Oh how wonderful to wake up to! Thank you so much for posting. This is my second favourite aria with Ms. Fleming, the other being D’amore al... from Armida. I love the freedom she takes... I mean the freedom she takes in doing things even when it is maybe not the conventional way. Her jazz influences really does not bother me but makes her unique. 😍🎶😍 I also very much appreciate the things you write with your posts. Ms. Fleming is truly one of the Greats. Saw her in LA last Tuesday and she can still sing beautifully and effectively. One chestnote in Song to the Moon hit my chest so hard I started to cry. It really chocked me! It was heaven!🎶😢❤️❤️❤️😍 Greetings from Sweden!
chaan280 glad you enjoyed the post! Fleming always added an extra degree of difficulty to the most demanding arias to show she was singing with a surplus - the feeling of soaring freedom that results is its own kind of virtuosity which is one of the many reasons she has so many fans - as I always like to say, true beauty is on the edge of disaster. Someone truly great in any medium is dancing the line between order and chaos, one foot in tradition, training and technique, and one foot in improvisational freedom, reactive and open to the moment, pushing the boundaries of what has come before. It's the same with composers, painters, even gymnasts - and the secret as to why we find such performances so fascinating is that it really applies to all human action in any sphere, it's just that artists perform it publicly with enormous risk. Anyway, thanks for your lovely comment - I will be posting more from the same performance over the coming days.
chaan280 agreed also that the Armida aria in the 1993 live account is simply astonishing. It was one of the first things I heard her in and I was just amazed. The Armida finale is posted on this channel which is also amazing (high G4 and G#4 in chest plus amazing coloratura). Glad you also adore the chest register - a miracle of a voice!
Great moments of opera Thanks a million for the both informative and well-articulated answer. I am a novice in the world of opera. Used to gasp in front of the tv when I was a child whenever there was an opera on and just recently have come back to it very much through the Met Live Showings in our small theatre near by. After having seen Der Rosenkavalier last spring I have become addicted to a daily dosage of Renées singing and I am learning more and more about this artform which enriches the experience a great deal. I truely get what you mean by balancing on the edge and how it gives the that extra thrill. When Renée plays safe it is okay though because I really enjoy her beautiful voice even in i lullaby which she sang in LA. A lullaby I have sung for my own four children. Thanks again!
chaan280 you're welcome. It's an amazing journey. I still need my daily Fleming after almost decade! Not many people talk about opera in the terms above, but hopefully I can add something back to the opera world that has given me so much - I'm an opera director too, so hopefully one day I'll be at the big houses!
Great moments of opera I am awaiting the original cd from 1993 but it has got stuck somewhere. Sure hope it arrives soon. images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RKZpt-oYL._SCLZZZZZZZ__SY115_SX115_.jpg
Oh how wonderful to wake up to! Thank you so much for posting. This is my second favourite aria with Ms. Fleming, the other being D’amore al... from Armida. I love the freedom she takes... I mean the freedom she takes in doing things even when it is maybe not the conventional way. Her jazz influences really does not bother me but makes her unique. 😍🎶😍 I also very much appreciate the things you write with your posts. Ms. Fleming is truly one of the Greats. Saw her in LA last Tuesday and she can still sing beautifully and effectively. One chestnote in Song to the Moon hit my chest so hard I started to cry. It really chocked me! It was heaven!🎶😢❤️❤️❤️😍 Greetings from Sweden!
chaan280 glad you enjoyed the post!
Fleming always added an extra degree of difficulty to the most demanding arias to show she was singing with a surplus - the feeling of soaring freedom that results is its own kind of virtuosity which is one of the many reasons she has so many fans - as I always like to say, true beauty is on the edge of disaster.
Someone truly great in any medium is dancing the line between order and chaos, one foot in tradition, training and technique, and one foot in improvisational freedom, reactive and open to the moment, pushing the boundaries of what has come before. It's the same with composers, painters, even gymnasts - and the secret as to why we find such performances so fascinating is that it really applies to all human action in any sphere, it's just that artists perform it publicly with enormous risk.
Anyway, thanks for your lovely comment - I will be posting more from the same performance over the coming days.
chaan280 agreed also that the Armida aria in the 1993 live account is simply astonishing. It was one of the first things I heard her in and I was just amazed. The Armida finale is posted on this channel which is also amazing (high G4 and G#4 in chest plus amazing coloratura). Glad you also adore the chest register - a miracle of a voice!
Great moments of opera Thanks a million for the both informative and well-articulated answer. I am a novice in the world of opera. Used to gasp in front of the tv when I was a child whenever there was an opera on and just recently have come back to it very much through the Met Live Showings in our small theatre near by. After having seen Der Rosenkavalier last spring I have become addicted to a daily dosage of Renées singing and I am learning more and more about this artform which enriches the experience a great deal. I truely get what you mean by balancing on the edge and how it gives the that extra thrill. When Renée plays safe it is okay though because I really enjoy her beautiful voice even in i lullaby which she sang in LA. A lullaby I have sung for my own four children. Thanks again!
chaan280 you're welcome. It's an amazing journey. I still need my daily Fleming after almost decade! Not many people talk about opera in the terms above, but hopefully I can add something back to the opera world that has given me so much - I'm an opera director too, so hopefully one day I'll be at the big houses!
Great moments of opera I am awaiting the original cd from 1993 but it has got stuck somewhere. Sure hope it arrives soon. images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RKZpt-oYL._SCLZZZZZZZ__SY115_SX115_.jpg