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highbrass · 04-06-2008, 11:24 PM

Our local opera company performed "Samson and Delilah" last year, and the only piece I was familiar with (besides the ever-popular Bacchanale) going into seeing the performance was Delilah's aria "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" (which is a famous mezzo soprano aria), but only because I played French horn in a chorus/orchestra job which featured opera arias and choruses. I'm not sure if this is the "waterfall" music that you referred to but it is indeed a very beautiful aria. Here are some examples from YouTube:

Jessye Norman - Samson and Delilah
1994 concert performance at Avery Fisher Hall, Orchestra of St. Luke's

Placido Domingo Olga Borodina 'Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix'
2002 La Scala production (the beginning is cut off, unfortunately)

Denyce Graves - Samson et Dalila
1992 concert performance with Placido Domingo, backed by the Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro

All three are different, but have that full-throated mezzo sound that I like (Denyce Graves having the lighter sound of all three).

Liz

04-06-2008, 11:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
highbrass Pianissimo User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Honolulu, HI Posts: 63	Re: "Samson and Delilah" Our local opera company performed "Samson and Delilah" last year, and the only piece I was familiar with (besides the ever-popular Bacchanale) going into seeing the performance was Delilah's aria "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" (which is a famous mezzo soprano aria), but only because I played French horn in a chorus/orchestra job which featured opera arias and choruses. I'm not sure if this is the "waterfall" music that you referred to but it is indeed a very beautiful aria. Here are some examples from YouTube: Jessye Norman - Samson and Delilah 1994 concert performance at Avery Fisher Hall, Orchestra of St. Luke's Placido Domingo Olga Borodina 'Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix' 2002 La Scala production (the beginning is cut off, unfortunately) Denyce Graves - Samson et Dalila 1992 concert performance with Placido Domingo, backed by the Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro All three are different, but have that full-throated mezzo sound that I like (Denyce Graves having the lighter sound of all three). Liz __________________ "I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it." ~from "The Shawshank Redemption"