Susan Graham - D'amour l'ardente flamme

[@Askade1]

Susan Graham and Antonio Pappano - what a combination and what a performance - outstanding!

[@ligiamonteiro0]

She's perfect! Everything about this video is so great: her posture on stage, her beautiful french, her perfect phrasing... I just love Graham!

[@pauldeanify]

gorgeous music sung beautifully .A lovely combination

[@alainniay4668]

Pour moi c'est la version de référence, quelle magnifique artiste ! La voix est superbe, l' interprétation fiévreuse d'une incroyable sensualité, le français irréprochable , la grâce incarnée.

[@A.M.816]

Exelente, fabulosa, realmente de otro mundo !!! Al fin una mezzo-soprano que le haga justicia a una de las arias mas bellas de todo el repertorio vocal universal. Exelente Pappano, ojala tuvieramos mas maestros como él en los fosos !!!

[@MariaCaIIas]

at this point she is as close to perfection as an artist can ever hope to get....

[@mastroapp]

Elle a tout ce que j'attends d'une artiste lyrique. Pour moi, la perfection.

[@alainniay4668]

Mastro Software pour moi c est la plus belle version, Crespin n'est pas mal mais trop élégante . Susan graham transmet un souffle, une urgence, une sensualité . De plus, sa voix est ronde, sublime et son français remarquable.

[@willrobinson1229]

Someone previously mentioned that Susan Graham's singing was "never too sensual", which works so perfectly with this role of Margarite. Margarite is a sheltered innocent from another time period where young women were shielded from anything sensual and taught from childhood all of the religious virtues. I find Susan's interpretation absolutely perfect and vocally stunning. I can't say enough good things about this performance.

[@surgegio153x]

This is pure Perfection!✨

[@ashleyalter1]

The best performance I've ever heard of this aria. Just beautiful in its vulnerability.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Simplemente maravillosa.!!

[@pslogge]

a masterpiece, a masterclass,an oh my god situation! thank you so much S.Graham...to you too BPP

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Maravillosa ""aria y voz.!!

[@lyrictenore]

Beautiful aria. thnx. Have always loved this aria as well as Susan's voice

[@davinaros2413]

I adore this aria and I like Susan singing it, she is great, so intense.

[@fer1179]

OMG this Romance is sooo touching!

[@w7md]

the caress of his hand, alas, and his kiss, the flame of love, consuming all my days! Ah, the peace of my being has left me for ever. I am at my window, or outside all daylong in order to see him appear, or hastern his return. My heart beats and throbs when it thinks he is coming. Through my tenderness, let me bring him back! O flaming caresses! How I wish one day to see my soul expire in his kisses of love! Translation: Miki Swann © 2007

[@benjaminvox]

Brava! This is a fiendishly difficult piece, and everything is effortless in her performance.

[@manrico29]

Voix superbe, merveuilleuse interpretation. Bravissima Susan !!!

[@jadach88]

Susan is amazing!!!!

[@vitalymatveev1084]

Sublime. She's the best here

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Exquisita interpretación.!!

[@jeanvandenberghe6664]

Super de chez super !

[@YazooMusic]

Saw her sing Marguerite last night at the Met--great Robert Lepage production. Had to come hear her sing this aria again.

[@w7md]

Loves ardent flame consumes all my days. Ah, the peace of my being has left me for ever. His departure, his absence are like a tomb for me and far from his presence everything appears in mourning. Now my poor head is soon going crazy, my feeble heart stops, then immediately turns to ice. His walk that I so admire, his gracious demeanour, his mouth, smiling sweetly, the charm of his eyes, his enchanting voice, which he uses to arouse me,

[@marie-armelle458]

magnifique

[@Teddyb1939]

So lovely.

[@maum125]

Wow... divina!

[@mariavelasco]

Bravissima!!!!

[@ezayi]

There´s a video with Jessey Norman singing this and it is fabulous. I always liked her more than the others singing this aria. Now that I heard Susan, I definitely like her as much as Jessey. Better than Jessey and Susan singing it, I haven´t heard.

[@musettina6adina224]

Olga Borodina also sings it beautifully.

[@pedroa.cantero9449]

Hermosa y sentida interpretación de Susan Graham de un tema tan hondo como el de la redención por amor. Al papel redentor del amor en Fausto es difícil resistirse, tanto es el remanente de aquel materno sobre el que construimos nuestros sueños, como lo es el propio mensaje crístico que gobierna nuestra conciencia. Amén de la consabida reflexión de Schopenhauer, Don Juan Valera, en carta a Eriberto García de Quevedo escrita en 1853 desde Río de Janeiro, nos recuerda: «En Fausto, al menos, se trasluce algo: la redención por el amor. Margarita se lleva á Fausto al cielo, como Beatriz á Dante, Laura á Petrarca, Eloísa á Abelardo, aunque ésta más bien le envía que se le lleva, pues Abelardo murió antes. En el Don Juan Tenorio, de Zorrilla, hay la misma tramoya, imitado del Don Juan de Marana, de Dumas, que la tomó del Fausto de Goëthe. Esto de convertir á una bonita y nada desdeñosa muchacha en escala de Jacob para subir al cielo, me agrada mucho más que los medios que antiguamente nos daban de mortificar la carne y estar siempre en ayunas, penitencias y conversación interior» . A Valera, como viejo cínico, le alivia tamaña metáfora, mas lo cierto es que ante un amor intenso no hay dios que resista, por justiciero que se pretenda. Y este canto siempre me pareció portar en sí mismo el poder purificador de un crisol. «D'amour l'ardente flamme,/ consume mes beaux jours./ Ah! la paix de mon âme/ a donc fui pour toujours!/ Son départ, son absence/ sont pour moi le cercueil,/ et loin de sa présence,/ tout me paraît en deuil./ Alors ma pauvre tête/ se dérange bientôt,/ mon faible cœur s'arrête,/ puis se glace aussitôt […]». La música nos rinde a la evidencia: estamos en pleno romanticismo y el amor tuvo entonces valor de ley.

