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  • WOW, Absolutely Amazing !!!!

  • une fois pour toutes c est tres beau effectivement mais c est de Vavilov et non de Caccini !

  • yeah! you're right . wow! wwooww!! WWWOOOWWW !!! voice from the stars. so pure!

  • WOW! <3

  • Dear Simon Cowell

    You will never find the X factor because Sumi Jo has it in her pocket. Ga Ga, Carey, Beyond et al, give up, go home. You cannot compete with Perfection.

  • Absolutely Amazing

  • Редкой красоты голос.Хочется сушать...до бесконечности.

  • She moves me to tears every time I hear her sing this aria. Her singins is so superbly ethereal, so very soothing, yet at the same time truly dramatic. I can never tire of hearing her sing.

  • I love this song!! Its the most beautiful song i know :-) Sumi Jo sings very beautifully. I hope to be as good as her one day !

  • A divine performance.

  • 미친감동

  • Still manages to amaze me. Beautiful in so many ways. The sound pure.

  • She not even need too much body action like others, but able to bring out the power of classical

  • so sweet mouth :-)

  • ♥♥♥♥♥

  • As a trained soprano I know what it takes to do this piece the way she did. Such control. It isn't easy to sing high AND soft but she did it flawlessly. It makes even a trained singer's jaw drop. What a beautiful talent.

  • As a trained soprano, I know what it takes to do the soft places. The hardest thing to do is sing high AND soft like at the end. She makes those of us that know what it takes to do this performance jaw drop. Wow what a talent.

  • This performance is truly stunning! Absolutely breathtaking and expressed with such beauty it appears to be nothing more than effortless. I recently heard the Caccini ave maria sung on America's Got Talent by "Lys Agnes," and immediately looked it up. Although I would love to hear the piece in its entirety sung in a lower register ~octave~ as Agnes did, the higher notes are still incredible!

  • Oh my God, who are those people who dislike this anyway? Incredibly snobs who want to show us how much better they are than the mob? Martians in whose planet they are all musical geniuses beyond our comprehension? Maladjusted people? Just idiots? Any help would be appreciated.

  • This is simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard performed, and I have listened to it often. My wife does not understand what I mean when I sometimes say I wish I were a soprano, so I could sing the most beautiful pieces of music. Well, this is it. I mean Sumi Jo.

  • UNIQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

  • I can't watch this without crying. I love the Simplicity of Caccini's Ave Maria, the warming orchestral accompaniment and Sumi Jo's remarkable control just make this an absolute favourite. The definition of stunning.

  • I'll tell y'all this, because I can.

    3 times I had nightmares of my parents dying or being taken by the devil.

    Only once did I have a dream of heaven, and Jo-Sumi was singing this piece in the background. Now I try to imagine this piece just before I go to bed, in hopes of a second blessing.....

  • best ever

  • Even though Sumi Jo isn't my favorite soprano this is one of those songs that she just . . . takes my breath away, literally, I found myself holding my breath on that last note and she knocked it out of the ball park, well, the whole song really. :)

  • WOW......did i just listen to perfection or what!!!!!!!!!!

  • Замечательно, но это не Каччини, это ВЛАДИМИР ВАВИЛОВ!!!! (1970 г.)

  • ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

  • I'm completely blown away. This is unreal...

  • Here we go again, comparing another great Soprano with Callas. Callas has a shallow shreaking voice. She became a legend only because of her charisma and celebrities she had relationship with and not her voice.

    Sumi Jo is a seriously trained soprano including Mozart for many years. Not many sopranos in the past and present can match her powerful vocal skills and its beauty.

  • @jamesings

    Callas, I won't criticise anyone’s art but you are so so correct with your judgment.

    I admit total bias and unconditional love of Sumi Jo but it is an indisputable fact that she has got where she is today purely on hard work and outstand virtuosity.

    No one comes close.

