😂😂😂 Deutsch (sorry if that's not how to spell it ;-;)

Mozart wrote some of the greatest Italian operas ever, too. And Donizetti's popular "La fille du régiment" is in French. And perhaps the most popular opera of all time is a story set in Spanish but sung in French.

@@niraishere771 is it suppose to be 'Dutch' You mean Netherland/Holland? 😂

@@lilyevans4244 Deutsch is German in German.

@@mannymoogolf oh sorry i didn't know that 🙁 I thought it was Netherland :^

She was so moved by Brett’s singing

Yeeeeep!!

She is cute in that video❤️

Ah yes.... veterans, I see

I also lose my shit every time I rewatch it

What makes it also difficult is that the opera is in German, and it is very hard to sing in that language because of the explosive consonants that can make inexperienced opera singers choke on the passages if they are not careful.

I love the particular Diana Damrau recording they used. There have been others in different outfits, but not as good in my opinion. Ms. Damrau herself is my favourite Queen of the Night just because she's the only one I've seen where I can understand her German clearly throughout the song. Yes, I know the words, but everyone else usually focuses on the notes and they throw in a hint of consonants. Ms. Damrau is musically on point and linguistically intelligible at the same time.

@@esuna6352 So what about Vivaldi's Agrigato da due venti? It sounds Harder than the Queen of the might, but it is in Italian!

Diana Damrau is great but Summi Jo is better. Sorry. Love from Roumania.

Interesting and important point!

He actually wrote it with a specific person in mind

@@TheAbbs12 yep correct, specifically for his sister in law Josefa Hofer a coloratura soprano

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL truee

@@marialuisasarthou2366 if he wrote it for his sister in law it seems more like he hates her and wants her to suffocate to death

@@b.d6642 Hahaahahahahahah

Just cuz you look at someone like that does not mean the other person realizes it.

@@bland9876 what

I think it's easier for us plebians to learn opera instead

@@valhallajester Woah. When I first read your comment, I thought you said "lesbians" instead of plebians. 😂

Check i got my cats

@Sidney Ly omg hahahahahaha That’s a good joke!You’re so creative!

Yassssssss

Two set better see this comment and realize they just roasted themselves 😅

*insert Illuminati music here*

@@sushih3302 thanks I appreciate the compliment!

like basicallyall of classical music, disliking opera often comes down to just not being that familiar with it. I don't think people are born with a gene that makes them dislike opera, but the singing style takes some getting used to. I grew up listening to opera so the style of singing (and also the Drama of the storylines) never felt weird to me, but if you didn't grow up with it, you'll probably need to listen to a few operas before you fully get into it. If you want to get into it, I recommend going to see it live over just listening to recordings, the live experience is pretty fantastic. Bizet's Carmen is a great beginner opera, so is a lot of Mozart (especially The Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro, or Don Giovanni), Rossini and Donizetti operas are usually quite accessible musically (all of their operas work really imo but if you wanted specific recommendations, I'd suggest The Barber of Seville or William Tell by Rossini, and L'Elisir d'Amore or Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti), Puccini's Madama Butterfly will probably keep you interested via the story even if you dislike the singing, and if you like Richard Strauss' symphonic repertoire, give Salome or Der Rosenkavalier a chance. If you want an easier, often rather rom-com style entrance to the style of singing, maybe give operettas a go. Some of the (rightfully) most famous ones are Johann Strauß II's "Die Fledermaus", Kálmán's "Gräfin Mariza", Bernstein's "Candide" (my three favourite operettas in no particular order), Lehár's "The Merry Widow", Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld", and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance".

I hesitate to say this, as an opera fan myself, but I have experience with friends who were new to the genre. They had a hard time getting over some very hammy acting, 'mature' singers who are meant to be the youthful love interest, and the often ridiculous plots. The only hit so far has been the opera Peter Grimes, which is so dark but very 'real'. And Carmen, because they already knew the tunes...

