La clemenza di Tito Salzburg - Deh, per questo istante solo

Salzburg Festival, 2003, conducted by N. Harnoncourt. This is Sesto's desperate rondo from the end of Act II. Vesselina Kasarova is not only a fabulous singer, but also an amazing actress. Her deceptively joyful "Tanto affanno soffre un core" with this painful smile just breaks my heart. Man, I actually cried over an opera!

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[jmahlon]

She's not only destroying the phrases in the beginning, she is also adding shadow vowels. Additionally Mozart should be sung cleanly, and she feels she knows better than his musical markings. When you think you know better than Mozart you never actually do. His music doesnt play correctly when you add in emtional breaks, and the other crap she does. Good singer slaughtering Mozart.

[Arashi110]

I suppose you believe you know better how to sing Mozart. I wonder what exactly makes you think this way so as to call the interpretation of one of the finest Mozart mezzo-sopranos "slaughtering".

[jmahlon]

What I know is that Mozart knows how he wanted his music sung, and Kasarova ignores his muscial markings, she is attempting to emotionally connect to the music, I believe, however she is not singing what is on the page. When I listen to Mozart I want to hear someone singing him who respects him.

[Arashi110]

You suppose she doesn't respect the composer by making his music sound so alive that it moves practically every listener to tears? Music is LIFE. Emotion. Feeling. The singer's task is not only to sing all the notes correctly but to convey to the listener the message of the music. And Kasarova does it much better than many other technically impeccable singers. When she sings Sesto, I can hear him, his thoughts, his guilt, remorse and love, I can see Sesto as Mozart wrote him.

[jmahlon]

Perhaps if she trusted in the composer it would move everyone, not just the uneducated.

[Arashi110]

By "uneducated" you mean me? I am sure she trusts the composer. She just doesn't think it a crime for the interpreter to add his/her own art and soul to the performance.

[SDCmorg]

I will respect what Mozart thinks about his music, but I am having a hard time mistaking you for him. The Mozart whose letters survive to this day loved dramatically involved singing. The Mozart whose autographed scores survived to this day did not write every details in them because he knew better than to straight-jacket his performers.

So you don't like Kasarova's style. So don't listen to her clips. What's this ego trip in trying to talk down another music lover? Yours isn't the only way!

[trousermezzo]

Glorious singing and acting!!! Thanks for posting this!

[lucyliesinashes]

@jmahlon I agree, to an extent, but a lot of that is Harnoncourt and his modernized/romanticized interpretations. Not that Mozart has to be totally free of flexibility, though. Her diction needs work, but it's cleaner in this recording than others. This whole production is very different musically and dramatically, so I'm not surprised to see an experiment like this. I don't think it works, though.

[prosdocimo]

I like Kasarova a lot, specially in Rossini. I respect everyones opinions but I do have to say this is out of style sound too romantic. Too much rubato. Certainly not according to Mozarts intentions or the way this opera was composed. She is very musical thou and has such a great technique

[FelixOcato]

Composers back then, and still now understand that their music wouldn't always be followed to the exact musical notation that they wrote. Especially if they were writing for Operas. In fact, many of them appreciated the way others played and interpreted their music.

The composer wants the musician to give life to his or her music.

She certainly gave life to this piece.

[brodsky96]

1 million STARS for this AUTHENTIC GREAT ARTIST!!!!