I have to say, if this is in the 80's she sounds GREAT. Man oh man can she sing. My favorite Rigoletto is Milnes, somewhere there is a live recording of Sutherland, Pavarotti, and Milnes in the early 70's, talk about vocal fireworks!! Pav sings to a D, Milnes to a b-flat, and Joan take every optional high ending. It's amazing!!!
Una Sutherland che è una meravigliosa certezza insuperabile anche over sessanta, un Nucci Rigoletto Assoluto ... che timbro tondo ed incandescente, che passione viscerale, che dolore cocente, che fuoco divorante nelle corde! Un grandissimo Rigoletto, uno dei migliori di sempre!
I usually don't care for Leo Nucci, but he's at his best here. And Sutherland -- it's simply amazing how youthful she sounds at age 61! I'm definitely ordering this on DVD.
Leo Nucci is officially recognized as the best singing Rigoletto--that is, the best Rigoletto who's singing at the moment. Furthermore, he's recognized as a definitive Rigoletto (just like Tito Gobbi was). Nucci is a fantastic singer and a great actor, and he just sang "Si, vendetta" on 3 encores in Piacenza and at least 1 encore just a month ago in Parma. He's 66, he's singing and may God grant him many more years of such a great voice.
♡☆♡ Bravo!!! Magnificent!!! R.I.P.---Joan & Luciano. Your beautiful vocals will live forever in us. Thank you so much for posting & sharing this superb clip.☆♡☆
I don't know why he is so under appreciated and rarely named with the greats. I do know he is a beloved star at La Scala. They had a gala concert in honor of his 30th anniversary there, about 4 years ago. He sang baritone arias from just about every opera he ever sung there, and sounded amazing. The audience was in a frenzy. The whole thing is posted here on youtube. I hope he comes to the Met one last time before he retires. He still sounds great, and not just for his age. Just great period!
QUANTA INVIDIA NEI VOSTRI COMMENTI....LEO NUCCI E' RIGOLETTO X VOCE E PRESENZA SCENICA! L'UNICO DEGNO DI INTERPRETARE QUESTO PERSONAGGIO MERAVIGLIOSO.LA SUTHERLAND DIVINA COME SEMPRE..!
The official recognition has been given to Leo Nuci by the opera admirers and the opera critique. Read the reviews, they're glowing every time he performs. He was called for and gave 3 encores in Piacenza a year ago (in one evening) and an encore on the premiere in Parma last October, and the audience and the critics went wild. Doesn't get much more official than that, does it.
@Cramnella I took my niece to her first opera this year....Rigoletto. She loved it and couldn't stop talking about it for days. She can't wait for the next evening at the opera.....so there is hope that a new wave of opera fans is emerging.
I know people will disagree, and that for whatever reason Nucci has his critics, but for my money he is the best Rigoletto ever, as well as one of the all time great Verdi baritones, right up there with Warren, Merrill, Milnes, etc. I find every performance thrilling, with a dramtic intensity that puts many of today's leading baritones to shame. He was in the very first opera I ever attended (Traviata), 25 years ago, and he has been my favorite baritone ever since.
I like Tito and other baritones of the past. However, the voice of Leo is perhaps the most balanced, melodic,pleasant and colorful among the famous opera singers and this is very important.
I was onstage with many wonderful Rigolettos. Nucci, Manuguerra, Milnes, Wixell, Quillico and Merrill (at the end of his career). It's hard to choose between them. But my 3 favorites were Manuguerra, Quillico and Nucci.
The original sequence of the final three notes is: Fb, Eb, Db. The "tradition" is to sing some variation on this: Ab, B double-flat (high A), Ab, Db. This is VERY high in the baritone voice, and lots of Rigolettos come to grief when the attempt it. Milnes, though not my favorite Rigoletto, went the highest anyone has. He sang Ab, Cb (high B natural!), B double-flat (A natural), Ab and Db.
