Wonderful to hear Bryn sing this awesome "Te Deum" with only piano accompaniment in his stupendous full-throated voice. Because in the opera house, in this ending scene to Act I, Scarpia must sing this riding over a loud chorus and ringing bells and still be heard distinctly. That makes this one of the most demanding and exciting moments in Tosca and Bryn excels when he sings this. A goose bump moment.
Brilliant BRYN, with Amazing Anthony Pappano. I would have been seeing Tosca next month at ROH, this has softened the blow a bit. Thank you both so much 🎶💕🎶
OMG - I pay £oos to see this man play Scarpia and now I can do it for free. The staging of this scene in London always moves me, the way the elevated chorus moves forward to create a wall of sound. They did the same with Fidelio to great effect in March (last pre-covid outing).
OMG Even in a non opera setting this guy sounds amazing. How can people sound like that under non normal conditions? This guy will go down in history as one of the greatest bass-baritone ever.
This is always so beautiful and haunting, brilliant job despite the current situation ❤❤❤ I feel so lucky that I got to see this opera live in the house last year and this was easily one of my favourite scenes as it rises at the end of act 1 with the chorus who emerged from behind - and I'm so happy to hear (and see) that priceless moment again! Thankyou so much 🔥❤🔥❤
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Sir Bryn seems like such a wonderfully fun, kind, and warmhearted human being. So, seeing him as selfish people like Wotan, Scarpia, or Don Giovanni shows the magic of acting...! Thank you for this video!
The cut away at the end to the staging was a strange decision. It makes it look like he didn't manage the big climatic phrase at home in is his music room. Of course I'm sure it wasn't so. This man can sing anything.
It's exactly that he failed the phrase. Poor guy is working tremendously hard to sing this, which should be an easy sing for him in his own living room. Alas, years of pushing have taken their toll on his voice, and the top is gone.
Might partly be due to pushing as said above. However I would mitigate that by saying there is also a problem of acoustics in his lockdown version, which would make these few fortissimo bars sound really useless. There is also the choir in the back, which is a pity to miss.
How lucky do I feel, in those critical days, to have seen Bryn Terfel on stage , as the Baron Scarpia...Not only the musical rendition but the acting is so powerful, that brings tears to ones eyes, at least to mine...Thank you both...
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With some sadness i must ask this question: How did he go from one of the best singers in history to this spread, pushed echo of himself? He’s a great artist and has been a gift to opera, but the vibrato sounds like a lady in the church choir when he isn’t doing straight tones. Where did his pharynx go? I treasure his early albums and listen often. He’s not old- so there’s really no excuse for the degradation of his singing. London, Merrill, and the other greats stayed consistent and he certainly is of that ilk. Unfortunately, he must not have had commitment to the technique that brought him to prominence.
This 'genius' lost "Cardiff Singer of the World 1989" against Dmitri Hvorostovsky, also one of the most beautiful men in the world against one of the ugliest. As baritones, in appearance, as good persons Dmitri was always the winner. Unfortunately those the gods love die young. He was adored by multitudes around the world and is still missed. As for Terfel he's put up with when there's nothing better, problem isn't to have to listen to him, problem is to have to look at him: he scares the bejesus out of my children.
I.... Lord. What would George London think in his grave right now? Hell, what would Cornell MacNeil think about this right now? If this is considered the best then we're in trouble!
George London and Cornell McNeill were run of the mill baritones. The golden age of singers are long since gone where we found ideal Scarpias, therefore in this context, Bryn Terfel did reasonably well in his rendition. Antonio Pappano wouldnt have any Tom, Dick or Harry singing it.
@@waynewilliams4706 "Run of the mill baritones"? What in God's name are you on about? George London wasn't a baritone but a bass-baritone and Cornell MacNeil was one of the few lauded American singers of his time that has taken his place in the pantheon of American Verdi Baritones -- none of which were just your typical "run of the mill" whatever that means. Bryn Terfel isn't a Scarpia; hell, he isn't even a Wagnerian singer. At the very least, he's better off singing earlier repertoire and Mozart where he's still inaudible in that repertoire too. And it's interesting how you say Pappano wouldn't have any ole person singing this role when he himself has no knowledge of what Scarpia is about nor what his motives are. Vocally, a singer singing this aria must have the vocal heft in order to battle the orchestra that is dominated by Percussion and a HUGE chorus singing "Te Deum" all the while having enough vocal resources to get through the rest of the second act for which Terfel wouldn't even have that unless he slurring over notes which isn't Puccinian at all.
