I adore Jaroussky! Having discovered him only 2.5 years ago, I never have enough of his signing. I will always regret that I never had a chance to listen to him live in those early years of his career..
(cont.) rise, and fall of the castrati voices. Countertenors supplemented the weaker voices of boys, no matter how lovely the latter' were, in choirs. There's nothing unnatural about falsettists, regardless of how societies like to think so. We've not been stopped, and with the advanced vocal lessons available to boys and men who wish to pursue the particular vocal fach, we're, as Max Cencic practically said last year, going to keep arising for years to come!
Oh man I actually came across his performances last year. I immediately fell in love with his color and timbre. He's my favorite!!! I just love his voice. Bravo!
Sexuality is irrelevant, but as a gay man I am proud to have him on our team! When the mainstream media still likes to find the worst representative of a gay man (e.g., an ax murderer in rural Texas), I think it is just a reflection of the current status of gay people in western society that we rejoice to have such a beautiful uber talented man under the GAY column. Beyond that, I also find it irrelevant, but nothing is done in a political and social vacuum.
What no one seems to note is that NO ONE today is a TRUE counter tenor, but only falsettos. Russel Oberlin was a true countertenor. The rest are merely impostors. This is rather sickening. The sound is not a true vocal sound. It is falsetto only.
esa es una falasia, no todos los buenos artistas son homosexuales, si hay quienes lo son, pero no todos, por ejemplo en el caso de los contratenores (yo soy contratenor) la mayoria de los contratenores que conozco, son heterosexuales, tal vez tengan tintes femeninos o delicados pero eso no los hace homosexuales, para ejemplo puedo dejarles al gran Alfred Deller y a su hijo, igualmente yo soy heterosexual y soy contralto, la voz no tiene nada que ver con las preferencias sexuales. hay de todo.
bravo bravissimo straordinario veramente! ditemi cio ke volete ma la voce di questo straordinario sopranista visto ke secondo me non e un controtenore ha il timbro ke ricorda la voce della grande teresa berganza versione soprano!
Although this director chose to stage his version in a clown-like fashion, Jaroussky comes through with excellent singing, one of the few parts I still watch on my DVD.
only somewhat backed by the fact that one of the best, david daniels, is indeed gay. I am proud to say though, that countertenor singing to me is one of the most pleasant timbres of the human voice and I am far from gay. I am actually studying to be a countertenor in college.
I like it very much too. However, I do get even bigger thrill listening to Ann Hallenbergs recording of the aria. She is even more expressive and musical.
Countertenors should sing arie pastorali, d'ombra or del sonno (et similia) only. When they sing arie di furore or arie d'ira, they looks like throttled chickens. Castrati don't exist anymore (fortunately)
(cont.) just want to go on singing the way we sang our whole lives. That's the case for me, a former boy soprano. Andreas Scholl, Angelo Manzotti, and Valer Barna-Sabadus are also advocates of such a view, as is Philippe Jaroussky himself. Goodness, even Alfred Deller did it. We're not castrati, hormonally or surgically. Our voices dropped just like most physically normal men' do. We just choose to sing in a way that was used for centuries prior to, and even during, the introduction,
While Philippe Jaroussky is openly gay, his repeated emphasis that singing as a countertenor has nothing to do with one's sexual preference is correct. David Daniels, another openly gay countertenor, has stated likewise. Neither of the above are sopranists, but many of us countertenors (I'm a sopranist, but I'm using the term in a general sense) simply either find singing with our falsetto and head voice registers is easier on our voices than the ones we gained after our voices broke; or, we
Umouah ? Oui... C'est bien Le Contre Ténor PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY ! O.K. ? Heureusement sans raser les Murs ou se couper les cheveux en Quatre :. au niveau de sa Chevelure on lui a crépé un peu le chignon car ça frise le ridicule ! Par contre sa Voix est toujours aussi sublime... Et c'est là que l'on reconnait un Véritable Artiste Lyrique ! Selon un PROVERBE JAPONAIS : Même si à l'Aube tu n'aimes pas le Rossignol pour son Terne Plumage ; au Crépuscule tu l'aimeras toujours pour son Chant qui te soulage ! P.I.M. 💞💌💨🌹💋💭💔📢💦💕
Umouah ? Oui... C'est bien Le Contre Ténor PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY ! O.K. ? Heureusement sans raser les Murs ou se couper les cheveux en Quatre :. au niveau de sa Chevelure on lui a crépé un peu le chignon car ça frise le ridicule ! Par contre sa Voix est toujours aussi sublime... Et c'est là que l'on reconnait un Véritable Artiste Lyrique ! Selon un PROVERBE JAPONAIS : Même si à l'Aube tu n'aimes pas le Rossignol pour son Terne Plumage ; au Crépuscule tu l'aimeras toujours pour son Chant qui te soulage ! P.I.M. 💞💌💨🌹💋💭💔📢💦💕
Best of luck! And yeah sexuality has nothing to do with it. I personally just want mastery over whatever I have. No sense in neglecting part of my voice. Though I do happen to be gay but really my singing has nothing to do with my love life.
