❤❤❤👏👏👏I still remember seeing her coming out of of the stage slowly. I was in 3rd row dead center right behind James Levine. What a performance.

I don't care what anyone says...I love Dessay! The voice has changed...after 15yrs as a coloratura what do you expect? I think she's singing Damn well to have gone through two vocal surgeries. I only pray that she lasts a long time.

Of course, everybody has his/her favourite male/female singer, but I think all of them deserve a credit for singing such wonderful and demanding pieces of music. I believe most people have absolutely no idea how hard it is and how long it takes to get to sing like this and, after reaching one's entire vocal range, to convey an artful touch to one's performance like Dessay nicely does. I'm a big Callas fan, but, please, let's just shut up and listen.

Natalie amazing lesson of Coloratura....

Unbelievable virtuosity, yes, but I've never heard a more heartrending first section, absolutely bawling while I listened. What an artist.

pas ressenti autant d'émotions depuis La Callas et Montserrat Caballé. Merci à cette merveilleuse voix et à cette personnalité unique

her voice is magical

La sonnambula è un capolavoro tutto siciliano...in questa musica si sente tutta la delicatezza della gente siciliana ed il profumo dei giardini. Le cantanti liriche si esaltano in questa romanza: ah non credea mirarti

It's amazing how light her voice is, it flows so naturally and effortlessly. Great actress as well.

Beautiful woman, Natalie Dessay!

One of the best performaces of this aria I've ever heard. Natalie Dessay is fantastic.

Ne boudons pas notre plaisir, Peste soit des rabat- joie ! Si l'on pouvait entendre toujours chanter de cette façon ces jolies pièces, l'opéra serait pour notre plus grand bonheur au sommet des arts populaires.

i think that is the best of the contemporary ones.

My goodess, she sings with such delicacy....so well trained, so well controlled

I haven't listened to her lastly, but now I'm realised that her voice has really darkened. But her warmth is still there.

I keep coming back, and back to Natalie Dessay. I have never been so attracted to a performer of anything as I have been to her. As I look again at a lot of her performances, interviews, rehearsals and informal films of parts of her life I feel "YES, She is just as wonderful as I thought." I just hope that new things involving her keep being put on you tube.

Fantastic!!!Bravissima NATALIE DESSAY!!!

a wonderful coloratura soprano.i like natalie dessay.amazing

Brilliant!!! Natalie Dessay is fantastic artist. That's all.

I am so sorry you are leaving opera. I heard you in Guilio Cesare at the Met and you were incredible! Please do not leave us.

Extraordinario!!!! Hermosisimo!!!!! Viva la Dessay!!!!

magnifique nathalie dessay

She was great during this performance. There´s no doubt about it.

I was in the Met 20/5/06 at the Volpe Gala and one way or the other she was very impressive and kept the attention and emotion of the audience. More than a few had tears in their eyes. It shows you how different a live performance can be from the tape. The New Yorker Magazine declared her the best of the night!

I shiver, and cry...

I could not agree more. When all is said and done, I am all for the enjoyment of the composers music. I love Bellini and despite the singing and the staging, he delivers each time!

I cannot say that this was her best performance, but i think everyone knows (or everyone should know) who Natalie Dessay and what a remarkable and world unique soprano / actress she is!!!

OMG! I love her trill :)

It's just you! She is very dramatic with a magical voice. I agree, best coloratura singing today.

Una voce splendida, interpretazione stupenda!!!!!

Magnifique

.... frighteningly beautiful and incredibly capable.

The oboe soloist is wonderful, extremely expressive and touching; no doubt it help the singer to achieve her interpretation.

Listen to that perfect legato, how she hits notes dead in the center of the pitch, and how she really caresses the vocal line. I just wish she would carry that into the aria. All of a sudden, all her dramatics darken her tone and her chest sinks. If she would just stand tall and take good breaths, those high notes wouldn't sound so strained. If she would just focus on singing beautifully, all the acting that she's so famous for would still effortlessly shine through.

thank you Nathalie for sharing your fabulous talent..... be safe! thnx for this post....

I worked with Natalie this past summer at Santa Fe. She is an AWESOME person... and Hilarious !!!

This Gift must be cloned. Dessay is beyond surreal. We listen to this stunning Fractal with revealed awe.

Sublime. Merci et bravo.

We saw her performed many times at the Met and Santa Fe Opera in this role.

Natale è.una grandissima cantante ..Brava.

beautiful!!

Fabolous Dessay ❤

Grande davvero una grande cantante!!!

Goodness, this is gorgeous.

I like her so much... Can't undestand why people say her voice is cold, just too damn light =) love love love

I like this voce better than the old one, now she has more depth and there's no need to just expect trills, unless that´s just my opinion, she´s great!

Extraordinaria!!!!!!! Bravissima!!!

it's true that the presence of setting is always better than an absence of setting. For La Somnambula, I think it's the same French stage director (Laurent Pelly) who did La Fille du Régiment. Besides, walking in one's sleep is a sort of madness, cut from reality. Dessay is excellent in these surreal states. I'm looking forward to this!

oh my god so beautiful

Many thanks for this nice video. I love this aria and Natalie Dessay's voice. This aria is not easy to sing. But the first part (Ah, non credea) is nicely lyrical and in the second part of the aria (Ah, non giunge) she is in her element. The coloraturas and top tones (some es3) which stand not everybody in the notes are sung excellently. Class! She lives her roles.

