5 Epic Opera Performances you MUST HEAR
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Everyone: "opera needs to be in Italian"
Mozart: "halt mein bier"
😂😂😂 Deutsch (sorry if that's not how to spell it ;-;)
Mozart wrote some of the greatest Italian operas ever, too. And Donizetti's popular "La fille du régiment" is in French. And perhaps the most popular opera of all time is a story set in Spanish but sung in French.
@@niraishere771 is it suppose to be 'Dutch' You mean Netherland/Holland? 😂
@@lilyevans4244 Deutsch is German in German.
@@mannymoogolf oh sorry i didn't know that 🙁 I thought it was Netherland :^
Only the OG will remember how Sanna was trying so hard to hide her laugh
She was so moved by Brett’s singing
Yeeeeep!!
She is cute in that video❤️
Ah yes.... veterans, I see
I also lose my shit every time I rewatch it
I think the Queen of the Night Aria is not only hard to get right because the singer has to hit all the high notes.
She has to have a certain volume to her voice since she is supposedly a queen and mother. Singing all the correct notes while sounding like a little girl just won't fit the role.
Also she has to get the pronunciation just right. Slurring your words in this song makes you sound indecisive and soft (also a little bit drunk in my opinion). It is an angry aria. Most native speakers don't slur when they hold an angry speech - they tend to overpronounce things.
What makes it also difficult is that the opera is in German, and it is very hard to sing in that language because of the explosive consonants that can make inexperienced opera singers choke on the passages if they are not careful.
I love the particular Diana Damrau recording they used. There have been others in different outfits, but not as good in my opinion. Ms. Damrau herself is my favourite Queen of the Night just because she's the only one I've seen where I can understand her German clearly throughout the song. Yes, I know the words, but everyone else usually focuses on the notes and they throw in a hint of consonants. Ms. Damrau is musically on point and linguistically intelligible at the same time.
@@esuna6352 So what about Vivaldi's Agrigato da due venti? It sounds Harder than the Queen of the might, but it is in Italian!
Diana Damrau is great but Summi Jo is better. Sorry. Love from Roumania.
Interesting and important point!
My favorite comment about The Magic Flute that someone else wrote:
Mozart, finishing The Magic Flute: Welp, someone will sing it, 'cause I'm not gonna...
He actually wrote it with a specific person in mind
@@TheAbbs12 yep correct, specifically for his sister in law Josefa Hofer a coloratura soprano
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL truee
@@marialuisasarthou2366 if he wrote it for his sister in law it seems more like he hates her and wants her to suffocate to death
@@b.d6642 Hahaahahahahahah
Get yourself someone who looks at you like how Sanna looks at opera singers
Just cuz you look at someone like that does not mean the other person realizes it.
@@bland9876 what
I think it's easier for us plebians to learn opera instead
@@valhallajester Woah. When I first read your comment, I thought you said "lesbians" instead of plebians. 😂
Check i got my cats
Eddy: how do you sing so high? Are you born with it?
Geniuses are born not created.
@Sidney Ly omg hahahahahaha
That’s a good joke!You’re so creative!
Yassssssss
Two set better see this comment and realize they just roasted themselves 😅
*insert Illuminati music here*
@@sushih3302 thanks I appreciate the compliment!
I’m not a massive fan of opera, but the talent of the singers is absurd. These guys are insanely talented and hard working. Respect 100%
like basicallyall of classical music, disliking opera often comes down to just not being that familiar with it. I don't think people are born with a gene that makes them dislike opera, but the singing style takes some getting used to. I grew up listening to opera so the style of singing (and also the Drama of the storylines) never felt weird to me, but if you didn't grow up with it, you'll probably need to listen to a few operas before you fully get into it.
If you want to get into it, I recommend going to see it live over just listening to recordings, the live experience is pretty fantastic. Bizet's Carmen is a great beginner opera, so is a lot of Mozart (especially The Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro, or Don Giovanni), Rossini and Donizetti operas are usually quite accessible musically (all of their operas work really imo but if you wanted specific recommendations, I'd suggest The Barber of Seville or William Tell by Rossini, and L'Elisir d'Amore or Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti), Puccini's Madama Butterfly will probably keep you interested via the story even if you dislike the singing, and if you like Richard Strauss' symphonic repertoire, give Salome or Der Rosenkavalier a chance.
