I thought the comment that your low register was 'always tentatively touched on' was a bit nitpicky. You certainly used chest beautifully on 'presta e la mia difesa.' and in other places as well. Maybe a couple of slightly breathy low notes in the very beginning of the aria, but who sings 100% perfectly every note, every time, in a live performance, however she happens to be feeling? Is it written in stone when you have to transition into chest, especially with a voice as unusually rich and strong throughout as yours is? I am sincere in saying to correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that your decision? Just my opinion. But the point is this is really fantastic, you sang this absolutely beautifully, your voice is gorgeous and enviable and I really wish you great success in your career. Hope to hear more of you!
@Rachel Willis-Sørensen Thank you for sharing your gift with us. I've followed you since your days at HGO and am pleased to see you doing so well. Your gift is special and tremendous. Besides your impressive technique, I love how generous you are with your voice and your expression. You gave so much during this aria--I could feel Leonora's emotions coming through my computer speaker. For what it's worth, you gave enough chest voice for me. And you gave everything else that Leonora needs: soaring legato, ravishing pianissimo, precise trills, and a true bel canto line with just enough rubato to make the music live. I hope you keep singing Leonora. WELL DONE!
Thank you for sharing! I’m so impressed! Absolutely exquisite! Others have mentioned your chest voice, that’s a tricky area, one that has been a downfall of many, even some greats! I prefer the even mix throughout! Letting the chest voice develop more naturally! I haven’t heard you sing before, but will certainly follow more closely, such a beautiful voice and technique. Thank you so much!!
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano I studied with the late Soprano, Chloe Owen if you want to hear an artistic take on Bergs Seven early songs you can Google her. She was controversial to say the least bit I loved her and stayed in touch with her until her death at 91 in 2010. I miss and think of her often. You have an Amazing instrument don't rush into singing things that are too big for you. Fondly, John Rondeau
Kasondra Kazanjian is her name. ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=kevizian there are pitch problems but she is very young (around 30 years old) and will improve with the guidance of a good teacher ua-cam.com/video/RKj_2EctF1U/v-deo.html Sunday, October 28, 2018 Encinitas Library "Ain't It a Pretty Night"
ASAS ROSADAS A ária "D'amor sull'ali rosee" - Il Trovatore, do compositor Italiano Giuseppe Verdi, há suspiros e indagação do medo. A noite escura envolve o casal, a mulher chora com a dor, Sem ele saber. Será que sabia que tudo isto era arremedo? A aurora está raiando na madrugada, isto respira ao redor Trazendo lembranças de asas rosadas que memória grava Sem que ele sinta o está lhe acontecendo de mal a pior. D'amor sull'ali rosee, ária de Leonora, que tanto amava, Está no 4º ato, da ópera Il Trovatore, de Verdi, é um luar Escondido nas sombras das nuvens passando ao redor, Visão dos poetas cantando o amor que deve continuar Na atmosfera rosada em que o lirismo encontra o melhor Abrigo. Depois da pandemia no planeta o que é sofredor Será transformado em dádivas agradecidas ao Senhor. (*) (*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - ASAS ROSADAS (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.
This is absolutely gorgeous. However, to be a true great in Verdi (and I would argue in any music really) there needs to be true commitment in the chest voice - Verdi wrote those notes below the stave for a reason, and the expectation was a thrusting chest voice. It's absolutely thrilling when the voice is solid in every register. I feel like it's always tentatively touched upon here and it's obvious there is far more to give in your voice in this regard. Chest voice is the foundation of a great middle voice - think of Fleming or Callas. Even early career Te Kanawa shows she had an ultra solid chest voice which she was simply too scared to use in her later career. And Schwarzkopf too it's obvious - her chest voice was not attractive particularly, at least not compared to Fleming or Callas, but it was well developed and she always used it down there. Yours is one of my absolutely favourite young voices out there, but I just think this is one obvious way of improving things even further artistically!
I must say I agree with you! Not to get defensive, but it was my absolute debut performance of the aria and my ability to access the requisite strength in the lower part of my voice improved significantly over the course of the run. Also I was doing a low-carb diet at the time and had simply not eaten enough to support my singing! Live and learn. I do consider it worthy of publication even if it is imperfect because how interesting to track progress. Hopefully when I return to the role I will be better with every visit!
