Christophe Dumaux - Belle dee di questo core

Giulio Cesare, acte 2 scène 9, air de Tolomeo par Christophe DUMAUX, contre-ténor

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• Giulio
• Cesare
• Tolomeo
• Christophe
• Dumaux
• contre-ténor
• countertenor
• Glyndebourne
• Haendel

[armycasa]

Is there a DVD on the market for this GC? You have so much about Dumaux grrrrrrrr.....!!!! Anyway thks for uploading. As usual Christophe is SUPERBE!!!!

[chlagaguel]

Yes, it is the DVD recorded at Opus Arte in the version of Christie and MC Vicar.

[JaRoWi1647]

Thank you, dear Marc. Your knowledge is just endless... Grand respect. The cheeky tenor in my books is not in particular mentioned. I believe,that Maestro Händel was in every regards very unusually for the time as a composer, as well as a person.

[MehdiCaps]

It was actually Scottish tenor Alexander Gordon, who had a small role (Ugone, with only one aria) in "Flavio".

Händel: "Let me know when you do that, and I will advertise it, for I am sure more people will come to see you jump, than to hear you sing." ;)

It tells us that Händel was used to play "flamboyant" accompaniments, which is interesting in the context of his cantatas, for instance, where I tend to prefer simpler ones, though.

[deepesttottenham]

Woo hoo! 8-)

[biofer3]

i'd like him to come to Tokyo!

He has visited Japan before in Sapporo in a concert.

He was very young at that time and seems to have been thin.

[Denuhm]

hmmm sooooo hot :P

[celestialbakura]

I am not sure he actually has the range of sopranist...

[Elaguine81]

Superbe.....

[IlCaroSassone]

This is one of my favorites!

[jovi1715]

... quando mai era intesa per essere comica questa scena?

[TrebleB4Mi]

Beautiful, absolutely exquisite. I wouldn't group him with the contralto and mezzo countertenors though, more like an undiscovered sopranist. I would love to hear him singing Stephano from Gounod's Romeo and Juliette. I have a feeling that a higher tessitura would bring out not only the power and the beauty inherent in his singing.

[sonqualnave]

The glissando is an ornementation who was used already in the time of monteverdi... It has of course several names and was more often used in the french baroque musique. I am just reading a very precise book/dictionnary on the baroque ornementation and this kind of effect that christophe Dumaux does between the 2 notes in 1:12 was used at this time according to writtings, but i say, again , Nobody who was there at this time is alive now and can tell us what was the vocal reality of this period!

[pjwdfn]

He did a great job, he´s singing with so much devotion; just listen at the small glissando hes doing at 1:12, seems unusual for this epoch, but fits perfectly!

Thank you for sharing!!