GWYNETH JONES SINGS "RULE BRITANNIA" LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 1991

[@Rattywotin]

I love that she looks to the back of her shield for the words lol

[@shanjones4869]

They get up to all kinds of tricks to hide the text ! Palms of hands forearms etc.

[@bernardporteau9840]

Thank you for this sharing! Dame Gwyneth Jones will remain in our hard as the greatest in the world!

[@MySensualWorld]

The chorus and audience sound amazing singing that, and Jones soaring over them! Glorious!

[@Knappa22]

Go Gwyneth! I love the end when she lets rip that enormous bellow, drowning out the choir, the orchestra and the audience!

[@sageres]

It appears to me that Gwyneth Jones keeps glancing into the back of her shield. I am wondering if she had a cheat-sheet in there with words / musical scores / notes.

[@petatap]

you can see it.

[@sageres]

@@petatap Not quite, the image is too grainy.

[@petatap]

@@sageres all right. Perhaps it was her shopping list for after the concert...

[@josephfrank6815]

Why do the Welsh have such amazing voices ?

[@Knappa22]

Choral tradition, chapel congregational singing tradition, hundreds of village eisteddfodau, National Urdd Eisteddfod for children and young people, and the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

[@manolis.799]

For such a small country they have produced a shocking amount of fabulous singers.

[@Charles-Windsor88]

Poor buggers dont have much else to do Boring country full of boring imbeciles

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

I love Gwyneth! She makes for a great Britannia.

[@jagatai1]

i love how she has the lyrics pasted onto her shield which u can see clearly at 1:48

[@mgbsecteacher]

+Philip Tan But it seems to be white font on black background paper!

[@DavidHughes-op6zl]

The great Benjamin Luxon died the other day, a musical titan equally skilled in a light song like this one or on the Metropolitan opera stage. The voice is uniquely melifulous and endlessly varied in tone‐colour and phrasing. Thank goodness we have his recordings to remind us of his tremendous vocal gifts...

[@promptersbox]

Didn’t know he passed. Wonderful artist!

[@singerswithpresence]

Chwarae teg butt, only our Gwyneth could out welly a brass section without resorting to shrieking and have the chutzpah to read it off the back of her shield. A quality star & sorely missed

[@mckavitt13]

She’s not dead, is she?!! 😭

[@stevenmathers6661]

@@mckavitt13 no. Very much alive!

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

God I LOVE THAT!

[@kgarmaker123]

Brava to one of of my favorite singers.!

[@skyeomania]

PRICELESS !!!

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

HOW I LOVED THIS!

[@timsuffolk]

Listen to her voice at the end, you can hear it above everyones!

[@TheMinisigi]

Great fun. I don't know if it's only the English that go ott like this. I remember at the bicentennial of the French Revolution seeing Jessye Norman singing La Marseillaise while draped in an absolutely vast tricolor. Very impressive though!

[@tenorschofield]

RULE BRITANNIA!!!!!!!!, hurra from one of your lost cords in Perú (but always keeping the honor high of british blood; from Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England to be more precise!!!).BRAVO!!!!!!!!

[@GDARAKOS]

I LOVE WALES I LOVE GWYNETH.

[@mckavitt13]

Boy, does Gwyneth sound pretty damn grand! Love this woman.

[@maurizio888]

LOVELY!!!!!!

[@wyheadintx]

Rule, Brunnhilde! I love the tradition of doing this song at the Proms; always a great moment. (OK, OK, I get it. The trident makes it Britannia.)

[@tabarro1877]

Gwyneth!!!🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰👌🎶

[@annemariefleming]

Go for it Brunnhilde!!!!!

[@donv2759]

isn't this like normal when we hear her sing....we need subtitles. luv ya, dame gwyn.

[@alwaysnew189]

Omg,awe,!

[@jancedricmicheler6122]

Braaaavaaa she was a amacing dramaticwagnersopran she was great👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Tenortalker]

If Dame Gwyneth was in charge of the fleet Britannia would still rule the waves. One mighty ' Ho Jo To Ho' and the enemy would be vanquished and in submission. Incidentally the words of this song can't be so easy to memorise as I once sang it as a duet with a soprano who noted down her verses on tiny pieces of white paper stuck on the back of an artificial flower she was holding.

[@fabriziogarzi9892]

Infatti la Jones, che e' gallese, li legge da dietro lo scudo.