@@deadwalke9588 i have come across some Bigots in my life, but you hold the Mantle. You are biased towards certain singers and an insult to great talent. If truth be known, your operatic knowledge is negligible God help us if you were to give a lecture on Tosca and Baron Scarpia. Mr Pappano would leave you standing with his immense knowledge. As for Bryn Terfel, he has been honoured in every Musical capitol.
@@waynewilliams4706 "Bigots". Do you even know what the term represent? How am I racist towards Bryn Terfel. "Biased towards certain singers and an insult to great talent..."? So in your mind you really think I insulted a great talent? That's funny as you insulted Terfel by even claiming he was a Scarpia when he's not even fit to be King Phillip II nor a Wagner Baritone either! He's writing checks he can't vocally cash. How dare you sit there on your high horse and insult the greats with such slander towards them because you're biased towards a subpar artist at best. Where have our standards fallen? Also, it's funny that you claim my operatic knowledge is nothing when compared to Pappano who's own ideas came from other conductors who far superseded his own prowess; matter of fact, he's not even in the conversation for top 10 best conductors of all-time. He would never get that honor as what he say makes no sense (you can listen to his horrid "masterclass" advice he had with those RHO singers). "Bryn Terfel has been honored by many musical institutions..." Yeah, so has Madonna and Cardi B but we wouldn't dare say that THAT makes them far superior artists than Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. The pretentiousness of your statement shows just how little you know what the hell you're talking about and how far we've fallen when it comes down to having standards in this field. God help us all.
@@waynewilliams4706 George London and Cornell MacNeil are baritone legends in the operatic history and it is outright disrespectful to compare them to an underdeveloped voice such as Terfel.
I am sorry. But this in my view, is not good singing. Just saying. Shouting is not beautiful singing. His voice sounds forced at all times. His beautiful velvety color of his past, is gone. But if he gets hired, nothing to say.
Good lord people, for the love of god, stop cheering on rubbish like this. All your fawning removes accountability and the art continues its slow, painful death
che peccato, la voce e' quasi finita, il timbro e' pallido, non ce' cantilena! sempre con la forza, pushing tonque.Non baritono dramatico, non basso. Baritono lirico - questo e' la verita....... Poverino .. (la culminazione non puo cantare - il ragione di prenderla dallo spetaccolo)
It's not about romanticizing rape at all. When you are portraying a character you don't allow yourself to show your contempt for the kind of person the character is. You show the character as authentically as you can, based on what he does in the work, the things he thinks that he says to himself that we can hear. THEN you can judge him, as an audience member. Pappano is a conductor, music director, he talks about Scarpia being interesting in terms of what can be achieved in performance, in terms of portrayal and character work. Interesting doesn't mean morally good.
Scarpia is a man with power, who openly abuses his power to get away with horrible things, and he states his reason for being so in the work. Don't you think in a society as we have now a good and brutal portrayal of how such a man can be in principle can help people spot that kind of people in real life?
Leandro Tomas Cuadra gosh, you read some other post I never wrote. I just said Tosca is the most interesting character because her strength changed and saved the world while Scarpia’s violence is sterile. Don’t try your virtue-signaling on me, sir.
Tosca is a woman whose greatest character flaw is her impulsiveness. She rushes to think that Mario is betraying her when the flimsiest of evidence is dangled in front of her. And yet, it is that impulsiveness that ultimately gives her a fighting chance, when after singing about having never hurt a living thing, she brutally and in self defense murders Scarpia.
You can see how he becomes scarpia as he sings in his eyes and face, amazing
Wonderful to hear Bryn sing this awesome "Te Deum" with only piano accompaniment in his stupendous full-throated voice. Because in the opera house, in this ending scene to Act I, Scarpia must sing this riding over a loud chorus and ringing bells and still be heard distinctly. That makes this one of the most demanding and exciting moments in Tosca and Bryn excels when he sings this. A goose bump moment.
