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2017-07-16 17:43:11
Met Opera Round-Up: The Season’s Last Gasp with ‘Guillaume Tell,’ ‘Tristan,’ and ‘The Flying Dutchman’ (Part One)
[…] in various and sundry forms. Singers from the dawn of recording, the so-called gramophone era, managed to work their way around the hurdles, while others were not as successful. Readers can come to their own conclusions as to which method was best, usually from a personal perspective. Fortunately, there are lots of examples to choose from, mainly from the Golden Age by such splendid artists as Francesco Tamagno, Giovanni Martinelli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Francesco Merli, Mario Filippeschi, Georges Thill, René Verdière, César Vezzani, Hermann Jadlowker, Léon Escalais, and others. Among modern singers, one may thrill to the voices of Luciano Pavarotti, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, Chris Merritt, Michael Spyres, John Osborn, and Juan Diego Flórez. What about the title role of Tell? Good question. On the Italian front, baritones as far afield as Giuseppe de Luca, Giuseppe Danise, Gino Bechi, Benvenuto Franci, Tito Gobbi, and Giuseppe Taddei have left some wonderful […]
2017-04-23 22:03:59
[…] one outstanding moment, that towered above the rest — many preserved, unfortunately, in positively excruciating sound. Franco Corelli & Birgit Nilsson in Turandot (Photo: Louis Melancon/Met Opera) Still, what price wouldn’t fanatics pay to be able to relive Maria Callas’ spontaneous high C from Mexico City in the conclusion to the Triumphal Scene from Aida, or tenor Franco Corelli’s gasp-inducing, stratospheric assumption of Calàf to soprano Birgit Nilsson’s icy Princess Turandot? How about Mario Filippeschi’s dramatically declaimed Radames from the Naples Opera? Did he really take that phrase, “Sacerdote, io resto a te!” all in one incredible breath? You bet he did! Opera was treated as a spectator sport in days gone by…. Moments such as these were unheard of when complete opera albums appeared on the scene. What was so often heard in the opera house could not hope to be captured or duplicated in the studio — […]
2016-07-04 20:27:36
Sprinkle a Little ‘Turandot,’ Seasoned with a Dash of ‘Cav’ and ‘Pag’ (Part Two): Cast Reshuffling and Dueling High Notes
[…] (for background information on these fabulous singers, see the following link: https://josmarlopes.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/three-titanic-tenors-del-monaco-corelli-and-tucker/ ). For all its volume and heft, I missed the Unknown Prince’s more reflective side in Berti’s assumption of this role. In Act III, for instance, he could have opted to caress the opening lines of “Nessun dorma” (“No one sleeps”) in generous proportion to his voice. Berti handled the middle portion well enough, though not as musically sound as, say, tenor Mario Filippeschi did in his recording of the piece. Filippeschi, who had much better technical skills all around, easily encompassed the heroic aspects of the part, along with the tricky tessitura with its emphasis on the passaggio (similar, in many respects, to Cavaradossi’s “E lucevan le stelle” and the earlier “Recondita armonia,” from Tosca). Surprisingly, for all the sound and fury hinted at earlier on, Berti’s B flat — the one with the infamous fermata on […]
2016-06-07 14:40:05
Bobby come on over for dinner
Happy 53rd birthday tenor Roberto Alagna. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHUMy3HIiA Born on this day in 1897 conductor George Szell. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKHA8dOdbsw Born on this day in 1903 soprano Margaret Ritchie. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ1-vmcqVm0 Born on this day in 1907 tenor Mario Filippeschi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRuMMph-Sw Born on this day in 1908 conductor, director and teacher Boris Goldovsky. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtC9Lc9C6-0 Also born on this day in 1908 soprano Margherita Carosio. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVWCCY5F3eQ Born on this day in 1926 set designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uOwku5qVvo Happy 88th birthday composer Charles Strouse. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsMj32FfZBg Born on this day in 1927 tenor Andrea Velis. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtClw2-mtk Happy 79th birthday conductor Neeme Jarvi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBhT3GZivII On this day in […]
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