Baritone Reacts to Baritone Legends PART 2 (CAPPUCCILLI, KEENLYSIDE)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2022
- I'm going to keep this series going as long as you guys are enjoying it! Please comment with other singers you'd like to see me react to. My next video will be golden era baritones, so send me your links to arias. I like watching the singers, too, to talk about their overall performance and jaw position so preferably no recordings.
Let me know what you think!
Simon Keenlyside has been my favorite singer for over 20 years now. I’ve seen him live three times and cannot wait for more. Even in concert, he always puts so much emotion and passion into every piece. He’s a gem.
Just a note: the great Cappuccilli was 65 at the time of that performance. What a little technique can do! 😊
65 with plenty of gas still in the tank! Astounding.
I loved Keenlyside. I need to watch more of him. For the next one, Bastianini and Milnes would be great.
Very lucky to hear Cappuccilli in CAV/PAG and Rigoletto at Covent Garden in his final performances there. Quite superb.
I also loved Renaro Bruson's voice.
I love your insight. It’s so cool to see these two singers because they both bring authenticity in such profound ways. The text, the moment, the music, the voice all serve a greater purpose. That is profound and beautiful.
A great video Lucas. Cappucccilli was indeed a master. One of my friends worked at the royal opera house in the 70’s and on one occasion Cappuccilli was singing in Otello. In the sitzprobe the tenor was sick so Pierro not only sang Iago but Otello too! Incredible. We have a lot to learn from these singers from previous generations. Pierro attributed his amazing breath control to his youth when apparently he used to dive for pearls.
Re. Cappuccilli: Modern listeners should be made aware of the volume that does not necessarily come over in a recording. We shouldn't confuse a dark sound with a loud sound. He doesn't over darken the sound because in the era in which he trained, that wasn't a thing. This is also why the true Ee vowel is an indicator of his era. The tendency to darken and modify vowels is a modern trait for various reasons. There is a particular skill involved in singing a true Ee with a dropped jaw. It was a prerequisite in Cappuccilli's era.
Great video! Cappuccilli is one of the baritones that I watch when I learn arias, his singing is always a lesson. I would love to see you react to our Romanian hero Nicolae Herlea, he is amazing!
Herlea is my favourite rigoletto,a huge voice,i have a live recording of him and the brilliant virginia zeani in traviata,two giants of opera and both sang here in dublin
Herlea might be the most perfect Baritone voice ever recorded. Utterly flawless technique from the top to the very bottom, and plenty of excitement in between. He is how I imagine a singer such as Tita Ruffo would sound like when recorded on better equipment.
I saw Cappuccilli when I was a teenager in Cav and Pag. It was stunning. The way he plays with the Italian words feels effirtless, In Pag, in the old Zeffirelli production at Covent Graden, they sing the prologue in front of those red curtains. He blew the place apart. I believe he was about 62 or 63 when he sang that.
He is still my favourite baritone. Has anyone sung Boccanegra like that ever?
Love these REACTION videos. Please continue doing them. Bravo!
Ok!!! Will do!
Everyone that I ever spoke to about Cappuccilli always remarked that the voice was huge in person. Amazing!
Well, it was big. Dont know about huge. Bigger overall than Milnes, but nothing like MacNiel, who is one of the few Id call HUGE.
@@jefolson6989 you are probably right. I think the thing that hit people was how they didn’t anticipate the size of the voice or brilliance. Cornell is my favorite, my hero, and someone I had a very thrilling conversation with before he passed. He will always be a standard for me :)
@@torlefborsting471 he was unique. Even in the 80's when the voice was frayed, the size was shocking and used to great effect. He was always effective onstage.
@@jefolson6989 I can watch the Tabarro he did at the Met on a loop. So thrilling!
Keenlyside is the leading baritone for me just because he is also a great actor!
My imaginary acting skill are much better after listening watching your videos. Thank you Lucas.
Cant wait for you to do Tibbett, Valdengo, Herlea, Tagliabue, JC Thomas, and all the others. FASCINATING!
SPLENDIDI ARTISTI!!!grazie di ❤ per il video
Love these videos!!!!
There are recordings of Cappuccilli singing this aria when he is younger on youtube.
I have very private recording of Cappuccilli singing almost the entire Aria of Celeste Aida in his dressing room at the Lisbon opera house in Portugal back in late 80s passed to me by one of my former teachers. Was nothing to him….
Back then when people were allowed to smoke inside the opera houses he used to be smoking his cigar seconds before going on stage put it somewhere on near props or something go in and blast whatever he was singing like it was just a walk in the park.
