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Juno is an alto, not a soprano like in this recording ... I didn't like at all the singer and her vocality, quite smothered in the low register and very open vowels near middle C and not having the "fire" of Marylin Horne or Ewa Podles or Bernadette Manca di Nissa for instance.
Hope to hear this soprano singing an alto role in a suitable role (the variated part is dreaful - total lack of musicality and style in variation!).
MisterPapageno 1 month ago
What I've always enjoyed in this recording is how this piece, with all its otherworldly embellishments, establishes Juno's overbearing majesty and divinity. It is a quality that Semele, in her final arias ("Myself I shall adore" and "No no, I'll take no less"), not just reaches but surpasses, taken as she is with her own false divinity. None of those embellishments are found in her death scene ("Ah me! Too late I now repent"); she's been taken down to size.
Anyhow, just an observation.
smithianum 2 years ago
Her ornamentation in the da capo is exciting
mstuartg 3 years ago
fearless.
pweny 3 years ago
I am spooked, too. She could be one of the witches in Macbeth.
kolkrabe19 3 years ago
and i'd pay to see it
hillevifan 3 years ago
I did not know the singer, but it is very good, I'll try to buy records with her. Another great video from civileso. Thank you.
peziac 3 years ago
This is version is great. But you also got to hear the version done by Marilyn Horne and Sylvia McNair, conducted by John Nelson (1993).
The contrast is so noticeable, between the sweetness of Iris (McNair) and the harsh ways of Juno (Horne).
legato699 3 years ago
Yes, it's been uploaded minutes before this one by civileso. ;)
MehdiCaps 3 years ago
I LOVE Della Jones, she has the perfect voice for the role... however, I felt this version lacks the urgency and anger implied by the lyrics. Horne's version in the Nelson recording has all that, but then Horne kinda goes a bit "wagnerian" with her embellishments.
Audiolink 3 years ago
she's possessed lol i never heard something like that before. not sure i like it !
cuicuimusic 3 years ago