Handel: Semele - Myself I Shall Adore (Louise Alder)

[@chrigrue]

Louise Alder - she is a wonderful singer, I love to listen and watch.

[@juliana.zwickl]

Myself I shall adore, If I persist in gazing; No object sure before Was ever half so pleasing.

[@braddavis6219]

The singing is glorious, but can we take a moment to appreciate those dresses. LOVE THEM.

[@patriciapaape9238]

Beautiful.Thank you for posting.

[@trishtraynor]

Utter joy and delight today, at the start of what will prove to be another long period of shielding. I've not had a hug since February but I have all of your wonderful performances wrapped around my heart. Now go away..sniff..I've got something in my eye. ☺️🤩😍🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@catherinecangiano9231]

Wonderful so fun and creative plus perfect singing

[@tedmounsteven621]

Brava!

[@swazi98]

What a performance! Love this.

[@johnbruce2868]

Absolutely wonderful. Should be a compulsory download on all i-phones to demonstrate the folie of narcissism to the latest generation of would be gods and goddesses.

[@Michel-eg9eh]

If only that could do the trick!

[@voraciousreader3341]

Why iPhones? Why exclude other kinds of cellphones? How about social media platforms?? There’s enough narcissism on Facebook alone to fuel an international,space station for20 years! And believe me, they come in all ages, it’s hardly the latest generation by themselves. I’m 60 and far too many of my friends are just as crazy to present themselves and families in the most perfect light possible! And they were never like that before the advent of that toxic platform.

[@Michel-eg9eh]

@@voraciousreader3341 This "toxic platform" reference of yours makes me suspect you could be something of a 'technofobic' type of person, but I may be all wrong there, of course. The narcissism and character defects you're implicitly referring to probably were there, at least in their incipient state, from the very start of the human adventure. I may be wrong there, but in my view the unprecedented scientific and technological advances that occurred in the last 2 and a half or 3 centuries constitute a decisive challenge to our persistent collective and individual character defects. And our general bad faith and disingenuousness haven't as yet receded one bit in face of theses unprecedented challenges. Witness the almost incredible tobacco scare, that has been going on for more than seven decades, without any counterattack from so-called Big Tobacco, in spite of the overwhelming stack of arguments they had at their disposal not only to stay on the defensive, but to counterattack

[@lalagonegaga]

This is really Really REALLY good.

[@DANIEL64bit]

perfect singing and acting!

[@barbaranorthwood]

Enchanting. Thank you very much.

[@graceatinukefelix2426]

Wow 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I. Hope to sing this well some day

[@MollySimasiku]

❤❤❤

[@OgemaryNweke]

So.... Beautiful 😍😍😍

[@qwame_o]

Tasteful ornamentation!

[@acratone8300]

I'm never disappointed by Gardiner !

[@bilit26]

Kiri must b so proud of 1 of her students! Yummmm...m

[@bilit26]

Wonderful

[@robertjones5277]

Wtf?? Bravo!!!!!!!!!!

[@valtergilenardi2639]

Secondo me e come scrisse Beethoven....Handel è il più grande Compositore mai vissuto 😊❤

[@bull5078]

Muy Hermoso

[@delroku]

Based and AGPilled

[@miguelfdz1506]

Amazing performance... But why she take away the mirror? It's supposed to be enchanted to make her look herself beautiful...

[@davideabreu5584]

Here bc of contrapoints lol

[@reid1491]

same ahahahaa

[@reid1491]

iconic

[@k_dccxiii]

Same lol

[@병찬김-h6l]

헨델의 아리아는 역시 기교의 집합체.

[@TheEvanco]

Lovely singing, strange acting

[@Janaceks_Dad]

It's opera, what do you expect?

[@voraciousreader3341]

The soloist’s voice and technique are truly glorious, but I just couldn’t handle the constant “fighting” over that demmed mirror! It was not at all realistic, just incredibly annoying, so I finally turned my iPad over. I would much prefer the arias to be sung oratorio style, rather than such a tiny sliver of stage and 2 props to make anything look realistic. Maybe I’m crabby today, but Handel’s lack of textual variety also gets extremely tedious….the endless melismas sound very like an excuse for meaningless vocal gymnastics.

[@nickgooch9357]

I think you missed the point of the aria. She's self-obsessed, hence the (meaningful) repetition.

[@jimbuxton2187]

That is point. In early music the voice is a musical instrument. All the arias could be written on the vowel AH....Its all about the voice and perfect controll and eveness in sound in all registers and articulation. At the time you had to show emotion and meaning in just the sound. The words were secondary. Later when people couldn't handle the discipline the words became more important and it eventually grew into musical theater where the music is secondary to the voice.

[@celloguy]

Semele is a Comedy, so it’s meant to be heightened acting

[@jamesa0330]

Can’t bear all that hammy acting. It adds nothing. Embarrassing

[@ewerejoshua9931]

you nor just get sense at all...to know that it adds beauty to the performance. I wonder how una dey think sef.