If you want an easier, often rather rom-com style entrance to the style of singing, maybe give operettas a go. Some of the (rightfully) most famous ones are Johann Strauß II's "Die Fledermaus", Kálmán's "Gräfin Mariza", Bernstein's "Candide" (my three favourite operettas in no particular order), Lehár's "The Merry Widow", Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld", and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance".
I hesitate to say this, as an opera fan myself, but I have experience with friends who were new to the genre. They had a hard time getting over some very hammy acting, 'mature' singers who are meant to be the youthful love interest, and the often ridiculous plots. The only hit so far has been the opera Peter Grimes, which is so dark but very 'real'. And Carmen, because they already knew the tunes...
The situation that she talked about, where the soprano didn't come for her entrance in Tosca, was with Kaufmann and Angela Gheirghiu in Vienna staatsoper! He sang the aria twice and then when she didn't come in, the whole auditorium laughed and Kaufmann sang "Non abbiamo il soprano" (we don't have a soprano 😂) and the orchestra had to begin to play the scene again 😂 I was lucky enough to watch live in Vienna, it was so funny.. People who worked at the opera that night said she did it on purpose, cause she wanted to have a grand entrance, since he took all the attention with singinf the aria twice. Lol
Ah, Jonas. ❤❤❤❤❤
Angela Gheorghiu? Omg that's awesome
Brett: Everyone knows it’s the Queen of the Night
Eddy: No it’s the Magic Flute
Brett: ( 0 - 0 )
The opera is called "the magic flute" and the character singing is "the queen of the night" in both context is correct.
So it's 1-1
Thanks @Beu Corona
@@scarletmarvel9956 isn't the 0 - 0 an emoji to Brett's expression? 😅😂
aww our boomer 🥰
@@Carmellx Of course that's an emoji. What's wrong with people? :v
The way Sanna looks at the recordings: that is pure love
Find someone who looks at you the way Sanna looks at Operas
@@camdendaly7579 Brett looks at Hilary Hahn like if she is his senpai
Yesssss omg !
She is beautiful, I was looking at her all the time. Is she Danish or Norwegian?
@@carkod Finnish
showed the first clip to my friend and she wasn't impressed.... I was so baffled that someone could hear that and NOT be impressed
I mean, to the untrained ear, hearing the first clip is really amazing. But for people knowing the technicalities behind the voice, the first recording has a lot of faults, especially on her breathing technique. But I do like to set aside my preconceptions and just appreciate art and the artistry of the singer itself.
No offense but your friend doesn't know what's good!
Different folks, different strokes.
Lol Diana Damrau as the Queen is fantastic...
@@esuna6352 time to find new friends
“She’s like a bird”
Ah, the joys of coloratura
Cheers! I drink to that! 🥂🥂
You two are maybe the only people I won’t cancel after referring to sopranos as fckn chihuahuas
@@annacai8070 True, I am 5'3 and was assigned soprano back in HS. If i think about it most short woman i know tend to have a higher pitch voice as well.
I had never thought about it, but there is an interesting thought. I am 5'5 tall and a soprano, but one my friends is shorter than me, and she is a mezzo-soprano. She used to sing soprano parts while in school, but around the age of 14 she was told she is a mezzo-soprano.
Maybe evolution gave them higher pitch because it's easier to make a loud sound with a small body when the pitch is high, as opposed to a huge dog that can bark loudly. (If that makes any sense) The same thing passed on to humans.
@@annacai8070 I got reminded of Ariana Grande. She's pretty short and she goes very high.
Ikr, I get offended for a second and then I was like... nevermid I love them😂
It's a shame that they invented video was invented only in the 20th century. Imagine all the great performances we have missed before that.
Technically they invented video in the late 19th century, but it was silent film. So I see what you're getting at
We missed many beautiful things
Especially the Castrato singing, I'm deadly curious how they sounded like
@@athomenotavailable I think a countertenor is the closest we can get these days but I imagine the voice of a boy with the power and breath of a grown man. Totaly dispise what they did back then and I don't think the sound would be appealing to me, so a countertenor it is.
😥
I love the way Damrau performs this song. Her staccati are like poisoned darts. So many singers sing it “pretty” but she really is playing the meaning of this peace-this is a mother who is literally coercing her daughter to commit murder.
@Corey H Cristina D had a lovely voice, and I’m fascinated by the way she handled those triplets. But as a performance overall, I’m not a fan. These are pretty subjective things, though-you’re certainly entitled to your opinion.