This is the cameron carpenter of falsettos. The sickening thing is that the technique is almost convincing, but the basis of the whole thing is an artificial voice, and a male who wishes he were a female. I hasten to add that he does a good job of fooling people.
I am a countertenor however he has a far more feminine upper register to me. He is pressing on his vocal chords for the notes rather than letting them flow naturally. And for the uneducated people, you don't have to be castrated to have a high voice. And on the plus side countertenors are highly sort after and can be paid up to double that of a tenor because they are in such high demand.
If Jaroussky sounds more "authentic", it's because George Bernard Shaw's famous disclaimer on the subject applies--countertenors are less likely to be forced to sing in ways that injure baroque music. The one thing we know about how castrati sounded was that they used a lot of chest voice, which would mean they sounded more like Broadway belters than like either countertenors OR female opera singers!
What?!!! :O I think you've confused "throttled chikens" with angels - both have wings, but they're not the same, I'm sorry - you will just have to look harder and you'll see it, I'm sure:)...;P
Agreed. Although in that case, rinaldo was taking part from different previous italian operas and it was his first london opera. So I'm wondering if he didn't want to just show what he could do before writing new material for the london stage.
I see what you mean, but remember in Handel's times, this part was sung by men. (well, castrati) Anyway, Jaroussky's sound is more authentic, and less "fake" than that of women. But there's no need for other people to slam you for stating you like female vocalists better. For some repertoire, I definitely do too.
Oh my god, you're starting to get really mean. ("minimum wage"!) I was busy watching other clips and commenting on them. It didn't take me much time to come up with an ordinary message that I wrote. I'm glad you found it witty and original. I just wish you lots and lots of fruitcakes! For the record, no choking. Ta ta back at ya.
AH, do you mean "Character". My God, basic spelling is a growing issue in English speaking societies, but it seems the ultimate irony when someone is critiquing a classic Baroque countertenor and cannot spell "character" correctly.
AAAaaa! - got scared by that "evil look" in the begining!;D Philippe playing a bad character, impossible, not whith such a voice:D... He is marvelous, as always:)
It is sheer pleasure to listen to this - for me, although I really like Bonitatibus and Invernizzi, definitely the most beautiful version of this aria on UA-cam. Which seems incredible, as it should be so much more easy for a woman to sing this than for a countertenor, in head voice. Well, that´s Jaroussky.
Pedro Tecla He is a soprano not a mezzo or alto. But castrati singers almost always had a large range with pretty low tessitura and high coloratura so they counted as contraltos, thus the part as Nerone is defined as a contralto part although this aria is a soprano aria.
Eva Ekengren Philippe Jaroussky is indeed a mezzo-soprano by his own admission. The man's highest note is B5 (b''), denoting him as such anyway. It's the peculiar lightness of Jaroussky's falsetto which gets him confused for a sopranist; people have often requested he sing true soprano roles. Valerio 'Valeriano' Pellegrini, the castrato who was cast as the emperor Nero, was himself a mezzo-soprano. Jaroussky may have been a sopranist when he debuted in Pietro Scarlatti's sacred oratorio "Zedekiah, King of Jerusalem" as Prince Ishmael, but sans a score to examine, I personally remain neutral.
i love him. i would marry him. do you know that he was getting famous because one singer was ill and he set in? then the auditorium loves him till today...what a story of success. i love him
They do no favours to Jaroussky by exposing his shrill upper register like this. The part is simply too high for him and he doesn't compensate by adding any dramatic force.
