Cecilia Bartoli sings Son qual nave, an encore at the Barbican

[Thomas02ify]

Do you have Da Tempeste ?

[SilenceTheQuiet]

Oh my gosh... she is a superhuman! Amazing! Bravo! Bravo!

[MrJonnyFlan]

Time and time again I come back to this video, because it gives me such hope for the future of music, and not just opera but all genres of music. In a world popularised by "talents" like Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black, it makes my heart happy to know that real music is still being played, sung, and created by inspiring artists like her and many relatively unknown others.

[smapdaisuki]

BRAVISSIMA!!



[noeldunsky]

A pinnacle of human achievement...VIVA ITALIA..!!!

[jjjcc3]

Break

[sekangkim]

I am amazed by her magnificent voice. Cecilia is the best of the bests!!!

[geekypnai13]

god, her facial expressions can make n e one's bad day better. lol I'm so glad she's not one of those thuper therial type singers. :]

[JulianaLDuarte]

diva!

[Gobbi2007]

25-second breath, with steady line, crescendo, diminuendo, and at the end that trill! damn. and her face, knowing full well what she can do. brava, cecilia. she does enjoy singing. we enjoy listening. to the people who criticize her face: try singing with her placement, expression, range, agility, and let's see what type of faces YOU come up with.

[gabriellabaka]

@Gobbi2007 AND she's wearing a corset!!!

[oliviasmulyan]

@Gobbi2007 i know! her trills are the best! <3<3

[apfrois1966]

AMO-TE CECILIA!!!!

[StephanieKin]

Isso é impossível a um mortal!!! Sem palavras...

[inesagnese33]

Cecilia Bartoli, sei insostituibile!

[northe69]

wow, beauty and talent in one person

[crazytwinsinc]

o_o I want to sing like her <3

[crnguy1]

I was lucky enough to have been amongst the audience for this concert and this recording (which is very good) does not do justice to the dynamic range of the performance. I do not expect to hear again such an amazing demonstration of the art of breath control.

Cecilia generously shared the concert with a gifted young counter-tenor and the friendly competition simply spurred both to ever better performances.

[TopandTang]

Oh my! Fantastic!

[RobertDeMiedo]

grandiosa! Algo totalmente fuera de serie! Adoro este video!

[tabrizlioglan]

She is a great singer ! No doubt about it.But I can not stop laughing watching her facial expression while singing. She seems little nerd !!! :-)))))

[18aaronjames]

i wana hold a note that long some one help me please

[maxmeytard]

How can somebody dont like it?

[crazytwinsinc]

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !!

[TheMathias456]

She held that note from 0:18 to 0:41 ON ONE BREATH ! that's beyond amazing ! that's true talent right there

[lobo81865]

Incredible. 

[sunshine85ification]

Bravo!

[RingingHeldentenor]

Bartoli is amazing at what she does best: ...seducing an audience with her over the top diva wildness and exagerated, exciting, and crazy histrionics that unfailingly drive audiences into paroxisms of ovational applause . Her singing ranges from unbelievably excellent (the breath control that she shows while holding a beautiful top note for an astonishing length of time) to unbelievably terrible (her much-vaunted coloratura would be much improved if she sang actual on-pitch notes) . A true Diva

[Trioptio]

It is so impossible to dislike this video.

[drgily]

@Trioptio You are absolutely right. But what about the envious or ignorant people? They too need to express themselves :)

[TatyanaGrushenko]

Спасибо за видео! Великолепно! Прекрасная дьяволица и фея одновременно! Обожаю ее!

[fopsx]

Her technique is beyond any adjective I could find. It's beautiful to hear what the human voice is capable of!!

[saymon242]

I Love you:)

[phainopepla95]

WOW!!!!

[locke294]

You can tell she truly loves to sing. Watching her facial expressions and singing out of the side of her mouth makes me smile. XD

[dolofonos]

I can't take this; she's driving me wild. Bartoli is easily the sexiest woman to set foot on stage.

[anonymousarecool]

Derp

[liatma1]

omg. she held it for 25 seconds, I counted.

[duksi4]

She will go down to history as the first lady bringing "jazz" into classic music... She is just incredeable...Love ...

[1991RubenV]

I WANT HER!!!!!!!

[marymad84]

sempre un fenomeno!



[severro1984]

Fantastic!!! :)

[Mountchoirboy]

She is adorable! Such a vast range and colotura excellence! My goodness she is a Goddess!

[tissetatten]

how can u not love this woman! <3

:)

[rexebuza]

impressive!!!

