Joyce DiDonato sings Susanna - Deh vieni non tardar

[Cissy97]

What is she thinking?

Mozart a composer to be easily tampered with?

She's dead wrong, am afraid.

But I do think that she is a soprano, not mezzo. Her mezzo is false.

[joanabanyeres]

What kind of voice is this? The picture also is not too well chosen

[Ariadne7710]

@WiseMonkey888 Absolutely agreed. I have lost count on how many productions i have seen in the last 15 -20 years, when musically they were first class but as productions were rubbish. McVicar started off doing some bizarre productions but is now grown up enough to respect the composers and their music. I have heard that the Met Bolena he is doing will have authentic sets and costumes. Let us hope so. I am old enough to have seen the Visconti Bolena with Callas in 1957 and I still remember it

[Ariadne7710]

@WiseMonkey888 I will try to explain. It is a small vibration of the voice which is not quite a trill and sang at points where a trill is not called for or notated. It has recently become very common among several female singers. Listen carefully and you will recognise it.To illustrate. Play the Callas 1955 Una voce poco fa and then play the Di Donato Una voce poco fa. You will see a difference how long notes are held steady. Trills are definite trills and appogiaturas are sang clearly.

[LohengrinT]

@WiseMonkey888

Prima Donna talent yes she's got :)

Baker is the only Stuarda I trully liked - she gave Stuarda musical value and drama - I expect no less from DiDonato

[Ariadne7710]

@WiseMonkey888 I agree with you re Janet Baker. Great voice. Di Donato has the potential to be great but I wish she would stop that flutter/quasi trill of the voice which she started doing recently (in all the wrong places). I couldn't agree with you more about all these weird modern productions. All in the name of being "relevant and accessible" to modern audiences. Can't modern audiences relate to past historical periods may I ask? Do they think the world was created in the last 50 years?

[Ariadne7710]

I saw her singing Cerdillon recently at the ROH which isn't a great role but it was an amusing production and extremely well sang by all, with Ewa Podles singing the stepmother Madame de la Haltiere, Alice Cootes the Prince Charmant and Eglise Guttierez the fairy godmother. Not my favourite opera(!!!) but the cast was worth the price of the tickets. Would rather hear Stuarda when it is comes though. Where and when is it being staged? Does anynone know?

[cantorandopera]

@Ariadne7710 Wow! what a cast! You were indeed lucky :)

[LohengrinT]

@WiseMonkey888

ahahahhhaah you are in love with her? pffff but I like her a lot too - cant wait to hear her Stuarda :))

Stuarda is definitely a role written for DiDonato and Im 100% sure she will be the best Stuarda ever . A centrally place semi Assoluta role that will beautifully stretch DiDonato to her true vocal and interpretive limits, but Susanna here :)))) the queen of all Maids :)))

[LohengrinT]

@LittleSeaFox

u think that seeing the stupidity in someone has anything to do with anger? :)))

[LohengrinT]

@LittleSeaFox

nothing sadder than a true complete idiot such as yourself :))

[LohengrinT]

@LittleSeaFox

as idiotic are 90% of the composers and the compositions Bartoli revived the last 10 years - know why? because it takes much more than a rubber inside your throat to actually understand, feel, choose and interpret music ;) From the choices singers make to sing you can see the entire spectrum of their intelligence or stupidity -

Most operatic singers with immense vocal talent are idiots with an accidental natural gift inside their throat ;)

[Ariadne7710]

@LohengrinT Hahahaha dead right completely idiotic. And what are those ridiculous guttural sounds she makes in her throat and thinks they are music and a bunch of equally ridiculous audiences go wow:))))) Aarghhhhhhhhhhhh.

[LohengrinT]

@LittleSeaFox

I know you are an idiot it is quite obvious from the way you speak and they are NOT my idols - in fact I would never seek to meet them in person for most of the are people with low IQ with a random (accidental) immense talent - im only interested in them as mediums to the Music

Hypocrits such as yourself prefer good manners rather than the truth which 1. you cannot understand because of your low IQ and 2. you cannot handle at all as it goes against to your profound stupidity :)

[LohengrinT]

@LittleSeaFox

oh sick my duck - you are an idiot :)

[LohengrinT]

@LittleSeaFox

I completely understand your Mozartian Worship - I have the same with Cosi fan Tutte, nevertheless DiDonato is much more skilled than a singer of Susanna and also does not add absolutely anything in this aria. She needs as a true Diva to find her own repertoire, discover new beautiful music (not the shit Bartoli goes singing all the time) and offer/teach it to us

We dont need another Susanna (also Sesto, Rosina etc)

[karine6081]

é pena não ter um filme  ser só exposição de fotografias

[Mondeschatten]

Joyce di donato is an incredible singer. Her voice is versatile and her interpretation of the haendel roles are awesome. I don't care if she's a soprano or a "claire" mezzo. She's awesome in every single thing that she sings.

[LohengrinT]

There are some standard arias that there is absolutely no reason to sing them unless you really have something different to say practically because even cats have sung them. I dont understand why DiDonato sings arias like this. Her voice is too talented to be singing Susanna

[ejrouge]

@LohengrinT My God, this is Mozart, how can you believe Susanna is an small role?

[LohengrinT]

@ejrouge

I know that in conservatoires they teach you to believe that everything Mozart wrote was divine and from a certain point of view they were. But when was the last time you heard this boredom from the beginning to its end? :))

[LorraineCash]

@LohengrinT Susanna is a big role!!!!!!!!

[cantorandopera]

sure sounds like a soprano to me :)) but who cares . . . she is one terrific singer, a fabulous musician, and a great ambassador for all of opera and classical music.

[racheleleeba]

I'm so excited -- she's going to be in Atlanta next February! Thank you for sharing this wonderful performance.

[Glenmed]

Delightful.