Well I don't want to get into all of the heated discussions as I have read below, however, I feel that Nesi's singing is beautiful but it sounded a little too sweet to me. I like Brian Asawa's version as it resonates with me at a deeper level.
Great aria indeed, and a unique, touching interpretation. tamerlano236, selenaluce and fourmi1060 certainly miss the point by engaging in a useless conversation on male versus female voices and suggesting their (identical) favourite interpretation. It is a pity that one and the same person, as it seems, uses different names to actually abuse the purpose of the comments here. Such pathetic practice will hopefully stop after the recent linking of youtube to google and their new membership policy
Beautiful! Great aria! Very nice voice! But the most beautiful version of Cara Speme I've heard is Nicholas Spanos's! That is absolutely exraordinary! Unbelievably beautiful! Sublime! Experience from a better world! Besides, I think that nowadays men's roles should be sung by countertenors and not by women. It's just more logic and convincing...
@serenaluce Sorry But Handel didn't wrote Sesto for a castrato, but for a woman Margherita Durastanti, So that argument isn't valid for an HIP of Giulio Cesare, Ct's for Giulio, Tolomeo and Nireno, Sesto must be a Mezzo, a Soprano or a Tenor (in the case they perform the second version of the opera)
@thebarroque I know for whom Handel wrote it. Handel could have a financial problem and he couldn't afford a castrato, or he quarreled with someone from his cast, or at that time they already introduced this weird fashion to replace castrati by women... Anyway, Sesto, no matter how immature he was a teenage SON, not daughter. She sounds like a mature WOMAN. Only a woman can have such embelishment and means of expression! Too beautiful, too feminine. IMO a countertenor is more convincing!
@serenaluce In your oppinion but not with the Historical facts,besides you neglect that when a composer writes arias for woman, he is in knowledge of the natural superior flexibility of Female vocal chords over Male's. And I have this for you to think...I Handel would have considered this role sooo important to have a castrato, He would have put Margherita to do Nireno, and the Castrato who made Nireno (a quite stunning Minor role) would have sung this.
@thebarroque Of course, it's only my opinion. And we've already had this discussion before. Again, who knows what was the true reason why Handel assigned this role to a woman. You can't prove that it wasn't just a usual financial problem and female sopranos and mezzos were just cheaper. In this connection how can you say that female vocal cords are superior over male's? I thinks on the contrary! This special magic can be found only in high male voices! IMO And I agree with fourmi!
@serenaluce Female Voices are high more FLEXIBLE than males Can't you read? I never mencioned the word Beauty or Superior. You should read more carefully besides Handel was at his best of Money at the time of Giulio Cesare, and Another Point Durastanti was famous for made Male Roles, that says that in that time there were female singers Better than castrati, and before you say I hate countertenors, let me tell you that I'm a countertenor too.
@thebarroque OK, if more flexible doesn't mean beautiful or superior what's the difference then whose vocal cords are more flexible?! If it's not for money, then at that time theybegan to introduce that weird fashion to forget about castrati. Perhaps then it was revolutionary and somehow reasonable, but fashion often has nothing to do with logic. I think that nowadays the most beautiful singing to be heard is countertenors'! Are you OK to be compared with women all the time as a CT?
@serenaluce Felxibility implies a more effective sound at the coloraturas, and yes if I dare to sing as a countertenor I'm OK with being compared to a female, specially if someday I dare to sing arias that were made famous by female singers and not were composed by castrati.
@thebarroque You mean composed FOR castrati? OK. Tastes really differ. I think that my position that men's roles should be sung by countertenors and women's by women makes sense too. I still think that countertenors are a special category of voices and resemble female voices only superficially. That falsetto it's just a technique and men have a specific sound which no females have and should sound manly, and women feminine. I prefer one CT to be compared with another CT and not with a woman.
@serenaluce You really can't read? can you? I said Male roles composed for woman! And if you perfer to hear a CT compared to another CT in this channel, reserve your words for a Male role that was for a castrato, and not for Women singing Sesto, Evanco, Achille, Argante, and many other Male roles composed for women!
@thebarroque Yeah, I can read. I also said that it was a weird fashion to give men's roles to women to forget about castrati, and not to give them to falsettists. At that time perhaps it made sense, but nowadays when nobody knows how castrati really sounded and we have enough good countertenors I think this practice makes no sense anymore. I prefer more logic in opera. Besides I expressed my opinion that Nesi's voice is very beautiful but she sounds too feminine for this role.
@serenaluce@thebarroque Don't read this idiot, he just like to create controversy where there's not and about his point of view I would say that Joseph Goebbles was wrong, a lie told a thousand times does not become the truth. The truth is the truth, and the truth is that Nesi kicks Spanos Ass in this.
