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What struck me most about this was how much British actors have to worry about accent variations as a matter of course in their work. And it's adorable, lol.

@vampireratt Singing out of tune is never sexy. I didn't hear her Norina, but I've never heard her sing well or in tune, lol.

@pinkbeachloverable She used to be unbelievable. In like 1999 and 2000 I lived and died for her concerts and recordings. Then she did things like Marguerite here, musical theater, Rodelinda, and a rock album. As usually happens when a singer does whatever Gelb tells them, her voice got real rough...

@dem24utube Wow, that's so not true. Fachs define what rep is appropriate for a voice, and emerged as a way of protecting singers from being contracted for the wrong roles. It's not an exact or hard and fast science, of course. Only idiots think it is. But if more people than "vocal students" car...

Haha, these days someone with that big and glorious a voice singing this aria would be laughed out of the audition room. It's kind of an insult that Dessay is on the bar of "similar videos" lol.

I sang this a few years ago (not like her!) and couldn't find a recording. This is fantastic!

This is perfection. Even with complete stillness, it's a sacred moments that expresses the otherwise ineffable. And nature itself apparently agrees by joining in...

@trouts4 Really? In the David Tennant ones it always said "The Doctor David Tennant". And he corrected talk hosts a few times, lol. Maybe I didn't notice the change! mea culpa.

@peduzzi89 Hah, you hit it on the head!

<3

@elias12186 Gerald's last name is spelled "Finley"

@aeg9297 The whole musical is about opera. Aida, Figaro, and Don Giovanni are spoofed, or at least clearly referenced. And the melodic lines and orchestrations are hugely Puccini based. I don't find it such a big deal that there's a literal melodic quotation. Handel could have been sued for much ...

Haha, I used that candenzetta on V'adoro, pupille!

@MultiPointlessFilm Fair enough! Mine liked to run up to everyone (inadvertently scaring them!). And poor thing was very confused when under the glass-topped table. Then she'd insist on sleeping upstairs, despite trouble getting back down. Her real strokes of brilliance, though: she always found...

Awww, poor baby! D'AWWWW. <3. :]

D'AWW! :]

I remember the first timeI saw this, I just thought "Oh, well she knows who Elaine Paige is so she knows her stuff and her rep, and isn't an idiot". Then she started singing. She sang well, of course. But what broke my heart and made me cry was how shocked the audience was that someone who's not ...

Well this is ironic considering it's a castrato aria ;]

So. Much. CUUUUUUTEEE!!!! SQUEEEEEEE!!!! D'AWWWWWWW. <3. :]

@westhamwill10 Funny, just today I happened to watch one of her episodes as Martha where she mentions she had a "cousin, Adeola, at Canary Wharf"! I guess they planned ahead for those of us bound to notice. But she must have already been cast by then. Anyway, thanks.

Funny, he doesn't have a very heavy Irish accent. But maybe I'm used to a different area's accent.

Sophie McShera. So freaking cute.

Her hat. In that room. This is one of the best things I've ever seen, haha.

1:22, subaru in front of the house. looks so wrong. love it.

"Lord Fellowes" lol

Yes.

As always, Solti was right.

God, everyone in my movie theater cried like a baby when this scene appeared. I did too, but I also kept thinking of the "Lily's Eyes" song from Secret Garden! lol.

@lephong @kissekatttroll There is a lot of excellent scholarship on William Carey. I suggest spending a few hours in any decent university library before getting upset.

The sheep! I always forget about the sheep!

@Baccalaureus79 Whether her "state" is pregnancy, or just being abandoned and ready to kill him, is up to the director. The former is a very recent interpretation, though, and is said to not have been intended by Da Ponte, who wrote the libretto (the source the story comes from isn't about a preg...

@RobertEvening Vivica Genaux as well.

Remember back in the day when full voices sung baroque operas, before bad singers with no vibrato (oh, sorry, "early music specialists") got jealous and usurped it?

Hot damn! When is this from? This is some of the best singing I've ever heard him do.