8:33 The best thing about listening to your reactions is your comments on the difficult lines, notes, and transitions. It lets me know, "I'm not crazy!" when I struggle with the same issues.
What great insight and commentary. Love these videos. I have a question/idea for another video. I wanted to ask your opinion on the best and worst audition pieces. What do you recommend singers select for audition and what they should avoid? Maybe you could also give some advice on common mistakes new singers make during the audition process. Just a thought.
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I love this videos
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Wow! His cover is seamless. But it delivered so much!
I really like this analysis videos
Cappucilli was terrific. I have no idea if any recordings exist, but I remember Pablo Elvira singing an unforgettable Tonio at NY City Opera back in the 80's. Would be worth seeking out!
Would love to see you go over Merrill and Zancanaro!
Cappuccilli baritone of all time! ...and his successor is Artur Ruciński.
1:03 -- That's called talent.
Capucilli sang in dublin for the dublin grand opera society,on a few occasions,this was before and in his prime,a young man,znd even then you could tell you were listening to a great baritone
Thanks for this kind of videos (:
Can you talk about Rodney Gilfry? (:
Two very fine baritone,capuchilli sang a few times in dublin in his hey day,i would love to hear your thoughts on the under rated paolo silveri another quiet legend
You should also do a reaction on Hermann Pray! Love his color, maybe you will commend on his tone sliding xP
Simon Keenlyside🤩🤩🤩🤩 is my favorite singer!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 amazing
Bravo!!!
Your very astute in listening and describing and showing how these greats sing/sang. I believe it was Lottie Lehmann (SP) wrote the book "how to sing". Maybe you should write another one. One of my first voice coaches used her book as the bible! There are so many so called "teachers" that don't have a clue. Anxiously awaiting to hear what you have to say about MacNeil.
Hi! Love you and your videos. You inspire me very, very much! If you do another one of these videos, could you maybe react to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau? When he is singing Erlkönig for example. He is my absolute favorite singer and it would be fun to hear your thoughts on him. Thank you for everything you do!
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Thanks for the video, Maestro!
I've got a question, if I may: as a tenor, my training involves always being open up to F4, and then covering at F#4. Although the Berton Coffin exercises we use involve practicing the cover as low as E4, in performance I'm ALWAYS open on F4 regardless of the vowel.
As a baritone, is there a particular note that you are ALWAYS open on, that you would never cover?
Nice job as figaro in Dallas. Bastianini next?
Huge fan. Thanks for these videos. Can you explain in a few words for a layman what cover means?
Please, make a reaction video with Pietro Spagnoli and Ambrogio Maestri. 😉😉. Love your videos
Would be interesting and helpful if you could discuss techniques and terms particular to baritones. I've seen and heard words like the " pocket", " rattle" etc but dont understand them. And why was Samuel Margolis so successful teaching baritones?
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You mention Simon Keenyside's acting skills. I'd be very interested in your opinions on operatic performance versus lieder, and whether all singers should be equally skilled in both disciplines. Evidently, the latter relies exclusively on vocal/physical characterisation without the aid of costume, scenery or, indeed, being able to use fellow performers to play 'against'.
Sir Meachem! How about Terfel and Mattey? What is your opinion? Thank you for sharing!
I’d like to see a video with Merrill and Milnes.
You've mentioned (somewhere) that the "old" (early to mid 20th Century) singers seem to have a faster vibrato and be a bit lighter in weight. Can't help but wonder whether this is not actually a transcription artifact, since the absolute pitch of Middle A has been creeping up for decades and the remastered recordings might be sync-ing pitch to modern A♮ 444Hz± instead of 440Hz or what it was earlier in the century.... Just a thought.
The one of the greatest Baritones of all times and you comment flowers on the stage and the way he walks? Realy? Hey ....
Capucilli is the best!
My favourite baritone of all time
Mario di Monaco was a baritone before he became a tenor. There are a few of his baritone vid on TH-cam.
SK is extraordinarily versatile - I saw him do Macbeth and Pelleas in the same week!!
Woa
@@LucasMeachem1 I KNOW !!!
Would be interesting to add renato Zanelli to the reactions. Great baritone who later moved into the tenor fach and was very good in both.
Simon Keenlyside gave a recital at my college a few weeks ago, lots of French rep, lots of uvular French Rs rather than Italianate ones. I think when he could get away with it technically (lower in the voice so as not to bring the tongue too far back higher up maybe) he chose the uvular R. Just a guess though!