Ah, Jonas. ❤❤❤❤❤

Angela Gheorghiu? Omg that's awesome

The opera is called "the magic flute" and the character singing is "the queen of the night" in both context is correct. So it's 1-1

Thanks @Beu Corona

@@scarletmarvel9956 isn't the 0 - 0 an emoji to Brett's expression? 😅😂

aww our boomer 🥰

@@Carmellx Of course that's an emoji. What's wrong with people? :v

Find someone who looks at you the way Sanna looks at Operas

@@camdendaly7579 Brett looks at Hilary Hahn like if she is his senpai

Yesssss omg !

She is beautiful, I was looking at her all the time. Is she Danish or Norwegian?

@@carkod Finnish

I mean, to the untrained ear, hearing the first clip is really amazing. But for people knowing the technicalities behind the voice, the first recording has a lot of faults, especially on her breathing technique. But I do like to set aside my preconceptions and just appreciate art and the artistry of the singer itself.

No offense but your friend doesn't know what's good!

Different folks, different strokes.

Lol Diana Damrau as the Queen is fantastic...

@@esuna6352 time to find new friends

Cheers! I drink to that! 🥂🥂

@@annacai8070 True, I am 5'3 and was assigned soprano back in HS. If i think about it most short woman i know tend to have a higher pitch voice as well.

I had never thought about it, but there is an interesting thought. I am 5'5 tall and a soprano, but one my friends is shorter than me, and she is a mezzo-soprano. She used to sing soprano parts while in school, but around the age of 14 she was told she is a mezzo-soprano.

Maybe evolution gave them higher pitch because it's easier to make a loud sound with a small body when the pitch is high, as opposed to a huge dog that can bark loudly. (If that makes any sense) The same thing passed on to humans.

@@annacai8070 I got reminded of Ariana Grande. She's pretty short and she goes very high.

Ikr, I get offended for a second and then I was like... nevermid I love them😂

Technically they invented video in the late 19th century, but it was silent film. So I see what you're getting at

We missed many beautiful things

Especially the Castrato singing, I'm deadly curious how they sounded like

@@athomenotavailable I think a countertenor is the closest we can get these days but I imagine the voice of a boy with the power and breath of a grown man. Totaly dispise what they did back then and I don't think the sound would be appealing to me, so a countertenor it is.

😥

@Corey H Cristina D had a lovely voice, and I’m fascinated by the way she handled those triplets. But as a performance overall, I’m not a fan. These are pretty subjective things, though-you’re certainly entitled to your opinion.

Exactly. Notice the first time she does her staccatos. Right before, she’s actually facing away from her daughter. She turns around sharply right before she sings then, as if to be able to sing that fury - those knives or darts - at her daughter. She both loves and hates her, and wants to use her to commit her own (mother’s) violent crimes. And at the very beginning , even before that, forcing her daughter to grab the knife first with one hand, then another. Her performance is full of sound and fury. One of the former hosts of our classical music station always said, “Now, THAT’s what a really, really angry soprano sounds like!” Cheers.

@Corey H It's really hard to compare these ladies. The way Cristina delivers this aria is cold and icy, with daggerlike precision, whereas Diana's performance is so fiery that I'd be afraid to catch fire if she looked at me. As for their singing: my personal preference goes out to Diana Damrau, because I love how she uses her whole body to sing and bring this song to life. Whereas Cristina was too statuesque for my taste. Both approaches make sense, both approaches are good. At this point it comes down to personal taste :)

His legato is so good. Pulls at the heart strings.

damn.

People assume that if something is old then it’s boring and hard to relate, as if people in the past centuries would live in another world and have different emotions. They don’t know how much literature and music they’re missing.

@@daemondif7051 try reading Russian classical literature as part of school program. Especially if you are interested in equality in every form. Women are abused, the only worthy woman in the whole War and Peace has an incredibly unfulfilling life. The only books from the classical period that were interesting for me were Chekhov's stories, Crime and Punishment and Bulgakov's works. The rest... Boring to say the least. But I'm a fan of fantasy, and there isn't much of that. Ah, yes, also Gogol's plays and novels were interesting. However, I'm a firm believer that bad endings have no place in literature or cinematography. The only art that can make the bad endings bearable for someone who's highly emotional is music, and therefore I only like sad music. But I firmly dislike sad endings in films or books. Ok, sorry for the looooooong answer, but I just wanted to say that everyone has different reasons to dislike a certain kind of art.

