Che bella interpretazione....e che recitativo !!! Una dizione limpida...sembra quasi una registrazione non troppo lontana. Che magnifici protagonisti sono stati , chi più chi meno, hanno glorificato la Lirica intera. Il Baritono TITTA Ruffo è stato un nome ed un artista all'ennesima potenza... I cantanti moderni prendano esempio e ricalchino il valore ....lo studio e la serietà di questi immensi talenti del passato! !!! Elsa Asta
Cara signora una volta la meritrocazia era un valore principale! TItta Tuffo non aveva finito il conservatorio (fu cacciato) e aveva fatto solo pochi studi a livello scolastico! Riuscì a colmare questa lacuna da solo! E poi vocalmente era formidabile e questo contava più della cultura! Doveva cantare non fare una conferenza sui massimi sistemi! A uno come lui (cioé con pochi mezzi economici) oggi non farebbero nemmeno pulire le toilette del conservatorio.. Purtroppo....
Andrea Lupini Caro Signore, parlando dei valori ... Negli ultimi 30 anni i giovani che stanno studiano il canto lirico durante lunghissimi anni finiscono il Conservatorio e non sanno cantare ... Questa e' una verità tristissima . Purtroppo il sistema nel mondo intero e' corrotto e poco adatto per poter preparare una giovane voce per il palcoscenico in un modo decente . In mondo intero i posti per gli insegnanti del canto lirico sono già occupati da anni... Non ci sono più dei posti liberi nel Conservatorio visto che il mestiere del maestro di canto e' ben pagato e i maestri di oggi di sono liberi di ogni responsabilità morale e artistica ! In mondo intero ''il sistema'' purtroppo funziona nello stesso modo cioè sulla base delle ''amicizie'' e le ''conoscenze'' ... Come si può preparare in un modo decente la giovane generazione quando non ci sono più dei posti liberi nel Conservatorio neanche per i cantanti che appartenevano alla grande epoca degli anni 60 ?!... Per esempio ho un vecchio amico baritono verdiano chi era uno dei migliori baritoni del mondo degli anni 60. Questo Signore non ha il diritto di insegnare i giovani perché non c'è un posto libero nel Conservatorio per lui ... Tutti i posti sono già occupati da anni ... Parlando dei valori .../quali?!/ o tempora o mores .
@@bodiloto sono d'accordo! Ho assistito poi a delle lezioni di canto in cui l'insegnante stessa era in evidente confusione tecnica..... Che peccato per quel suo amico che evidentemente non ha santi in paradiso.... La saluto cordialmente e se non dovessimo sentirci prima le auguro di passare un felice natale (manca poco dopotutto!)
This and the Cristofero Colombo records are my 2 absolute must haves in my collection!!! No one sings like Ruffo...I have the original Victor's in the collection.
Grandissimo Titta Ruffo (non capisco quella "eee" sull'acuto), modello di bella voce, chiarezza, modernità per il suo tempo, immascheramento del suono. Ciò non toglie affatto che altri baritoni possano essere straordinari in questo brano.
Magnus, Gobbi's performance is not comparable with either Ruffo or Stracciarri or Bastianini and even young Nicolae Herlea recordings. Gobbi had much smaller voice.
@@abcdefgh-db1to, no. Ettore Bastianini recerded this aria in Hamburg in 1954. Romanian Nicola Herlea is perfect and Russian Azerbaijani Muslim Magomayew. Listen and response, please.
@@johnfalstaff2270 I love those two too but I stand my grounds saying I think Granforte's rendition is as good as Ruffo's. I guess when talking about such immense baritones it's all down to a matter of taste. It's not as if I were saying Hovrosvsky is the greatest Figaro 🤮 !
@@abcdefgh-db1to, everybody has his/her own personal taste. Also Mario del Monaco, at his later time (at 51) recorded "Largo al factotum" quite well. You can find this video on TH-cam...
