Natalie Dessay: ''Popoli di Tessaglia...Io non chiedo"

Natalie Dessay's seemingly effortless performance of Mozart's extremely difficult concert aria ''Popoli di Tessaglia...Io non chiedo" (K.316), the fifth aria from her "Mozart Concert Arias" CD.

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As you can hear and see from the score, it requires great musicality, a superb technique, and a voice range going up all the way to the high G above high soprano C (all of which Dessay shows us in this aria)!

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• Natalie Dessay
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• recitative
• concert aria
• coloratura
• virtuosity
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• opera
• Classical
• singing

[anonymousgothcat]

It's songs like these that make me thing, dayum, I'm glad I'm a dramatic soprano. Nuts to that sort of thing!

I love her voice, and it was a beautiful performance, but I have always prefered a bery strong, emotional voice rather than a lilting flower voice. I think it's because I always new the latter was beyond my reach. x3! Beautiful, just beautiful.

[SsteinwayS]

@anonymousgothcat Wow lucky! Great dramatic voices are in short supply these days! But it is lovely that others have beautiful flowery voices like Natalie :) She joked that she wished she woke up from her vocal surgery as a Wagnerian soprano...she loves the big dramatic repertoire she could never sing! We all must deal with what we have...

[rekoonsghjkl]

People don't know just how good these opera singers are. Their voices so beautiful and their technique is amazingly good. Some pop singers hit like a C6 and people go wow their amazing well yes great C6 is high but these sopranos are hitting them live over and over without braking sweat and singing without a mic.

[StevenShields29]

8:13 third section begins

10:08 highest note in the classical repertoire according to guiness book

[augustethomas]

G6, perfect. Amazing!

[LacrimaLunaMortua]

Outstanding interpretation!!!

She reaches that G6 so easily!

This is such a great performance, excellent work Natalie!

[VBF56PTDR]

mais écoutez cette clarté qui fait de sa voix un bijoux, un joyau, cette avalanche douceresse de beauté, cette perfection à l'état pure, ces cordes vocales divines, capables de vous emprisonnez tout en vous libérant, de vous transportez tout en vous clouant sur place, de vous renversez tout en vous emerveillant, le pouvoir enfantin, l'émotion d'une cantatrice qui ne chante que pour une seule raison: vivre. L'assention des notes jusqu'au plus haut des aigus, jusqu'à la fin des fins,c'est si beau!

[SsteinwayS]

@BigBangfanable No.

[noeldunsky]

She gives it all...Brava...

[SsteinwayS]

@whistlenotelover Not sure...definitely the most famous use of this high note...

[sososoloprano]

...this is also my highest note of my vocal range...

[sososoloprano]

AMAZING

[whistlenotelover]

Namely notable but sadly mostly neglected great composers Josef Myslivecek, J.C. Bach, Antonio Salieri, and Vicente Martin y Soler {the Spanish 'mozart', whose second [out of total seven] opera serias, 'Ipermestra' demands a sustained G6, for longer bars than in this aria, supposedly according to musicologists! I read this in an accompanying essay in the opera seria: 'Ifigenia in Aulide' [by Martin Y Soler], researched by leading musicologists, and conductor Juan Bautista Otero.