what you have to think about is that someone heard him rehearsing this - and still let him go on! Can't the Puccini estate sue? I don't think it's in the public domain yet
My ears were bleeding while hearing that last guy sing Nessun Dorma. I'm sure Puccini's descendants are happy that he's dead and did not live long enough to hear this man kill one of his masterpieces.
I'm a professional pianist, and I say shame on that accompanist for not catching Caruso! Were they that bad, or just trying to prove a point?? I've even dragged pit orchestras with me to save a singer's mistake
It’s the very first Caruso Recording, Made with Fred Gaisberg and Salvatore Cottone in the dining room of the Grand’Hotel, Milan. Nothing more than a recording sonorizing prove with the new “toy” called Gramophone...
The Cesar Suarez Puritani disaster was in San Francisco, not at the Met. I was unfortunately backstage when it happened. Beverly Sills nearly dropped her teeth.
I love Tebaldi as much as I love Callas. They were never boring and had so much passion and such powerful voices. They were wild and sometimes they messed up and that's part of it all. Not these fake, woofy and plastic opera singers of today... might as well live in the past.
Gracias por tu compilación. Nos recuerda que todos somos humanos. Todos tenemos fallas y al nivel de grandes cantantes un pequeño desliz se convierte en algo grande. Gracias y cada día amo más a la ópera.
Martinelli is hilarious - he must have known the opera backwards so God knows what he had been drinking - I just love the way the baritone valiantly keeps to the score until at one point he seems to give up in astonishment.
I just stumbled upon a recording where Olvis sings Cavaradossi and Tosca's love duet, also in baritone key. I remembered this Martinucci excerpt in the exact moment. I had a good chuckle.
Funny things happen live on stage as you well know. I've sung a lot of Bohemes. Almost everyone had a diaster. Musetta fell through the bottom of a cane chair during her waltz. Marcello fell though a platform that was was set upside down. We had a fire on the table during Schunard's little song. Lot's of people forgot the music or the words. In Barber as Basilio my Bartolo just walked off stage during our recit scene leaving me alone on stage to improvise. He'd forgotten the key.
I heard Suarez in Puritani at SF Opera. He had tried the F at the opening performance. He hadn't rehersed it. It was his little surprise. He missed it - let out a strange schriek - that reduced Sills and the chorus and orchestra to shambles. He was not asked back. Martinucci is in good company. I heard McCracken lose his voice twice (Otello), Pavarotti and Domingo once each (Lucia and Pagliacci).
I somehow admire Cesar Suarez. Joan Sutherland once said, we need to have faith in the high notes during performance, instead of singing it over and over again in the warmup. Pavarotti also said, before the high note was out, he was never sure whether it is going to be there. Maybe Cesar Suarez should have thought more about whether that was a good occasion to 'test' the note. But he definitely had the note. Otherwise he wouldn't have sung it. If he wanted to sing it he had no choice but to just sing it. The high note is never ready. It just has to be sung or it will only stay in the practice room.
Having been in the chorus at SF Opera in 1977 when Suarez kept missing his high F's during this number (and causing us to bite our tongues from laughing...it was truly a godawful--and hilarious-- sound, much worse than this Met example; I have a bootleg recording of it, and when I play it for friends, they collapse on the floor in gales of laughter), I can tell you from personal experience that the great Maestro Kurt Herbert Adler, who was general director at SF Opera at the time, and I were chatting outside Suarez's dressing room on opening night, when Suarez's priest walked out of the dressing room and asked him how Suarez was...after having told Suarez not to sing that interpolated note, after us hearing him crash and burn on it during dress rehearsal, and Suarez telling Adler not to worry. The priest looked at Adler and said, "It's in the hands of God," whereupon Adler responded, "Well, I hope God likes high notes." Well...
I pretty much totally forgave Caruso's Tosca flub decades ago. Gotta remember that he personally knew Puccini and created the role of Mario Cavaradossi. In fact, when he first sang for Puccini, the composer asked if God had sent him. The aria was new back then, not the well-worn warhorse it is today.
Don't forget it was at the end of her career, she did very good in this opera compare to some singers of teday, Tebaldi was exciting on stage, i saw that performance myself at the Met, she was great and also she looked great.
Fatova Mingus as much as I LOVE Tebaldi, her top is wild. Part of the thrill I guess. Most times she nailed it, but sometimes she came up a little short. But the voice is so luxurious, you forgive a bad note every now and again.
Tebaldi is my girl! She had a beautiful voice and left so many wonderful gems for us. I think we can look past an artist’s slip ups, if they also worked their asses off to bring us performances as close to perfection as they possibly could.
Tebaldi, like Domingo, was all too often short on top. But when in good voice were magnificent. I attended two of her "Fanciulla" performances at the Met at the end of her career. Except for above the staff she was marvelous. Her recording with Del Monaco is the best recording they ever made together, imo. I've never hear another soprano equal it. "Chenier" is the most exciting. When they sang together, they seemed to inspire each other. A friend of mine who attended many of their performances at the Met said they would always end late because they sang such long "slancio" phrases and there was so much applause.
