Patrizia Ciofi : "O mio babbino caro" (Gianni Shicchi)
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2006
- Patrizia Ciofi is Loretta in this very nice production of Puccini's "Gianni Shicchi".
For once, we capture the comical aspect of this opera...
Conductor : Seiji Osawa / Stage production : Laurent Pelly
Paris Opera Garnier - 2004
LOVED it! Wow, this is how it should be sung. like a manipulative, but infatuated little girl, really really good!
Best high notes out there! She uses all colors for the a flat... Just gorgeous!
patrizia always brings life to an interpretation
she could be an actress
This is the best performance I've ever seen of this aria. Unfortunately people usually think that this aria is a top of dramatism (remember the scene at the market in Mr Beam's film). But It's an comic aria. The girl shows a phony desperation to her father. Lauretta knows her father can not deny anything she ask if she exaggerates his plea. The story of "Gianni Schicci" is not dramatic but an ironic comedy. The problem is that most people think that just the tragic operas are good ones.
Hilarious, brilliant acting, and gorgeous singing all throughout.
Patrizia Ciofi felt true comedic nature of this aria and the entire opera as a whole. Cute and playful design.
the only word for this is PERFECT simply PERFECT
i just absolutely love this piece
Simply fantastic!
Beautiful!!!
It is the best version of this aria !
Grande interpretazione!!
THIS is emoting the songs REAL meaning. playful and sad, in the typical teenage melodrama.
Wow, very expressive. Great version
I love her acting, too :) 5 stars
she does this perfectly
I never seen performance like this, but now I am really convinced in this role Patrizia is the best.
I think I found the perfect version of this song (L)!
Excellent voice - Hear Patrizia for the first time
and wanna hear more of her from now on.
I appreciate the gestures and she is wonderful.
brava, thanks for uploading
Wow !
La mejor interpretación que encontré.
:'-)
Ojalá hubiera conciertos de Opera en mi pais, no me los perdería por nada del mundo.
brava! bellissima!!!!
maybe the first time you listen ,its better to close your eyes and just listen,cause if you judge to the video ,you can t see its a great interpretation
Great performance!
Beautiful
Magnifique Patrizia, la vraie Loretta, enfin!
beautiful
Excellente!!!
Bravo!
Fantastic voice
I swear! I was really chopping onions when I was watching this!
LOVE her!
perfect version, maybe the best version I've ever listened... very hard to say the best as I found several very good from other singers like...Maria Callas, Carmen Monarcha Angela Gheorghiu..to quote a few names that are worth to listen to ...after all this music it self is a master piece.
great performance.
Dear Shadowfeet09,
I agree.
Ciofi seems to have wiped the slate clean by asking herself what the aria was all about.
It was about a pouty teen cajoling her daddy in a comic scene.
By not thinking only about how to make it sound pretty, she brought new life into the piece.
As my own voice teacher says, one sings with one's mind, not with one's throat.
much better than i was expecting
and holy shit that guy's nose is crazy
a brilliant performance from patricia ciofi. very well executed, very watchable, very interesting. she made me like this aria again, considering how overdone and repetitive it has become over the years
See I Told You She Has A Really Great Voice!!
eccellente
tres bien! je vais aller au leur concert a Paris!
one of my favorite makes me cry always..hehehe
At last someone sings this aria as a comical one, not some Giulietta-like epic tragedy!
ahahah bravo!
I enjoyed this performance, however i strongly believe that anna netrebko and maria callas,especally are the leading masters in this aria. Callas had the talent to feel the role, apart from having a very wide voice register allowing her to sing the low and the high notes perfectly.
I always thought this was the one serious aria in Gianni Schicchi...
It's nice to see it in a more comical -albeit somewhat cynical- light.
Even if Puccini did not concieve GS this way, playing this one aria like this Lauretta gives the whole opera a new -again cynical- reading.
10 e lode
@cheverisimo - there are videos here with subtitles in English. The scene from Gianni Schicchi Met production with Olga Mykyntenko has English subtitles - a longer scene that continues after this aria; also a scene from an older more traditional production with Renata Scotto. Not the best subtitles, but give an idea.
