Giuseppe di Stefano Mezza Voce Head Voice Compilation
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Giuseppe di Stefano is my absolute favorite tenor for many reasons; but the biggest of all, and what I think makes his artistry so great, is his beautiful use of mezzo voce/head voice.
I've put in this compilation extracts from various recordings that demonstrate his soft singing. Does anyone know how he is able to produce this gorgeous, seamless sound?!
Extracts are:
O tu che in seno agl'angeli (1960)
Core n'grato (1964)
O dolce incanto... chiudo gli occhi (1944)
Una Furtiva Lagrima (1944)
E Lucevan le stelle (1950)
Salut demeure chaste et pure (1950)
Mi par d'udire ancora
Santa lucia luntana (1944)
Tu che a dio spiegasti l'ali (19??) (maybe the Callas/HVK recording?)
Lamento di Federico
Senerata Sincera (1959)
La strada del cuore (1954)
Cielo e mar (1950)
![Giuseppe Di Stefano “Dicintecello Vuje” (4.11.1962) [TV Broadcast/Great Sound]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GN9nhK12Plo/mqdefault.jpg)
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When I asked him that very question in 1975, he replied that he couldn't explain how, but said that in his formative period his idols were the young Gigli and Miguel Fleta and that he tried to emulate them. His closest friend, Joseph A. Gimma, who ensured Di Stefano's and Callas's financial security in their later years, told me that Di Stefano always lived "in the moment," and that the pursuit of passion, in music and in life, was all that he lived for.
La più bella voce e MEZZAVOCE tenorile della storia del disco....
Pi caver
Alfred
@@Albert-hi6vp certo conosco le incisioni di Piccaver, a parte la sua mezzavoce ritengo sia notevole la sua tecnica ed il suo timbro davvero avvolgente... peccato la sua irrisolta difficoltà di dizione dell' italiano.... ma comunque averne di simili tenori oggi. !
I suoi famosi pianissimi sonno incomparabili e indimenticabili. SOpratutto la loro espressività che utilizzava bei momenti i più dolci.
In every discussion about Pippo, people always want to discuss him not covering in the passagio, him taking on dramatic roles not for his voice, his lifestyle that wasn't great for his voice, his reckless singing style, etc. in an effort to disparage one of the greatest singers ever. It is as if those people do not want to simply appreciate the heavenly beauty of his voice and prefer to live in the world of pettiness. It is sad.
life isnt perfect and di stefano had his hard times but the character in his voice his unsurpassed
They preached all that because they couldn't sing like him. He's the greatest . He had everything , you though he was kissing the notes at the moments. He was truly singing his heart out.Him singing E Lucevan Le Stelle made me wanna go through a wall . He was the best and will be forever.
so true
Yes, his young and middle aged voice has been exceptionally beautiful. I love his vibratos as well, the most relaxed, free, expressive and wonderful one so far among all of the tenors who have ever sung in this World. Beautiful, clear articulation, the resonance never too nasal. His singing was always highly musical and artistic I've just re-explored this voice again, and cannot stop to wonder on the beauty of it! But there were more singers who much more cared about theirs voices, much more better than Di Stefano did, even though he left behind such a great musical art for us!
The great, great, great Di Stefano. I never tire of that sweet, soaring, melodic voice. He was the perfect voice and interpretation of Puccini with those soft, gentle pianissimi...
Realmente unico grande pippo nessuno mai sara a questa altezza!
You are so right
For those who have the ears to hear, he teaches everything about vocal use by demonstration. Interesting that he said of himself, he learned to do what he did by listening to Gigli and Fleta. Those who criticise his later singing fail to account for what age takes from us all. What a great singer he was, so adept at sharing the heart of the arias.
When I first heard the 1950 Standard Hour Salute Demeure and heard Di Stefano take a full throated high c and decrescendo it to an exquisite pianissimo I developed a whole new respect for this man's talent. Some of his early recordings are so so incredibly beautiful.
That is my absolute favorite recording. from San Francisco wasn't it? And he did it live. Simply amazing !!!
Para mi el mejor
@@mgbushido yes San Francisco, his Standard Hour Radio Program debut.
non passa un giorno senza sentirlo! sempre rimane unico!!!
Sheer beauty. The most beautiful tenor voice ever. Thank you so much for this compilation.
No one can SIGN like DISTEFANO
Un canto che viene dal Cielo..Unico! Il miracolo consiste nella gioia di poterlo ascoltare e riascoltare credendo nel valore metafisico del sentimento
This more than anything sets Di Stefano apart from other tenors... This is very difficult for most tenors especially the larger voices. Di Stefano makes it sound easy....
great artistry....
reduxmisc b
Simply magnificent
The Maestro's career reminds me of Edna St. Vincent Millay's famous poem: "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh my friends; it gives a lovely light."