Great video! Please react to Leo Nucci on the next video
Dear Lucas , could you make a short video for us about a „aperto“ and „coperto“ ? I think many people like your video !!!
Regis Mengus is much better... the best of all I have heard, including Cappuccilli, who is great ! Check him out. His tone is consistent and beautiful... gives me warm fuzzies. His diction is impecable (he is French, after all), and his timing is on the mark. When he sings this, I hear Valentin's heart crying out because he becomes Valentin. Regis Mengus is such a great singer and actor !
Also Pavel Lisitsian Gérard Suzay Guisippe Danise .
What do you think of my friend and last teacher the late Paulo Silveri, who started his career as a Basso, but he always knew that he was a Baritone and the last role he sang was Otello which is of course a tenor . He was interested in my voice because it was difficult to categorize, when I started taking lessons at UCLA, the teacher said that I sounded like a Tenor singing Bass, other teachers in London, among them the famous Herbert - Caesar , said that I was a Baritone, the prima-dona Maggie Teyte first said that I'm a Baritone, later on she said, a Tenor, and that I should audition for the Royal Opera at Covent Garden ; but I was already a diplomat in the Foreign Service of my country, Opera and singing were only a life long hobby.
He sang otello here in dublin,but if i am correct was his last role not rigoletto with his daughter,either way he is in my top five,a truly great baritone,very classy
I may be totally incorrect but didn't Cappucccilli sing only one performance at the Met? I was lucky enough to see and hear him a number of times in Vienna in several major Verdi roles. As far as the Si puo I would have to rate Taddei's DGG performance as superior.
Dear Lucas, I have many questions about a baritones vocal technique. Could you please give to us some of types ?Maybe you have already video about this question? Thank you for your Chanel and for your Job! Many Greetings from Ukraine !
Thank you, Can you react to baritones of the early last century how Tita Ruffo, Giuseppe de Luca, Pasquale Amato, Apollo Granforte or Riccardo Stracciari? Please!!!!
Not Rolando PaneraI who I saw on stage in La Traviata in his seventies? Who sung with absolutely everybody from the golden age and the joke opera is today?
Cappucilli is a legend. I saw him a few times - as Iago and Tonio with Vickers
And Rigoletto
Lucky!!!!
Do you know if he’s sung Scarpia?
I really wish I’d seen his Boccanegra though 😢
@@LucasMeachem1 Yes, he did. No recording, alas. 😞
Please Review Richard Bonelli.
Bastianini! Please!
You should do Herlea singing Son sessant’anni so that you can come face to face with God.
Can you try to listen to Nicolai Gedda, please? Jiri
Ist ist necessary to be very big to having a strong Baritone Voice ?
Of course not
Enjoying these! How about Bastianini, the 57 ballo (th-cam.com/video/7B8qgElu8Rw/w-d-xo.html) or 58 forza (th-cam.com/video/kLQXRPQZj6c/w-d-xo.html )?
React to Aldo Protti live in Japan Tonio my favorite
Keenlyside has his scabbard on the wrong side.
Listen to Apolo granforte!!
Zancanaro seems to be the last really bel canto baritone. Noe is a particularly dismal time for baritones. And tenors. Basses too.
Keenlyslide is legendary?not that he isn't good, but there are many baritone he needs to do before he gets to him.
Hi , can you please react to Jose Van Damme and Sherrill Milnes ?
Yes!!!
@@LucasMeachem1 Sherrill Milnes as Rigoletto 💓
Thanks for the video. As for the next one, it would be great to do Sherrill Milnes, th-cam.com/video/Z021RrD3Yvo/w-d-xo.html(di luna), th-cam.com/video/x2BDV4eyyWA/w-d-xo.html( carlo/charles V)
Thanks for links!!
I heard Cappuccili many times in the theater, and there was always a certain dull edge to the sound that made me, while appreciative, never a real fan. What he lacked is something perhaps Mr. Meachem might (or has) discussed: the end of a a very distinct tradition of American Verdi baritones with peeling, tenory high notes. Tibbett, Warren, (I omit the gorgeous-voiced Merrill because after the very start of his career the ‘acuti’ were not his glory), MacNeil, and Milnes. Since Milnes no one. The Italians were in awe of these huge high voices. Why are they now extinct?
Also, would love your reaction to this baritone, Julian Patrick:
th-cam.com/video/ezzRQG5LwoE/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/mzU3pF8yfZ8/w-d-xo.html
You have a more solid instrument than SK.