  • My choice for the most extraordinary version of this stunning piece as sung by Sumi-Jo. It captures the emotional intensity of the music and the composer's attitude towards its subject.. There is a marvelous clarity in her voice here that is singular. And that ending is truly ethereal. I urge you to listen to every version posted by all the vocalists and come to your own conclusion about which is your favorite. I don't believe there are any wrong answers.

  • @Zeppolino100

    My sentiments exactly!

    Her clarity is too me just one of her most amazing skills, it rarely fails to shine through.

    Don't waste your life listening to others, no one comes close.

  • damn didn't expect it to get all epic in the middle there

  • thank you lord for this voice

    i have CD "Prayers"

  • najpiekniejszy sopran!!!!

  • so elegant..delicate...marvelous.­.

  • She is so in tune at the end that I couldn't even hear her until she started the vibrato. Bravo!

  • Beautiful

  • Is there a better version of this than

    Sumi Jo? Just wondering.

  • @torius12 Perhaps Mirusia Louwerse with Andre Rieu............Both absolutely beautiful.

    Both will put tears in your eyes.

  • @torius12

    Oh! no

  • I love her...I can't believe I had never heard her before! I'm typing this as I'm trying to hold back my tears...She's going up there for me with Maria Callas in my all time top sopranos!

  • Her voice is marvelous...

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  • love her voice....

  • Amo a esta mujer escucharla y verla es simplemente descubrir a la mujer más hermosa en este mundo, hace vibrar cada fibra de mi cuerpo con su maravillosa forma de interpretar, este tema en especial es capaz de llevar a un estado de paz e incluso llorar, Sumi Jo es casi sobre humana al interpretar su expresión en la nota alta de este tema me hace amar aun más a la que para mi es la mejor soprano en la tierra

  • 와~ 눈물이 날거 같아요. 목소리가 정말 아름답네요.

  • i can literally listen to this a thousand times but still get goosebumps everyday....

    such calmness

  • wooow estoy impresionado exelente manejo de la voz

  • Like chocolate dripping down a honeyed gangplank..Delicious

  • I'm speechless

  • woooow just wooow

  • i am having an orgasm...........

  • @epiphany585 If ya femail Ill join yi!. 

  • she is sensitive and delicate singer with great intelligence. and with expressiveness. superior human species.

  • God!

  • I've seen 3 other performances of Sumi Jo singing this here on the "Tube" and I must say that all of them including this one are Superb. However, in this performance she blended the ends of 2 long notes more smoothly then in the other performances. I like that. After holding those long notes she didn't abruptly "cut" her voice off from the note to nothing but instead let it trail off quietly which to me, made her whole performance just perfection. Sublime!!

    The Aria's flow is great in this way.

  • i totally agree with you about the end note that it is better than all her other ones. but i will say i like some of the other performances better in the beginning.. they are all so close that its hard to say which is better . 2:32 is insane here . her voice is at one with the bell .

  • superb

  • nice talent and graceful performance

  • 凄く感動しました、高音で音を絞っていく声域はまさに神業だと思­います。

  • Superb!! How lucky I am to live in this time when God has sent one of his best creation in the person of Ms. Sumi Jo

  • pure music, pure voice.

    I cried while watching this vid.

    Love Sumi Jo ...

  • f*** me with a big stick, marvaloso!.

  • you must mean "God blessed her"

  • She has understood the song completely how it's suppose to sing..

    Absolutely beautifull.

  • what an arrogant comment.

    Do YOU dare to say YOU have understood how to sing the song ???

    Fyi and 4 ur dumb lil brain: Sumi Jo is the world's best soprano singer ever

  • WTF?

    Can U read, mate? Wonder, if U should read my first comment again with a little bit of brain! I was telling, how wonderfull she is, not the opposite. :D

  • Yes, you said she is wonderful, but your first sentence in this comment was incredible arrogant, just as if you knew it better than she does.

    SHE probably knows a thousand times better than you how such a song is supposed to be interpreted.

    See, you are even too silly to understand the point of my critique on your comment. !!

  • And what excatly makes you so much superior? Nickname that indicates to music more perhaps? *Reps*

  • I did not say I'd be superior, not at all.

