Gundula Janowitz - "E Susanna non vien... Dove sono" (1980) video free download

toryisland29

I was in Paris at the time and missed it. What a cast!

Herman Joseph

definitive glorious Mozart singing

Lachezar

How noble a behaviour! That is indeed extraordinary version!

lisamayavonB

Exquisite singing, but as to the acting.... I suppose that depends on what kind of person one is. I am a bit more expressive myself and therefore find this rather lame. A more introvert personality would probably think this a perfect level of expression. But then - eyes closed, all is perfect!!

Francis Carlin

I was 25 in 1980 and heard this cast twice. Unforgettable, especially Janowitz's other worldly timbre. The audience went beserk at the curtain calls and I was hoarse with cheering.

yethica

@amayzak You must not be a singer. Mozart is, in fact, one of the most vocally CONSIDERATE composers ever for singers. Wagner, vocally inconsiderate. Beethoven, DEFINITELY vocally inconsiderate. Mozart, wonderful and healthy for the voice. And Janowitz was one of the absolute best. Puts Fleming and some of the others to SHAME.

Didier Fréderic

La voix céleste de Gundula Janowitch, il n'y a que ça dans cette vidéo et c'est du bonheur. A écouter les yeux fermés....

amayzak

For anyone criticizing the staging & acting, listen at 7:10. The Parisians clearly enjoyed the aria and brought her back for two bows out of character. Enough said. Unparalleled discipline under the immense strain of Mozart who might be one of the most vocally inconsiderate composers ever. There are few (if any) sopranos today who can execute like that.

Jens Arndt

Eine unglaublich betörend schöne Stimme, wohl eines der schönsten Sopran-Timbres der Welt, die ich jemals gehört habe und die jemandem "geschenkt" worden sind, von wem auch immer...Selten so excellent gehört wie hier...und das "live"...

andrewfynn

@miaobauaugh Solti conducted this whole opera lento to accentuate and really "godersi del Mozart". That's the baseline pace. I would say she "could" be angry, but she is also extremely sad and resigned...more sad than angry...after all, she was Rosina and "Lindored" by her husband. Some ppl would respond more with anger, some with sorrow. Questione d'interpretazione, allora. The question remains, how should an aria by an Austrian composer and Italian librettist sung by a German vocalist sound?

VforVespa

This is not good....

Richard Craig

this is artistry of the very highest level,the sheer control and colouring in the voice is amazing.no wonder she appeared with the greatest conductors

Thomas Murphy

Not only can this woman turn Mozart's great work into magic, but you really should check out her work with Eugen Joachum and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on Orff's "Carmina Burana"...she'll knock your socks off.

la musica

@miaobauaugh You´re not right: In the FIRST part of this aria the countess is absoluty wounded and desperated- for that reason everything should be-like janowitz does- very piano and lento and without power. And in the SECOND part she is in between different feelings: angryness, a little hope to get him back, and the decision to fight for that.

operaoaf

Some reviewers are absolutely correct. While the voice is flawless and glorious, the characterization is rather lacking. This is an aria which requires both beautiful legato singing but also psychological insight: from apprehension, anger, humiliation, and outrage, to pensive longing, affection, to rallying determination and courage to save her marriage. How many arias pack this much punch? Fleming is amazing because she's able to sing this aria with fine legato while expressing complex feelings

Tore London

@LeNozze44 i don't agree with you... i think this is the worst version of this aria! i'm italian so it's easier for me to understand the text.,..in this aria she complains about her husband..about the end of a love... she should be angry with him... another thing, if u go to the opera theatre to see it...u can notice a great difference of interpretation and i think her voice is not good at singing this aria...it must be stronger and all the aria should be faster! ...it seems a lullaby...

domi2020

Kiri te Kanawa sang in this famous Strehler production too and it would have been very interesting to watch the 2 great Mozartian and Straussians of their generation perform. Sadly apart from Fleming no one is as good as them. I must say as much as I like her voice it is too static a portrayal.

Marcel A

C'est du grand art!

Phillip Neuharth

This is how Contessa should be done...honesty!

Ludlow889

@guyhowepharr You must be thinking of some other conductor. Solti was Jewish and fled to Switzerland when the Nazis took over his native Hungary.

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