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  • I think this fourth act of Rigoletto established Verdi as a genius. All these is goings-on while a storm rages outside. How do you arrange and organize all this sensory input? That's what genius is all about.  You have to know the story to know what I'm talking about.

    Rigoletto was his magnum opus until Otello three decades later, and then a few years later, considered the greatest of all, Falstaff.

  • Bravo! Four champions at work.

  • stunning!

  • 4 superb typologies of singers!!!!!!!!!!!

  • S_U_P_R_E_M_E_!!!!

    Vargas, Elina, Anna, Ludovic; all absolutly very very very GOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Замечательный квартет в прекрасном исполнении!

    Люблю эту оперу! И этот квартет!

    Спасибо, pavelrysavy, за такой чудесный подарок: возможность слушать изумительную классику в таком исполнении!

  • Now i study Liszt's Rigoretto Paraphrase. This movie is the best for it.

  • amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

  • One of the best performances of the quartet I've seen so far as a concert. A Performance as an Opera has different Rules ->To(MrHBc3). You can't compare that. This was a performance of outstanding voices and abilities. The duke was ferfect so were all the others.

  • Just gorgeous. Perfection.

  • Pour ce chef-d'oeuvre des quartets un seul b-mol: La voix (combien puissant et magnifique) de Netrebko couvre trop les autres voix pour que tout la beauté de Verdi resplendisse. La voix ne se joignent qu'à la fin. Est-ce la faute technique (sonorisation) ou simplement les autres n'ont pas de puissance comparable avec celle d'Anna?

  • @nacalosc Concrètement par exemple de la 3:40 min env - à 4:50, où on n'entent que la voix d'Anna et quelque bruits de fond de trois autres ;-)

  • beautiful quartet of voices.

  • КатяР. Очень - хорошо.

  • The ladies' voices are not Verdi's voices. The whole effect is stolen.

  • they have good performance but without Pavarotti it`s not exelent.

  • I just listen and enjoy

    great performers

    Bravoooo

  • This is not the Opera. It is a concert version of what should be. The singer may have a lot more to do that just that one scene. Plus in concert version you don't jump around like you do in the actual scene. This was beautifully done and it sounded like Verdi wrote it. lol The High D in the Sop keeps the energy going. Keep in mind, 2 of them are horny and two are angry = much NRG.

  • @hamb4 That is a great description of the narrative. Thank you for this slendid post.

  • this was in the film Fitzcaraldo.It's lovely!

  • Way to sing within yourself Ramon! There was some serious talent on that stage that night.

  • This whole concert was superbly arranged.  The performances of all four were high class, both when they came out individually or together. I also thought the conductor did a great job.

  • AH!! Netrebko, the finest artist, and brilliant-Vocally with Regine Crespin, Monsterat Caballe', Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, Mezzp-soprano, Janet Baker---Acting "untouchable"!!!!! THANKYOU for posting.

  • Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • La mejor versión que he escuchado esta muy bien lograda y la armonia es perfecta , aparte que la Netrebko y Garancha son muy lindas !! EL CONJUNTO ES PERFECTO!! SALUDOS DESDE LA PATAGONIA CHILENA.

  • I can't wait for Rigoletto... three more days at the Detroit Opera House :)

  • Garanca is definitely the star of this scene. Rigoletto doesn't look or act like a crazed hunchbacked jester and Netrebko can only look mildly disturbed as the distraught daughter. The tenor Duke of Mantua is good, maybe excellent but not quite sinister enough for my idea of the character's character. Yes, Gananca may not be dressed like, and maybe is a bit elegant for, the hooker sister of an assassin living in a hovel, but she does her bit with voice, acting and believability.

  • j'ai plusieurs versions de rigoletto et ce quator peut faire partie des meilleurs,bravo et merci

    ininacsot

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  • This Verdi piece from Rigoletto is the best en most beatiful opera quartet ever written. And this version is sung beautifully. Not only by Anna. The others are fantastic as well

  • @GerardJMZegers je crois que Verdi avait dit que rigoletto était l'opéra qu'il préfèrait

  • This Verdi piece from Rigoletto is the best en most beatiful opera quartet ever written. And this version is sung beautifully.

  • Who is the tenor and the rest of the cast? Netrevko stupendida as always!

  • Tjhis is world class for sure!

  • Pavel,Thumbs up!

    thanks for posting it.

    Antonio

  • You could toss a horseshoe on stage and they wouldn't miss a beat

  • Fantastico...Pero sigo prefiriendo el final del otro cuarteto, con Sutherland, Pavarotti, etc, que se encuentra entre mis Favoritos

  • OMG...could anybody explain HOW ON EARTH could a man put together such a fantastic quartet?

