Christophe Dumaux-L'empio,sleale,indegno (Giulio Cesare)

Giulio Cesare, acte 1, air de Tolomeo par Christophe DUMAUX, contre-ténor

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• Giulio
• Cesare
• Tolomeo
• Christophe
• Dumaux
• contre-ténor
• countertenor
• Glyndebourne
• Haendel
• Christie

[ouah77]

plus pd que lui on fait pas

[chlagaguel]

@ouah77

Plus pd que lui ????? trop drôle !!!! 

[Gudrun74]

So this recording is from 2005?

I've seen Dumaux recently as Tolomeo in Lausanne and a year ago in this role in Vienna. For me Dumaux is at the moment the only counter tenor that convinces me in terms of chest register. I normally find that ct's voices are (at least on stage) somehow 2-dimensional and don't fill out the theatre profoundly. But Dumaux is surprisingly voluminous in these regions.

Just checked his "A dispetto" from Beaune, that's really sublime, wow!

[chlagaguel]

Yes, this live recording is from 2005 at Glyndebourne opera House .

[nicksum29]

Exactly how this character should be: young, spoilt, petulant, and utterly nuts. lovely.

[asisecanta]

This guy is really amazing. I heard him as Tolomeo tonight and it is the first time that I hear a well-sung Tolomeo (not overacted), and as a character, he did a very ironic and cynical portrait of the King: comic, yes, but never stupid. After all, he is the bad guy of the story :-)

[aspdenmark]

L’empio, sleale, indegno

vorria rapirmi il regno,

e disturbar così

la pace mia.

Ma perda pur la vita,

prima che in me tradita

dall’avido suo cor

la fede sia.

[MrGanesh95]

Soprano légère?

[MrAndrePBC]

@ouah77 Peut-être toi...

[Saturpepe]

@baalhaophanim I think he is the baritone Christopher Maltman.

[Natopera]

Cleopatra is only 17 and Tolomeo is her younger brother, Dumaux manages to create a teenaged villian, both very angry, and with the position to indulge that anger. But at the same time terribly inexperianced. He is a boy playing at a man, so it is natural that next to Cesare and Achillia he seems foolish. immaturity and power are a dangerous combination.

[Villainesse]

Tolomeo is meant to be a bit effeminate. Cleopatra accuses him of such in her aria - so his interpretation is spot on.

[dannben]

mi vida a cambiado despues de haber escuchado a este hombre, maravilloso...

[baalhaophanim]

He is cute, but Tolomeo seems, gay... i prefere the other guy, who is he? he is really cute and handsome! i want to be with him in the Nile, as Antinoo with Hadrianus... Tolomeo, seems, to need the favours of the other guy to be more easy...