Thank you for your lovely reaction and analyze of this duet. I know Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, but have never heard Amira Willghagen before. A lovely voice and a lovely duet.
If you’re interested, go back to when Amira won Holland’s Got Talent at the age of nine , without having a single singing lesson. I, with literally millions of others, have followed Amira in her remarkable journey since that win. She turned 19 a couple of weeks ago. Amira is not only a remarkable singer, she is a wonderful human being, & by following her journey, you will discover her amazing accomplishments, including the playground equipment she has supplied to schools unable to purchase themselves. I believe the are now 18 school that now have this playground equipment, all because of Amira Willighagen. Cheers Graeme
Definitely so watch the video ( for English Speakers) of her audition for Holland's Got Talent 2013 when she was 9 years old. Her raw voice before any singing lessons, she taught herself to sing opera arias from watching RUclips. The video is a delight. It's here on RUclips plus her semi and final performances which won her the competition.
WELCOME BACK JENNIFER, DO NOT STAY AWAY SO LONG AGAIN - WE LEARN A LOT FROM YOUR ANALITICAL REACTION - WHAT A DISPLAY OF GOD GIVEN TALENT, BOTH OF THEM - JUST FOR YOUR INFO, CORLEA BOTHA HAD HER FIRST CONCERT AT AGE 5 !!!! PLEASE DO MORE AMIRA, I CERTAINLY ENJOY YOUR REACTION STYLE !!!!!! BOER BEN
Wonderful reaction, Jen. Amira at just 13 years old has such perfect control, pitch and sense of vocal dynamics that it appears all she has to do is open her mouth and the sound automatically pops out. As I'm sure you know it takes countless hours of practice to sing so effortlessly. One other thing I noticed is how they also synchronized their vibrato. One thing you noticed is that Corlea, who is fabulous in her own right was classically trained not as a mezzo but as a dramatic soprano but now mostly sings, everything but classical music.pop, rock, show tunes etc. She is definitely worth a listen also
Thanks Jen. Just love your incredible music knowledge & your ability to educate us mere mortals with in-depth comments that we can understand. More Amira please, & in particular, her performing “Ave Maria by Gomez at the Canisius Church’’ when she was 11 y.o. This is probably my favourite Amira performance. Cheers Graeme
Amira has sung this with other partners, where it is easier to hear the two separate voices. But the beauty of this performance is that they meld so well together, they really are working as a single entity. It's magical. There are a lot of beautiful pieces that Amira has done which you haven't caught. I think you might be missing out on some delights.... Gesu Bambino, la virgine degli angeli . The Nessun Dorma she'd just sung before Corley joined her here. Beautiful sounds. Corley has quite a repatoire, swing, jazz, rock/ pop. Some classical too. There is a video of this performance with English subtitles, which is handy too.
Even Pavarotti used a view microfoons during his Nessun Dorma performance. Please react to Amira,s " Gesu Bambino" performance together with her father on the church organ . She will blow your socks off for sure.
I've listened to every recoded version of this duet that I could find - and I honestly believe that this could be the finest performance of it that's ever been heard. Delibes would be crying with joy - just like most of the audience.
Amira is the prodigy of the decade, bringing joy and amazement with every note. Thank you for yet another wonderful explanation of what goes on in real vocal performance. Lovely way to have spent the last 20 minutes with you and Amira.
Amira's delivery appears completely effortless, she simply opens her mouth and releases the beauty which floods out. I've only ever seen this gift in one other singer: Mario Lanza.
Used in many films and adverts. This duet is about 140 years old. And it's actually a conversation between a mistress and her servant when they are out to pick some flowers somewhere in India in the late 19th century. Still beautiful and an amazing performance.
hi amira and corlia put this together over three weekends as both were in diferent countries amira went to south africa to get as much practice as they could . great reaction
I was blessed to have witnessed Amira's performance on Netherlands Got Tallent, if you can find it, it is worth seeing. She has an amazing voice and I absolutely love opera. Oh, and while we are chatting, Jenn, you are still more beautiful than their voices. And I would love to hear you do a solo aria.
Thank you for another excellent reaction. I enjoy having you share with us your appreciation of the music (all of Amira, Corlea and the orchestra) and your technical analysis.