    How long did it take? Probably...2 or 3 measures a day...no?

    This is like a jewel. Fantastic!

  • This is wonderful. I also like the Pavarotti/Sutherland version, which is also here on YouTube.

  • muy buenooooo

  • Mr. Vargas is magnificent in the role of the Duke. His projection and clarity are a joy to hear! His style (including his adding of syllables to words) is a lot like Maestro Pavarotti, IMO. And Madam. Netrebko, what can anyone say? She has been my favorite for years and years.

  • @rexxcarz

    I've heard people say she sings out of tune a lot, that she has a dead facial expression on stage, and that she's famous more for her looks than her singing. Not sure about all that, but I can say from viewing this clip that I would see where they get those ideas. Vargas does project really well and is super clear, but it seems like he's often out of tune here, especially the chromatic high parts. Granted it's probably the most difficult opera ensemble ever written for tenor.

  • Witam, szkoda ze nie ma wpisow po polsku wiec chce wypelnic te luke ja slucham wszystkiego co spiewa Anna Netrebko aktualnie jedna z najlepszych spiewaczek tego naszego swiata wielkie BRAWA !!! to za malo pozdrawiam, Andrzej

  • c'est trés beau,merci

  • Beautiful Garanca and Netrebko - splendid cooperation! Enjoying their performance ....

  • The tenor sounded way good until he started pushing.

  • Muy bien el cuarteto. pero mejor el gran final de Sutherland con Pavarotti, Nucci...

  • @mozart2306 es cuestion de gustos, a mi me parece que suena mejor el final escrito por Verdi, aunque me encanta Sutherland :D ese final me parece que rompe con la calma al final del cuarteto =/

  • saludos amigo DANBAR y FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO Y QUE DIOS COLME DE BENDICIONES Y FELICIDAD A TI Y TU FAMILIA

  • fantastico adoro anna netrebko

    este quarteto e belissimo

  • Really good. 

  • I think i'm coming down on two possible conclusions:

    1) Art is so varied you just can't know it all or

    2) A lot of her art is lost in recording (see every other recorded artist ever), and while i'm used to picking out Italian or french subtleties through the recording medium, her's is slipping by. Russian art is notoriously cold cut (and excitingly so), and I can imagine that being especially hard to hear on a recording.

    Thanks for the help everyone!

    Anything else please let me know!

  • Here's an example of what I'm used to finding love in in opera

    watch?v=Z7E445edhyw

    How on the "e" in desso she launches and projects this sorrowful sound and then just as you're getting used to it it's decapitates it and the "sso" is left to sob into her chest. Then at the word "son" she almost chokes on herself.

    Maybe it's not the most beautiful tone, but its one you won't forget, and for me that's what I love so much about opera: the unforgettable twisting emotional journey through music.

  • @Loismustdie26 - I liked Sutherland in your example, but opera did not have to end since she stopped singing. It is so very funny that you mention Sutherland, who is known for her bland performances, - as an example of a truly touching style! If anything, Joan was known for something very different – her amazing technique. Something is quite “twisted” in your mind! You sound very familiar – eradesso?

  • @09avenger not eradesso no.

    of course Opera didn't have to end, and i'm glad it's evolving, but i don't get this particular evolution.

    Sutherland's bland performances? she wasn't a great actress true, but one could never call her bland, and she was CERTAINLY never known for that.

  • @Loismustdie26 - Sutherland was MOST CERTAINLY known for that - just Google this:

    11 Oct 2010 ... JOAN SUTHERLAND, one of the most acclaimed sopranos of the 20th century, ... criticized for delivering dramatically bland performances. ...  ************************

    Sometimes it helps to open one's ears and to clear one's mind to be able to perceive the world impartially. It must be very boring to live in the past. Goodbye.

  • @09avenger All you did google search "sutherland bland" and copy paste the first thing google found. What you wrote is exactly what google found in that article. You didn't read it. Taken the time to read the article it's 3 pages of the most glowing admiration from all the worlds top critics. The "bland" reference was in a brief paragraph on the second page mentioning that she wasn't perfect and had some bad nights too.

    Take your own advice and read it all, not just what you want to read.

  • @Loismustdie26 - stop this tantrum, my dear. I read the article even before I sent you the link. I mentioned it because you said that Sutherland moves you emotionally and Netrebko is apparently lacking that quality. I found it truly amusing and sent you the link. I can found dozen of other articles of the same content, so just accept the reality. If you like Sutherland - go to her pages and comment there, O.K?

