D'Oreste d'Ajace by Hildegard Behrens Idomeneo, Ré di Creta Elettra Under titled in english
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2008
- Scène où Électre se suicide d'Idomeneo de Mozart.
Elletra decide to kill oneself from Idomeneo by Mozart
Conduit par/ Directed by James Levine
Électre = Hildegard Behrens - Hudba
She was a great singing actress and she wouldn't give anything but her total commitment. The opera world is a sadder place for her passing. Some will criticize her in this aria as it is not a classic piece of Mozart singing style , but she gets to the heart of the role somehow in a way that more smoothly classical approaches may not. Honesty is a fine artistic quality and she possessed it in bucketfulls. RIP Hildegard Behrens.
OMG she's gone--lives on in my memory. Broke my heart with this old bit of opera seria.
Mozart was more dramatic than people realize. This was perfection.
Still one of my favorite performances of this aria. I love it so much.
WAS AT THIS PERFORMANCE AT THE MET. SHE SET THE AUDIENCE INTO A FRENZY, WE APPLAUDED HER FOR MINUTES DESPITE HER HAVING BEEN CARRIED OFF STAGE
Mozart rarely wrote Mad Scenes. This is a great one.
It can be an air Singed by Donna Anna in don Giovanni.
@@marcocampus7943 Or sai chi l’onore is a vengeance aria, not a mad scene.
@@jjh2456 for the vocality, not about the style
She's an amazing artist able to bring the audience to ectasy! An accurate singer isn't always an outstanding artist
Incredible, pure madness, wow, the acting and the singing. Superb.
She certainly was not a mozartian singer, but her great artistry more than compensated for that. Wonderful rendition, full of passion. Love her.
This is impressive in a sort of tormented and painful way.
The swaying, spinning around her axis..
And beautiful staging
This is absolute Madness! The Great hildegarde. What a great actress. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
Great singer. Great actress. Great diver. I saw her do a swan dive into the dry ice at the end of the MET's Flying Dutchman.
I know some opera purists might not like the slightly rough edges here, but I really love this. The passion and drama in her voice are incredible and the orchestra is excellent. And what a fantastic piece of acting.
banginghats2 She was fantastic. And to think that she was originally a lawyer
She is not a coloratura soprano. For instance she doesn’t do the staccati runs at the end of the aria. However that last dying breath at the end is such a great touch. Technically not good but this is one of the most memorable interpretations of this aria.
@@mscott3918 She was a junior barrister. Having a profession in the legal field comes in handy when it comes to dealing with contracts in the music business.
@@jjh2456 You're absolutely right.Technically not so good.But music its not only matter of technic.Its matter of soul of artist matter of feeling that artist give to audience.And when i listened this aria from mrs Berhens a hot summer day with 40celsius i was overcome by frisson in my spawn and yes make me cry.
this is DRAMA!!
Idomeneo is so underrated
Great singing.... Greater acting !
Pure perfection. This was such a performance! I love her!
Superb! No other word to describe her art!
It's clear that Behrens's motions of head and arms in this 1982 Met production directly inspired Anna Netrebko's own gyrations in her 2006 Salzburg performance, included in this MIX. Including the final stretching of her left arm while closing her eyes and hinting at the spasms of dying.
I can bet, however, that Netrebko's version wasn't as electrifying as this.
@@chortkiv1etrebko was 10 times as beautiful looking however. And she sang it much more accurate. Perhaps not appropriate for the crazed crone role.
A symbol of what was truly unique about Idomeneo... it was a synthesis of Italian and French styles, and mad scenes were very popular in both.
Served by a German strong personality!
I wish she had sung the (unwritten) High C at the end...lol...but it was a VERY satisfying rendition!
I forgot how much I liked her voice.
Just goes to prove the singing does not have to be "beautiful" 100% of the time to make a compelling performance. Brava.
True blood.....simply sublime
The twitching death throws. The drama of it all.
OMG This is amazing!!!! Such fire and passion...LOVE IT!!!!
Bravissima! Magic rendering!❤
A true legend at work one of the best
Absolute perfection
Superbe de chant et de jeu de tragédienne !
C'est ça le jeu du chant, le chant du jeu ça donne de l'espace, du champ pour cette magnificence passionnée de Mme Behrens !!
Questa interpretazione è ineguagliabile
E' molto brava anche la cantante che alla Scala nel 2006 interpretò Elettra.Ora mi sfugge il nome.
Come on! This isn't a 'Lucia' mad scene that requires mellifluous singing. Just listen to the cacophonous word! Only someone like Behrens could do it convincingly: I've never heard Elettra's final note so dramatically articulated, ie like a woman who's dying (let's call it poetic license). A thrilling interpretation, despite the absent staccati
Very good interpretation but I miss the staccati...
Brilliant!!
EN-ER-GY!! I love this performance
AWESOME PREFORMANCE!
I'm so sad. I did not know she died...
BRAVISSIMA!!!!!!
meravigliosa
Dolore allo stato puro
Impossible to be more accurate about singing on stage.
Behrens is a great artist but Levine is a GENIUs of opera! The best orchestra you can lesson in this aria. More energy than Behrens!
I'd say they match and complete wonderfully. Great dialogue. No opposition here. Behrens was on the harmony always actually....
Просто страшно! Как это она это всё делает? Just absolutely... just shivering. How can she do this?
Тому що вона була надзвичайно талановита.