Exactly. Notice the first time she does her staccatos. Right before, she’s actually facing away from her daughter. She turns around sharply right before she sings then, as if to be able to sing that fury - those knives or darts - at her daughter. She both loves and hates her, and wants to use her to commit her own (mother’s) violent crimes.
And at the very beginning , even before that, forcing her daughter to grab the knife first with one hand, then another. Her performance is full of sound and fury. One of the former hosts of our classical music station always said, “Now, THAT’s what a really, really angry soprano sounds like!” Cheers.
@Corey H It's really hard to compare these ladies. The way Cristina delivers this aria is cold and icy, with daggerlike precision, whereas Diana's performance is so fiery that I'd be afraid to catch fire if she looked at me. As for their singing: my personal preference goes out to Diana Damrau, because I love how she uses her whole body to sing and bring this song to life. Whereas Cristina was too statuesque for my taste. Both approaches make sense, both approaches are good. At this point it comes down to personal taste :)
I loved al of them but Pavarotti actually hit me hard here. When he sings the second Lo vedo with the shine in his eyes is something else.
His legato is so good. Pulls at the heart strings.
Tosca is about a woman having to decide to either sleep with a corrupt politician or have her boyfriend executed by him. In that second clip she is wondering what she ever did to deserve that. And they say opera is fancy and hard to relate to.
damn.
People assume that if something is old then it’s boring and hard to relate, as if people in the past centuries would live in another world and have different emotions. They don’t know how much literature and music they’re missing.
@@daemondif7051 try reading Russian classical literature as part of school program. Especially if you are interested in equality in every form. Women are abused, the only worthy woman in the whole War and Peace has an incredibly unfulfilling life. The only books from the classical period that were interesting for me were Chekhov's stories, Crime and Punishment and Bulgakov's works. The rest... Boring to say the least. But I'm a fan of fantasy, and there isn't much of that.
Ah, yes, also Gogol's plays and novels were interesting.
However, I'm a firm believer that bad endings have no place in literature or cinematography. The only art that can make the bad endings bearable for someone who's highly emotional is music, and therefore I only like sad music. But I firmly dislike sad endings in films or books.
Ok, sorry for the looooooong answer, but I just wanted to say that everyone has different reasons to dislike a certain kind of art.
I assume it's about the language barrier. Supposed you're watching it in a opera house or the like (sorry I don't know the term), opera might be quite hard to understand by the words they speak cs it's mostly in France or Italian I guess...? but, yeah we could still relate to the feeling the singer trying to convey trough their performance.
@@atriyakoller136 seriously, you dont like any bad endings? What about in Infinity war where thanos actually wins? Me personally, I love ending where the bad guy/s win, simply due to the fact that they're so rare.
Have you never thought, whilst seeing a bad guy in action, "I hope he completes his mission, instead of getting defeated at the very last minute"?
Ling Ling didn't cry when he was born, he hit the 4 Fs of the Queen of the Night aria instead.
STAN LINGLING
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I’m just imagining that rn and I’m dying 😂😂😂😂😂
Hello there
😂😂😂
As a trained vocalist, I love the performances and singers she picked here. I think it would be really cool however to have a part 2 with more variety in singers. They're are plenty of Mezzo, Bass, and even Countertenor voices that should be highlighted as well.
Yes, do a video on lieder or baroque singers.
Yeah, I agree. Mezzos, Contraltos, Baritones, Basses, and Countertenors are always overlooked when people are showcasing opera.
The way Maria Callas makes you feel when she sings is pure magic. Very little opera singers close to none have the ability to make you feel that way. Just look at Sanna's face when she starts singing. They didn't call her "La Divina" for no reason.
coreyh9794 yet christians dont stop believing in jesus just because there’s many of them
As a soprano I can say many of us have the attitude of a little dog.
As a bass I can confirm that statement.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*laughs in female baritone*
@@samaratunder4921 dammmmmmmmn that is deep. Mad respect with that vocal range. That is super cool!
*wheezes in alto*
I'm a simple person: I see Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night in the thumbnail, I click.
Haha samee
saaaaaame
she’s a queen
Me too ☺ I love her 😊
lol, true
I’m even simpler: I see classical shtick, I click
Me: *listens to opera singers*
also me : *Cries in Alto 2*
There is a lot of great opera for lower female voices, they just didn’t show it
Altos are freaking cool. I personally like their voices more than sopranos'. I think they deserve more important roles as well, too bad they are usually made for sopranos.
@@sandyc.4630 Check out some Verdi and Rossini, there are great parts for lower female voices.
