Roberto Alagna - "Ella mi fu rapita" - "Parmi veder le lagrima" - Rigoletto

Roberto Alagna as Il Duca di Mantua imagines the innocent Gilda being heartbroken because of the abrupt departure of her youthful lover, can it be that the careless womanizer actually has a heart? Riiccardo Muti conducting at La Scala, 1994.

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[myyellowlabfan]

@operabohemian - Actually, no, Verdi wrote in the era of "dramatic" opera, when the composers wrested back control from the singers who had made the composers music into their own vocal showcases. Now the singers had to convey the emotion of the drama with their singing...

As to Alagna - again, he is a singer who has chosen to interpret the score as it is written....

[myyellowlabfan]

You are right about Pavarotti as to the rest, I'll let Alagna speak for himself -

"I look for simplicity, sincerity, and I try to give much. I sing what the composer wrote, without portamento and without adding extra notes or other effects to the music."

Roberto Alagna

[ah332]

i wish he took the high note. bravo, regardless

[myyellowlabfan]

@ah332 Riccardo Muti is very strict with singers and does not allow them to sing notes which are not written in the score - unlike Pavorotti, Alagna can read a score, and so is performing this aria correctly.

[sushiyang]

Quel musicien!!!!!! Avec la partition sous les yeux je me rend compte combien est excellente cette performance! Bravo!

[appeace1]

@appeace1 the sustained note, the full, open throat, bell voice, the rapport he had with them. That was HIS audience and he knew very well what they expected to hear and what would keep them coming back for more. Therefore, if he deviated from the form, it was to please HIS audience and we love him for that. (perform NOT preform--lol)

[appeace1]

@myyellowlabfan I truly admire Alagna's talent, and if, his fans are opera purists then his interpretation as written by the composer is exactly what he needs to preform. However, one must realize that a huge part of Pava's goal was to bring new audiences to opera, to open that world to folks who previously would not have given opera a thought. In order to reach them and to please his already massive audience, he knew what they wanted--the thrill of the high note,

[clementeamiodar]

alagna canta il Rigoletto come e' scritto da Verdi,come ha voluto Muti, anche per il Trovatore

l'acuto finale e' stato inventato in seguito, cosi come il si naturale della donna e' mobile

alagna canta Verdi come voleva Verdi

[CHARICHCH]

Muchas gracias por subirlo.

[fra1979it]

da paura

[costicapopian]

Ma perché non ha preso l'acuto pre-finale? Mi pare che lo poteva fare. O no?Mica è Domingo. O forse sì?

[FloriaTosca90]

Meraviglioso. Lo trovo estremamente toccante in quest'aria. Grande Alagna!

[mikehardcastle]

I love that he opted for the lesser known phrase at the end.