Au fond du Temple Saint ~ Les pêcheurs de perles

From "Les pêcheurs de perles" by Bizet, "Au fond du Temple Saint" (Nadir & Zurga duet, Act 1). Ludovic Tézier as Zurga, Ramon Vargas as Nadir.

Au fond du temple saint
Pare de fleurs et d'or,
Une femme apparait!
Je crois la voir encore!
Une femme apparait!
Je crois la voir encore!
La foule prosternee
La regarde, etonnee,
Et murmure tous bas:
Voyez, c'est la deesse!
Qui dans l'ombre se dresse
Et vers nous tend les bras!
Son voile se souleve!
O vision! o reve!
La foule est a genoux!
Oui, c'est elle!
C'est la deesse
plus charmante et plus belle!
Oui, c'est elle!
C'est la deesse
qui descend parmi nous!
Son voile se souleve et la foule est a genoux!
Mais a travers la foule
Elle s'ouvre un passage!
Son long voile deja
Nous cache son visage!
Mon regard, helas!
La cherche en vain!
Elle fuit!
Elle fuit!
Oui, c'est elle! C'est la deesse!
En ce jour qui vient nous unir,
Et fidele a ma promesse,
Comme un frere je veux te cherir!
C'est elle, c'est la deesse

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Music

Tags:

• Les
• pêcheurs
• de
• perles
• baritone
• tenore
• duet
• bizet
• opera
• Ludovic
• Tézier
• Ramon
• Vargas
• classical

[novice1959]

This is very beautiful! These 2 men harmonize so well. Vargas is my favorite of the current operatic tenors, he has such a very fine voice, but of the darker hue that I prefer.

[babyfairy]

Mr.Vargas rarely disappoint me. He is excellent musician and artist.

[alvarezfan]

Nice but - boring. This is due mainly to the director not the singer. Although the baritone is a bit "colourless". See the same piece when sung by Alvarez and Terfel or Alagna and Terfel.

[babyfairy]

Thank you for the information. I saw the videos you suggested. Yes, they sound more "passionate", but I prefer Vargas-Tezier version for its elegance and style.

And, I don't think Tezier's voice is colourless. I heard him live the other day at Covent Garden, and he was great as Belcore.

[sngngsolo]

In the French style, it is not about vocal gymnastics and power. It it ALL about elegance and smoothness of tone. The French style is not appreciated like it should be neither is it done because people want to be "blown away" due to the powerful singers of the past 30 to 40 years(i.e. Pavarotti). Not knocking on these singers for they are great, but the art form is suffering because "we" want to be hit in the head with the voice.

[johanna33560]

i love this baritone, he's perfect... the tenor is very good too i love this duet

thanks for this

[al10506025]

Great duet!!!



[al10506025]

Great duet!!!

[sngngsolo]

@floztenor Your account shows that you are in France. If so, you make your country proud.

[floztenor]

@sngngsolo Sorry for the time delay! I will try to ensure a better follow up of your comments in the future.

[sngngsolo]

@floztenor : I'm pleased that you find my comments "funny", especially from three year old comments that were purely my opinion and nothing else.  Perhaps that length of time has a correlation with your conversational abilities or mental maturity. I hope that you continue to be entertained likewise in the future.

[floztenor]

@sngngsolo : reading that Pavarotti was  a powerfull voice is probably one of the funiest thing ever on UTube!

Indeed he had a radiophonic voice (beautiful for sure). Probably you will say that Mario Lanza and Bjorling had powerfull voices too?? Mario DelMonaco has a powerfull voice for instance but definitivelly not Pavarotti!

Rgds

[Salet9]

8 people are justin bieber fanboys.....but seriously, how can you not enjoy this. It's absolutely gorgeous.

[MegaSteven1963]

Super om het te horen, J'adore ça; I love it.

[nick1962100]

is een heerlijk duet om te horen door deze hele mooie stemmen

voor mij een topper!!!!!!

[westlightman]

good