*joins crying in alto 2*
As a mezzo, I always envied altos they sound so cool. I'm just kind of 'in between', neither here nor there...
A friend of mine was lucky enough to perform at an open-air concert Pavarotti was also appearing in, and saw him rehearse. He said there wasn’t a single microphone near him and yet over an orchestra and forty feet from the stage his voice was still deafening - this guy is a percussionist too, says it was the highlight of his career if ever a time to go deaf
“The taller you are the more likely you’re a bass”
Nobody:
Brett: OH SO NO WONDER SMALL DOGS BARK SO HIGH
Hmmm... Dimash is 191 cm tall... Hmmm...
Brett is 170cm :)
Hmm I have a deeper voice than most and im only 5 foot 7
@@teer7461 wait dimash is 191? he looks small tho!
Does this go for women too? Bc baritone-tenor gang ig-
Opera singers: practice
Eddy, an intellectual: gym routine for the throat
I mean he ain't wrong
Sanna has seen these pieces probably hundreds of times, yet you can still see her emotions. That‘s when you know it‘s good.
Magic Flute: Nice, light, cheerful.
Sanna: So yeah she's actually telling her daughter to commit a murder.
"She was the pro." Thanks Eddy. I couldn't have guessed otherwise.
Edit: Eddy actually said it.
was looking for this comment thank you
I laughed so much at that comment too like... Was there any other option? Lol
Eddy said that, not Brett
I am watching this video, I am going to start studying later, but my mom keeps scolding me about wasting time......
lmao
They did this just so the opera singers wouldn’t start a revolt
Which could realistically happen nowadays 🤷🏼♀️😕🤦🏼♀️
too late opera singers are already revolting. 8)
But the piano gang didn't revolt when they made the Kickstarter 'Violin vs Piano'...
Darren Yap exxxxactly I swear we’re normal 🙃
@@jiyometrik yeah, that's because we pianists are used to being overlooked- we're accompanists 😆
That is real expression of passion on Sanna's face. She must have listened to those recordings many many many times before and yet to see her physically moved by them even now woahhh! It shows that outsiders misses stuff that insiders knows enjoys and appreciate. TwosetViolin, please keep up with these educational videos.
"for us plebeians"
I finally feel myself included
I gotta say, one of my favorite things about TwoSet is how *good* they are at their instrument and just musically in general, and yet they never miss an opportunity to make themselves look like the dumbest donkeys when it comes to other instruments. I deeply respect that and I wanna be dumb in just the same way.
@Aleksa Petrovic agreed. The more you know the more u realize you dont know.
It's a lot more impressive when you are... well, impressive in a given field, yet can act like someone who knows nothing.
It's less impressive if, like me, you're a total blighted idiot-as it won't be acting so much as _being_
@A.H it's so convincing that I often forget how good they actually are
Honestly😂😂
"dumbest donkeys" made me belt out a good laugh.
If you want to know the emotion of a piece here, watch her face, she is unconsciously expressing to every piece.
Rahul Suresh I already was watching her face (😅), but I know what you mean. She had the look of an artist who deeply admires the work of other artists. She’s clearly still inspired.
subconsciously* lol but yeah i find myself doing that too and i have to control my expression so i don’t look weird haha
@@cherrynbo I think it's ok to show the expression, at least I feel like I can enjoy a piece better that way
😂 Omg you're right
"If you're a really tall person you're usually a bass."
My 6'2 self watching as a (near counter) tenor: Interesting.
I'm a basso profundo and I'm 6'4 (193cm) so quite accurate but of course it all depends of the chords
I’ve heard that baritones make really good counter tenors.
Dimash Qudaibergen being 190cm (about 6'2") and singing F6s 😂
10:32 THE VOICE CONTROL IS *ANGELIC*
who is it?!?!??!
This series is great for people who want to get into classical music but don’t really know which are good choices
Cannot be put more perfectly
Theres no such thing as a "good choice". Getting into classical music is just as easy as any other genre. What I did was listen to all of the most popular stuff first, such as Mozarts 21st piano concerto, beethovens 5/9th symphonies, Vivaldis four seasons, Bach's toccata/ fugue & passacaglia/fugue etc. etc.
The more you listen, the more you'll be able to discover your own tastes, therefore, making it easier to find more of the music you like.