Actually, Toscanini himself complimented Merrill on his perfect Italian diction. So, I have no idea what you are listening to, but perhaps it was something when he was older or a bad recording? Toscanini would know.
I think more in the older days. Now opera is so bad at every house, including La Scala, that no one cares as much. I would love to sing there for the tradition of who had sung there before, but I find the opera house directors very disappointing because they hire mediocre singers. I am not impressed. The old greats would be disappointed. In 1979 Tebaldi said all we have are tiny mosquitoes flying around. Now it is worse.
Not Caruso, not Callas, not Ponselle, not Tetrazzini, not Sutherland, not Lilli Lehmann, and certainly nobody today. Titta Ruffo is greatest voice in recorded history--period!
Merrill sang many times at La Scala. La Scala is not the only opera house in the world. He sang at them all, but being from NY he made his home at the Metropolitan Opera.
Da far ascoltare ai bambini,ai giovani,a chi approccia la lirica,a chi non la conosce.A tutti.Voce eccezionale per estensione,prodigiosa,per smalto,per nitidezza di dizione,per versatilità,ed era anche autodidatta.In più eccellente attore.Imitatissimo Titta Ruffo,ma vanamente.Le leggende non possono essere emulate.
An enormous gong, wrapped in black velvet and reverberating repeatedly. Have tried many times before to describe this great singer's sound. Herein my latest attempt --
How bad is the orchestra recorded, and how great still the voice sounds. Cannot imagine how the voice would have sounded at good recording. And cannot beleive how phenomenal sounded then this voice “live”... Guess is true that no one so far could “touch this recording”.
When asked why he did not teach after he retired, Ruffo is said to have replied: "How could I teach what I never learned?" Another famous baritone was asked if most baritones weren't, in fact, just frustrated tenors. He replied: "Perhaps, but so are most tenors."
Actually he taught Guelfi so it isn't true what he was saying. I think he said that because he didn't want to be hassled by so many who would want lessons. And actually he said in a recorded interview his brother taught him the scientific method of voice.
The video is there. Just search his name. Gobbi was far better than what we have now, but he still had problems with his technique. His top was not very good and he tended to have a caprino. Florez has one too and the sound is very, very small. On the videos, however, they make it seem like he has a big sound full of squillante. He doesn't. It is very small and thin, Today all the performances are enhanced. They increase the overtones to make the voices sound like they are...cont'd
This is a frustrating set of comments. The OPs points seem well informed and interesting, but who the hell is he/she replying to at any given moment? Great upload though.
I am afraid that what is happening is that your ears are tuned for modern recording equipment. It is hard to really know what to listen for in the older recordings, especially if you do not have good equipment. When people start training their voice properly and understanding singing they start hearing things more accurately and differently than before. I am sure that would happen to you. Tibbett is one of the best. Older recordings can lack some clarity. These singers...cont'd...
Ruffo muy bien. escuchen por favor a nuestro Colombiano Carlos julio Ramírez también ofrece una de las mejores versiones del mundo de esta joya musical
...are so far beyond the modern singers like Spagnoli (is that his name? lol) that it is incomparable. Gobbi would have told you the same. But, again, the recording quality can throw you off a bit. All the greatest conductors and singers in history, for example, and vocal experts would tell you Merrill and Tibbett were among the greatest who ever lived. So you must trust that they know something and perhaps you are not really hearing accurately what is there.
I have no clue what recording you are listening to. Merrill was known - and known by Italian conductors - for having impeccable diction. Are you listening to a recording of him when he was older? And I have news for you, Merrill was LOVED in Italy.
