William Howard Taft, our nation’s heaviest President (325 pounds), was known for not being able to stay awake. He could fall asleep anywhere, during the opera, in an open car on the campaign trail, front row at a state funeral. At a dinner for his cabinet, he called for music on the Victrola, and fell asleep during the first song. He woke up and called for another song, but was out like a light before the record was even put on. His AG George Wickersham then suggested the sextet from Lucia do Lammermoor, since “it will awake anyone but a dead man.” When it failed to awaken the President, Wickersham concluded, “He must be dead.”
What a brilliant staging of this exquisite sextet! The photographer moving people about is the perfect topping to a Victorian setting for this Lucia. Netrebko is in perfect form. Isn't it remarkable that the same composer of the hysterically funny "La Fille du Regiment" also created the ultimate operatic tragedy, "Lucia"? Talk about *range.*
You can take the Russians out of Russia - but you can never take Russia out of the Russians - that was proven for hundreds of years - and but that I mean the former Soviet Union -
This is incredible singing, but I want to take a moment to recognize whoever blocked this scene. Little interactions between characters make this scene more meaningful - having the photographer place Lucia's hand on her husbands, only to have her pull away. How he directs Enrico (her brother) to draw close to his sister, but he reacts in agitation. How the chorus is left in the back, watching things unfold, and Arturo is left on the sidelines by himself to watch things unfold. Again, Excellent work!
I remember the three Stooges singing this aria they used a vinyl record for the voices, someone pulls the plug out and they were found out, the film was called ,micro phonies, they sang it again in squareheads of the round table, as a signal to the princess, it was hilarious....
Anybody remember that classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Elmer Fudd is trying to sleep, but Sylvester is keeping him up with his crazy singing? At the very end, Elmer accidentally blows the both of them up, but can't get away from Sylvester even in Heaven, with all of Sylvester's nine lives singing this song! lol
"Back Alley Op-roar". A remake of a black and white cartoon (starring Porky Pig and an unnamed cat) called "Notes to You", which ends with the same song. It also appears briefly in "Book Revue" during the wolf's trial, with new lyrics. "You can't do this to me! I'm a citizen, see!"
I remember this from seeing that cartoon over 65 years ago. I've remembered the sound of this magnificent piece of music all of these years. I finally entered "what are the most famous opera choruses of all time" or something like that in a search engine. I listened to quite a few until I heard that familiar opening tenor solo. What a thrill!
I also remember in _Long-Haired Hare_ when Bugs rumbles the Hollywood Bowl causing Giovanni Jones, who is performing this piece, to fall into a tuba. "Acoustically poifect."
Perdão, mas no momento que Edgardo chega Lucía havia acabado de assinar o contrato nupcial, e não havia nenhum "lambe lambe", pois nessa época nem sonhava-se com fotos. Lucia se desesperou qdo viu que Edgardo estava solteiro, pois disseram a ela que ele contraíra núpcias com a prima e que havia a abandonado. E não tinha fotógrafo nada disso! O pobre Edgardo había sido engañado pelo irmão de Lúcia, que por sua vez ela TB havia sido enganada pelo mesmo. Por amor, não deturpem a estória. Isso é uma tragédia e não uma comédia, e naquele momento, Lúcia se desequilibrou emocionalmente, a ponto dela ter matado o noivo na noite de núpcias...enfim, enlouquecera, e morreu em decorrência deste desequilíbrio mental.Enfim foi uma tragédia que destruiu a vida de um casal que se amavam, levando-os a morte. Vamos manter a estória tal qual é realmente. Sem deturpações! Gratidão!
The staging was impeccable. Turn off the sound and one can still learn the whole story of the scene. turn on the volume and you have the full drama. Listen to the Callas recording of this sometime..
Dios mío,todos los que comentan aquí no deben haber visto en su vida un verdadero Sexteto de Lucía di Lammermoor ...qué desastre,interrumpir y distraer visualmente esa maravilla de pieza musical🤮
Wish Netrebko would focus in this repertoire rather than the heavy repertoire she´s now singing. She's in the process of destroying her voice for the sake of challenge. Here her voice sounds just beautiful and effortless. Her recent Andrea Chenier was a disaster, especially singing it with her husband.