Leo, It happens allot; two different persons looking at the same thing and thinking about it differently, and some times in totally opposite directions! Jaja! That`s life! See: you and me we both like music, and singing, and the baritone voice, and agree about many baritones being great, and about Nucci not being so great... and then: when it comes to your (I guess so) favourite baritone, Tibbett... I turn you down! God! Jaja!!! Just for sharing: my favourite of all times is Bastianinni. Thanks
As I've stated elsewhere, I agree 100% with your view of Nucci. For the life of me, I cannot fathom how so many people can mention him in the same breath as the greats you mentioned (though no list of mine would omit Tibbett). He's not bad, but his timbre is just not as attractive, he barks too often for my taste, and he cannot modulate his voice to fit the words like Tibbett or Gobbi. His greatest luck was that Pavarotti always chose him for his big roles and performances, for whatever reason.
@Hako2004 That is a great one to start with. My first opera was a 17 year old was "La Boheme" and that one was a bit slow moving. Those who like opera won't like each one (I'm not a Wagner fan myself)... hopefully your niece will find a genre/composer that she really loves!
Nucci is not my favorite Rigoletto, - Milnes is - but he is certainly one of the best. and he is definitely my favorite Iago . I listened to his both recordings( when he was young with Pavarotti and Solti, and the late one with domingo and Muti form la scala, he is always on the top) but the miracle in this video as i believe is Dame Sutherland makes us have tears everytime we watch the video and forgetting that she was 61 years old !! how could she convince us that she is an 18 year -old girl !
Leo, a pleasure to meet you! It´s always good for me to share with others. I think that Lawrence Tibbett had an outstanding instrument: very loud, very long range; as dip as a bass as height as a tenor and always very "ringing" and heavy. Buy... (ahaha!!!) Not for me. Why? For one reason he had a "caprino" vibrato which is a thing that I dislike extremely. But most of all: his interpretations were over acted or cold, for my taste. A voice as powerful as his, that I do like, is Leonard Warren.
I love Bastianini. He and Merrill had the most beautiful baritone voices, and he was a fine singer too. But I truly love great interpreters, who do not merely "sing" a beautiful aria, but literally "live" the music and its every changing emotion. Among tenors, no one did that more often or better than Caruso; among baritones, it was Gobbi and Tibbett, but Gobbi's voice was lacking. In any case, it's a pleasure to debate opera with an intelligent and decent person.
No, its not a miracle. Lots of unique, non-traditional techniques have made long careers because they can breathe and support. He is singing to this very day, at a very high quality.
I respect your opinion and taste, but I find it hardto understand how anyone could be left "cold" by Tibbett. If ever there was a singer whose voice oozed with drama, and whose every sung note literally reflected the meaning of the spoken word - be it the sinister malevolence of Iago's Credo, the pure evil of "Le veau d'or," or the fatherly warmth of "Di Provenza" - it was Tibbett. Add to that a remarkable voice and exquisite musicality, and it makes him No. 1 in my book.
Of course he looks like he's about to have a stroke! His only daughter, the only positive part of his wretched life has just died, thanks to a plan he set in motion and went horribly awry! This is the culmination of the work: the curse plays itself out! On top of that, it's a very difficult high note for any baritone demand extreme effort and concentration, you wouldn't expect him to do it with a jolly smile on his face!
Realmete este video es algo para eyacular. Muy bueno la señora Sutherland para actuar tiene menos onda que un zapallo, pero las voces estan muy bien y yo personalmente amo al señor Nucci
One more opinion: Nucci is not among the greatest, (Like: Ruffo, Warren, Merril, Bastianinni, Londón, Mc Neil, Gobbi, and others.) Because he's timber is not a very beautiful one, an the baritonal sound of he's is not the idyllic one, nor is he's singing-line witch is invaded of portamentos. But YES he is very good, fiato, high notes, volume, and he is very smart, very convincing, expressive, and committed. And about Gobbi... fabulous artist, smart musician, but not an spectacular voice.
I have to say, if this is in the 80's she sounds GREAT. Man oh man can she sing.
My favorite Rigoletto is Milnes, somewhere there is a live recording of Sutherland, Pavarotti, and Milnes in the early 70's, talk about vocal fireworks!! Pav sings to a D, Milnes to a b-flat, and Joan take every optional high ending. It's amazing!!!
Una Sutherland che è una meravigliosa certezza insuperabile anche over sessanta, un Nucci Rigoletto Assoluto ... che timbro tondo ed incandescente, che passione viscerale, che dolore cocente, che fuoco divorante nelle corde! Un grandissimo Rigoletto, uno dei migliori di sempre!