  • @09avenger For gods sake the article is titled "Joan Sutherland, Flawless Soprano, Is Dead at 83". If she was bland she wouldn't be flawless, and it certainly not something she's KNOWN for.

    I'm not mad that you're criticizing Sutherland, I'm mad that you think it's ok to present such illgotten evidence. Do research, listen to your own worlds, and come to an informed opinion. You're doing exactly what you told me not to do.

  • BTW...this is one of the greatest Verdi performances of the last 80 years and the greatest I've ever heard of this quartet. 

  • Dear Loismustdie26,

    I sincerely admire you, because becoming an opera lover seeing what they did to opera in the last years involves a huge amount of masochism. So...I haven't any doubt about the amount of your experience, but I've more than one about the quality and mostly the RELEVANCE of it. It's evident to me that if you spent so much hours listening this trash is impossible you love opera...unless your tears were due to the abominations Opera had to suffer.

  • @ad80ad I'm confused, are you calling anything that's not current opera trash? Or are you saying that if you like one you can't like the other? (old vs new that is)

    And it is hugely relevant, nothing fosters understanding like a comparison regardless of how good or bad it is.

  • @Loismustdie26 - yes, you are quite confused. I would not know the reason for your confusion, but I am certain that otherwise you would be able to recognize that this is a fabulous performance. Indeed, what is not perfect about it? Would you care to tell us? Some inexperienced in opera people might have been CONFUSED a few years back, but now, when Anna and Elina shine with their voices and acting well above the rest of the singers, you are just making a clown of yourself, LOL.

  • @09avenger I don't think Trebs has many imperfections, it's a well honed voice. but I hardly find that relevant. every singer, especially the ones I love so dearly, are imperfect. My issue is not in what she does, it's in what she leaves out. Simply that opera isn't just about fun sounds, there's another level to it: the pathos, or the ability to reach inside you and find that one particular emotion string and TWIST.

    Trebs has an AMAZING voice, but i've never been "twisted" by her singing.

  • @Loismustdie26

    Dear Loismustdie26,

    you know "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and beauty of singing is in the ear of the listener. If you already can't tell a great voice, a real stuff from the possible trash you've heard all those years (not all but the major part) , it's useless to appeal to Netrebko's true fans! Nobody can help you and HEAR for you! It's only YOUR problem and not ours! And if e.g. you can't hear that Caruso is great, how can someon explain it to you why he is great?!

  • @serenaluce Beautiful comment: "no one can HEAR for you", and while that's true, the final step has to be taken by the beholder, just something to listen for is all I'm asking for. Like "listen to the way she pulls the vowel in the Caro Nome" or "watch how she puts you to sleep, like she's putting to sleep her child with the way she end's that phrase" is all I'm looking for.

  • @Loismustdie26 So, if you know for yourself what of Netrebko's pieces to listen where she is splendid, why do you appeal to her fans then to tell you where she is good if you comdemn her as boring, bla-bla-bla. Your comment makes no sense to me. Sorry.

  • @ad80ad Bravo! I agree it's masochism! LOL After getting used to listening to mainly trash in opera performaces it's already impossible for anyone to tell a GEM from SHIT! McDonald's patrons are also used to eating only junk food there, so when they by mistake taste REAL food it's already tasteless and boring to them! They want their trash instead! It's mr. Loismustdie26's case! LOL Then Lois must die as an opera lover and not bother us with his appeals anymore! We can't help him here! LOL

  • @serenaluce I'm not going to lie, opera isn't easy to get into, it takes some time. But nothing truly wonderful in this world comes easy. Love, a satisfying career all take time, and so too does opera, but once it does, and the quaking bel canto of Sutherland reaches inside of you and shakes you to your core, it's like nothing else in the world.

    I'm sorry you've never experienced that. I urge you to try. Never stop loving Netrebko, you like her and that's all that matters, but look beyond too.

  • @Loismustdie26 Beautiful comment. You don't know me, how can you declare what I've experienced and what I've never experienced?! You urge me to try what? To listen to Sutherland? Have I ever said that I love only Netrebko and nobody else? Where? I always look beyond. Check my channel. I like ALL voice categories! I like Sutherland very much and her Casta Diva is my favourite version. It's in my favourites! You think I'm a masochist if I favourited it?! LOL I also like Callas and many others...

  • @serenaluce Its true I didn't look in your favorites. And now that I look back at what you wrote I can see that's what you meant, I must have misread it the first time.

    I don't know where to listen, I don't think she does those things, but that was the kind of think I was looking for someone to show me in her works.