Thank you, thank you!! I've thought for some time that Netrebko is in the process of destroying her voice just to sing heavier and heavier roles. I heard her live as Lucia back in 2004, and thought she was wonderful. Alas, since then she's moved into progressively heavier roles. She's not the only one either. I cannot understand the idea so prevalent these days that heavier is somehow better. Jonas Kaufmann basically sounds like he's got a golf ball in his mouth and his larynx has been shoved down somewhere around his knees in his quest to get a bigger, heavier sound. Erwin Schrott, a perfectly fine baritone, has decided that now he's a bass. His recording (It's here on RUclips.) of an aria from Attila is less than wonderful. His way to handle not being able to solidly sing the notes at the bottom of the lower register of the bass range? Have the orchestra play very loudly and drown out his feeble sound. I just don't get it.
The weight of her life (much tragedy)has caused the distress in her plus her weight. I once felt she was just about the sexiest human on the planet. I wish her happiness..and allow it to be back in her voice again..
@@doet1064 Yusif Eyvazov gets dumped on way too much. If he wasn’t married to Anna Netrebko and constantly being accused of only getting work because he is married to her -given her current behavior, he might want a divorce, Azerbaijan knows only too well what Russia does- Mr. Eyvazov would just be an up and coming talent. Ok, he wasn’t born yesterday but telling your Azerbaijani father that you are going to sing opera probably wasn’t easy. I would argue that he might well have been brought up too fast and that might have caused some inconsistency in his performance. I’ve heard one live Nessun Dorma performance of his that was fantastic and a RUclips one that was not so hot; perhaps being brought to the world stage so quickly caused some damage?
....The Three Stooges turn in an excellent rendition of this sextet in an episode called "Beer Barrel Polecats". It can be found on RUclips under "The Three Stooges - Micro-Phonies". (scroll down two or three videos) I highly recommend it.
I really have to hand it to the stage director. As simple as it looked, there was a lot of choreography going on with the photographer. And to move people around in time with the music at that. If I were the stage manager, I would be holding my breath every night hoping the powder would go off for the flash...!
The photographer was an idiotic idea. Obviously, the director does not understand the libretto, or he disregards it. Like seasoning a steak with cinnamon.
The staging of this scene was amazing! The singing was nothing to write home about but the costumes and staging were so original and interesting. A great way to update an old-fashioned opera like this.
A great rendition of the sextet. A lot of the dramatic tension is taken away by the stupid photographer, whom the director is using to try and reduce Donizetti to a Muzak composer. Either you fight or you pose for a family photo!
Also, it doesn't make any sense, because during this sextet the characters are all expressing their surprise and discomfort. Time is supposed to be frozen. While the photographer thing could be a cute idea, to a person who understands the libretto is quite cringe.
Sooooooo..... these singers sing their hearts out and are rewarded with applause as a kind of catharsis or release of tension. Why then, during orchestral pieces, do we sit stone quiet at the end of a movement, esp an emotional one (Like Brahms piano concerto #1? Why don't we applaud? I've always thought that weird.
Joan Sutherland makes it to the top, as she must, with that last note. Now, if you don't know your opera (love , betrayal, murder), you might suppose the sextet is something altogether different from what it really is. This is a fine rendition of an operatic moment of justifiable fame. Always a joy to hear.
Opera never recovered from this moment . . . there's no turning back after this. You have, on the one hand, the bloated fantasies of Wagner, or the equally heavy-handed Verdi (who was great, in his own way, but never as purely melodic as this generation of composers, i.e., Rossini, Pacini, and Bellini, and of course, Big D himself).
Sorry, but this ist nothing compared tot he 1982 performance at the MET of Sutheröand, Kraus, Elvira, Plishka.... t the 1982 performance will not be beatem by anyone...
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William Howard Taft, our nation’s heaviest President (325 pounds), was known for not being able to stay awake. He could fall asleep anywhere, during the opera, in an open car on the campaign trail, front row at a state funeral.
At a dinner for his cabinet, he called for music on the Victrola, and fell asleep during the first song. He woke up and called for another song, but was out like a light before the record was even put on.
His AG George Wickersham then suggested the sextet from Lucia do Lammermoor, since “it will awake anyone but a dead man.”
When it failed to awaken the President, Wickersham concluded, “He must be dead.”