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Listening to this in Feb 2022 doing some research... simply music drama at its best! thank you Antonio and Bryn.
Can belto at its finest.
He was and is from the colours of his voice nothingelse than a Leporello or Figaro, but never Scarpia, Wotan and all theses other extreme roles 🤷
Brilliant BRYN, with Amazing Anthony Pappano. I would have been seeing Tosca next month at ROH, this has softened the blow a bit.
Thank you both so much 🎶💕🎶
Me too :(
Applause! So beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank You! It was amazing!!! 🙂 Bryn Terfel is my favourite singer!🙂
Genious, goosebumps feeling! So great and charismatic artists! Thank you so juch
OMG! Fantastic both of you! Outstanding.
Greetings from Peru!
Giving everything on each note...whit soul and heart...bravissimo.
Fabulous editing and drama.
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Wow! That's fantastic! Bravo, bravo 👏👏👏👏
My fav baritone! God what a voice!
OMG - I pay £oos to see this man play Scarpia and now I can do it for free. The staging of this scene in London always moves me, the way the elevated chorus moves forward to create a wall of sound. They did the same with Fidelio to great effect in March (last pre-covid outing).
IMMENSO TERFEL!!!!
Wow! Raw and magnificent. 'What a piece of work is a man'
Wow, this is... wow!! Thank you so, so much!!!
That is an amazing piece of music and theatre. Every time I hear it I have shivvers going thorough my body and end up almost crying.
Thanks Pappano and Bryn, i'm glad you made it easy for us to hear such beauty, thank you
BRAVO!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is awesome! Brilliant Bryn, to say the least!
Thank you Maestro Pappano and Sir Bryn for sharing this.
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OMG!! What a great idea. Thank you so much!
I love this song, thanks for playing it.
Fantastic!!!!
Super!
Bravo!
First fkn class, gentlemen
'Specially for a home office special. Bravo
Awesome thank you maestros
Wow I absolutely love this! Especially Bryn's laugh at the end. Man you get into character so fabulously.
What a pair of fine musicians
Bravo !!!!!! Bravo!!!!!!
OMG Even in a non opera setting this guy sounds amazing. How can people sound like that under non normal conditions? This guy will go down in history as one of the greatest bass-baritone ever.
a wonderful performance
This is always so beautiful and haunting, brilliant job despite the current situation ❤❤❤ I feel so lucky that I got to see this opera live in the house last year and this was easily one of my favourite scenes as it rises at the end of act 1 with the chorus who emerged from behind - and I'm so happy to hear (and see) that priceless moment again! Thankyou so much 🔥❤🔥❤
Bravooooooo!!! Bravissimo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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bravo!! Maravilha!
Que maravilla!
Vaya dos genios!!
Bravo, bravo!!
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Sir Bryn seems like such a wonderfully fun, kind, and warmhearted human being. So, seeing him as selfish people like Wotan, Scarpia, or Don Giovanni shows the magic of acting...! Thank you for this video!
The cut away at the end to the staging was a strange decision. It makes it look like he didn't manage the big climatic phrase at home in is his music room. Of course I'm sure it wasn't so. This man can sing anything.
It's exactly that he failed the phrase. Poor guy is working tremendously hard to sing this, which should be an easy sing for him in his own living room. Alas, years of pushing have taken their toll on his voice, and the top is gone.
Might partly be due to pushing as said above. However I would mitigate that by saying there is also a problem of acoustics in his lockdown version, which would make these few fortissimo bars sound really useless. There is also the choir in the back, which is a pity to miss.
Amazing singing!
awesome im blown away omg
How lucky do I feel, in those critical days, to have seen Bryn Terfel on stage , as the Baron Scarpia...Not only the musical rendition but the acting is so powerful, that brings tears to ones eyes, at least to mine...Thank you both...
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Superb! Bravi! Tutti e due!
Bravooooo
No Words
真摯に作品に向き合っている感じが伝わってきて感動した。
Wonderful Bryn!
