Malena Ernman - Non piu di fiori (Mozart, La clemenza di Tito)

One of my favorite singers, Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman
From her fabulous classical album "Opera di fiori" in which she also sings two high coloratura soprano arias.
Her chesty low notes down to low G are projected and contralto-like, while her interpolated high C is resonant and free.

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• malena
• ernman
• vitellia
• mozart
• la
• clemenza
• di
• tito
• mezzo
• soprano
• coloratura
• opera
• classic
• classical
• vocal
• range
• sfogato
• assoluta

[PippaHayes1]

Lovely!

[primohomme]

@raigekimaru

Well, Queen of the night is for Germanic dramatic coloratura, someone like Edda Moser is perfect for it, but voices like that are rare so it's more usually sung by lyric coloratura voices like Natalie Dessay.

Callas never sang Vitellia, which is a shame because the role would have fit her like a glove...but at the time she was performing in her prime very few Mozart operas were often performed, and la clemenza di Tito wasn't amongst them.

[raigekimaru]

@primohomme

queen of the night is overrated (not to mention CONSISTENTLY sung by the wrong voice type >.>)

PS: did Callas ever sing Vitellia?

[BZBlaner]

@primohomme It's usually the Damrau worshippers and the other mental retards who mention Carmen when asked about opera LOL.

[primohomme]

@BZBlaner

I think so...everybody thinks the queen of the night is OMG so difficult, but the coloratura fir Konstanze or Giunia (Lucia Silla) is much more challenging and much longer.

And range wise Queen is D4-F6 (2 octaves & minor 3rd), Konstanze B3-D6 (2 octaves & minor 3rd), Giunia B3-E6 (2 octaves & a P4) while Vitellia is 2.5 octaves with swinging tessitura, spinto weight and coloratura.

[BZBlaner]

@primohomme It truly ranks up there as one of Mozart's most difficult roles then?

[primohomme]

@BZBlaner

The first aria of the role is like a "spinto" coloratura and the range is lyric coloratura mezzo (B3-A5), the terzetto is truly lyric coloratura soprano (F#4-D6) and this aria is more towards a coloratura contralto range (G3-G5).

I just got the score and I'm having fun analizing it :)

[primohomme]

@raigekimaru

It's a manquee Assoluta role, it is sung by mezzo sopranos (who usually avoid the high D in the terzetto) or dramatic coloratura sopranos (who can't project the low G in this aria).

The first aria of the role is like a "spinto" coloratura and the range is lyric coloratura mezzo (B3-A5), the terzetto is truly lyric coloratura soprano (F#4-D6) and this aria is more towards a coloratura contralto range (G3-G5).

[raigekimaru]

this is considered a soprano role? doesn't sound like it to me

[BZBlaner]

@primohomme Thanks :P