How to actually SING Scarpia! Cornell Macneil - Tre sbirri... Te Deum [Tosca] - 1978

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  • A re-upload of an important document featuring an important baritone-and certainly one of the three greatest American ones-in history.
    (This video is uploaded strictly for educational purposes regarding the study of singing technique-breathing coordination, mouth shape, jaw position, registrational balance, etc.)
    #Baritones #BelCanto #Opera
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    This channel is primarily about vocal emission-aural examples of basically correct singing, correct impostazione-chiaroscuro, vowel clarity, firm and centered pitch, correct vibrato action, absence of throatiness or thickness, sounds free from constriction and from the acoustic noise that accompanies it-with occasional video examples that demonstrate what the body, face, mouth, jaw, and tongue look like when used with correct impostazione-the vocal emission of the one and only Italian school.
    Caveat: I'm biased in favor of baritones and baritone literature, but if you want to learn about and listen to all the greatest singers in the old-school tradition, explore this spreadsheet (voice parts are separated by tabs): bit.ly/2W4qmE3
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  • @tractotus
    @tractotus ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Give Puccini some credit.. the Scarpia Te Deum with the magnificent orchestral accompaniment is some of the greatest minutes in all of opera

    • @johnpickford4222
      @johnpickford4222 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeffrey L. : Where did Puccini sing the Scarpia Te Deum? At the MET, Covent Garden or La Scala? Who sang with him?

    • @FueganTV
      @FueganTV ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think it's the greatest passage in the whole opera! The way it builds up and its diegetic polyphony (evil scheming juxtaposed with a religious mass) are breathtaking.

    • @acadela3506
      @acadela3506 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      John Pickford : what?

    • @no_Ray_bang
      @no_Ray_bang 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      such a great spectacle, musically, conceptually, visually

    • @postmodernrecycler
      @postmodernrecycler หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's the good stuff. The low tube bells, the organ, the choral, the thunder claps, the grand church spectical, the counterpointed themes in the scene's narrative, the high tube bells for the mass. I go to Tosca for this piece alone.

  • @xxsaruman82xx87
    @xxsaruman82xx87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    His live recording with Price and Corelli is superlative!

  • @amantedellopera1681
    @amantedellopera1681 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Macneil was up there with the very best of baritones,totally captivating,totally believable

  • @mudgebauer
    @mudgebauer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I met Mr. Macniel and also Ludovic Spies when I was an extra in Tosca in 1973 San Francisco Opera. I played the part of a monk the the procession. He was a swell fellow. a great experience when I was young.

    • @JWP452
      @JWP452 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The glorious Kurt Herbert Adler San Francisco Opera!

  • @BaroneVitellioScarpia1
    @BaroneVitellioScarpia1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Volcanic voice.

  • @markdecker7489
    @markdecker7489 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is Macneil past his prime (he would retire in 1985), and yet he is still brilliant. Yes, his voice is showing signs of wear and doesn't have the full richness it had earlier, but he wields it with such dramatic effect that it actually works better that way. His Scarpia is rough and gruff, one that doesn't have time to pretend to be suave and dashing like others do. Behrens' Tosca is never close to being seduced by this beast, she knows from the start he is a man to fear.

    • @sgnmath1234
      @sgnmath1234 ปีที่แล้ว

      He retired from the stage in 1988 singing Tonio from Pagliacci

    • @nskull9368
      @nskull9368 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We no real vocal beasts in opera these days… 😢

    • @jafb67
      @jafb67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree wholeheartedly! MacNeil at his prime was one of the best ever! His Rigoletto from 1962 with Sutherland and Siepi is some of the most beautiful and powerful baritone singing I’ve ever heard.

  • @Evvivaverdi
    @Evvivaverdi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Truly an unrepeatable giant of the lyric art.

  • @valeriomessersi1016
    @valeriomessersi1016 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Un vero Signore. !!!!! Padrone assoluto della sua bellissima voce. !!!!!! Bravoooooo. !!!