@puccinilover I LOVED this production...Behrens was amazing in this role!!!!!
Epic...
Hilfegard Behrens died yesterday in Tokyo...resti in peace
Hildegard was a dramatic soprano usually. She never had coloratura technique. What she could do was use her huge voice to emote.
@@jjh2456 which is already a tour de force ! So many examples of very huge voices senza emozione...
la classe de Edda Moser! MAGNIFIQUE!
Oui elle est grandissime aussi Madame Moser mais la il s'agit de Madame Behrens 😂😂🤣
The audience reaction here does rather tell the CZcams armchair experts where to stick it!!
Why so? Those sitting at home have no less right to pass their opinion than those who attend the theatre. Attending a performance and offering your opinion doesn't make you right and the others wrong!
@@grantes4969 I think you misunderstood. I used the term to reference, for example, those who take the score to an opera and tut over what they perceived to be a wrong note, or to say that Madam X sang it half a tone higher in the original production. Forgetting that each performance is unique, fortunately, and not a carbon copy.
@@mscott3918 👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Brava!!!! Brava!! 10000000000 Brava!!!!!
Ахринеть как круто...
Вот это да!.. А последняя нота последнего вздоха?
Is this available on DVD?
LaBartoliLover Yes. I have it
#BOTD in 1937 💐💐💐 RIP Hildegard Behrens 🌹🌹🌹
RIP Hildegard Behrens (died #otd in 2009) 🌺🌺🌺
one of my arias but she looks like winifred Sanderson don't you think lol
Who is it?
Now tell me does Elettra kills herself or she died from dancing too much
Hahahahah. Do you mean dancing within this scene or in general?
I mean is Richard Strauss or Mozart more historically correct
Right. I think this production makes her look as though she's danced a lot even though it's the Mozart version.
Mozart does not make that clear, but she has become insane singing this perfectly preformed aria. I love it.
I don't agree with the previous posters who think this is amazingly dramatic. At times she almost yelps to be "dramatic", and I think that's a great misunderstanding. IMO opera is drama THROUGH singing, not AT THE SACRIFICE OF singing. There are singers who sing beautifully, and there are singers who to some extent succeed in being "dramatic", but I think it's the singers who manage to combine these two aspects that make opera really exciting.
Darling, the thing is: if you are about to die of convulsions you do not sing "beautiful". As the great Irmgard Seefried once put it: when it comes to art, you got to have the courage to be ugly
Agree... in addition to the histrionics, one needs to sing on pitch!
Darling, the thing is: if you are about to die of convulsions you do not sing at all. This is great acting, the singing less so. It's OK to say so.
@@alixvhessen 👍🏻 exactly. That's called "Il Teatro"
Wonderful woman but very uncomfortable singing
Dizione in italiano davvero pessima.
Pure il resto.
Pavarotti’s Idomeneo-with the WORST “Fuor del mar” one will EVER hear-and this whacked out but admittedly FUN Elettra by Hildegarde Behrens proves that the Metropolitan Opera of New York City is a true Third Word jungle of an opera house when it comes to the Mozart and earlier works. FYI, as of 2018, the Met STILL used this dusty old Ponnelle production for Idomeneo and Tito, which pretty much look IDENTICAL to each other, btw. Yes, the operatic Third World, that’s the Met. LOL
Bah you just say that because they all wear much more beautiful dresses than yourself 😂😂😂🤣🤣
@@theogoldberg8919 I guess YOU really like those dresses. Certain better than I, that much is clear. LOL
Met directs beautiful but dull and boring most of the times. So much Hollywood glamour but less intelligence.... less is more sometimes...
¡¡Qué gran desastre el de esta señora!! ¡Pobre Electra! La soprano no sólo no se ajusta a la línea mozartiana sino que la destruye, despedazando la frase final (por su terrible falta de fiato y resistencia respiratoria) con un burdo truco del verismo, que para nada tiene que ver ni con el estilo y muchísimo menos con la escritura musical de Mozart, concebida unos siglos antes. No conforme con ser ostensiblemente desafinada y poseer un desagradable vibrato de orden nasal completamente fuera de estilo, esta señora se permite respirar donde no es posible ni está marcado por el compositor hacerlo, de manera que parte en dos las frases de coloratura y por supuesto, entra tarde con relación a la orquesta, generando así un caos musical del que sólo un director de pulso y experiencia puede salvar milagrosamente al conjunto orquestal. Resulta increíble que este trabajo forme parte de un espectáculo público. El punto de las coloraturas es realmente escandaloso, la señora ni hace lo que está escrito, ni vocalmente puede con eso, de allí el truco bastardo del final. Si a eso se añade la escenificación falsa, epidérmica, burlesca, carente de emoción y rebosante de gestos muy propios de los malos actores, tenemos aquí un pésimo ejemplo de lo que con esta aria los cantantes mediocres pueden hacer y un público delirantemente ignorante puede estar dispuesto a aplaudir. Inenarrable la escenita final, en la que -según su propuesta-, Electra se "desmaya" de la manera más torpe y acto seguido se mueve (no se sabe por qué ni para qué, gesto explicable sólo por la redomada ignorancia escénica de la soprano), sólo para "despertar" y "desmayarse" de nuevo, en fracciones de segundo... Es con mucho, la peor ejecución de esta aria que haya podido ver nunca. Gracias al administrador de este canal por compartir.
Behrens was one of the greatest interpreteur of the German repertoire. You must be a Verdi-fan 🤣