Have you heard Spagnoli in person? It makes a difference. And if you have then have you also heard an amazing voice like Ruffo, MacNeil, Merrill, or someone like that in person? If not then you don't know what it could or should sound like. Look up Aldo Protti. He was also great. He sings a great Nemico della patria. Here are baritones you should know: Molinari, Stracciari, Tagliabue, Protti, Ruffo, Merrill, MacNeil, Granforte, Guelfi, Battistini, Ancona, Amato, Basiola, Bechi..,con'td
Clearly, no one can touch him in the sheer deafening size of his voice, and he certainly added a ton of originality to his singing. Nevertheless, to me, Tibbett still reigns supreme, both overall, and in this aria. Ruffo cannot control or modulate his voice and his singing style nearly as well as Tibbett, who can go from the most dramatic tones to the most sensitive in one breath, and who sounds like a truly fun-loving tease in this aria, something Ruffo fails to do. The sheer size of Ruffo's voice inhibits his ability to sound romantic, or to sing this aria fast and with a delightful gallop, as Tibbett does here: th-cam.com/video/6GhwDObJk84/w-d-xo.html
Listen to Granforte's version, live and you even have the image ! Ruffo is definitely just as real, and possibly even greater ! It's all real, just pure technique and talent
It is very quick, as is much of Rossini. Therefore it is difficult to pronounce it the way you would speak. The point is that you still understand it. And remember these are Italian singers who are doing it. When moving quickly in singing it is very difficult to pronounce. You cannot stop the breath as in speaking.
You are welcome. Just as when you say della as opposed to dela, the breath stops on the double consonants, but not on the single one. In singing this is not ideal. There are times when you can do it more even in singing perhaps when it is in a recitative or in an easier part of the range etc.
Учитесь у Титта Руффо господа атаковать фразу на глиссандо снизу(кварта), использовать вспомогательные гласные для постановки ноты(А или И или Ы, Э, У, О)согласные "Х", тв.атаку,от фальцета...приемов много позволяющих восстанавливать глотку(связки)в процессе вокализации в оперномспектакле или концерте..
Check out the videos I sent. I also posted the Largo by Merrill in a better recording that more accurately represents his voice. the other recording is a terrible quality.
Merrill is awful? I don't think so. He is one of the greatest ever. Maybe you heard a bad recording of him. Look up Merrill singing Il balen or singing Vision fugitive.
...better than they actually are in person. It is all fake. The public is being lied to. Also, the public now does not ever hear voices like Ruffo, Tebaldi, Del Moanco, Gigli, Corelli, Merrill etc. So they don't know what they sound SHOULD and COULD be. So they accept mediocre sounds that are enhanced. It is all a sham.
@@esterbruno8604 secondo me ci sono vari livelli nella musica. Per quanto riguarda baritoni uno può avere gusti su per es. Bechi, Ruffo, Bastianini, Granforte. Nucci fa parte di livelli molto e dico molto inferiori
I think that his older version recorded around 1912 is much better. His voice there is more flexible and full of youthful vigor unlike in here, when rather technique prevails. Listen to that th-cam.com/video/lEHJzp0WDwc/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, I thought so...that video is not an accurate representation of Merrill's sound. It is distorted. I don't like it either. This one is better: th-cam.com/video/83pggaCEgf0/w-d-xo.html
Yes, when you are singing you should not stop the breath for the double consonants. None of the old greats did as they knew that it was not good for the voice. You cannot exactly sing as you speak Italian. It is only the modern "diction" freaks that have caused it to be an issue. Just as in English you would not sing "don't" with an explosive 'T" on the end even though technically it is there.
Oh...come on now. You are disqualifying yourself. You cannot compare a modern singer, singing in a mic and enhanced to Merrill. This guy's voice is 1/10 the size. And mic'd. HORRIBLE!
You can understand Every. Single. WORD.
This is pure gold.
Bravo Ruffo
The size of his voice moving with such ease is like an elephant doing perfect pirouettes in Swan Lake.
Largo al factotum dell'arte lirica vera,largo !
Sublime .
His louder notes transcend the primitive recording equipment. Sounds strong and clear. What a voice!
