Renee fleming singing Gretel

[taomont]

Nach Besuch der Hänsel und Gretel Aufführung in der Deutschen Oper Berlin, wo ich besonders dieses Lied verhunzt fand, habe ich diverse Versionen bei youtube angehört und finde diese hier EINFACH DIE SCHÖNSTE.

[nbe1951]

Fleming sings with reverence that is luminous and takes the prayerful to the divine

[nbe1951]

A prayer as song is the most awesome thing and Fleming sings with reverence that is luminous.

[injamaven]

is there any tune more moving than this? The harmonies are so gorgeous.

[vibraharp226]

They needed 6 Hansels to balance the 1 Gretel!

[Chefkritiker]

... wer stellt denn sowas zusammen. So sehr ich R.F. schätze - Gage kann doch nicht alles sein!? Peinlich! Und die Eltern finden es "goldisch"...

[131314]

ha i thinks its funny that even with like six boys singing against one Renee its still hard to hear them lol, love you renee

[dquibs2]

The second verse of this song is a scene of a dying person. It's assurance of salvation. (James 5:15) "Sleeping sofly, then it seems Heaven enters in my dreams; Angels hover round me, Whisp'ring they have found me; Two are sweetly singing, Two are garlands bringing, Strewing me with roses As my soul reposes. God will not forsake me When dawn at last will wake me."

[nbe1951]

@dquibs2 I did not know that! Thank you.

[BUweB]

Ja, die kann s!

[donhenri01]

what is the boychoir?

[aquaria85]

should be Mainzer Domchor ...

[KriBlackRoson]

BEAUTIFUL GODDESS

[11777766]

Humperdinck's masterful haunting "Evening Prayer" is such a gorgeous centerpiece of this melodious, lovely opera that only a wonderful voice like Fleming's can sing it so beautifully.

[OlDoinyo]

Nice performance, on the whole. But it would have been more vocally balanced with more trebles (or with them miked.) Five was not enough here.

[jocmuc]

wie kann man bei solch grosser kunst auch noch so toll aussehen.

dem 21. jahrhundert sei gedankt für diese frau

[vocede]

Man muss heute als Sänger oder Sängerin noch gut aussehen, damit man bessere Berufschancen hat. Das ist allerdings vielen nur schwer klarzumachen. Stylist und Make-Up Artist machen es möglich. Sänger brauchen heute mehr und mehr ein entsprechendes Image für die Öffentlichkeit.

[hthoma]

@jocmuc

Ja wirklich, Du hast so recht!

[tenorlovesasoprano]

i want to be greeted by her voice if ever i enter the gates of heaven. simply beautiful.

[blackolds33]

I think the little one on the right of her that keeps looking at the conductor with a slightly serious/angry face is just adorable. The song is fantastic (much better in German than English) and Renee Fleming can do next to no wrong in my eyes. Two thumbs way up.

[swimmer801]

Don't know how Fleming kept on pitch with those boys being so flat. Ouch! And that conductor..... my God, looks like he's ready to push them out of the way and sing it himself.

[Scherzkexxx]

You don't know anything about singing, you arse licker. These guys sing well and I think better than you ... I'm not one of them but i know them and they did their job good.

So do it better pls before you say they are bad... and the conductor was contented with the guys... He said that and I heard him...

So pls shut up and don't tell shit about things you don't know anything about...

(sry for my bad english)

[TenorDiva86]

ummmmm she might have been able to stay on pitch because there's an orchestra behind her playing the right notes??

[maxiceska]

@TenorDiva86 Great singers know how to sing in tune.

[babecat74]

Her voice is just too heavy to sing with a bunch of little boys... I think it just can't blend. I've sung this: it's not that hard to tune it.

[mkurnat]

@babecat74

I don't think that's the point. If they wanted it to sound like a choir, they wouldn't have featured her as a soloist on the soprano line.