Well I don't want to get into all of the heated discussions as I have read below, however, I feel that Nesi's singing is beautiful but it sounded a little too sweet to me. I like Brian Asawa's version as it resonates with me at a deeper level.
mradaChris 3 months ago
Great aria indeed, and a unique, touching interpretation. tamerlano236, selenaluce and fourmi1060 certainly miss the point by engaging in a useless conversation on male versus female voices and suggesting their (identical) favourite interpretation. It is a pity that one and the same person, as it seems, uses different names to actually abuse the purpose of the comments here. Such pathetic practice will hopefully stop after the recent linking of youtube to google and their new membership policy
isigenes 11 months ago 4
Nice. Great aria. The best version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's. That is just otherworldly.
tamerlano236 1 year ago
Beautiful! Great aria! Very nice voice! But the most beautiful version of Cara Speme I've heard is Nicholas Spanos's! That is absolutely exraordinary! Unbelievably beautiful! Sublime! Experience from a better world! Besides, I think that nowadays men's roles should be sung by countertenors and not by women. It's just more logic and convincing...
serenaluce 1 year ago
@serenaluce Sorry But Handel didn't wrote Sesto for a castrato, but for a woman Margherita Durastanti, So that argument isn't valid for an HIP of Giulio Cesare, Ct's for Giulio, Tolomeo and Nireno, Sesto must be a Mezzo, a Soprano or a Tenor (in the case they perform the second version of the opera)
thebarroque 1 year ago
@thebarroque I know for whom Handel wrote it. Handel could have a financial problem and he couldn't afford a castrato, or he quarreled with someone from his cast, or at that time they already introduced this weird fashion to replace castrati by women... Anyway, Sesto, no matter how immature he was a teenage SON, not daughter. She sounds like a mature WOMAN. Only a woman can have such embelishment and means of expression! Too beautiful, too feminine. IMO a countertenor is more convincing!
serenaluce 1 year ago
@serenaluce In your oppinion but not with the Historical facts,besides you neglect that when a composer writes arias for woman, he is in knowledge of the natural superior flexibility of Female vocal chords over Male's. And I have this for you to think...I Handel would have considered this role sooo important to have a castrato, He would have put Margherita to do Nireno, and the Castrato who made Nireno (a quite stunning Minor role) would have sung this.
thebarroque 1 year ago
@thebarroque Of course, it's only my opinion. And we've already had this discussion before. Again, who knows what was the true reason why Handel assigned this role to a woman. You can't prove that it wasn't just a usual financial problem and female sopranos and mezzos were just cheaper. In this connection how can you say that female vocal cords are superior over male's? I thinks on the contrary! This special magic can be found only in high male voices! IMO And I agree with fourmi!
serenaluce 1 year ago
@serenaluce Female Voices are high more FLEXIBLE than males Can't you read? I never mencioned the word Beauty or Superior. You should read more carefully besides Handel was at his best of Money at the time of Giulio Cesare, and Another Point Durastanti was famous for made Male Roles, that says that in that time there were female singers Better than castrati, and before you say I hate countertenors, let me tell you that I'm a countertenor too.
thebarroque 1 year ago
@thebarroque OK, if more flexible doesn't mean beautiful or superior what's the difference then whose vocal cords are more flexible?! If it's not for money, then at that time theybegan to introduce that weird fashion to forget about castrati. Perhaps then it was revolutionary and somehow reasonable, but fashion often has nothing to do with logic. I think that nowadays the most beautiful singing to be heard is countertenors'! Are you OK to be compared with women all the time as a CT?
serenaluce 1 year ago
@serenaluce Felxibility implies a more effective sound at the coloraturas, and yes if I dare to sing as a countertenor I'm OK with being compared to a female, specially if someday I dare to sing arias that were made famous by female singers and not were composed by castrati.
thebarroque 1 year ago
@thebarroque You mean composed FOR castrati? OK. Tastes really differ. I think that my position that men's roles should be sung by countertenors and women's by women makes sense too. I still think that countertenors are a special category of voices and resemble female voices only superficially. That falsetto it's just a technique and men have a specific sound which no females have and should sound manly, and women feminine. I prefer one CT to be compared with another CT and not with a woman.
serenaluce 1 year ago
@serenaluce You really can't read? can you? I said Male roles composed for woman! And if you perfer to hear a CT compared to another CT in this channel, reserve your words for a Male role that was for a castrato, and not for Women singing Sesto, Evanco, Achille, Argante, and many other Male roles composed for women!
thebarroque 1 year ago
@thebarroque Yeah, I can read. I also said that it was a weird fashion to give men's roles to women to forget about castrati, and not to give them to falsettists. At that time perhaps it made sense, but nowadays when nobody knows how castrati really sounded and we have enough good countertenors I think this practice makes no sense anymore. I prefer more logic in opera. Besides I expressed my opinion that Nesi's voice is very beautiful but she sounds too feminine for this role.
serenaluce 1 year ago
@serenaluce @thebarroque Don't read this idiot, he just like to create controversy where there's not and about his point of view I would say that Joseph Goebbles was wrong, a lie told a thousand times does not become the truth. The truth is the truth, and the truth is that Nesi kicks Spanos Ass in this.
DonAnchise 3 months ago
@DonAnchise I agree Nesi is just sublime here! she excells in all things baroque, castrati roles in particular!
Zanghire 3 months ago