I was there too and I won’t forget it. The reaction of the audience was simply amazing, everybody in the fifth floor stood up and applauded for a very long time. I was very young then but I’ll never forget that night! Montserrat Caballe was there too and she was very kind and paid him her respect!
If only the modern listener and performer would learn. *This* is how a real tenor sounds. From Puritani to Manrico, even Otello. Bright and powerful. This is the voice. Not a woofy, pseudo-dark, throaty, covered-to-death, muffled sound that only carries with the help of electronics.
Wouldn't get hired? Really!?! Why? Maybe your not kidding... Feel free to explain. Some of the greatest singing I've ever heard. I'm all ears (no pun). I would love to know why he wouldn't get hired today, got me curious. . .
@@dsmythe5329 They'd tell him that his vibrato is too fast, that his voice isn't dark enough and that his style is too old fashioned. Among other things I guess.
Thx for the response... I got ya! If that would hold true, as I trust your judgement, that's unfortunate. So much for individuality/authentic romantic style in 2021. I wonder what Verdi would think, if he were around today!?! Hmm 🤔 Sure would be interesting if we could get his 2 cents. . . Who knows how he'd react if he could hear a contemporary performance of his work. Maybe he'd run for the hills or head for the nearest pub to tie a few on. Nonetheless, thanks for the input... Always open to discussion.
@@dsmythe5329Interesting question. I think he’d love the orchestras which are on a much higher level than in Italy in the 19th century. A performance under the strict Muti would possibly please him more than anything else as Verdi hated when his scores were altered (he said so in his letters, and most scores were altered during his lifetime). As to the singing… impossible to tell. The singing is what has changed most during the 20th Century, influenced and normalised by records made by people who sang in a style different from the one Verdi was used to…
1930s Lauri-Volpi is probably my favourite of all tenor singing (it's very moving though to see him still in such relatively good voice in old age in the Nessun Dorma) . He was incredible. 0_0 Would love to go back in time and see him live. Thanks for this great compilation.
Una delle leggende della lirica grandissimo sino in fondo, questi pseudo tenori di oggi,specialmente i fenomeni da baraccone microfonati, dovrebbero inchinarsi
Not only did he have a voluminous voice but splendid control. Just listen to the end of A te o cara, the beautiful mezza voce and diminuendo not to mention that clarion high C. The ending of Bianca al par from Gli Ugonotti is magnificent, and that gorgeous piano in the duet followed by those explosive and heroic ringing high notes. His voice is heroic but has a lot of lyricism.
An era when All The Greatest were alive together. Caruso, Anderson, Olivero, Ruffo, Muzio, Tetrazzini, Galli-Curci, le Ponzilli, Scuderi, Pampanini, Dal Monte. What an era of amazing voices and supreme technique...
He inspired so many great tenors who followed... the pure, powerful voice, unadulterated by modern electronic "enhancement" (which would have rendered it neutral), even using the primitive recording techniques, shines through. The best of the best.
@@nthdegree1269 I do find it beautiful, but I know it's not "conventionally beautiful" because it's a very piercing voice. I think he had the purest and freest tenor voice ever
Shame on me I had never heard of Giacomo Lauri Volpi. I am so glad I am being given notice when opera comes on my laptop, What a way to start my day. He is magnificent.
@@oliverdelica2289 Incorrect .LV wasn't FC's teacher .FC just visited LV in Spain in between seasons for short periods of time,to get a bit of advice .Read Zucker's interviews . FC was actually aware that his (FC's) technique wasn't good,but he wasn't prepared to take a long time off to correct it because he was already in the threading mill and was making money. So all he took from LV was a bit of advice here and there .LV never said he was FC's teacher
@@sugarbisti agree, my favourite note of caruso is his G4 in E lucevan le stelle. Not particulary high but his silky timbre is otherwordly. I think his g4-a4 is unmatched.
My dear, most belated voice-teacher used to tell to a select few of us (she was a Southern Bell) the story of when one of the lady staff accompanists at University of North Texas (back then North Texas State) would say when the wonderful tenor Eugene Conley would sing: “Ohhhh, his voice makes my loins quiver!” Conley had a clarion voice, but not of this magnitude. I love Lauri-Volpi.
I adore prime Lauri-Volpi. In a way, he reminds me of early Callas. Neither had a conventionally beautiful voice. Both lacked a certain roundness of tone. But both had absolute control over dynamics and breath support, and so were able to phrase with the detailed finesse of a leider singer - but on an absolutely huge scale. They sang together in Trovatore in 1951 - a lovely performance, with Serafin at the helm.