Edit: I just went on your channel and you're already on the right tracks
@@SR009s I think they meant getting into learning a classical instrument, not into listening to them. Through the channel I think they kind of got an idea into the instrument which interests them the most.
ngl no kids want to get into classical music, they either hear it once and they want in or they become a junkie that likes rap
Whoooo another stray kids fan here!!! :DDD
Expert: “If you’re a tall person, you’re usually a bass.”
Brett, without hesitation: “That’s why little dogs bark so high!”
He's not wrong...
It kinda makes sense tho...
☝🏽🎅🏻😂
He's actually right! It's typical (if not always the case) for very high sopranos to be petite, so their larynges (larynxes?) are small and vibrate really fast for those very high notes.
@@inesdeerausquin5658 I think that's either an old, or an incorrect, sterotype. I am about 5 foot 8 and I can sing quite high easily. Admittedly my family are musical and I started singing when I was five but I don't think that height comes into singing. Two years ago, I was singing with a lady who had been opera trained and height didn't make a difference about hitting the high notes. She was shorter than me.
I like how you guys are bringing classical music back to mainstream so more can appreciate it
Sanna is evidently not only a talented and accomplished musician. She is also a first-rate critic. The excellence of Finnish musicians - actually I would extend this to the classically trained musicians of all the Nordic and Baltic countries - it impresses and amazes me. And so many of them seem to be so happy and content in their home countries, they see no reason to tour, and so if you don't live there you have to go there or get lucky and stumble upon a recording just to discover them.
Brett: *is entertained and enthusiastic*
Eddy: *adorably interested*
Sanna: *full of appreciation and just in love with every performance*
She watches each one with the tender love of a proud mother
Sanna is Finnish which means that she is automatically part of the official Sibelius Gang.
Torilla tavataan taas!
@Human A cat's ok. Please don't give your kids Finnish names.
@LING LING GRANGER sounds Arabic
@LING LING GRANGER I think she meant some Finnish names can be hard to pronounce for foreign people. So it can be a bit annoying to spell it every time. In Finnish we rarely spell out our names cause 99% of the time they are pronounced the same as they are written.
Where my fellow Sibelius gang at??
Thanks to the guys and thanks to Sanna for helping us to understand more about the beauty of opera. A wonderful sharing of positive energy with your millions of subscribers.
3:50 "Ling Ling can sing 40 octaves range, so high that you can't even hear it, so low you feel it" I can't recover
For a moment, let's appreciate all opera singers.
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*and also for the subtitles. I mean, geez, the effort to put the actual lyrics and then translating it to English.* **clap** **clap**
Love it. Let's appreciate opera singers.
**crickets**
Surtitling is it's own art form! :D
thanks to editor-san!!!!
Thank you! I rewatched with subs on.
Opera singing is controlled screaming. Better stay away from them not to hurt your eras. Pavarotti is a rare exception though.
Revised Title: 15 minutes of Sanna fangirling her favorite singers. Look at her face:)
Alternative title: Eddy and Brett embarassing themselves in front of Sanna
:>
I'm on with this video.
@ummm yeah I got that fangirl expression watching classical pianists😂(actually all excellent musicians)
For some reason, so many singers lose individuality in their singing voices, they sound sooo similar. But with Pavarotti, I could pick out his voice out of a thousand.
"You need a microphone, I've got my own right here and it's called vocal cords "
Are we not gonna talk about how the lyrics have English translations in the captions?
thanks Editor-san!
😮
Sorry to ruin the party, but I think everyone can contribute to add the subtitles, even their fans, like us. It doesn't have to be editor-san. Besides, editor-san has so much work already.
@A.H while imprisoned in dad's basement. Lol
Who is not an opera singer here that has *MAD* respect for them
me!!!!
Me
Me :D
The most I can do is decent karaoke. And my voice gets shaky after 3 or 4 songs. They do this for hours. Mad respect for Opera singers
Me
“That’s why little dogs bark so high!”
I’m an elementary music teacher and I use this exact analogy to explain to my students that big instruments make low sounds and small instruments make high sounds! They genuinely really struggle with that concept, but if you relate it to puppies suddenly everything just clicks lol
I'm glad she picked the correct recording of Nilsson. Her 66 Bayreuth Böhm performances is probably the best Liebestod ever recorded
Plays queen of the night aria
Brett and Eddie: is it hard?
Sopranos everywhere: combust on the spot
Bro the moment he said I was like “I’m out are you serious?????” MY VOCAL CORDS WOULD DIE
That aria has some insanely high notes.
