Opera Singers Reacts to a FURIOUS Opera Aria | Armatae face et anguibus | Performance Analysis |
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This is a little Rhapsody of Fire. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2/3 barroque, 1/3 metal. It's part of a song cycle. czcams.com/video/ZlPKH5oAcns/video.html For enjoyement, not reaction.... 👍
Absolute corking reaction & analysis, I simply adore your enthusiasm, excitement & the way you super geek out 😁
I love that you like when I geek out lol 🤗
At long last someone reacts to Lea and the Jupiter ensemble. 🔥🔥🔥
Also the first metal song ever! Grazie maestro Vivaldi! 🎸🎸🎸
Without reading ur description, the moment the music came on, I was like "this is vivaldi".. He has soo many many crazy pieces like this. One aria that this aria reminds me of is In Furore Iustissimae irae..
Vivaldi is a beast! I love his work!
@@jessicasopranonotes Vivaldi was the first metalhead haha. "Winter" has the best riff ever!
@@rolsen1304 Vivaldi's library is so vast and great that you can probably find even better and crazier than Winter, trust me !
Try RV419's 3rd movement for example (I don't think CZcams will let me put a link, but try the interpretation by Jean-Guihen Queyras · Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, it's electrifying).
Holy crap! This was the reactor equivalent of a 'Fast and Furious' car chase. You're amazing. How many Red Bulls did you drink before this? You were positively beaming. Your enthusiasm was exploding out of you like a supernova. 🔥🔥🔥
haha. I actually don't like energy drinks at all. Too sugary for my taste. The music alone gives me enough energy lol
@@jessicasopranonotes Yeah, I was just using the analogy. Obviously, you don't need anything else but great performances to light that fire. Music is your life. The passion and the energy of this singer and these musicians were incredible.
Thanks for this, I would never have found this without you.
You're welcome!
🔥🔥🔥 I just discovered Lea and Thomas and Jupiter and this video in particular is mind blowing. And your analysis really helps me appreciate it even more, and you felt the same way I do about it. I'll be watching this a few more times. Baroque music is so fun, and they have really revived it. 🔥🔥🔥
LOVE THIS. Your enthusiasm is infectious, combined with your analysis - props for showing exactly how the singer varies between the first A and recapped A section. Hopefully you've made some converts to this genre!! Brava.
Thank you thank you! It’s what I’m passionate about!
This aria "Armatae face et anguibus" is gorgeous. And listen to the aria "Gelido in ogni vena" from Vivaldi's opera "Farnace" and the aria "Sposa, son Disprezzata".
Sposa son disprezzata is one of my favorite arias, it is so beautiful. I’ve recently added it to my repertoire list and am now working on memorizing to play the accompaniment. Great recommendations!
This was fun to watch and vicariously imagine we could appreciate it as much as you can.
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Jessica, congrats from Canada. Vivaldi wrote a lot of dramatic music and this is a great example. Lea is an accomplished musician. She studied with Sarah Mingardo a fabulous contralto. You should look at her other performances. For example Scherza Infida by Handel from his opera Ariodante accompanied by Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie, a real force in the baroque scene, where she captures the mood creating a very emotionally charged rendition. Great orchestra too. The violist Jerome in this group is a character. Love your enthusiasm and knowledge of classical music including Baroque which sure is not dull. Cam Reid 🔥🔥💥☄️🔥🔥
I have to look up Sarah Mingardo. I love the contralto voice and am looking forward to learning about a new one. Thanks for all of your info! Will definitely check it out!
Thank you! I wanted to make a comment and then I discovered that you did it for me
Definitely 🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to see more of you "behind the scene" on your new channel🔥
🔥 I’m moving towards opera from a starting point in symphonic metal, so it’s great that you pick pieces like this and then explain what to listen out for. Fiery indeed, but your reaction made so much difference to my enjoyment.
Great reaction Jess... fire, fire, fire.... I can imagine you head banging in the audience if watching live... your music knowledge is so impressive, your awesome!
lol I would totally be head banging if I were in the audience! And you're awesome!
❤I love your reaction to this fabulous performance. ❤ Lea. ❤ baroque music.
I follow you from Spain, I love how good your comments are in each style. I also love how you respect other genres and singing techniques, not all of classical trained people have the respect you have... I am classical trained cellist, and now this is my favorite channel. I have such a big list of request that I'll wait to see how you surprise us.