Poor us. Tenors of that period where so much better. Today we have muffled darker sounding tenors. Off course there are a few good ones but still. Volpi, Del Monaco and so many more of that time...the richness and full throttle possibilities....but still be able to sing the loveliest pianissimo....wow. Bravo to that generation and again....poor us.
I am okay with dark tenor timbres. Caruso had a dark timbre. What I don't like about some tenors of our time is the throaty sound that you hear, for example, in Jonas Kaufmann and Rolando Villazón. Moreover, I don't know of a current tenor who sings legato as masterfully as Lauri-Volpi did.
Funny you compare Lauri-Volpi and Del Monaco. In my opinion the two are at opposite ends of the spectrum with regard to technique and interpretation. Lauri-Volpi had volume and dramatic high notes but his timbre comes from a place of healthy gentle cord adduction which allows for the dynamics he is so known for. Del Monaco on the other hand is a very muscular singer with a chest-heavy mechanism pushed up to his high B natural, which is thrilling to listen to but never allowed for much dynamic variation and limited interpretation.
Negative thinking. It is just based on technique based on raccolto sound based on “ oo” vowel. Poor us mai!! That is the attitude that makes this “ dark times”
Del Monaco could not sing softly to save his life. His one fault. Still a great tenor. Of the heroic ones, Volpi, Vickers and Bergonzi are my favourites
Τί υπέροχη και τεράστια φωνή!! Να ήταν η συγκίνησή του που σε τέτοια προχωρημένη ηλικία τον καταχειροκρότησαν για την αγέραστη φωνή του ,που τον έκανε να τρεκλισει στο τέλος; Απίστευτος τενόρος!! Αξεπέραστος!! ένα από τα ιερά τέρατα της παλιάς καλής Όπερας.
Πράγματι, υπήρξε από τούς μεγαλύτερους τενόρους τού περασμένου αιώνα. Είχε φωνή ευέλικτη, που τού επέτρεπε να τραγουδά τόσο λυρικούς, όσο και δραματικούς ρόλους. Οι δε ψηλές νότες του έχουν μείνει θρυλικές. Ευχαριστώ για την ωραία και ενδιαφέρουσα ανάρτηση.
Aetion Και είναι για μένα πραγματικά αξιοπερίεργο πως κατάφερε να διατηρήσει και την. Ποιότητα της φωνής του και όλο το εύρος της ανέπαφο μέχρι το τελος της ζωής του! Πραγματικά δεν έχει υπάρξει τενόρος με τόσο ευρύ φάσμα ρόλων λυρικών και δραματικών που να έχει τετοια φωνητική μακροζωία!!
Πραγματικά ένας από τους καλύτερους, τρομερός τεχνίτης, εξού και ο λόγος που διατήρησε τη φωνή του. Έχουμε και έναν τέτοιο εν ζωή ακόμα, τον Σαλβατορε Φισικελλα με τον οποίο είχα και την τύχη να μελετήσω πριν αρκετά χρόνια.
Sure...Corelli asked him for help when Franco was preparing Gli Ugonotti in la Scala. Lauri Volpi helped him during 3 travels at Burjasot, Valencia, Spain, where lauri Volpi lived with his Spanish wife. Corelli said that he never heard a more luminous and brilliant voice than Lauri Volpi's voice. th-cam.com/video/L3-ou-li6C4/w-d-xo.html
Franco Corelli was one of three great tenors who came to Lauri-Volpi for vocal or interpretive help. The other two were Alfredo Kraus and Carlo Bergonzi. All three idolized him not only as a tenor who sang bel canto and verismo roles, but also as a man of culture and higher learning. While being raised in a monastery he wrote a definitive translation of Thomas Aquinas’s “Treatise on Law.” Then he began his legal studies, which were interrupted by World War One, in which he became one of Italy’s most decorated infantrymen. He served as a trial lawyer briefly, then devoted himself to a singing career that lasted over 40 years.
Tuvo una técnica excepcional. Lo que no sé si en su época de mayor esplendor los instrumentos musicales se afinaban igual que ahora (el La 440 entiendo que en el siglo XIX era La 420 y tantos solamente y no sé hasta cuándo duró, hoy en música pura se afinan al La 444 entiendo).
