"V'adoro, pupille" from Giulio Cesare

From the 2005 Glyndebourne Festival production of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Danielle de Niese as Cleopatra sings "V'adoro, pupille" from Act 2 with Sarah Connolly as Cesare.

William Christie conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

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• Giulio
• Cesare
• v'adoro
• pupille
• bollywood
• Glyndebourne
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• Niese

[brightonbreezy]

"The costume is the biggest issue here. There is no way that anyone could fall in love with a woman wearing this"

Pah!

I saw this brilliant production, one of the most memorable nights I have ever spent in the theatre, and both of the subsequent revivals. I don't think you would find a single audience member of either sex who was not beguiled by Miss de Niese. She also impressed Mr Christie, and is now Mrs Christie. And the crazy Bollywood dancing was part of the magic of this show too.

[ethersomnae]

She's beautiful, but I'm sorry to say her singing is vulgar and inconsistent. She is not an opera singer, but a "popra" singer. No subtlety. Also,the arm-flailing was just horrible. She was like those inflatable-arm flailing advertising things.

But yes, she's beautiful, I won't begrudge her that. It might be good enough for some people, but not enough for me.

[Viscamo]

@TheLivirus . I couldn't agree more. You are 100%right.

I think, Mozart (eg.) was forced to write operas (fashion, money).

Of Course the Mozart's music is great, but style and all this fuss around the stage??

[Viscamo]

The movement of her arms is very disturbing, not adequate to the music.

Her voice is fine, but interpretation and phrasing not.

[ebony1911]

@brightonbreezy I tend to agree with you. Her singing is first rateand with real trills. Caesar must see her as a foreigner with foreign ways of seduction--hence the arm waving. The costume suits the situation and history tells us that the whole package worked. The General was putty in those waving arms. Brava!

[pedrofribeiro]

@TheLivirus Oh please, opera is not like that. This is operatic garbage. Watch any performance of Kathleen Battle and you'll see what opera really is.

[CaraPhilos]

There are at least ten stunningly beautiful versions of this aria here on YouTube, Dam-Jensen, Sutherland, Kozena, Kirkby, but, sorry, this is terrible. Badly placed voice, vulgar tone, imprecise intonation, no inner coherence in the sound or feeling for the style of this music. I think this is a great pity. Not the picture of femininity I would want to see admired, either. Of course, this is a matter of taste.

[SimpsonPlaysJackson]

@TheLivirus I always thought that, but it does lose something when it isn't live. Have you been in the audience at an opera?

[NikitaCro69]

Perfect!!!!!

[romino707]

This is a DaCapo Aria, right? 

[TheLivirus]

The high pitched vibrato. The weird clothes. The exxagerated facial expressions...

I can't see myself enjoy opera... ever. Just, no.

[vederlichtje]

about the costuming read up on the history of england and the east indies and you will see a mondern but not quit modern production really brilliant

it's all about war like the treu relationschip between cleopatra and ceasar