Quello che più non comprendo è come certa gente possa applaudire e, soprattutto, perché vada ad ascoltare una forma d'arte di cui non capisce assolutamente niente. Ma è mai possibile che qualcuno possa trovare godimento assistendo ad uno spettacolo di cui non ha la minima comprensione? Questo è davvero drammatico. Se questo pubblico ascoltasse in sequenza Corelli e Lotti applaudirebbe tutti e due allo stesso modo. Anzi temo che, qualora Corelli cantasse qualcosa di poco conosciuto e Lotti la propria riscrittura del Nessun Dorma, applaudirebbero di più Lotti. Roba da pazzi. Povero mondo.
Che commento terribile che hai fatto! Così giusto per tua norma e regola, ti svelo che nessuno è nato colto. Tutti hanno diritto di ascoltare per fare esperienza, comprendere e prendere consapevolezza. Lo musica è fatta per chiunque abbia voglia di aacoltarla
I once sang O sole mio to some friends, in the street and when I attempted the high note is was like: 'ma naaaa ... big crack!!! (everybody laughing at me) ... aaaa tu sole! They were super stoned, but still they realized how fucked up that was So I won't ever sing something out of my reach
Thanks for answering! Its quite sad when a singer doesn't know her/his limits... One thing is to have a bad performance because you are sick or something went out of normal conditions... Another completely different thing is to singing everything that comes to mind without any sense of what you are singing and it was the case... Just because the woman made some great albuns in the 60's and 70's it doesn't mean her vocal technique is good... It happens to perfectly fit Soul music, nothing more!
@Clark Kent wait, isn't that Pott the last guy on this video? I think I meant that pop singer slaughtering nessun dorma at the end. The only Potts I know is Mrs Potts from the beauty and the beast.
@Clark Kent well, I haven't heard about him so far... And like me, way more than 3/4 of human kind, I guess. As for Nessun Dorma, I'm sick and tired of listening the same old bloody song over and over. It's soooo overused!!!!!! Let tenors try something different for a change!
Yes she was, You should have heard the audience when she said Tre Ace in paio - the audience went wild. Peoples knew that her top notes were not that great, but they did not care. I will never forget it. It was the greatest moment in my life.
The high F Suarez attempted (your example, at 5:31 in), during the 1977 San Francisco Opera production of this opera opposite Beverly Sills, was 10 times worse, funnier and more embarrassing than this. Being in the chorus then (and having a bootleg recording of it), I can tell you, we in the chorus were biting our tongues trying not to laugh, and I could swear Miss Sills's eyes crossed when he "skewered himself," according to the review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
There are "cracks" Franco Corelli crack: Met’s Roméo et Juliette from Boston in the mid-seventies, where he cracked on his high B-flat. Back in the 70's when his voice declined. Jussi Bjorling has also, read Mario Lanza: Singing To The Gods By Derek Mannering, when Lanza saw Bjorling and he cracked horribly stopped the orchestra and did the piece over. Lanza loved Bjorling. IT was Di Quella Pira. Cracking is not always about technique, it could be the person is tired, they have a cold etc
Another appalling phenomenon about those singers who are not opera singers attempting to sing opera, is that after such atrocious renderings, the audiences go wild with applause.
Actually, Bjoerling cracks the high C in the commercial recording of Butterfly with de los Angeles. The engineers simply brought out the brass to cover it, but you can hear it nonetheless...additionally, Bjoerling rarely sang high Cs in public. He transposed a lot...
I think everyone gets a pass on Puritani. Nobody can really be expected to be able to sing an F5. That said, it was clear from the sound of the preceding D that he should have just stuck with the D substitution.
Thanx 2 the author, the great job has done, a very interesting research, really. The only thing 2 criticize is, in my opinion, that u shouldn't have put there Tebaldi because many singers, even great ones can't walk away in time and go on till such moments despite they can't cheat with a nature. The line loss by Tito Gobbi and Caruso was interesting but wasn't really necessary either among the horror of untuned singing and vocal weaknesses. Special thanx 4 your comments on Netreb and Villa.
Calleja ist ein sehr guter Tenor. Er hat bei der Lucia-Vorstellung in Berlin keinerlei Schwierigkeiten gehabt, die Rolle - ohne zu schreien und schön singend - kraftvoll durchzustehen. So etwas ist eher selten. Man wird sich wohl damit abfinden müssen, dass bei jedem Sänger die Meinungen geteilt sind. Was ich nicht nachvollziehen kann, ist diese unglaubliche Aggressivität und Arroganz einiger Musikliebhaber, die davon überzeugt sind, die alleinige Wahrheit zu verkünden.. Kervineus
As I was pratising, my teacher sometimes would say I was as flat as a pizza. I guess the same applies to Helmut Lotti. And I might be bashed for saying this: Don't call yourself a cross-over singer unless you have sung at least one opera live.
Jajaja, que ida de pinza más estratosférica la de Caruso. Él, erre que erre y el pianista, más, como si le diera gustito dejar bien clara la metedura de pata del cantante. ¿Cómo lo conservaron?
I have a Rigoletto from St. Louis in the 40s? with a local talent as Gilda, who loses her place in the Quartet, making all the wheels fall off. The conductor had to stop them and get them started again midway through
Saw and heard Lotti in a concert and was amazed that even when he sang bad, he still sang better then a lot of other singers I know. Since then, i´m a big fan but you are absolutely right! he should stick to the stuff he is good at. Nessun Dorma isn´t one of them ...
There is no recording of that performance. Hence, there is no crack of Björling in "Di quella pira" on record. Harald Henrysson has written an extensive book on Björling's recordings (commercial and private) after a lifetime of research. There is no such recording.
