Christophe Dumaux-L'empio,sleale,indegno (Giulio Cesare)

[aspdenmark]

L’empio, sleale, indegno

vorria rapirmi il regno,

e disturbar così

la pace mia.

Ma perda pur la vita,

prima che in me tradita

dall’avido suo cor

la fede sia.

[MrGanesh95]

Soprano légère?

[ouah77]

plus pd que lui on fait pas

[chlagaguel]

@ouah77

Plus pd que lui ????? trop drôle !!!!

[MrAndrePBC]

@ouah77 Peut-être toi...

[Natopera]

Cleopatra is only 17 and Tolomeo is her younger brother, Dumaux manages to create a teenaged villian, both very angry, and with the position to indulge that anger. But at the same time terribly inexperianced. He is a boy playing at a man, so it is natural that next to Cesare and Achillia he seems foolish. immaturity and power are a dangerous combination.

[Villainesse]

Tolomeo is meant to be a bit effeminate. Cleopatra accuses him of such in her aria - so his interpretation is spot on.

[dannben]

mi vida a cambiado despues de haber escuchado a este hombre, maravilloso...

[baalhaophanim]

He is cute, but Tolomeo seems, gay... i prefere the other guy, who is he? he is really cute and handsome! i want to be with him in the Nile, as Antinoo with Hadrianus... Tolomeo, seems, to need the favours of the other guy to be more easy...

[baalhaophanim]

e is cute, but Tolomeo seems, gay... i prefere the other guy, who is he? he is really cute and handsome! i want to be with him in the Nile, as Antinoo with Hadrianus... Tolomeo, seems, to need the favours of the other guy to be more easy...

[Saturpepe]

@baalhaophanim I think he is the baritone Christopher Maltman.

[Guichotpresident]

Mindblowing.... Christophe Dumaux, where have you been all my life??

[66jjma]

Depuis quelques temps plus on est hystérique sur scène plus on veut nous faire croire que c'est ça le théâtre . Le problème c'est que la voix s'en ressent beaucoup, il faut faire des choix ou alors travailler vraiment beaucoup pour l'harmonie des deux. Ce qui m'inquiette c'est qu'en janvier/février prochain il va chanter ce même rôle à Garnier avec Dessay et HaÏm et que ces dames sont loin d'être calmes et sereines mais comme apparement ce sont des Déesses intouchables... Bon Courage!

[Juliet0307]

Magnifico!Impressionnante!

[AndresSopranista]

a genius

[deepesttottenham]

I can watch/listen to this over and over. It's just... perfect. 8-)

[asisecanta]

This guy is really amazing. I heard him as Tolomeo tonight and it is the first time that I hear a well-sung Tolomeo (not overacted), and as a character, he did a very ironic and cynical portrait of the King: comic, yes, but never stupid. After all, he is the bad guy of the story :-)

[NatashaNabokov]

My younger brother walked in and said, "Are you sure that's really a man?"

[idaspe]

Tell him the truth... u.u

[Nobody297SRS]

@NatashaNabokov Lol, when I first saw this, it took me like 10 to figure out if it was a guy or girl.

[nicksum29]

Exactly how this character should be: young, spoilt, petulant, and utterly nuts. lovely.

[leukipos]

just the most beautiful male alto voice at this present

[lemietracce]

Sublime.

[acanthe83]

Hideux : pas de souffle, pas de couleur pas de musicalité, une manière de dégueuler "indegno" plutôt que de le chanter et le pompon pour le metteur en scène et son idée d'un combat dont on entend les chocs

[TFreckle]

Je trouve que Dumeaux aie du raison. Il crie "indegno" parce que cela veux dire un villain. Il haït Cesare.

[eddi1178]

Bravo,e grande teatralità!

[NatashaNabokov]

I love it! His voice is nothing short of amazing! I love his costume and hair! (but the dancing in the rest of the opera just annoys the hell out of me, and yes I don't know that the style is "bollywood", but I don't care)

[xgianpatrick]

Bravo!  Excellent!!!

[FayeCaroline]

Merci beacoup pour ca! Je l'ai vu aussi cette annee a Marseilles et a Lausanne et il est vraiment *parfait* dans le role de Ptolomee - pas seulement la voix mais il est aussi superbe acteur

[cuicuimusic]

Jolie voix de poitrine, ok tout ca. Mais la vraie question c'est : le premier coup de pied, il monte plus haut que la tete ou c'est une impression ? :)

[oberonne]

Very good performance! Apart from de voice, which is beautiful, I would point out the acting, the first in which I don't see an effeminate Ptolemy, but a conceited boy!

Thanks a lot!

[armycasa]

Dumaux is certainly one of the best countertenors presently snging in our theatres. Bravo Christophe

[Gudrun74]

So this recording is from 2005?

I've seen Dumaux recently as Tolomeo in Lausanne and a year ago in this role in Vienna. For me Dumaux is at the moment the only counter tenor that convinces me in terms of chest register. I normally find that ct's voices are (at least on stage) somehow 2-dimensional and don't fill out the theatre profoundly. But Dumaux is surprisingly voluminous in these regions.

Just checked his "A dispetto" from Beaune, that's really sublime, wow!

[chlagaguel]

Yes, this live recording is from 2005 at Glyndebourne opera House .

[ongny]

Dumaux is a great actor as well as a great singer. I hope to see and hear much more of him in the future!

[Athys700]

E' proprio bravo: al timbro, alla tecnica, unisce una altrettanto efficace presenza scenica.

[jimjam109]

Well yes..it is a song of general rage so one would hope it would be frightening !

[Senduil]

kind of frightening!