Vivica Genaux Alcina Mi lusingha il dolce affetto

Vivica Genaux
Haendel's Alcina - Gran Teatro del Liceu

[@Handeltenor99]

I just Love Listening to Vivica!!! Who Cares about "tremoli" and all that other stuff. When I close my eyes, I'm transported to another place while listening to Vivica. People will always find something wrong with other people's technique. As eukleides2 mentions above: 'let us try to love and enjoy vivica'. Brava Vivica!!!

[@manrico29]

What a lovely aria! Vivica shows her delightful mezzo and perfect coloratura that made an enormous succes in her Haendel concert in Rio de Janeiro. I was lucky to be there. Thanks, Bejun!!

[@Tigermuc]

Phantastic - full of emotions!

[@Dackelfreundin]

Thankk you so much, Bejun. I love her voice so much. Please show more, if you can!!!

[@pinxo74]

It was a Händel concert, and I'm afraid only this area is available... Every year, a DVD is produced with the season highlights, and this area was part of it for the 2006 edition. It was a memorable performance, but that's all we've got, I'm afraid... And I'm not aware of any broadcasts either, at least not in Catalonia.

[@Gudrun74]

Excellent idea to produce a DVD with season highlights. Don't know of any other opera house that does this.

[@robles146]

que bello

[@rayangreene]

I agree with "ArnesonZach". Vivica has a beautiful voice, and an excellent technique. Very few singers manage to mach her coloratura and accuracy. Now, I guess some people will always try to invent problems when they can't find anything wrong with an artist. There is no such thing as "beautiful sound combined with an atrocious technique".

[@Gudrun74]

SEVEN times?? Wow wienerfr, I count only 5. But true, I wouldn't have believed her videos (esp Qual Guerriero) are not manipulated until I could attend this miracle personally.

[@Gudrun74]

Haha, as it's so difficult to find out about her future concerts (is her calendar webmaster still hibernating??), she keeps us always alert and watchful lol. Btw I forgot to count in her early Rossini and Monteverdi roles in Munich, actually I've seen her already 8x now (sorry, haha). But definitely, after having heard so many different styles of her (until German Romantic Lieder!), for me the highest form of art is her singing late baroque virtuoso arias, there she's simply unsurpassed.

[@Gudrun74]

Beautiful, beautiful! Was it a whole Alcina performance? The role of Ruggiero suits her SO well, it's virtuosity plus emotion, Vivica masters both. Hm, from Ruggiero there's ONLY Sta nell'Ircana on CD (I'll never understand ... ). Did she sing it in Barcelona??

[@maxtanz]

@eukleides2 absolutely right!

[@Gudrun74]

Hm, seems to be this concert (but 2006?). Oh, she must have sung "Svegliatevi ..." from Cesare, NEVER heard from her! And indeed "Sta nell'Ircana". Finding out about Vivica's concert is a major challenge. Every 2nd or 3rd one is even listed on her homepage (better than nothing) ...

[@ellandelachapelle]

I've seen several videos with this singer but so far none have matched musically with her singing! (out of sync? or just bluff recordings?) If she really IS singing she is amazing!

[@bejun]

I dont know. I got it from the web. It says it was a concert anything else.

[@amillia007]

@ArnesonZach I think it works while she is still young,but I hear in her voice bad technique that can last only few years,unfortunately.

[@sonqualnave]

Exactly!! she talks about it in an interview and she does not know what's produce this effect. she did a lots of test but nothing relevant. and indeed it's impossible that she produce such fast and precise coloraturas using her mouth actually the mouth is an effect of her coloratura... strange,, but she is not the only one and the last opera singer to have some unexplainable "effect"!

[@giorgioot]

primo: non è assolutamente un mezzosoprano!!!!! secondo : è inguardabile!!! quale scopo hanno tutti quei movimenti della bocca??

[@Tigermuc]

haha, voice and mouth don't match! That's why it looks so funny...but great voice anyway!!! Bravissima.

[@cantanteporsiempre]

creo que le falta resistencia física, esta muy delgada!!