She has this incredible GIFT for making the most modern and angular music sound utterly MUSICAL. It's a remarkable thing, and a joy to listen to. That high C is a knock out too!
I never liked opera. I assumed it was likeable for people with sophisticated tastes, but I just didn't get it. THEN ONE FINE DAY in the late 80s, I was working in a store that sold these new-fangled "CDs". Our distributers would send us free sampler albums. I was particularly fond of playing the lullaby CD over the PA whenever a customer with a mewling tot disturbed our peace. It never failed to silence them...but I digress. Where was I? Oh yes, sampler CDs! Someone sent us one that included Dawn Upshaw singing something. I finally "got it". I suddenly realized why people love opera, thanks to this one performance by Dawn Upshaw! For decades, I have only remembered it was in English, seemed "modern", and contained the word "Tom", but nothing else. Finally, thanks to RUclips, I have rediscovered it! I have no clue why this, and nothing else, makes me understand the appeal of "opera", but thank you, Dawn Upshaw, nonetheless!
Hiram Fibonik what a wonderful story - and hardly a surprise, if indeed the demo CD sampler went missing, and you didn’t know this aria appeared on Upshaw’s own album Knoxville: Summer of 1915, itself a sampler... it would therefore have necessarily been at double remove ... For the record, I have aucun problème with the ballet dancers not called for in the score - do they “take” from my pleasure in listening and watching? Quite the opposite, having heard this aria a thousand times. DU always makes it “nu”, and for that, “Tinky Strawinksy” wears a triangle over his head in Heaven, too, I’d like to tonk ... much better than the “cannibal in a top hat” label one Italian critic gave him, after the debut performance at La Fenice ... that bat’s a lot of fear bunkum, a dank bang on a good man’s ... reputation! dang
in other words, genius survives all mishaps ... the designer who sets the whole thing on an ocean liner ... puts the orchestra on stage ... raises the pitch of an orchestra, who knows how high a row can go? But here’s the thing - it doesn’t really matter, you know. Nothing really matters, anyone can see. It doesn’t really matter, not to me.
One of the most beautiful lady in the world. Her voice is a girl from God bless this beautiful lady. Dawn Upshaw is a treasure with love to my sweetheart
This role really does best with a diamond bright, pert soubrette voice like Dawn Upshaw has. The heavier lyric sopranos are uninspired and not girlish enough and the violin laser beam coloraturas sound mechanical and not human often in this aria. Brava Upshaw.
Absolutely! Dawn Upshaw is exactly what Strawinksey/Moczart had in mind for Trulove! Had to settle for Schwarzkopf for the world premiere, but she sang it well, that little Ilse Koch!!!
WOW! Most sopranos would give anything to sound this good after a long recording session with lots of help from the engineers and autotune. Here Dawn Upshaw is singing live in front of an audience, a pit orchestra and all the distractions of a dancer twirling around her like some out of control automotan. Her singing is simply brilliant throughout this challeging aria and you can understand what shes singing, despite i perfect acoustics for capturing text. And her final note is pure triumph!
This is my favourite Upshaw's version of the aria becuase here she sings beautifully and without any little imperfection. The tempo is right and not too fast like in the audio version although in that recording her voice sounds wonderful and very youth, just right for the chacacter. In the Salzbourg video she sings well but I think her voice sounds a little tired.
I love dawn Upshaw and i love this opera and especially this aria BRAVO! -------- the dancing is distracting and pulls the focus away from the aria and the singer-------less theater please
Monotone color. I feel moderate irregularities, but I am never conscious of only the flat. Although it is a neat and beautiful singing, it never touches the surface and appeals to internal feelings. There is a rich tension, objectively grasp the shadows of the story with people listening.
Upshaw OWNS this role. 🤩
She has this incredible GIFT for making the most modern and angular music sound utterly MUSICAL. It's a remarkable thing, and a joy to listen to. That high C is a knock out too!
I never liked opera. I assumed it was likeable for people with sophisticated tastes, but I just didn't get it. THEN ONE FINE DAY in the late 80s, I was working in a store that sold these new-fangled "CDs". Our distributers would send us free sampler albums. I was particularly fond of playing the lullaby CD over the PA whenever a customer with a mewling tot disturbed our peace. It never failed to silence them...but I digress. Where was I?
