#Ah non credea mirarti

[etspera]

PARIS, 1882 - A Phantom of the Opera mix

“The Comte de Chagny was right; no gala performance ever equalled this one. All the great composers of the day had conducted their own works in turns. Faure and Krauss had sung; and, on that evening, Christine Daae had revealed her true self, for the first time, to the astonished and enthusiastic audience.”

Art: Edgar Degas - Robert le Diable (1876)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zkPyUH5UZXkry9VgV3Kin?si=8de1a7f19f474c11 

I. A French folk-song: Laisser-moi planter le mai (Rue Scribe, Paris) 

II. Dukas: Polyeucte (The Ballet-girls in Sorelli’s room) 

III. Delibes: Valse Lente (The Gala evening I.)

IV. Verdi: I vespri siciliani (The Gala evening II.)

V. Gounoud: Roméo et Juliette (La Daaé) 

VI. Gounoud: Faust Act 5. The Prison Scene (The New Margarita)

VII.  Gounoud: Funeral March of a Marionette (”Joseph Buquet is dead!”)

VIII. Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore (”He heard a man’s voice in the room")

IX. Halévy: La Juive (The Golden days of the Opera) 

X. Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre (A handful of letters written with red ink) 

XI. Schubert: Lazare, La fête de la résurrection (Perros-Guirec) 

XII. Bellini: Ah non credea mirarti (Christine, lost) 

XIII. Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite - Waltz (The Masquerade)

XIV. Verdi: Otello (”Oh, horror! Horror! Horror!”) 

XV. Mozart: Don Giovanni (”I am built up of death”) 

XVI. Donizetti: La fille du regiment (A secret engagement) 

XVII. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude (Christine vanished - Underground) 

XVIII. Verdi: Don Carlo - O don fatale (The Scorpion or the Grasshooper?) 

XIX. Monteverdi: Oblivion soave (A living bride) 

XX. Verdi: Messa di Requiem - Lacrimosa (”Erik is dead.”)

#The Phantom of the Opera #poto #gaston leroux #le fantome de l'opera #music #just. LOVE LOVE LOVE the novel and wish we've seen more adaptations with a lot of opera in IT

[yayoineko]

Ah, non credea mirarti si presto estinto, o fiore! Passasti al par d'amore, che un giorno sol durò.

I wish you could still see my drawings of you, Mr. Stevenson....

Felt tip pen on paper. Oh, right, translation. It's from an opera "La Sonnambula" by Bellinni:

Ah, I didn't believe I'd see you Wither so quickly, oh blossom! You have faded away just like love, Which only lasted a day.

#yayoi neko #thundertori #ray stevenson #other artwork

[zadigo]

Vincenzo Bellini - La Sonnambula, "Ah! Non credea mirarti" - Maria Callas

#Youtube

[hadescavedish]

I was tagged by @basil-touche to list the 5 songs I listened to recently. Thank you for the tagging!

Rossini, La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake), Act II: Tanti affetti in un momento - Agnes Baltsa

Gluck, Che farò senza Euridice: Orfeo ed Euridice - Agnes Baltsa

Bellini, Ah ! Non credea mirarti: La Sonnambula - Maria Callas

Donizetti, Linda di Chamounix: Act 1 - Ah! tardai troppo - Joan Sutherland

Bizet, Carmen: Près des remparts de Séville - Agnes Baltsa

#Tagged

[drupelet]

Ok laura whats the song of the summer!! Tell us!!!

https://open.spotify.com/track/6uBLl8xLzWLKlBwIOnIby2?si=o07AiqWUTgiMDu2w6Yyt2w

☝️☝️☝️

[queen-paladin]

Hey <3

Hi! Here you go!🥰🥰🥰

Opening Credits: Princes of the Universe by Queen

Waking Up: My Shot from Hamilton

First Day At School: Ice Skating from Little Women (2019) by Alexandre Desplat

Falling In Love: Crazy in Love Remix by Beyoncé (actually perfect!🤣🥰😍)

Fight Song: Summertime by My Chemical Romance

Breaking Up: Tell Me That You Love Me by James Smith

Life’s OK: Silent Night, Holy Night by Julie Andrews

Getting Back Together: Ah Non Credea Mirarti (the second half of the aria, Ah Non Guinge is literally a getting back together song, so it works!) from La Somonbula by Maria Callas

Wedding: You Outhta Know by Vitamin String Quartet (good thing it’s the orchestra cover because that is NOT a wedding song!😂😳)

Birth of Child: Working For the Knife by Mitski

Final Battle: A Hard Days Night by The Beatles

Death Scene: Andro by Faun

Funeral Song: The Parting Glass by The High Kings (actually perfect!😍)

End Credits: Booty by Saucy Santana (feat. Latto) ((OMG that’s the best end credits so far!!! You won!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😏😏😘))

[emotionsincascades]

Bellini: La sonnambula: Act II, Scene II: Ah! non credea mirarti

Performed by Adelina Patti. Recorded in 1906.

#music #western classical #romanticism #opera #opera aria #vincenzo bellini #adelina patti

[strategiskdesign22]

14. DESIGNPROSESS AV ENDELIG LOGO

Etter å ha designet mange ulike logoer kom vi fram til en logo vi mener er helhetlig og passende for konkurransen. Den endelig logoen er basert på lydbølger fra lydopptak av de to ulike operasangene  «Ah! non credea mirarti fra La» og «O mio babbino» (se bilde ovenfor). Her har vi streket over bølgene for å enkelt få oversikt over hvilken form bølgene har. Utfra dette formet vi det som senere etter flere iterasjoner ble vår endelige logo. 