MCBuilder101 ikr like there’s a freaking high f...I had to practise for ages just to get the high E in Mozart’s lachrymosa..
ME TOO!!!!
i totally cringed when brett asked that!!!!
" what's even worse than a flute? two flutes!"
- W. A. Mozart
HAHAHAHAHA-
Did he really say that? 😂
@@sushih3302 when he was 20 he tried to justify only delivering 2 of the 6 concertos for flute.
He wrote this letter to his father complaining about the flute and about how much he hated it, but in fact he seems to like it... in all of the piano concertos flute has wonderful solos... the magic flute.... ye, he was a kid in his 20s making excuses to his father for missing a paycheck. Ome things never change and it's super funny
Hahahaha.
Piccolo
...I play flute😐😐😕
Nobody:
Eddy: Mariah Cahrey...
More like Maria Callas
Both: OHOHIHJHHHH
You are sooo darling!!! As an opera singer, your enthusiasm is infectious and has started my day on a high! It's heartwarming to see others, and fellow musicians, take interest in opera. I believe that is even heightened by your orchestral experience. Thank you for sharing your perspective. To answer your question about the "Liebestod" from Wagner with the orchestral sounds. She is a dramatic soprano. So they have thicker vocal folds and lots of endurance. This enables them to sing over that wall of sounds such as easy as a coloratura can sing a handful of cadenzas and runs. Composers wrote specific music that has now been categorized into different voices. We can't do it all, but get the right voice, tone, color and power behind it you can truly see this art form at its best.
*_"You need a microphone? I got my own right here, it's called a vocal chord"_*
Can we please get some merchandise with this phrase? Please! ❤️🙏🏻 One for the singers!
I don't think you project from your vocal chords though...?
... it's called my squillo
A turtle neck shirt
@@altmail1572 thats the joke
I believe it was intended as a joke, but when singing anything, especially opera, you're supposed to use your diaphragm. If you try to sing loudly using just your vocal chords, it will ruin your voice.
Twoset is wrong.
The Ling Ling of all opera is: SING SING
Nah man sing is the song for legit jazz cats, not bebop posers 😎 czcams.com/video/TOPSETBUgvQ/video.html
WTF. SingSing is a DotA 2 player.
Marbles Grande WTF. Singsing means “ring” in my language.
Sing Sing actually means stars in Cantonese.(Cantonese is a dialect in China. I'm a Hong Konger!)
gJb 1 LMFAOOOO
Thank you Eddy and Brett for bringing Sanna plus her introduction and appreciation of opera to your site.
Maria Callas was pure and raw emotion... a eternal diva
“Good singing is easy.”
I hear this sentiment a lot from voice instructors, especially European ones. It’s a misleading sentiment. What they ACTUALLY mean to say is that the techniques involved in good singing are all about relaxing and minimizing vocal strain, as most people have a subconscious tendency to tense or seize up when going through “difficult” passages or singing in untrained registers. Obviously the journey to achieving “effortless” singing is FAR from easy, but the goal is to make it LOOK and SOUND easy, and to not feel “difficult” when you’re actually doing it, as the “difficulty” of singing is comorbid with strain and tension. We are always fighting against our reflexes which tell our muscles that they need to “protect” the voice when we’re doing something “unnatural”. Once you learn how to reach the extremes of your voice freely and without strain, it does become somewhat “effortless”, but we are ALWAYS exercising this skill. This is why vocalists refer to themselves as “athletes”. Also, this isn’t even touching on the (actually far more important) element of breathing, which is by far the hardest to train and the most volatile building block of singing.
Yeah! Like, listen to Piero Cappuccilli. The man makes legato look effortless, but he had rock solid technique. He could go on and on with one breath for seemingly impossible lengths.
Yes yes this!!! And from experience, when you've put that work in, it is easy and becomes the most natural thing in the world---because you know it in your heart after having practiced it tens and hundreds of times
Yes, one of the most common mistakes for begginers is to tense up and make to much effort to reach high notes. If you just relax is much easier, healthier and it sounds better
As a shitty breather, I second the last point.
@@Tubluer bruh, take the at negativity away from here
Sanna: Let's listen to Birgit Nilsson
TwoSet: completely distracted by the orchestra.. 😁
Can you blame them, though? Liebestod is possibly the greatest piece of music ever written for an opera, I get distracted, too. And I am a massive opera fan who tends to concentrate on singers over the orchestra.
Wagner. Such genius.
The Liebestod with Birgit Nilsson is how I want to die.