I assume it's about the language barrier. Supposed you're watching it in a opera house or the like (sorry I don't know the term), opera might be quite hard to understand by the words they speak cs it's mostly in France or Italian I guess...? but, yeah we could still relate to the feeling the singer trying to convey trough their performance.

@@atriyakoller136 seriously, you dont like any bad endings? What about in Infinity war where thanos actually wins? Me personally, I love ending where the bad guy/s win, simply due to the fact that they're so rare. Have you never thought, whilst seeing a bad guy in action, "I hope he completes his mission, instead of getting defeated at the very last minute"?

STAN LINGLING

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I’m just imagining that rn and I’m dying 😂😂😂😂😂

Hello there

😂😂😂

Yes, do a video on lieder or baroque singers.

Yeah, I agree. Mezzos, Contraltos, Baritones, Basses, and Countertenors are always overlooked when people are showcasing opera.

⁠​coreyh9794 yet christians dont stop believing in jesus just because there’s many of them

As a bass I can confirm that statement.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

*laughs in female baritone*

@@samaratunder4921 dammmmmmmmn that is deep. Mad respect with that vocal range. That is super cool!

*wheezes in alto*

Haha samee

saaaaaame she’s a queen

Me too ☺ I love her 😊

lol, true

I’m even simpler: I see classical shtick, I click

There is a lot of great opera for lower female voices, they just didn’t show it

Altos are freaking cool. I personally like their voices more than sopranos'. I think they deserve more important roles as well, too bad they are usually made for sopranos.

@@sandyc.4630 Check out some Verdi and Rossini, there are great parts for lower female voices.

*joins crying in alto 2*

As a mezzo, I always envied altos they sound so cool. I'm just kind of 'in between', neither here nor there...

Hmmm... Dimash is 191 cm tall... Hmmm...

Brett is 170cm :)

Hmm I have a deeper voice than most and im only 5 foot 7

@@teer7461 wait dimash is 191? he looks small tho!

Does this go for women too? Bc baritone-tenor gang ig-

I mean he ain't wrong

was looking for this comment thank you

I laughed so much at that comment too like... Was there any other option? Lol

Eddy said that, not Brett

I am watching this video, I am going to start studying later, but my mom keeps scolding me about wasting time......

lmao

Which could realistically happen nowadays 🤷🏼‍♀️😕🤦🏼‍♀️

too late opera singers are already revolting. 8)

But the piano gang didn't revolt when they made the Kickstarter 'Violin vs Piano'...

Darren Yap exxxxactly I swear we’re normal 🙃

@@jiyometrik yeah, that's because we pianists are used to being overlooked- we're accompanists 😆

@Aleksa Petrovic agreed. The more you know the more u realize you dont know.

It's a lot more impressive when you are... well, impressive in a given field, yet can act like someone who knows nothing. It's less impressive if, like me, you're a total blighted idiot-as it won't be acting so much as _being_

@A.H it's so convincing that I often forget how good they actually are

Honestly😂😂

"dumbest donkeys" made me belt out a good laugh.

Rahul Suresh I already was watching her face (😅), but I know what you mean. She had the look of an artist who deeply admires the work of other artists. She’s clearly still inspired.

subconsciously* lol but yeah i find myself doing that too and i have to control my expression so i don’t look weird haha

@@cherrynbo I think it's ok to show the expression, at least I feel like I can enjoy a piece better that way

😂 Omg you're right

I'm a basso profundo and I'm 6'4 (193cm) so quite accurate but of course it all depends of the chords

I’ve heard that baritones make really good counter tenors.

Dimash Qudaibergen being 190cm (about 6'2") and singing F6s 😂

who is it?!?!??!

