetic climax to make this sparkling - written aria seem...incredible. its ... just NOT here. her facial expressions are boring! zzzzz. where is the emotion? no energy. some of the words were wrong too. gorgeous voice but thats about it. sorry!

[reedsong1001]

Thank you so so much for this lovely recital video. There has never been a DVD released of Annick Massis in recital; so this is a rare treat. Her voice is nothing less than sublime!

[cfilipow86]

her very last trill is out of tune because she is squeezing and pushing so much. and her dress leaves something to be desired

[cfilipow86]

worst dress ever

[sschimel]

Zzzzzzzzzz... sorry, I fell asleep. She has a lovely, lovely voice, but that is without a doubt the slowest version ever recorded. At what should be the climax, around 4:00, she is barely moving. I could sing it at that tempo and I'm a baritone. This really makes me appreciate great technique like Sumi Jo, Beverly Sills, Roberta Peters, Mady mesple, et al.

[operamike]

She would be wonderful with a real conductor, like a Nicholas McGegan or Zubin Mehta, who can get an orchestra moving. Note how she keeps looking at the conductor wondering when the orchestra is coming in. Love the dress!

[PucciniTosca]

She has already sung with amazing conductors! She sung at La Scala and sung La Traviata in the Met I think... She is amazing! Saw her life.. she was breathtaking!

[drsolus]

Draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags like a dead body attached to the back of a ute. And she's not the most intelligent singer I've ever heard. It's...ok, I guess? ...No, it's almost ok, well, not really. Consistently white on top, and the col. isn't great, she can't trill, and her vibrato isn't...natural, its not a vibration in the top partials, its a wobble of the mechanism. And her high, high note was a squeak, not singing. Better luck next time, Annick Massis!

[gadsy]

Maybe, I don't know, but I like this version.

[drsolus]

Well, it's ok. Up until about the 4:00 minute mark. But not bright enough, throughout. She nearly didn't make it.

[Glenmed]

It is lovely. But I agree with the comment on tempo. Maria Callas gets through it nearly a minute faster. I think Gruberova does too.  Does anyone have her version?

[OperaDivaMommy]

It's lovely, but I feel that the tempo is quite a bit too slow. It just draaaaags.

[DrGarri]

I had never heard this soprano before. What a great surprise!

[PucciniTosca]

I have just seen her in Les Pecheurs de Perles... it's amazing! She is also so friendly and she sings amazingly good! Did you know that she made a dvd of Les Pecheurs De Perles where she sings Leila? Bravo!!

[PuffLippy06]

I posted on another of her "clips", but I was a "super" in a performance of "Lucia Di Lammermoor" & her Lucia was really unbelievable. She's a talented actress on top of the vioce & really was a show-stopping Lucia.

[iTubeVlc]

Mon Dieu, dimanche Martin!!! Ça rajeunit pas!

[MrChowChow]

She's simply enchanting. Is this a only video of her? I know a CD set of "Matilde di Shabran" will be out in October, she sing with Juan Diego Florez, Can't wait to own it. thank you for post this.

[coryisasleep]

OMG i can't believe you have this!!!

[VerdianoBR]

Annick Massis is wonderful. She has an ideal voice for this aria, and her coloraturas are impeccable!

[jvinikour]

Indeed, a marvelous singer, and far less well-known than she deserves!