Braaavo Bryen Terfel is a great Bassbariton 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Maravilloso.
Fabulous! Possibly even more spine tingling than the full opera. Thank you!
Excellent
SOOOOOO Freakin Good!!!!
😎😎😎
Brutal!
Bravissimo
Wonderful *********
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voller Eifer, danke!
Such a stunning masterpiece and a tremendous performance! 😮❤ Bravissimo!
Da Iawn Bach!
Wanderfull Congratulation perfect
Bryn should do the phantom in the phantom of the opera. Wish he can sing Music of the Night for us ☺️
Wowowowowowowowow!!!!!!
Jaaaaaaaaaaj!
DIMITRIJ HVOROSTOVSKIJ!❤💕💔💖💞
Manca tantissimo 🤍
@@selini52 Nekem is! 💔
@@selini52 Anche a me!💔
아... 브린터펠 너무 좋다ㅎㅎ
Grandissimo Bryn......
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Bryn I'm Technic on stage a Montecarlo you Falstaff 2010...and your fans for me number one bass baritone
@@francoroselli7154 Email me...
@@brynterfel1994 Are you Mr. Bryn Terfel?
@@gualtiermalde645 I highly doubt it he only has a few subscribers.
His voice is like honey and thunder
The best baritono
Super!! How was the problem of time delay (latency) solved here?
Bloody marvellous!
Imagine being Mr. Terfel's neighbour..
I'd break my windows to hear better
Same
🤩
Great performance though he really pushed........as a result of the very emotional moment.
Bellissimo, anche se fa venire un po' di malinconia. Viva l'opera e viva il teatro!
With some sadness i must ask this question: How did he go from one of the best singers in history to this spread, pushed echo of himself? He’s a great artist and has been a gift to opera, but the vibrato sounds like a lady in the church choir when he isn’t doing straight tones. Where did his pharynx go? I treasure his early albums and listen often. He’s not old- so there’s really no excuse for the degradation of his singing. London, Merrill, and the other greats stayed consistent and he certainly is of that ilk. Unfortunately, he must not have had commitment to the technique that brought him to prominence.
i take a bet this might be on in a few weeks ???
My two very favourite musicians! Thank you ROH!!!!
And the sound of Maestro’s piano is wonderful! What’s the factory?
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Scarpia is wearing Rolex, nice.
Tempo!!!!
💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
where can I find the piano sheet?
Kiegyenlítetlen hang, mi a csudát jubilálnak itt annyian?
Little pushed and spread, but Bryn is one guy who can really pull off the role!
Yes I agree. His technique is not the best, but he's not a horrible singer. He's a decent singer who needs to work on his technique.
This is a wobbly nightmare
This 'genius' lost "Cardiff Singer of the World 1989" against Dmitri Hvorostovsky, also one of the most beautiful men in the world against one of the ugliest. As baritones, in appearance, as good persons Dmitri was always the winner. Unfortunately those the gods love die young. He was adored by multitudes around the world and is still missed. As for Terfel he's put up with when there's nothing better, problem isn't to have to listen to him, problem is to have to look at him: he scares the bejesus out of my children.
8888888888888888💕
I.... Lord. What would George London think in his grave right now? Hell, what would Cornell MacNeil think about this right now? If this is considered the best then we're in trouble!
George London and Cornell McNeill were run of the mill baritones. The golden age of singers are long since gone where we found ideal Scarpias, therefore in this context, Bryn Terfel did reasonably well in his rendition. Antonio Pappano wouldnt have any Tom, Dick or Harry singing it.
@@waynewilliams4706 "Run of the mill baritones"? What in God's name are you on about? George London wasn't a baritone but a bass-baritone and Cornell MacNeil was one of the few lauded American singers of his time that has taken his place in the pantheon of American Verdi Baritones -- none of which were just your typical "run of the mill" whatever that means. Bryn Terfel isn't a Scarpia; hell, he isn't even a Wagnerian singer. At the very least, he's better off singing earlier repertoire and Mozart where he's still inaudible in that repertoire too.