  • @samcotten2416
    @samcotten2416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    YES. *THAT* is the correct way to sing.

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He puts Ramey and Terfel to shame just in the opening line alone! With their blowhard wobbling!

  • @francoroselli7154
    @francoroselli7154 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Grandissimo Cornell.....

  • @photo161
    @photo161 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    By this later stage in Macneill's career, the voice was huge, dark and heroic. ie. 3:25, a climactic high F.

  • @PBXVIILY
    @PBXVIILY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I loved The BIG MAC saw him many times when I was a student in High School. My Dads favorite Baritone! Magnificent Voice.
    The Biggest Voice ever!

  • @jacktaggart2489
    @jacktaggart2489 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Macneil rarely came out of character, even during curtain calls. A great voice and legacy.

  • @jmballestra7607
    @jmballestra7607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    un Scarpia excellent ,voix et jeu de scène !!!

  • @RBP1963
    @RBP1963 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great singer and remarcable actor ❤

  • @joansutton
    @joansutton 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    He is excellent.

  • @user-mt7xl1li3s
    @user-mt7xl1li3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for posting this great performance, no equals. To bad he didn't do more commercial recording. I saw him a few times at the met opera.. Rigoletto and nile scene in Aida gala.. I those days they were almost taken for granted. I wish they were still here.

  • @franziskaschindler7087
    @franziskaschindler7087 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I recently discovered MacNeill and I think he was an outstanding singer. I cannot think of anyone nowadays on this level.
    Bravo

  • @EElgar1857
    @EElgar1857 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tosca is the first opera I ever saw live, and it can still make me cry at certain moments. George London is my favorite Scarpia, but MacNeil was very fine also!

  • @404modestahousebills4
    @404modestahousebills4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:01
    MacNeil: I'm not so sure about this . . .
    1985
    MacNeil: *snappy snappy*

  • @v.volkov4916
    @v.volkov4916 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    потрясающе, я не знал этого исполнителя, какой драматичный и демоничный взгляд! какой тембр!

  • @DLJ2890
    @DLJ2890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    amazing singing actor

    • @mollygarden9535
      @mollygarden9535 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      and he had the best guru! (Tito Gobbi, and he WAS a guru.)

  • @phyllispetras3369
    @phyllispetras3369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I choose Scarpia!!!!Love, Tosca

  • @PBXVIILY
    @PBXVIILY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I enjoy this so much! My favorite interpretation!! So musical! I saw him at the end of his career nothing short of fantastic! This performance was incredible!

  • @marym2300
    @marym2300 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Today Big Mac would have been 100 years old. If only he were still with us

  • @malenasheytanova9967
    @malenasheytanova9967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Magnifique

  • @ronaldgoff7499
    @ronaldgoff7499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    loudest voice i ever heard great before he develpoed a wbble in voice still great

    • @larrywoods6318
      @larrywoods6318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please define wobble.

    • @user-il5oq5df6l
      @user-il5oq5df6l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maria Callas and Hans Hotter had wobbles too.

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@larrywoods6318wobble = Ramey and Terfel

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Люблю всіх Тосок і Скарпіїв світу!

  • @BrianJosephMorgan
    @BrianJosephMorgan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bravo!

  • @pichuco_1981
    @pichuco_1981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Unico!

  • @lauracook7608
    @lauracook7608 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow! Only baritone who comes close to Milnes. I'd say they are almost equal.

  • @jefolson6989
    @jefolson6989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The wobble had already come . MacNiel was.masterful in how he.used the deterioration of his voice for powerful.dramatic effect

    • @larrywoods6318
      @larrywoods6318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It wasn't a wobble (like Callas) as big heavy voices age the vibrato widens, and still on pitch, a wobble is not on pitch.

    • @jefolson6989
      @jefolson6989 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@larrywoods6318 a stopped clock is right twice a day. Callas , on a single note, goes sharp and flat, but within the extremes is the correct pitch. MacNiel delt with this by singing high notes with very little vibrato toward the end, but the BEAT, wobble, call it what you will was still there. His work at the Met in the 80s was due more to his power as the house union rep than his voice. Nobody messed with Big Mac. But he continued to be effective on stage.