Like labradors with tennis balls
With good reason. In order to fully appreciate Nilsson's power you must understand that she's piercing through a huge orchestra playing at max capacity. I'm really glad they included her in their list.
wow that's really awesome, thank you!
and the passion in Sanna's words for the opera and the music in general is so communicative and beautiful
I’m 5 ft 5(ish) and I’m a soprano. I am not thin! I’m Greek Cypriot and classically trained and yes those high F’s are hard to hit and not sound like your screaming!
I’ve performed Phantom as well as Christine and that’s a blooming physical workout!
Opera can be so joyful but physically and emotionally exhausting to perform! I have cried so much after performances!
Then the next day I’m utterly useless! I just want to cry and sleep!
Maria Callas is an icon!
Brett: *Pikachu face* "..that's why little dogs bark so high!"
Eddy: "you just called sopranos dogs"
Brett & Eddy: *hysterical laughter*
Dogs, divas, same letter. ;)
Whoever put the lyrics for the singing in the subtitles in both English and the original language, thank you!
You’re welcome
Love watching Sanna's eyes and emotions when she watches the videos. Especially Carmen. She is a fan first and performer second. Amazing!! Love her!!!
1:25 what kind of bird is this
I can’t stop laughing at Eddy’s high school music story😂 How does that even happen??????😂😂😂
Wdym? That's normal. Eddy was just being Eddy. Remember the video when he admitted that he had forgotten his violin 3 times? And in that video, he also forgot about the detailed story when he forgot his violin :v
Teenage Eddy had what Brett called "a forgetting things problem"
@@ruthsteen6943 lol
I think I can relate to Eddy's problem. Sometimes there's just a lot of things happening in your mind to the point where you stop being aware and can't even remember even the simplest thing :v
I'm an organist at my church, and during the sermon, I often wait backstage. I've had several close calls where I almost didn't make it back for the closing hymn and postlude. Usually because someone was talking to me, or I was dozing.
I think she's the only guest I've seen who has no patience for their antics. 😂
OMG I totally thought I was the only one that noticed the twinge of annoyance from Sanna
they can be a bit too silly sometimes
I think she's too excited to show her faves / best perfs
Well, it's not like she has to. It's part of the charm of being original, you understand how others are, but you don't change yourself to appease them, nor expect them to appease you. The video came out wonderful! ^^
Sanna not only chose some really great clips but I love how even though she has probably seen them a million times, she's still genuinely into each one and really admires those performers
Honestly really good musical advice in these series too! Love your videos!
Opera singer: *sings a high note*
Eddy: *proceeds to do vibrato with his left hand*
We need more Twoset and Friends
Wouldn’t you agree
Twoset is enough.
Sans Gaster no
In a few years it is the whole YT orchestra.
it sounds like a kids program on TV lol
@@MrDUneven I'd watch an orchestra of CZcamsrs doing their thing
Absolutely quality content! Can't have enough of TwoSet!
Great job! I like that! Thank you Eddy& Bretty!
Singer: *Hits 4 high Fs*
C-c-c-combo Breaker
Underrated comment
Next comes nine tenor high Cs in Ah mes amis
F-f-f-fombo breaker
We had violin performances, we've had cello performances, we've had piano performances, we've had opera performances. Next week we'll have viola performances 😂
you forgot recorders
Nah it’s definitely recorder performances before the violas.
Yes please. I'd love some recommendations of actually good violists. Make it happen Twoset. You have to after that viola beat you. Or was it the alto clef?
You forgot composers
Vye-oh-lah!
Just like anyone who loves opera I love Pavarotti, especially in the early days of his career when his voice was at its best.
I haven't heard the opera that this aria comes from. I haven't heard the aria either
which is surprising as surely it should be one of the regulars on compilations of favourite arias etc.
Never mind, I've heard it now & the wait was.absolutely worth it. I don't think I've ever heard such tenderness from Pavarotti. He embodies it, his eyes are so expressive...it brought tears to my eyes.
I think the love so delicately.expressed here is right up there with Mahler's Adagietto from his 5th symphony. While the Adagietto swoons with love & seems to declare Mahler's love for his wife-to-be to the world, the Donizetti aria is quieter & more subtle. Both pieces work. It's just that the Mahler shouts about love while the Donizetti is far more tender & personal.
I love both of them 🙂
I adore the Liebestod 💗 ! always enjoyed Jessye Norman's rendition, she has that strength in her voice too, like Birgit Nilsson. I haven't heard Birgit much since my childhood when mom kept playing her favourite operas by Wagner. She always raved about this singer & another great talent, Kirsten Flagstad.