The ending is something er...different, he throws in a D5, and finishes with a succession of "who oh oh" notes. It sounds to my ear as if I am listening to something being played at the wrong speed.
I think the only one we can forgive is Helmut Lotti,he is not an opera singer and so one cannot expect him to sound like one. The others (being proper opera singers) should know better,and I hope they learn by their mistakes,but somehow I doubt it. Thank You AfroPoli for posting this funny(at times) horrifying(more) but always entertaining video. I am off now to look at your other posts.
Many people says Di Stefano had not technique, but i never heard him cracking like this nor anything similar (And i listened ALL his available recordings of live opera and concerts...)
The issue with Di Stefano was covering. Many people day he didn't know how to cover but that doesn't seem to be true. He simply decided to not cover because he thought not covering sounded better in his voice. He could cover if he had wanted to. Teachers of course will tell you that you must cover or you will ruin your voice - and that seems also to be true.
@@Agorante had a now deceased voice teacher who told me the problem with distefano was that he was a very emotional person and one day he'd be on and sing like an angel and then his voice would sound trashed on another day. she attributed that to how the emotions affect the voice
@@Agorante His carousing didn’t help. He’d be up until two in the morning the day of a performance - and either cancel or sing badly. His own excuse is amusing, that he discovered an allergy to synthetic carpets in hotel rooms.
@rockmanx23 hey Got on stage and sang their all. Mistakes happen, and as much as everyone hates Netrebko on here, I've seen her live, she sings beautifully. She makes mistakes. I've heard plenty of people crash on stage that nail it %100 of the time in the rehearsal room. It happens.
It means that there is no recording of that. And I'm certainly not going to read a book on Lanza - please provide the complete date instead. What was the year?
Afropoli, I admire your keen ear for operatic catastrophes. In all fairness, you should also present the atrocities committed by today's pop stars. Average audiences are either deaf or their hearing has been genetically modified to consider out-of-tune singing, nasal timbers, poor diction, raspy voices, feeble voice projections, and pathetic embellishment (or note smears) as characteristics of phenomenal artistry.
Nothing, which was precisely my point, unless there lurks some secret recorded disaster the public is unaware of. Corelli's studio 'out-takes', which he did not want released, proved to be perfect in every sense when finally out. It is also said of Ponselle (perhaps this is even a Callas quote) that she never gave a less than perfect performance.
The Nessun Dorma was terrible, none can deny it, but I think the problem was that Helmut tried to sing "Classical Music" with a "popular voice" and not a "lyric voice" so he was like puting a cube in the shape of a triangle that's all. Pretty much already eh?
That “Nessun Dorma” though… 😳 I have to assume that this was some guy after a few drunken hours at a karaoke bar who, instead of attempting to sing “The Rose”, chose to put THAT out into the world. I also must assume the mournful wailing “obligato” was his drunken mistress. The whole stinking pile of steaming hot mess was uncalled for.
Martinelli was 63 when he performed this....clearly past his best years....give the guy a break....did you know that he sang a Tristan in German with Flagstad in Chicago ...1931 I think...Flagstad was SUPER impressed and urged him to keep singing the role. He really looked the part. Probably the best looking Tristan she ever worked with.
+mich sturge Yep. His Tristan was no good according to the reviews. Apparently he could not get over the orchestra. Maybe Mme Flagstad was blinded by his looks.
WHILE Y0U TALK BADLY ABOUT TENORS.... THE RAPPERS MAKE MILLIONS SINGING BULSHIT WITHOUT ANY SINGING SKILLS ... GIVE ME A BREAK TOO.... WHAT A FUNNY WORLD ISNT IT?
Afro, I think it's normal to have cracks in the voice, sometimes. This kind of singing it's very heavy...and if you have a bad day and ur muscles are not responding to ur commends...u're screwed. Can't do nothing about it. And I agree with what Danilo Marvel said...the rappers are earning millions just for speaking bullshit. :-) If anyone can do it better, let's hear that. Can't wait! BUT, on a STAGE, not home or in a studio. Stop judging! Stop criticizing! All the best!
No effin with Calleja! I guess the man might not be perfect but God I saw him in the ROH twice; in 2009 as Alfredo in La Traviata, last summer in Simon Boccanegra. He has such a beautiful voice, a very warm timbre and a quality I hardly hear but with for example older Di Stefano recordings (being able to sound introvert and soft like heaven), and such emotion! He got more ovation than Placido! And he deserved it. Some stuff might not be his repertoire though, he can't handle too high.
Netrebko showed huge promise. She sang Ludmilla in San Francisco when she was just 18. In rehearsal she sang her 'awakening from trance' line while sitting up from fully supine. She pulled it off in rehearsal and the blocking was left in place...but every performance there was a glitch.
18 years old Netrebko in San Francisco??? 😂😂😂😂😂 18 years old girl starts to learn how to sing in musical college in USSR at this time! Please do not lye 😂😂😂😂
Tebaldi's Girl of the Golden West was one of the most exciting nights at the Met.. Even at the end of her career she gave it everything. But some of these singers should have just said 'Not tonight'.
Tebaldi might have lost some notes by 1970 but her c. 1960 recording of Minnie in TGotGW was straight up stellar! I'm not sure if extra takes were required to get it there but it sure sounded pretty decent!
