Bastianini fights Cancer and Corelli (1965, BEST SOUND)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- Ettore Bastianini and Franco Corelli sing the three glorious duets from Verdi's La forza del destino.
Bastianini as Don Carlo saying goodye to dying Don Alvaro is especially moving and tragically ironic since Bastianini himself would pass away of cancer some two years after this performance.
This may be Bastianini's final performance in the role of Don Carlo. His final operatic performance would come merely 10 months later.
Here, he is joined by one of the greatest tenors in operatic history, Franco Corelli.
Duet 1:
0:00 Solenne in quest’ora
1:29 Or muoio tranquillo
Duet 2:
4:14 Né gustare m’è dato
6:24 Non io, fu il destino
Duet 3:
12:07 Invano Alvaro ti celasti al mondo
15:32 Le minacce, i fieri accenti
Nello Santi conducts. Live February 1965.
My personal re-equalization and stereoization from the Myto release. - เพลง
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I loved these two glorious singers since I was ten years old. Incredible beauty. Bastianini sang with cancer just as Dmitri did with brain cancer. They sang to the end of the lives. Even with cancer, the singers of today do not compare to Bastianini and Dmitri. Today they think they are great but are only mediocre. Bastianini was the greatest baritone. When I heard these arias with these voices kissed by the gods, it gave me chills. Thanks for sharing.
I went to the performance they did together the week before this broadcast, Bastianini's first performance at the Met after a five year absence. We went backstage, I went to see Corelli, he went to see Bastianini. He reported back he had asked Bastianini if he had any new recordings coming out. Bastianini replied: "Listen to my old ones". Two years later we understood.
ce titre est bien triste ! Mais qui oubliera ces deux fabuleux chanteurs dont on ne retrouvera jamais d' équivalent ? Mention spéciale pour Ettore Bastianini dont je suis une admiratrice inconditionnelle !
Вот что значит Великие певцы,! Эттори , уже будучи больным (😢) и так петь. Какое надо мужество иметь! Великий артист, певец!!! Легенда на века!!!!'🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Amazing clean sound, and great explanations!
Irremplaçable franco corelli immense ténor ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Zwei Giganten des 20. Jahrhunderts - Operngesang pur! Corelli habe ich noch live erlebt in Oper und Konzert - unvergessen! Großartiges Video!
Those must have been amazing experiences. What a way to go to leave the opera, knowing you’ve just witnessed something historic.
Bastianni sounds like his prime years,Corelli is inspired and godlike ! Greatest combo,only ones who compete are Tucker-Merrill. All God voices we won't see again
I don't agree with Bastianini sounding like when he was younger, nonetheless his vocal production is amazing.
I’m glad you mentioned Tucker and Merril - I grew to appreciate them as much as this duo.
Grandes cantores e bons amigos....
Che meraviglia....
Bravo Ettore
Incredible!!!
and they were very close friends, making it even more sad
Corelli & Bastianini also recorded these duets back around 1958 when the latter was still healthy & in his prime. Bastianini does still sound pretty good here & it’s interesting to compare the two sessions. When they sang these duets earlier it was on the film of LA FORZA with Tebaldi & Christoff. I always enjoy Corelli’s 2 diminuendos on the high a flat in the first duet. I suggested to a couple tenors that they might try it as well & they sang the 1st one without the diminuendo & the second with it which was the better choice, IMO. Corelli with Merrill, Tucker with Merrill, Tucker with Warren. Such singing for these roles is not to be heard these days, IMO. Thanks for the posting.
Блестящий дуэт!!! До слёз!!!
Just gorgeous
I never listen to recordings of Bastianini past 1960. It's just so tragic 😢
I think he sounds exceptionally good here. Not as deep and as strong as he had before, but still gives a powerful rendition.
muchas gracias estos archivos no tienen precio!!
This was from the February 1965 broadcast. I was at the Jan 29th performance. I was only 15 yrs old!! My first ever performance of Forza!! With Corelli, Bastianini, and Gabriella Tucci as Leonora and Giorgio Tozzi as Guardiano! I have NEVER attended a similar performance EVER. Also, many opera companies - especially in Europe - omit the second duet. What they do today at the Met, with Gelb, who knows! Sorry, happily as an old-timer: I was at the Met in a truly golden era. I don't believe they have a quartet in today's roster who can equal this 1965 cast. Just sayin'.
Υou were so lucky! Memories to grow old with.
Stupendi entrambi!!!
Credo Bastianini fosse già malato😢
Thank you! It is by far the best recording of the two. It brought joy to my soul. THANKS!
I’m so glad to hear it!
@@matOpera This is how opera SHOULD REALLY BE SUNG!
Bastianini era muy preciso con el fraseo, la dicción, él fue quien le inculcó a Del Mónaco eso, en un ensayo “Debe entenderse todo lo que se canta” y en adelante Mario trato de hacerlo así siempre, “5:56 Don CarloS di VargaS tremate io sono!” Dice Carlos de vargas por ser nombres españoles los dice en español
Bastianini’s sound has lost some of the velvet, but his singing is nothing close to bad. I wonder why, as I have read, he was booed as Scarpia in NY, nobody knowing about the cancer. (To the person who thinks Corelli could not sound this good in ‘65, he continued splendid until something happened in ‘70. That to me is the year that marks the start of his decline.)
In some recordings between 1963 and 1965, you can hear Bastianini’s voice is precarious and sometimes even cracks. But then he could also put together performances like this one, which, though even as you rightly observe lack the velvet of earlier years, are nevertheless formidable.
As for Corelli, I agree something happened, and to my years a couple years earlier. By 1968, he had started to tense up and even crack high notes he had once sung in his stride.
15 years is a good run for any athlete to be top of his game. In Corelli’s case, a god. Tragic about Bastianini. What a testament to human will for the instrument to be even functional when the body wants to fold.
❤️
This was recorded live in 1958, not 1965….i have it on DVD. Bastianini was in excellent shape back then.
I guarantee this is the performance from 1965. The second duet was not performed in Naples in 1958. Bastianini here has one of the finest nights of the last stage of his career, but his voice is still thinner than it was in 1958.
Ok
Io non trovo affatto insicura la grande voce di Corelli ❤questi duetti sono tanto belli da commuovere ....magari avere ancora cantanti lirici di questo calibro 😢😢
Due mostri sacri
This goes well with drinking and my recent obsession with opera
Haha, well I hope drink and enjoy responsibly!
Fights cancer and Corelli? Ridiculous title.
He was quite literally dying of cancer and swordfighting with Corelli on stage.
Con il più grande rispetto per E Bastianini il suo don carlos è tutto quello che questo personaggio di nobile spagnolo non dovrebbe essere
Bastianini is superb, as always. Corelli? Affected and looking for applause, as always. Beautiful tenor voice but so self-centered (because insecure?).
Stupid remark. How can a voice itself identify a singer as being self-centered? And that's all we've got here. No visible proof as there is no video of the performance.....
@@ilecier For me it's all in the voice and the performance. No need for video.
Dumb and thoughtless comment.
Rather incoherent remark-what are you saying about an Italian tenor of the 1950s.
What are you a bloody psychiatrist !?
This sounds like the Rai tv video audio. By 65 neither of these singers sounded this good. But yes, tragedy. This recording is from mid-50s.
Just looked it up. 1958.
@@TD05SSLegacy It is definitely a 1965 live recording (from a certain venue in Am*rica that shall not be named because they are very protective of their recordings). The 1958 RAI performance has not been preserved in such good sound.
Another expert?