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano I just came to edit my comment to say that yours is one of my favourite voices, and then saw you had replied. What a pleasure to talk to you! I fully understand, and it certainly was worth posting - as I said before it is gorgeous. I do hope you continue to post more recordings, and I realise that it is incredibly easy to sit on this side of the keyboard and judge (I'm an opera director, and absolutely love working with singers!). I saw on an interview that you had committed to a health journey, which is also very admirable, and you are looking very fit and healthy! I hope that the Rusalkas go well - I will I could see them! Almost my favourite part of that role is the act two aria/scene with her father - those heartbreaking lamenting phrases that rise up and up (Fleming is incredible of course here) going into that wildly desperate, fast section, after Vrodnik responds. And then the finale to act 3... my god. When you listen to Dvorak's other operas, you realise what a moment of divine inspiration he was having while composing this opera. Like Tchaikovsky with Onegin... Have you ever considered Daphne by Strauss? It's high, but ideally needs a fuller voice than the coloraturas who often tackle it. I have posted live clips of Fleming doing it which are much better than her commercially released recording. I hope Arabella and Capriccio are also in your future, but those are much more obvious roles.
Here is Michelle Bradley singing "D'amor sull'ali rosee" plus the Miserere in a recital in Houston some years ago. She is fabulous. ua-cam.com/video/1FQAUN9DJNc/v-deo.html I attended the Sunday matinee of San Diego Opera's production of Aïda on October 27, 2019. Michelle Bradley sang the title role. Her voice had a lidded quality when she sang mezzo forte or louder in the top half of her voice. She has some nice high piani. I found her sound remarkably like Leontyne Price's. It's a fabulous instrument. Her chest voice was full and rich. In fact, it was stronger and more resonant than the mezzo's chest voice. The mezzo who sang Amneris was Olesya Petrova.
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano I love your performance, your response to comments and commitment to development of chest voice. I'm so sad that you are not getting chosen by the met for verdi roles, and fear it's political since you're clearly more talented than the singers they've selected for these roles.
I thought the comment that your low register was 'always tentatively touched on' was a bit nitpicky. You certainly used chest beautifully on 'presta e la mia difesa.' and in other places as well. Maybe a couple of slightly breathy low notes in the very beginning of the aria, but who sings 100% perfectly every note, every time, in a live performance, however she happens to be feeling? Is it written in stone when you have to transition into chest, especially with a voice as unusually rich and strong throughout as yours is? I am sincere in saying to correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that your decision? Just my opinion. But the point is this is really fantastic, you sang this absolutely beautifully, your voice is gorgeous and enviable and I really wish you great success in your career. Hope to hear more of you!
@Rachel Willis-Sørensen Thank you for sharing your gift with us. I've followed you since your days at HGO and am pleased to see you doing so well. Your gift is special and tremendous. Besides your impressive technique, I love how generous you are with your voice and your expression. You gave so much during this aria--I could feel Leonora's emotions coming through my computer speaker. For what it's worth, you gave enough chest voice for me. And you gave everything else that Leonora needs: soaring legato, ravishing pianissimo, precise trills, and a true bel canto line with just enough rubato to make the music live. I hope you keep singing Leonora. WELL DONE!
Thank you so much, and I so appreciate your conitnued support!
Divina❤
I present you a bouquet of flowers from Verdi...I'm sure he is quite pleased. Salute with gratitude.
What a VOICE!!!!!!!
Thank you! I love Verdi!
Voz bellísima y cantante exquisita ❤
Wonderfully done! Brava 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️💯
This is so breathtaking
Thank you!!
¡¡ Una voz soñada , maravilloso y dulce sonido lírico..Esplendida Leonora ..Que Voz tan bella ..!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💖👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💖🕊
Eargasm👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 ohhhh yesssss sing diva sing!!!!
😘
Thank you for sharing! I’m so impressed! Absolutely exquisite! Others have mentioned your chest voice, that’s a tricky area, one that has been a downfall of many, even some greats! I prefer the even mix throughout! Letting the chest voice develop more naturally!
I haven’t heard you sing before, but will certainly follow more closely, such a beautiful voice and technique. Thank you so much!!
WOW! Oh my Lord you must work your butt off to sing this incredibly. I'm dying to hear you sing The Ed Four Last Songs.
Thanks, and I will try to make a recording for you!
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano I studied with the late Soprano, Chloe Owen if you want to hear an artistic take on Bergs Seven early songs you can Google her. She was controversial to say the least bit I loved her and stayed in touch with her until her death at 91 in 2010. I miss and think of her often. You have an Amazing instrument don't rush into singing things that are too big for you. Fondly, John Rondeau
bella!!!!
Gloriously beautiful. BRAVA!
What a beauty! This is truly a gift to my soul. Thank you ❤
bella vocce.. per Leonora
Wonderful ♥
Thank you!
Thank you Rachel for sharing this!
Kasondra Kazanjian is her name.
ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=kevizian
there are pitch problems but she is very young (around 30 years old)
and will improve with the guidance of a good teacher
ua-cam.com/video/RKj_2EctF1U/v-deo.html
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Encinitas Library
"Ain't It a Pretty Night"
@@vincec8218 PLEASE stop shamelessly promoting Kasondra Kazanjian on other singer's videos. PLEASE STOP.
