What a beautiful voice! I am singing this for my opera workshop Jurry, and this video has given me a great deal of help. Thank you so much for sharing your voice! Your diction and presentation of the text was beautiful! Brava!
To follow on from my previous comment - great performers make it look so easy when the task is actually very difficult. Your performance has that relaxed quality to it. Wow, I'm a fan of yours now. Brava!
Dear lady, thank you for this wonderful performance and your excellent interpretation! This has long been a favorite of mine to accompany. May good fortune attend your endeavors, as I'm sure it has. :)
baaah!!! brava!!! its been a while that i dont see such interpretation here in yt!!!! brava ancora una voltaaa!! such a marvelous zerlina you would be on a play!
Beat me, beat me, dear Masetto, beat your poor Zerlina. I'll stand here meek as a lamb and bear the blows you lay on me... That's a translation of the first bit of the aria proper ("Batti, batti..."). Sure, it sounds pretty, but what she's asking is anything but beautiful.
Justanotherconsumer Well the context is she has treated Masetto really badly - and been told by Elvira, that she is a stupid goose - and better run back to patch things up with the hubby. He then goes out to defend her - and gets beaten up. The next aria is Vedrai Carino - which is all the sex any way you want it for ever - and even more important chocolate cake every sunday!
Justanotherconsumer Jac: judging 18th Century sensibilities and libretti by 21st Century pc mores is, um, anachronistic, lol. I'll bet you have a field day with Mother Goose :)
itommy60 Domestic violence isn't "quirky culture." Given that it's a very real and very persistent problem, I have no trouble calling a spade when I see one. It's one thing to recognize that it was part of culture at the time, and another to condone the behavior just because they could get away with it.
Christ !!! The point is, that not only does Masetto NOT give her a well deserved whipping for being a tramp on their wedding day. Instead he gets a beating from Don Giovanni - and then there is chokolate cake - with cream - for a very long time - plus lots of almonds.
Thomas Borgsmidt Good point Thomas, but I am not sure what Christ has to do with it :). Another point, to me, is that Zerlina seems to be using feminine wiles to win Masetto back over to her side and knows very well Masetto won't beat her. She is using hyperbole to add zest to her protestations of innocence (or, more correctly, the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte is). Later in this lovely aria she sings "Ah, I see you don't have the heart." And then, seeing she is succeeding, changes her tune and sings: "Peace, peace my dear one. Let us spend our days and nights in happiness and joy." And you are making me hungry, lol, with all that talk of chocolate cake, cream, and almonds.
That was beautifully performed. Voice not too big but power is there where required. Accompanist playing a well-tuned piano very well. He could have improved the overall effect by taking a slightly bigger slice of the performance and not holding back on the volume so much.
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What a beautiful voice! I am singing this for my opera workshop Jurry, and this video has given me a great deal of help. Thank you so much for sharing your voice! Your diction and presentation of the text was beautiful! Brava!
Beautifully done.
Really beautiful!
Impecable !!!!!! Hermosísimo !!!!!!
Major confidence booster! I have to do this for recital and I'm nervous, but this video is sooo helping me :)
To follow on from my previous comment - great performers make it look so easy when the task is actually very difficult. Your performance has that relaxed quality to it. Wow, I'm a fan of yours now. Brava!
absolutely beautiful
Beautiful sound and diction
Alyssa Flora music from mozart
Loved this.
BEAUTIFULL VOICE and expresion!!! Congratulations!!
Great breath control! This piece takes quite a bit of it in order to get a full sound!
Hermosa interpretación. Muy buena
Stellar!
Absolutely charming! Bravissima!
Beautiful job! You made it seem so effortless!
Beautiful!
Dear lady, thank you for this wonderful performance and your excellent interpretation! This has long been a favorite of mine to accompany. May good fortune attend your endeavors, as I'm sure it has. :)
this is fantastic
Bravissima bravissima, bravissima !
Красиво!
Who is this fantastic singer? Absolutely amazing voice, expression and, oh, the pianist!
baaah!!! brava!!! its been a while that i dont see such interpretation here in yt!!!! brava ancora una voltaaa!! such a marvelous zerlina you would be on a play!
wow you sound great
the voice is very beautiful but you need to be careful not to tune into the vibrates. Congratulations
❤
Cool!
Beat me, beat me, dear Masetto, beat your poor Zerlina. I'll stand here meek as a lamb and bear the blows you lay on me...
That's a translation of the first bit of the aria proper ("Batti, batti..."). Sure, it sounds pretty, but what she's asking is anything but beautiful.
Justanotherconsumer Well the context is she has treated Masetto really badly - and been told by Elvira, that she is a stupid goose - and better run back to patch things up with the hubby.
He then goes out to defend her - and gets beaten up.
The next aria is Vedrai Carino - which is all the sex any way you want it for ever - and even more important chocolate cake every sunday!
Justanotherconsumer
Jac: judging 18th Century sensibilities and libretti by 21st Century pc mores is, um, anachronistic, lol. I'll bet you have a field day with Mother Goose :)
itommy60 Domestic violence isn't "quirky culture." Given that it's a very real and very persistent problem, I have no trouble calling a spade when I see one. It's one thing to recognize that it was part of culture at the time, and another to condone the behavior just because they could get away with it.
Christ !!!
The point is, that not only does Masetto NOT give her a well deserved whipping for being a tramp on their wedding day. Instead he gets a beating from Don Giovanni - and then there is chokolate cake - with cream - for a very long time - plus lots of almonds.
Thomas Borgsmidt
Good point Thomas, but I am not sure what Christ has to do with it :). Another point, to me, is that Zerlina seems to be using feminine wiles to win Masetto back over to her side and knows very well Masetto won't beat her. She is using hyperbole to add zest to her protestations of innocence (or, more correctly, the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte is). Later in this lovely aria she sings "Ah, I see you don't have the heart." And then, seeing she is succeeding, changes her tune and sings: "Peace, peace my dear one. Let us spend our days and nights in happiness and joy." And you are making me hungry, lol, with all that talk of chocolate cake, cream, and almonds.
No wonder Phyllis Curtin thought you were wonderful singing Ach, ich fühl's.
Brava
Hi gothband101- it's a great audition piece! What sort of advice are you looking for?
BRAVA!
она великолепна) спасибо за видео!
me enamore de la cantante.... lastima que ya es muy mayor en esta época.
That was beautifully performed. Voice not too big but power is there where required. Accompanist playing a well-tuned piano very well. He could have improved the overall effect by taking a slightly bigger slice of the performance and not holding back on the volume so much.
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eso es! actuar, actuar y más actuar
Sorry. She is just a hair flat. It’s a style.
You need to get your ears checked if you think she was singing flat...
I wish I would have seen this video before I played Zerlina!
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Well!!!!!, acting, acting and more acting, much singers look like robots