Roberto Alagna & Bryn Terfel "Au fond du temple saint"
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2006
- Roberto Alagna & Bryn Terfel sing the beautiful duet "Au fond du temple saint" from Bizet's "Les Pêcheurs de perles"... (Met 1996)
Beautiful singinf... and visually funny (big Terfel vs little Alagna) 
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This duet turned me on to opera almost 40 years ago. If you have friends who are not opera fans, please let them listen to this and see how it should be performed. If they fail to be moved they have no soul. Just kidding. Opera is not for everybody, but this beautiful music and such strong voices should turn anyone on to opera. If you can afford it (Phew) seeing this performed live is just earth moving.
I hope someone will play this for me when I'm dying; it will either send me to Heaven or bring me back to Life.
Bizet wrote this when he was 23 years old, after winning the commission in a competition. The opera's story is quite silly. When the librettists heard Bizet's music, one of them remarked, "If we had known the boy had such talent, we would have given him a better libretto."
Bizet nailed a perfect 10 with this beautiful duet.
I agree. Alagna always seems to me to be more at home with certain parts in the french repetoire than anywhere else.
Bryn is almost always incredible.
I love this duet. Terfel and Alagna harmonized do beautifully.
This performance is just wonderful! It brought tears to my eyes.
I can't comment on others' preferences - I only know that for French diction, pronunciation, energy, intensity, and being in the moment - this is IT!!! The most thrilling of all the many versions available - and the first time I heard Roberto Alagna - but definitely not the last!!!
Very beautiful : Alagna's perfect phrasing in the great french tradition, and them both singing smoothly and piano.
Gorgeous and inspired ! I can listen to this piece over and over and never get enough of it !
My favorite recording of this duet. Both singers in their prime and a live performance as well.
Oh, I have loved this aria for so many years! I'm a big Roberto Alagna fan too, so thanks for putting this up!
alagna, as usual, sounds awesome singing french. i'm proud of him.
There are't many pieces of music about which I can say I remember where I first heard it, but this is one. Years after that, it was played at my father's funeral. Words cannot express my feelings about it.
Truly a remarkable duet. Makes me cry it is so beautiful!! Thank you for this outstanding performance!! Steven Sopha, San Diego, California
this is an excellent version and I am delighted to be able to hear such beautyful music. I think this is the best version i have heard and as jcamija says Alagna is pronouncing french the right way!
In addition to others comments, even if is not a rule in opera, the fact that Roberto Alagna is pronouncing French (he is french) makes this version magical for me.
Alagna to me is truly great because he realizes that the vision of the composer is of utmost importance. Therefore, he doesn't sing with too many embellishments or ultra dramatic portamento. His singing of romantic arias is so simple and so appropriate! Bravo, Roberto and Bryn!
simplemente maravilloso, Alagna and Terfel GREAT VOICES, Roberto I love you
Adoro la flauta traversa que va dibujando melodías mientras ellos cantan...
wow, I never thought Alagna ever sang that well in his life... he paid the price of trying to have a big voice, a tendency which is sadly frequent among singers. Here he sings with a voice that is lighter than now, but more natural and oh how more beautiful.
Arrêtez d'halluciner, Alagna a une voix faîte pour ce type d'aria....elle est douce, haute , claire et munie d'une diction sans égale.
This is right up there with the Björling/Merrill version on my 'goosebumps' meter. Thanks for posting.
Simply stunning, thank you world.
If young tenors could sing like Alagna it would be enchantments and musical pleasure in the theater all over the world! even if we don't have to like his personality, he is a great singer!
Fantastic combination!
Can't say anything about this performance since I'm not an opera pro but damn I love this duet. Thanks for posting.
I agree that Merrill and Bjorling are perfect, but being able to see the live performers as they feel the experience adds a dimension to its fullness. That is impossible now, so I watch Alagna and Terfel with great appreciation and then llisten to Merrill and Bjorling, a totally satisfying experience.
One of Alagna's more focused performances. He should sing French opera always!
Very true @ nickbigd, Björling/Merrill are fantastic. It is absolutely stunning.
this is soooo beautiful
muy interesante :)
Ambas grandes voces!
Creo que la voz de Terfel es una de las mejores voces de barítono jamás escuchadas (no hay que dejar fuera a Dmitri Hvorostovsky). y Alagna, bueno... Alagna es Alagna!
vaya dueto más gracioso! El enorme Bryn y el pequeño (en comparación) Roberto.
Superbe interprétation, bravo.
Just think, this was for a Gala - James Levine's 25th Anniversary - and Roberto was making his debut at the Met in "La Bohême", and was married to Angela just the night before - on stage no less - you can see he is wearing his wedding outfit, probably no rehearsal with Bryn - and they hit it out of the ballpark - moving, heart wrenchingly beautiful voices, and the crowd goes wild!!! What more could you ask?
Mais uma vez fico emocionado com a linda interpretacao desse fantastico tenor!
The ultimate Bro's tune. Sadly didnt work that way in the end for them. Peace
bravissimo, the best that I heard, brilliant perfomance..
Magnifique !
Absolutely Brilliant !!
WOW...this is so perfect!! Thank you.
Glorious.TY M for posting.
I concur, it's difficult to stay in your own voice with such a masterpiece, too easy to overdo, while such a piece calls for a listening ear to the other party.
I wish you all the best, just as long as you don't try to replicate Bryn and Roberto and you'll be fine, Georg wrote this piece to accommodate most male voices ;)
Masterful would be an understatement to describe this duo.