[Juljularchaeo]

UNREAL!!!! 

[mayraymauri]

excelente calidad!!! Thanks for uploading!!

[mayraymauri]

jejeje.... belleza de video.... se enchina la piel solo de verlo... haber estado en la presentacion ha de ver sido increible!!

[flopardo]

Some things should be heard and and not seen.

[superjfbm]

i felt there was a joke in there somewhere.... her eyes tell so.

[Thomas02ify]

J'ai l'impression qu'au début de la video, elle s'apperçoit qu'elle est filmée, je me trompe ?

[rleao36]

wonderful excitement...

but I still prefer her singing "caro mio ben" (please check it)

isn'ts life strange?

[Erikk91]

i cant understand the "a" kept for 30 seconds...

[desalesleite]

She must have, at least, 'five' lungs, ... I'd never seen anything like that! Fantastic! Wonderful!

[lodengreeneyes]

Brava!

[clementjb]

voices might have been smaller then as well. It's also often repeated by many music historians that singers in the 19th century cultivated ever larger sounds to fill larger and larger theater and to sing with larger and larger orchestras. If you've ever been in an original opera house from the 18th century, they're tiny by today's standards.

[OperaMystery80]

@clementjb All that is true but Bartoli has a small voice so she's still a lot like 18th century Baroque and Mozart singers. Her voice sounds bigger only because it's amplified by microphones & modern acoustics. I've never considered her voice to be big; she's not a Wagnerian dramatic soprano or dramatic mezzo. She has a light mezzo coloratura soprano voice suited to Baroque, Mozart and Rossini.

[clementjb]

Regarding comparing Bartoli or any other modern singer to pre-1800 singers, it's hard to know what they sounded like. The historical music performance in the past 50 years has tended to smaller and smaller orchestras, and harpsichords and baroque violins are much quieter than grand pianos and modern string instruments. If we accept that these developments represent increasingly correct understanding of how the music of the baroque era was performed, then it's not unreasonable to guess that

[thetrue0416]

Molto Grande!!!!



[wayateflautista]

SHE'S A BEAST!!!! HAHAHA, WOW! THERE'S NOTHING ELSE LIKE HER ON THIS EARTH! SO INSPIRING :D

[sisyphus511]

A goddess to be worshipped for the passion that exudes from each and every word she sings! From someone who has no musical background.

[DeilyRuffo]

BRAVA!

[nando2323]

fascinante aria de la ópera serses, por el maestro broschi, cuan florido fue el periodo barroco...y que decir de la interpret simplemente alucinante bello simplemente bello y cautivador.

[louise181991]

now THATS a pair of lungs!!! amazing!



[roccastrad]

Rappresenta l'italia malgrado berlusconi

[verdinfishy]

Anyway, I can't really argue with you because first, you are better musically educated than me. Second, you keep throwing a bunch of lies. She will never sing Verdi's Otello!!! please! she just can not. Just you mentioning and erasing that comment shows that you have a very strong, personal dislike towards Bartoli.

Bartoli is a RECITALIST!, just in case you ignored that. She does sing in theater what she records in cds.

I can't really change your opinion, so, good bye and have a great day :)

[FritzSchroeder33]

Unglaublich!Top!

[MOROficiaL]

ÚNICA!!!!!!!!

[OperaCurtainCalls]

Son qual nave by Riccardro Broschi, Farineli's brother

[charlesdarwin55]

Which song is this? Please tell me!

[oliviasmulyan]

@charlesdarwin55 son qual nave ch agitata

[charlesdarwin55]

@oliviasmulyan

Thanks alot!

[fattyboyblue]

if you look at her when her mouth is all the way open you see that she articulates each note in coloratura passages with her tongue ( 1:19 ) she is fantastic and i love her.

[MisterPapageno]

@fattyboyblue The problem is that she has to do coloratura with the diaphragm support and the larynx/vocal chords, not with the support of the tongue or moving the mouth as Genaux's does. These things are written on the Tosi's and Mancini's treatises: students had to keep their body and face absolutley stil!

[verdinfishy]

@MisterPapageno After an over-twenty-years career I don't really think that it is important how her technique "should" be but how the sound flows. It has been shown that her technique is not damaging a voice that is able to easily fill small theaters with that incredible, almost inhuman, agility.

I don't say that you are wrong but I don't really think that Bartoli is neither.