What a brilliant staging of this exquisite sextet! The photographer moving people about is the perfect topping to a Victorian setting for this Lucia. Netrebko is in perfect form. Isn't it remarkable that the same composer of the hysterically funny "La Fille du Regiment" also created the ultimate operatic tragedy, "Lucia"? Talk about *range.*
This is the Sextet of my dreams. The voices match so seamlessly. Bravissimo!
Bravissimi.
One of the most beautiful operatic works. Pure ecstasy.
Such a shame she destroyed her career by siding with genocidal Putin. Whatevs....
@@ballyhigh11 she was born in Russia. To whom do you think she would give allegiance.
@@ballyhigh11 never forget she's Russian
You can take the Russians out of Russia - but you can never take Russia out of the Russians - that was proven for hundreds of years - and but that I mean the
former Soviet Union -
There's only one word to describe this talent BRILLIANT
This is incredible singing, but I want to take a moment to recognize whoever blocked this scene.
Little interactions between characters make this scene more meaningful - having the photographer place Lucia's hand on her husbands, only to have her pull away. How he directs Enrico (her brother) to draw close to his sister, but he reacts in agitation. How the chorus is left in the back, watching things unfold, and Arturo is left on the sidelines by himself to watch things unfold. Again, Excellent work!
love it, no matter how many times I listen
Overwhelmingly great!
So beautiful. Netrebko's singing is so effortless.
Netrebko never will be Sutherland
@@jacek2256315 you think?
@@jacek2256315 you are absolutely right. She Is Ana Netrebko, that is her name.
Ikr.....that's like a young NBA star playing and someone commenting they'll never be Michael Jordan..lol
Quelle belle distribution et mise en scène impeccable digne du MET !
It is always mesmerizing music to hear. This group of singers give a wonderful flawless performance of this.
I remember the three Stooges singing this aria they used a vinyl record for the voices, someone pulls the plug out and they were found out, the film was called ,micro phonies, they sang it again in squareheads of the round table, as a signal to the princess, it was hilarious....
Oh! Elaine,Elaine come out Babe
Take a look Who standing here righ here...😄
The best stooges ever in my opinion
...and a phony at the mike
@@americaforever Funniest moment ever!
Anybody remember that classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Elmer Fudd is trying to sleep, but Sylvester is keeping him up with his crazy singing? At the very end, Elmer accidentally blows the both of them up, but can't get away from Sylvester even in Heaven, with all of Sylvester's nine lives singing this song! lol
"Back Alley Op-roar". A remake of a black and white cartoon (starring Porky Pig and an unnamed cat) called "Notes to You", which ends with the same song. It also appears briefly in "Book Revue" during the wolf's trial, with new lyrics. "You can't do this to me! I'm a citizen, see!"
I remember this from seeing that cartoon over 65 years ago. I've remembered the sound of this magnificent piece of music all of these years. I finally entered "what are the most famous opera choruses of all time" or something like that in a search engine. I listened to quite a few until I heard that familiar opening tenor solo. What a thrill!
Quite a bit of opera in those Looney Tunes cartoons.
I also remember in _Long-Haired Hare_ when Bugs rumbles the Hollywood Bowl causing Giovanni Jones, who is performing this piece, to fall into a tuba. "Acoustically poifect."
stayed with me all my life!
Perdão, mas no momento que Edgardo chega Lucía havia acabado de assinar o contrato nupcial, e não havia nenhum "lambe lambe", pois nessa época nem sonhava-se com fotos. Lucia se desesperou qdo viu que Edgardo estava solteiro, pois disseram a ela que ele contraíra núpcias com a prima e que havia a abandonado. E não tinha fotógrafo nada disso! O pobre Edgardo había sido engañado pelo irmão de Lúcia, que por sua vez ela TB havia sido enganada pelo mesmo. Por amor, não deturpem a estória. Isso é uma tragédia e não uma comédia, e naquele momento, Lúcia se desequilibrou emocionalmente, a ponto dela ter matado o noivo na noite de núpcias...enfim, enlouquecera, e morreu em decorrência deste desequilíbrio mental.Enfim foi uma tragédia que destruiu a vida de um casal que se amavam, levando-os a morte. Vamos manter a estória tal qual é realmente. Sem deturpações! Gratidão!
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the most beautiful Sextet , i've ever heard
Hilarious! Anybody who thinks opera is dull or boring should watch this!
The staging was impeccable. Turn off the sound and one can still learn the whole story of the scene. turn on the volume and you have the full drama. Listen to the Callas recording of this sometime..
