David DQ Lee, Countertenor sings Haydn's Arianna A Naxos

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2007: Representing Canada: David DQ Lee Countertenor who won his round of Main prize concert singing: singing the final Suicidal aria from Haydn's Cantata Arianna a Naxos. Accompanied by BBC National Orchestra. At the St. David's Hall.


For more information about him, visit:
www.daviddqlee.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• countertenor-
• opera-
• aria-
• Cantata

[Rudolph03]

David Lee sings as only a welltrained classical vocalist can. Unlike Vitas, Lee needs no microphone in order to fill a venue with beautiful, emotive, musical and technically superb vocal music. Could Vitas sing the malllisma lines that Lee does? Probably not. Vitas is a good singer, but comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.

[forgottentenor]

Great voice control! Wonderfull tones.

Robert

(American CounterTenor)

[ChazsmateIII]

@cobalt100 I share your pain. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. Then again: would we appreciate the talent as much if we knew the technicalities?

[norisv]

I like his rendition of this aria better than Bartoli's. Something in his timbre just sparks here, it's amazing.

[parkhighmountain]

fantastic and great musical.

[cobalt100]

Oh Wow. What incredible range and volume. I'm impressed. Why haven't I got a dimes worth of his talent?

[ks13go]

I sang for David Lee in a masterclass last year, and I must say that he is just a genius. Every comment he made to every singer was life altering and incredibly helpful. This recording sounds good, but its nothing like having him sing the song you are trying to sing and do everything perfect. He is just incredible!

[bunnyz324]

not quite a mezzo

[violin6969]

I just can't agree. Vitas has a great range, however, he doesn't seem to be nearly as musical as DQ Lee. Vitas seems to be just for show and not nearly as emotive as Lee. Just my opinion.

[bowenwen1992]

knink24,

Vitas has totally different singing style in comparison to David DQ Lee. Hitting notes is hot what singing is about; it is about how a singer uses his or her range in a way to produce well controlled sound with great and rich timbre. I think David DQ Lee has done that in many ways.

I highly regard Vitas's outstanding singing range as a male singer; however I have to criticize the fact that Vitas does not regard the timbre and richness of sound as much as other singers.

[knink24]

Hes good, but Vitas is a much better singer. He makes him look like hes a rookie. Vitas is the best singer in the world, the notes he hits is just unreal sometimes. Vitas is by far the greatest singer of all time.