Che bella interpretazione....e che recitativo !!! Una dizione limpida...sembra quasi una registrazione non troppo lontana. Che magnifici protagonisti sono stati , chi più chi meno, hanno glorificato la Lirica intera. Il Baritono TITTA Ruffo è stato un nome ed un artista all'ennesima potenza... I cantanti moderni prendano esempio e ricalchino il valore ....lo studio e la serietà di questi immensi talenti del passato! !!! Elsa Asta
Cara signora una volta la meritrocazia era un valore principale! TItta Tuffo non aveva finito il conservatorio (fu cacciato) e aveva fatto solo pochi studi a livello scolastico! Riuscì a colmare questa lacuna da solo! E poi vocalmente era formidabile e questo contava più della cultura! Doveva cantare non fare una conferenza sui massimi sistemi! A uno come lui (cioé con pochi mezzi economici) oggi non farebbero nemmeno pulire le toilette del conservatorio.. Purtroppo....
Andrea Lupini
Caro Signore, parlando dei valori ...
Negli ultimi 30 anni i giovani che stanno studiano il canto lirico durante lunghissimi anni finiscono il Conservatorio e non sanno cantare ...
Questa e' una verità tristissima .
Purtroppo il sistema nel mondo intero e' corrotto e poco adatto per poter preparare una giovane voce per il palcoscenico in un modo decente .
In mondo intero i posti per gli insegnanti del canto lirico sono già occupati da anni... Non ci sono più dei posti liberi nel Conservatorio visto che il mestiere del maestro di canto e' ben pagato e i maestri di oggi di sono liberi di ogni responsabilità morale e artistica !
In mondo intero ''il sistema'' purtroppo funziona nello stesso modo cioè sulla base delle ''amicizie'' e le ''conoscenze'' ...
Come si può preparare in un modo decente la giovane generazione quando non ci sono più dei posti liberi nel Conservatorio neanche per i cantanti che appartenevano alla grande epoca degli anni 60 ?!...
Per esempio ho un vecchio amico baritono verdiano chi era uno dei migliori baritoni del mondo degli anni 60.
Questo Signore non ha il diritto di insegnare i giovani perché non c'è un posto libero nel Conservatorio per lui ...
Tutti i posti sono già occupati da anni ...
Parlando dei valori .../quali?!/
o tempora o mores .
@@bodiloto sono d'accordo! Ho assistito poi a delle lezioni di canto in cui l'insegnante stessa era in evidente confusione tecnica..... Che peccato per quel suo amico che evidentemente non ha santi in paradiso.... La saluto cordialmente e se non dovessimo sentirci prima le auguro di passare un felice natale (manca poco dopotutto!)
Andrea Lupini
Un Felice Natale anche per Lei !
Cordialità
N.
They didn't call him a vocal miracle for nothing! Bravo
Meu avô ouvia Titta Rufo em seu velho gramofone e foi por causa dessa bela voz que me apaixonei belo canto lirico
Fantastic performance of the greatest!
Чудо из чудес!!!! Какое счастье, что есть запись...
The best. Il migliore.
Beautiful singing ! Thank you for posting :)
Ruffo is the only singer I listen to that hurts my ears when he sings, Imagine what he must have sounded like in the house!
This and the Cristofero Colombo records are my 2 absolute must haves in my collection!!! No one sings like Ruffo...I have the original Victor's in the collection.
I have it too🙂
Magnifico!
spettacolare!!!!
The best. Period. Thanks for posting.
Excelente voz y sublime técnica. Muy poderoso y límpido. Cómo se disfruta.
An amazing recording! wow, thank you!
tremendous force, power and technique. jfsanin
Grandissimo Titta Ruffo (non capisco quella "eee" sull'acuto), modello di bella voce, chiarezza, modernità per il suo tempo, immascheramento del suono. Ciò non toglie affatto che altri baritoni possano essere straordinari in questo brano.
Magistral! Gracias
Inaudito! Ja
Un altro grande baritono italiano!!
Thank God perfection comes in many ways!!!
I remain with Granforte, but i cannot denied the great talent of Ruffo.
Me too, i liked Granforte version more than Ruffo. Even though Ruffo's voice were GIGANTIC
Grandissimo!!!!!! Grazie mille!!!!