Gruppen mente at logoen ble for smal og spinkel så vi øsnket å gjøre logoen mer helhetlig og fullstendig. Viu brukte dermed prikkene i logoen (som symbolderer notehoder på ulike notenivåer), forstørret denne og plasserte den bak logoen. Her fungere sirkelen som en et utklipp av den tidligere lydbølgeelogoen men også som et rampelys som skinner på bølgelengden.

#opera #operacompetition #queensonjasingingcompetition #branddesign #singingcompetition #redesign #brand

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

we can never have enough Lisette in our lives

#opera #opera tag #La sonnambula #Lisette Oropesa #Ah! non credea mirarti...Ah! non giunge uman pensiero #Bellini #Vincenzo Bellini #SING IT GIRL #Youtube

[dolenteimmagine]

Vincenzo Bellini, La Sonnambula: Ah! Non credea mirarti

Luisa Tetrazzini, Soprano 1911

#Romanticism #La Sonnambula #Vincenzo Bellini #Luisa Tetrazzini #Opera

[senfonikankara]

Bellini | La Sonnambula, Ah! non credea mirarti

#natalie dessay #bellini #Opera #Romantic Period #classical music #klasik müzik #submission

[zadigo]

Vincenzo Bellini - La Sonnambula, "Ah! Non credea mirarti", Maria Callas

#Youtube

[mariacallous]

Lisette Oropesa - Ah, non credea mirarti ... Ah, non giunge from Bellini's 'La Sonnambula'

[coloraturadiva]

I haven’t been talking much about (my) music on this blog that was created to talk about music lately. Maybe because due to he covid situation my lessons have been sporadic and I haven’t performed in public since February 2020...

This is not the best situation to give you motivation... so I tried to find motivations inside my head, experimenting with repertoire and with my voice in general.

I can tell you I have been quite daring with my vocalises and technical exercises. I worked on the limits of my voice, trying to make my high notes sound more "relaxed" and easy and my low notes more focused. But I also worked on my central notes, wanting to reach a colour that is at the same time bright, but also velvety.

Not an easy task 😅😅😅😅

Talking about repertory, in the past months I sang my first Verdi (Sul fil d’un soffio etesio from Falstaff), I experimented with different approaches to the big aria of Zerbinetta from Ariadne auf Naxos, and worked really hard on the big final scene of Bellini's La Sonnambula. The recitativo at the beginning looks easy, but it's actually quite difficult to memorize and you have to find the right balance not to tire yourself too much. The aria, Ah non credea mirarti, is just a giant exercise (it's only two page long, but it's slow, so it lasts minutes...) about singing on the passaggio. The final cabaletta is the moment where coloraturas like me can relax and have fun, but this doesn't mean that it's easy... 😅😅😅

As I like to do every now and then, in the last couple of lessons we went back to sing some Mozart. To me singing Mozart is like a test. Mozart is ALWAYS demanding. Even his simpler arias require the singer to have complete control over the voice. In my own experience as a student I know that, in particular if I haven't been singing Mozart for a bit, going back to his music gives me a very fast and efficient method to see if I have been working well in the recent past.

With my teacher we decided to experiment and we started studying one of the most difficult pieces of music for soprano ever written: the concert aria Vorrei spiegarvi oh Dio . I have to say I was very afraid of this aria because it requires everything: legato, long notes, soft singing, but also very high and very low notes and coloratura. And... it works. In my “career” I’ve always been recognised as the one that sings the “extreme” music, that kind of music that the other sopranos don’t want (or aren’t able) to sing and this aria is one of those pieces of music. I’m not saying it’s not a technical nightmare to solve this aria, but I can clearly feel that my voice “fits” in it. It’s not that difficult to find solutions and I’m enjoying doing it. This shows me that all the work I’ve done by myself in the month’s I haven’t been able to take lessons was useful and is paying out 😍

#singing #Soprano #my voice #voice

[melpomeneopera]

"Ah! non credea mirarti sì presto estinto, o fiore, passasti al par d'amore, che un giorno sol durò."

La Sonnambula, Amina

#citazioniopera #poesia #feliceromani #vincenzobellini #lasonnambula #amina #belcanto

[neurodivergentcosmos]

Favorite Arias

Thank you @vera-dauriac for tagging me for this! Here are my favorite arias in no particular order:

Pour me rapprocher de Marie--La fille du regiment

O Nature, pleine de grace; Pourquoi me reveiller--Werther

Saper vorreste; Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima--Un ballo in maschera

Non so piu cosa son; Deh vieni non tardar--Le nozze di Figaro

Ah non credea mirarti--La Sonnambula

The Trees on the Mountain--Susannah

Voi che udite il mio lamento; Quando invita; Pensieri voi mi tormenti--Agrippina

Allein! Weh ganz allein--Elektra

V’adoro pupille; Piangero la sorte mia; Svegliatevi nel core--Giulio Cesare

Com’e gentil--Don Pasquale

Per me giunto...Io morro; Ella giammai m’amo--Don Carlos

Violin Aria--Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Pale et blonde--Hamlet (I HATE mad scenes as an opera concept; however the music is beautiful; this is here for music not drama reasons)

If Bluebeard’s Castle and Lulu followed a traditional aria structure, they would both be on here 100%.

#opera #opera tag #favorite arias