Dios mío,todos los que comentan aquí no deben haber visto en su vida un verdadero Sexteto de Lucía di Lammermoor ...qué desastre,interrumpir y distraer visualmente esa maravilla de pieza musical🤮
I see why Donald Lambert chose to play this in Stride for his repertoire. Beautiful song.
1:07 - the Three Stooges brought me here! (THAT'S how cultured I am!)
For me it was The Flintstones when Fred Flintstone hit his head with a bottle of car polish and he sings this
Shameful to post without identifying the principal singers...
Bravi 🎼🌷🌷🌷🌷🎼
Exepcional Lucía!
Conmovedora Inteŕprete !
Wish Netrebko would focus in this repertoire rather than the heavy repertoire she´s now singing. She's in the process of destroying her voice for the sake of challenge. Here her voice sounds just beautiful and effortless. Her recent Andrea Chenier was a disaster, especially singing it with her husband.
Thank you, thank you!! I've thought for some time that Netrebko is in the process of destroying her voice just to sing heavier and heavier roles. I heard her live as Lucia back in 2004, and thought she was wonderful. Alas, since then she's moved into progressively heavier roles. She's not the only one either. I cannot understand the idea so prevalent these days that heavier is somehow better. Jonas Kaufmann basically sounds like he's got a golf ball in his mouth and his larynx has been shoved down somewhere around his knees in his quest to get a bigger, heavier sound. Erwin Schrott, a perfectly fine baritone, has decided that now he's a bass. His recording (It's here on RUclips.) of an aria from Attila is less than wonderful. His way to handle not being able to solidly sing the notes at the bottom of the lower register of the bass range? Have the orchestra play very loudly and drown out his feeble sound. I just don't get it.
The weight of her life (much tragedy)has caused the distress in her plus her weight. I once felt she was just about the sexiest human on the planet. I wish her happiness..and allow it to be back in her voice again..
Her Husband cant sing....
@@doet1064 Yusif Eyvazov gets dumped on way too much. If he wasn’t married to Anna Netrebko and constantly being accused of only getting work because he is married to her -given her current behavior, he might want a divorce, Azerbaijan knows only too well what Russia does- Mr. Eyvazov would just be an up and coming talent. Ok, he wasn’t born yesterday but telling your Azerbaijani father that you are going to sing opera probably wasn’t easy. I would argue that he might well have been brought up too fast and that might have caused some inconsistency in his performance. I’ve heard one live Nessun Dorma performance of his that was fantastic and a RUclips one that was not so hot; perhaps being brought to the world stage so quickly caused some damage?
@@JustFeltLikeListenin .
kwiecien i beczala... cudo!
My favs!
....The Three Stooges turn in an excellent rendition of this sextet in an episode called "Beer Barrel Polecats". It can be found on RUclips under "The Three Stooges - Micro-Phonies". (scroll down two or three videos) I highly recommend it.
Simply Anna Netrebko sings this aria .Bravossimo
I really have to hand it to the stage director. As simple as it looked, there was a lot of choreography going on with the photographer. And to move people around in time with the music at that. If I were the stage manager, I would be holding my breath every night hoping the powder would go off for the flash...!
Sure deflated the sextett.
Imperdonable fotógrafo. Con sus movimientos nos impide disfrutar a tope de esta maravilla.
The photographer was an idiotic idea. Obviously, the director does not understand the libretto, or he disregards it. Like seasoning a steak with cinnamon.
Un gran Elenco, para un sexteto complicado de interpretar. Muchas gracias por compartir
The cricket in times square brought me here. Chester's final performance.
Unglaublich schön, hervorragend dieses Sextett!
Bravo, Beczala!!!!
The staging of this scene was amazing! The singing was nothing to write home about but the costumes and staging were so original and interesting. A great way to update an old-fashioned opera like this.
Einfach unübertroffen❤
Me and my late husband's favourite!❤
Netrebko strepitosa oggi il più grande soprano al mondo
A great rendition of the sextet. A lot of the dramatic tension is taken away by the stupid photographer, whom the director is using to try and reduce Donizetti to a Muzak composer. Either you fight or you pose for a family photo!
This stage business is just a distraction & then an annoyance--why oh why do this to a sextet so brilliantly sung????