Ridicuilous good! The man must have been a genius! I though that Gobbi did this best but this is just amazing.
Magnus, Gobbi's performance is not comparable with either Ruffo or Stracciarri or Bastianini and even young Nicolae Herlea recordings. Gobbi had much smaller voice.
@@johnfalstaff2270 don't forget Granforte, second only to Ruffo in this aria
@@abcdefgh-db1to, no. Ettore Bastianini recerded this aria in Hamburg in 1954. Romanian Nicola Herlea is perfect and Russian Azerbaijani Muslim Magomayew. Listen and response, please.
@@johnfalstaff2270 I love those two too but I stand my grounds saying I think Granforte's rendition is as good as Ruffo's. I guess when talking about such immense baritones it's all down to a matter of taste. It's not as if I were saying Hovrosvsky is the greatest Figaro 🤮 !
@@abcdefgh-db1to, everybody has his/her own personal taste. Also Mario del Monaco, at his later time (at 51) recorded "Largo al factotum" quite well. You can find this video on TH-cam...
Actually, Toscanini himself complimented Merrill on his perfect Italian diction. So, I have no idea what you are listening to, but perhaps it was something when he was older or a bad recording? Toscanini would know.
Magnificent rendition.! Bravo!!! Thank you for posting.
I think more in the older days. Now opera is so bad at every house, including La Scala, that no one cares as much. I would love to sing there for the tradition of who had sung there before, but I find the opera house directors very disappointing because they hire mediocre singers. I am not impressed. The old greats would be disappointed. In 1979 Tebaldi said all we have are tiny mosquitoes flying around. Now it is worse.
Not a fan of Hvortosky's portrayal of Figaro then, I take it.
Theodor Currentzsis is working on this problem!
@@dianasitek3595 Currentzis is a bad conductor.
What do you think of Ernesto Petti and Nikoloz Lagvilava?
WeirdChamp pepeLaugh, malding? pepeLaugh zoomersLULW
Not Caruso, not Callas, not Ponselle, not Tetrazzini, not Sutherland, not Lilli Lehmann, and certainly nobody today. Titta Ruffo is greatest voice in recorded history--period!
Карузо, как раз-таки обладал ещё большим голосом! Не пишите чушь!
Merrill sang many times at La Scala. La Scala is not the only opera house in the world. He sang at them all, but being from NY he made his home at the Metropolitan Opera.
Da far ascoltare ai bambini,ai giovani,a chi approccia la lirica,a chi non la conosce.A tutti.Voce eccezionale per estensione,prodigiosa,per smalto,per nitidezza di dizione,per versatilità,ed era anche autodidatta.In più eccellente attore.Imitatissimo Titta Ruffo,ma vanamente.Le leggende non possono essere emulate.
BRAAAAVOOO!!
An enormous gong, wrapped in black velvet and reverberating repeatedly.
Have tried many times before to describe this great singer's sound. Herein my latest attempt --
Браво!!!!🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
PURE EE. Yeah, love it.
I really really love it !!!!
grazie mille ^^
Bravissimo! Leone!
He was very good.
Incredibile, ma vero!
How bad is the orchestra recorded, and how great still the voice sounds. Cannot imagine how the voice would have sounded at good recording. And cannot beleive how phenomenal sounded then this voice “live”... Guess is true that no one so far could “touch this recording”.
Do you know the date of this recording? (I believe he recorded it at least three times...)
When asked why he did not teach after he retired, Ruffo is said to have replied: "How could I teach what I never learned?" Another famous baritone was asked if most baritones weren't, in fact, just frustrated tenors. He replied: "Perhaps, but so are most tenors."
Actually he taught Guelfi so it isn't true what he was saying. I think he said that because he didn't want to be hassled by so many who would want lessons. And actually he said in a recorded interview his brother taught him the scientific method of voice.
Мощь!!!
