★Renee Fleming,@Dvorak - Song to the moon - Rusalka

[@brucegreer7201]

The world is full of sopranos with wonderful voices, current and historic. But there is exactly one Renee Fleming. I am astounded anew each time I hear her. Thank goodness the state of recording technology will preserve this glory for posterity.

[@roryscanlon5294]

What do you think of Cecilia Bartoli?

[@brucegreer7201]

@@roryscanlon5294 I confess that while I know of her, I have listened to her very little. So many gorgeous voices, so little time. I will take a listen. Thanks for mentioning her. (And I love Sylvia McNair with Andre Previn!)

[@ericb8413]

Cecilia Bartoli is a legend. Stunning. One of the best voices in the last 100 years. 🎉

[@grandmaitrevenere1717]

Écoutez la version chantée par la fabuleuse Lucia Popp.

[@wenlu5046]

listening to Fleming sing is like drinking red wine in the cool breeze of a summer evening

[@joetursi9573]

Exactly!!

[@ceebee23]

and not some ordinary red wine but a brilliant deep red .. a Cheval Blanc 1947 St-Emilion

[@juliakhabaeva5415]

Renee Fleming touches people’s souls by her singing. ❤

[@rev.stephena.cakouros948]

Renee Fleming from what I can see owns this very special piece of music.

[@marydonohoe8200]

Thank you, Renée Fleming, for dedicating your life, with your incredible instrument and artistry, to music. We are the richer for it, and blessed.

[@dwightdowson9259]

Ms.Renee is one in 700000000

[@mogmason6920]

I have a special relationship with this particular number in my life, when I had a mental breakdown due to being overworked at my previous job. I decided that enough was enough and wanted to die, so I got extremely drunk in my flat, headed outside with the intention of not surviving the next day and saw a low-flying full moon in the sky. I randomly searched music about the moon on my phone and this was the first to pop up. I was in tears! I headed towards this moon, expecting Rusalka herself to be serenading me when I got there, but I ended up in a a cornfield! I then decided to walk back home and carry on with the next day as usual, but I woke up the next day with a very well-done drawing of a rather cute mermaid girl hugging a moon beside me, which I don’t remember drawing but I keep it as a prized possession everywhere I go. From that day onwards, I bust into tears everytime I hear this, especially Renee Fleming’s version.

[@christophernewman5027]

I love that story and can identify with it. 😊 I hope you're in a much better place now.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The beauty of her soprano is unrivaled, and off the charts

[@luruth48]

she owns this song , best yet

[@ivanjurov3493]

No the definitive version is Milada Subrtova a Czech

[@sharonhallshipp6011]

Sublime. For our brother, Michael xx

[@inja3553]

Als 15. Jährige habe ich diese Arie das erste Mal im Theater gehört. Sie hat mich mein ganzes Leben nicht mehr losgelassen.❤

[@suzannecochrane5924]

Rene Flemings rendition of this beautiful piece, is without doubt stupendous!

[@peterfeltham5612]

Wonderful Composer....Wonderful Orchestra....Wonderful Fleming = Musical Perfection.

[@janicehammersmith4728]

She moved me to tears. Stunning performance of this emotional piece.

[@y_is]

She has a disgusting pronunciation of the Czech language

[@janicehammersmith4728]

@yisakov4398 sorry....

[@louise_rose]

One of the best renditions I've ever heard/seen of this beautiful song. I've known about it since childhood, at a time when it wasn't near as famous beyond Central Europe as it is now...I'm from Sweden and my father had been on a doctors' conference trip to Prague (in the mid-1970s); one of the things he brought back home was a Supraphon LP with highlights from "Rusalka" (the title part sung by Milada Subrtova). The rest of the family soon took to this amazing album.. Around ten years ago, I finally watched Mrs Fleming singing the opera in a beautiful livecast to theatres from the New York Met - a real fairytale experience with wonderful sets and inspired acting. :)

[@magicmonkichi]

Everytime i hear Fleming sing this i think "THIS is the best performance of her yet~!"...Nobody sings it like Fleming~! She owns this one.

[@jacko4483]

Frederica Von Stade's version is even better IMHO!

