Uyaras: The Enchanted Voice
Uyaras: The Enchanted Voice Bruno de Sá (soprano), Orchestre et Choeur de L’Opéra de Rouen, Pierre Dumoussand (conductor) Erato I strongly suspect Uyaras will prove one of those subtle but decisive moments for sopranists, when the bar is moved up a notch and everyone is carried with it, like opening bars of Berlioz’s ‘Villanelle’ from Les Nuits d’été sung by David Daniels (06/04) which made me think falsetto-land would never quite be the same again. Much has changed since then, with both the rise of male sopranists such as Bruno de Sá and the seriousness now accorded, rightly, to their performances. One need only look at the response to Warner Classics’ video of de Sá singing Saint-Saëns’s Le Cygne : the fascination is no longer simply that a man can produce these notes, but with the beauty, control and individuality of the voice itself. Yet comparisons with countertenors only get us so far. Male sopranists belong to a different vocal world, and de Sá increasingly reveals just how dif...