That coloratura passage was so precise and amazing! I’m a lyrical soprano (full) and I’m currently working on two coloratura pieces (my teacher thankfully is a lyrical coloratura so she knows how to sing these). It is so much harder than it looks but she makes it look so effortless. Great analysis! Love your enthusiasm!
Lea Desandre, spectacular passion. Symphonic Metal got me into Opera. Still a novice, but have some favorites.
Left a message for you in Epica reaction. This is Richard from Valentines Day, using a different channel.
czcams.com/video/KnBWyxZFVlI/video.html
Link's wonky.
watching people talk about what theyre passionate about is the mostttt fun. You look so happy and gorg
Thanks Andrew!
I thought I was getting near the end of the rainbow when I first started getting into classical a few years back......but OMG.......this was amazingly insane intense......had to check to see if my jaw hadn't completely dropped off and shattered on the floor......your gonna get me addicted/fascinated to learn about opera......love to listen/learn from vocal coaches/singers with such a depth of passion and understanding of music......I am in complete and utter awe.....where's the FIRESTORM emoji?!?!?.....these little flamette's don't do this justice. 🔥💖🔥🎼🔥💖🎹🔥💖🎸🔥💖🔥INSANELY SPECTACULAR!!!!🔥🔥🔥💖🔥🔥🔥💖🔥🔥🔥💖
OMG I loved reading your comment!! This music gets me so excited and I'm glad I'm able to share it with you! 🔥🔥🔥
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Baroque was a wildly creative time when music was freed from narrow folk and church traditions, partly by the needs of religious and political revolutions in which people needed to be engaged emotionally. So court patrons were willing to hear unusual music, and opera houses let works be created or presented without elite patronage as such.
The conventions of opera are also not fixed yet, so Mozart could write crazy difficult parts that maybe three sopranos in Europe could even attempt at the time. Or this wonderful coloratura piece which again may be a couple dozen voices that can deliver it this well. Or heck, a couple. She's brilliant.
Henk Poort and Floor Jansen have an hour interview in her channel where they lament the European derived conventions of pigeonholing artists. Beste Zangers was helpful to kick that to death, at least in Netherlands, but it's very much alive in opera politics. It hurts everyone, but is commercially motivated, as the producers dont want genius individuals to become the show as in pop music, because then the vocalist has bargaining power. Also instrumentalists will always get short shrift from any focus on the vocalist(s). So innovation, distortion, timing tricks, ad libbing, all discouraged.
But in baroque, the singer is "allowed to add notes" in certain passages. Like in blues, rock, jazz. Which really is the best way because it provides for expression and individuality, and diva star power (in the "A prime") while keeping the rest of the song predictable.
I NEED MORE OF THESE OPERA REACTIONS FROM YOU!!!! THIS WAS INCREDIBLE!!!! *fire emoji x1000* lol i dont know how to do emojis on my computer :D
lol thanks so much Joseph! I love opera!! Here's a fire emoji for you 🔥
@@jessicasopranonotes it makes me miss opera so much. I used to sing in a young learners opera company before my parents convinced me that I had to choose one of the "approved" career paths (doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc).... while I love science and I do enjoy my job, the 17-year old me walking off stage as Escamillo for the last time still mourns a bit... but this reaction just woke him up again!!!
I watched this video the other day and was so overwhelmed, I couldn't comment afterward. As I listened to this video, I could not stay still, I jumped from my seat, stomped around my apartment muttering to myself, the purity of her notes, the mastery of her voice, and the piece itself hit me in a place I do not have a name for. I am very glad you agree, that this was a masterful performance.
Love this! I love your positivity and excitement and truly appreciate your in-depth analysis. Looking forward to listening to more!! Thank you!
Baroque music can be so ROCK - and you certainly rock! It is beyond me how on earth you manage to pick all those minute details in milliseconds and then REMEMBER them afterwards! Kudos, you’re great!
From live chat - thank you for sharing link to this again (how could I have missed it the 1st time...) excellent review and such an energetic song and performance. More please :-)
I m happy that what i feeled the first time i listened miss Desandre an Jupiter orchtra in shared by professional singer
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ok, i'm subscribed now, you're very well versed in classical music, respect
Amazing breakdown and loved the spontaneous reactions. ❤
A lot of people enjoy the opera… I’ve never seen anyone go absolutely nuts over it. This was fun and kind of funny. I like this side of you, please post more opera reactions.