Cannot be put more perfectly

Theres no such thing as a "good choice". Getting into classical music is just as easy as any other genre. What I did was listen to all of the most popular stuff first, such as Mozarts 21st piano concerto, beethovens 5/9th symphonies, Vivaldis four seasons, Bach's toccata/ fugue & passacaglia/fugue etc. etc. The more you listen, the more you'll be able to discover your own tastes, therefore, making it easier to find more of the music you like. Edit: I just went on your channel and you're already on the right tracks

@@SR009s I think they meant getting into learning a classical instrument, not into listening to them. Through the channel I think they kind of got an idea into the instrument which interests them the most.

ngl no kids want to get into classical music, they either hear it once and they want in or they become a junkie that likes rap

Whoooo another stray kids fan here!!! :DDD

He's not wrong...

It kinda makes sense tho...

☝🏽🎅🏻😂

He's actually right! It's typical (if not always the case) for very high sopranos to be petite, so their larynges (larynxes?) are small and vibrate really fast for those very high notes.

@@inesdeerausquin5658 I think that's either an old, or an incorrect, sterotype. I am about 5 foot 8 and I can sing quite high easily. Admittedly my family are musical and I started singing when I was five but I don't think that height comes into singing. Two years ago, I was singing with a lady who had been opera trained and height didn't make a difference about hitting the high notes. She was shorter than me.

She watches each one with the tender love of a proud mother

Torilla tavataan taas!

@Human A cat's ok. Please don't give your kids Finnish names.

@LING LING GRANGER sounds Arabic

@LING LING GRANGER I think she meant some Finnish names can be hard to pronounce for foreign people. So it can be a bit annoying to spell it every time. In Finnish we rarely spell out our names cause 99% of the time they are pronounced the same as they are written.

Where my fellow Sibelius gang at??

Love it. Let's appreciate opera singers. **crickets**

Surtitling is it's own art form! :D

thanks to editor-san!!!!

Thank you! I rewatched with subs on.

Opera singing is controlled screaming. Better stay away from them not to hurt your eras. Pavarotti is a rare exception though.

Alternative title: Eddy and Brett embarassing themselves in front of Sanna

:>

I'm on with this video.

@ummm yeah I got that fangirl expression watching classical pianists😂(actually all excellent musicians)

😮

Sorry to ruin the party, but I think everyone can contribute to add the subtitles, even their fans, like us. It doesn't have to be editor-san. Besides, editor-san has so much work already.

@A.H while imprisoned in dad's basement. Lol

me!!!!

Me

Me :D

The most I can do is decent karaoke. And my voice gets shaky after 3 or 4 songs. They do this for hours. Mad respect for Opera singers

Me

Bro the moment he said I was like “I’m out are you serious?????” MY VOCAL CORDS WOULD DIE

That aria has some insanely high notes.

MCBuilder101 ikr like there’s a freaking high f...I had to practise for ages just to get the high E in Mozart’s lachrymosa..

ME TOO!!!!

i totally cringed when brett asked that!!!!

HAHAHAHAHA- Did he really say that? 😂

@@sushih3302 when he was 20 he tried to justify only delivering 2 of the 6 concertos for flute. He wrote this letter to his father complaining about the flute and about how much he hated it, but in fact he seems to like it... in all of the piano concertos flute has wonderful solos... the magic flute.... ye, he was a kid in his 20s making excuses to his father for missing a paycheck. Ome things never change and it's super funny

Hahahaha.

Piccolo

...I play flute😐😐😕

I don't think you project from your vocal chords though...?

... it's called my squillo

A turtle neck shirt

@@altmail1572 thats the joke

I believe it was intended as a joke, but when singing anything, especially opera, you're supposed to use your diaphragm. If you try to sing loudly using just your vocal chords, it will ruin your voice.

Nah man sing is the song for legit jazz cats, not bebop posers 😎 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irWAhqiFp7vLpoU.html

WTF. SingSing is a DotA 2 player.

Marbles Grande WTF. Singsing means “ring” in my language.