  • piacere ad ascoltare il duetto cosi bello in una esecuzione cosi bella!

  • Dear Trebs fans:

    I am an avid opera lover, spend hours and hours a week listening and watching opera, am well versed in the history of opera and have been brought to convulsive tears on more than one occasion. So I am not without experience, and this conclusion was not arrived at without a lot of consideration, but I am bored by Trebs and baffled by her fans devotion.

    Will someone help me: where specifically does Trebs shine above others? Hoping to learn something new about the voice.

  • @Loismustdie26 I completely agree. Except I am more annoyed with her than bored. Especially in this piece. Yeah, she has great power in her voice but a lack in expressive language. I never understand what she's saying...ever. She's in an ensemble...shut up and be versatile...lol.

  • @ladyjbug841 lol, well i'm more with you, but trying to be more diplomatic about it. ;-)

  • @Loismustdie26 Dear Loismustidie26, if your appealing is sincere to get a frank and true answer regarding the actress's works- you are welcome and I will be the first to answer you willingly .But If it's a sort of your looking for any imperfections or any mockery at the great actrees then just forget it...mr/ms diplomat.

  • That's simply beautiful! I love very much Verdi's music and this quartet of beautiful voices from Rigoletto.

    Thank you for giving to us.

  • oh how I wish I knew italian and understood what he is singing.

  • anna netrebko - magnifica

  • Maravilhoso!!!!! Bravíssimo!!!

    Um quarteto fantástico, com destaque para Ramón Vargas, magnífico!

  • I love her too! this year I am seeing her at the Met singing Don Pasquale.

  • ya lo encargué por internet

  • Todos son magnificas!))

  • Compared to other performances i have heard going back to gigli-galicurci,bjorling-peter­s,etc etc they seem to be in a bit of a hurry,but a beautiful version nevertheless I don't think the maestro would have objected too much.

  • Anna Netrebko é fabulosa , e a real sucessora da Callas.

    Reparem como a voz desta soprano , sobrepuja os demais.

    Alem do mais é linda!

  • @dreycell Netrebko and Callas in the same sentence? Blasphemy!

  • @Mikeeinton013 boo hoo ¬¬

  • @Mikeeinton013 oh never mind =/ i just think it's unfair to try to put everyone at the same level of callas, she was unique

  • @Maggielicious21 Well that's true. Netrebko is a fine singer, but she should seriously stay away from bel canto. Just an opinion.

  • @Mikeeinton013 i wouldn't really want her to stay away from bel canto(ok she could leave Lucia, Elvira and Gilda alone cuz i do not like her in those roles) but i do think she could make a bigger effort with the coloratura, you know? practice a few more hours at week and stuff like that wouldn't hurt her ;D She loves bel canto, she should know

  • Fantastic quartett - 2 great women voices: Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko,

    naturally the men, too: Ramon Vargas and Ludovic Tézier - best quality and made for enjoying this wonderful opera by Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto.

    Thank you for sharing!

  • I used to listen to my mom's 33 1/3 LP recordings of Caruso singing this fabulous song (with Galli-Curci) over and over when I was child in the 60's, mesmorized by the harmonies and passion in it. Ms. Netrebko and company are perfect here. She is captivatingly beautiful and there is no soprano better today. The ending to this song just floors me with the last two notes just poured out softly over the audience! What a wonderful thing the human voice is.

  • Simply superb.

  • excelente

  • bellisimo

  • wow

  • БРАВИССИМО!

  • @A7madeus you will have to wait in the queue to show your affections to anna, and the queue is around the worls at least 8 times. but i agree with everything you say she is quite a woman

  • oh thank you so much for this upload. enjoyed...thoroughly

  • БРАВО!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

    Фантастическое исполнение!

  • @a1s2w3e4r5 nastolko fantasticheskoe,chto nachinaesh' yasno ponimat'-opera davno umerla!!!!!!!!!!! esli eto horoso,chto zhe togda ploho???????

  • @cantatore11 brava,Vash otvet mne ochen ponravilca.

  • @a1s2w3e4r5 Согласен с соотечественником (соотечественницей?). Фантастика! Прелесть!!! Браво!!!

  • the tenor is the only one who understands the text... the other 3 are singing whatever else in their mind...

  • Here it goes: Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter, is watching her lover making a pass on the red-dressed inn-keeper, while Rigoletto's heart is breaking as he watches his kid suffering... The two flirts have no idea that the daughter and father are watching them. Divine voices, divine melody....bella figlia dell'amore....Enjoy.

  • Me encanto!!!!!

  • 3:16 her ears are probably ringing like crazy.

