Sarah Brightman sings Dvořák Song to the Moon - RUSALKA - English Subtitles

[maxde10]

Listen to Lucia Popp's version. It is sung in Czech and it is sung as it should be. This a very poor version.

[s1ngerpr0]

Beautiful...



[JosefKLL]

The best is Milada Šubrtová - Rusalka........search and play.

[marathonwomyn]

What exactly does the poster mean when calling this "a beautiful Italian version that makes it less heavy" to people who aren't opera fans?? Rusalka should always be sung in its original language, Czech. It is the Czech people's national treasure and not suitable to this pop treatment. I recommend the classic recording by Gabriela Beňačková or Eva Urbanová. Or try Anna Netrebko's version. I had to listen to them right after this to get the bad music out of my head!!

[vanilies22]

Sarah and her divine voice, the true beauty

[wolfamosam]

My Mom taught me as a child . . . "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all". So . . . with that said, I'll close.

[oldbaggage]

This should not be allowed. This is dreadful. Leave opera to opera singers.

[jcmud]

As a Opera fan I don´t stand it.

[sickanwilliamson]

What a shame!!!!! She used to be able to sing - opera is just not her strong suit, is it?

[Heartlessiceboy]

As an operatic singer I honestly don't know what to think about Sarah Brightma, the voice is beautiful there is no doubt,but she is not an opera singer she can't sing this aria she's destroying the aria and she sounds bad. She should stick to repertoire suitable to her voice.

[Beattles007]

How dare she!

[PrincessZerlina]

im sorry. i hate this.

[yhtmbells]

she's sucks! 

[MariposaRedimida]

This may be random, but I'd love to be an opera singer and I can't help but notice, all opera singers have no choice but to do "covers" so to speak, and the same song is sang by so many different singers, it's hard to be original or stand out between so many when the song has been sang so many times and the composers are so amazing... I wish someone composed new songs for new singers, otherwise, it's an eternal comparison, isn't it? As an opera singer wanna be, what can I expect but be compared?

[lateralex90]

@MariposaRedimida this is NOT called covers, so please, read and get inducted and embraced by the theme, if you can't, you shouldn't be an opera singer. This music has no comparison to popular music, pop music is composed for a non trained person. THIS is composed for a specific type of voice, but not to a specific person, and this music isn't about who sang it (the singer doesn't own the song, is the composer) but about interpretation.

READ ABOUT IT PLEASE!

[MariposaRedimida]

@lateralex90 Ok, first of all, you don't have to use capital letters/scream at me to get your point across. Second, I did not call it covers, I used quotes and added the words "so to speak" to clarify. Third, yes I can compare all different kinds of music, as they are all within the field of music as a whole, music is music. Fourth, a person who is not trained, can sing anything they want, and start learning technique from there. Fifth, what makes you think pop singers don't require training?

[lateralex90]

@MariposaRedimida Sorry if I was rude about it, but it kinda stresses me out to read comments like that. As I said before, this music is not simple music; it combines a lot of art, it may be mainly music, but still is acting and impersonification, what gives it the ultimate sensation when listened to, and that's why it shouldn't be compared to worldly music. Comaprison's are worded up about the techniques in singers, like Brightman's ghastly interpretations .

[lateralex90]

@MariposaRedimida oh, btw, non trained persons may try to sing anything, but they can't sing that much as a trained person can without damaging their vocal chords (we shall never use our vocal chords to sing, but diafragm). What I meant is that, if youc an't come to appreciate opera as a supreme art and discipline to be hardly studied, you shoudn't even try, cause it will be the worst days of your life, since you'll think about it as wasted time, and wasted stressful time...

[MariposaRedimida]

@lateralex90 Thanks for the apology :) I like to talk about music with other people, and know there are many of us who love classical. I sometimes also consider classical as superior in a way, but don't forget that pop singers, jazz singers, gospel, also act and put their heart in the music. Music is a means of expression, no matter the style. But yes, opera does require a specific technique, and sure if I try to sing something before I master the technique, I may hurt myself.

[MariposaRedimida]

@lateralex90 Sixth, what do you want me to read about? Be more specific and share a link or something. Seventh, how can you start your statement but telling me I shouldn't be an opera singer if I cannot do all of those things that are pretty much the last thing to learn? There are many things to start practicing before I can even think about interpretation. I am taking classes, and it's a very slow process. And again, no need to use capital letters when you respond, if you do.

[lateralex90]

@MariposaRedimida Yes, there is a lot to practice for all of us but still, you need to comprehend that opera is not "any kind of music", but a complex yet simple art rather than any crap out there.

[MariposaRedimida]

@lateralex90 Oh, okay, I think I know what happened. Covers are not necessarily the same style as the original, right? When somebody does a cover, they will add their own spin to it, so it can vary greatly. Of course, if that is what you thought I meant, I didn't. That's why I said "so to speak", maybe I should've used a different word, I don't know which. I am aware that when I perform a classical piece, I am not going to be creative and add my own spin to it, we agree on that for sure.

