Carmen: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Aigul Akhmetshina and the Met Chorus sing an excerpt from the title character’s Act I aria in the final dress rehearsal. Production: Carrie Cracknell. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni. 2023-24 season.
I can proudly say I was in this production with her! childrens chorus for life
The BEST production i have ever seen. Her voice is just magical and I just can’t stop listening to those videos and neither I can get them stop playing in my head all the time🤗. Everything in this opera was spectacular❤❤❤❤❤
Brava, Aigul! Stunning girl. Stunning voice.
I think my issue is that whenever opera productions (and other old texts) go for a modern style, they also have to do a dark, grimy, atmosphere alongside it. It's like those turquoise cowboy boots Aigul is wearing. They're definitely in fashion, but the mood of this production doesn't match the disposition of the kids who make it "in fashion". Those turquoise cowboy boots are about fun, absurdism and whackyness! The reason why Barbie or Saltburn did so well.
I love the creativity of these, but wish they'd branch out a bit.
I totally agree. The costume designs were atrocious! it seems like the goal was to style EVERYONE on stage in the most unflattering way possible. The whole cast looked like dressed from thrift shops. And the color scheme hardly screamed passion 😢 The choreography was also very awkward and sometimes cringy. It was painful to
watch. I liked the idea of translating it into different era, but the designs were a total flop.🤮
No problem with music and cast, but sheesh....that production looked like it came right out of Walmart and Target. And the setting did not fit the music as Bizet conceived it.
Tal cual, están arruinando la buena cultura. Es como cuando te compras una obra literaria clásica y te encontrás con la novela cambiada, yo voy a la librería y le revoléo el libro por la cabeza. Es una estafa.
Read the audience reviews of the staging. OMG, they destroyed it. It’s one thing to update staging. It’s another to trash it.
I saw it in the theaters and it looks fantastic…. maybe im just young, but i love the updated look! it helps me follow the story better tbh LOL
I think you can bring classic operas to modern times without dressing the characters from Shein. Its like Carmen from AliExpress
Gagged 😂
I saw this live at AMC earlier this year, and I am SO excited because this weekend, I'm going to New York to visit my son and daughter-in-law and they got tickets for us to see this and hear her live at The Met. I'm 74, a lifelong opera buff, but I've never been to The Met. I am thrilled beyond words to know that I'll get to hear her live! What a beautiful, pure voice she has!
She's good ❤
Wow, Akhmetshina!
What is this staging? She's not invested in anyone and just walking aimlessly.
Watch the opera first to understand the context. It's an amazing opera!
perfect creamy voice but what kind of production is this?
Modern adaptions always just turn it into something unaesthetic and trashy. This looks like the ghetto area of the Bronx, not as it was in the late 1800's in France which is what it is meant to be.
I’ve seen this production twice now and I agree that her voice is small, but very beautiful. It carried well enough during calmer moments (I sat in the Grand Tier both times) but the orchestra was definitely holding back so as not to completely swallow her. While we loved her performance overall, vocally I don’t think she’s a great fit for Carmen as her lower register isn’t powerful enough. It was in the few moments where she entered true soprano territory that the strength and beauty of her voice shone through.
Gosh really? She sounds very strong in HD and I would have thought her voice can easily fill the vast Met space. 😮
@@lee-london2405 You can't judge a voice from a recording. Ever.
That’s because the voice gets louder as you go higher. Voice will ALWAYS be louder in the 5th octave. And plenty of sopranos back in the old days had very strong lower register because they taught chest voice. She has zero chest in her singing which also makes her voice very nasal and displeasing to hear. This is why a lot of opera singers have smaller voices now, not the big ones in the past. This way of teaching/singing is killing opera…
You are so stunning, the girl from Kirgiz-Miyaki, I will forever admire you!
Well - her performance yesterday for the New Year’s Eve gala was definitely a bit boring….which is some “achievement” for that role. Our thanks go to Angel Blue for elevating the evening with her beautiful voice and of course - like always - the absolute fantastic choir!
Leo muchos comentarios aquí tirando su frustración ante una gran estrella emergente. Todos expertos en música clásica, ópera, verismo y cuanta cosa se les ocurre para denostar un excelente trabajo, sin mencionar que los verdaderos expertos le celebran su técnica y timbre. Yo mientras tanto aplaudo esta excepcional voz!!!