The performance was January of 1987. Sutherland was just into her sixties. An amazing voice to the end.
I usually don't care for Leo Nucci, but he's at his best here. And Sutherland -- it's simply amazing how youthful she sounds at age 61! I'm definitely ordering this on DVD.
+Detectivefiction Ain't that the truth?!
Leo Nucci is a Tenor.
the Great Sutherland, paired up with The Nucci....This is just heart wrenching and brillliant. Bravo~!. Thank you for sharing.
Leo Nucci is officially recognized as the best singing Rigoletto--that is, the best Rigoletto who's singing at the moment. Furthermore, he's recognized as a definitive Rigoletto (just like Tito Gobbi was). Nucci is a fantastic singer and a great actor, and he just sang "Si, vendetta" on 3 encores in Piacenza and at least 1 encore just a month ago in Parma. He's 66, he's singing and may God grant him many more years of such a great voice.
THIS OPERA IS ONE OF THE BEST PERFORMANCES OF DAME SUTHERLAND. MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE.
She will be remembered. R.I.P.
Of the over 20 performances I've seen at the Met, Leo Nucci's Rigoletto was by far the best. He threw himself into the role and was fantastic
♡☆♡ Bravo!!! Magnificent!!! R.I.P.---Joan & Luciano. Your beautiful vocals will live forever in us. Thank you so much for posting & sharing this superb clip.☆♡☆
To bluetagg:
Leo Nucci is so great that he deserves every applause he's ever gotten and will get!
Magnificent Nucci!
Leo Nucci, excelente
Magnifique Léo Nucci...
Gilda!! Mia Gilda! É Morta!
R.I.P Dame Joan Sutherland!!! :((
I don't know why he is so under appreciated and rarely named with the greats. I do know he is a beloved star at La Scala. They had a gala concert in honor of his 30th anniversary there, about 4 years ago. He sang baritone arias from just about every opera he ever sung there, and sounded amazing. The audience was in a frenzy. The whole thing is posted here on youtube. I hope he comes to the Met one last time before he retires. He still sounds great, and not just for his age. Just great period!
Saw Rigoletto this weekend in Sweden. What an amazing opera!
OMG.....thanks a lot for posting this video. so great.
QUANTA INVIDIA NEI VOSTRI COMMENTI....LEO NUCCI E' RIGOLETTO X VOCE E PRESENZA SCENICA! L'UNICO DEGNO DI INTERPRETARE QUESTO PERSONAGGIO MERAVIGLIOSO.LA SUTHERLAND DIVINA COME SEMPRE..!
leo nucci forever!
The official recognition has been given to Leo Nuci by the opera admirers and the opera critique. Read the reviews, they're glowing every time he performs. He was called for and gave 3 encores in Piacenza a year ago (in one evening) and an encore on the premiere in Parma last October, and the audience and the critics went wild. Doesn't get much more official than that, does it.
@Cramnella
I took my niece to her first opera this year....Rigoletto. She loved it and couldn't stop talking about it for days. She can't wait for the next evening at the opera.....so there is hope that a new wave of opera fans is emerging.
Such a powerful finale. heartbreaking
Bravo Sutherland and Nucci.
I know people will disagree, and that for whatever reason Nucci has his critics, but for my money he is the best Rigoletto ever, as well as one of the all time great Verdi baritones, right up there with Warren, Merrill, Milnes, etc. I find every performance thrilling, with a dramtic intensity that puts many of today's leading baritones to shame. He was in the very first opera I ever attended (Traviata), 25 years ago, and he has been my favorite baritone ever since.
Nucci is not a baritone.
Joan Sutherland junto a Luciana Serra (La Reina de la Noche). Insuperables.
I believe Pavarotti was the Duke, probably that's why the oversight in the title. Leo Nucci excellent as always!
I like Tito and other baritones of the past. However, the voice of Leo is perhaps the most balanced, melodic,pleasant and colorful among the famous opera singers and this is very important.
I was onstage with many wonderful Rigolettos. Nucci, Manuguerra, Milnes, Wixell, Quillico and Merrill (at the end of his career). It's hard to choose between them. But my 3 favorites were Manuguerra, Quillico and Nucci.