He had a gorgeous quality of voice.
It probably was one of the only tenors equal or closest to Gigli in beauty of tone.
@@sugarbist Di Stefano and Maria Callas are the reason i enjoyed opera until now...
@@awokwok1029 Young Di Stefano perhaps had the most beautiful quality of voice I ever heard. Callas is my favorite soprano
Grazie a dio rimangono le registrazione che ci permettono di valutare l' immensità dell'artista.
Mis oídos no pueden evitar que la voz de di Stefano sea la más amigable y atrayente de los demás tenores de calidad. Es un tono y una expresión, un timbre una media voz que encanta y no cansa al oírlo pudiendo escucharlo en un amplio repertorio desde el operístico hasta las bellas canciones napolitanas.
This is why I never give a final judgement on a singer until I have heard them live and in space. Everything here most likely worked magnificently in the house. Superb.
Pour moi aussi, Di Stafano est le meilleur ténor ! C'est non seulement la mezza-voce, mais aussi, les modulations de la ligne vocale, la finesse de la prononciation chantée, le phrasé. For me too, Di Stafano is the best tenor ! It is not only the mezza-voce, but also, the modulations of the vocal line, the sharpness(delicacy) of the sung pronunciation, the phrasing.
Ethereal, amazing, beautiful, words cannot describe the voice.
I can guarantee that if a tenor can beautifully decrescendo on the Faust C5 (Salut, Demeure), Fortissimo to Pianissimo, he will win any and every competition he ever enters...that’s how hard and rare that is. I’m trying so hard to get that ability, it requires so much lower body support and absolute mental fortitude. Di Stefano may not have had the most clean technique, but he beats everyone in terms of sheer musicality and interpretation.
Pippo Di Stefano con la sua grande capacità' di canto ha contribuito ad avvicinare al mondo della lirica molte persone affascinandole con i suoi giochi di voce!
Che fenomenale gestione delle dinamiche; filare il DO naturale del Faust al Met...........beh.......ci vogliono: un apparato fonatorio unico, tecnica sublime e.......un coraggio leonino!!!!! Grandissimo
E pensare che stupidamente qualcuno ha scritto che non aveva tecnica né acuti, la stupidità no. Ha. Limiti
Decir que Di Stefano no tenía técnica demuestra lo grande de la imbecilidad humana. Yo soy Krausista, pero Pippo cantaba como los ángeles.
The soft singing is falsetto dominant (the lengthening muscles of the larynx). The full voice singing is a coordinated mix of chest (the thickening muscles) and falsetto. Di Stefano's impeccable register coordination in the upper register enabled him to move smoothly from soft (falsetto dominant) to full sound (coordinated) and all points in between. The amazing diminuendos and cresendos are a testament to this amazing skill.
Di Stefano spesso usava più il nobile falsettone che il semplice falsetto
Peppì....sei sempre grande!
WOW!!!! That is all I can say. Thanks for posting. He was my voice teacher's favorite tenor and now I understand why.
Ci sono delle persone che non stimano la bellezza esclusiva della sua immortale voce e preferiscono vivere nel mondo della aridità, ma ascoltando alcune prodezze di Pippo Di Stefano ci permettono di risentire e valutare la dimensione dell'immenso , unico e inimitabile ARTISTA con i pianissimi dolcissimi era la voce perfetta per le interpretazioni pucciniane e non solo!!!!
Semplicemente straordinario. ...
The Lucia aria is from 1955 Berlin con Callas and Karajan!!Great Video!!Grande Pippo!!
Lovely compilation showcasing one of Pippo's most astounding qualities. I am only missing the other great moment from "E lucevan le stelle", but never mind.
His voice was so liric and with lots of harmonics and he wa able to mix it with falsetto without you noticing where one started or ended and defenetly the breath he had such a good support and and good lung expansion the rest was pure ARTISTRY!!! VIVA PIPPO!!!!
I don’t believe these are falsetto. They are high register sustained notes using full modal voice. This allows those notes to still carry a smooth passagio and the weight that a falsetto does not retain.
Блестящий тенор!!! А какие божественные пиано!...
DI STEFANO WAS THE GREATEST LIRICO TENOR OF ALL TIMES, AND MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICE OF ALL TENORS. I AM A TENOR FOR MY SELF, AND I LISTEN TWO LEGENDS DI STEFANO, AND FRANKO CORELLI,
Grazie al Curatore di questa antologia, veramente strepitosa.
Scusate, ma desideravo aggiungere quanto segue:
L'ultima apparizione in pubblico è del 24 ottobre 2004 a Oderzo per ricevere ancora un premio, a testimonianza di un affetto del pubblico mai venuto meno anche dopo tanti anni dal termine della carriera.