(please excuse my English, for it's my second language)

[MisterPapageno]

@verdinfishy [1] Well, I don't know. Her emission is totally compromised: if you listen to Batoli's beginnings you can hear that the voice was (but I say) seemed to be "impostata". Now she is totally airy and her emission is compromised because she does not abduct correctly the chords. She hasn't damaged her chords meaning that she is still able to sing, but listen to how she sings ... She can't move from a p to a f, but just pppp to mp, because her voice is "back" in position ( indietro).

[MisterPapageno]

@verdinfishy [2] and she is not hearable from the fifth row in a theatre. This is the opposite of what is a technique which has to allow you to sing with dynamics and you have to be able to sing in small & big places. So, Bartoli's got a very personal technique, but not correct overall, and I really turn angry when somebody says she's got a old singing technique: this is completely wrong, and I do hope (and think) castrati didn't sing like her! Then her coloratura is wrong: listen to Berganza!

[MisterPapageno]

@verdinfishy [3] I do not think to have the truth, absolutely, but I think that Bartoli is overestimated and she is not a good axample of singer because she has founded her career on CDs rather then theatre, so for me she is just a pop opera singer, like Bocelli or Brightman, with their own technique, who you can like or not.

No problem for English: it's my second language too ;)

[verdinfishy]

@MisterPapageno well, you are entitled to have your opinion that she is a pop opera singer to which I strongly disagree.

"she is not hearable from the fifth row in a theatre" LIE! I saw her live, and since she sold out quickly, I had to sit far form her and I could hear her loud and clear. "she has founded her career on CDs rather then theatre" LIE! she is mostly a recitalist which means that she has to sing in theaters. Plus, one or two operas a year (live, staged with customs and everything)

[MisterPapageno]

@verdinfishy [1] Well, as you say, everyone's got his opinion: you're by the way one of the very few who witnessed to be able to hear her, and I know people who followed her career from the very beginnings and still say she was a very small voice.

Then, if you think that making 1-2 opera a year is singing in theatre, I have nothing to add, but just check the other opera singers schedules and see how many opera vs recitals they do.

[MisterPapageno]

@verdinfishy [2] Bartoli is very wise to continue her career on recitals because it's a single woman show and she can decide to reduce the orchestras and she is not forced to compare herself with other singer that probably will cover her! And furthermore, I still say that her career from the CD "Vivaldi" is mainly based on CD: I have never heard her Sonnambula, "the real Malibran Version", a CD based on a fake score and edition, furthmore with a voice not suitable for Sonnambula!

[verdinfishy]

@MisterPapageno PS. I love Berganza; the best Rossina ever recorded :)

[guiradobrasil]

@MisterPapageno Of course you are entitled to have your own opinion, and you were not rude in your comments, as many are, but saying she's a pop opera singer like Bocelli or Brightman is utterly ridiculous, just look at the repertoire these two singers sing, ordinary repertoire, and look at what Bartoli sings, sorry, you don't really have a point there.

[lucasantosification]

Deus é pai

[operaandme]

Great video! :-)

[Indigokitteh]

I don't know why...but that long, wavering note in the beginning brought me to tears.

[MrJonnyFlan]

Unbelievable... And Justin Bieber has over 300,000,000 views... This poor world.

[cjysdny]

@MrJonnyFlan Those poor people never listen to real music

[cantanteporsiempre]

@MrJonnyFlan  They prefer mediocrity

[agentleastlikely]

Damn

[lexyellis]

Thanks SF, wow you were right, I am officially cheared

[lizazhdan]

thank you Stephen Fry)))

this video really cheered me up:D

[sowerby23]

yep..came here directly from Stephen Fry's tweet!!!

[McFearsome2]

Sorry, i cant help it... i am a trekkie and i cant stop picturing her in full klingon makeup (with cranial ridges) sings klingon opera....

the greatest klingon opera singer of the 23rd century?

[agentleastlikely]

@McFearsome2 I'm sure Worf would agree she'd make an exquisite Lady Lukara ;)

[frenzymania11]

she is insane, perfection. What an introduction. Lovely, lovely, lovely

[corpsechild]

Whoa that is amazing

[cowscanfly4711]

wow. thank you stephen fry

[daspinguru]

Thumbs up if you got here from Stephen Fry's twitter!

[TheRedLady]

@daspinguru I needed to be cheered up from the awful day I had so I took his advice.

[valypan]

@TheRedLady Me too!!

[bonniekate86]

@daspinguru Thumbs up if it totally worked :P

[petenjohn1]

OMG - I love not only her singing, but the humour and animation she happily displays.  Does she love singing or what????

