Beauty of Cimmeries The Beauty of Opera, dark sounds and words.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. It's impossible to know whether Diana Damrau was born great, but on the evidence of her latest Virgin Classics disc of Mozart concert and opera arias, she has — without question — achieved greatness; surely few contemporary lyric coloraturas could handle this program, which ranges from the sprightly to the sublime, with Damrau's firm technical command, unaffected mastery of characterization and beauty of tone ... More, please. Thus was the response of the magazine of New Yorks Metropolitan Opera Guild, Opera News, to German soprano Diana Damraus last Virgin Classics recital, Donna. In less effusive, though no less positive mode, the BBC Music Magazines critic stated that I cant remember when I last enjoyed a Mozart recital of this kind so much. Among the accolades for Damraus first Virgin Classics recital, Arie di bravura by Salieri, Mozart and Righini was the highly prestiigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.After two Virgin Classics recitals of 18th-century repertoire, this new collection moves forward to the 19th and 20th centuries, with repertoire ranging from Nicolai and Rossini to Stravinsky and Bernstein, from comedy to tragedy and covering four languages: German, Italian, French and English. It includes Zerbinettas marathon coloaratura aria from Ariadne auf Naxos, one of the operas which spearheaded Damraus international careerDamraus status as an interpreter rather than as a mere virtuoso was further confirmed in the Guardians review of a song recital she gave at Londons Wigmore Hall in November 2008: The German soprano Diana Damrau has become a cult figure of late. It is easy to see why. She is very much a diva, with all the intimations of greatness and excess the word implies. Her artistry is phenomenal yet paradoxical: you could perhaps describe her as the Meryl Streep of classical music, since she achieves a sense of total immersion in her material without ever quite letting you forget the powers of technique, intelligence and calculation that inform her singing.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. It's impossible to know whether Diana Damrau was born great, but on the evidence of her latest Virgin Classics disc of Mozart concert and opera arias, she has — without question — achieved greatness; surely few contemporary lyric coloraturas could handle this program, which ranges from the sprightly to the sublime, with Damrau's firm technical command, unaffected mastery of characterization and beauty of tone ... More, please. Thus was the response of the magazine of New Yorks Metropolitan Opera Guild, Opera News, to German soprano Diana Damraus last Virgin Classics recital, Donna. In less effusive, though no less positive mode, the BBC Music Magazines critic stated that I cant remember when I last enjoyed a Mozart recital of this kind so much. Among the accolades for Damraus first Virgin Classics recital, Arie di bravura by Salieri, Mozart and Righini was the highly prestiigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.After two Virgin Classics recitals of 18th-century repertoire, this new collection moves forward to the 19th and 20th centuries, with repertoire ranging from Nicolai and Rossini to Stravinsky and Bernstein, from comedy to tragedy and covering four languages: German, Italian, French and English. It includes Zerbinettas marathon coloaratura aria from Ariadne auf Naxos, one of the operas which spearheaded Damraus international careerDamraus status as an interpreter rather than as a mere virtuoso was further confirmed in the Guardians review of a song recital she gave at Londons Wigmore Hall in November 2008: The German soprano Diana Damrau has become a cult figure of late. It is easy to see why. She is very much a diva, with all the intimations of greatness and excess the word implies. Her artistry is phenomenal yet paradoxical: you could perhaps describe her as the Meryl Streep of classical music, since she achieves a sense of total immersion in her material without ever quite letting you forget the powers of technique, intelligence and calculation that inform her singing.

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Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu sings the aria "Casta Diva", from Bellini's opera 'Norma' (2001)

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Great selection of this opera Diva. enjoy.

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Sumi Jo sings this beautiful concert-aria from Mozart with vocal perfection and bravura

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Great album selection of this great soprano dramatic coloratour and her best arias in opera. enjoy.

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Jessye Norman - A Portrait - When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcell)

Liebestreu de Brahms played by Edda Moser y Edelmiro Arnaltes

My favourite soprano, Edda Moser, sings Elettra's 3rd Aria in Mozart's opera "Idomeneo, Re di Creta" (KV 366).

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Rarity. Edda Moser Pasticcio Haendel

Luciano PAVAROTTI:Un ballo in maschera. Duet, Act II / Verdi (Leontyne Price)

Eva Marton

Diane KESLING, Edda MOSER, Gail DUBINBAUM, David RENDALL, John DARRENKAMP, Sesto BRUSCATINI, Ara BERBERIAN, Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Great Album from Cecilia Bartoli homaging the great Singer Maria Malibran, Enjoy.

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Great Original sountrack, performed by Sumi Jo.

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PART V

...STANDING AT THE GATES OF THE WORLD OF LIFE...

“The second and the third generation though he became ruler of a mighty nation, he was still alone, for none was as he. His sorrow grew once again. Then he committed another great sin, for he beget more progeny of whom there were only three, but from them came more progeny, Caine’s grandchilder, and then Caine said: “ and end to this crime there shall be no more”. And as Caine’s word was the law, his brood obeyed him, but the city stood for many ages, and became the centre of a mighty empire”

Standing at the gates of my brother’s world
Standing at the gates of Seth’s city
Standing at the gates of a New World

I came to drown my dismal sorrow
I came to hide my mark of damnation
I came to be the ruler of a mighty nation

Yet I became the great king of blood
Ruler of the biggest empire of silence
My sorrow grew again by my sin

I beget progeny to habit my kingdom
I beget three progenies of my own
I committed another great sin

And so my off springs grew in number
The sons of my sons, my grandchilder
And my brood was born by my sin

Therefore my world became the true law
My crime will have an end
And there shall be no more of my brood

However my great empire of Cimmeries
Stood for many ages for an aeon long
My empire center of the great nation

But the anger of the lord above
Made a deluge fall down to earth
And the flood washed over the world

My great empire of Cimmerian power
Was flooded and destroyed
And all its people along with it

I fell again into a gloomy sorrow
I fell again into my loneliness
I fell again into emptiness

I had to leave my progeny to their end
I had to abandon them to their own end
Because I become as a dog seeking wastes

But my kindred, my brood of blood
Came to me and begged me to return
To rebuilt the mighty city as once was

So I did not come back with them
Because the deluge was sent as a punishment
For my return to the world of life.

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