gclef2288 (October 11, 2008 at 8:24 pm)

ahhhhh diphthongs....love her voice though...

lordstarlink (October 11, 2008 at 12:48 am)

Interesting how vicious the comments about this lady are. There *is* something there, but she needs an unforgiving vocal coach to enhance her strengths and minimize her weaknesses, control the ornamentation and OTT emoting--all at the risk, I know, of erasing her spontaneity and sincerity. Give DdN 5 years and see how she evolves. New stars deserve encouragement and constructive criticism, not bitchiness!

musicismylifegrazia (October 6, 2008 at 10:14 pm)

just Perfect ...

MajaGBG (September 28, 2008 at 8:04 pm)

Horrible! What is she doing with her beautiful face!? She looks stupid and overdramatic blaech

vonDali (September 21, 2008 at 6:03 pm)

I thing, she has got her period or a stomach ache...she touches her abdomen time and again...:-)))))

acee790 (September 6, 2008 at 7:25 pm)

I've been going through a lot of the comments on her videos and it seems like all people want to do is knit pick her performance rather than sitting back and enjoying the whole piece.She's simply an emotional singer it's not necessarily to cover up her imperfections, its just how she performs. A lot of voice teachers would consider that to be a good thing. The ability to step out of ones self in order to evoke the true nature of the song is a quality few young singer posses

g4thz (August 27, 2008 at 8:21 am)

I'm doing just that.... here are my thoughts: She sounds whiny, particularly, [i] vowels. Her vibrato is inconsistent in terms of application to line and rate (speed). She had a nice trill at the end of the B section. She isn't demonstrating legato (maybe that's how it's written though...) She's really singing right now... it's near the end of the piece. Maybe that's the real issue. She gets so caught up in "being Baroque" she can't Just Sing. It would create some issues. It makes sense to me.

onna00 (August 23, 2008 at 3:04 pm)

I agree, try to listen at it without seeing de Niese

matiseq (August 20, 2008 at 10:03 am)

or you just cant bare the emotions in it (she ist truly beautyfull)

mvconnelly (August 19, 2008 at 6:38 pm)

I agree with many of the comments made here and am wondering if the emotional exaggeration is an attempt to cover up what many have noticed- technical problems. Granted, she is a talented lady in a place few have been and many have tried, but insofar as style, the Piano Forte as one gentlmen had mention coupled with this kind of romantic singing in the Baroque period, isnt ok. It can be argued that this type of evolution is great for the discussion, but in doing so traditions been lost.