I like this excellent performance better than other two, but others are good too and also treat it with humor. Scotto is not in her top form vocally but her acting is great.
I recommend Callas in Paris in 1964 (not later) or Bidu Sayou also.
@Lauraentiu On amazon probably. You could also try Metropolitan Opera website - they sell DVDs of some of the past performances in their Opera Shop (Opera Shop->Music->DVDs). An alternative is to use Met player feature, also of the Metropolitan Opera website (click on Watch and Listen).
@Lauraentiu No, I've asked about things before and most opera fans are rude and arrogant and ignore questions from others. They think because we don't possess the knowledge they have, that we are not worth their time. I have news for them, their knowledge was not innate. They all had to begin somewhere. It would seem as if they wanted to keep the art form like an exclusive club. Such snobbery!!! Good luck! The opera is Gianni Schicci by Puccini. If you google it, you can find a DVD.
@horacioibd
Not sure I understand what you mean, but... I am Italian and her pronounciation of "rossa" sounds perfectly OK to me. Also, "rosa" has a totally different pronounciation and you couldn't possibly mistake one for the other.
No, the big nose is a plot device that comes into play later. I'm not an opera expert, but I just happen to know this one detail.
@flowersings
Well said.
Allow me to apologize for these snobs, if I'm not being too presumptuous.
Opera is such a beautiful art form. It does not deserve to be debased by enthusiasts whose enthusiasm may be commendable, but whose snobbery is unforgivable.
Opera has few enough fans as it is. Without continued support from a growing fan base, it could die out. Surely that cannot be the desire of these opera snobs?
Nit-picking (hope I spelled that right) reminds of me being in voice masterclass again
haha,you are true.
Great Stuff!
( What a nose on the bloke! )
I don't like how she separates the notes in the octave. She changes register, which is bad. It should be one continuous movement. However, her emotion is great.
The best for me is, curiously, Kiri Te Kanawa, this summer, at Hyde Park Last Proms, which I saw in cinema along with the Last Night of the Proms. The voice and the emotion.
elle est la plus convaincante de toutes !!!
magnifique et quelle complicité avec corbelli. $j'adore ::):):):)
Brava Ciofi, brava!!!
(Is his nose really like that?... )
Beautifully sung but I think the acting performance was missing some pathos. I know it's a comedy but the repeats of Steptoe and Son remind me how great comedy can have you close to tears one second and howling with laughter the next.
It's an A flat
siete fuori di testa? is playbackkk
Let her sing this...and never more Monteverdi. Here, she an entirely different voice--a better one!
This performance is really great. But there is this young, german soprano Inga Lisa Lehr. Her voice has a tremendous effect on the hearts of the audience.
i wish the lyrics shown were translated into english in addition to the french shown.... sorry, but i can't appreciate comedic writing in a language i do not speak
Wordless....i watch it also on mute, so i could paid atention, and i noticed the huuuuuuuge nose of the babo character...geez, it gotta be fake! Does anybody knows the name of the actor/tenor?
Hmm I'm not sure. Its beautifully sung but I don't like the interpretation! For me, this is the one serious moment in a very comical opera. The love Loretta has is all she knows and her innocence makes her desperation to marry the man she loves all ther more obvious! It shows what is at stake and justifies the ridiculously comic actions of her dad, Gianni Schicchi. I know people will disagree with me, but thats what is fun about opera - all ther different interpretations.
So you're telling an Italian how to pronounce correctly?
mealagro secondo me e' molto carciofo il tuo orecchio!
Well maybe your ears aren't clean enough
She has a brilliant voice, but her facial expressions kill me. I have her Lucia on DVD and I just can`t understand why she makes her mouth sooo weird.
@LordHettrick ihre stimme ist schon zerstört,alle noten sind falsch,keine idea von gesang!
No está mal. Pero hay otras muchísimo mejores.
felpata?
non chiedo discuttire ma non so quella parole.... e scusa, non parlo bene l'italiano
è vero, scenicamente è simpatica ma non comprendo "felpata"
There has to be a distinguishing pronunciation between "Rosa" and "Rossa" just try to get it dear!
Scenicamente è simpatica. Peccato che la voce si come dire... felpata