II love Amira! I've been listening to this song on an average of once every week for a few years now. Chills every time! It was nicw to hear the more technical side of it besides the obvious beauty. Thanks Jennifer!
Although opera singers do not usually use a microphone during a stage production, it is common when the arias are sung in isolation, especially to audiences much larger than those in most opera houses. Pavarotti has been known to have a bank of mikes. Bocelli uses them and so do singers at Rieu concerts. Singing without may be ok for audiences of around 2500-3000, not for 10,000 +.
Hello Jennifer . Excellent reaction , Very didactic like always . I only want to add . 1 Sissel also sang Sancta María with microphone 14 years ago . Mirusia with Andre Rieu also sang with microphone . Including Pavarotti sang with microphone . Out of the Opera the mayority of the Clasics singers sings with microphone .If you want to hear to Amira sings without microphone hear the recent Gesu bambino . 2 Consider that Amira here is only q3 years old singing at level of one very talented singer of more experience . Please , more Amira , never reacted to child Amira thd legend , with epic performances
I love listening to you As you make it fun as you are telling what is happening and explaining! You sound as you know how to explain. You really enjoy this production thank you so much!
While this is not an exceptionally musically complicated piece, it requires a very nicely coordinated pair of singers who can focus on blending their voices together and maintaining balance. I don’t know the opera at all, other than this piece. But the beauty of this piece will ensure that it is not forgotten. An excellent performance that definitely induces chills. Absolutely lovely.
Thanks for this piece. It was beautiful. Great hearing and seeing your reaction. Please do some more Dimash. I was lucky enough to meet him in LAX this last Feb. I was the only Dear there to welcome him and it was an honor and pleasure.
Hey Jen. I have been following Amira for a long time. I think she has a very unique voice. This duet is an example of her tallent. She does not back down from the front of the duet either. In other words, a very strong voice! Singing for Andrea Rue at the age of 9? I think? Parents divorced and she moved to South Africa? What has happened to her? I have seen some of her work from there. But she needs to come to the states to show off her talent, I think? What say you?
Amira was 19 in March and has just finished school. She has taken a year out before going to university in South Africa where she has lived with her mother and brother since age 13. Currently she is travelling with her mother in Europe and performing along the way. They are in Norway right now. See her informal performance of Gesu Bambino on RUclips. It was recorded in an empty church over Christmas when she was visiting her father there. Her dad accompanies her on the organ. Beautiful acoustics in the empty church.
She just graduated high school as Valedictorian. The Epidemic kept her from the Olympics as a middle distance runner. She has guarded her high notes carefully as her voice matures and for another five years or so. A years tour is planned before college.
You have Angelina and Amira. How about the third of the triple A girls, Amira’s friend, composer, pianist, violinist on a ten million dollar Stradivarius permanent loaner, and now, after a year of study with the top teachers, conductor, Alma Deutscher. The most common reviews are of the third movement of her violin concerto and the SIRENS WALTZ from her sold out Carnegie Hall concert of her works. There’s also Amira and Alma singing the STEPSISTERS DUET from her CINDERELLA opera that sold out in San Jose.
Jen, if it’s any consolation French is my native language and the only words I actually hear in the performance are “sous le blanc jasmin”, “allons ensemble” in the chorus and “l’oiseau chante”. And I actually know that song having worked on it some years back. Never actually sang it with a partner (I’d probably sing the mezzo part now though I was once able to sing the soprano melody though never entirely comfortably as it was the very top part of my range). As ever a lovely analysis, very interesting and enriching.