    •  ปีที่แล้ว

      That is *not* a wobble. I am perplexed as to how easy people claim stuff in public while being absolutely clueless about them. A wobble is a non-pulsating pitch excursion, usually without a proper accent on the center pitch, while a vibrato is a pulsating pitch excursion with an accent on the center pitch, which is perceived as *the* pitch, and the off beat of the pulsation on a lower pitch, which is usually not at all perceived (but can be if the vibrato frequency is slower than 6Hz as in the case of MacNeil here). Do the world a favor and educate yourself before spewing garbage about none the less but one if the greatest baritones to have ever existed

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Angela Meade never ever reached the center of the pitch even with a quick vibrato, and Ramey and Terfel had a wobble every time they sang this

  • @AreteSr
    @AreteSr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow!

  • @luisnorbertogomez7058
    @luisnorbertogomez7058 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lo pude escuchar en vivo en Bs As dos veces una voz impresionante

  • @larrychan622
    @larrychan622 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This looks like the Verrett/Pavarotti production which is as close to my personal standard of perfection (for Tosca) as I can realistically expect. Met Opera/ Tito Gobbi production conducted by James Conlon 1978.

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Люблю ... Скарпіа

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Люблю во веки веков.

    • @user-ry9zf5fp4v
      @user-ry9zf5fp4v ปีที่แล้ว

      Я люблю его очень..два благородных баритона-он и Бастианини-оба прекрасные Ангелы оперы!

  • @acadela3506
    @acadela3506 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think Gabriel Bacquier’s french scarpia is the best one ever. Worth listening to.

    • @MOV1983
      @MOV1983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The video is not about Gabriel Bacquier.

    • @acadela3506
      @acadela3506 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MOV1983 Obviously? I'm giving a recommendation.

    • @AP-dd3xp
      @AP-dd3xp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@acadela3506awful recommendation

  • @stanlivengood9500
    @stanlivengood9500 ปีที่แล้ว

    I miss him.

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Люблю.

  • @whovian1591
    @whovian1591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    MacNeil is my favorite scarpia!

    • @marcelpopa8018
      @marcelpopa8018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      senti Tito Gobbi .

    • @e.g.8454
      @e.g.8454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MacNeil Milnes Bastianini London Tibbett Taddei Warren Carroli Ramey Ruffo Granforte Stracciari Battistini Gobbi..

    • @rodolfolomelig8349
      @rodolfolomelig8349 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@e.g.8454 Ramey has the most beautiful voiced ever Scarpia, Bastianini sings it beautifully, but Gobbi embodies the character

    • @whovian1591
      @whovian1591 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@e.g.8454 you forget giangiacomo guelfi, and gabriel Bacquier!

    • @user-ry9zf5fp4v
      @user-ry9zf5fp4v ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rodolfolomelig8349 Бастианини тоже воплощал..по началу он кажется холодным и строгим в своей игре-послушайте его Скарпиа раза три..и он открывается вам, удивительный, необъятный,природный актёр

  • @user-yj4ld9mg2b
    @user-yj4ld9mg2b 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    impostazione chiaroscuro

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Хорррош Скарпиа. Сыграл и спел.

  • @boycebryan
    @boycebryan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    really too bad that the microphone was apparently right on the front of the stage. would love to hear a little mix from what that sounded like in the house. still stunning 💪

  • @jordipanadesribera6890
    @jordipanadesribera6890 ปีที่แล้ว

    👏👏👏👏

  • @v.volkov4916
    @v.volkov4916 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gobbi is good for it too!

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Клас.

  • @elsaasta5164
    @elsaasta5164 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Un gran bel Baritono......ma si illude che Tosca possa cadere fra le sue braccia.....Cornell Macneil per essere un artista straniero ha una buona dizione e una bella maschera d' attore...uno Scarpia ad hoc. Elsa Asta

    • @angelabender8132
      @angelabender8132 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Il sesso può essere cosa diversa dall’amore e Scarpia si riferisce al sesso che le cantanti d’epoca non disdegnavano essendo libere.
      😀

  • @definitelynosebreather
    @definitelynosebreather 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I guess one of your baritones would be Tibbett, right? So who would be the last one?