@AfroPoli You are missing the Greatest operatic distaster Ever by a non-operatic singer: Aretha Franklin singing Nessun Dorma at the 1998 Grammy Awards! I only knew she sung it because she was apparently very proud of it in an interview... My question is that HOW did the Grammys allowed her to attempt that?? I have a Lot of respect for Aretha singing Soul at her prime, But she is one of those Huge Ego singers that thinks she can sing Everything! Plus her prime ended more than 30 years ago! :/
Joge Lagunes is a mexican tenor (son of an opera tenor with a beautiful voice, the firts Snow White prince for the Dinsey Movie in spanish) who had to change to baritone roles because technique problems. May be Mr. Villazon could consider this like an option for himself too!
As I mentioned Jussi cracked horribly in Di Quella Pira "Mario Lanza: Singing To The Gods By Derek Mannering," I think in modern times, the tenors are more recorded, people have tape recorders, and its more difficult. All things considered though, the "crack count" is not really all that high when you stop and think how many performances there were.
Listening to this I think I'm at the Arizona Opera House LOL everything is transposed or disposable old fat Sopranos Tenors I'm having flashbacks really baritones. The people that attend do not have a clue went to applaud a laugh at certain subtitles most of them are drunk too much wine before the Opera it's quite entertaining sometimes but very sad for the fifth largest city in the United States to make a mockery of these great operas bringing these Regional opera singers from St Louis Tulsa Oklahoma. Be afraid there is no light at the end of the tunnel for Opera these disasters occur all the time and Regional Opera Houses have a good day bye
Someone that doesn't like Calleja's voice is something completely different from an opera disaster. He didn't crack his voice, didn't sing out of tone... come one!
Ah, I see. Actually, there are some recorded cracks by Jussi (the final high C in the duet of the Butterfly recording) but he manages it so well that it still sounds good! Jussi was amazing.
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After that Nessun Dorma, it is entirely possible that no one who heard it would ever sleep again.
OMG, you are so right!!
Ahahahhaha
Ba dum tss
Or if they slept would never want to wake up !
what you have to think about is that someone heard him rehearsing this -
and still let him go on! Can't the Puccini estate sue? I don't think it's in
the public domain yet
My ears were bleeding while hearing that last guy sing Nessun Dorma. I'm sure Puccini's descendants are happy that he's dead and did not live long enough to hear this man kill one of his masterpieces.
In fairness, he never got to hear anyone do anything with his masterpiece, as he died in the middle of composing it, and it had to be finished.
The great singers are not machines even with cracks they are great !!!
I'm a professional pianist, and I say shame on that accompanist for not catching Caruso! Were they that bad, or just trying to prove a point?? I've even dragged pit orchestras with me to save a singer's mistake
Very true. It's hard to understand.
That’s what I was wondering!
It’s the very first Caruso Recording, Made with Fred Gaisberg and Salvatore Cottone in the dining room of the Grand’Hotel, Milan. Nothing more than a recording sonorizing prove with the new “toy” called Gramophone...
The accompanist was too intimidate to correct Caruso.
@@andreacosta74 That#s the point, this was never meant for public. But which gay guy cares about?
The Cesar Suarez Puritani disaster was in San Francisco, not at the Met. I was unfortunately backstage when it happened. Beverly Sills nearly dropped her teeth.
What's exampled here was not the SF performance. That was far loopier. See my comments, above.
@@funnyman1006 Wait. Suarez tried the F on more than one occasion besides S.F.?! What performance was this one taken from, do you know?
I love Tebaldi as much as I love Callas. They were never boring and had so much passion and such powerful voices. They were wild and sometimes they messed up and that's part of it all. Not these fake, woofy and plastic opera singers of today... might as well live in the past.
That Tebaldi performance was the exception rather than the rule. I believe she retired when her voice was no longer great.
They were electric and exciting.
Maria Callas was an horrid earsore. Sorry, but that is the truth.
A harsh voice, with no shimmer, no beauty whatsoever.
And as if that Nessun Dorma singer was bad enough, who was that woman howling along in the background?? Unbelievable, and unforgettable....
Gracias por tu compilación. Nos recuerda que todos somos humanos. Todos tenemos fallas y al nivel de grandes cantantes un pequeño desliz se convierte en algo grande. Gracias y cada día amo más a la ópera.
If in doubt.. just sing Der Ring
For experts in Italian: what does "WOA WOA WOAAA WOAAA" mean in this special edition libretto of Turandot?
I'm italian. I don't know and i don't wanna know it. 😂
I know nothing about Italian but I think that's modern opera embracing mediocrity
Martinelli is hilarious - he must have known the opera backwards so God knows what he had been drinking - I just love the way the baritone valiantly keeps to the score until at one point he seems to give up in astonishment.
I just stumbled upon a recording where Olvis sings Cavaradossi and Tosca's love duet, also in baritone key. I remembered this Martinucci excerpt in the exact moment.
I had a good chuckle.
Funny things happen live on stage as you well know. I've sung a lot of Bohemes. Almost everyone had a diaster. Musetta fell through the bottom of a cane chair during her waltz. Marcello fell though a platform that was was set upside down. We had a fire on the table during Schunard's little song. Lot's of people forgot the music or the words. In Barber as Basilio my Bartolo just walked off stage during our recit scene leaving me alone on stage to improvise. He'd forgotten the key.
08:56 he holds this note as if he just doesn't want to go on to the finish...wishing he could disappear.
