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"Ombra mai fu" (Paula Rasmussen, "Serse")

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From Handel's serio-comic opera, "Serse": American mezzo-soprano Paula Rasmussen is the tyrannical Persian King, Serse, here singing his beautiful ode to his beloved plane tree. Also known as "Larghetto", and often erroneously called "Largo". Recitative and aria."Ombra mai fu / di vegetabile,/ cara ed amabile, / soave più." - "Never was shade / of plant / more dear, amiable / and sweet."With Christophe Rousset directing Les Talens Lyriques.From Dresden Musikfestspiele, 2000. If you like this, go buy the video and get the complete opera!Also see "Io le diro/Tu le dirai", "Sì, la voglio e l'otterò!", "Per rendermi beato", Duetto:"Troppo oltraggi" and "Crude furie".

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: mariandelochs

Length: 03:53
Rating: 4.93
Views: 12311

Tags: Dresden  fu  Handel  larghetto  largo  Lyriques  mai  ombra  Rasmussen  Rousset  Semperoper  Serse  Talens  

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Corenero (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Brava. Bravissima!! Excellent technique. Does anyone knows about her lately?
Senecart81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Paula, please get your own website, make CD's when you can and I will buy them. It looks like others might too! This performance is stunning and you have a beautiful voice.
Hirnhinweg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
a little too much tremolo, but nevertheless wonderful! there is music experts around: could this part bes sung by a tenor? (i guess "crude furie" could be difficult!)
Thrax1982 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
There are many countertenors who could sing this aria (whether one likes the sound or not is a different question) There are only few who could sing the part of Serse though, most arias are higher than this one as far as I know.And about contertenors being no worse than castrati - I'm sorry but all I can say is lol:P
CelloVoice (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yeah for castrato's but actually now there are no castrato's left so the countertenors are the only alternative and i must say that they aren't badder than the castrato's!!!
nicosupersex (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
a contertenor singing taht so high?... it sounds ridiculous, sorry
Thrax1982 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
He did not write this for countertenor but for a castrato. Handel used countertenors only in some oratorios, never in operas.
CelloVoice (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I can say only one thing here :) The trick of the air of xerxe is to be sang by man not by woman, because i hope that all of us know, that this aria has been written by handel for counter-tenore and it's real image is to be performed by counter-tenore!!! But i should say that this performance is pretty good and i like it :)
SeanMinn (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Good luck to your journey for the painful, yet profound and joyous world of music. I hope I can listen to your performance some day.
overtwenty2007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
She is the prettiest mezzo voice that I ever ever heard! A very good positive rolemodel for me as being a mezzo, too! And how she sings this aria with such calm, wonderful!
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