Браво, Айгуль!!!
Why, oh why, is this number sung like a dirge! It gets slower every time I hear it. Carmen's singing about a restless bird, not a stuffed turkey. She's flirting, teasing. Go back in time and listen to Rise Stevens sing it. You'll be intrigued instead of falling asleep.
I have a very old score copy (it's on imslp) from a French publisher, 1875. The song is in 2/4, and very clearly marked that the quarter note = 72. I'm clocking this version at 56 beats, nearly a third slower. But there are lots of old recordings here on UA-cam in the 69-72 range, so when did the Habanera run out of gas? Read the source material, Prosper Merrimee's Carmen, and get an idea of the original character.
This is a pretty normal tempo
Shut up Nerd
decent but a bit boring... no risk taken
As always the singer is just fine but please stop with the shitty productions. I have found that Bizet, Wagner and Puccini are the composers whose operas suffer more from absurd productions.
For the folks in this thread, just go see the show before you make any uneducated or broad assumptions about the size of her voice.
If you don't, then there's no reason to act as if you know how it carries throughout the house.
Just be grateful she's not wearing a gorilla suit.
How can I be so angry with someone I love?
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This is a soprano - soubrette, wrongly trained/placed as a mezzo.
Come on, anyone can hear and see it - her body structure and her face shape. Her high notes come with ease and that Carmen low register is completely swallowing her.
Jolie voix, costumes immondes, mise en scène à chier
She has a beautiful voice but she doesn't have the breath support needed for the legati. Her phrases sound VERY disconnected and there's just too much empty space because she can't sustain the melody enough. Her voice is also small which means the chorus can’t sing at full volume - nor the orchestra play loud enough, but worst of all, this means she can’t vary dynamics enough for expression. The result is a pretty, but bland interpretation. It seems they've cast her based on looks and vocal color but I don't think her technique/voice is developed enough for this role.
I’ve seen her live at the ROH and believe me, her voice is ANYTHING but small
I heard her at the MET tonight, from way up in the family circle. Her voice projeced just fine. The orchestra played at full volume; the chorus sang at full volume. Nobody held back and she wasn't drowned out. Her performance was anything but bland and the audience cheered her.
I see the respected Met has sunk to the current, on the cheap, junkyard/second hand shop, productions. An insult to the composer and the singers.
Un desastre, los zurdos la quieren moldear a su manera. Ayer estuvieron en el teatro Colón, de Buenos Aires y están todos decepcionados. Al menos, los que esperaban la opera Carmen. Menos mal que el autor ni la está viendo.🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
I won't watch this perfomance.
The Russian who I most admire is Alexei Navalny. The courage it must take to oppose the totalitarian russian state must be enormous. And not only that. But to come straight back to Russia having been poisoned by the russian state, KNOWING you would be arrested. What a MASSIVE HERO for FREEDOM!
she's not Russian though
@@argynkuketayev4166 I thought she was Russian through Baskortostan which was invaded by Russia many centuries ago. What do you think?
@@davidkennard6414it’s like calling Sir Tom Jones an Englishman. I don’t know her personally, but I bet she’s annoyed to be called Russian. Bashkortistan is a colonized land and they have no responsibility for Russian deeds
After watching Garranca she is a disaster.
The only question I have is what were those chorus members doing on January 6th?! Talk about MAGA overload. Also, damn we’re missing Regina Resnik for some verismo smoking. The More clips I see the more I’m warming up to this production. Looks fun and has some great singing. Toi toi toi for the run!
This is probably the funniest comment about I've ever read below an opera performance
Shame on you, MET. This was the worst production EVER. Just terrible.... terrible 🤮
Shes literally talking to them as if she just realised shes paying more taxes, her voice can be flawless but she just cant feel Carmen, its painful to listen to her
She doesn't have much stage presence in this role. Haven't seen her in anything else nor would I like to.
bring Anita back! wtf
What a mess!
I am all for Modernizing Classic operas but not Trashing them with a nasty ghetto look. Shame on the Met for trashing such a spectacular opera with their new "modern " production. Hey Peter Gelb Modern does not translate to trashy garbage ghetto look, maintain some class.
Beautiful voice but no sexiness, sensual attitude…