I heard Suarez in Puritani at SF Opera. He had tried the F at the opening performance. He hadn't rehersed it. It was his little surprise. He missed it - let out a strange schriek - that reduced Sills and the chorus and orchestra to shambles. He was not asked back. Martinucci is in good company. I heard McCracken lose his voice twice (Otello), Pavarotti and Domingo once each (Lucia and Pagliacci).
I somehow admire Cesar Suarez. Joan Sutherland once said, we need to have faith in the high notes during performance, instead of singing it over and over again in the warmup. Pavarotti also said, before the high note was out, he was never sure whether it is going to be there. Maybe Cesar Suarez should have thought more about whether that was a good occasion to 'test' the note. But he definitely had the note. Otherwise he wouldn't have sung it. If he wanted to sing it he had no choice but to just sing it. The high note is never ready. It just has to be sung or it will only stay in the practice room.
Having been in the chorus at SF Opera in 1977 when Suarez kept missing his high F's during this number (and causing us to bite our tongues from laughing...it was truly a godawful--and hilarious-- sound, much worse than this Met example; I have a bootleg recording of it, and when I play it for friends, they collapse on the floor in gales of laughter), I can tell you from personal experience that the great Maestro Kurt Herbert Adler, who was general director at SF Opera at the time, and I were chatting outside Suarez's dressing room on opening night, when Suarez's priest walked out of the dressing room and asked him how Suarez was...after having told Suarez not to sing that interpolated note, after us hearing him crash and burn on it during dress rehearsal, and Suarez telling Adler not to worry. The priest looked at Adler and said, "It's in the hands of God," whereupon Adler responded, "Well, I hope God likes high notes." Well...
I pretty much totally forgave Caruso's Tosca flub decades ago. Gotta remember that he personally knew Puccini and created the role of Mario Cavaradossi. In fact, when he first sang for Puccini, the composer asked if God had sent him. The aria was new back then, not the well-worn warhorse it is today.
He didn't create Mario, he created Dick Johnson
Emilio de Marchi was the Creator
Don't forget it was at the end of her career,
she did very good in this opera compare to some singers of teday, Tebaldi was exciting on stage, i saw that performance myself at the Met, she was great and also she looked great.
Oh my goodness, I feel like a horrible person, but Suarez' Puritani F is hilarious ahhh
No one notices your pain, your hurt and even your tears but everyone notices your mistakes!
I hate hearing Tebaldi sounds so bad when she was so good.
Fatova Mingus as much as I LOVE Tebaldi, her top is wild. Part of the thrill I guess. Most times she nailed it, but sometimes she came up a little short. But the voice is so luxurious, you forgive a bad note every now and again.
Tebaldi is my girl! She had a beautiful voice and left so many wonderful gems for us. I think we can look past an artist’s slip ups, if they also worked their asses off to bring us performances as close to perfection as they possibly could.
Tebaldi, like Domingo, was all too often short on top. But when in good voice were magnificent. I attended two of her "Fanciulla" performances at the Met at the end of her career. Except for above the staff she was marvelous. Her recording with Del Monaco is the best recording they ever made together, imo. I've never hear another soprano equal it. "Chenier" is the most exciting. When they sang together, they seemed to inspire each other. A friend of mine who attended many of their performances at the Met said they would always end late because they sang such long "slancio" phrases and there was so much applause.
Fancy seeing you here in this comments section.
Tebaldi was exciting as Minnie and intense.
Quello che più non comprendo è come certa gente possa applaudire e, soprattutto, perché vada ad ascoltare una forma d'arte di cui non capisce assolutamente niente. Ma è mai possibile che qualcuno possa trovare godimento assistendo ad uno spettacolo di cui non ha la minima comprensione? Questo è davvero drammatico. Se questo pubblico ascoltasse in sequenza Corelli e Lotti applaudirebbe tutti e due allo stesso modo. Anzi temo che, qualora Corelli cantasse qualcosa di poco conosciuto e Lotti la propria riscrittura del Nessun Dorma, applaudirebbero di più Lotti. Roba da pazzi. Povero mondo.
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Che commento terribile che hai fatto! Così giusto per tua norma e regola, ti svelo che nessuno è nato colto. Tutti hanno diritto di ascoltare per fare esperienza, comprendere e prendere consapevolezza. Lo musica è fatta per chiunque abbia voglia di aacoltarla
Well, Tebaldi, always had problems with the high C. It was a marvellous voice, but the best note was the high Bb, I think
I can actually forgive the vocal mishaps, but the Helmut Lotti's Nessun dorma was atrocious! What's worse is that the audience loved it.
At least his high E is better than Netrebko's...
+AfroPoli Quoting from Wikipedia: Lotti has sold over 13 million albums worldwide and received over 90 platinum and 70 gold albums.
+Andrea Massimo Cuomo Yes. Like McDonald's. They also sell way more "food" that anybody else on this planet.
+AfroPoli Hahaha, amazing comparison! :D
Ignorance is bliss
Tebaldi was great in the Poker scene.
There is more than high notes in opera.
Yes especially with ‘TRE ASSI E UN PAIO’!
I once sang O sole mio to some friends, in the street and when I attempted the high note is was like: 'ma naaaa ... big crack!!! (everybody laughing at me) ... aaaa tu sole! They were super stoned, but still they realized how fucked up that was
So I won't ever sing something out of my reach
Thanks for answering!
