Agitata da due venti - A. Bonitatibus LIVE - Vivaldi

[Zanghire]

Sheer Perfection!! we need this on cd!!! music industry WAKE UP!!

[Bambam78]

Why can't she memorize the piece?

[AriD2385]

What she does at 4:45 is so beautiful.

[AriD2385]

Wow! I must find more of her performances. What I loved about this is that nothing sounded rushed, strained, mushed or shouty, which is a feat with.these kinds of runs and that tempo. Every note had a rich, full sound, making her performance sound effortless. Definitely the best I've heard.

[infoclasic]

Brava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[omoshiroidayo]

its awesomely played! too bad quality is so bad...

[l4dylu]

Perfecta

[cincorn]

Awesome. Why have I never heard of her?

[ivantwill]

bravo! best i've seen or heard in years. maybe a bartoli brought this aria out of the closet, but you wore it like a queen. bravissimo!

[Liszt31]

Oddio O_O!!!!!11 fa delle variazioni fantastiche forse anche più belle di quelle della Genaux! incredibile peccato per la qualità della registrazione !!! E' eccezionale complimenti Anna!!!!!!

[bf2019]

@Liszt31 This is the best version I have heard other than that of Vivica Genaux....her daCapo is also perhaps more inspired than Vivica's also (which is hard for me to admit: I love Vivica and think her work & mouth movements are tremendous)....I think Anna Bonitatibus has a deep feeling for the meaning of the piece....thanks for your comments Liszt31, and thanks Gudrun74 for posting....WOW

[musicista72]

stupenda..bellissimo daccapo!!peccato che l'audio non è ottimale !

[honeybunchnorman]

The most perfect rendition I've ever heard!

[immature0916]

sure wish i could hear... audio is very poor!

[piafou63]

very interesting da capo, yes !

Her tempo is ASTONISHED !! (I'm a colorature too, and I think she's the quickiest on this piece !)

[LaPrimavera2006]

What  amazing virtuosity! THANK YOU for posting this!

[Neques]

She is excellent! I have been listening to every version I can find of this song on Youtube and so far I like her ornamentation 2nd to Bartoli's. We must keep in mind that Bartoli has been doing it for YEARS!!! so it is ingrained in her soul! Brava Anna!

[Aperlini]

condivido molto meglio del,bartoli anche sa ..stiamo al capello ...

[FabyEDDMAC]

Bravissima!!!! Molto meglio della Bartoli! :)

[muzetta100]

Анька молодец!!!!!

[rockinbaroque]

Fantastic! Love Anna!

[TheZacharyArneson]

This is awesome! She sounds so great all the time...I love it.

[mspg2]

How come this marvellous talent is so little known. I thought that no one could come near Cecilia but this effortless mezzo - absolutely superb

[NYLuxful]

I agree with Crindoro: Anything by Vivaldi is alrady a GREAT listening experience. This singer is BRAVA!!!

[masterka]

Quite stunning indeed. Great precision, impressive da capo, the whole piece sounds effortless.

[mradaChris]

I love this aria, she does a wonderful job with it.

chris

[Crindoro]

- Anything by Vivaldi is in itself enough to make me pretty happy.

-A Vivaldi opera makes me very happy indeed.

- Griselda is particularly full of fabulousness.

-Anna by herself is enough to make me weak at the knees.

-Anna singing Vivaldi is already almost too much to bear.

-Anna singing the hell out of this aria: I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die.

[Gudrun74]

Me too, Crindoro, I find myself sighing, weeping, fainting ... Seriously, this and Anna's "Come Nembo" turned my life upside down. Even if I might have lost my head, I can objectively state that she writes here a style guidebook of baroque singing. Her da capo, her da capo!

[Crindoro]

I fully agree with you Gudrun! I think this performance is incredible beyond words, Anna is insolently gorgeous and gifted in all matters Baroque, to call her ideal for this music is both obvious and inadequate; she simply IS this music.

[peres010492]

The most beautiful da capo I have ever heard for Agitata

[Gudrun74]

Absolutely, peres010492, A. Bonitatibus does sing the most stylish ornaments here. Who does not recognize this has no understanding of baroque singing. The final "naufragar" is already proof enough. Flowers for Anna.

[Crindoro]

Flowers? No! a laurel wreath for Anna!