Oh yes, sampler CDs! Someone sent us one that included Dawn Upshaw singing something. I finally "got it". I suddenly realized why people love opera, thanks to this one performance by Dawn Upshaw! For decades, I have only remembered it was in English, seemed "modern", and contained the word "Tom", but nothing else. Finally, thanks to RUclips, I have rediscovered it! I have no clue why this, and nothing else, makes me understand the appeal of "opera", but thank you, Dawn Upshaw, nonetheless!
Hiram Fibonik what a wonderful story - and hardly a surprise, if indeed the demo CD sampler went missing, and you didn’t know this aria appeared on Upshaw’s own album Knoxville: Summer of 1915, itself a sampler... it would therefore have necessarily been at double remove ...
For the record, I have aucun problème with the ballet dancers not called for in the score - do they “take” from my pleasure in listening and watching? Quite the opposite, having heard this aria a thousand times. DU always makes it “nu”, and for that, “Tinky Strawinksy” wears a triangle over his head in Heaven, too, I’d like to tonk ... much better than the “cannibal in a top hat” label one Italian critic gave him, after the debut performance at La Fenice ... that bat’s a lot of fear bunkum, a dank bang on a good man’s ... reputation! dang
in other words, genius survives all mishaps ... the designer who sets the whole thing on an ocean liner ... puts the orchestra on stage ... raises the pitch of an orchestra, who knows how high a row can go?
But here’s the thing - it doesn’t really matter, you know. Nothing really matters, anyone can see. It doesn’t really matter, not to me.
Fabulous! The Rake's Progress is the first opera I went to see and I was hooked from then on!
I am obsessed with interpretation of this aria by magnificent Dawn Upshaw.
One of the most beautiful lady in the world. Her voice is a girl from God bless this beautiful lady. Dawn Upshaw is a treasure with love to my sweetheart
Great musician! Your presentation of this piece is the best I have ever heard or thought of
Dawn was really feeling herself. ❤
This role really does best with a diamond bright, pert soubrette voice like Dawn Upshaw has. The heavier lyric sopranos are uninspired and not girlish enough and the violin laser beam coloraturas sound mechanical and not human often in this aria.
Brava Upshaw.
Absolutely! Dawn Upshaw is exactly what Strawinksey/Moczart had in mind for Trulove! Had to settle for Schwarzkopf for the world premiere, but she sang it well, that little Ilse Koch!!!
Absolutely! More often than not, the lyrics tend to struggle with the final high C, too. It's a tremendously tough sing.
WOW! Most sopranos would give anything to sound this good after a long recording session with lots of help from the engineers and autotune. Here Dawn Upshaw is singing live in front of an audience, a pit orchestra and all the distractions of a dancer twirling around her like some out of control automotan. Her singing is simply brilliant throughout this challeging aria and you can understand what shes singing, despite i perfect acoustics for capturing text. And her final note is pure triumph!
love her love her love her.................
Utter perfection!
I still can't get over how full-bodied that High C is!!
Bravissima,questa è la migliore esecuzione sul youtbe di quest'aria :-)
...And that's how you perform opera.
This performance is everything!
This is my favourite Upshaw's version of the aria becuase here she sings beautifully and without any little imperfection. The tempo is right and not too fast like in the audio version although in that recording her voice sounds wonderful and very youth, just right for the chacacter. In the Salzbourg video she sings well but I think her voice sounds a little tired.
wow！so great
❤❤❤❤❤
Dawn is so graceful, her performance here so riveting- the dancer is a distraction and and insult to Dawn's brilliance.
Don't blame the ballerina. They wanted Upshaw to do that too while singing, but she politely declined. ;)
I love the ballerina.
Dawn, great in English pieces. American soprano!
What an absurd staging of this. wonderful Aria and cabaletta. What the hell is with a TV hampster and a ballerina in this scene?
I know, right? "When opera staging goes off the rails."
That's why directors don't know anything about opera
DUMB AS DONUTS!!!
I love dawn Upshaw and i love this opera and especially this aria BRAVO! -------- the dancing is distracting and pulls the focus away from the aria and the singer-------less theater please
Monotone color. I feel moderate irregularities, but I am never conscious of only the flat. Although it is a neat and beautiful singing, it never touches the surface and appeals to internal feelings. There is a rich tension, objectively grasp the shadows of the story with people listening.
Ha, ha
Get rid of that dancer