Absolutamente. GLV era un _verdadero_ tenor al estilo de los antiguos héroes del s.XIX, los Tamagno, Gayarre, Marconi, Viñas, etc. Lamentablemente esto ya es historia y el deplorable panorama lírico actual no hace más que confirmarlo. Por suerte nos quedan las grabaciones para deleitarnos.
I was in the theater in Barcelona when he sang Nessun Dorma, at 79 years old. His voice sounded like a bell. It was apotheosis
The recording tells no lies. Montserrat was there too! Love him!
can imagine when he was young for people listening him live!
You are such a blessed person!!!
th-cam.com/video/DGXy6fYwe7U/w-d-xo.html
Is this what you're referring?
I was there too and I won’t forget it. The reaction of the audience was simply amazing, everybody in the fifth floor stood up and applauded for a very long time. I was very young then but I’ll never forget that night! Montserrat Caballe was there too and she was very kind and paid him her respect!
An extraordinary voice! I am not surprised that Franco Corelli trusted Maestro Lauri Volpi the most.
If only the modern listener and performer would learn. *This* is how a real tenor sounds. From Puritani to Manrico, even Otello. Bright and powerful. This is the voice. Not a woofy, pseudo-dark, throaty, covered-to-death, muffled sound that only carries with the help of electronics.
It is even worse than that. I dear say if a tenor sang like that today he would not get hired.
Wouldn't get hired? Really!?! Why? Maybe your not kidding... Feel free to explain. Some of the greatest singing I've ever heard. I'm all ears (no pun). I would love to know why he wouldn't get hired today, got me curious. . .
@@dsmythe5329 They'd tell him that his vibrato is too fast, that his voice isn't dark enough and that his style is too old fashioned. Among other things I guess.
Thx for the response... I got ya! If that would hold true, as I trust your judgement, that's unfortunate. So much for individuality/authentic romantic style in 2021. I wonder what Verdi would think, if he were around today!?! Hmm 🤔 Sure would be interesting if we could get his 2 cents. . . Who knows how he'd react if he could hear a contemporary performance of his work. Maybe he'd run for the hills or head for the nearest pub to tie a few on. Nonetheless, thanks for the input... Always open to discussion.
@@dsmythe5329Interesting question. I think he’d love the orchestras which are on a much higher level than in Italy in the 19th century. A performance under the strict Muti would possibly please him more than anything else as Verdi hated when his scores were altered (he said so in his letters, and most scores were altered during his lifetime). As to the singing… impossible to tell. The singing is what has changed most during the 20th Century, influenced and normalised by records made by people who sang in a style different from the one Verdi was used to…
SUPERHUMAN! No lip syncing, no digital enhancing. Superb!
incredible!!! real giant volcano voice!!! he is the best of the best!!!
1930s Lauri-Volpi is probably my favourite of all tenor singing (it's very moving though to see him still in such relatively good voice in old age in the Nessun Dorma) . He was incredible. 0_0 Would love to go back in time and see him live. Thanks for this great compilation.
Una delle leggende della lirica grandissimo sino in fondo, questi pseudo tenori di oggi,specialmente i fenomeni da baraccone microfonati, dovrebbero inchinarsi
Not only did he have a voluminous voice but splendid control. Just listen to the end of A te o cara, the beautiful mezza voce and diminuendo not to mention that clarion high C. The ending of Bianca al par from Gli Ugonotti is magnificent, and that gorgeous piano in the duet followed by those explosive and heroic ringing high notes. His voice is heroic but has a lot of lyricism.
Immensa figura nella lirica con una voce spiegata, bella e squillante.
An era when All The Greatest were alive together. Caruso, Anderson, Olivero, Ruffo, Muzio, Tetrazzini, Galli-Curci, le Ponzilli, Scuderi, Pampanini, Dal Monte. What an era of amazing voices and supreme technique...
Great! Beautiful voice and such a power!
Fan data, at min 11:10 Caballé is waiting for him backstage and gave him a kiss! Lovely image!
Senza parole: solo ammirazione e tanta commozione!
He inspired so many great tenors who followed... the pure, powerful voice, unadulterated by modern electronic "enhancement" (which would have rendered it neutral), even using the primitive recording techniques, shines through. The best of the best.
Stupendo... Una vocalità talmente limpida, da rendere tutto semplicissimo
Franco Corelli sounds like his Master Lauri Volpi´s vocal technique i mean! From Buenos Aires' Argentina. Gracias
He was splendid! Maybe not the most beautiful voice but, to me, the most amazing sound to ever come from a tenor throat.