[bf2019]

@Gudrun74 Thanks Gudrun74 for posting this and even knowing about Anna...I was ignorant....I have listened to this version another hundred times now....She is the only singer that has anything on Vivica...her ornaments and the depth of her phrasing are ENORMOUS!!!.....She and Vivica both make Bartoli look like an amateur (please lovers of Bartoli;::;please help her...I do not think she understands how awful she sounds sometimes...it does not serve opera as a whole....Anna understands she serves)

[JRZGRL55]

This is the 3rd aria by this amazing singer that I have had the privilege of listening to and this is my favorite - this is the right tessitura for this singer. Wow, she has no CD? Come on, people in the recording industry, wake up, this needs to be recorded for all of us.

[peres010492]

Oh, and wonderful ensemble!!! Love the cellist, very good

[peres010492]

The BEST version of Agitata I know. Love it, love it. And it amazes me that it is a live recording!!!!! No studio effects and so on. Just... perfect lady for this aria

[32529859]

MUY BUEN TRABAJO!!!!recien acabo de encontrar a esta cantante y es realmente muy buena.gracias por subir este video

[MetzLorraine]

This is fabulous, thanks for posting Gudrun74. It might be my favourite clip on YT right now - perfection itself, both music and execution. And the other Vivaldi and Handel arias from this concert are equally fine. I had the good fortune of listening to Anna's Cherubino in October 2005 in Paris. I'm hoping for more opportunities in the future.

[annaalasjove]

By the way, her new arias CD: "L'infedelta costante", by Harmonia Mundi, with Complesso Barroco Dir.: Alan Curtis

[annaalasjove]

I "discovered" her two years ago as "Cherubino" at Theater an der Wien... Amazing. She is also a very fine Mozart singer, you can notice her way through the Baroque field.

[getschi007]

I'm just stunning... :-)

[AgnesRegina]

WOW. I liked Bartoli's version and still do, but the effortless grace and speed with which Anna sings it are incredible! What a singer! I can't believe I never heard of her before! I think I might have a new favorite singer for Baroque music, if everything she does is like this (which I do not doubt!)

[Gudrun74]

I'm terribly sorry that I cannot do anything about the sound quality here. I privately recorded it, I tried my very best ... there's NO NO NO offical recording or broadcast.

I don't know whether it's healthier to quit hoping for the miracle of a baroque solo CD of Anna B. Soon I'll get really desperate. She's now in her prime, better she can't get. There's no better.

[curiosus1]

GRANDE ANNA!!!! SEI LA MEJOOOOOOOOO.! E la migliore esecuzione in assoluto!!!!! E' Tutto perfetto!!!!!!

[bladiyo]

Excelente interpretación, excelente de verdad!!!

[macielnegrete]

INCREÍBLE!! Muchas gracias por publicar este video, y FELICIDADES a la intérprete, es magnífica.

INCREDIBLE, thanks for sharing, and CONGRATULATIONS to this grand singer.

[09Pace]

Bravissima! una voce veramente meravigliosa

[mlkoln]

Schade, daß diese Konzertaufzeichnung vom Ton her dermaßen verhunzt ist ...

[VieilEtang]

J'attends avec impatience un CD!

Bravissimo!!!

[escamillo]

Bravissima!!

[liebermex]

chi è questa stupenda cantante???!!! non lo so..ma BRAVA!!!!!

[curiosus1]

è stupenda!!!! Grazie:) Altro che la Bartoli che pare 'na matta!

[sonqualnave]

My god i just realized that the concert was in my country at 1 hour from home!! and i didnt heard about it.. now i can cry.. :'-(

[Gudrun74]

This is amazing here in CH, how they decently do not announce the most fabulous events. I fell by pure accident about this festival on Nath Stutzmann's homepage who sang there as well (on Bonitatibus' or William Christie's it wasn't even mentioned). Never heard about Ernen before, tiny village with 555 inhabitants. Btw, my worst error was once not knowing Mingardo giving a Vivaldi concert where I live, you're not the only one.

[sonqualnave]

I just realize that i also missed some days ago June Anderson concert in geneva!! Grrr bad month.. hehehe

[Gudrun74]

... and tomorrow Invernizzi and Prina in a castle a bit west of Geneva (Dardagny). Had Invernizzi not started to have a homepage since recently, I would never have realized. But even checking 27 homepages per day is not a guarantee. As I said, THIS concert was not listed on Bonitatibus'. Well, she sang nothing but one of the most exciting Vivaldi arias in a rendition that is even praised by die-hard Bartoli fans ... but nevermind HAHA.