Its quite sad when a singer doesn't know her/his limits... One thing is to have a bad performance because you are sick or something went out of normal conditions... Another completely different thing is to singing everything that comes to mind without any sense of what you are singing and it was the case... Just because the woman made some great albuns in the 60's and 70's it doesn't mean her vocal technique is good... It happens to perfectly fit Soul music, nothing more!
I wonder why everyone thinks they can sing Nessum Dorma. I don't want to hear it at all any more.
After Paul Potts, everything was possible. A tragedy.
@Clark Kent that 1,000,000 flies eat shit doesn't mean shit is great.
@Clark Kent wait, isn't that Pott the last guy on this video? I think I meant that pop singer slaughtering nessun dorma at the end. The only Potts I know is Mrs Potts from the beauty and the beast.
Paul Potts is really overrated. Some people compare him to Pavarotti! Please.
@Clark Kent well, I haven't heard about him so far... And like me, way more than 3/4 of human kind, I guess.
As for Nessun Dorma, I'm sick and tired of listening the same old bloody song over and over. It's soooo overused!!!!!! Let tenors try something different for a change!
Call me crazy but I actually like Suarez's "high F". It sounds like some kind of strange jazz vocal.
You crazy.
It wasn't a pitched note , it was a scream
Yes she was, You should have heard the audience when she said Tre Ace in paio -
the audience went wild. Peoples knew that her top notes were not that great, but they did not care. I will never forget it. It was the greatest moment in my life.
You wanted to say, Lotti is totally unbearable. This is pure hell!
He's a pop singer so this is a very bad choice for him. OY!
The high F Suarez attempted (your example, at 5:31 in), during the 1977 San Francisco Opera production of this opera opposite Beverly Sills, was 10 times worse, funnier and more embarrassing than this. Being in the chorus then (and having a bootleg recording of it), I can tell you, we in the chorus were biting our tongues trying not to laugh, and I could swear Miss Sills's eyes crossed when he "skewered himself," according to the review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
funnyman1006 I wish you'd send me a copy of that recording...!
Can''t stop laughing..... thank you for lightening up a rough day
Thanks so much for posting this compilation, I totally enjoyed it, though I really wish that Villazon recovers. I agree, Lotti is killingly funny!
Umm about that he started singing baritone. I'd give up on him to be honest
With all due respect to Helmut Lotti's talent. operatic music just isn't suited to him, and vice versa.
There are "cracks" Franco Corelli crack: Met’s Roméo et Juliette from Boston in the mid-seventies, where he cracked on his high B-flat. Back in the 70's when his voice declined. Jussi Bjorling has also, read Mario Lanza: Singing To The Gods
By Derek Mannering, when Lanza saw Bjorling and he cracked horribly stopped the orchestra and did the piece over. Lanza loved Bjorling. IT was Di Quella Pira.
Cracking is not always about technique, it could be the person is tired, they have a cold etc
I was at that performance and don’t remember Corelli cracking. He sang a splendid C at the end of the big concertato.
Another appalling phenomenon about those singers who are not opera singers attempting to sing opera, is that after such atrocious renderings, the audiences go wild with applause.
I think I need to go listen to Bastianini or Zancanaro in order to wash that Tito Gobbi out of my brain at 3:05
That totally drunk Carmen was beyond repair.....
Oh, it must have been so exciting listen to her live. Good for you. Greatings.
Actually, Bjoerling cracks the high C in the commercial recording of Butterfly with de los Angeles. The engineers simply brought out the brass to cover it, but you can hear it nonetheless...additionally, Bjoerling rarely sang high Cs in public. He transposed a lot...
Bjorling never cracked. And he sang high C's in public all the time.
@Mor Isil Wëindal The first note is totally an interpolation made famous by Corelli; the second an ossia.
Wow, poor Tebaldi!
And what to say about Netrebko, will someone tell her she just doesn't have that High E?! it's always a wreck when she tries it
I think everyone gets a pass on Puritani. Nobody can really be expected to be able to sing an F5. That said, it was clear from the sound of the preceding D that he should have just stuck with the D substitution.
Lotti turned Nessun Dorma into a night club ballad.
Villazon is such a sad case...:/
Thanx 2 the author, the great job has done, a very interesting research, really. The only thing 2 criticize is, in my opinion, that u shouldn't have put there Tebaldi because many singers, even great ones can't walk away in time and go on till such moments despite they can't cheat with a nature. The line loss by Tito Gobbi and Caruso was interesting but wasn't really necessary either among the horror of untuned singing and vocal weaknesses. Special thanx 4 your comments on Netreb and Villa.
5:45 can’t stop laughing!
You've taken the words out of my mouth. Just about to comment ha!ha!ha!
Calleja ist ein sehr guter Tenor. Er hat bei der Lucia-Vorstellung in Berlin keinerlei Schwierigkeiten gehabt, die Rolle - ohne zu schreien und schön singend - kraftvoll durchzustehen. So etwas ist eher selten. Man wird sich wohl damit abfinden müssen, dass bei jedem Sänger die Meinungen geteilt sind. Was ich nicht nachvollziehen kann, ist diese unglaubliche Aggressivität und Arroganz einiger Musikliebhaber, die davon überzeugt sind, die alleinige Wahrheit zu verkünden..
Kervineus
No he’s TERRIBLE with his caprino !!!
No he’s not
As I was pratising, my teacher sometimes would say I was as flat as a pizza. I guess the same applies to Helmut Lotti. And I might be bashed for saying this: Don't call yourself a cross-over singer unless you have sung at least one opera live.