Sing Sing actually means stars in Cantonese.(Cantonese is a dialect in China. I'm a Hong Konger!)

gJb 1 LMFAOOOO

Yeah! Like, listen to Piero Cappuccilli. The man makes legato look effortless, but he had rock solid technique. He could go on and on with one breath for seemingly impossible lengths.

Yes yes this!!! And from experience, when you've put that work in, it is easy and becomes the most natural thing in the world---because you know it in your heart after having practiced it tens and hundreds of times

Yes, one of the most common mistakes for begginers is to tense up and make to much effort to reach high notes. If you just relax is much easier, healthier and it sounds better

As a shitty breather, I second the last point.

@@Tubluer bruh, take the at negativity away from here

Can you blame them, though? Liebestod is possibly the greatest piece of music ever written for an opera, I get distracted, too. And I am a massive opera fan who tends to concentrate on singers over the orchestra.

Wagner. Such genius.

The Liebestod with Birgit Nilsson is how I want to die.

Like labradors with tennis balls

With good reason. In order to fully appreciate Nilsson's power you must understand that she's piercing through a huge orchestra playing at max capacity. I'm really glad they included her in their list.

Dogs, divas, same letter. ;)

You’re welcome

Wdym? That's normal. Eddy was just being Eddy. Remember the video when he admitted that he had forgotten his violin 3 times? And in that video, he also forgot about the detailed story when he forgot his violin :v

Teenage Eddy had what Brett called "a forgetting things problem"

@@ruthsteen6943 lol

I think I can relate to Eddy's problem. Sometimes there's just a lot of things happening in your mind to the point where you stop being aware and can't even remember even the simplest thing :v

I'm an organist at my church, and during the sermon, I often wait backstage. I've had several close calls where I almost didn't make it back for the closing hymn and postlude. Usually because someone was talking to me, or I was dozing.

OMG I totally thought I was the only one that noticed the twinge of annoyance from Sanna

they can be a bit too silly sometimes

I think she's too excited to show her faves / best perfs

Well, it's not like she has to. It's part of the charm of being original, you understand how others are, but you don't change yourself to appease them, nor expect them to appease you. The video came out wonderful! ^^

Twoset is enough.

Sans Gaster no

In a few years it is the whole YT orchestra.

it sounds like a kids program on TV lol

@@MrDUneven I'd watch an orchestra of KZfaqrs doing their thing

Underrated comment

Next comes nine tenor high Cs in Ah mes amis

F-f-f-fombo breaker

you forgot recorders

Nah it’s definitely recorder performances before the violas.

Yes please. I'd love some recommendations of actually good violists. Make it happen Twoset. You have to after that viola beat you. Or was it the alto clef?

You forgot composers

Vye-oh-lah!

And not just that, I mean I can hit an F6 but I sound like a squeaky mouse. The dynamic range in that piece, and being able to project the more quiet notes as well as the stronger ones... 30 years of training wouldn't get me there.

That is the range of my screaming in my mental breakdowns

I agree ☝️

yea

True! She is gorgeous! Her voice is beautiful too.

oddio non me ne ero accorta AHAHAHAH

This comment makes my day :v

Vero, è un gioco di parole perfetto hahahahaha

Italian version of "Professional vs beginner opera singer": *Bel canto vs canto Bretto*

But in Spanish, "bruto" means "stupid".

hahahahah bada che contrasto

Jolie-laid in french

@@franceskinskij sicuramente hahaha

may I recommend you "Ugly Beauty" by Jolin Tsai

@@hikelfin I know, I was just explaining what he said

I was searching for this comment😂

Esattamente! 😂

interesting

Send a picture of your dog to OperaGeek on Twitter. She is an opera singer and I’m sure she would love to see your dog!

@@StanOfFans Oh I have to check out her music, I always love to hear good singing! Thanks for the recommendation. Cheers.

Now that would be a video idea „Opera Singers watching dogs“ :-)

Yeah, she's beautiful.

I was so happy when I saw that Sanna had included her on this list :'')

Exactly. That's answer enough

no

My reply to "Why is she your favorite singer" is "SHE IS BIRGIT NILSSON!"