The young Philippe jaroussky....we can hear his amazing talent in his clear and perfect voice .😊
NERONE
Come nube che fugge dal vento
abbandono sdegnato quel volto.
Il mio foco nel seno già spento,
di quest'alma già il laccio è disciolto
I adore Jaroussky! Having discovered him only 2.5 years ago, I never have enough of his signing. I will always regret that I never had a chance to listen to him live in those early years of his career..
(cont.) rise, and fall of the castrati voices. Countertenors supplemented the weaker voices of boys, no matter how lovely the latter' were, in choirs. There's nothing unnatural about falsettists, regardless of how societies like to think so.
We've not been stopped, and with the advanced vocal lessons available to boys and men who wish to pursue the particular vocal fach, we're, as Max Cencic practically said last year, going to keep arising for years to come!
Oh man I actually came across his performances last year. I immediately fell in love with his color and timbre. He's my favorite!!! I just love his voice. Bravo!
Sexuality is irrelevant, but as a gay man I am proud to have him on our team! When the mainstream media still likes to find the worst representative of a gay man (e.g., an ax murderer in rural Texas), I think it is just a reflection of the current status of gay people in western society that we rejoice to have such a beautiful uber talented man under the GAY column. Beyond that, I also find it irrelevant, but nothing is done in a political and social vacuum.
What no one seems to note is that NO ONE today is a TRUE counter tenor, but only falsettos. Russel Oberlin was a true countertenor. The rest are merely impostors. This is rather sickening. The sound is not a true vocal sound. It is falsetto only.
Bell'aria cantata benissimo. Apprezzo molto la mise del cantante.
Que hijo de su madre!!!
el laburo que le debe haber tomado llegar a pulir tanto la tecnica.
Impresionante.
I love contratenors.This man has a lovely amazing voice and he is super sexy too.Love this!
esa es una falasia, no todos los buenos artistas son homosexuales, si hay quienes lo son, pero no todos, por ejemplo en el caso de los contratenores (yo soy contratenor) la mayoria de los contratenores que conozco, son heterosexuales, tal vez tengan tintes femeninos o delicados pero eso no los hace homosexuales, para ejemplo puedo dejarles al gran Alfred Deller y a su hijo, igualmente yo soy heterosexual y soy contralto, la voz no tiene nada que ver con las preferencias sexuales. hay de todo.
bravo bravissimo straordinario veramente! ditemi cio ke volete ma la voce di questo straordinario sopranista visto ke secondo me non e un controtenore ha il timbro ke ricorda la voce della grande teresa berganza versione soprano!
que voz maravilhosa e rara...parabéns
What a gorgeous voice, and he actually acts the part quite convincingly. He looks downright haughty. It just puts the icing on the whole performance.
Although this director chose to stage his version in a clown-like fashion, Jaroussky comes through with excellent singing, one of the few parts I still watch on my DVD.
only somewhat backed by the fact that one of the best, david daniels, is indeed gay. I am proud to say though, that countertenor singing to me is one of the most pleasant timbres of the human voice and I am far from gay. I am actually studying to be a countertenor in college.
I like it very much too. However, I do get even bigger thrill listening to Ann Hallenbergs recording of the aria. She is even more expressive and musical.
Countertenors should sing arie pastorali, d'ombra or del sonno (et similia) only. When they sing arie di furore or arie d'ira, they looks like throttled chickens. Castrati don't exist anymore (fortunately)
(cont.) just want to go on singing the way we sang our whole lives. That's the case for me, a former boy soprano. Andreas Scholl, Angelo Manzotti, and Valer Barna-Sabadus are also advocates of such a view, as is Philippe Jaroussky himself. Goodness, even Alfred Deller did it.
