Natalie Dessay - "Ombre légère"

from Meyerbeer's Dinorah, with a great Ab over high C at the end, à la Mado Robin.

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• dessay
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[kngiht84]

Opera is not about producing high notes but beauty in the voice, which Dessay certain possesses much more than Robin.

[wittsgirl]

Always incredible.... this simply blows my mind. I have high notes, but it will be years before I can boast such BEAUTIFUL high notes as Mme. Dessay!

[TheDaisycler]

very,very,very beautiful.C'est pour Elle.Quelle beauté ds les aigus!!!!!!Merci chère Nathalie DESSAY.Daisy Cler

[Serinia4melodic]

@kngiht84 I`m sorry but you can`t say that because you never heard Robin live. And the recording quality is not that from the year 2000 oO.

[plateiavictorias]

Pour moi, la référence pour cet air c'est Callas. Car, contrairement à la jolie mais petite voix frêle de Dessay, la voix de Callas est comme un poids noir et profond qui se met à chanter comme un rossignol et avec l'aisance et le naturel de la voix parlée. Dans un tel air hyper-léger, cette alliance des contraires est comme un miracle qui justifie d'ailleurs le titre: ombre légère...

[RamirRMA]

AWESOOOME!

[ocuptoi]

Pour moi, la "version de référence" de cet air de Meyerbeer. Sublime Natalie Dessay...

[dethrage]

@JohnJiren Also, even in tempered scale, there's a phenomenon related to psychoacoustics, and because of it, we either involuntarily or aware of the fact, sing enharmonics at a different frequence ratio... For example, as you said Ab will be lower than G# because the brain sees the flattened notes with a tendency to go lower and sharpened notes to go higher on the register... It's a very interesting theme actually...

[edmatper]

Non seulement c'est beau, c'est musical, c'est maîtrisé mais en plus... ce contre la bémol final m'a achevé.... cette femme n'est pas humaine, c'est une demie déesse !!

[JohnJiren]

@whistlenotelover Actually, in the non tempered scale, Ab is lower than G# because of its natural tendancy to go down, and the G# has the tendancy to go up. That attraction makes Ab lower thant G#. Since Bach, though, instruments are all made so Ab and G# are exactly the same notes. Of course, many instruments can still play in-between notes, but it requires a special technique for many of them. As for the voice, it can obviously sing at any pitch between notes, so you may be right for her vibr