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Mary-Ellen Nesi

George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare

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[isigenes]

Great aria indeed, and a unique, touching interpretation. tamerlano236, selenaluce and fourmi1060 certainly miss the point by engaging in a useless conversation on male versus female voices and suggesting their (identical) favourite interpretation. It is a pity that one and the same person, as it seems, uses different names to actually abuse the purpose of the comments here. Such pathetic practice will hopefully stop after the recent linking of youtube to google and their new membership policy

[mradaChris]

Well I don't want to get into all of the heated discussions as I have read below, however, I feel that Nesi's singing is beautiful but it sounded a little too sweet to me. I like Brian Asawa's version as it resonates with me at a deeper level.

[Zanghire]

@DonAnchise I agree Nesi is just sublime here! she excells in all things baroque, castrati roles in particular!

[DonAnchise]

@serenaluce @thebarroque Don't read this idiot, he just like to create controversy where there's not and about his point of view I would say that Joseph Goebbles was wrong, a lie told a thousand times does not become the truth. The truth is the truth, and the truth is that Nesi kicks Spanos Ass in this.

[tamerlano236]

Nice. Great aria. The best version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's. That is just otherworldly.

[serenaluce]

@thebarroque Yeah, I can read. I also said that it was a weird fashion to give men's roles to women to forget about castrati, and not to give them to falsettists. At that time perhaps it made sense, but nowadays when nobody knows how castrati really sounded and we have enough good countertenors I think this practice makes no sense anymore. I prefer more logic in opera. Besides I expressed my opinion that Nesi's voice is very beautiful but she sounds too feminine for this role.

[thebarroque]

@serenaluce You really can't read? can you? I said Male roles composed for woman! And if you perfer to hear a CT compared to another CT in this channel, reserve your words for a Male role that was for a castrato, and not for Women singing Sesto, Evanco, Achille, Argante, and many other Male roles composed for women!

[serenaluce]

@thebarroque You mean composed FOR castrati? OK. Tastes really differ. I think that my position that men's roles should be sung by countertenors and women's by women makes sense too. I still think that countertenors are a special category of voices and resemble female voices only superficially. That falsetto it's just a technique and men have a specific sound which no females have and should sound manly, and women feminine. I prefer one CT to be compared with another CT and not with a woman.

[thebarroque]

@serenaluce Felxibility implies a more effective sound at the coloraturas, and yes if I dare to sing as a countertenor I'm OK with being compared to a female, specially if someday I dare to sing arias that were made famous by female singers and not were composed by castrati.

[serenaluce]

@thebarroque OK, if more flexible doesn't mean beautiful or superior what's the difference then whose vocal cords are more flexible?! If it's not for money, then at that time theybegan to introduce that weird fashion to forget about castrati. Perhaps then it was revolutionary and somehow reasonable, but fashion often has nothing to do with logic. I think that nowadays the most beautiful singing to be heard is countertenors'! Are you OK to be compared with women all the time as a CT?