Great version! Hahah, the size difference between these guys is comic!
simply perfect! :D
awesome duet.
@PastaAndPavarotti Alagna is of Italian heritage (Sicilian) but he was born outside of Paris France and he is a French citizen.
bryn terfel..............seine stimme ist ein gottesgeschenk!!!
Stunning!
Bravi! Fantástico!
squisito Grazie Mille!
Hey um i'm 17, i listen to all kinds of music (hiphop, rap, dub, flamenco) but just recently discovered such music. i love this song, and other things (time to say goodbye), canon & gigue in d major, tchaikovsky's dance of the sugar plum fairy
was just wondering if people could direct me to more music like this? maybe some of the more famous ones i might have heard, and then i'll branch off from there :)
terfel and alagna - a knockout combination! Da iawn mr Terfel, bravo M. Alagna!
coraclewoman
romantico, spledida atmosfera di sogno. Mi vengono i brividi
You can learn to appreciate opera, but if you don't feel it in your body the first time you ear it, it will never be a passion.
roberto on t'aime
Awesome!
breath taking!
This is an example of why I once thought that Alagna had a great future before him. Sadly, it didn't turn out that way, but this performance here is wonderful.
He, He, it's like watching Chang the Chinese Giant and Tom Thumb! Beautifully done though!!
tres bien!
I think the recording your referring to was 1950 and is very beautiful. One of the golden standards. The version I prefer is one that I mentioned which is from 1927 and has Gigli/Deluca:
watch?v=FsQJ6_XEJNc
Having said that Roberto Alagna & Bryn Terfel are great artists and Alagna is multi talented covering so many different forms of music very effectively as well as his operatic career.
Terfel trots out this party piece at every available paid opportunity, and he's recorded it with Bocelli, Alvarez, and for all I know, Kiri te bloody Kanawa - but none so outshines him as much as Alagna, just the perfect voice for this.
awesome
I have been listening to all the version " here" , sorry for that , but it the "best" version of this beautiful duet ! Why ??? The two voices are absolutely well balanced together , Alagna does ALL the pianissimi WRITTEN and Terfel is very impressive (what a legato and a colour ) , there is (maybe??) another "old" version with José Luccionni and Paul Deldi in the 1950's (two French Singers stars of that time )
lol that one cracked me up ! :D sooo true :)
@Baritone04 I agree with everything you have written. WELL SAID!
Alagna, an Italian voice (production) on a Frenchman... Finally.. An Italian voice where the French cannot complain about his French ! They must be ecstatic...
To johneunson - nothing "happened" to Alagna except people trashing him on You Tube - You can access a lhis performances from 1992 to 2009 on You Tube. Granted, he does not have the sweetness & purity of his early years, but his voice is warmer as well as darker. He is singing "Carmen" at the Met this January & I already have my tickets!
thanks for that, I was going to look up the libretto and now I don't have to. :)
This comment is simply magnificent! XD
Grande Bizet......
D'accord avec Gaytenor.
Alagna est le plus grand ténor français depuis Georges Thill.
i kind of like it :D
The greatest French tenor since Thill and, in his repertoire, still the best. If you have any questions of this watch Villazon trash the role of Romeo. Constant comments about the state of Alagna voice forget how much longer he has lasted than DiStefano for example.
I always hated Opera but this one gets a pass its such a beautiful song !
bien alagna muy bien
@reduxmisc Alagna is French, but of Sicilian descent
They both were sporting the I'm-too-hip-to-shave look which were popular a few years back. Mr. Terfel pulled it off, but Mr. Alagna looked like he just got off the red-eye from Paris.
Qué musica tan hermosa coño!!!
manually scroll the cursor to the very end of the track. a beautiful woman appears, as if by magic.
I agree - Björling and Merrill still unbeatable in this duet :)
All Welch to me !
A pure treat for ears ^^
Anybody knows what's the height of big Terfel ?
@thegoodsish What's sculpture got to do with it? ; )
atomic!!!!
LOL. That makes sense, why didn't I think of it before? They do spend about half the book singing...
There's a recording of these two singing this duet at some sort of gala in NYC in the 1990's (I think). It was gruesome in the extreme. Their voices were grotesquely unmatched. This rendition is considerably better.
However, I can't help thinking that Alagna is singing at the very upper limit of his range. He really should desist. I know it's unfashionable to say so, but give me the Bjorling/Merrill rendition any time.
Stuart
this was in 1996... the voice change with age, and generally it gets darker and louder...
runs rings around Bocelli
Any duetists who can manage to do justice to this beautiful aria are worthy of praise. But for me. like an earlier contributor, the Bjorling and Merrill effort is the one. I believe it's considered by the aficionados to be the definitive version. Does anyone know if there is a visual record of them singing it? Both dead now, alas.
Too funny!!
is there a dvd for this?
Than listen to Lanza, Caruso, Gigli, Di Stefano, Bonisolli and there are a lot more singers. But from here you can start off haha;)
C'est vrai, il est étonnant que Jussi Björling
chante l'opéra français mieux que n'importe quel ténor français.Son timbre y est sans doute pour beaucoup.
What about Bjorling and Merrill?Any significance in not having it here?
Saudade do Alagna, do tempo em que sua voz ainda estava intacta. Pena que ele, assim como tantos outros, tenha ´danificado sua voz com papéis inadequados.
Parecem Laurell & Hardy, com todo o respeito, mas as vozes são sublimes.
so beautiful, but don't forget to give cred to the conductor toooooo
Ernest Blanc and Nicolai Gedda area pretty good pair
Sublime > supernal.