Jajaja, que ida de pinza más estratosférica la de Caruso. Él, erre que erre y el pianista, más, como si le diera gustito dejar bien clara la metedura de pata del cantante. ¿Cómo lo conservaron?
Suarez falla en un fa sobreagudo. Algunos fallan en si bemoles y/o "cridan al trapaire", que diriamos en cstalan.
I have a Rigoletto from St. Louis in the 40s? with a local talent as Gilda, who loses her place in the Quartet, making all the wheels fall off. The conductor had to stop them and get them started again midway through
Saw and heard Lotti in a concert and was amazed that even when he sang bad, he still sang better then a lot of other singers I know. Since then, i´m a big fan but you are absolutely right! he should stick to the stuff he is good at. Nessun Dorma isn´t one of them ...
There is no recording of that performance. Hence, there is no crack of Björling in "Di quella pira" on record. Harald Henrysson has written an extensive book on Björling's recordings (commercial and private) after a lifetime of research. There is no such recording.
Caruso's pianist makes me want to jump off a bridge!!😄
we may all have a bad night.....but what were some of these thinking. As per Lott and the Nessun Dorma..... I HAD to turn this off.
The ending is something er...different, he throws in a D5, and finishes with a succession of "who oh oh" notes. It sounds to my ear as if I am listening to something being played at the wrong speed.
I think the only one we can forgive is Helmut Lotti,he is not an opera singer and so one cannot expect him to sound like one.
The others (being proper opera singers) should know better,and I hope they learn by their mistakes,but somehow I doubt it.
Thank You AfroPoli for posting this funny(at times) horrifying(more) but always entertaining video.
I am off now to look at your other posts.
Yikes, I can' t stop the bleeding from my ears !
Many people says Di Stefano had not technique, but i never heard him cracking like this nor anything similar (And i listened ALL his available recordings of live opera and concerts...)
The issue with Di Stefano was covering. Many people day he didn't know how to cover but that doesn't seem to be true. He simply decided to not cover because he thought not covering sounded better in his voice. He could cover if he had wanted to. Teachers of course will tell you that you must cover or you will ruin your voice - and that seems also to be true.
@@Agorante had a now deceased voice teacher who told me the problem with distefano was that he was a very emotional person and one day he'd be on and sing like an angel and then his voice would sound trashed on another day. she attributed that to how the emotions affect the voice
@@Michael-mh4vr
II suppose that's possible but it seems unlikely to me.
@@Agorante His carousing didn’t help. He’d be up until two in the morning the day of a performance - and either cancel or sing badly. His own excuse is amusing, that he discovered an allergy to synthetic carpets in hotel rooms.
Don't forget that he smoked
From 5:05 to 5:11 - I thought I was listening to Florence Foster Jenkins..LOL!
@XP11XP Calleja is what we call a plastic tenor.
@rockmanx23 hey Got on stage and sang their all. Mistakes happen, and as much as everyone hates Netrebko on here, I've seen her live, she sings beautifully. She makes mistakes. I've heard plenty of people crash on stage that nail it %100 of the time in the rehearsal room. It happens.
holy crap that was terrible... helmut jumped to like a E at the end... and it was flat.
thanks for the video!
It means that there is no recording of that. And I'm certainly not going to read a book on Lanza - please provide the complete date instead. What was the year?
Afropoli, I admire your keen ear for operatic catastrophes. In all fairness, you should also present the atrocities committed by today's pop stars. Average audiences are either deaf or their hearing has been genetically modified to consider out-of-tune singing, nasal timbers, poor diction, raspy voices, feeble voice projections, and pathetic embellishment (or note smears) as characteristics of phenomenal artistry.
Nothing, which was precisely my point, unless there lurks some secret recorded disaster the public is unaware of. Corelli's studio 'out-takes', which he did not want released, proved to be perfect in every sense when finally out. It is also said of Ponselle (perhaps this is even a Callas quote) that she never gave a less than perfect performance.
yes in rubini's time notes above the staff were sing in unsupported falsetto or voix mix
The Nessun Dorma was terrible, none can deny it, but I think the problem was that Helmut tried to sing "Classical Music" with a "popular voice" and not a "lyric voice" so he was like puting a cube in the shape of a triangle that's all. Pretty much already eh?
Mary Steinway I agree. The problem start from the people clapping disgusting operation like this.
Hasta los grandes caen.
@AfroPoli just curious wht to u mean by a plastic tenor? =)
Some of them sound like Danny Kaye singing "mock" opera. lol
One sidelight of this collection is that it introduced me to Friedrich Dahlberg, whom I had not heard before.
Oh My God!! The Othello!! I may never recover!!
That “Nessun Dorma” though… 😳
I have to assume that this was some guy after a few drunken hours at a karaoke bar who, instead of attempting to sing “The Rose”, chose to put THAT out into the world.
I also must assume the mournful wailing “obligato” was his drunken mistress.
The whole stinking pile of steaming hot mess was uncalled for.
Well, thousands of people sang Nessun Dorma when they shouldn't have. Pavarotti for one...
Martinelli was 63 when he performed this....clearly past his best years....give the guy a break....did you know that he sang a Tristan in German with Flagstad in Chicago ...1931 I think...Flagstad was SUPER impressed and urged him to keep singing the role. He really looked the part. Probably the best looking Tristan she ever worked with.
