Barbara Bonney - Et incarnatus est

[@OperaLover84]

Speaking as someone who is obsessed with vocal pedagogy -- this is a masterclass is beautiful singing here. See how relaxed her face is and how little she uses her jaw. She makes the sounds inside, and that's how it's done. Brava!

[@mckavitt13]

Agreed. Yet so long ago. Look at J E Gardiner. Looks like a kid!

[@ozanyapisan5965]

I am so happy to see you write this. I know nothing about vocal pedagogy but after listening to her version of Ave Maria for years, I thought it was time to look up who actually sings it, which is the first time I've ever done this with opera. Her voice is so clean that I guess even for a primitive listener like myself it translates.

[@davidsimmons654]

@@ozanyapisan5965 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 awesome!

[@robertmanno5749]

This is a lesson in singing: perfect vocal production, subtle vowel modification, centered breath and a text that is clear but with a connected legato. The great soprano at age 35.

[@Civille7]

This woman's voice is divine

[@signingupiseasyd]

The quality of her voice in the upper registers is ethereal and amazing

[@shibadoc]

BB is my role model. Almost makes me want to quit singing. But she is a standard to shoot for. I never tire of hearing this angelic voice.

[@PillyCremina]

Barbara Bonney è veramente una cantante meravigliosa ed una persona bellissima anche umanamente. Dopo averla conosciuta la stimo ancora di più!

[@dibladiblup]

Thank you, Barbara Bonney and Sir Eliot for choosing this tempo. Finally somebody is making music here and not celebrating long and high notes.

[@acatalano2641]

Look no further for an utterly sublime performance by the Beautiful Barbara Bonney.

[@DavidBrowningBYD]

Perfectly lovely, a joy to watch and listen to. I love a singer who uses the voice God gave her, not trying to make it something else. Just see how relaxed her face, neck and shoulders are as she sings even the most difficult phrases! What technique!

[@johngotwalt3143]

This is the first music I'm hearing in 2021. May life in the coming months proceed as effortlessly and graciously as her singing. We deserve it.

[@andreamoboe]

Barbara Bonney is amazing! Her voice has everything. Her voice just sparkles and every note and word is important. The best soprano I have ever heard! :)

[@diomarimontoya]

Hi, here is another version! What do you think? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWLRlXicps5phq8&start_radio=1&t=2

[@ajhiflyer]

I can imagine every soprano in the choir is breathing every note with this wonderful woman - taken from an all round fabulous performance of Mozart's great C minor Mass under the supreme direction of John Eliot Gardiner.

[@caveatemp]

I got the feeling from the conductor's face after she was done said, "Yeah, now I can bask in the glory of her voice. Yep, I conducted that." She is amazing. One of the best voices and the most touching composition.

[@jenovan1]

magnifique et touchante interprétation. sobriété, intériorité, profondeur, élévation...c'est divin, c'est Mozart merci

[@IndigoBone]

So beautiful, so clear and pure. It sounds so easy and light. Ahhhhhh. Beautiful!

[@dojagi1461]

Indigo Bone Must be one of the hardest to sing. Not that Mozart is easy in any way.

[@DanRobSo]

She makes singing this look so effortless and easy - the truth that this is VERY difficult to sing! Brava, Barbara!

[@MayaKherani]

This is a masterclass in perfect vocal technique!

[@MayaKherani]

6 years later: the more I know about vocal technique, the more I just keep coming back to this video. Efficient airflow, pharyngeal vowels, and clean adduction of the cords. All in service of making this piece sound like a slice of heaven...Effortlessness takes years of effort!

[@bigell91]

@@MayaKherani YESSS!!!

[@martagarciacadena9982]

@@MayaKherani pharingeal vowels? What do you mean? Could you clarify? Thank you!

[@OnceUponADiet]

I have no words. What a voice. A gift from God.

[@khothye]

I saw this video on TV when I was 15 and felt in love with Mozart and with lyric singing... thank you, thank you Barbara.

[@carlstryg]

Sublime, understated and absolutely perfectly sung, and backed by orchestral exquisiteness. One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, sung by one of the best Sopranos to walk this earth. Heart-rending.

[@ALYSSA09MUSICSTARS]

Wonderful and 100% perfect - sung with heart and soul - Barbara Bonney will sit one day on the side of Mozart. To sing in this quality is the best we can do. For artists like Barbara Bonney, Arleen Auger and Margaret Price Mozart has written his great Mass.

[@danawinsor1380]

I couldn't agree more (and let's not forget Elly Ameling!)

[@jimbuxton2187]

I love her interpretation! Very good trills!

