Wow, what beautiful singing. Really hard to believe that is coming out of a person when she presses the gas on those notes. It is so powerful it’s overwhelming. Something that I’m not sure how German it really is, is how she (at the end) sang a very rolled r in the word “Ruh’” before the im Tode sein— she used the rolled r to catapult herself to the top. A seemingly simple aria, she does a good job of rolling r’s throughout, such as in the word “Tränen” and the doubled m’s in Nimmer and kommt. I love the “ist” before the word es where she has a dramatic glottal stop. Even on tricky descending lines such as on “ewig” she still manages to put a nice little soft ch at the. And even on “zurück” she puts a soft k. She doesn’t make an event out of the individual sounds, rather, she lines them up with the meaning of the text.
The second video is great. They coordinate their language very nicely when they are both singing together. Nice ending on the word “Lieb” and additionally on the word “deutlich”, they coordinate the ch sound very nicely. “Nichts” as well, has a nice ch sound to it. The v of Weib is great as well. You also get a very clear ending t’s “Götter” wherein they have stops between the first part of the word and second part.
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