I've been a great fan of Michael SPYRES for years - I still have his "Du pauvre seul ami fidèle" from "La Muette de Portici", at l'Opéra Comique in Paris, stuck in my ears -, it's not this performance that is going to change my mind. Michael has the perfect voice for Nadir and sings it with spot-on stylistic adequacy. We, French opera lovers, feel honored of the interest he has been showing in the French repertoire. We have "adopted" him; may he know that France is his second home :)
Duo particulièrement inattendu entre un ancien ténor exceptionnel redevenu baryton, et un baryténor à la tessiture remarquable, quelle diction ! Résultat convaincant. Cet enregistrement rend compte également de tout ce que je déteste dans le direct : les gens qui toussent doivent rester chez eux
Wonderful, i am a fan of Michael Spyres for a long time but i hear and see him more in France than in San Francisco where is my family🌺🙏👏Splendid duo and his French is perfect.I keep hope to hear him in Capitole in Toulouse next june, i am trapped in France😘
Spyres tiene una voz que vuela, y eso de que puede cantar arias ligeras de tenor y arias de barítono, es algo raro. La línea de canto y la dicción estupendas. Placido, digno
Spyres is amazing! I have one of his earlier CDs, as well as Les Troyens. Placido is Placido, that is, one of the great tenors of the 20th Century, less convincing in the 21st.
@@Creationseed9 Exactly right. I’ve always thought Spyres was a natural baritone who developed a ‘trick’ production that allowed him to sing in a very high tessitura. The tenor voice is quite thin and nasal.
Well we can not deny that Mario del Monaco had a great vocal organ, ( gran órgano vocal dramático). Somes times Coreli or Di Stefano bothers me when they had this excessive “like crying” passages in his interpretation, more Coreli than Di Stefano..
Musique sublime !! Très beau duo , fort bien chanté !!! Un bémol néanmoins ! ....On sent bien que le grand Placido n'est pas un authentique baryton !!!!! Le même duo avec Terfel et Alagna ....-. par exemple - c'est quand même autre chose !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This just makes me wonder how messed up the opera world could be nowadays... A dark baritone voice sings the tenor part and a tenor sings the baritone part. Neither sounds as they should or could.
Precisely. They attempt to be something they are not. And they fool many people without criteria. Because they believe they can surpass the nature of their voices, but at last they end doing low quality art, low because of the low quality of the essence of the voice itself. It's not authentic. It's a hoax, a parody. We need true art, true deliverance of the voice. We need to be true to ourselves.
@@eliascastillorivera7130 why are you guys waating valuable, precious time bitching and moaning, when you could be getting off your lazy asses and get out there and show us what the real deal is?
@@downfromkentuckeh well, you know, writing that comment took me some minutes, but acquiring the knowledge and criteria to be able to have a response on what I understand is what really took me time, and it will took me even more time, my whole life, to grow even more that criteria, because learning is a thing that never ends. And, at least me, I'm not merely waiting for something better, but me and others are training our voices, trying to do our best to do the best possible art that we could, that opera deserves, truthful and honest art. And if we not reach that point of great quality, I don't think we should be praising our mediocrity, but, at least, sharing our criteria, because others can acquire precious, valuable perspectives from that, to not accept everything the media offers.
Spyres is indeed a tenor, and Domingo is old, and doesn't have the full range he once had. He's not a proper baritone, but shocker, people like to see famous singers sing. This is one way that can be accomplished without him killing himself to sing repertoire that he can't anymore. Relax.
Domingo haciendo la voz grave que corresponde en este precioso dueto. Horrible, no hay palabras para comprender algo tan espantoso. Hay que echarle....NO SE HABRÁ ESFORZADO MUCHO. Me parece un atraco a la cuerda de barítonos
What an honour for them both to sing together. I remember Michael singing when he was quite young, and it was obvious to me how good he could become.
deux voix magnifiques qui s'harmonisent parfaitement. BRAVO !
Che coppia meravigliosa! Li adoro! Grazie 🙏! ❤❤
Two equally talented singers. Impressive that Domingo still sings at a top level.
BEAUTIFUL.
Reversed roles. Domingo, one of the greatest tenors ever, and Michael Spyres, who sings great and is also really at home in the baritone class.
I've been a great fan of Michael SPYRES for years - I still have his "Du pauvre seul ami fidèle" from "La Muette de Portici", at l'Opéra Comique in Paris, stuck in my ears -, it's not this performance that is going to change my mind. Michael has the perfect voice for Nadir and sings it with spot-on stylistic adequacy.
We, French opera lovers, feel honored of the interest he has been showing in the French repertoire. We have "adopted" him; may he know that France is his second home :)
Duo particulièrement inattendu entre un ancien ténor exceptionnel redevenu baryton, et un baryténor à la tessiture remarquable, quelle diction ! Résultat convaincant. Cet enregistrement rend compte également de tout ce que je déteste dans le direct : les gens qui toussent doivent rester chez eux
Sans compter la vidéo hésitante du videaste qui ne sait plus s’il doit aller à droite ou à gauche !… mais merci à lui cependant pour ce témoignage.