Hi Jess, I missed your premiere :(. Not bad, french singers isn't it ? Lea is amazing, I had already seen this performance and every time I am mesmerised. And I love Vivaldi, it's such powerful. Like you I could listen to that all day ! Love, see you. ❤️
Hello Viviane! That's ok, I love seeing you in the comment section. Yes, Lea is fantastic and I love Vivaldi's music. Pure genius!
Lea is awesome and pretty, too. Plus, I like anyone who is still doing baroque as it should be done. I saw Jean Rondeau in this video as well, he is an amazing harpsichord player. This is definitely my second favorite performance of this aria. Number one, of course, is Cecilia Bartoli.
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Karina Gauvin is still my absolute favorite performer of this aria but Lea is exquisite as well. And your analysis is so interesting and fun to watch. Been a while since I subscribed in an instant! You go girl!
Great reaction Jess, always love to listen to your insight of the individual, group, and/or music. This young lady has one incredible voice and is extremely comfortable to listen to throughout video.
Another great voice; Melody Cristea is your next reaction video.. Front woman with a incredible voice for a family band called Liliac.... Some videos to react to... Originals songs: Nothing, Sail Away, and/or newest called Mystery. Some covers may be Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself For Loving You", Metallica's "Master of Puppets", Ronnie James Dio "Holy Diver". Many, many others of both. Enjoy!!
That is the most animated I have seen you to date....this blew me away...thanks Jess.
anytime Butch!
That was really cool! Love the piece and the performance. You have such a clear and expressive enunciation and pronunciation when you speak, are you using a lot of technique from your profession or is this how you naturally speak (or both)? Anyway, you are a joy to listen to.
Oh thank you Peter! Umm, I naturally speak this way. I did work in 5 star hotels for quite some time and being well spoken is a must.
I love your energy in this review! I had the same reaction when I originally watched it.
Thank you!! 😁
@@jessicasopranonotes Of course! Long time no see, I'm glad to see your channel thriving :)
I now this comment is a bit late, but I don't care! I love this aria! I first heard this from the great Cecilia Bartoli. Her version is less mastery of the aria and more--she is the character in the aria looking to kill her enemy in the audience. She was intense but marvelous! Lea's version--I just found out about Lea and she's fantastic!
If you have already listened to them, check out Cecilia and Julia Lezhneva's version are scary great! For me anyway.
Aria is so beautiful on this bravo! It indeed helps to act out the words you are singing to properly sing the song. Very very powerful which is very hard for girls to sing which is inert to men. The accompaniment is superb perhaps she would be lost without it hahaha perhaps not. Very much appreciated.
I want a pop song modeled exactly after this but slowed down. May you please write it and sing it too, Soprano Notes?
If someone wrote it for me, I'd def sing it!
You reaction to Armatae was the first time I watched your video, before I found you doing Akin Ka Na Lang. “Armatae face et anguibus” is a great favorite of mine, and I love Léa Desandre to bits. I’ve seen most of the Armatae videos on CZcams and given that Léa gave a very impassioned performance, I think the best, technically, is by Roberta Invernizzi. You should give it a view. My training is in classic guitar, but I’m passionate with opera and piano For the former, too many to list. For the latter, my idol is Hélène Grimaud.
I LOVE her reactions❤
I'm watching this reaction again cuz it may be the best reaction to anything ever lol
Thank you for watching!
Yes I love this aria and Lea! React to Handel "Da Tempeste" with Cecilia Bartoli please!
If you were around youtubing when I was in high school, I might have learned how to listen to opera
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First off, I love this aria and your reaction as well as passion.
However, isn't this aria super famous and common on the radio? I think they play it a lot on musique 3 (Belgian opera/classical radio). Still so in love with this tho.
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I stopped listening to the radio years and years ago so I can't confirm but I wouldn't be surprised if it was on the radio bc of how entertaining it is.
@@jessicasopranonotes I prefere radio during the quarantine (and some CZcams channels oviously) But I mostly stay on that 1 classical music & opera station because I can't stand much of anything else. And the presentaters simply introduce the next piece quietly (bit SMR-y) almost.
