Donner undt Blitzen ! Bravo Amanda & Company. The best Rendition of a Handel Aria I have ever heard & I have heard quite a few. Musical Perfection all round driven by the thrilling Tempo of the magnificent Orchestra & Conductor. You have it all Amanda, Voice, Verve & Vivacity ! A Thrilling Perfomance. Grazie Mille ! 🤗💐
@do56912 жыл бұрын
This one and „Proverai“ are one of the best Haendel performances I ever heard, singing, music and choreography. I would like to see this production in Europe. 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@valobarroco7 жыл бұрын
Great performance!!! The text in German: Der Himmel wir strafen dein falsches Gemüth. Die Rache wir lohnen verborgene Tükke, verstören, verkehren, versehren, verheeren dein zeitliches Glück, dass Ruh’ und Vergnügung sich deiner entzieht.
@omarzagmuttcahbar48966 жыл бұрын
Valo!! mira donde te encuentro! Supongo que Mr Handel lo escribió en Italiano?
@anderswelt16415 жыл бұрын
@@omarzagmuttcahbar4896 Almira was written in German, but with some italian arias in it.
@omarzagmuttcahbar48965 жыл бұрын
thank you Anders!
@h.k96973 жыл бұрын
@@anderswelt1641 Yes. His next 3 operas, Nero, Daphne and Florindo, were also German operas, but the music was lost :(
@AML2000 Жыл бұрын
@@omarzagmuttcahbar4896 One of the peculiarities of operas written for Hamburg's leading opera house, the "Oper am Gänsemarkt", was their bilinguality. Most of the dialogue would be in German, with arias in German or Italian, seemingly at the whim of the librettist. As someone else has pointed out, the other three operas Handel wrote in Hamburg are the same way. This essentially made them unusable elsewhere, which may be one reason that the music for three of them is lost. "Almira" was saved because Telemann made a new conducting score for a revival in the 1720's when he was the opera director.
@braddavis62193 жыл бұрын
Everything about this is flawless.
@dbadagna10 ай бұрын
Except that constant wide vibrato of this type wasn't used by operatic vocalists at the time this opera was composed. If the instrumentalists are performing this music in historically informed manner, it would be even better if the vocalists would also do so.
@pmdazzle7 ай бұрын
@@dbadagna Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
@redbrian36555 жыл бұрын
wow... simply wow. I always enjoy Amanda.
@fabiolazzati69582 жыл бұрын
The best voice. What skills! Simply Wonderful.
@dbadagna10 ай бұрын
I don't think constant wide vibrato was used until around the 1820s, and even then it was generally regarded as atypical and frowned upon. Can't vocalists specializing in Baroque opera suppress this anachronistic technique, in an effort to provide a more historically informed performance for listeners (the way the accompanying instrumentalists are doing so well)?
@Miguel-bp6xs6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant singing and staging
@h.k9697 Жыл бұрын
Almira, the first Handel's opera, composed when he was only 19 years old. Genius
@wilhelm-z4t6 ай бұрын
Genius? Eine Untertreibung.
@guiradobrasil4 жыл бұрын
Stunning singing! Great staging, bravo to all involved!
@albert.28484 жыл бұрын
Omc! Amanda looks really like a Queen. Seems like she came from centuries to us . I am on your service Your Majesty (✿◠‿◠)
@ulrikedorner28774 жыл бұрын
Heart Surgery by Händel for broken hearts.
@peteacher525 жыл бұрын
omg!! Is Amanda Forsythe good or is she good?!
@jpcoll20114 жыл бұрын
I think "good" is an insult to this professional artist. I won't swear as this a artistic channel but will say she is VERY GOOD 😄
@dion19492 жыл бұрын
Brava! What was that highest note?
@delyar10 ай бұрын
High D
@annamariabakosi64822 жыл бұрын
Húuu...Nagyon nagy! BRAVISSIMO!!!
@Avedissalitis6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the upload. Just one tiny little suggestion: Could you correct the title? Instead of "straffen" (=tighten) she sings "strafen" (=punish). Instead of Gemüht it is (at least in this libretto) Gemüth ;)
@bostonearly6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the message. I will bring this to our editor's attention. Our transcription of the libretto does include "straffen" and "Gemüht", but obviously it is possible an error was overlooked at the time.
@arnheiureiriksdottir255 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately nothing has changed. It looks as wrong as before... - and it looks a bit unprofessional for German eyes. I’m sorry! Perhaps like my English ...
@stefanfuchs79424 жыл бұрын
The orthography is correct. "Straffen" is the old spelling of the modern "strafen" (engl. punish) and "Gemüht" is the old spelling of "Gemüt" (engl. mind). Both words are written this way in the original libretto (1704, page D3). Chrysander modernized the spelling in his edition (1873, pages 69-74) as follows: "Der Himmel wird strafen dein falsches Gemüth" with "Gemüth" as a spelling used in the nineteenth century.
@Avedissalitis4 жыл бұрын
@@stefanfuchs7942 Thanks for the explanation.
@holgerbarthel89453 жыл бұрын
@@stefanfuchs7942 very good explanation for me as a native German speaker
@richardque49524 жыл бұрын
Any blue ray or dvd?
@bostonearly4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately no. While we would love to produce a commercial video release, the production costs would be many magnitudes higher than the cost of these archival videos. It certainly remains on our wish list if we can find appropriate funding partners, but we are grateful that we can release studio recordings of so many of our opera projects.
@filipeborges2432 Жыл бұрын
Der Himmel wird straffen dein falsches Gemüht. Die Rache wird lohnen verborgene Tücke, Verstören, verkehren, Versehren, verheeren Dein zeitliches Glücke, Daß Ruh’ und Vergnügung sich deiner entzieht. Der Himmel wird straffen dein falsches Gemüht. Heaven will punish your false heart. Revenge will reward your secret deceit, Will destroy, twist, Damage, and devastate Your temporary luck, That peace and pleasure will be taken from you. Heaven will punish your false heart.
@adityapurohit8232 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mr. Borges for the lyrics of this beautiful aria & its translations.
@thierrylz4 жыл бұрын
Superbe ! Brava
@peterholmes30114 жыл бұрын
Those eyes.
@fredericconolly4767 Жыл бұрын
P.S. VaVaVoom ! 🤗💐🌋
@tomjeff1152 жыл бұрын
The singing is spectacular. What’s with the unnecessary dancing? This is the Seconda Donna’s exit aria to close Act 2. Amanda is such a spectacular singer, the production places this distraction and upstages what should be her solo onstage turn.
@kapellmeisterr Жыл бұрын
totally disagree, that's a baroque opera, not a cantata; and her vocal mastery turns everything else in mere complement.