  • Eso Ramón Vargas eres la ley y orgullo mexicano !!!!!!!!!!!

  • Escuché y vi este magnifico concierto. Estraordinarias y sublimes voces, al igual que el director y su orquesta. Muchas gracias por subirlo"pavelrysavy".

  • Bravissimo !!! i cant believe Anna's voice, it's like an angel, so perfect !!! Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • I feel this is a perfect example of how something should be sung correctly... There is not "blending" needed, each singer knowingly understands when to bing out their part to build musicality. Bravi!!!!

    Can't wait to work like this on a regular basis.

  • @jongenzanger nothing to ad, just the best quartet I´ve ever heard , outstanding..wonderful singers and performance..

  • Ein Glücksfall in der Geschichte, daß diese vier Sänger an diesem Tag in Baden-Baden zusammentrafen...

  • Have seen this fabulous concert twice on Sky Arts, would love the DVD but its a terribly exorbitant price so great to have some of it on You Tube.......beautiful singing by all concerned......and Ludovic Tessier is WOW

  • Wordclass for ever

    into heaven

  • Anna Netrebko is a walking proof that at least some people have been created by God!

  • He is single-handedly ruining great-opera comments.

    Who is ruining the comments ?

    A degenerate subject, a subject crazy, mentally ill, a coward, a bit man, a vile subject, an abject and accompanied with other subjects of their own kind, of their same sordidness,meanness, vileness, turpitude. They are Hammer55292, Striker9410, Leoperarm and others.

  • @Royhorse1 Yes, he is.

  • non trovo esagerata maddalena, anzi.. se's not exagerate..

  • Personally I believe that singing the notes as Verdi wrote them is a much better end to the quartet.

    The high E as recorded by Sutherland et al may be satisfying to the thrill seeker, but spoils the calming effect of the great piece of music.

  • @Apollogranforte Yes, excellent observation!

  • i was just thinking the same :D

  • Yes I wondered that, quite a let down. She has the voice and the range. Otherwise faultless

  • Какие женщины!.. Какая музыка!.. Ради такой красоты стоит жить!.. Спасибо!!!

  • elina garanca is a beautyfull  woman. I like much. She is is a love

  • well maybe cuz she didn't wanted to

  • Garanca is overdoing it. Calm down, dear.

  • she is so not overdoing

  • ANNA IS HIT I LOVE HER.

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  • What are their names?

  • Anna Netrebko - soprano

    Elina Garanca - mezzo

    Ramón Vargas - tenor

    Ludovic Tezier - bariton

  • The 4 of them!!? Awesome!

  • This is one performance I have nothing to criticize at Anna. She's gorgeous, and all of four of them are.

  • Beautiful...Thanks for posting!

  • ANA IS HOT I LOVE HER.

  • ANNA IS HOT.

  • SHE'S HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

  • TMC-Romantic Period. I really like the woman's voice in this video. They both do a great job interacting with each other and creating this piece. I love that the musicians are in the background performing as well.

  • Well this is spectacular! Vargos sounds like a god!

  • how it could be that Anna is that perfect?!!! extremely beautiful extremely gorgeous , very beautiful voice very passionate, very good actor, very strong voice, Anna I love u :D :D

  • Netrebko is impressive both vocally and appearance-wise. I am sure the latter enhances her popularity.

  • Is this concert available for purchase on DVD and, if so, title?

  • @setanta8156 The Title: The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden. Recording by Deutsche Grammophon, in regular High Definition or Blu-Ray.

  • Thanks!

    I was wondering to :)

  • got that, many thanks

  • it's called: The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden

  • many thanks

  • Fantástico cuarteto.

    Ramón Vargas, impresionante, Ludovic Tessier excelente. Ana y Garanca deliciosas Monterrey México

  • @mmch1088 efectivamente, un cuarteto excelente :)

  • Wonderfull

  • probably the only opera I will ever miss Pavarotti in... Duca di Mantova was perfect for him.

  • Great performance- Netrebko is terrific and so is Vargas. Garanca is excellent as well. What a wonderful vocal quartet - the best in all of opera!

  • @Dandkaplan Maybe! But try 'Giuseppe Verdi - Bella Figlia dell'Amore' before you make a final determination...!

  • Goede avond.

    goede stemmen en mooi .jong en modern.

    prachtig w.koek.

  • wow.. soooo beautiful =~~

  • Great number; volume and visibility, timing, tempo and acting all go towards the harmonies; the 'attitude' of the women great .... Arms on hips like an indifferent washerwoman gives great effect.. Unusually well done and thoroughly enjoyable...Thank you!