AND NO ADD.
Your music theory is way over my head unfortunately but I totally relate to your excitement! I don't know what's more entertaining - the performance or your reaction to it. There should be way more likes on this. Subscribed!
Thank you soo much!
Love your enthusiasm!!!
Why is she placing her fists against her face at 10:36? Does it help with the low "vos"? Thank you for your commentary!
At 13:01 you hit on a REALLY important distinction between baroque and later "opera".
Baroque was a wildly creative time when music was freed from narrow folk and church traditions, partly by the needs of religious and political revolutions in which people needed to be engaged emotionally. So court patrons were willing to hear unusual music, and opera houses let works be created or presented without elite patronage as such.
The conventions of opera are also not fixed yet, so Mozart could write crazy difficult parts that maybe three sopranos in Europe could even attempt at the time. Or this wonderful Vivaldi coloratura piece which again may be a couple dozen voices that can deliver it this well. Or heck, a couple. She's brilliant.
Henk Poort and Floor Jansen have an hour interview in her channel where they lament the European derived conventions of pigeonholing artists. Beste Zangers was helpful to kick that to death, at least in Netherlands, but it's very much alive in opera politics. It hurts everyone, but is commercially motivated, as the producers dont want genius individuals to become the show as in pop music, because then the vocalist has bargaining power. Also instrumentalists will always get short shrift from any focus on the vocalist(s). So innovation, distortion, timing tricks, ad libbing, all discouraged.
No doubt expression was freer when this was written But in modern baroque, the singer is "allowed to add notes" in certain passages. Like in blues, rock, jazz. Which really is the best way because it provides for expression and individuality, and diva star power (in the "A prime") while keeping the rest of the song predictable.
I love baroque music, why have i not heard this aria before?!?
You are hilarious 😂
we are waiting....
Lea Desandre just came out with her own album! There are so many fantastic songs on there. Nothing will ever measure up to this song for me, but there is an amazing, energetic song on there that I’ll bet you’ll like! I’ll find a link for it and reply to myself!
czcams.com/video/0WFBfunREqY/video.html
I also like her! I'd like if you reacting Emöke Barath.
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All those hand gestures from 1:00 on ... is that ISL (Italian Sign Language)? Seems like you speak it native. 🤣
This "furious" singing is just wonderful. Was that just a baroque thing? Only a few musical theater pieces today have this kind of awesome tone.
lol yes I do speak with my hands a lot especially when I'm excited about something. No, that can be applied to other types of music as well!
🔥 yes and ⛈ also comes to mind :)
Please do kristin chenoweth doing glitter and be gay and great vid btwwww❤️💜💚
Could you possibly react to Sabine Devieilha singing Mozart’s oh dio?
God her diction is so cleeaaaannnnnn I can’t
More More More I love it.
Amazingly in comparisons of various singers of this piece, Lea only gets about 40% of the nods as best. Seems every singer loves to give it all for this amazing Vivaldi piece!
How about "Queen of the Night" aria performed by the German soprano Diana Damrau in Mozart's Magic Flute which is no doubt the most difficult aria to sing. Do also react to the finest arias performed by my all time favorite opera diva the legendary Maria Callas.
I love your analyses so much! As an aspiring theatrical music director, I am always interested in watching trained singers/coaches react to vocal performances and deconstruct what the singers are doing. On top of being an active performer, I have also taken up the hobby of creating custom backing tracks for content creators' spontaneous singing moments. One such video that I've made features beloved CZcamsr and podcaster Garrett Watts singing in a stunning, quasi-operatic falsetto resembling the sound of a Disney princess. Here's the link to the video: czcams.com/video/A8KdUuPQhlg/video.html
Thank you!
O Placida il Mare by Julia Lezhneva please!! Or Vedi se t'amo - Joyce Didonato
React Sarah brightman,A question of honour in las Vegas 🎉
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I wanna ask you a question, there's a lot of talk recently in the US that Europeans have no culture. What's your take on this? Being European I'm not sure what this means and I need to understand this notion.
Im so pumped watching your reaction hahaha
Can you react to amy manford cover of once upon a december?
Omg...vivaldi created hard rock
I think Cecilia brought the real Fury
You must do Cecilia Bartoli performing this. She set a very high bar!