[@ImSoBored54]

Her control, and the ease and subtly with which she exudes such beauty, just astounds me. Her voice is... beyond words. Thanks for posting this.

[@SundanceCrave]

she just makes it look so effortless! amazing.

[@isabellemontreal3503]

Interpretation digne de la plus grande entre toutes. Comme d'habitude, Barbara est stupéfiante de justesse, de pureté, de musicalité..... bref, excellent, Bravo!

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

Es una genio de la técnica vocal

[@SteveL2012]

Had I been in the chorus, I would have fainted, no exaggeration, from the unparalleled beauty of BB’s voice and her utterly perfect stylistic and interpretive performance of Mozart. This has been in my head all week, and I can’t stop listening.

[@caveatemp]

You can really see that in the image of the women behind her. Truly, this is beauty par excellence. Mozart was touched by God Himself.

[@Juliaflo]

Singing a challenging passage by heart----simply magnificent.

[@alylacroix]

No words to say, just WOW O___O What a voice!!

[@PascalAbida]

D'une extraordinaire justesse et d'une extrême pureté !!! une interprétation Sublime.

[@isabellepaoli3901]

Beaucoup d'humilité , une voix en osmose avec l'orchestre, quelle délicatesse . Merci Barbara Bonney .

[@shadboltbill]

There shouldn't be such a thing as vocal perfection, or is there? Well. there is--and Barbara Bonney and Mozart achieve it. A culmination of great art, honed to simple perfection.

[@BellezaesDios]

Bravissima! What a wonderful instrument! She's also a beautiful person and teacher! God bless her!

[@AzrinAziz]

This movement is trillion times better then pop songs nowadays.

[@SatanAteMySocks]

+Azrin Aziz (Kiko) Just like apples are a trillion and gazillion times better than oranges...

[@AzrinAziz]

SatanAteMySocks lol, i laughed hard today.

[@serpeor7472]

No soy religioso, pero esta mujer no sólo canta, también reza, sin necesidad de utilizar la expresión corporal. Cerrar los ojos........Perfecta.

[@curaticac5391]

This exceptional soprano at her best! And a young John Eliot Gardiner. Thank you for posting it.

[@papagen00]

I heard Barbara in San Francisco often in the 1990's. What a gorgeous voice! She and Kiri Te Kanawa were the two most perfect soprano voices I have ever heard to this day.

[@AstriaICOW]

greatest lyrical soprano I've heard yet far

[@twfsk]

her and Kathleen Battle maybe

[@AstriaICOW]

pffff, Kathleen Battle is so overrated in comparison to Bonney

[@Daebi117]

Sylvia Mcnair?

[@SteveL2012]

Agreed, McNair is a distant second because she is not anywhere near as musical as B.B., and Kathleen Battle is unique but better at the lyric coloratura repertoire rather than pure lyric Mozart.

[@Daebi117]

SteveL2012 for me Mcnair has the most heavenly soprano voice I’ve heard, Barbara is the distant second

[@jerrodnickels2518]

Barbara and Arleen Auger!! It doesn't get any better. If there is a heaven, this must be it!

[@Cordylcoh]

We are being shown here how it is done! Beautiful singing - amazing.

[@dhlrpdls]

How can she sing so easily? No sign of tension or difficulties... A.M.A.S.I.N.G!!

[@leratomaisa5757]

she sounds so perfect wonderful sounds of angelic voice's!!

[@brucelee31]

LOVED the trill she made with her voice. I've never heard an opera singer do that...or I just haven't watched enough videos of opera singers XD Barbara Bonney is awe inspiring!

[@elvenlove]

Truly Lovely. One of my favorite pieces.

[@romuloVG]

Best performance ever!

[@ВалентинХудяков-о2л]

❤Голос звучит прекрасно ,тембр очаровательный.Браво ооо.❤❤

[@Saewelo-returns]

Amazing,my favourite rendition of this,thanks for posting this.

[@Marielegoth]

The best performance ever! Breathtaking! It's so pure so beautiful as it has to be :3

[@lymanmj]

Hats off, ladies and gentlemen: a real masterpiece here. Beautifully performed. The way Mozart brings us back down almost to earth in the last few measures gives me chills.

[@diomarimontoya]

Hi, here is another version! What do you think? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWLRlXicps5phq8&start_radio=1&t=2

[@Melpomena-o2e]

Najpiękniejsze wykonanie❤

[@JRS2M]

Sorry, but ONLY 85 351 people have had the wonderful chance of listening to such a marvel?! Irony apart, these 8 minutes turn easily to ages, if you let yourself flow with the beauty both of the melody and of the voice. Thank you Mozart! Thank you Barbara! FRom a guy of Lisbon who loves great music.