    Learn reading !!

  • Goddess

  • A M A Z I N G ! ! !

  • Superb ! It made me feel I was floating among the stars .

  • micidiale come sempre la sumi jo!!!! davvero troppo bella e brava!!!

  • no words can describe...

  • She is incredible technique Beatifullll voiceeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • that voice gave from god

  • O, MY GOD ! I was listening  this song without breath . BRAVO , BRAVO , BRAVO !

  • Perfection.

  • God!!! This is Heaven!

  • 진짜 소름 돋는다.

    그녀가 한국인인게 너무도 자랑스럽다.

  • What a voice! How can a human being make such beautiful and powerful sounds?

  • sublime...davvero divina!

  • i did not like this aria until sumi jo sang it!!!!!!!

  • The expression on her while finishing that high note in the middle shows such immeasurable satifaction. The control on the last note especially, and overall is UNREAL. It's hard to imagine what kind of hellish training she had to undergo to present us with this slice of heaven.

  • what a passionate performance.. I feel floating on clouds listening to her

  • everyone is right 2.33 is absolutely stunning. The way her voice tunes in to the pitch of the bells is just perfect.

  • you can even see her smile just after she sees the audiences faces at that point...

  • God sent his angels to the earth.....

    beuatiful way....uffffffffffffff......th­anks Lord...and thanks Wonderful Sumi Jo....

  • 2:33 her and the bell are at perfect 1.

  • I now understand why Karajan adviced Jo not to sing Magic Flute too much. It was to save her voice for this specific song. I thought an angel came down to. Such a Broad range of notes on top of smooth as hell rendition. I cannot think of anyone who can sing this better than her.

  • 10/10 from Poland . Brawo .

  • her voice is so enchanting!!

  • Her smile while she is singing is the smile of God.

  • I listened to various versions by different singers but on my opinion she's the best performer of this beautiful song

  • The most beautiful song I've ever heard. Sumi Jo is the best!

  • Is she singing with falsetto?

    What is her technique?

  • it just her control

  • its***

  • women do not have falsetto

    this is operatic technique

  • LOL. Are you kidding me?

    Im sorry, but everyone has falsetto.

    Its also called head voice, the voice you make when your vocal cords don't pull together to produce fry. Women and men.

  • It's called Modal Voice Register not head voice; when the cords don't pull together to produce the sound. Now when they do pull together to move into a higher vocal register then called a Falsetto.

    AND the person you replied to is kind of right that female sopranos don't require to use their falsetto that much, rather more vocal techniques to their high pitched Modal voice. There was no need to laugh at him.

  • I do not hear "falsettos"... the level of the soprano Sumi Jo, does not need it ....

  • you're kinda right bro..

  • Her halents and grace are super wonderful

  • absolutely breathtaking!!!!

  • beautiful korean women singing ave maria great

  • She is SO fantastic, her tuning is awe inspiring. You can hear her placing that last note exactly where its supposed to be as the chords change underneath. She even adjusts to the chimes! I love her

  • I ' ve never heard that kind of beautiful voice in the world. I love her voice.

  • There's no reason for me to dislike her singing. Her performance is perfect

  • hers an Denice Grave's performance of this song, are my favs

  • She sings with such incredible talents and grace !

  • Sheer perfection (even her make-up)!

  • OMS!!!!!

    I nearly fell off my chair with goosebumps. I seriously gasped at 2:09. One of her best performances.

  • oh my god, she is the best. I am so impressed

  • The sound of this video is brilliant, and her voice...absolutely brilliant like a star in the middle of the sky

  • i think i am watching this more than 20 times now. i just can't get out of this video. OMG. her voice is just so beautiful! so amazing!

  • me too,,,, i love sumi ^^>..

  • one word to describe this - "BEAUTIFUL"

  • she is great!

  • Everyone who feels music falls off his chair at 2:09 :)

    Very nice. If only she'd sing a bit more laud, especially in duets.

