Dame Sarah Connolly, 'Scherza infida', Ariodante, Handel

Dame Sarah Connolly sings 'Scherza infida' from Handel's opera Ariodante.
With Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie.
Production by David McVicar. Wiener Staatsoper, 2018-03-04

[@jjmezzo]

What a master! Sublime interpretation! Also, the setting and costumes correct for the original setting of Orlando.

[@lifepath7741]

Love you so much 🙃😊😀😍☺🤗🌲

[@margritkunz7955]

This voice falls deep into my soul. ❤

[@annaoconnor7511]

Those of us privileged enough to witness this transcendent performance live will never forget its emotional impact. Thanks so much for uploading, and allowing us to savour Sarah Connolly's consummate artistry, integrity and committed performance again. I cannot imagine anybody surpassing this interpretation of the aria.

[@geraldbauer5122]

I was one of those privileged witnesses and I cried my tears out. Bless her and the orchestra "les Arts florisantes".

[@themaurice7082]

I was there. Unforgettable.

[@myharmony41]

@@geraldbauer5122 les arts h'abite avec fleurs? C'est interessante

[@myharmony41]

@@themaurice7082 what you can say about her emotional manner's of singing, about how she interpretated suffers through all centuries of human being's and passions, which same peoples so full, same so poor, how high spirit suffer or glad to be inside our bodies, our words, how he suffer without us? What you think about next think: he think about death inside our feelings and change our life to a direction to the better being or we shall know about his unhonest action against human, whom nature always want to be a better and honest as one day wrote in the letters to the friends Plinius Secundus? Her singing as show of thinks of the prince of Denmark Hamlet or scream after first murderess of Joan of Arc. But i believe that kings and princesses don't have so many suffers.Thanks for your future answer.

[@geraldbauer5122]

@@myharmony41 got. me by grammar

[@Rosangela161]

Glorious performance. Thank you for sharing this treasure. Congratulations.

[@Rosangela161]

Applause and encore ... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@CarolYost]

This is a very deep and beautiful performance. I’m looking forward to seeing other artists in the role, with no competitive or cheap spirit. I’m sure I’ll love other performances, too, and I’ll treasure this one with the rest.

[@elizabethfletcher6029]

One of my very favourite arias sung by one of my very favourite mezzos. So uplifting during this awful lockdown. Crying with joy......thank you dear Sarah.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Luv Ariodante ! And this aria steals all ! Wonderful to hear Bartoli,Connolly ,Donato,,Janet Baker and so many others in this . I can't believe theyre was a time when I used to read about music and think I'd die before I ever saw a recording by contemporary composers or little heard Handel operas !

[@michaelarnold408]

Just proves Handel was a great Opera Composer and stirred the emotions and the soul! I would say better than Mozart!

[@ameliebonnet1]

Une présence très masculine et une belle voix intelligemment utilisée. Mais l'orchestre ne la suit pas et le basson est calamiteux.

[@Cinetyk]

OMG, the feeling, the performance, the unison between the feeling of the singing and the music! This opened in 1735?!?!?! OMG I was born in 1984 and because of technology of my time, and the learning and discipline throughout the ages by scholars, musicians, singers, etc etc this music was passed on to me - a simple son of middle class laborers... I cannot be grateful enough, no matter how long I live!

[@avismelodia9429]

The perfect example of a suicidal aria in da capo form. A heartbreakingly beautiful 12 minutes or so; what a singer, what an actress. Thank you so much for uploading it.

[@sopranoatlarge5112]

i bow down before the goddess. freakin' sublime- and heartbreaking.

[@wishingonthemoon1]

Ann Murray will always be Ariodante for me, but this is sublime. Even if the conductor made some questionable choices of tempo.

[@miriamendersby_soprano5503]

Absolutely peerless. She is magnificent

[@phantomunmasked]

I'm not crying someone just stuck a treebranch in my eye.

[@dennisrice2763]

Fantastic! And not just the voice, but the acting. The trembling of the hands, the facial expressions, the vocal soaring from those prone positions - and the voice just soars!

[@ferdiriordan1]

Stunningly beautiful.Such feeling, such passion, such sorrow. Thank you for upload.

[@fimetic]

Sarah Connolly, perfection.

[@JohnSmith-lk8cy]

There is something about her voice that touches my soul. Some voices do that. This is one. Some make me put my fingers in my ears. I have a particular sound I like - pure, clear no screech and not much vibrato. And- All the training and technique can't give one a lovely sounding voice if it's not there already. I can't bear some voices that others love - like Anna Netrebko I hate it!

[@Walter50]

This is indeed a splendid performance, still I would recommend everyone loving this music to seek out Janet Bakers interpretation. The entire opera conducted by Raymond Leppard is available on youtube and is probably the supreme recording of this aria, or for that matter, any opera of Handel as far as I am concerned.

[@ira-art]

На мой слух Бекер не так элегантна

[@BiBaBo49]

Oh, how I missed HER in this year's run of Ariodante at the Vienna State Opera .. she is just spectacular in this role! Please come back!!!

[@barbaragauhl6175]

Thank you Sarah Connolly for this fantastic arie , Brava Dacapo , Dacapo , Dacapo .....

[@crazycatpetera1404]

I’m trying to find a world class, legendary British Opera Singer. (Don’t ask why 😂) so Forgive my naivety but could someone who knows a lot about opera tell me how Sarah would be regarded internationally. And is there anybody else you’d recommend ahead of her? Thanks

[@terrymeier7185]

Keep reading. With Sarah Connolly you found her.