[@paradiddleday]

As a mediocre chorister, I can never understand how the great ones like Graham can produce perfect long phrases while lying on their back or running up and down the stage! As this piece progresses, you can see her putting her whole soul into the interpretation--look at the perspiration on her neck and breast. Who says the great singers are all in the past?!! A worthy successor to Horne & Co!

[@zoelafleur5938]

bravo !

[@andreanino8629]

PER FEC TA!

[@bellinianodoc]

@ezayi Be' se sei una cantante lirica hai tutta la mia solidarietà (oltre che la mia ammirazione). In effetti anche da qui, attraverso le registrazioni che arrivano, par di capire che in Germania la regia d'opera sia spesso quantomai "dadaista". Ricordo per esempio quel Fidelio con un Florestano che cantava la sua sublime aria con una mutanda in testa... Detto questo, metterei la firma perchè la vita culturale in Italia fosse al livello di quella tedesca. Ciao!

[@natachu444]

This kicks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yurizivago3641]

Intensa e brava!

[@rrreverb]

I love how she flips her hair at 2:30 !!

[@ezayi]

Amen!. Come non cantano, non sanno come un cantante si sente quando devono fare tutto quello che vogliono loro che alla fine non fa senso. E se lui o lei dice qualsiasi cosa, allora lui o lei e una Diva o Divo. Un perfetto esempio di quello che hai detto tu sono i registi in Germania. Qua ti vieni voglia di >:-/ ... tu sai che.

[@maritate]

Thank you for replying me back. I have never heard that opera I am going to look for it.If you want to keep in touch...just write to me ok? Marite

[@cliffgaither]

_Great sounding voice, even if not a big fan._

[@willrobinson1229]

also, probably a phallic symbol for Marguerite's new passion

[@gercat11]

Ah j'hésite : Crespin ou elle dans cet air? Elle est plus dramatique, plus moderne et bien sûr le chant est d'une pureté merveilleuse. Merci berlioz !, merci Susan et tant d'autres…

[@maritate]

Hi ! Could you tell me please from what opera is this beautiful aria? It is the first time i heard it and the singer and I liked it very much.

[@musettina6adina224]

It s from Berlioz’ s Damnation de Faust. act IV

[@smurf902]

Putting Graham, who is a towering woman, nearly 6 feet, with a gigantic pencil onstage like she's 4 years old in kindergarten, is ridiculous..someone had to say it.

[@aosanshou]

Tiens! I don't find this song in my Faust Album(Carlo Rizzi). How can they skip this one.

[@w.urlitzer1869]

Because that is Gounod. This is Berlioz.

[@aosanshou]

@@w.urlitzer1869Thanks.

[@aosanshou]

@@w.urlitzer1869Big thanks from Japan. I saw the Faust clip(Terri Polo lip-sinking) moment-là in movie and decided to go French-speaking country as AFS cultural exchange student. If not I was to be sent Spanish speaking country(as my English was already perfect then …I mean then ;). ).

[@silversheep1]

I have yet to hear an interpretation of this aria that I like better than Susan Graham's.

[@olgafreitas8395]

She is wonderful in this aria... But why the hell is she holding a giant pencil???

[@smurf902]

7 years later I am here to tell u I designed this as a twizzler but they made me change it to a pencil

[@bellinianodoc]

A proposito di registi scemi... Quando si arriva alle parole "Ah, caresses de flamme", vertice emotivo di questo che è uno dei capolavori assoluti di tutta la letteratura operistica, cosa fa il bravo regista?? Fa correre il soprano del tutto gratuitamente, in modo che la poverina non può rendere a dovere quel punto cruciale. Proprio dei talentacci questi registi, peccato solo una cosa: che non conoscono, non capiscono, nè quindi amano, la musica che pretendono di mettere in scena.

[@Jan325]

The devil is José van Dam

[@infrantasi]

She's a great artist, but the tempo is way, way too fast during the climactic phrases, not enough give and take from the conductor. She needs a Luisi or Muti for this music. And the sweaty finish is not romantic. Better to sit in front of a mirror à la Georges de la Tour and let the music flow out from within. This was like aerobics class.

[@vivegedda]

Beautiful rendition but crespin remains number one