Ciao Jennifer ! Mi è piaciuto molto la tua reazione a questo stupendo duetto tra Amira e Corlea. Hai già ascoltato Amira più volte. Mà se vuoi dare una volta di più la tua opinione su quest'usignolo olandese 😀, ecco due altre video molto più recenti. Gesù Bambino, un inno di Natale. Amira lo canta all'improvviso, senza microfono né pubblico, nella piccola chiesa dove suo padre suona l'organo. La sua voce è davvero straordinaria... ruclips.net/video/c5MiyNTZKHY/видео.htmlsi=sIcmVnA4NGd-jqT6 Anche hà cantato, dieci giorni fà, l'aria più famoso di Catalani, Ebben ne andrò lontana... Un po' più difficile, a mio parere. ruclips.net/video/nKljSiNy4_Q/видео.htmlsi=RGnq8vdN13_Tfap2 Grazie mille e, sopratutto, felice anno nuovo ! 😃
Jennifer! Well this is a huge step away from Valhalla Calling isn't it? I'm not super familiar with opera but this was interesting. As you note they're using mics ... I wonder if they had to knowingly hold back a bit on the normal operatic volume or if that was handled in the back by mixing. 🤔 And Jen! You don't know your French? Well you do know one word pretty well ... "l'oiseau" 😁 Anyway, definitely no low note practice in this one for you. But great reaction and analysis as always! 😊
Whilst this was very pretty I still think that I would love to hear Simone Simmons and Floor Jansen sing this as a duet, which I’m sure they would be able to do. Their duet of Stabat mater dolorosa amply demonstrates this. Just out of interest, my favourite performance of this is by Sabine Devieihe and Marianne Crebassa. Nice description and reaction!
Please listen to Jonathan Antoine..Starting with his BGT 2012 or when he was singing 'Ave Maria' in his Home Church with the age of 14.. or Nessun Dorma Homeperformance..in his 'Studio' in his Parents Garden...at 2am after a Livechat with his Fans ❤😊
Corlea Botha is one of the best singers in South Africa, she sings all sort of music including opera but she is not a trained classical-opera singer, nor is Amira.
hmm... I hear so much... about the use of the Mic...by so many of you reactors... and yes in front of say 5k or less I'd say the use of mic is a CRIME... but not for young voices. to stand in front of More than 5k is ...understandable! and this show is ...7k+ love your reactions... you seem to be having fun doing it.
Not 5,000. Most of the large Opera houses hold 2,,500 to 2,800, the space is physically much smaller then an open space holding 7,,500 to 9,000 people that is not designed primarily for acoustics like an Opera house is. Amira recently performed unplugged in her family's church in the Netherlands where she dropped in to see her father practicing on the organ, (he's the organist for the church) and performed Gesu Bambino standing there with her coat on singing her glorious, round sounding very long legato lines that Jen lives so much recorded on a cell phone in the acoustic perfection of the church. Another is her performance of the Aria La Virgine deglii Angelie by Joe Green where she is standing back 3 to 4 feet from the microphone recording it for her Christmas concert in 2021. Another superb performance.
As far as the use of the microphone, stop and think for a moment. Any singer of any genre, including opera, if it's being recorded in any way (i.e. to be televised, radio broadcast, RUclips or otherwise) if there is no microphone only the audience present would hear it and you would be watching a silent video.
I absolutely agree. And there is another thing to consider: They are singing in a huge auditorium with almost 8,000 seats. Opera singers who sing without microphones usually sing in opera houses which doesn't seat more than 2,500 people in the audience.
I recommend you 2 songs, same singers, same concert!! 1. Sancta Terra - Epica ft. Floor Jansen now, after realizing what you will see (hear!!) 2. Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Pergolesi) - the same performers ... then you will know who sings in Epica band.
Mis. Jennifer please reaction to denden gonjalez cover song she's gone by: stellhart king of cover rock song.end his voice very high. Even higher than the sound chakra khan and dimas senopati
I remember first seeing Amira Willighagen singing 'O Mio Babbino Caro' on Holland's Got Talent when she was only 9. A must see performance.
Thank you for your lovely reaction and analyze of this duet. I know Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, but have never heard Amira Willghagen before. A lovely voice and a lovely duet.
If you’re interested, go back to when Amira won Holland’s Got Talent at the age of nine , without having a single singing lesson.
I, with literally millions of others, have followed Amira in her remarkable journey since that win. She turned 19 a couple of weeks ago. Amira is not only a remarkable singer, she is a wonderful human being, & by following her journey, you will discover her amazing accomplishments, including the playground equipment she has supplied to schools unable to purchase themselves. I believe the are now 18 school that now have this playground equipment, all because of Amira Willighagen.
Cheers Graeme
Definitely so watch the video ( for English Speakers) of her audition for Holland's Got Talent 2013 when she was 9 years old. Her raw voice before any singing lessons, she taught herself to sing opera arias from watching RUclips. The video is a delight. It's here on RUclips plus her semi and final performances which won her the competition.
Nothing like the Flower Duet to bring a tear to the eye. Thanks for your reaction Jen!