We're not castrati, hormonally or surgically. Our voices dropped just like most physically normal men' do. We just choose to sing in a way that was used for centuries prior to, and even during, the introduction,
Phillppe Jaroussky is great,he can sing as a baritone as well as a countertenor,it' fantastic to possess that versatility
Maybe it will, girlfriend. Seriously, of course, I don't want you to choke on anything. It was just a fake indignation.
While Philippe Jaroussky is openly gay, his repeated emphasis that singing as a countertenor has nothing to do with one's sexual preference is correct. David Daniels, another openly gay countertenor, has stated likewise.
Neither of the above are sopranists, but many of us countertenors (I'm a sopranist, but I'm using the term in a general sense) simply either find singing with our falsetto and head voice registers is easier on our voices than the ones we gained after our voices broke; or, we
Philippe is gay??
I didn't know that the mad hatter of Alice in wonderland could sing.
Ciertamente el mejor periodo de la musica ha sido el Barroco. Fastuoso, Hermoso, Delicado, GENIAL
The director obviously has a bit opinion of counter-tenors
I am going to make an unsophisticated remark; he looks like Will Farrell in Elf. Loved the performance though
Well, I heard Bartolli do this one, and I already knew this version, but she blew me out my seat.
Both of us seem to have their respective certainties :-)
Umouah ?
Oui... C'est bien Le Contre Ténor PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY !
O.K. ?
Heureusement sans raser les Murs ou se couper les cheveux en Quatre :. au niveau de sa Chevelure on lui a crépé un peu le chignon car ça frise le ridicule !
Par contre sa Voix est toujours aussi sublime...
Et c'est là que l'on reconnait un Véritable Artiste Lyrique !
Selon un PROVERBE JAPONAIS :
Même si à l'Aube tu n'aimes pas le Rossignol pour son Terne Plumage ; au Crépuscule tu l'aimeras toujours pour son Chant qui te soulage ! P.I.M.
💞💌💨🌹💋💭💔📢💦💕
Umouah ?
Oui... C'est bien Le Contre Ténor PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY !
O.K. ?
Heureusement sans raser les Murs ou se couper les cheveux en Quatre :. au niveau de sa Chevelure on lui a crépé un peu le chignon car ça frise le ridicule !
Par contre sa Voix est toujours aussi sublime...
Et c'est là que l'on reconnait un Véritable Artiste Lyrique !
Selon un PROVERBE JAPONAIS :
Même si à l'Aube tu n'aimes pas le Rossignol pour son Terne Plumage ; au Crépuscule tu l'aimeras toujours pour son Chant qui te soulage ! P.I.M.
💞💌💨🌹💋💭💔📢💦💕
Best of luck! And yeah sexuality has nothing to do with it. I personally just want mastery over whatever I have. No sense in neglecting part of my voice. Though I do happen to be gay but really my singing has nothing to do with my love life.
This production is HORRIFYING IN EVERY WAY. I cant believe they have the projections telling what aria it is. BOOOOOOOOO!!!
Wow what a beautiful voice I love your voice
This is the cameron carpenter of falsettos. The sickening thing is that the technique is almost convincing, but the basis of the whole thing is an artificial voice, and a male who wishes he were a female. I hasten to add that he does a good job of fooling people.
I am a countertenor however he has a far more feminine upper register to me. He is pressing on his vocal chords for the notes rather than letting them flow naturally. And for the uneducated people, you don't have to be castrated to have a high voice. And on the plus side countertenors are highly sort after and can be paid up to double that of a tenor because they are in such high demand.
If Jaroussky sounds more "authentic", it's because George Bernard Shaw's famous disclaimer on the subject applies--countertenors are less likely to be forced to sing in ways that injure baroque music. The one thing we know about how castrati sounded was that they used a lot of chest voice, which would mean they sounded more like Broadway belters than like either countertenors OR female opera singers!