[@vipproductions5356]

wait to I upload my version in fantastic HD version the qualirt is mind blowing but love this

[@rymdgrodan2]

It is Hendel - "The conquring hero returns" from Judas Maccabaeus

[@wotan10950]

Composed by Thomas Arne: When Britain first, at heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, Arose, arose from out the azure main! This was the charter, The charter of the land, And Guardian Angels sang this strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke, As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame; All their attempts to bend thee down All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse, arouse thy generous flame, But work their woe and thy renown. Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. The Muses, still with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coasts repair, Shall to thy happy coasts repair. Oh, blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned, And manly hearts to guard the fair. Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

[@fabriziogarzi9892]

Legge il testo dietro lo scudo...

[@vladislavskalicky6283]

Only the English!!!! and all white

[@bigbad123321]

The good old days. Not a foreign flag in sight 👍 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@tortysoft]

Look harder. They are ALWAYS there and so they should be.

[@christianeandersohn1089]

An alle besserwisserischen Laien : Professionelles Singen in d i e s e r Qualität ist, als wenn man gegen die Schwarze Wand läuft. Eine Sicherheit, um sich der Strophenanfänge zu vergewissern, ist allemal erlaubt. Auch, wenn Sie sich das nicht vorstellen können ... Erst nachdenken !!

[@gerhardhofbauer7308]

Kann Ihre Anmerkung nur hocherfreut unterstreichen: Man muss einmal die Riesentexte in den Partien Elektra, Brünnhilde und Isolde intus haben, noch dazu, wenn man sie nebeneinander und nicht in der Muttersprache, sondern in deutscher Sprache bewältigen muss. Das sollen die reinen Toren (Parsifal) einmal probieren!

[@ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid]

She had memory problem. You could see she was glancing the lyrics from the back of the shield.

[@palmolella]

eroico

[@ontaka5997]

She knows Wagner's Ring Cycle back to front, but can't memorize a 5 minute song called "Rule Britannia".

[@photo161]

her diction is simply superb moron.

[@maurizio888]

and so¡?????

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

@MrJST87 I think Mr "know-it-all" is in correct.....the "term" should be "name" as: I think the NAME you're looking for is British" lol Im just kidding around...I don't know

[@ransomcoates546]

I literally did not understand a single word she sang.

[@aidepaul534]

You should have listened with your heart. She spoke volumes.

[@ransomcoates546]

@Cade Cannon 3,000 people were perfectly intelligible.

[@matthieudegott3154]

Chère Gwyneth...Mais ne sont-ce pas les paroles, qu'elle lit régulièrement sur l'intérieur de son bouclier? Elle a raison, il n'y a pas de souffleur!

[@amfortas1978]

what's the first part of the song called>?

[@ECWnWWF]

I think in 2011 they should have Hannah Montana perform Rule Britannia

[@adamrmc100]

Anyone know the name of the tune at the start?

[@DerryPope]

adamrmc100 'See the conquering hero comes' by Handel. Not sure where it's from though.

[@TheMinisigi]

Derry Pope From Handel's Judas Maccabeus

[@davphi6103]

Judas Maccabeus

[@operassassinOperaAssassin]

What is the puppetry at 3:03 about??

[@Knappa22]

Eccentric prommer

[@operabilia]

And what's the problem of having the text taped to the back of her shield?!!! Is it a traditional repertoire for her to sing? It's totally irrelevant.

[@mattiabp]

What's more: Dame Gwyneth is Welsh, not English :)

[@killmrdarcy4367]

Too bad Nilsson never got to sing this, while Jones is nevertheless here a great Wagnerian!

[@davidllewelyndavies2724]

Gwyneth Jones is Welsh and not English.

[@georgev9170]

0:35 what is up with these weird movements? Cringe😬

[@sageres]

It is a tradition for the public to rise up and down when the "See The Conq'uring Hero Comes" by Handel is playing.

[@tortysoft]

It's called 'Fun' - getting the rhythm wrong is all part of it.

[@mckavitt]

The vulgar bigotry here is beneath the occasion & the great Dame Gwyneth Jones, whom i have also met & found so gracious & funny. The Welsh don't need England to be proud. Read the MABINOGIAN!

[@jjj29871]

Actually, Dame Gwyneth Jones is Welsh!

[@davehshs651]

Actually, Britannia hasn't ruled the waves since the 19th century...

[@wentonmastermind]

Who cares? It is a wonderful reminder of what we achieved and the rest of the world can kiss my arse.

[@myweirdexperience9277]

World War 2, World War 1, Falklands War?

[@davidllewelyndavies2724]

Until the end of the First German World War actually - 1805 to 1918 -and then the mantle passed to our friend and ally the United States.

[@tortysoft]

The word is 'RULE' not rules, it's a desire not a statement. It is also silly and we all treat it as such :-)

[@janeappleseed2154]

Dame Gwyneth fills me with wonder and vague arousal.

[@wotan10950]

Jane Appleseed The lyrics actually mention “arouse” twice!