Joyce DiDonato - Rosina in Berlin - Una voce poco fa

[mayapapaya89]

what silly staging anyways she is still fabulous but she looks a little silly

[Andrew1886]

What a cold reaction of Berliners...

[MikiTTCC]

Very good!! Thanks for sharing

[JaimieAppleton]

Ok, I am OBSESSED with the little shoulder-hiccup thing at 3:22.

[jhvorotin]

Je viens juste de voir la vidéo...c'est comme si Joyce chantait pour toi, ta caméra est de très grande qualité. Elle chante et joue divinement bien (Joyce...pas la caméra!).

La mise en scène est vraiment novatrice. Rosina est comme une enfant. Le mime d'être enfermée à l'intérieur est très intéressant.

Merci de partager cette vidéo.

[asdfopera]

no, the zooming is great. it annoys me when the video is just a single distant perspective. ;) this production is crazy. why is rosina wearing clown make up? no one will want to marry her looking like that.

[thecelticspirit]

@asdfopera Well, it was like a play in a play : Rosina here in on stage, near a beach, with houses and streets behind the caravan. As for the make up, all the main characters had it :) Commedia dell'arte! Frankly, the production was amazing. Perfect embodiment of Rossini's nonsense ^^

[Zimtschaefchen]

I'd like to give every single of these uncultivated "I like to applaude in the midst of an aria" persons a slap in the face!! ><

[luvxl]

@Zimtschaefchen

It sure was a pain in the ass, but it shows how impressive this was live! You almost never hear applause between the voce and the io sono docile :)

[middlemarch12]

Merci beaucoup pour le partage !!! La production semble très chouette ! Et Joyce est égale à elle-même ! :-)

[LohengrinT]

Brilliant Rossinian singing, the acting needs less, much less movement. Only extremely amateur actors move that much on stage (in their anxiety to "fill up" the space)

[classicalgal14]

@LohengrinT Its Opera, hun! =D

[LohengrinT]

@classicalgal14

does that mean the opera singer should act like an idiot in a third class amateur performance of some university? no hun :p

[classicalgal14]

@LohengrinT Keep in mind the ideals of this production... its a comic opera and she is a marionette! The character of Rosina is a teen age girl wishing for freedom she is quite sassy and swears if she is double crossed she'll get her way ;]

[LohengrinT]

@classicalgal14

I think DiDonato is one of the most talented voices we have ever heard Very well trained and extremely skilled. Is it too much to ask from her to be equally good at all areas of the Opera performance? even at choosing not to play at low-level productions such as this I dont know how easy or difficult that is for someone like her but she definitely deserves much more than this

[classicalgal14]

@LohengrinT This was done with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a well respected company! The acting is not to blame, but as far as the production design she had to follow what the DIRECTOR told her + She looks like she is having fun on that stage ^.^

[90lysander]

@LohengrinT Who would be your ideal operatic actress/actor, then? I think the requirements are totally different, personally.  After all, many of the situations and pieces of dialogue we accept on the operatic stage would never fly in straight drama.

[LohengrinT]

@90lysander

99% of today's and yesterday's opera singers are dreadful actor/actresses. In their development their mind didnt allow them to evolve into acting. I usually dont comment on the acting matter but DiDonato has besides the vocal talent, the intelligence to be a very good actress. (People actually believe in our days that Dessay's running around on stage like a spastic is acting-)

[LohengrinT]

@LohengrinT

It is that I believe to DiDonato very much that makes me want to see her evolve into a true Diva - but that needs sacrifices. Her face has the bone structure of a dramatic actress, she can use that if she consults the proper make-up artist, she must learn to reduce the movement of her hands to the absolutely necessary

She must study the great ones + she needs a great director (not an opera stage director)

[GabrielaJanine]

Dankeschön! Joyce ist einfach Spitzenklasse! Hoffentlich wird diese Produktion auf DVD herausgegeben...

[HM0880]

Thank you so much for posting this! The production does indeed look fantastic.  There are loads of little directing touches that are really great-- all the interaction with the props, the mime part (!), the "ma" as she kisses the letter, and so forth. :) Joyce, obviously, is amazing. :D Thanks again!

[luvxl]

Awwwwwww t'as trop géréééééééééééé!!!!!! Géniale! et il est pas si mal en fait le trille on était bien sévères en sortant huhu

grrrreat

[podkivanok]

Do you have other videos of this production?

[thecelticspirit]

@podkivanok No, this is the only video I dared to record :-)) But the production was truly amazing, I hope a DVD will come out sooner or later, because it was absolutely brilliant.

[podkivanok]

@thecelticspirit

Thanks for your reply. Amazing production in Germany - this sounds almost unreal :) By the way, I have heard Dalibor Jenis as Figaro in Budapest and he was very good.