WELCOME BACK JENNIFER, DO NOT STAY AWAY SO LONG AGAIN - WE LEARN A LOT FROM YOUR ANALITICAL REACTION - WHAT A DISPLAY OF GOD GIVEN TALENT, BOTH OF THEM - JUST FOR YOUR INFO, CORLEA BOTHA HAD HER FIRST CONCERT AT AGE 5 !!!! PLEASE DO MORE AMIRA, I CERTAINLY ENJOY YOUR REACTION STYLE !!!!!! BOER BEN
Wonderful reaction, Jen. Amira at just 13 years old has such perfect control, pitch and sense of vocal dynamics that it appears all she has to do is open her mouth and the sound automatically pops out. As I'm sure you know it takes countless hours of practice to sing so effortlessly.
One other thing I noticed is how they also synchronized their vibrato.
One thing you noticed is that Corlea, who is fabulous in her own right was classically trained not as a mezzo but as a dramatic soprano but now mostly sings, everything but classical music.pop, rock, show tunes etc. She is definitely worth a listen also
Thanks Jen. Just love your incredible music knowledge & your ability to educate us mere mortals with in-depth comments that we can understand. More Amira please, & in particular, her performing “Ave Maria by Gomez at the Canisius Church’’ when she was 11 y.o. This is probably my favourite Amira performance.
Cheers Graeme
My favourite piece for so many years.
Amira has sung this with other partners, where it is easier to hear the two separate voices. But the beauty of this performance is that they meld so well together, they really are working as a single entity. It's magical.
There are a lot of beautiful pieces that Amira has done which you haven't caught. I think you might be missing out on some delights.... Gesu Bambino, la virgine degli angeli . The Nessun Dorma she'd just sung before Corley joined her here. Beautiful sounds.
Corley has quite a repatoire, swing, jazz, rock/ pop. Some classical too.
There is a video of this performance with English subtitles, which is handy too.
Even Pavarotti used a view microfoons during his Nessun Dorma performance. Please react to Amira,s " Gesu Bambino" performance together with her father on the church organ . She will blow your socks off for sure.
I've listened to every recoded version of this duet that I could find - and I honestly believe that this could be the finest performance of it that's ever been heard. Delibes would be crying with joy - just like most of the audience.
Heavenly!!! More Amira please!!! 😊
Amira is the prodigy of the decade, bringing joy and amazement with every note. Thank you for yet another wonderful explanation of what goes on in real vocal performance. Lovely way to have spent the last 20 minutes with you and Amira.
Amira's delivery appears completely effortless, she simply opens her mouth and releases the beauty which floods out. I've only ever seen this gift in one other singer: Mario Lanza.
Used in many films and adverts. This duet is about 140 years old. And it's actually a conversation between a mistress and her servant when they are out to pick some flowers somewhere in India in the late 19th century.
Still beautiful and an amazing performance.
hi amira and corlia put this together over three weekends as both were in diferent countries amira went to south africa to get as much practice as they could . great reaction
I was blessed to have witnessed Amira's performance on Netherlands Got Tallent, if you can find it, it is worth seeing. She has an amazing voice and I absolutely love opera. Oh, and while we are chatting, Jenn, you are still more beautiful than their voices. And I would love to hear you do a solo aria.
@markgrant3653 My bad. But I had the right general area, didn't I?
Thank you for another excellent reaction. I enjoy having you share with us your appreciation of the music (all of Amira, Corlea and the orchestra) and your technical analysis.
II love Amira! I've been listening to this song on an average of once every week for a few years now. Chills every time! It was nicw to hear the more technical side of it besides the obvious beauty. Thanks Jennifer!
Amira is 13 here and sings beautifully
Beautiful. Glorious. 😁❤
Great analises
Although opera singers do not usually use a microphone during a stage production, it is common when the arias are sung in isolation, especially to audiences much larger than those in most opera houses. Pavarotti has been known to have a bank of mikes. Bocelli uses them and so do singers at Rieu concerts. Singing without may be ok for audiences of around 2500-3000, not for 10,000 +.
Ooh yes! That makes a lot of sense! Thank you 😁
It’s a huge plaza.
The Princess and her servant are drifting down a river admiring the flowers.