Having listened to this aria 5 times in a row, I think I prefer Birgit to Jessye. Her voice has so much power!
I'm glad to hear her describe Maria Callas that way, as a singing actress. The first time I heard O Mio Babbino sang by her, I cried. I can still hear the difference between the way she embodies the character and every other singer that sings the same piece. Maria Callas had a way of sounding like a hopeless young girl that was ready to throw herself into the river.
Eddy: Is it difficult?
Me who's never been able to hit an F6 in my 15 years of classical singing: *cries*
And not just that, I mean I can hit an F6 but I sound like a squeaky mouse. The dynamic range in that piece, and being able to project the more quiet notes as well as the stronger ones... 30 years of training wouldn't get me there.
“So high you can’t even hear it. So low you can feel it”
That is the range of my screaming in my mental breakdowns
Sanna Iljin you just got a new fan. You are not just a great singer but you really understand what is opera about when you explain it very well. I showed your explanation to my friends who don't understand opera and thanks to you they know appreciate it.
Wow!! Thank you! Appreciate the commentary behind the song. If you're not in the opera or music scene, it's easy to miss the hard work cause it seems so effortless. Yes, you guys are athletes. AND you have to wear costumes while performing.
I love how she expresses herself about opera, you can clearly see in her face the great passion she has when she speaks about it.
I agree ☝️
yea
Not only her voice, but Sanna herself is so beautiful omg😭💞
True! She is gorgeous! Her voice is beautiful too.
You guys are great! Amazing guest as always and will bookmark her channel! Although I love classical music etc I have nearly zero technical knowledge so I'm learning lots here. Many thanks!
5:11 I think she's talking about Kaufmann (the tenor, Cavaradossi) getting almost 6-minute ovation from the audience after he sang "E lucevan le stelle" in Wiener Staatsoper. He was also asked to do an encore of that aria. Gheorghiu (the soprano, Tosca) was supposed to came into the stage not long after, but she missed her cue! Such a delightful stage faux-pas.
Canto Bretto is perfect beacuse in italian "Brutto" means "Ugly"
oddio non me ne ero accorta AHAHAHAH
This comment makes my day :v
Vero, è un gioco di parole perfetto hahahahaha
Italian version of "Professional vs beginner opera singer":
*Bel canto vs canto Bretto*
But in Spanish, "bruto" means "stupid".
Eddy actually said "bell brutto" which means "beautiful ugly" I was diyng lmaoo
hahahahah bada che contrasto
Jolie-laid in french
@@franceskinskij sicuramente hahaha
may I recommend you "Ugly Beauty" by Jolin Tsai
@@hikelfin I know, I was just explaining what he said
You guys are asking all the right questions! Good for you. A great learning experience 👌
I love this video...and the wonderful Sanna sharing thougths
Me, an italian, hearing eddy say "cAnTo bReTtO": *surprised pikachu face*
I was searching for this comment😂
Esattamente! 😂
I found myself looking at Sanna the way she looks at the opera singers, and I've realized that my dog is sitting in the corner of the room looking at me the same way. I wonder if there are opera singers who look passionately at my dog. Things would come full circle in a satisfying way.
interesting
Send a picture of your dog to OperaGeek on Twitter. She is an opera singer and I’m sure she would love to see your dog!
@@StanOfFans Oh I have to check out her music, I always love to hear good singing! Thanks for the recommendation. Cheers.
Now that would be a video idea „Opera Singers watching dogs“ :-)
Yeah, she's beautiful.
love this one, my favorite of the "epic performances" series because it's so different from other instruments. Lots of cool stuff to learn.
The best moment in the entire video! 9:38 She had a genuine reaction as an actor and a singer.
"Sometimes the applaud is so long that they have to cut and have a break for the orchestra"
Me, when I'm performing for my Shampoo bottles in the bath
“Why is she your favourite singer?” The answer should’ve been, “She is MARIA CALLAS”!
I was so happy when I saw that Sanna had included her on this list :'')
Exactly. That's answer enough
no
My reply to "Why is she your favorite singer" is "SHE IS BIRGIT NILSSON!"
Sanna is so eloquent
I love the way she articulates these performances
Me: "lol, pretty voice goes OOOOOOOOOOOH"
Sanna: "In this scene a mother persuades her daughter to commit murder"
Me: :0