Renee Fleming "Non mi dir" Don Giovanni

2000

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Opera
• Mozart
• Don
• Giovanni
• Donna
• Anna
• Renee
• Fleming

[Homoclassicus]

People are saying Fleming sounds self-indulgent in this performance. I do disagree, but then I also ask myself whether a little self-indulgence isn't really necessary. I mean, Don Ottavio just called her "crudele" because she didn't value his genuine feelings for her (of course, because she was in pain after her father's death). "Non mi dir" is an aria that calls for sentimental persuasion and a feeling of self pity: its last words are "perhaps Heaven will someday have mercy on me"!

[irregularverb37]

I've heard people say that Renee Fleming's voice doesn't do coloratura. I don't know what they're talking about because all the coloratura I've heard her do, including that here is amazing.

[avarmadillo]

Well, this is the best, most musically intelligent, clean performance of this I know. It displays the interpretive intelligence, and thoughtful training she got from working with Schwartzkopf. Before we show what spiritual lilliputians we are by throwing our pebbles at a giant that a boulder couldn't bring down, let's start by applying that aspect of criticism that is most important and, yet, most neglected: appreciation. And there is much good here to appreciate, & the good is very, very good.

[spenzur]

@MsOwl24 Yes there is a DVD. Its from The Met. Bryn Terfel sings Don Giovanni ;)

[MsOwl24]

What production is this from, is there a DVD??

[arnbjorgmaria]

@cloudy0317 You do realize this a stage performance from a theatre...not a tv film....

[cloudy0317]

Very nice voice, And she sounds great on the recordings. I just wish she cut down on her stage ego.

[olympicfreak678]

Anna wants to sing this? ahahahah!!!

[lxr0913]

bravissimi! fleming's performance here, as her performances of several operas of richard strauss(arabela, capriccio, rosenkavalier, etc.), are of a kind of modern women, dependent and has her own thoughts.

in addition, on the stage of the met, it's not just about music. here you see that each note is reflected by the two figures' action. so, they are also great actor and actress here.

btw: fleming's trill at the end and the 16th notes of the last 'pieta' are simply stunning.

[reintje77]

het summum van een vocaal weergaloos gezongen compleetheid, voor mij is Fleming het antwoord, daarom kan ik het niet droog houden

Groet Kees Weijens

[spintotenor83]

Stunning!

[OperaMystery80]

For me, Fleming's voice isn't suited to Donna Anna. She's divine as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and as Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, but Anna is a dramatic coloratura role or a dramatic-lyric role best suited to singers like Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Edda Moser, Carol Vaness, Cheryl Struder & Anna Tomawa Sintow. In Fleming's defense, however, her Mozart in those days was better than anything she's recently sung!