I've always thought his voice was beautiful I guess I'm strange. Lol
@@nthdegree1269 Then l'm strange too 😀
@@nthdegree1269 You're not strange
@@nthdegree1269 I do find it beautiful, but I know it's not "conventionally beautiful" because it's a very piercing voice. I think he had the purest and freest tenor voice ever
@@crisha721 i get what you mean. The same was said about Callas actually
Amazing tenor, ❤what a great voice!
This Man, just wow 😮
Shame on me I had never heard of Giacomo Lauri Volpi. I am so glad I am being
given notice when opera comes on my laptop, What a way to start my day. He is magnificent.
Yes, Volpi was fantastic. Try his Bianca Al Par video from Ugonotti, A Te O Cara, and the Gugliemo Tell arias
Volpi taught Corelli actually
@@oliverdelica2289 Incorrect .LV wasn't FC's teacher .FC just visited LV in Spain in between seasons for short periods of time,to get a bit of advice .Read Zucker's interviews . FC was actually aware that his (FC's) technique wasn't good,but he wasn't prepared to take a long time off to correct it because he was already in the threading mill and was making money. So all he took from LV was a bit of advice here and there .LV never said he was FC's teacher
Sure is unbelievable nobody could touch him today or that matter I can’t remember when.
Volpi had an incredible voice. Great harmonics, Mezza voce, and a voice with vibrations that perhaps traveled further than any other tenor
Except for The Great Mr Caruso. Anyone else, zero comparisons.
@@niamcd6604 Yes of course, but Caruso was not a high note singer proficient in Puritani, Ugonotti, Gugliemo Tell and Poliuto.
@@sugarbisti agree, my favourite note of caruso is his G4 in E lucevan le stelle. Not particulary high but his silky timbre is otherwordly. I think his g4-a4 is unmatched.
My dear, most belated voice-teacher used to tell to a select few of us (she was a Southern Bell) the story of when one of the lady staff accompanists at University of North Texas (back then North Texas State) would say when the wonderful tenor Eugene Conley would sing: “Ohhhh, his voice makes my loins quiver!” Conley had a clarion voice, but not of this magnitude. I love Lauri-Volpi.
I adore prime Lauri-Volpi. In a way, he reminds me of early Callas. Neither had a conventionally beautiful voice. Both lacked a certain roundness of tone. But both had absolute control over dynamics and breath support, and so were able to phrase with the detailed finesse of a leider singer - but on an absolutely huge scale. They sang together in Trovatore in 1951 - a lovely performance, with Serafin at the helm.
Great Voice
Magnificent Performance and Feelings
Fuck i mean far out wow what a voice magnificent just breathtaking
Poor us. Tenors of that period where so much better. Today we have muffled darker sounding tenors. Off course there are a few good ones but still. Volpi, Del Monaco and so many more of that time...the richness and full throttle possibilities....but still be able to sing the loveliest pianissimo....wow. Bravo to that generation and again....poor us.
I am okay with dark tenor timbres. Caruso had a dark timbre. What I don't like about some tenors of our time is the throaty sound that you hear, for example, in Jonas Kaufmann and Rolando Villazón. Moreover, I don't know of a current tenor who sings legato as masterfully as Lauri-Volpi did.
Funny you compare Lauri-Volpi and Del Monaco. In my opinion the two are at opposite ends of the spectrum with regard to technique and interpretation. Lauri-Volpi had volume and dramatic high notes but his timbre comes from a place of healthy gentle cord adduction which allows for the dynamics he is so known for. Del Monaco on the other hand is a very muscular singer with a chest-heavy mechanism pushed up to his high B natural, which is thrilling to listen to but never allowed for much dynamic variation and limited interpretation.
Negative thinking. It is just based on technique based on raccolto sound based on “ oo” vowel. Poor us mai!! That is the attitude that makes this “ dark times”
Del Monaco could not sing softly to save his life. His one fault. Still a great tenor. Of the heroic ones, Volpi, Vickers and Bergonzi are my favourites
@@revereirschedule8966 There are more than many examples of Del Monaco singing with variation here on YT.
Great...Bravo!!!
commovente quando sta per perdere l'equilibrio...fantastico
The public that disliked him would shout ‘Lauri CANI !!’ 😂
EXQUISITA VOZ
First time I heard him singing.
Великий певец, божественный Голос!
This is beautiful Thank you Arnold Bourbon Amaral
Esplêndido! Bravo!
Pretty sure we will never see anyone even close to GLV again.