Just goes to show you: the most intelligent singers are also the best. Brava!
Maravilhosa!
Me e quedado de un pie hoy por primera vez oigo esta esplendorosa voz magnífica espectacular una voz inigualable brabo Rachel
ASAS ROSADAS
A ária "D'amor sull'ali rosee" - Il Trovatore, do compositor
Italiano Giuseppe Verdi, há suspiros e indagação do medo.
A noite escura envolve o casal, a mulher chora com a dor,
Sem ele saber. Será que sabia que tudo isto era arremedo?
A aurora está raiando na madrugada, isto respira ao redor
Trazendo lembranças de asas rosadas que memória grava
Sem que ele sinta o está lhe acontecendo de mal a pior.
D'amor sull'ali rosee, ária de Leonora, que tanto amava,
Está no 4º ato, da ópera Il Trovatore, de Verdi, é um luar
Escondido nas sombras das nuvens passando ao redor,
Visão dos poetas cantando o amor que deve continuar
Na atmosfera rosada em que o lirismo encontra o melhor
Abrigo. Depois da pandemia no planeta o que é sofredor
Será transformado em dádivas agradecidas ao Senhor. (*)
(*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - ASAS ROSADAS (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.
Brava
BELLA DONNA BELLISSIMA VOCE BEL CANTO NUMERO UNO AL MONDO SALUTI DALLA POLONIA
Brava...Brava....
This is absolutely gorgeous. However, to be a true great in Verdi (and I would argue in any music really) there needs to be true commitment in the chest voice - Verdi wrote those notes below the stave for a reason, and the expectation was a thrusting chest voice. It's absolutely thrilling when the voice is solid in every register. I feel like it's always tentatively touched upon here and it's obvious there is far more to give in your voice in this regard.
Chest voice is the foundation of a great middle voice - think of Fleming or Callas. Even early career Te Kanawa shows she had an ultra solid chest voice which she was simply too scared to use in her later career. And Schwarzkopf too it's obvious - her chest voice was not attractive particularly, at least not compared to Fleming or Callas, but it was well developed and she always used it down there.
Yours is one of my absolutely favourite young voices out there, but I just think this is one obvious way of improving things even further artistically!
I must say I agree with you! Not to get defensive, but it was my absolute debut performance of the aria and my ability to access the requisite strength in the lower part of my voice improved significantly over the course of the run. Also I was doing a low-carb diet at the time and had simply not eaten enough to support my singing! Live and learn. I do consider it worthy of publication even if it is imperfect because how interesting to track progress. Hopefully when I return to the role I will be better with every visit!
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano I just came to edit my comment to say that yours is one of my favourite voices, and then saw you had replied. What a pleasure to talk to you! I fully understand, and it certainly was worth posting - as I said before it is gorgeous. I do hope you continue to post more recordings, and I realise that it is incredibly easy to sit on this side of the keyboard and judge (I'm an opera director, and absolutely love working with singers!). I saw on an interview that you had committed to a health journey, which is also very admirable, and you are looking very fit and healthy! I hope that the Rusalkas go well - I will I could see them! Almost my favourite part of that role is the act two aria/scene with her father - those heartbreaking lamenting phrases that rise up and up (Fleming is incredible of course here) going into that wildly desperate, fast section, after Vrodnik responds. And then the finale to act 3... my god. When you listen to Dvorak's other operas, you realise what a moment of divine inspiration he was having while composing this opera. Like Tchaikovsky with Onegin...
Have you ever considered Daphne by Strauss? It's high, but ideally needs a fuller voice than the coloraturas who often tackle it. I have posted live clips of Fleming doing it which are much better than her commercially released recording. I hope Arabella and Capriccio are also in your future, but those are much more obvious roles.
Here is Michelle Bradley singing "D'amor sull'ali rosee" plus the Miserere in a recital in Houston some years ago. She is fabulous. ua-cam.com/video/1FQAUN9DJNc/v-deo.html
I attended the Sunday matinee of San Diego Opera's production of Aïda on October 27, 2019. Michelle Bradley sang the title role. Her voice had a lidded quality when she sang mezzo forte or louder in the top half of her voice. She has some nice high piani. I found her sound remarkably like Leontyne Price's. It's a fabulous instrument. Her chest voice was full and rich. In fact, it was stronger and more resonant than the mezzo's chest voice. The mezzo who sang Amneris was Olesya Petrova.
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano I love your performance, your response to comments and commitment to development of chest voice. I'm so sad that you are not getting chosen by the met for verdi roles, and fear it's political since you're clearly more talented than the singers they've selected for these roles.
@@RachelWillisSrensensoprano nice .love you connect with your fans!
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