Try to listen Karina Gauvin singing this aria
Patricia JANEČKOVÁ: "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" (Jacques Offenbach - Les contes d' Hoffmann)
I've seen that performance, and my God it's so good!
Hi Jessica
Thanks so much for replying.
I love your approach to music reviews. You have a lovely personality and a ‘joie de vivre‘ as my neighbours say next door in Quebec. Where by the way Lara now lives in Montreal.
I have discovered a huge amount of classical music which I love on CZcams.
Here is a posting introducing Sara Mingardo -
czcams.com/video/0ZE2feVwWnM/video.html
As you will see she is from Venice and started her career in 1987.
Sorry the commentary is in German. But I am sure you know it too. *;-)
Here is a recording of Sara Mingardo singing Nisi Dominus by Vivaldi in a small church with good accoustics -
czcams.com/video/wfHI1KUNKtI/video.html
You can appreciate her rich dark voice here.
At Wigmore Hall in London.
She sings from La Scusa by Gallupi.
czcams.com/video/cPExRkWoGSY/video.html
She has an amazing range and such warmth in her voice.
On this one she sings But who may abide the day of His coming from the Messiah by Handel:
czcams.com/video/_EkIRLnSj7k/video.html
And here she is with the sublime Sandrine Piau.
The two best baroque singers in the universe!
czcams.com/video/aF9Pgo8muoQ/video.html
I meant to tell you later about Piau in case you had not found her yourself already. But I couldn’t wait.
I can send you links to her recordings if you wish.
Now, on Lea here is another performance of Armatae Face et Anguibus in unusual surroundings. These days they have to be inventive to bring in some money.
czcams.com/video/on7q21BrdX0/video.html
Hope this helps a bit. I have more on Lara and Lea. I’ll write separately on them.
Except, here’s Lea singing Scherza Infida. Can’t keep you waiting for it.
czcams.com/video/jUw1hoheALY/video.html
Les Arts Florrisants is conducted by William Christie. Hugely emotive performance. Watch the tender moment at the end where he holds her and wipes a tear from her eye!
A warning get out your box of Kleenex.
Keep up the good work. 🎶💌
Cam
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Jessica, congrats from Canada. Vivaldi wrote a lot of dramatic music and this is a great example. Lea is an accomplished musician. She studied with Sarah Mingardo a fabulous contralto. You should look at her other performances. For example Scherza Infida by Handel from his opera Ariodante accompanied by Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie, a real force in the baroque scene, where she captures the mood creating a very emotionally charged rendition. Great orchestra too. The violist Jerome in this group is a character. Love your enthusiasm and knowledge of classical music including Baroque which sure is not dull. Cam Reid 🔥🔥💥☄️🔥🔥
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🎆🎆🎆🎆 I love it.
Gosh, I always love your reactions and all the analysis part it's always so interesting!! I'm so happy that I discovered your channel. Could you please react to Dancing With The Devil? It's the lead single of Demi Lovato's new album (which is full of good songs both in musicality and in the lyrics). She also did a various live performances of that song and others.
Thank you Daniel! And a little secret: I just recorded that video yesterday, editing it now 🤫
Here is #Lea_Desandre in a much slower & quieter baroque piece, just to compare her range of styles.
czcams.com/video/63ALEAncRFM/video.html
Roberta Invernizzi and Karina Gauvin are the best version
Do also react to Mozart's Don Giovanni the Commendatore scene where Don Giovanni is dragged into hell🔥🔥🔥,
can you please look at OOGIE BOOGIE'S SONG | The Nightmare Before Christmas | VoicePlay A Cappella Cover I think you would love the deep deep voice :)
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Apparently conductors get paid only to stay totally quiet as they do exactly what you did there. 🤣
Apparently conducting is just silent Italian Sign Language.🤣
And they better get paid a lot because I honestly don't know how anyone sits quiet through that. Truly amazing.
omg I'd be HORRIBLE at conducting a piece like this. All I'd want to do is scream and shout and bob my head hardcore because it's so exciting.
Can you please react on the Egyptian mummies parade orchestra
Darn, I can only like this once. Um, what else did that person recommend?
Lea Is a very good singer , although i prefer Cecilia Bartoli's version
🔥🔥🔥I need you to react to Patricia Petibon 'Quando Voglio'!!!!❤️❤️❤️
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