...Tibbett, Bonelli, Danise, De Luca, Formichi, Gorin Galeffi, Inghelleri, Kaschman, Sammarco, Scotti, Stabile, Taddei, Warren, Colzani, Bonini, Coletti, Zanelli and even Carroli.
Brazillian Song Vicente Celestino Bravissimo.
The video is there. Just search his name. Gobbi was far better than what we have now, but he still had problems with his technique. His top was not very good and he tended to have a caprino. Florez has one too and the sound is very, very small. On the videos, however, they make it seem like he has a big sound full of squillante. He doesn't. It is very small and thin, Today all the performances are enhanced. They increase the overtones to make the voices sound like they are...cont'd
Per una volta bodiloto aveva ragione: un baritono straordinario dalla voce potente e calorosa, agilissimo e con acuti portentosi.🎉🎉
Grande voix! Qu' il repose dans la paix de Dieu !
I can't believe that voice is real
DER BESTE BARITON ALLER ZEITEN
💐
@iTube22100 why no comment?
This is a frustrating set of comments. The OPs points seem well informed and interesting, but who the hell is he/she replying to at any given moment? Great upload though.
🥰🥰🥰
I am afraid that what is happening is that your ears are tuned for modern recording equipment. It is hard to really know what to listen for in the older recordings, especially if you do not have good equipment. When people start training their voice properly and understanding singing they start hearing things more accurately and differently than before. I am sure that would happen to you. Tibbett is one of the best. Older recordings can lack some clarity. These singers...cont'd...
Ruffo muy bien. escuchen por favor a nuestro Colombiano Carlos julio Ramírez también ofrece una de las mejores versiones del mundo de esta joya musical
Yeah, weird, the links did not work. Stracciari singing Largo. Also, Leonard Warren singing it.
...are so far beyond the modern singers like Spagnoli (is that his name? lol) that it is incomparable. Gobbi would have told you the same. But, again, the recording quality can throw you off a bit. All the greatest conductors and singers in history, for example, and vocal experts would tell you Merrill and Tibbett were among the greatest who ever lived. So you must trust that they know something and perhaps you are not really hearing accurately what is there.
I have no clue what recording you are listening to. Merrill was known - and known by Italian conductors - for having impeccable diction. Are you listening to a recording of him when he was older? And I have news for you, Merrill was LOVED in Italy.
Have you heard Spagnoli in person? It makes a difference. And if you have then have you also heard an amazing voice like Ruffo, MacNeil, Merrill, or someone like that in person? If not then you don't know what it could or should sound like. Look up Aldo Protti. He was also great. He sings a great Nemico della patria. Here are baritones you should know: Molinari, Stracciari, Tagliabue, Protti, Ruffo, Merrill, MacNeil, Granforte, Guelfi, Battistini, Ancona, Amato, Basiola, Bechi..,con'td
Clearly, no one can touch him in the sheer deafening size of his voice, and he certainly added a ton of originality to his singing. Nevertheless, to me, Tibbett still reigns supreme, both overall, and in this aria. Ruffo cannot control or modulate his voice and his singing style nearly as well as Tibbett, who can go from the most dramatic tones to the most sensitive in one breath, and who sounds like a truly fun-loving tease in this aria, something Ruffo fails to do. The sheer size of Ruffo's voice inhibits his ability to sound romantic, or to sing this aria fast and with a delightful gallop, as Tibbett does here:
th-cam.com/video/6GhwDObJk84/w-d-xo.html
I refused to believe that this voice could be real, I imagine they would have their way to retouching the recordings
Listen to Granforte's version, live and you even have the image ! Ruffo is definitely just as real, and possibly even greater !
It's all real, just pure technique and talent
Unico
When was this recording made?
It is very quick, as is much of Rossini. Therefore it is difficult to pronounce it the way you would speak. The point is that you still understand it. And remember these are Italian singers who are doing it. When moving quickly in singing it is very difficult to pronounce. You cannot stop the breath as in speaking.
