Joyce Di Donato - D'amore al dolce impero (Score Animation) Video

Beautiful performance by mezzo soprano Joyce di Donato, showing secure low notes as well as secure top C's. From her new album "Colbran, The Muse".

Armida is the most difficult role written for Isabella Colbran, it requires a huge range of 2 and a half octaves, incredible coloratura skills and widely shifting tessitura. Since I did the score animation first with Callas who ornaments incredibly, I decided to do one with a performance closer to the score...of course Joyce ornaments as well ans quite wonderfully, but overall is closer to the score...I mean, the aria is pretty difficult as written!

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vocalpianist: amazing! thank you!

Lilith89ibz: Amazing <3 And you did a great job! Thank you for posting :)

foropera: Merci, beau travail, c'est rare de pouvoir voir cette partition, et elle fait ça merveilleusement.

skitzo429: wow, low F, thats intense.

primohomme: Yes, she has a great low range as well as a reliable and agile upper register, I've heard at least high Db from her sung in coloratura.

skitzo429: Ive heard her stick a short C# in the cabaletta from the big aria from cenerentola, bitch has some pipes. Theres a video of Ewa podles (arguably, the only real contralto alive at the present) sing a D in a run of some Handel aria, thats kind of wild.

primohomme: She has also sung a high Db in a series of staccatos in live performances of "Tanti Affeti", sadly she ommits those ornaments in the album recording. Ewa Podles has vocalized up to high E (never sustained) .

primohomme: Also the mezzo Malena Ernman has shown a huge range, from C3 to E6.

iskenderuna: Really beautiful The woman has got so much style and such an even and gorgeous voice. So fluid - she makes this difficult aria sound like a piece of delicious cake. That is going to be a hard one for any soprano to beat, let alone a mezzo!