Nucci, Wixell and Quillico are horrible.
@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 And what is your opinion of Manuguerra?
@@robertmanno5749 Great.
@@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 He is my all time favorite Rigoletto.
@@robertmanno5749 My favorite are Ruffo, Bastianini, Milnes, Merrill, Gobbi, Warren, Granforte, Macneil, Taddei, Stracciari, Manuguerra, Zancanaro and Mazurok.
Tremendous finale. Shows you can’t escape from fate.
The original sequence of the final three notes is: Fb, Eb, Db. The "tradition" is to sing some variation on this: Ab, B double-flat (high A), Ab, Db. This is VERY high in the baritone voice, and lots of Rigolettos come to grief when the attempt it. Milnes, though not my favorite Rigoletto, went the highest anyone has. He sang Ab, Cb (high B natural!), B double-flat (A natural), Ab and Db.
This is just amazing. Id never seen it before. thanks somuch for posting. Im off to amazon to see if I can buy the dvd. 8=))
Astonishing! Amazing! Stupendous!
It'e a pleasure for me too! Thanks once more!
Люблю Риголетто.. И первые и последние звуки.
Nucci is Rigoletto! Bravoooo..
Leo, It happens allot; two different persons looking at the same thing and thinking about it differently, and some times in totally opposite directions! Jaja! That`s life!
See: you and me we both like music, and singing, and the baritone voice, and agree about many baritones being great, and about Nucci not being so great... and then: when it comes to your (I guess so) favourite baritone, Tibbett... I turn you down! God! Jaja!!! Just for sharing: my favourite of all times is Bastianinni. Thanks
As I've stated elsewhere, I agree 100% with your view of Nucci. For the life of me, I cannot fathom how so many people can mention him in the same breath as the greats you mentioned (though no list of mine would omit Tibbett). He's not bad, but his timbre is just not as attractive, he barks too often for my taste, and he cannot modulate his voice to fit the words like Tibbett or Gobbi. His greatest luck was that Pavarotti always chose him for his big roles and performances, for whatever reason.
@Hako2004 That is a great one to start with. My first opera was a 17 year old was "La Boheme" and that one was a bit slow moving. Those who like opera won't like each one (I'm not a Wagner fan myself)... hopefully your niece will find a genre/composer that she really loves!
Magnifique!!!!
Köszönöm
Nucci is not my favorite Rigoletto, - Milnes is - but he is certainly one of the best. and he is definitely my favorite Iago . I listened to his both recordings( when he was young with Pavarotti and Solti, and the late one with domingo and Muti form la scala, he is always on the top)
but the miracle in this video as i believe is Dame Sutherland makes us have tears everytime we watch the video and forgetting that she was 61 years old !! how could she convince us that she is an 18 year -old girl !
Milnes is an incredible Rigoletto
Milnes is a baritone but Nucci is a tenor.
What an ending!
Leo Nucci my favorit Baritone;)
Magníficooooo!!!!!!
best rigoletto opera ever.... but i think tito gobbi is the best rigoletto voice. top 1 my tito gobbi maestro !!
Pronuncia perfetta
Im sure SHE LA STUPENDA has joined her mother in Heaven
5:47: High A
Leo Nucci has the Rigoletto role down. Gobbi is a great Rigoletto as well. Ingvar Wixell was also very good.
Leo, a pleasure to meet you! It´s always good for me to share with others.
I think that Lawrence Tibbett had an outstanding instrument: very loud, very long range; as dip as a bass as height as a tenor and always very "ringing" and heavy. Buy... (ahaha!!!) Not for me. Why? For one reason he had a "caprino" vibrato which is a thing that I dislike extremely. But most of all: his interpretations were over acted or cold, for my taste. A voice as powerful as his, that I do like, is Leonard Warren.
Soon I enjoy my mother in heaven i'll pray for you for all eternity
I love Bastianini. He and Merrill had the most beautiful baritone voices, and he was a fine singer too. But I truly love great interpreters, who do not merely "sing" a beautiful aria, but literally "live" the music and its every changing emotion. Among tenors, no one did that more often or better than Caruso; among baritones, it was Gobbi and Tibbett, but Gobbi's voice was lacking. In any case, it's a pleasure to debate opera with an intelligent and decent person.