[PrincessZerlina]

@MariposaRedimida Hi- I'm a student at the moment majoring in Music Composition, and a huge part of my world is keeping up with NEW music while still studying the techniques of OLD. I can assure you, there is a constant stream of new vocal repertoire and TONS of operas that you can find which were written in the 20th century! [: It is not nearly as popular as Puccini or Verdi etc, but that's because it is 1) often misunderstood and 2) so modern, nobody is familiar with it :/

[MariposaRedimida]

@PrincessZerlina Awesome! I'd love to hear some of those, and thanks for the quote! Makes me think of Lady Gaga ¿¿¿??? She made it red... :P

[PrincessZerlina]

@MariposaRedimida as for your personal struggle for originality, there's a famous quote I find excellent in this situation: "If you can't make it good, make it big. If you can't make it big, make it red."

[Heartlessiceboy]

@MariposaRedimida There are many composition majors who struggle to do music,for example I sang the composition of a friend for his degree exam... Also big opera houses are looking for something new,Joyce DiDonato is going to lead in "Camille Claudel" a new opera about the sculptress Camille Claudel. But about classic repertoire everytime you sing it is a new moment you never fel you are doing the same

[MariposaRedimida]

Omg, the song just started and I'm reading the comments... JESUS! did anybody like this at all? ok, I admit it, I came here just to see how bad it was, I love the song, and dislike the singer, sorry...

[lateralex90]

@MariposaRedimida LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I did for that too XD I hate Brightman's tacky way of singing and she totally wrecked the shit oout of this aria

[MariposaRedimida]

@lateralex90 I know, but after reading the comments, I just felt bad for her... :P

[ohbella1]

WHAT.... THE....FUCK IS THIS!!!?? Dvorak should come back from his grave and choke this bitch!

[larebeccadiva]

awful



[laforet]

this bitch...

[micontrafa]

Wow. Old Pudding Throat has finally swallowed the pudding. And what was underneath was a 16-year old with no tone. Who knew?

How the heck is doing this in Italian supposed to make it less heavy? What's making it less heavy is the fact that she's producing her tone like a teenager with a too-ambitious voice teacher.

[zralokvemigraci]

too bad.

[captaincale1]

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY­YYYY

[CIVKANJE]

o my god, its sooo bad

[kkahalehoe]

After hearing this bastardization of such a beautiful song I envy the deaf.

[Cynastar]

I think there is blood coming out of my ears and eyes because of this....

[LiyahLova]

why in God's name is she mic'd?

[celestialstar47]

I was in heaven when I heard Leontyne Price's version of this song. Now I want to go throw up

[bearanease]

I respect popera and opera singer I see the different techniques of both and as they are 2 seperate genres(that people get confused easily) True opera fans would tend to know the big diffrences in tone and style

[NEBESHIKU]

Sarah Brightman is one crazy, dilusional bitch! Dvorak must be in heaven wanting to come down to earth and massacre this whore for butcherung his master work!

[musicalrose85]

This is absolutely sacrilegious. She needs to just step away from the opera.

[valdengo1]

....this is a pop version, light years away from the opera, the heartbreak....some can get used to this......

[18bcarlsonify]

I have to agree that this is the worst version of Song to the Moon I have ever heard. This song comes from the opera Rusalka Which depicts a wood nymph who falls for a human. This song is supposed to represent the wood nymph's confession to the moon of the wood nymph's love for the mortal. The entire theme rides on the song being sung in the native Czech language. The opera Rusalka is the essence of pathos.

[18bcarlsonify]

In the end Rusalka is punished to wander the waterways as a ghost tempting men to their death. But when Rusalka's lover comes and asks for the kiss of death, Rusalka commits his spirit to God. While she must wander the life of a damned woman. This opera gives rise to JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Both Rusalka, Song to the Moon, and The Silmarillion are based on Slavic influences, not Greek/Italian mythos.

[LadyKat73]

I like Sarah but she did it wrong...

[kitkat9030]

Wow... This just makes me incredibly mad.

[frantahouska]

This is the worst version of Song to the moon EVAR! you can not find worst version on youtube..thats how bad it is.

[Marteena007]

no...I don't like this version...should be in Czech...this to me is empty...no emotions... Check out Maite Itoiz version, she did a fantastic job + she sang it in Czech! :-)

[sanlesmes]

please, please...Lucia Popp turn of the tomb and silence this chicken!

[znotzelda]

I was bertstare.jpg the entire time.

[Lovcicky]

To kombasanpracka:

Absolute agree with you. Very very different feeling...

[kombasanpracka]

without taking care about the singing there is also the lyrics issue. The italian (translated) lyrics completeley differ from the czech original - the story isn´t about the moon. It´s about Rusalka talking to the moon asking him about her beloved one......but in this italian version it looks like a 15 years old kid wrote the lirycs - only variations about the night and moon......it absolutely lacks the poetry and main theme of the original....really poor

[SiMiChiamanoMariel]

Ew :S

[singin4life02]

this is an abomination...

[so451]

@singin4life02 hi hi hi...