[@ajhiflyer]

Simply stunning!

[@margitbauer9944]

Ja, sie singt wie ein Engel - es gibt keine bessere Version...göttlich!

[@michaelzurkinden116]

It's a sort of miracle of pure beauty

[@sassycassiestar]

wtf how is she so perfect

[@zralokvemigraci]

that made me cry. so beuatiful... as pure as mozart wrote it i believe...

[@harryhagan5937]

I knew she was fabulous, but I didn't know she was American. Bravissima!

[@JosephCousins2]

This is so beautiful

[@philzmusic8098]

That cadenza! What a genius Mozart was.

[@MusicBeautyLove]

She is AMAZING!

[@sivan.goldman]

So beautiful!!!

[@xav71176]

Perfect.

[@nanouchnika]

Magnifique ! très belle voix

[@MySpace662]

What control! what a voice.

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

Sin duda la soprano estado unidense mas extraordinaria de la historia una voz simplemente impecable, divina.

[@raulalfredoosma7701]

De acuerdo en que es algo supremo, pero por favor no elvides a Arleen Auger, incluso con su interpretacion de esta misma pieza musical.

[@mimohernandezhernandez5499]

Ame tu comentario

[@Schollistico]

¡¡Qué brava que es!!how i adore her, she does it easy and beautiful. She is one of the best sopranos; how i'd like to listen to her again sul palco scenico.

[@carlyn65]

Yes, this is truly one of the most difficult arias to sing...I've done it myself and the breaths are appropriate and necessary. CLR

[@Arrakis-]

Simply: the perfection of Ángels is that.

[@danielungermann7055]

This is really Mozart in perfection.

[@caveatemp]

Imagine if every suffering soul in the world could take in the absolute beauty of this at once. Heaven would bloom.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Sorrow and nostalgia touch my feathery heart. Unimpeachable performance！

[@loretohidalgo3533]

her face is so relaxed

[@HeavenlyLights]

John Elliot Gardiner, Barbara Bonney and Mozart. Say no more. 💎💎💎💎💎

[@ageu-incorporadorimobiliar7802]

Sublime👏👏

[@Morten_Nielsen1979]

Thank you. This is what I love about youtube. Good information. I'm off to the library or record shop :-)

[@Janibeva]

Qué manejo de la voz, hermoso simplemente y delicioso de escuchar.

[@loginn19]

PURE PERFECTION

[@williamschultz104]

The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,the pinnacle of reality!Oh and the singing is suited for the beautiful words.

[@supawels3627]

Wunderschön und by heart!

[@TimothyRookey]

She's the most enjoyable one to watch and to listen to singing this song on KZbin. However, my recording of Ileana Cotrubas singing it is my favorite.

[@aniamezzo]

Fabulous !!!!

[@ryuk-mcawfromthealiens797]

Бесподобно! (russian: matchless, excellently)

[@shkeni]

Just like Callas was the ur-dramatic soprano, so Barbara Bonney is the ur-Soubrette. Simply incredible.

[@호호호-y6w]

superb

[@captebbtide]

All such performances of this sublime work are to be judged by the Bonney Standard - the fine Bonney standard!

[@mariesabineclemencon]

sublime

[@g.j.vrijmoeth8586]

From heaven...

[@ceretomer5987]

If I hadn't watched this video while listening to this song, I would have guessed that an unknown beautiful instrument created this sound.

[@metodsironic]

crying is inevitable

[@aysegshanal2670]

That's right :) internal pitching mechanism. not producing from outside. glad someone knows what they are talking about. Greetings from Australia.

[@franciscoespinozagamboa6490]

Arleen Auger y Barbara Bonney son las dueñas absolutas de esta joya del genio WAM

[@Merlin1940]

For the lack of control, you may think of her particular way of placing the breaths. What I found is that she doesn't try to make them invisible, but to make they don't disturb the song - slightly different, yet very appropriate IMO. She may put a (very) little too much vibrato, but IMO she doesn't lack of control. Mon 12 Nov 2007 15:56 GMT

[@thegreatartistministriesma5440]

wonderful!!!!!

[@АлексейНезнайка-г7в]

WOW!!!!!

[@janeym]

This and Sylvia McNair's renditions are UNREAL!

[@tenormartins]

An angel on earth!

[@ursus1302]

....like an angel.....

[@kontrapunkti]

No, This is not from this world, she has to be an Angel....

[@buffalosmoke]

becoming attracted to her voice..... the guy in the background looks SOOO serious ;)

[@tenorschofield]

Bravissima!!!

[@jeanclaude2179]

Mozart is ABSOLUTELY