Baryton tenor ça n existe pas 😂
@@geraldmingoia-chalier1993 cherchez le mot baritenor et vous verrez qu'il existe bien ce type de voix
Bellissimo duetto cantato benissimo...grazie
Wonderful, i am a fan of Michael Spyres for a long time but i hear and see him more in France than in San Francisco where is my family🌺🙏👏Splendid duo and his French is perfect.I keep hope to hear him in Capitole in Toulouse next june, i am trapped in France😘
Magnifica la preciosa voz de Michael Spyres .Soberbio duo junto a Placido Domingo ..👋👋👋👋👋...
C est merveilleux !
Spyres tiene una voz que vuela, y eso de que puede cantar arias ligeras de tenor y arias de barítono, es algo raro. La línea de canto y la dicción estupendas.
Placido, digno
Placido, mi amor! Always sounding great! 😘👏👏👏👏
Spyres is amazing! I have one of his earlier CDs, as well as Les Troyens. Placido is Placido, that is, one of the great tenors of the 20th Century, less convincing in the 21st.
Crazy. A tenor singing the baritone part and a natural baritone singing the tenor part.
Both are baritones... one with better technique! And voice! And one is old and does not know when to quit!
@@Creationseed9 Exactly right. I’ve always thought Spyres was a natural baritone who developed a ‘trick’ production that allowed him to sing in a very high tessitura. The tenor voice is quite thin and nasal.
Great artists
Thank you very much for sharing! Bravi both artists!
Spyres reminds me of Simoneau, which is one of the reasons I love his voice. They both nail this piece.
Oh yes. Beautiful voices. Spyres and Simoneau.
How old was Domingo here?
79
What a pity they have left out the lovely dramatic introductory recit which flows so well into the duet
Am I missing something or is Spyres singing the wrong verse at 1:51
这男高音叫什么名字，挺好的啊！
Year e location???
As it says on the video, March 2016
The performance was in Chicago??
Yes
Why did people start coughing as the song reached its climax?Couldn’t wait to cough until after the aria was over? Unbelievable.
The ONLY positive aspect of the pandemic: this sort of thing won't happen in future
Rich people get sick too
I'm not sure how they were able to concentrate on their singing with all that coughing going on.
These people should have gone out.
Well we can not deny that Mario del Monaco had a great vocal organ, ( gran órgano vocal dramático). Somes times Coreli or Di Stefano bothers me when they had this excessive “like crying” passages in his interpretation, more Coreli than Di Stefano..
What these three, the greatest, have to do with this duet?
He must have been nervous... I know I would be. Their voices have a similar quality.
Musique sublime !! Très beau duo , fort bien chanté !!! Un bémol néanmoins ! ....On sent bien que le grand Placido n'est pas un authentique baryton !!!!! Le même duo avec Terfel et Alagna ....-. par exemple - c'est quand même autre chose !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ils ont tous le covid ou quoi autour de celui qui filme 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨 Dommage ça gache..
Terrible acoustics spoiling the singing!
This just makes me wonder how messed up the opera world could be nowadays... A dark baritone voice sings the tenor part and a tenor sings the baritone part. Neither sounds as they should or could.
Precisely. They attempt to be something they are not. And they fool many people without criteria. Because they believe they can surpass the nature of their voices, but at last they end doing low quality art, low because of the low quality of the essence of the voice itself. It's not authentic. It's a hoax, a parody. We need true art, true deliverance of the voice. We need to be true to ourselves.
@@eliascastillorivera7130 why are you guys waating valuable, precious time bitching and moaning, when you could be getting off your lazy asses and get out there and show us what the real deal is?
@@downfromkentuckeh well, you know, writing that comment took me some minutes, but acquiring the knowledge and criteria to be able to have a response on what I understand is what really took me time, and it will took me even more time, my whole life, to grow even more that criteria, because learning is a thing that never ends. And, at least me, I'm not merely waiting for something better, but me and others are training our voices, trying to do our best to do the best possible art that we could, that opera deserves, truthful and honest art. And if we not reach that point of great quality, I don't think we should be praising our mediocrity, but, at least, sharing our criteria, because others can acquire precious, valuable perspectives from that, to not accept everything the media offers.
Spyres is indeed a tenor, and Domingo is old, and doesn't have the full range he once had. He's not a proper baritone, but shocker, people like to see famous singers sing. This is one way that can be accomplished without him killing himself to sing repertoire that he can't anymore. Relax.
Who in this world thinks Spyres is a dark baritone? He used to sit all the tenor Rossini rep... can we just called him a man who sings high....
Michael Spyres is a great tenor. Placid Sunday is not a good baritone. The horror.
Oh for g*d's sake. Grow up.
Domingo haciendo la voz grave que corresponde en este precioso dueto. Horrible, no hay palabras para comprender algo tan espantoso. Hay que echarle....NO SE HABRÁ ESFORZADO MUCHO. Me parece un atraco a la cuerda de barítonos