+mich sturge Yep. His Tristan was no good according to the reviews. Apparently he could not get over the orchestra. Maybe Mme Flagstad was blinded by his looks.
WHILE Y0U TALK BADLY ABOUT TENORS.... THE RAPPERS MAKE MILLIONS SINGING BULSHIT WITHOUT ANY SINGING SKILLS ... GIVE ME A BREAK TOO.... WHAT A FUNNY WORLD ISNT IT?
Afro, I think it's normal to have cracks in the voice, sometimes. This kind of singing it's very heavy...and if you have a bad day and ur muscles are not responding to ur commends...u're screwed. Can't do nothing about it. And I agree with what Danilo Marvel said...the rappers are earning millions just for speaking bullshit. :-)
If anyone can do it better, let's hear that. Can't wait! BUT, on a STAGE, not home or in a studio.
Stop judging! Stop criticizing!
All the best!
the Tristan was 1950, and he probably sang his role in Italian. I've heard the '48 Philly Otello, he really had no voice after Act II
63 isn't particularly old for a good voice. Pavarotti and Domingo both performed creditably after that age.
Every voice has its ups and downs....
I'm curious to hear what you would enclose of those two.
No effin with Calleja! I guess the man might not be perfect but God I saw him in the ROH twice; in 2009 as Alfredo in La Traviata, last summer in Simon Boccanegra. He has such a beautiful voice, a very warm timbre and a quality I hardly hear but with for example older Di Stefano recordings (being able to sound introvert and soft like heaven), and such emotion! He got more ovation than Placido! And he deserved it. Some stuff might not be his repertoire though, he can't handle too high.
No he’s always horrible with his caprino
Netrebko showed huge promise. She sang Ludmilla in San Francisco when she was just 18. In rehearsal she sang her 'awakening from trance' line while sitting up from fully supine. She pulled it off in rehearsal and the blocking was left in place...but every performance there was a glitch.
18 years old Netrebko in San Francisco??? 😂😂😂😂😂
18 years old girl starts to learn how to sing in musical college in USSR at this time! Please do not lye 😂😂😂😂
Tebaldi's Girl of the Golden West was one of the most exciting nights at the Met.. Even at the end of her career she gave it everything. But some of these singers should have just said 'Not tonight'.
Martinelli in all fairness was shot by then. I saw Bardelli in Philly in 1977 as Il Conte in Il Trovatore
Tebaldi might have lost some notes by 1970 but her c. 1960 recording of Minnie in TGotGW was straight up stellar! I'm not sure if extra takes were required to get it there but it sure sounded pretty decent!
Just goes to prove....even the Greatest can have a Bad Day!
@AfroPoli
You are missing the Greatest operatic distaster Ever by a non-operatic singer: Aretha Franklin singing Nessun Dorma at the 1998 Grammy Awards!
I only knew she sung it because she was apparently very proud of it in an interview... My question is that HOW did the Grammys allowed her to attempt that??
I have a Lot of respect for Aretha singing Soul at her prime, But she is one of those Huge Ego singers that thinks she can sing Everything! Plus her prime ended more than 30 years ago! :/
I can aonly say, that I have seen Calleja in "Lucua du Kallerloore" and he was a perfekt edgardo.
kervineus
Joge Lagunes is a mexican tenor (son of an opera tenor with a beautiful voice, the firts Snow White prince for the Dinsey Movie in spanish) who had to change to baritone roles because technique problems. May be Mr. Villazon could consider this like an option for himself too!
To William Morris - your remark was hilarious!
that Nessun Dorma makes me laugh a lot.
A parte tutti i crack...il nessun dorma è improponibile per una voce di musica leggera!
Why is Netrebko a star? It must be her looks, because it certainly isn't her singing.
Go to all theaters she had perform and ask them you might get the answer.
Because the level of opera audience is higher than yours and the one of the gay guy posting this!
As I mentioned Jussi cracked horribly in Di Quella Pira "Mario Lanza: Singing To The Gods By Derek Mannering,"
I think in modern times, the tenors are more recorded, people have tape recorders, and its more difficult. All things considered though, the "crack count" is not really all that high when you stop and think how many performances there were.
I love Vincent at the end so funny
Può succedere, i cantanti non sono dei computer
Helmut Lotti : Opera :: Mona Lisa keychain : The Mona Lisa
Listening to this I think I'm at the Arizona Opera House LOL everything is transposed or disposable old fat Sopranos Tenors I'm having flashbacks really baritones. The people that attend do not have a clue went to applaud a laugh at certain subtitles most of them are drunk too much wine before the Opera it's quite entertaining sometimes but very sad for the fifth largest city in the United States to make a mockery of these great operas bringing these Regional opera singers from St Louis Tulsa Oklahoma. Be afraid there is no light at the end of the tunnel for Opera these disasters occur all the time and Regional Opera Houses have a good day bye
Someone that doesn't like Calleja's voice is something completely different from an opera disaster. He didn't crack his voice, didn't sing out of tone... come one!
He was quite old here, I believe. His career was nering its end when the two Otello recordings were made. Who knows what problems...memory etc.
The Traviata chorus sounds Libiamo'd the fuck out.
Ah, I see. Actually, there are some recorded cracks by Jussi (the final high C in the duet of the Butterfly recording) but he manages it so well that it still sounds good! Jussi was amazing.
Non opera singers trying to sing opera and murdering it? Try Michael Bolton.