[retoricalanswers]

DIVA! love her

[winelegend]

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Qué fue esooooooo????????????? Nunca lo superaré! Es simplemente INCREIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[bandruid]

Sos Una REINA! y una DIOSA! ♥♥♥

Gracias Cecilia!!!

[thegaddoontheroof]

fantastica, spiritosa e pervasa dalla musica quando canta. 

[tadcastria]

Granted, we all seem to need our heroes and heroins in this cutural wasteland we live in called the New Millenium, and I need mine too. But Bartoli is not one for me. Let me interject some truths, not mine but those of the great Bel Canto proponents of the 18th and 19th Century. "The basis of bel canto is a pure legato singing. Without this teh Bel Canto does not exist." Bartoli is not capable of singing coloratura legato. She is not a Bel Canto singer. Her wild unorthodox singing is unschooled.

[newhotmailit]

@tadcastria is 'the basis of bel canto' the only thing witch gives you emotion??? bring me another singer on stage giving only the half emotion that cecilia gives...!!!!!

[italianoameta]

@tadcastria , I think you should know that the way of signing coloratura in different centuries and by different composors should be sung differently, not only coloratura LEGATO is the right one, you should know also from 16-20 century the dreses and costumes are changing and for a singer the most important is FIATO e APPOGGIO, all the changings are effected to the way of signing, The song is written for a CASTRATO, so fo listing to the "right" one we should just cut some guy's bal..s.?

[clintonclaasen]

I hope Decca decide to release a live concert version of one of Cecilia's Sacrificium concerts like they did with her Viva Vivaldi and Maria recordings. Her Sacrificium DVD is great but it is SO exciting to see her perform these pieces for a live audience!

[clintonclaasen]

I hope Decca decide to release a live concert version of one of Cecilia's Sacrificium concerts like they did with her Viva Vivaldi and Maria recordings. Her Sacrificium DVD is great but it is SO exciting to see her perform these pieces for a live audience!

[ballyhigh11]

What is the piece she sings?

[oliviasmulyan]

@ballyhigh11 son qual nave

[oliviasmulyan]

:48 look at cecilias tongue sticking out like hey i can sing a very long note! GO CEICEI!

[oliviasmulyan]

when cecilia puts a fist across her heart it feels special

[cbrown6660]

Thank you so much for posting this... it really is very much appreciated. Such a joy!

[leprincebeaumont]

ribadisco tutta la mia ammirazione: senza parole!

[jflaviovidal]

This woman is magic!!

How can a person sustain so high notes with a single breath?

Definitively, she is the greatest star at this moment of belcanto.

She is blessed, so are we for having her superb voice to enchant our ears.

Viva forever!!

[leprincebeaumont]

Può non piacere, ma questa ragazzona sorridente è una della più grandi cantanti degli ultimi trent'anni. Tecnica, musicalità, senso del fraseggio e della parola: di tutto di più. E forse è il troppo che stroppia! ,-)

[MisterPapageno]

@leprincebeaumont Secondo me, la bartoli ha una grandissima personalità e musicalità, ma tecnica siamo proprio a bassi livelli: guardare il primo respiro, come tende tutto il collo e lo irrigidisce nelle colorature, il trillo al 2:40 è ridotto ad un vibrato larghissimo a seguito della scarsa agilità della voce. Grande scopritrice della musica passata, ma ogni volta che la sento, è sempre peggio!

[levieuxpiano]

La plus grande cantatrice du moment, dotée d'une sympathie/contact/empathie incroyables avec le public, et d'une technique et un timbre que le temps n'ont pas encore altérés. En plus, elle nous montre que le chef d'orchestre de ses concerts, c'est elle, ce dont nous ne doutions pas. BRAVA !

[oliviasmulyan]

GO CEICEI!

[H69CLASSIC]

Cecilia Bartoli can perform the music as she is playing the music at the same time!

[ciyueh]

Bravo!!! She is not only a gifted singer but a gift God gave us.

[snaej2]

Brava! Breathtaking and delightful, as always Thank you so much.

[spenzur]

Thank you so very much! :D

[OperaCurtainCalls]

One more video being processed now and that is it. I only filmed the encores

[vinishdo]

@OperaCurtainCalls

I love this lady's VERVE and the way she exhibits her passion openly. There is no way I will ever be able to experience this live, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[spenzur]

@vinishdo Hello, Why will you never be able to hear Cecilia live?

[isimice]

Wonderful. Great quality! Have you more of the concert?? Wonderful to see her singing that close, thanks for sharing!