[@adeeo]

@@jacko4483 I love Renee so much and for once, I can realy understand words from an American singer, which is just awesome! :( czech&slovak phonetics is realy hell, I know, I am Slovak. For me, the prototype of Rusalka was Gabriela Benackova... The best. There are a few others as you say, Stade, or Subrtova and so forth, but Gabi sang this years at the Met and was louded for the role. Also Renee Flemming payed her tribute :) here is the one performance with Levine in her later years. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWq9mnqBq7SImNU

[@jacko4483]

@@adeeo thank you and I will check it out. Have a great New Year's !

[@stevechristianson7005]

I’m as awestruck and breathless as anyone when taking in Ms.Fleming singing, well, hell…anything really. But you’ve got to check out Lucia Popp’s version. Then, listen to her In Trutina. The first time I ever heard Reneé, Lucia came immediately to mind. I discovered her in high school. Blew my mind. As Reneé Fleming does now.

[@jean-claudeluc2118]

I prefer this aria by Anna Netrebko or by Frédérica von Stade.

[@richardconard3944]

Thank the heavens for giving us opera and Renee'. Such beauty in everything she does. Opera, oh opera, the musical genre that strongly stands the test of time while all other musical forms fall by the wayside.

[@lindaclairesartori]

Opera, oh opera! Solamente opera!

[@timothy4664]

This is the greatest performance of Song To The Moon i have ever heard. Got a little emotional, not gonna lie.

[@janlewis3667]

This is my very favourite version of this beautiful aria. Sung by the wonderful Rene Fleming. Just heavenly.

[@DaisyBourcier]

Listen to amik grigorian

[@susanp.collins7834]

Lucia Popp does a lovely version as well.

[@bernardtanguay364]

The version live in the Opera when she plays is astonihing!

[@Virginielie]

She makes it seemed so easy natural without effort.... The secret of classical lyrical art singing !

[@JeanGarcia-wu3gu]

Il n'y a rien à dire , seulement à écouter...😂❤

[@michaelmatheny3927]

It's certainly great to see all of the production values. That was quite the view of this great venue from atop that colonade around the 3:21 point.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

美しい歌声ですね！素晴らしいとしか言い様がないですね。 Her unsurpassed soprano is beyond my imagination and beyond description From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@ioanniskortselis5298]

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[@shin-i-chikozima]

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[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@ioanniskortselis5298 Are you Greek❓

[@vioricaszoke4391]

Renee, you are fantastic, the most beautiful, tender and emotional interpretation. BRAVAAAAA!!!!

[@ludmilacerny-bradik4588]

She is the best!!! Love, that she can sing this song in original Czech language!!! Bravo!!

[@ulfgj]

no prave! nevedel jsem vubec.

[@teriinka_uwu]

Yep, but she still got a lot of accent happening, but i don't blame her, Czech is truly hard (i'm Czech xd)

[@louise_rose]

@@teriinka_uwu Mmm, she is of part Czech ancestry, but did not have the language with her from home (though she began performing this song early in her career, at at a time when it wasn't half as well-known outside eastern Europe as it is now).

[@jamesdunn7186]

She makes it seem so effortless yet so emotional. A glorious moving yet simple song perfectly sung.

[@paulharvey5892]

Renee Fleming for me. Sublime, incomparable, simply beautiiful.

[@rosalynliddle1353]

Just heartachingly beautiful

[@englishrose47]

Dvorak’s music is just so full of melody

[@talmagebandy667]

There is no one nor has there been anyone like Renee. She is gorgeous and even angels cannot sing as she does.

[@judyjones2475]

Love her ,but try the incomparable Montserrat caballe 💕

[@judyjones2475]

Love her ,but try the incomparable Montserrat caballe 💕

[@bodiloto]

l'orchestra è magnifico ! bravo al direttore d'orchestra !

[@RoseTaitsinger]

She makes it look so much easier than I know it to be

[@larrypeery9913]

It's sad to me that most American's only know Dvorak through the New World Symphony and this song. Both are great but there is so much more to Dvorak. Explore his music!!

[@ronaldsilverblatt6207]

Larry Peery has always

[@ronaldsilverblatt6207]

Iv89

[@phillipshearman5597]

Most Americans (and other countries citizens) don't know anything important.

[@robertmahler8894]

His Cello Conerto!

[@shixiutao739]

I guess a lot know the humoresque

[@roncummings3389]

Dvorak, was a genius, beautiful rendition in this performance - Rocketron.