Hello Jennifer . Excellent reaction , Very didactic like always . I only want to add . 1 Sissel also sang Sancta María with microphone 14 years ago . Mirusia with Andre Rieu also sang with microphone . Including Pavarotti sang with microphone . Out of the Opera the mayority of the Clasics singers sings with microphone .If you want to hear to Amira sings without microphone hear the recent Gesu bambino . 2 Consider that Amira here is only q3 years old singing at level of one very talented singer of more experience . Please , more Amira , never reacted to child Amira thd legend , with epic performances
No one does it like Amira. You probably only get one chance to meet an angel.
The Princess and her servant wandering down the riverbank admiring the flowers and birds.
I love listening to you As you make it fun as you are telling what is happening and explaining! You sound as you know how to explain. You really enjoy this production thank you so much!
Hi Jennifer hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
While this is not an exceptionally musically complicated piece, it requires a very nicely coordinated pair of singers who can focus on blending their voices together and maintaining balance. I don’t know the opera at all, other than this piece. But the beauty of this piece will ensure that it is not forgotten. An excellent performance that definitely induces chills. Absolutely lovely.
Love the partnership!
Thanks for this piece. It was beautiful. Great hearing and seeing your reaction. Please do some more Dimash. I was lucky enough to meet him in LAX this last Feb. I was the only Dear there to welcome him and it was an honor and pleasure.
Amira simplesmente única no planeta! Nem tente compara-la❤
Our proud from holland🇱🇺❤
Thank you for your opera, such beauty, such love.
Absolutely awsome
Hey Jen. I have been following Amira for a long time. I think she has a very unique voice. This duet is an example of her tallent. She does not back down from the front of the duet either. In other words, a very strong voice! Singing for Andrea Rue at the age of 9? I think? Parents divorced and she moved to South Africa? What has happened to her? I have seen some of her work from there. But she needs to come to the states to show off her talent, I think? What say you?
Amira was 19 in March and has just finished school. She has taken a year out before going to university in South Africa where she has lived with her mother and brother since age 13.
Currently she is travelling with her mother in Europe and performing along the way. They are in Norway right now.
See her informal performance of Gesu Bambino on RUclips. It was recorded in an empty church over Christmas when she was visiting her father there. Her dad accompanies her on the organ. Beautiful acoustics in the empty church.
She just graduated high school as Valedictorian. The Epidemic kept her from the Olympics as a middle distance runner. She has guarded her high notes carefully as her voice matures and for another five years or so. A years tour is planned before college.
You have Angelina and Amira. How about the third of the triple A girls, Amira’s friend, composer, pianist, violinist on a ten million dollar Stradivarius permanent loaner, and now, after a year of study with the top teachers, conductor, Alma Deutscher. The most common reviews are of the third movement of her violin concerto and the SIRENS WALTZ from her sold out Carnegie Hall concert of her works. There’s also Amira and Alma singing the STEPSISTERS DUET from her CINDERELLA opera that sold out in San Jose.
Please do a reaction video on Corlea Botha, Stay originally sung by scissor sisters
Correction its Shakespeare sister
Jen, if it’s any consolation French is my native language and the only words I actually hear in the performance are “sous le blanc jasmin”, “allons ensemble” in the chorus and “l’oiseau chante”. And I actually know that song having worked on it some years back. Never actually sang it with a partner (I’d probably sing the mezzo part now though I was once able to sing the soprano melody though never entirely comfortably as it was the very top part of my range).
As ever a lovely analysis, very interesting and enriching.
Amira was born in 2004 so that makes her only 13 years old here.
Hello Jen,my name is David I have been following you😂for a while now.
Ciao Jennifer ! Mi è piaciuto molto la tua reazione a questo stupendo duetto tra Amira e Corlea.
Hai già ascoltato Amira più volte. Mà se vuoi dare una volta di più la tua opinione su quest'usignolo olandese 😀, ecco due altre video molto più recenti.