    • @trrill
      @trrill  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess it'd be a tie between Merrill and Bonelli. I would tend to prefer Bonelli; he was a *complete* musician and artist compared to Merrill.

  • @thenateo64
    @thenateo64 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who do you feel the other ones are? Merrill and Warren?

    • @Evvivaverdi
      @Evvivaverdi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If it is not meddling, Tibbett and Warren, I suppose.

    • @Operafiend22
      @Operafiend22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nathaniel Stern Apollo Granforte, Giangiacomo Guelfi, even the live recording of Bastianini

    • @deadwalke9588
      @deadwalke9588 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If we're just basing this on American Baritones, then you have to talk about Richard Bonelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Leonard Warren, and Sherrill Milnes.

    • @artemsmirnov7067
      @artemsmirnov7067 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well, the greatest is Bastianini. Best American is Warren, probably. Then maybe Milnes

    • @cathyborrege5373
      @cathyborrege5373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@artemsmirnov7067 Bastianini a baritone without peer. You Tube: Ettore Bastianini "Eri tu Che, Macchiavi", Masked Ball. Unequaled.

  • @gaetanomariapiscopo5637
    @gaetanomariapiscopo5637 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ottima pronuncia, anche della "r"...

  • @rodolfolomelig8349
    @rodolfolomelig8349 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A little bit out of time at the beggining of the aria, but very well performed. I still prefer Gobbi and Bastiniani over him.

    • @user-ry9zf5fp4v
      @user-ry9zf5fp4v ปีที่แล้ว

      Бастианини красивый, невероятный..хотя не любил роль Скарпиа

  • @Janet-eb3ok
    @Janet-eb3ok 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But, he doesn’t sound evil!

  • @paulhenner8914
    @paulhenner8914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good performance............however Tito Gobbi's is with out doubt the best Scarpia

  • @KimberlyNoel-yc7dl
    @KimberlyNoel-yc7dl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not the best Scarpia rendition, but passable.

  • @Augiedavis
    @Augiedavis ปีที่แล้ว

    Detached performance. Boring.

  • @splodsquadubdob
    @splodsquadubdob 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is awesome singing, no doubt. But I wouldn't say it's the best recording. Guelfi is technically better. MacNeil struggles a bit at the top. It's too 'open' and that's something I have noticed as his career progressed. Gobbi had a similar quality. I think it's not necessarily bad singing but I think it limits the singer's shelf life. Anyway, I recommend changing the title of this video. You're implying MacNeil is better than Guelfi. I think that's a silly comparison. MacNeil was more bass-baritone than Guelfi, but both absolutely extraordinary voices. Early MacNeil is my favourite of his output.

    • @trrill
      @trrill  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well I recommend you get your own channel and stop telling other people what to do! This video title implies no comparison whatsoever with Guelfi, whose Te deum video is on *my channel*, by the way. It refers, instead to MacNeil's interview in Jerome Hines's book. And your comments about MacNeil's voice have been made hundreds of times by many, many other people for the past 50 years and are as irrelevant as theirs. MacNeil sang well until he retired at 65. You can see his final performance here on TH-cam.

    • @splodsquadubdob
      @splodsquadubdob 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@trrill I'm interested that you are quoting Hines. Thank you for mentioning. I must correct your presumption of me: You're recommending that I stop telling people what to do? Well, what are you doing? Read your own headline. And I wouldn't say there is a categorical way to sing Scarpia. Guelfi's different version clearly shows this. Interesting information though on MacNeil. Thank you for sharing that. Sorry, if you don't like my discourse.

    • @larrywoods6318
      @larrywoods6318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@trrill bravo

  • @user-jt4js7ed3e
    @user-jt4js7ed3e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Люблю.