Roberto Alagna "Salut, demeure chaste et pure" Faust

2004

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Opera
• Gounod
• Faust
• Roberto
• Alagna

[oznob64]

@hajsus he coughs, but this interpretation is still amazing.

[myyellowlabfan]

Frankly, I think the reason everyone else rolls their "r's" is because they cannot sing them the french way and still project their voices.. Certainly Rolando V. & Juan Diego can't. The truth is Alagna, because of growing up speaking both French & Italian, sings both languages with singularly perfect diction!

[placidodu31]

il tousse et alors?! Il ne trahit pas l'air pour autant.....et l'interprète très bien.

Quelle diction.....et quelle voix cuivrée.......

[martindogo]

hermoso,muy buena interpreteacion,magnifico

[chetgeyer]

And at 2:47.  Poor guy.

[chetgeyer]

Goodness.  He coughs at 2:14.

[nochemusical]

The best of the best. No words, nothing more else to say here. The best.

[MrChowChow]

Supreme Faust, focused, still flowing gracefully. I also like his more recent Paris version.

[Hanako5100]

Alagna's "Salut, demeure chaste" somehow doesn't have the taste and class of Kaufmann's. He is putting too much unnecessary rubato and opens his mouth horizontally. Kaufmann's singing is sublime.

[rt98015]

I think I'm hearing Alagna singing with a uvular trill (ʀ), which is not the same sound as the fricative R in modern Parisian French, which is produced without vibrating the uvula, rather through contact between the back of the tongue and the palate (ʁ, χ). This uvular R can also be heard in the singing of Édith Piaf and Mireille Mathieu.

[rt98015]

I play for opera singers daily as a professional pianist-repetiteur. I think I'm right in saying that the rolled R (alveolar trill) is not only the old-fashioned and Italian pronunciation, but also the best way to project one's voice - a constant preoccupation for those who have to sing unamplified in huge theatres, over large orchestras. It also means one can keep all the articulation of consonants at the front of the mouth.

[rt98015]

Je crois entendre (!) que Alagna chante avec un R grasseyé, c'est à dire uvulaire roulé (ʀ), qui n'est pas le même son que le R fricatif du français parisien moderne, qui se produit sans vibration de la luette (ʁ, χ). C'est le même R qu'on entend produire Édith Piaf et Mireille Mathieu.