Τί υπέροχη και τεράστια φωνή!! Να ήταν η συγκίνησή του που σε τέτοια προχωρημένη ηλικία τον καταχειροκρότησαν για την αγέραστη φωνή του ,που τον έκανε να τρεκλισει στο τέλος; Απίστευτος τενόρος!! Αξεπέραστος!! ένα από τα ιερά τέρατα της παλιάς καλής Όπερας.
maravilloso
Thanks so much
Πράγματι, υπήρξε από τούς μεγαλύτερους τενόρους τού περασμένου αιώνα. Είχε φωνή ευέλικτη, που τού επέτρεπε να τραγουδά τόσο λυρικούς, όσο και δραματικούς ρόλους. Οι δε ψηλές νότες του έχουν μείνει θρυλικές.
Ευχαριστώ για την ωραία και ενδιαφέρουσα ανάρτηση.
Aetion Και είναι για μένα πραγματικά αξιοπερίεργο πως κατάφερε να διατηρήσει και την. Ποιότητα της φωνής του και όλο το εύρος της ανέπαφο μέχρι το τελος της ζωής του! Πραγματικά δεν έχει υπάρξει τενόρος με τόσο ευρύ φάσμα ρόλων λυρικών και δραματικών που να έχει τετοια φωνητική μακροζωία!!
@@OperaMyWorld Πράγματι!! Ένα φωνητικό θαύμα!!!
Πραγματικά ένας από τους καλύτερους, τρομερός τεχνίτης, εξού και ο λόγος που διατήρησε τη φωνή του. Έχουμε και έναν τέτοιο εν ζωή ακόμα, τον Σαλβατορε Φισικελλα με τον οποίο είχα και την τύχη να μελετήσω πριν αρκετά χρόνια.
This is singing!
I believe he was one of Corelli's idols also
Sure...Corelli asked him for help when Franco was preparing Gli Ugonotti in la Scala. Lauri Volpi helped him during 3 travels at Burjasot, Valencia, Spain, where lauri Volpi lived with his Spanish wife. Corelli said that he never heard a more luminous and brilliant voice than Lauri Volpi's voice. th-cam.com/video/L3-ou-li6C4/w-d-xo.html
@@CotaDangelo And yet Corelli chose not to heed the advice to lighten the mid voice.
That’s essentially an airtight guarantee. And he’s completely right.
Not surprised Corelli thought so highly of him. Such beauty and power combined
Franco Corelli was one of three great tenors who came to Lauri-Volpi for vocal or interpretive help. The other two were Alfredo Kraus and Carlo Bergonzi. All three idolized him not only as a tenor who sang bel canto and verismo roles, but also as a man of culture and higher learning. While being raised in a monastery he wrote a definitive translation of Thomas Aquinas’s “Treatise on Law.” Then he began his legal studies, which were interrupted by World War One, in which he became one of Italy’s most decorated infantrymen. He served as a trial lawyer briefly, then devoted himself to a singing career that lasted over 40 years.
Tuvo una técnica excepcional. Lo que no sé si en su época de mayor esplendor los instrumentos musicales se afinaban igual que ahora (el La 440 entiendo que en el siglo XIX era La 420 y tantos solamente y no sé hasta cuándo duró, hoy en música pura se afinan al La 444 entiendo).
Franco Corelli (!!!) si onorava della amicizia di Lauri-Volpi che considerava un gigante della lirica!
... e andava regolarmente in Spagna per allenarsi al bel canto con il Sommo Maestro
😅most incredible
Recital de qué año?
Por qué se muere lo que eterno debería ser?
Real opera
How I have never heard lauri volpi but I knew that Franco Corelli studied with him and I now see how Corelli copied volpis high notes
ESSE É MITO. CARUSO E PAVAROTTI EM COMUM TIVERAM A MÁQUINA PUBLICITÁRIA AMERICANA. CARUSO UM ""TENOR"" LIMITADO E PAVAROTTI UM BOM LÍRICO LIGEIRO.
Hahahha. Bestemmia!
Absolutamente. GLV era un _verdadero_ tenor al estilo de los antiguos héroes del s.XIX, los Tamagno, Gayarre, Marconi, Viñas, etc. Lamentablemente esto ya es historia y el deplorable panorama lírico actual no hace más que confirmarlo. Por suerte nos quedan las grabaciones para deleitarnos.
Pavarotti era lírico, solo que su voz le permitía hacer de lirico ligero.
CARTA FORA DO BARALHO.