Le Nozze Di Figaro - Crudel! Perche finora

"Crudel! Perche finora" from Le Nozze Di Figaro (Opera National de Paris)

Il Conte: Peter Mattei
Susanna: Heidi Grant Murphy

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[gamgee87]

you should post "Hai gia vinta la causa!" I LOVE peter mattei

[joonscribble]

Will do soon. Yes, Peter Mattei is wonderful!

[KristalAV]

Whoa....He's the best Count I've ever heard. LOVE him!!!!!

[LondonLite02]

Peter Mattei can do no wrong in my book, but why does he have mushrooms on his lapels here?

[DadaClaire]

I'm not able to stop watching and listening to it...

I'm in love with Peter Mattei. I love him in this role.

[Merrillmiller99]

This is really disgusting. Are they making fun of Mozart?

[robelloro]

Oh yes, Peter is wonderful! He's great and it's a pleasure to see and hear him even in this horrible direction!

[jbrown91287]

I hate the staging but mattei is brilliant!

[Graoutine]

LMAO interesting staging !

[mio2senses]

haha. LOL - Triple threats: Dancing, Singing, Acting - what a wicked director; though it doesn't look that natural I love the vision!!

[VforVespa]

O h my god,this conte is sooooo sexy!! :)

[numadori]

@operagirl53 "Sa voix est magnifique, mais la production a une interprétation bizarre de l'air. On dirait qu'ils font un tango! Merci de le poster!" Et bien oui ils dansent une sorte de tango et toute la scénographie du duo est vive, intelligente et drôle - le contraire de ces commentaires d'anglo-saxons légèrement bas de plafond.

[piasecznik]

@Greykeys88

Well, even a good bass-baritone is supposed to be able to hit a good high F#. Mostly, the difference between Figaro and the Conte isn't range or fach, but timbre, I think- the Conte calls for a noble, serious timbre, Figaro is a buffo role. But if someone can do both, then he could sing both.

A baritone who sings the Conte could actually do the Vienna version of the Conte's aria.. now that's pretty much impossible to sing on-stage for a bass.

[Greykeys88]

Well, I'm not sure about that, their ranges are quite different. Figaro only needs to stacatto an F while the count needs to sustain an F# (most of that aria too sits on a D) and in all the ensemble singing in Acts II and IV Figaro will always take the lower harmony to the Count. So I would say that the tessitura of the Count is higher and calls for a baritone instead of a bass.