Does anyone know the year and other information about this production? Because I'm searching for it and I can't find it.
Superbi........
Contento che ridi con me....ahah. Suprema aritista.
Is this the same staging that is used at the Met today?
Wonderful video!
Agreed : )
Since Pavarotti was a tenor, and Rigoletto is a baritone role, the title as it stands is misleading to the novice listener.
Why it says Pavarotti in the title?
Very good performance anyway.
@Cramnella I do to, but I've converted one of my friends :)
Got it, Isola Jones
jajajaja
me gusto muchisimo tu opinion
debes ser super divertido.
it's true Sherill Milnes OWNS this aria!!
Cornell McNeil was a very good Rigoletto too and IVgmar Wixell
Tito Gobbi sigue insuperable como Rigoletto, no solo como el magnífico barítono, sino como el excelente actor que era.
Voz de mosquito
he told the killer to kil whoever came first in the house. thats so specic. could not see it go wrong.
Лео дал жару.
No small wonder the Duke tosses Gilda aside for Maddalena. Who is she?
@Enterhase
It sounds like he touches the A..... high for baritones....extremely high for bass-baritone, and impossible for bass.
How do i get all acts??
The father is younger than his daughter in this case. Does that bother anyone?
She looks like a grandmother here. Which I'm pretty sure she was.
This is mot Pavarotti.
Awesome voice Nucci, but... there is to correct title... not Pavarotti in this scene but NUCCI!:)))
Although very impressive to hear, Milnes sang the B natural in a recording studio.
No, its not a miracle. Lots of unique, non-traditional techniques have made long careers because they can breathe and support. He is singing to this very day, at a very high quality.
oh my god his daughter!!!!! looks like her grandmother hahahahahaha..... :S
@jayboytheplayboy
I respect your opinion and taste, but I find it hardto understand how anyone could be left "cold" by Tibbett. If ever there was a singer whose voice oozed with drama, and whose every sung note literally reflected the meaning of the spoken word - be it the sinister malevolence of Iago's Credo, the pure evil of "Le veau d'or," or the fatherly warmth of "Di Provenza" - it was Tibbett. Add to that a remarkable voice and exquisite musicality, and it makes him No. 1 in my book.
@bluetagg
Lo soy :D
bisogna dire che la Sutherland sembra la nonna di Rigoletto. Poveretta la natura non l'ha dotata di un bellissimo viso.
E' anche perché quando ha fatto questa versione era già vecchia, mi pare.
Da giovane era più bella
Nucci, is an underdeveloped tenor
Сазерленд и Нуччи..
Of course he looks like he's about to have a stroke! His only daughter, the only positive part of his wretched life has just died, thanks to a plan he set in motion and went horribly awry! This is the culmination of the work: the curse plays itself out! On top of that, it's a very difficult high note for any baritone demand extreme effort and concentration, you wouldn't expect him to do it with a jolly smile on his face!
In testa che avete, signore Dumbass?
Ei sbuffa! vedete? Ha, ha, ha!
gilda was so stupid. giving her life for a man who humilliated her and her father
spiacenti deludervi....ma Rigoletto per antonomasia resta sempre il grandissimo CARLO GALEFFI...regna sovrano su tutti...
I really like his Rigoletto and I like him as a singer, but definitely he's not one of the best ever.
Realmete este video es algo para eyacular. Muy bueno la señora Sutherland para actuar tiene menos onda que un zapallo, pero las voces estan muy bien y yo personalmente amo al señor Nucci
Nucci is horrible.
One more opinion: Nucci is not among the greatest, (Like: Ruffo, Warren, Merril, Bastianinni, Londón, Mc Neil, Gobbi, and others.) Because he's timber is not a very beautiful one, an the baritonal sound of he's is not the idyllic one, nor is he's singing-line witch is invaded of portamentos. But YES he is very good, fiato, high notes, volume, and he is very smart, very convincing, expressive, and committed.
And about Gobbi... fabulous artist, smart musician, but not an spectacular voice.
Nucci is a tenor.
is that Rigoletto's grandmother? LOL
( l forgive that only to Dame Joan though )
she could still use different dynamics
brava!
Nucci is awful