  • Well I did !!!

  • Me too

  • Hizo suya el Aria! Perfecta!

    Pasó mucho tiempo desde la última vez que había sentido escalofríos al oír una canción, Sumi me ha estremecido de nuevo.

    Sin duda la mejor Soprano de Coloratura Actualmente

  • She's definitely one of the best sopranos of out time...and definitely the best soprano Asia has to offer. Brava. Ave Maria is totally be her speciality!

  • Ho my God!!! I have never hered this Ave

    Maria before, I'm in shock with no words!!! She sings beautiful!!! I feel like to cry!!! Bravo from Mexico Sumi Jo !!!I will start loocking for your CD and DVD!!. Amazing!!!

  • amazing! simply breathtaking

    i love the way she sings this with such feeling

  • this voice is my delight, how sweet and beautiful!

    thank you very much for share this video

  • BEAUTIFUL

  • Holy and Profane...

    Perfect.

  • Does anyone know where I can download this song?

  • you can try to look for her CD "Prayers". it has it

  • Technically simply perfect. Somehow i get the feeling that her voic could have been a bit stronger. In general, not only in this piece.

  • truely beautiful,amazing voice and singing,I love this version,super interpretation

  • oh my god

  • Some people just get more and more beautiful with time.

  • i felt a burst of power through my screen at 2:08

  • I LOVE her voice

  • Sumi Jo, please, please, please come to Taiwan.

  • It's so interesting how the three interpretations of this by Sumi Jo are different. Mesmerising.

  • Since I was sixteen, and discovered Victoria De Los Angeles, I have despaired of finding a voice comparable to hers. Thirty five years later, I have found it.

  • god lord have mercy... beyond words

  • She does wear some interesting clothes. But, let's face it, she can.

  • to jest cud...

  • Dzięgi BOGU mamy zaszczyt pieścić nasze dusze takim śpiewem. Sumi jest moim guru! Ach....

  • her voice is very clear

  • I love her voice but she always wears such weird things.... LOL

  • i agree with the weird things

  • aw shucks... why y'all got to boo my idea. it would be beautiful

  • why'd it got to be human skin? Kinda weird. Maybe it'll just rot. But innovative anyway.

  • marvellous...amazing grace

  • beautiful

  • again she has just blew me away with that. i have not heard it sung, as well, by anyone else. number one, soprano for this piece,without a doubt. she owns it.

  • Simply amazing.

  • Oh GOD...Wonderful angel in the earth...Gracias...

  • Oh GOSPODAR!!!! divno anđela na zemlji..HVALA...!

  • perfect ! love

  • Only if I could be there as one of the audiences listening to this voice from heaven..

  • She's incredible... Fantastic! The Majesty and glory of You name.. For GOd;)

  • An angel on earth. She is all beautiful.

  • I just love Sumi!

    that last note is just incredible!

    her version of this song is priceless!

  • in interpretations like this one i understand why Karajan had said for her that voices like Jo's are born once every 100 years

  • this is amazing. she has the ability to show so much emotion without pushing too hard the meaning of the song. perfect

  • Uff..So much beauty .. wonderful music, bellizima and incredible voice, real feelings .... I listen and hear .... until the end of the times ... thanks GOD ....

  • Notice how her voice blends in with the instruments at the end.

    Magnificent.

  • One of my all time favorites here on youtube!

  • 100% agree. I can't get enough of this stunning voice!!!!

  • THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SOUL IN THE WORLD

  • WOW!!!

  • THIS IS IT THIS IS IT THIS IS IT

  • Oh my god. It's touch my heart and waking me up.

  • ufffffff....thats version....AMAZING!!!!!!!!

    Tears in my eyes...thanks youtube! thanks master G. Caccini and Thanks a Sumi Jo....Chriss

  • This woman's voice is the definition of perfection! Divine! Powerful! Angelic!

    I love this song, I love Sumi Jo!!!!...

  • This is the most beautiful version of this song. So pure and controlled and hauntingly beautiful.