And it's interesting how you say Pappano wouldn't have any ole person singing this role when he himself has no knowledge of what Scarpia is about nor what his motives are. Vocally, a singer singing this aria must have the vocal heft in order to battle the orchestra that is dominated by Percussion and a HUGE chorus singing "Te Deum" all the while having enough vocal resources to get through the rest of the second act for which Terfel wouldn't even have that unless he slurring over notes which isn't Puccinian at all.
@@deadwalke9588 i have come across some Bigots in my life, but you hold the Mantle. You are biased towards certain singers and an insult to great talent. If truth be known, your operatic knowledge is negligible God help us if you were to give a lecture on Tosca and Baron Scarpia. Mr Pappano would leave you standing with his immense knowledge. As for Bryn Terfel, he has been honoured in every Musical capitol.
@@waynewilliams4706 "Bigots". Do you even know what the term represent? How am I racist towards Bryn Terfel. "Biased towards certain singers and an insult to great talent..."? So in your mind you really think I insulted a great talent? That's funny as you insulted Terfel by even claiming he was a Scarpia when he's not even fit to be King Phillip II nor a Wagner Baritone either! He's writing checks he can't vocally cash. How dare you sit there on your high horse and insult the greats with such slander towards them because you're biased towards a subpar artist at best. Where have our standards fallen?
Also, it's funny that you claim my operatic knowledge is nothing when compared to Pappano who's own ideas came from other conductors who far superseded his own prowess; matter of fact, he's not even in the conversation for top 10 best conductors of all-time. He would never get that honor as what he say makes no sense (you can listen to his horrid "masterclass" advice he had with those RHO singers).
"Bryn Terfel has been honored by many musical institutions..." Yeah, so has Madonna and Cardi B but we wouldn't dare say that THAT makes them far superior artists than Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. The pretentiousness of your statement shows just how little you know what the hell you're talking about and how far we've fallen when it comes down to having standards in this field. God help us all.
@@waynewilliams4706 George London and Cornell MacNeil are baritone legends in the operatic history and it is outright disrespectful to compare them to an underdeveloped voice such as Terfel.
I am sorry. But this in my view, is not good singing. Just saying. Shouting is not beautiful singing. His voice sounds forced at all times. His beautiful velvety color of his past, is gone. But if he gets hired, nothing to say.
Oh dear, this vibrato.......... :(((
Good lord people, for the love of god, stop cheering on rubbish like this. All your fawning removes accountability and the art continues its slow, painful death
Soccorso!
Orrendo .
Orribile
che peccato, la voce e' quasi finita, il timbro e' pallido, non ce' cantilena! sempre con la forza, pushing tonque.Non baritono dramatico, non basso. Baritono lirico - questo e' la verita....... Poverino .. (la culminazione non puo cantare - il ragione di prenderla dallo spetaccolo)
@Nicholas Ennos esatto
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It's a good a acting. But bad singing.
Tosca is the most interesting character in Tosca. Scarpia is the very definition of the “banality of evil”. Let’s not romanticize rape.
It's not about romanticizing rape at all. When you are portraying a character you don't allow yourself to show your contempt for the kind of person the character is. You show the character as authentically as you can, based on what he does in the work, the things he thinks that he says to himself that we can hear. THEN you can judge him, as an audience member. Pappano is a conductor, music director, he talks about Scarpia being interesting in terms of what can be achieved in performance, in terms of portrayal and character work. Interesting doesn't mean morally good.
It's a very reductive analysis that you are making here
Scarpia is a man with power, who openly abuses his power to get away with horrible things, and he states his reason for being so in the work. Don't you think in a society as we have now a good and brutal portrayal of how such a man can be in principle can help people spot that kind of people in real life?
Leandro Tomas Cuadra gosh, you read some other post I never wrote. I just said Tosca is the most interesting character because her strength changed and saved the world while Scarpia’s violence is sterile. Don’t try your virtue-signaling on me, sir.
Tosca is a woman whose greatest character flaw is her impulsiveness. She rushes to think that Mario is betraying her when the flimsiest of evidence is dangled in front of her. And yet, it is that impulsiveness that ultimately gives her a fighting chance, when after singing about having never hurt a living thing, she brutally and in self defense murders Scarpia.
Superb!!!
BRAVO!!!