Gesù Bambino, un inno di Natale. Amira lo canta all'improvviso, senza microfono né pubblico, nella piccola chiesa dove suo padre suona l'organo. La sua voce è davvero straordinaria...
ruclips.net/video/c5MiyNTZKHY/видео.htmlsi=sIcmVnA4NGd-jqT6
Anche hà cantato, dieci giorni fà, l'aria più famoso di Catalani, Ebben ne andrò lontana... Un po' più difficile, a mio parere.
ruclips.net/video/nKljSiNy4_Q/видео.htmlsi=RGnq8vdN13_Tfap2
Grazie mille e, sopratutto, felice anno nuovo ! 😃
Jennifer! Well this is a huge step away from Valhalla Calling isn't it? I'm not super familiar with opera but this was interesting. As you note they're using mics ... I wonder if they had to knowingly hold back a bit on the normal operatic volume or if that was handled in the back by mixing. 🤔 And Jen! You don't know your French? Well you do know one word pretty well ... "l'oiseau" 😁 Anyway, definitely no low note practice in this one for you. But great reaction and analysis as always! 😊
Ahaha I know a little more 🙈 was definitely a change! Thank you😊
Whilst this was very pretty I still think that I would love to hear Simone Simmons and Floor Jansen sing this as a duet, which I’m sure they would be able to do. Their duet of Stabat mater dolorosa amply demonstrates this. Just out of interest, my favourite performance of this is by Sabine Devieihe and Marianne Crebassa.
Nice description and reaction!
Please listen to Jonathan Antoine..Starting with his BGT 2012 or when he was singing 'Ave Maria' in his Home Church with the age of 14.. or Nessun Dorma Homeperformance..in his 'Studio' in his Parents Garden...at 2am after a Livechat with his Fans ❤😊
Corlea Botha is one of the best singers in South Africa, she sings all sort of music including opera but she is not a trained classical-opera singer, nor is Amira.
don't forget Amira is only 13 there. so the microphone is quit common for that song.
Directly after them I listened to two top opera pros sing it. To my untrained ear, they did not better the girls.
Just letting you know that I have just heard Geoff Castellucci doing his take on the song Man of Constant Sorrow.It’s a great take on it.
It would be a lot better if you would hold your comments until after the performance!
Amira learned her mouth copying Maria Callas on TV.
don't stop.
hmm... I hear so much... about the use of the Mic...by so many of you reactors...
and yes in front of say 5k or less I'd say the use of mic is a CRIME... but not for young voices.
to stand in front of More than 5k is ...understandable! and this show is ...7k+
love your reactions... you seem to be having fun doing it.
Not 5,000. Most of the large Opera houses hold 2,,500 to 2,800, the space is physically much smaller then an open space holding 7,,500 to 9,000 people that is not designed primarily for acoustics like an Opera house is.
Amira recently performed unplugged in her family's church in the Netherlands where she dropped in to see her father practicing on the organ, (he's the organist for the church) and performed Gesu Bambino standing there with her coat on singing her glorious, round sounding very long legato lines that Jen lives so much recorded on a cell phone in the acoustic perfection of the church.
Another is her performance of the Aria La Virgine deglii Angelie by Joe Green where she is standing back 3 to 4 feet from the microphone recording it for her Christmas concert in 2021. Another superb performance.
As far as the use of the microphone, stop and think for a moment. Any singer of any genre, including opera, if it's being recorded in any way (i.e. to be televised, radio broadcast, RUclips or otherwise) if there is no microphone only the audience present would hear it and you would be watching a silent video.
I absolutely agree. And there is another thing to consider: They are singing in a huge auditorium with almost 8,000 seats. Opera singers who sing without microphones usually sing in opera houses which doesn't seat more than 2,500 people in the audience.
It’s a huge plaza.
I recommend you 2 songs, same singers, same concert!!
1. Sancta Terra - Epica ft. Floor Jansen
now, after realizing what you will see (hear!!)
2. Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Pergolesi) - the same performers
... then you will know who sings in Epica band.
Thats a stadium of 8 000 people, not even the best opera singers will sing without a microphone
There is no singer who sings as perfectly as Vanny Vabiola in this world... please check it if you don't believe it🙏🙏
Corlea is not an opera singer but I guess she can do that as well.
You need a mike singing to a crowd of thousands.
Thanks take a lookat glennis grace
A huge audience, needs mikes.
Mis. Jennifer please reaction to denden gonjalez cover song she's gone by: stellhart
king of cover rock song.end his voice very high.
Even higher than the sound chakra khan and dimas senopati
Don't like the mics in this one. Best I ever heard was Kathleen Battle and Frederika Von Stade.