Tchaikovsky: "Pique Dame": Duet German - Liza & final act 1- Placido Domingo, Galina Gorchakova

Placido Domingo as German, Galina Gorchakova as Liza, Elisabeth Söderström as the Countess in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Stage director: Eliah Moshinsky
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 1999

[@Sam_Lee_]

WOW!!! THIS is an example of why EVERYONE needs to discover the thrill of opera. The acting, and pacing of the music... bravo Gergiev, and all!

[@uppityglivestockian]

¡Qué bárbaro! No puedo creerlo. Como puede ser que tiene voz fuerte, con tono campana, con calor tierna TODAVIA a los 58 años en este actuacion. Y el es en todos los escenas. Fantastico. Increible. Mil gracias por compartir.

[@ЕвгенияМартынова-с3з]

😂почему варварски?

[@uppityglivestockian]

​@@ЕвгенияМартынова-с3з Это испанский оборот речи. Это значит, что он дикий, свирепый, доминирующий. __Es una expresión española. Significa que es salvaje, feroz, dominante.__

[@ЕвгенияМартынова-с3з]

@@uppityglivestockian спасибо, очень интересно!

[@philipc67]

Splendid! The entire performance is available on KZbin and the opera is a masterpiece! Domingo is superb here, despite singing some passages half a tone lower. Good Russian accent and his passionate stage involvement is admirable. This love duet is overwhelming in its desperate sexual passion, the dramatic music which ends it is simply too magnificent for words.

[@bokewilhelm1452]

wusste ich bisher nicht-gratulation placido-warum nicht kaufmann auch?

[@MarinaSamoylovich]

His accent is not Russian. But he is trying it okay. He is not pronouncing some consonants and strictly Russian vowels fast enough, like many non-Russian speakers do.;)

[@cristinadiazabella1553]

Fully agree. I saw him in Madrid with Obratsova as countess... the greatest performance I'vr seen in my whole life. Obratsova was amazing singer.

[@Arkturbettel]

"singing some passages half a tone lower" -- you mean literally? Which ones? It is very interesting.. And why? I read, that Tchaikovskij edited almost all arias after notes from the conductors.. So it were not as much good singers for something he wrote at the time.

[@UlrikPTA]

where would you find the entire performance on youtube? I have not managed.

[@operafan55]

He is absolutely phenomenal! His Russian is very good! Thank you for posting.

[@MarinaSamoylovich]

I would say that it is okay for a foreigner. At least, he learned all the words.

[@Arkturbettel]

@@MarinaSamoylovich well, opera is not about pronunciation. Especially not performed by such great masters

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[@gianlucaterranova]

che splendido artista.

[@ЛюдмилаШиряева-г5л]

Вот это пение, !!

[@Sam_Lee_]

The stage direction is also incredibly sensitive. At the very end of the scene, when German's and Lisa's eyes lock into each other's gaze... so powerful and real.

[@stevielagan1948]

I heard this with Mattila, Guleghina, and Gorchakova and of the three (ALL of them were INCREDIBLE, don't get me wrong), it was Gorchakova who pinned you to your seat through the visceral, HEALTHY power behind her high notes. I have never experienced anything like it.

[@ЛюдмилаШиряева-г5л]

Хорошо наконец то

[@ЯнаРозенфельд-и5г]

ОНА НЕМНОГО НЕЕСТЕСТВЕННА , ЭТО СМУТИЛО , НО ПОЕТ ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНО. И ДОМИНГО ЗДЕСЬ ХОРОШ. РУССКИЙ С НЕБОЛЬШИМИ ОШИБКАМИ, НО СОВСЕМ НЕ РЕЖЕТ УХО. ПО СЮЖЕТУ ИХ ГЕРОИ ЭТО МОЛОДЫЕ ЛЮДИ , ЛИЗА ЮНАЯ ДЕВУШКА. А ЗДЕСЬ ЗРЕЛЫЕ . СЛОВНО ВСТРЕТИЛИСЬ ДВА ПОЗНАВШИХ ЖИЗНЬ ЧЕЛОВЕКА И ВНЕЗАПНО ВСПЫХНУЛА НАСТОЯЩАЯ ЛЮБОВЬ. ПЕНИЕ НА ОТЛИЧНО. 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@opera7778]

kak budto dushu iz menya vynuli svoey igroy i peniem!!! kak esli by letala ya v nebesah...!

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Liza, don't believe him. Another louse.

[@fredrickroll06]

He WAS in Pushkin's story. The Tchaikovsky brothers made him much more complicated. He is not a liar - but he IS insane!

[@philipc67]

I used to wonder why no major Russian composer wrote an opera about Anna Karenina. Then l read the Tolstoy novel (in English translation) while travelling the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok (this was back in 2013) and understood: she is a despicable character; immature, selfish, hysterical. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[@zdzisawotellohorodecki3664]

Herman Placido Dominga to Wagner to Otello to Chenier. Dramaturgia i sposób artykulacji tekstu muzycznego znakomita! Gorczakowa w znakomitej formie. A Gergiev śpiewniejszy od Karajana - nie dołuje!