[@jmiller05]

Stunningly gentle vocal line. A lyrical genius.

[@AntoniosMhtsanhs]

One beautiful song from a top singer!

[@gerdapunnel3107]

Antonios Mhtsanhs in

[@andrewgibbon-williams7974]

Art + artistry + physical beauty. It gets no better. What more do you want?

[@dickyt1318]

I am memorised by beauty of the song and singer !

[@sandradavis18]

Simply beautiful.

[@millie1280]

Bravo! Excellent, magnificent singing and composition by Dvorak.

[@jillianhorsley5985]

What a gift, superb.

[@SaraStevensMusic]

Wow!! Her voice is so beautiful!! I can only wish to have a music career like her one day!

[@igorflexus9493]

I knew Dvoraks great grandson. He was married to my aunt. He was a musician from Austria. He kinda looked like Dvorak. I miss him.

[@ncpiedmontone]

so lovely, so exquisitely lovely!

[@sirrom0354]

Seen her several times in Toronto, a very generous singer, delivers what the audience wants and does it well. A real favourite in Canada. The ‘girl next door with a huge talent John

[@BrigidSamhain]

No one else compares. Renee is the Queen of Song to the Moon - Rusalka

[@franceshicks5337]

Every time I see the moon at night I am mesmerised by it's beauty, epitomised by this beautiful aria, bravo bravo bravo to the composer & singer ❤❤❤ we need to listen to more classical music please be at peace the most important word in our language 🙏

[@jean-pierrevenembre8458]

Merci Antonin, merci Renée. C'est magnifique !

[@patriciaweiss4446]

IMO the absolutely most beautiful operatic aria, and I am half Czech! I saw Martinez do this at the Chicago Lyric Opera and she was perfect! Renee remains my to soprano and I have the DVD of her doing the whole opera.🥀

[@milanbucek6661]

Yes this aria from Rusalka / english - the Fairy / belong to our Czech classics and i like the most. Dvorzak was simply a genius composer.

[@TullioGAizza]

si, un genio, forse un piccolo dio, che ci è stato dato in prestito, buon natale.

[@adityapurohit8232]

Mr. Bucek, I heard this song during this week many times performed by many talented interpreters viz. Frederica Von Stade, Jarmila Novotna, Lucia Popp; to name a few. Though the language is foreign to me , the divine orchestration, pathos in this song, sublimity would certainly will drive me to listen to complete opera in the Czech.

[@adityapurohit8232]

Mr. Bucek, I heard this song during this week many times performed by many talented interpreters viz. Frederica Von Stade, Jarmila Novotna, Lucia Popp; to name a few. Though the language is foreign to me , the divine orchestration, pathos in this song, sublimity would certainly will drive me to listen to complete opera in the Czech.

[@janie1929]

Absolutely breathtaking!!! You inspire Renee!!!

[@Billbothebear14]

Beat that.! Simply Glorious.. I should go for a lay down now. WF

[@mrsarchy1]

Nice - but Frederica Von Stade beats her into a corner every time for me ... she is so much gentler

[@heathgamble4752]

In Memory of my Beloved David. I love you forever.

[@gamble1105]

Still listening to this every day babe. I'll see you again one day and we will be forever together.

[@dragisatrajkovic9778]

Blessings.

[@bernardodemuro3692]

A grazia si aggiunge grazia, talento ed estro finemente drammatico e coinvolgente. Sensibilità alta da grande interprete. Inarrivabile il suo sopracuto che dura un'eternità, quella del sublime

[@fessdoizeau]

Magnifique ! on veut la même chose à Paris

[@НаталияКорнеева-р6ъ]

По-моему., это самое лучшее исполнение этой арии, моё сердце затрепетало. Спасибо. ❤

[@LTWeezie]

BRAVA! Have heard many versions but hers is the finest! Opera is very expensive in my part of the world so cannot afford to attend. Thankfully, I can still enjoy it (not the same as in person I am sure) with the wonderful KZbin versions. Every time I look at the moon, I think of this!

[@brianloxton1957]

I had the privilege of attending a performance by Reneé Fleming in Cape Town many years ago and what a wonderful experience it was to listen to her heavenly voice.

[@Mike8981]

Where do you live? Lots of places offer reduced price tickets. It doesn’t have to be too expensive.