[@frogmouth]

Really appreciated the translation subtitles. Very moving performance. Acting superb. Liked the movement levels : she is very fit with fantastic support for the voice.

[@elizabethfletcher6029]

Watching again Sarah's sublime performance. I'm overwhelmed by how she always totally inhabits a role. We are so blessed to have her singing for us. Thank you Sarah for allowing us see you in one of my favourite arias of beloved Handel.

[@DavidHassell2004]

Stunning just stunning. What we'd give for a DVD of this broadcast with only 2 pretty poor ones available.

[@angelmayca2198]

Bravo!!!

[@AF-ie5mk]

Phenomenal! Thank you for posting this. Somehow I missed the news about the livestream - is there anywhere I can watch it now?

[@kathish]

Sadly, once Vienna livestreams have happened they are no longer available so far as I can tell. You can listen to the audio from a different night at www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/el-fantasma-de-la-opera/fantasma-opera-haendel-ariodante-24-02-18/4491816/

[@mariaarias5982]

Hermoso. Adoro la ópera. Y mi sueño sería,estar ahy palpando desde cerca .me hace estremecerse mis sentimientos. Wuaooo bellísimo. Gracias por compartir. Saludos desde Ecuador

[@mckavitt13]

I wish I had been party to this Live performance... but even as recorded here it is unforgettable. Such beauty of tone, emphases & technical variations in accord w the dramatic requirements of the music. Dame Sarah's voice is of the purest velvet.

[@melqisedeq]

Le migliori prestazioni. Bravo.

[@CarolYost]

Of course, this is a woman in a trouser role. She’s very fine.

[@PDXLibertarian]

magnificent.

[@polly1508]

No words

[@gumbo441]

Absolutely awesome!!

[@ingadoxrud9237]

I just love her voice❤️

[@enriqueali]

The 'A' section is painfully slow. Loses almost all sense of forward momentum. Bravo to her for managing to sustain as much line as she did. But even an artist of her calibre couldn't be expected to carry all those achingly long yearning lines without the extra breaths she was forced to take

[@SarahConnolly63]

Oh really! Might it have occurred that it was my interpretation and only my decision to create a dimension where feeling trounced “accepted” norms?

[@barbaranorthwood]

@@SarahConnolly63 I hope the gentleman feels suitably chastened.

[@marinacantele7270]

M. les contreténors, vous pouvez aller vous rehabiller.

[@R_Jackson]

😀

[@CarolYost]

I respect the many marvelous countertenors in this role. Phooey on the snobbishness toward them! They can do it! I love what Sarah Connolly did here, but I will never take the laurels from the great countertenors. They should be promoted. Period.

[@ruichorao]

Absolutey stunning! Such a great performance.

[@kathish]

Thank you! I'm pleased to have a video memento after watching the webcast, of which this bit was obviously a highlight.

[@НазирОмарходжаев-ь8ю]

Браво!!!

[@cristinadegrassi8164]

Bravissima

[@MadameValeshka]

It's amazing 🥺😍✨

[@williamadolphe7921]

Nothing, no one, beats, the glorious Tatiana Troyanos, 1971. This is but amateur.

[@onkelgreifenklau]

I wonder why some opera freaks cannot resist to overrate their favourite singers or versions (which are not necessarily the best except in their eyes) by bashing others. This is but amateur? Sorry to say but the amateur is beyond a doubt you.

[@trpo6715]

Geweldig, wat een mooie aria

[@eduardpijl3854]

Absoluut, tot nog toe de allermooiste aria die ik heb mogen horen. Van Anne Sophie van Otter maar ook jaren geleden van Sarah Connolly in het concertgebouw

[@cristinadegrassi8164]

Per mia colpa? Per tua colpa!

[@cristinadegrassi8164]

Scherza infido!

[@numerico42]

Desearía saber qué dice en español

[@verdipratiselveamene]

Hola, mi español no es muy bueno pero encontré esta traducción en el sitio "laopera.net": Ríe, infiel, en brazos de tu amante! Traicionado, me arrojaré en brazos de la muerte. Pero a cortar el indigno lazo, como sombra triste, como espíritu desnudo, volveré.

[@numerico42]

Verdi Prati muchas gracias amigo

[@vilhelmhammershoi4631]

Troyanos.... I keep missing you!

[@tomperson3210]

either way...as a Ranger, I'd do her

[@innominated1576]

What a fuck amazing!

[@taniaverorachelstalinskaya4446]

orgueil et prejuges je vous laisse! mais en toutes circonstances votre voix n est jamais la consonante de la mienne! autrement dit! votre voix ne fut n est et ne sera jamais representative de mes émotions

[@CarolYost]

Who are you?

[@vilhelmhammershoi3871]

I am so sorry but this is lamentable. Tatiana Troyanos is still the queen of this aria!

[@onkelgreifenklau]

ridiculous - of course Troyanos was a wonderful singer. But does this mean every other singer’s rendition must be called „lamentable“?? This rigid fanatism has a pathological air about it

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Awful! Russell Oberlin would have sung this better

[@onkelgreifenklau]

what a thoroughly perverted judgement -

[@CharlesProoth]

Maybe you could sing it better too?

[@BellaFirenze]

He died while singing this music. He blew up.

[@elizabethferidobohlin9943]

Don’t forget Anne Sofie von Otter…best who’ve sung this aria….(for me)

[@vilhelmhammershoi4631]

ok.... she is awful.... les arts florissants and Christie as always exquisite.

[@로보티니콜라스]

Don't be fanatic, enjoy this art.