[pesciolinotriste]

This woman can do NO wrong. She is the perfection

[zeekwolfe]

Can there be a better voice in the world than Renee Fleming's? Nope!

[kfunk01]

One question for the boy how nervous were you really?? :P Yet another excellent recording.

[celloguy3000]

Probably didn't know who she was lol.

[x4812k]

what a lucky young boy to be able to sing with the great Fleming at such a young age!!

[djalltogether]

This Concert was Conducting by Trevor Pinnock, The Choir Was The Mainzer Cathedral Choir ( Boyschoir) and Orcestera was The Bremmer Kammerphiamonic Ocestera

[WhiteTiger333]

Thank you for posting this, tpham, and for offering the location information, anonymusum. I just ran across this video and wondered where it was performed. I've had the opportunity to visit some of the beautiful cathedrals of Germany and Austria - the perfect setting for music such as this.

[trekkie2006]

I watched this program on PBS and this is the first time I saw Renee perform before, and this is the moment I fell in love with her. Renee looks so beautiful and her talent is beyond compare. I LOVE HER!

[Lohengrin]

Exquisite!

[ReggidReggid]

i dont say anything about your posting but please do not poste in german because nobody understand your german here, sorry.

[anonymusum]

I thought this was free for german users as well - and why shouldn´t they poste in german? if you can´t understand it - begin to learn german as i learned english.

[urgrad03]

Idiots like you make me not want to travel. I can only imagine that you can understand my German about as well as we can understand your poor English... thus, you don't post in English, and I won't post in German. Fair enough, asshole?

Vielen dank

[anonymusum]

You must be a very intelligent person and your vocabulary is brilliant! Old American school?

[urgrad03]

Why do you insist on replying to me when nothing I have said is in response to you? Take your generic sarcasm elsewhere.

[xjuno11]

lol reggid, flunk english in highschool? or maybe it was german and thats why you're bitter.

[celloguy3000]

can none of you spell? It's post. No "e". And he's right, you should learn more than one language, or your life will be a lot harder that it has to be.

[ReggidReggid]

super, sehr gut !!

[juliancfernandez]

they're not actually out of tune. i did this duet when i was younger with the cape philharmonic orchestra and it is slightly desonant, to create the tension. theyre do sing rather soft though, i agree.

[JuanDiegooooo]

How can she sing on tune whereas the boys sing completely out of tune ???

[abbeast22]

sublime.

[operaandy]

sing out boys, she's dwarfing you with her voice!

[urgrad03]

That's basically what I said above... I wish she'd sing this with an adult. It's sweet with the boy's choir, but she's pretty overpowering:o).

[grerue]

awesome!!!

[renethel]

no she's singing Gretel. i'm gretel in a prdouction of Hansel and Gretel and i know that gretel has the melody!

[ersatzwerk]

That's in Mainz Cathedral with the Mainzer Domchor but which Orchestra is this...?

[tpham390]

Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

[ersatzwerk]

Wusste ich es doch, dass es keines der Orchester aus der Region ist. Die waren wohl zu teuer ;-) Danke für die Aufklärung!!

[tpham390]

Sie sind willkommen

[urgrad03]

Ich glaube, dass das orchester und der chor entzückend sind. Ich wünsche, dass Renee dieses kleine duett mit einem anderen erwachsenen jedoch sang. Viele opernwerkstätten tun es dieser weg in Amerika.

[ReggidReggid]

schreib etwas auf deutsch oder auf englisch aber nicht so einen kauderwelsch !!

[urgrad03]

Ich gebe nicht vor den besten Deutschen zu haben, aber sie mussen nicht ein schwein daruber sein.

[anonymusum]

It is from a German TV performance on christmas and it was only this extract from `hänsel und gretel´. The other tunes were mainly pieces by Bach and christmas chorals, where a boys chorus was engaged in. So I think it was a nice idea to give the best of their voices the opportunity to sing in this duet. The whole thing was not about the perfection of a concert, it was about christmas and the spirit behind it.