[sonqualnave]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh......­

[sonqualnave]

Brava! At least an original da capo ornementations! Bonnitatibus knows since a long this opera , cause she was singing Roberto in the first recording of Griselda in 1992 in montpellier with Solistes Moontpellier-Moscou. On the cd the da capo of Gabriella Morigi who sang costanza is very inventive too... very amazing for this time when vivaldi's operas was really an extreme rarity.. I am waiting for Vivica genaux's version she is always the Queen of surprising ornementations.

[Miroir88]

Oh ce da capo, quelle beauté! C'est sublime! Bravo mille fois

[vonDali]

anche con bravura!Brava!

[guiradobrasil]

AMAZING!! I'm a great Bartoli fan, but I have no problem saying I simply loved this singer I had never heard of before, her da capo gave me goosebumps. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

[gamberotto]

Quando ci renderemo conto del talento, della sensibilità e della preparazione di questa cantante straordinaria? Sono già dieci anni che è in carriera...

[LucaUrciuolo]

Quando ci renderemo conto di tante altre cose...che succedono in musica...

[Alrick54]

Alors là, je suis scotché ! Je doit admettre (et ça me coûte ^^) qu'elle a détrôné Bartoli dans cet air (et pourtant Dieu sait que je l'aime Cecilia...). Rien n'est en trop dans son interprétation (ce qui peut contrebalancer le "sur-jeu" de Bartoli), on retrouve la chaleur du timbre mezzo, des ornementations originales ... Non, franchement là, j'suis bluffé 8-I Bonitatibus, une très, très belle découverte.

Bravissima !

[Gudrun74]

Alrick, I really like your words and couldn't agree more. For me as baroque fan, Bonitatibus is the most exciting discovery since Vivica Genaux. As to Cecilia, I highly appreciate her pioneer work in baroque, but ... as you say ... Anna's timbre *sigh*

[suonoio]

i heard this concert and she's really good!!!

[cantanteporsiempre]

I¨m sorry but Bartoli own this piece, I love this mezzo, but Bartoli´s coloraturas are something out this world, besides, Bartoli make a game with the dinamyc in this piece, her phrases are longer, well in my opinion there¨s no competition until now for Bartoli in this repertoire.

[tobiasbuc]

i totally agree

there's no one like ceci so far

[nicosupersex]

how can you say that someone owns a master piece, maybe the only one who owns this piece is vivaldi, and he is already death, music is a being itself, it cant be owned, as you cant be owned....and cecilia is great, but she isn't that great, decca is the great one that has made her famous... but she's a normal human being, many people can sing as well, or better, as she

[cantanteporsiempre]

please don¨t be so literal, when i say she owns it, it¨s because the phrasing and the way she does the Vivaldi coloratura, it¨s more amazing and interesting for me, than the one presented here, it´s a matter of taste, sorry if u don¨t like, it¨s your problem!!! Brava Ceci!!!!

[aurele65]

Grande interprétation de cet air très difficile. Son interprétation est plus naturelle que celle de Cecilia même si je préfère l'interprétatiion de Cecilia.

[akirabu]

Achei maravilhoso, e realmente desmistificando que o barroco também pode ser feitos com vozes mais encorpadas e lindas como esta.

[vitellia]

What a superb singing! Very Joyce Didonato and a formidable rival to Bartoli and Cangemi. I feel ambivalent about her ornaments, though. I guess she had no choice but to try different options from the two above-mentioned, and I think they already took all the judicious and exciting ones. Anyway, I'm thinking she must well be an awesome Cleopatra.

[Gudrun74]

Hm, I found her actually as Sesto an almost perfect cast, I love her singing these energetic, revenge-announcing arias ... she can become so fiery!

[Gudrun74]

Vitellia, the more I think about your proposal of Boni singing Cleopatra, the more I'm convinced she'd be AS WELL great there (if it's pitched low enough). Kozena has shown that it's possible to do both a fiery Sesto AND a monumental Cleopatra.

[vitellia]

Most Cuzzoni parts are not necessarily all that high; in fact, there are surprisingly few notes above the staff, and if so, it's usually no higher than A. I came to think of Cleopatra as a low soprano/high mezzo after I listened to Tatyana Troyanos. Despite the lack of judicious Baroque style and practice (no da capo ornaments throughout the entire opera!!!), it was magnificent singing. And she also sang Cesare eventually!

[porsilasdudas]

she is a relly good singer.... beautiful voice.. amazing, eres brava!

[smnole]

You are very happy person, Gudrun....you could hear it live....we can only watch it and imagine how fantastic it was experience to see this beautiful (and also hard) aria .....

Thanks for posting on yt.

S.