Прекрасное,талантливое исполнение!Спасибо Вам!

BRAVO!!!! muy expresiva. Exelente tecnica. Hermosa.

Lovely singing

Ah! non credea mirati Sì presto estinto, o fiore; Passasti al par d'amore, Che un giorno sol durò.

brava, Natalie

Can't wait to see her next week for the entire Sonnambula here in Lyon, France.

Stupenda!

Ah! non giunge uman pensiero Al contento ond'io son piena: A' miei sensi io credo appena; Tu m'affida, o mio tesor. Ah mi abbraccia, e sempre insieme Sempre uniti in una speme, Della terra in cui viviamo Ci formiamo un ciel d'amor.

What a greatcoloratura...wonderful..!!!

I love it , love it... Как нежно она поет!

Perfect.

Incredible!

Che bel sentire...!!

Her voice sounds so fragile like about to crack at times, still a great performance

amazing voice, just perfect

bellissima similitudine

merita d'entrare nel novero delle grandi

Beautiful,hermosa

Maravilhosa ❤❤❤❤❤

@grobprandl73 De ce que j'ai pu comprendre,entièrement d'accord avec toi! Bienvenu(e) dans le royaume des sourds et des malentendants !

Un vrai régal! Bravissima!

Una diosa, Natalie....una voz impecable !

This beautiful performance, after all, is a performance.

Natalie

La Dessay realmente es grande!!! Ha sido operada de nodulos en la garganta, sin embargo, canta como los dioses!!!!y menos mal que no ha perdido agilidad, ni color, ni timbre, ni tessitura!!!!

WOW!!!!

lindo! :')

voix merveilleuse

Una grande cantante y actriz francesa célebre de una ilustre tradición de sopranos de enormes agudos y sobre agudos como: Mado Robin, Lily Pons, y otras .

Bravissima

@abracadabranque Y quien dijo que son iguales? Yo dije que cada uno con su trabajo. Pero no estan todos en la lista de excepcionales. Con Bodiloto ya aclare todo. No tengo nada mas que decir. Dessay me gusta como actua y tuvo unos trabajos lindos. Y esto es todo. Buenas noches.

Grande, ahún después de la operación siguió cantando, no importa las críticas..

Ich mag die etlichen Aufnahmen, die ich habe, nicht gegeneinander ausspielen, die Aufnahme mit der ätherischen Lina Pagliughi?, dass der wunderbare Ferruccio Tagliavini eine eigene Ehrung verdient, sollte unumstritten sein!

Bless her! This role was sung by Giudiita Pasta! Certainly not intended for a light voice.

I love Callas she was just divine, of course, but but she died when I was in kindergarten (and had stopped singing before I was born). I want to experience some live opera, so I am looking forward to hearing Natalie at the Met next month. I hope she is in good shape (nasty viruses, stay away from her!!).

OMG - this is a phd lesson in vocal control.

Ottima interpretazionee!!

He was calling someone a "hater," in response to their negative comments about Dessay. It was like saying "meany!" not an insult to Natalie.

It is so strange seeing her sing in this expensive looking background. In, I think, 2009 the met did a wonderful modern version that captured the working class environment in which the opera is set. Dessay was tremendous as Amina, and WAS Amina. That production is on you tube and very well filmed.

Her voice

I always find reading these comments amazing. One person gets all the flak for making a statement several others have. Even yokals like me know Dessay had some trouble. So what? The Met did buy out some singers. Obviously not Dessay. Nor did the poster say that. Sheesh!

Credo che al di fuori di Catania , patria del Cigno, siano in pochissimi a sapere che l'incipit di quest'aria è scolpita sul monumento tombale di Bellini, all'interno della Cattedrale di Catania ove riposano le spoglie di Vincenzo Bellini.

@grobprandl73 Pour l'interprétation et la musicalité,Callas,avec de très légères réserves.C'est encore la plus précise.

I am newer to Dessay's voice, but find it charming. When I first turned this on I thought, "Ah, Anna Moffo sings it far better," but after finishing it I must say that she does sound lovely, though I've heard it better.

thansk

I like Bel Canto opera in concert style and I listen on recordings a lot, though I enjoyed HD cast of Met Puritani by Netrebko. Dessay is a one of the best Bel Canto interperter and she studied to be an actress also a good dancer. There are many talented opera singers to make Bel Canto fans more than happy.

my goddess

I would not say it better:-) Thanks a lot, mabemawi

@Drelnis She moves me you know and that means there is emotion in her interpretation. Few do move me. Each has different perceptions now and feelings. She had 2 surgeries on her vocal chords, I Am amazed that she can still sing:O

The worst thing we can do is compare, comparing the value we get from the artists, each one was or will be according to his grand era. For example I love Caruso, but I can not compare com Pavaroti, Domingues and non Careers honest none of them serious. All are large according to their performances and their eras.