Frida Leider's Passionate Leonore Vows to Rescue Florestan

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    Beethoven: Fidelio: Abscheulicher!... Komm, Hoffnung

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  • @aetion
    @aetion 10 годин тому +2

    👍👍👍🙏

  • @MarthaMyDear6
    @MarthaMyDear6 19 годин тому +2

    Beautiful! Thank you! ❤🎼🎶

  • @MaríaAdrianaFragaEstévez
    @MaríaAdrianaFragaEstévez 13 годин тому +2

    Seems it's the week of first and last times.Mussorgsky and Beethoven.Fidelio was a libretto stolen to French writer Bouilly.And after that it started the life of a tree on its own.Different writers, different number of acts.And Beethoven changing the music from one version to another.Thank God he didn't distract himself from his Symphony world with more óperas.Even the name is not clear.For some Fidelio and for others Leonora the joy of marital love.
    What is clear is that the 1880 onwards brought incredible sopranos like her and Claudia Muzio,for instance.She was the Queen of this opera and of all the hard core Germans.Claudia was more Bel Canto and the delights written for her specially by her angel Refice.Delights that today everyone sings like Ombra di Nube which was Her Song.
    In any case,all these sopranos unfortunately sound very similar.Firstly because of the bad recording.And secondly because there were very strict rules,very high tessituras,no way to improvise.
    Luckily this didn't happen in the Twentieth century and therefore we can have the geniality of Maya and the versatility of Simionato.We recognize every one of them and they invented new rules.
    The problem of course came when the singing was over and the Divas melted.In the case of Muzio and after terrible sadness she died at The Majestic in Rome.But Refice was able to bury her in the regular cemetery and ordered a beautiful statue tomb of a woman that is a flower.He even situated the Star of David on top of Pavia,her homeland.
    In the case of Maya and after a long period of sadness she.died almost alone.And her cinders are kept in a small burial box in Paris and the rest are softly caressed by the waves of the Aegean Sea.
    The Twentieth century brought liberty and Je Ne Sais Quois to women singers.But not always happiness.❤🎉

  • @jasonhurd4379
    @jasonhurd4379 7 годин тому +2

    Wonderful to hear Komm Hoffnung sung with true legato and mastery of the fiorituræ. This is Leider's experience in Verdi and Mozart coming to the fore. Leider is also the only singer I've heard insert an appoggiatura on the first syllable of 'grimme' in the recit. I know a lot of fans don't seem to appreciate Fidelio, but for me it is one of the most moving operas ever written. That moment in the dungeon when, to encourage her husband she says 'Never forget, whatever you may see or hear, that there is a Providence.' Then murmuring to herself in an aside, 'Yes! There IS a Providence!', revealing that her two-year ordeal had destroyed her faith in God, which has now been restored. Then the joyful prefigurations of the IXth symphony in the opera's finale. It just is inconceivable to me that an opera lover would not be moved to tears by this magnificent work. Ah well. De gustibus non est disputandum. Thank you, Manoli!