You are welcome. Just as when you say della as opposed to dela, the breath stops on the double consonants, but not on the single one. In singing this is not ideal. There are times when you can do it more even in singing perhaps when it is in a recitative or in an easier part of the range etc.
Грандиозной звучности баритон Титта Руффо!
Учитесь у
Титта Руффо господа атаковать фразу на глиссандо снизу(кварта), использовать вспомогательные гласные для постановки ноты(А или И или Ы, Э, У, О)согласные "Х", тв.атаку,от фальцета...приемов много позволяющих восстанавливать глотку(связки)в процессе вокализации в оперномспектакле или концерте..
Check out the videos I sent. I also posted the Largo by Merrill in a better recording that more accurately represents his voice. the other recording is a terrible quality.
0:48
BRAVO MAESTRO!
@ElSalvador50 LOL! True, but look up Caruso singing Serenata.
Best
Merrill is awful? I don't think so. He is one of the greatest ever. Maybe you heard a bad recording of him. Look up Merrill singing Il balen or singing Vision fugitive.
Exactly Merrill is superb!!! His voice is so beautiful!!!
Al diavolo i Festival di Pesaro.
In malora!
Ruffo incredibile. (hai letto la sua biografia?)
@@Tkimba2 certo...un romanzo, un film.
And I think Spagnoli is a tenor singing as a baritone.
...better than they actually are in person. It is all fake. The public is being lied to. Also, the public now does not ever hear voices like Ruffo, Tebaldi, Del Moanco, Gigli, Corelli, Merrill etc. So they don't know what they sound SHOULD and COULD be. So they accept mediocre sounds that are enhanced. It is all a sham.
There is Ernesto Petti!
Il miglior Figaro insieme a Leo Nucci 💗
Spero sia una battuta
Percepiscimi, zio... A me Leo Nucci piace un botto 💕 Se a te non piace... Beh, amen
#Degustibusnonestdisputandum
@@esterbruno8604 secondo me ci sono vari livelli nella musica. Per quanto riguarda baritoni uno può avere gusti su per es. Bechi, Ruffo, Bastianini, Granforte. Nucci fa parte di livelli molto e dico molto inferiori
@@albertospadaro4743 E' palese che oggettivamente Leo Nucci è inferiori ad altri baritoni. Però trovo che sia molto bravo
I think that his older version recorded around 1912 is much better. His voice there is more flexible and full of youthful vigor unlike in here, when rather technique prevails. Listen to that th-cam.com/video/lEHJzp0WDwc/w-d-xo.html
Oh no! Hampson is talented, but his technique is not good. I think he is also a spinto tenor singing baritone. No squillante.
non ha voce il suo Hampson.
Hampson-is shit
Hampson never moved me. His voice is wooden. I like a little cello/brass in my voices. Copper. Steel.
Le Grand Titta Ruffo!!!!
OK, but that is the conductor's choice. It has nothing to do with the singer.
Crude and charmless rendition, bawling as though he is not interested in anything but gabbling through it!
1920 anno
Yeah, I thought so...that video is not an accurate representation of Merrill's sound. It is distorted. I don't like it either. This one is better:
th-cam.com/video/83pggaCEgf0/w-d-xo.html
Merrill modifies the final "ee" vowel. Is it still wrong to do so?
Yes, it is good, but I think Lawrence Tibbett's version is better.
Yes, when you are singing you should not stop the breath for the double consonants. None of the old greats did as they knew that it was not good for the voice. You cannot exactly sing as you speak Italian. It is only the modern "diction" freaks that have caused it to be an issue. Just as in English you would not sing "don't" with an explosive 'T" on the end even though technically it is there.
What do you mean by stopping the breath?
BIS HEUTE DIE AUSNAHMEERSCHEINUNG IM BARITONFACH
Right, you *can* sing it, but it is not good because it breaks the vocal line. Ruffo is better.
Oh...come on now. You are disqualifying yourself. You cannot compare a modern singer, singing in a mic and enhanced to Merrill. This guy's voice is 1/10 the size. And mic'd. HORRIBLE!