Elena Mosuc - Gounod: ROMÉO et JULIETTE, Je veux vivre (in the original key), Zagreb 1997

THE MUSIC: Juliette's waltz is one of my least favorite arias. Within the context of the full opera, it introduces Juliet and offers the soprano a moment to display her vocal bonafides. However, as a stand-alone aria it does nothing for me. I recently posted to my channel two sopranos of interest in this piece, but I found another that is worthy because it captures the brilliant Romanian coloratura Elena Moșuc over 20 years ago early in her career, and it is in the rarely used higher original key of G-major, so touches High E6 and ends on a big High D.
THE SONGBIRD: Born in Iași in 1964, Elena Moșuc made her debut in her hometown singing Queen of the Night, Gilda, and Lucia. She started winning a bounty of vocal prizes in the early 1990s and was signed to the Zürich Opera House, where she has stayed for decades as prima donna. She has sung all the major coloratura roles there, while branching out across major opera houses and festivals around the globe. Moșuc's repertoire includes a few French works and plenty of high-flying Mozart (over 250 Queens of the Night, which equates to well over 1,250 high Fs and I am fairly confident she didn't miss even one of them). However, Moșuc has tended to focus on the Italian bel canto genre -- namely the standard coloratura roles (Lucia, Gilda, Amina), heavier "assoluta" roles (Anna Bolena, Norma, Semiramide, Lucrezia, Elisabetta I, Luisa Miller), and more obscure ladies (Linda, Beatrice, Amalia, Imogene).

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You can also find on YT a complete video of Jessica Pratt in the complete role, with Saimir Pirgu as Romeo, including this waltz in the original G, and the big aria "Amour, ranime mon courage"

[@alinazamfir7679]

superb!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@altopride]

Thanks; this is my preferred key for this aria but it's so difficult to find recordings of it. It feels more energetic and exciting in G.

[@cozene35]

Beautiful coloratura

[@francescozh6169]

Hi! Was this a concert? Could you please publish the entire concert?