Also, it doesn't make any sense, because during this sextet the characters are all expressing their surprise and discomfort. Time is supposed to be frozen. While the photographer thing could be a cute idea, to a person who understands the libretto is quite cringe.
Semplicemente meraviglioso
The 3 stooges(Micorphonies) bought me here.
Geandes voix, grand déploiement ❤
Bravo
Long haired hare brought me to this aria.
Do you maybe have the finale of the second act that follows this sextet? I would love to see it in this production.
LE RÊVE BEAUTÉ DES VOIX. MISE EN SCÈNE DECORS ORCHESTRE..SOMPTUEUX
01:26 How can you do more Italian ?
Sheer Heaven!
Wonderful!!! great staging too.
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Willie the singing whale brought me here....
My Fav Donizetti opera Uplifting. OMG. Goosebumps Anna and Piotr are great. She almost as good as Joan
Sooooooo..... these singers sing their hearts out and are rewarded with applause as a kind of catharsis or release of tension. Why then, during orchestral pieces, do we sit stone quiet at the end of a movement, esp an emotional one (Like Brahms piano concerto #1? Why don't we applaud? I've always thought that weird.
Canto sublime e drammatico fino all' ennesima potenza .
Lindo!!!!
Very nice!!!
Wonderful
I’m here because of Long Haired Hare , Buggs Bunny cartoon
That's where I found my love of classical music and opera.
2:58 I Came from Looney Tunes, Back Alley Oproar. Found this after YEARS of searching!!!
Potreste per favore mettere il nome di tutti e sei
😔😔😓😓😓❤❤
❤bellísimo
❤ excellent ❤
Bravo!!
why I do see Netrebko supporter of Putin again and again
Netrebko's natural timbre is so beautiful.
Who are the other singers please?
The only ones I can name from the top of my head here are Mariusz Kwiecien and Piotr Beczala! Baritone and tenor, respectively.
And Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) as Raimondo
Stooges!
But I am going to read the translation, and find out what this great piece of music is about.
Try reading the source material: Sir Walter Scott's novel, The Bride of Lammermoor.
I feel sorry for actor playing photographer. He knew better probably but had to follow stupid directions.
Belleza
Joan Sutherland makes it to the top, as she must, with that last note. Now, if you don't know your opera (love , betrayal, murder), you might suppose the sextet is something altogether different from what it really is. This is a fine rendition of an operatic moment of justifiable fame. Always a joy to hear.
What on earth are u trying to say?
@@mjdares2749 I think he mistook Sutherland for Netrebko
@@Yves_Ka grandpa forgot to take a nap today and thought it was 1965 again
@@Yves_Ka imagine that
How silly to put a photographer in there to distract from the singing.
I think the photographer is part of the act.
Yes, and those period costumes too
@@jetstream6389 The story is loosely based on a real event in the late 18th century. In the real life event the new husband was stabbed but survived.
The Flintstones brought me here
no Netrebko, never again
Yup. Fook Putinistas
What's your problem? She is perfect in this version.
Opera never recovered from this moment . . . there's no turning back after this. You have, on the one hand, the bloated fantasies of Wagner, or the equally heavy-handed Verdi (who was great, in his own way, but never as purely melodic as this generation of composers, i.e., Rossini, Pacini, and Bellini, and of course, Big D himself).
Puccini, maybe?
Aren't you getting your dates confused? Puccini lived until 1924, and he did not die aged 200+.
Sounds good, but really silly stage business. This was an old fashioned production when first mounted. And Netrebko's dress! Unfortunate!☹️
1:45 El Phantastico
Want some coke?
Jack Nicholson
yes sung in the departed !
1:00
I prefer the s'entête with n.dessay,l.teziez et j.calleja..
Sorry, but this ist nothing compared tot he 1982 performance at the MET of Sutheröand, Kraus, Elvira, Plishka.... t the 1982 performance will not be beatem by anyone...
worst visual presentation of this important presentation i've even seen
I can only agree. The entire production was pretty naff.
The tenor thinks it's his Solo..lol. also the baritone has a weak voice... no w carrying power
La pauvre netrebko a baeu faire ou esaayer de faire elle n'y arrive pas, elle n'exprime rien.
She is magnificent
Three Stooges anyone?
Бечала браво! Непотребко колхоз😂
Sorry, but I mean, Nathalie Dessay was the better Lucia (in this performance).
Anna Netrebko is beyond compare 😊