What?!!! :O I think you've confused "throttled chikens" with angels - both have wings, but they're not the same, I'm sorry - you will just have to look harder and you'll see it, I'm sure:)...;P
Agreed. Although in that case, rinaldo was taking part from different previous italian operas and it was his first london opera. So I'm wondering if he didn't want to just show what he could do before writing new material for the london stage.
I see what you mean, but remember in Handel's times, this part was sung by men. (well, castrati) Anyway, Jaroussky's sound is more authentic, and less "fake" than that of women. But there's no need for other people to slam you for stating you like female vocalists better. For some repertoire, I definitely do too.
Well, if you mean that he jumped in for A. Scholl at one point of course every young singer begins like that.
Oh my god, you're starting to get really mean. ("minimum wage"!) I was busy watching other clips and commenting on them. It didn't take me much time to come up with an ordinary message that I wrote. I'm glad you found it witty and original. I just wish you lots and lots of fruitcakes! For the record, no choking. Ta ta back at ya.
where do you take that story from ? Do you have more details ? he's been around for quite a while actually...
Few people seem to think his upper register was shrill. Obviously people´s hearing is different, too.
he recycled as well basta che sol t chieda from agripinna to rinaldo i think :)
AH, do you mean "Character". My God, basic spelling is a growing issue in English speaking societies, but it seems the ultimate irony when someone is critiquing a classic Baroque countertenor and cannot spell "character" correctly.
Yeah, and it "was" initially "Come membo che fugge col vento" from "Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno" with much more extended fioritura passages.
AAAaaa! - got scared by that "evil look" in the begining!;D Philippe playing a bad character, impossible, not whith such a voice:D... He is marvelous, as always:)
It is sheer pleasure to listen to this - for me, although I really like Bonitatibus and Invernizzi, definitely the most beautiful version of this aria on UA-cam. Which seems incredible, as it should be so much more easy for a woman to sing this than for a countertenor, in head voice. Well, that´s Jaroussky.
Pedro Tecla He is a soprano not a mezzo or alto. But castrati singers almost always had a large range with pretty low tessitura and high coloratura so they counted as contraltos, thus the part as Nerone is defined as a contralto part although this aria is a soprano aria.
Eva Ekengren Philippe Jaroussky is indeed a mezzo-soprano by his own admission. The man's highest note is B5 (b''), denoting him as such anyway. It's the peculiar lightness of Jaroussky's falsetto which gets him confused for a sopranist; people have often requested he sing true soprano roles. Valerio 'Valeriano' Pellegrini, the castrato who was cast as the emperor Nero, was himself a mezzo-soprano. Jaroussky may have been a sopranist when he debuted in Pietro Scarlatti's sacred oratorio "Zedekiah, King of Jerusalem" as Prince Ishmael, but sans a score to examine, I personally remain neutral.
@HerrWarja Yes. Exactly, the introduction to "Vivi tiranno"
i love him. i would marry him. do you know that he was getting famous because one singer was ill and he set in? then the auditorium loves him till today...what a story of success. i love him
ce fait n est pas unique....
he looks like pianist evgeny kissin in here
Great preformance, reminds me of an aria from Rodelinda.
@HerrWarja Yes. Exactly, the introduction to "Vivi tiranno"
¡Cómo canta este chabón!
Wow. Haendel meets Beetlejuice! Love the music; HATE the consumes!
The only fake here is his hairdoo:)
@mrchrille1 sadly it required castration too...
Magnifique, un dieu de la musique baroque française, Bravo.
Nonsense!
@maragato23 or..........maybe its you
OMG, does he still have a pair?
@oonchee I was SO about to say that!
This was very good!
GRANDE VOCE
Lo amo!!!!
Divino!
me too!! :)
Beautiful I love it!
Lov him..
Magnifuque
:-)
And if he is supposed to be a man in this opera, why the hell does he look like woman? They could have just gotten a woman to sing this.
They do no favours to Jaroussky by exposing his shrill upper register like this. The part is simply too high for him and he doesn't compensate by adding any dramatic force.
D: del terror, pero me encanta su voz D:
pero sigue siendo del terror
es como esa cancion de "me asusta pero me guusta"
Pero si parece el actor secundario Bob!!
Bravo Jaroussky!!