[@franceshicks5337]

How can it be sad that ppl only know this magnificent aria, surely to appreciate this voice, aria, composer, would prompt u to look for more, I love ballet but I also love this ❤❤❤

[@jeanpierrezutter587]

Very nice performance !! Beautiful voice !!

[@ludmilacerny-bradik4588]

Prekrasne, zpiva cesky. Jeji hlas je jako vanek.

[@robertrisk2971]

A voice in a million!

[@PavelDGromnic]

Yes, yes ,yes. A rival for Callas. Completely fluid, rich, filled with the angst of this water sprite's entreaty to grant this desperate hopeless wish.

[@CyndiaBonaparteDiCaprio]

I always understood you Renée!

[@yong-gilchoi8614]

grandissima Rene!!!!!

[@박물관고양이-x7g]

Che meraviglia! Magnifico! Fantastico e perfetto Bellissima voce♡

[@prototropo]

Such tenderness; Dvorak must have been a loving man.

[@michellehu8264]

Excellent

[@marcelhorus3854]

Magnifique prière, mon corps en frissonne et le final est d'une incroyable pureté

[@heliosdarkly2]

The first and subsequently the most inspirational version I have seen.What a wonderful occasion, wish I'd been there!

[@jacko4483]

Michael look for Frederica Von Stade's version. Much more rich and full. No comparison when you listen to them back to back. This is beautiful, but then there's breathless captivation!

[@louise_rose]

There's also a beautiful version I saw by Moldavian soprano Valentina Nafornità, from a wonderful opera/ballet gala broadcast from St Petersburg in May 2015 it took place on the square in front of the Winter Palace, and has been broadcast across Europe a couple of times; the no.1 star of the evening was Dmitry Hvorostovsky, the handsome and silvery-toned Russian baritone (who passed away two years later). I hope that show gets released on dvd some day, it was just amazing and yes, Nafornità was both very pretty and a languid, beautifully inspired Rusalka (unfortunately her take is not on KZbin, though much of the rest of the concert is).

[@MarcusHammarberg]

Amazing performance!

[@stephaniegoasdoue2934]

brilliant ! fabulous !

[@jean-marieboisbouvier6678]

Sublime......Merci. :)

[@RaulRodriguez-ky5pi]

Directly to my heart. Bless you Renee!

[@davidbowen6253]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Renee. Bravo

[@allgood6760]

Fantastic! 👍🎵

[@3lalas1]

bellissima música e voz........

[@nellahashimoto1342]

Love Renee's singing. Love this song. Beautiful.

[@kakusamson3457]

❤superbe, superbe, magnifique voix de Renee Fleming. J'adore ❤

[@howlade3]

wonderful way to end a busy day! musical perfection

[@4444marla]

She has a beautiful voice, but it is her extraordinary musicality that makes her the most interesting in this particular piece, especially.

[@alesbaca8457]

Krásná opera :-)

[@nellahashimoto1342]

Beautiful. Thank you Renee and everyone involved

Amazing!!!

[@ilonadolezalova6029]

Dekuji za ten krásný zazitek

[@herfnold]

Amazing , just the best

[@nicolamarcellodamico7989]

So beautiful, I have trouble holding back tears. What a voice and what a heart. A treasure.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Whenever I listen to her soprano , sadness is coming From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@MarthalieThurstonSachemPiper]

Wonderful composition of Dvorak sung fantastically by Renee Fleming.

[@mariajosefabailon4336]

Excelente!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤

[@ninakons829]

Superb,Thank you

[@LPH216]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@veronikastuberovaropovikov7922]

Always loved this song ❤

[@maira672]

Wow! Thousand times wow!

[@lucienpochic7460]

magnifique jamais entendu aussi bon elle es magique ,

[@cynthiaeaton7847]

Sublime,

[@davidatkinson3887]

Stella performance.

[@МуратТусупбеков]

ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕ КРАСИВО !!! ❤❤❤

[@lisagarnet2000]

Both the orchestra and Renee understood the assignment

[@lalasong9976]

She ist the best for this song.

[@reyanny2706]

Magnifique ❤️

[@josefsochorec2310]

Great Song *****

[@windstorm1000]

Fleming owns the song--her not emotional style elsewhere works here as her immaculate breath control and phrasing give the song emotional power.