Deutekom - Armida. finale

The story concerns Frankish soldiers on a Crusade in the Holy Land. The hero Rinaldo gets distracted from his quest by Armida, the daughter of the King of Damascus. She uses her evil spells to seduce him, and two of his comrades have to enter her magic garden to bring him to his senses and rescue him.
At the end of the opera a Chorus of Demons announces that
Armida is going to Hell.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• aria
• coloratura
• high
• callas
• sutherland
• damrau
• dessay
• jo
• sumi
• mado
• robin
• belcanto
• opera
• rossini
• flat

[wwonka2]

Nope, sorry--not "Like Callas." Deutekom is one of the most phenomenal singers of the last 50 years, but Callas produced a far heavier and darker tone up there than Deutekom (albeit more strained). Also, maybe speed of playback is wrong, but that's an E-natural.

[agathosj]

@wwonka2 I m not comparing Deutekom to Callas or Fleming, please read the title again, it means that she choose to end her singing with the high F -flat or natural whatever- like Callas or Fleming did. That s all.

[Sturmwaffen]

This is amazing! Please tell us where you found it!

Rossini should not have written opera seria, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong-he's among my favourite of composers, but...this is like listening to Haydn, who wrote happy melodies during storm scenes. Thank God Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi wrote music befitting of the mood of what's happening on stage, i.e. tragic music for tragic endings. This is comical; almost TOO comical for an opera like this. But long live Rossini!

[agathosj]

Hi, this is from the double cd "Legendary voices - Cr. Deutekom", Philips. I doubt that you would find this compilation as it dates back to 1999. I will try to upload a torrent of this within the next few weeks. Thank you

[youfeda]

film??please!

[agathosj]

Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein, with him and De Niro.

[asdfopera]

Deutekom has the best final E-flat out of them all!

[ilovechocolatechip]

This is fantastic ... which recording is this? I'm having no luck trying to track it down :(

[spenzur]

@Sturmwaffen Interesting. THis is my favorite opera, and I think the finale sounds very angry, not happy at all. And the part before this, ''dove son io'' sounds very sad. Throughout the opera there are more angry/sad melodies so I 'don't understand why you think this too comical hahaha :P

[raigekimaru]

that was a Sutherland-esque E flat, not a Callas-esque E flat. 

[tklogan111809]

@Sturmwaffen Donizetti wrote better music for opera seria you're right but I disagree, this is very dramatic music from Rossini, not just a "happy melody" or comical. It's magical and out of this world.

[whistlenotelover]

lol yes in theory the same note as Callas although some historians argue hers was an F natural 6, I still feel based on the ambigious audio quality of the recording it was a semi-tone short; hence E natural and NOT a semi-tone higher! Deutekom did the same 'glissando sostennato con vibrato' here: Eb/E natural 6!

[whistlenotelover]

@agathosj By the way there'ss no such thing as as F flat NOR E sharp, because ONLY these two natural tones sit side by side NOT sharing a semi-tone in between, because 12 semi-tones do NOT divide evenly into the 7 natural tones, thus there is no in-between E & F. take C and D for instance they share Csharp in between 'them', persay.

[anaihilator]

@pointemeout YES!

[anaihilator]

This is just...amazing. Love her so much and its a shame she isnt more of a household. Im proud to be an opera fan and to have heard her incredible talent

[tomasburi]

@pointemeout I think D'amore al dolce impero is the worst example of Deutekom's skill. This aria is exact opposite. Anyway, people should hear her Mozart, Verdi, Bellini and Donizetti before judging her coloratura.

[pointemeout]

i must say that i find her voice to be quite pleasing in MOST situations....like during the entirety of this piece. however...when she employs her coloratura skills during songs that really require it, like "d'amore al dolce impero" i find that i can't even finish listening to the passages without laughing; however, there is something innately unique about this voice that keeps me coming back to it.

anyone else feel like that about deutekom?