Sumi Jo - Thomas - Hamlet - Ophelie - A vos jeux, mes amis

This video clip is one of Sumi Jo's
DVD Title "Mad for Love/Amore di Pazzia
- Coloratura Highlights." This Opera Gala
Concert DVD consists of Sumi Jo's 4 coloratura
mad scenes and 5 encores. Elvira (I Puritani),
Lucia (di Lammermoor), Amina (La Sonnambula),
Ophelie (Hamlet) are main arias.

This clip is Ophelie's mad scene
from Hamlet.

2003, Seoul, South Korea.
Conductor - Paolo Olmi
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sumi
• Jo
• Thomas
• Hamlet
• Ophelie
• vos
• jeux
• mes
• amis
• coloratura
• madness
• mad
• scene

[killerbunny123123]

who knows what she was thinking at 9:55 ... first time i see her so....thrilled?

[smoothiw]

@killerbunny123123 Maybe she thought "Oh.. Thanks God... This concert is finally over .... Oh..No!! Encores are waiting for me"...hehe.. just a joke...

[smoothiw]

@killerbunny123123 One more thing... at that time she caught a cold !! (I was shocked ... knowing that this horribly mad scene concert with a cold..) So maybe she thought " Thanks God!! I did it in spite of a cold".... Anyway I was there at that time... it was a just fantastic concert...~

[brightboy86]

She´s just to good! everyone could love her and hate her at the same time!!

[coy6642126]

Imagine singing back-to-mad mad scene arias--I'd be nuts! But seriously, Jo is truly the victor. Congratulations!

[erginakif]

This is sublime!!!!!!!!

[danawinsor]

Sumi Jo is a superb vocalist; however, she is also a superb musician, in my opinion. Her phrasing is musical, & she has a true feel for coloratura, not merely great pipes.

[danawinsor]

@sandytheslayer I'm pretty sure it's an E. I checked a long time ago: the aria is in the key of B major, and that note is a "Fa."

[killerbunny123123]

@smoothiw lucky youTT__TT

[JoanNilson]

This is the rendition that Joan Sutherland recorded way back in the 1960s ...but ..with a trill to die for! Jo is lovely though - and she does clearly far more look like the poor sweet Ophelia. Sutherland - still in my ear's mind the par excellence in this role - with all due respect - always looked as though she could have bench-pressed any Hamlet who crossed the stage.

[mrportobello]

That is an e-natural. Then she pops up to an e-flat 9:36. I love this rendition!

[mrportobello]

Wow. That ending was was fantastic. I usually find a lot of her interpretations to be rather bland. This is fantastic!