Il 3 dicembre 2004 rimane gravemente ferito nel tentativo di difendere il suo cane durante una rapina nella sua casa di Diani in Kenya, venendo preso a colpi di randello dai ladri che lo lasciano a terra insanguinato e privo di sensi. Ricoverato all'ospedale di Mombasa, le sue condizioni si rivelano più gravi di quanto fossero apparse in un primo momento: a causa delle profonde ferite deve subire almeno tre operazioni e il 7 dicembre entra in coma.
Il 23 dicembre, dopo un lungo viaggio di trasferimento verso l'Italia, viene ricoverato in un ospedale milanese. Rimane infermo sino alla morte nella sua casa di Santa Maria Hoè, presso Lecco, dove si spegne il 3 marzo 2008. Grandissimo, indimenticabile, unico ...
I love him.Thank you for posting.♫♪ ॐ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪
Complimenti per la bella antologia che hai creato. Condivido l'idea, come ho gia' scritto altrove, che Di Stefano nei primi anni della sua carriera, e' stato Il Piu' Grande. Assolutamente ineguagliabile, per mezzi vocali, timbro e sensibilita'. E chi dice il contrario poco conosce della "finezza" nel belcanto
Da ascoltare in rigoroso silenzio, perché da i BRIVIDI nel profondo del CUORE. GRAZIE PIPPO x esserci stato, sarai x sempre INDIMENTICABILE.
Veramente un grande. Bellissima voce.personaggio indimenticabile. Ciaooo dalla mia bella Cesenatico.
@@giovannarossi3925 contraccambio il saluto alla meravigliosa Cesenatico...
Superb vocal control. Powerful, sweet and beautiful. The consummate Tenor.
Di Stefano's ability to diminuendo and sing sotto voce was unique and very rare in a spinto voice it sets him apart from all other tenors. I'm sure he didn't even know himself how he did it. He was just born with the ability. It's easier for a tenor to sing loud
but soft? That's hard. Some can do it sometimes but no one did it like Di Stefano.
reduxmisc His wasn't a true spinto voice.
He's a lyric. A big lyric voice..
Pippo begin di grazia and evolved into a lyric, never a spinto - that’s Caruso, Corelli, Masini territory
Voix sublime !
Real great ! But you forget " Firenze sogna ", the most spectacular...
Pippo el más grande tenor pésele a quien le pese... su voz hermosa como ninguna, su dicción increíble, y qué técnica, en pocas palabras, simplemente Di Stefano...
Cosa aggiungere ? Canta da solo !!! Le sregolatezze tecniche degli anni successivi ....devono farci riflettere sulla ..naturale sregolatezza dei.... Geni Assoluti
ho avuto il piacere di conoscerlo nel 1990 ad un recital insieme ad Alfredo Kraus e di avere autografato il suo libro "L'arte del canto"....guai a chi me lo tocca....
Incredible what he had! Unbelievable!!!!
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ! MANY THANKS ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥
Especially at 2:32, heaven on earth!
Sua Maestà Giuseppe Distefano!
¡Maestro!
il piu' grande di tutti...e non solo per le sue mezzevoci
I’m inclined to say that he was as talented and as natural as a singer can get, and that his ability to float notes without crooning or going into falsetto during his youth was a product of that. But I’m not sure if he actually knew what he was doing. So it’s easy to see why everything fell apart so quickly as he prematurely took on heavier roles and as he became increasingly fond of not covering at all in the passaggio and above. (In his earlier recordings, he doesn’t sing as open as he would later on.)
Grazie tante! Manca solo Il barbiere di Siviglia. Comunque grazie mille per la compilation 👍
Una voz bellisima, sin duda!
I never heard a better one ! LES
So incredible, considering he smoked. Well, was not the only one, franco too I believe. It was normal. Thanks for this.
And of course Caruso
grazie!
CHE BELLA VOCE. FOR EVER MAESTRO.
He was the favorite of Pavarotti
Non mi importa NULLA se dopo circa gli anni 50 di Stefano avesse o non avesse distrutto gran parte (secondo alcuni critici) della voce (OVVVIAMENTE A MIO AVVISO NON IMPORTA) His magnificent artistry trumps all!
grifolet la pensò esattamente come la pensa lei 3 spero altresì che DI STEFANO ABBIA AVUTO La possibilita di passare una bella vita ,sapendo che ci teneva anche al divertimento!
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unico, di Stefano, único.
+macmtenor who do you study with? I was just about to say the same thing about falsetto. It isn't taught anymore and most have no idea that it is very important in vocal development. Not many that language...
8 pollici riversi: poveri frustrati della lirica, ma le orecchie malate ci sono, e non guariscono. Peggio x loro. PIPPO INARRIVABILE!!!
Un Dio della Musica!
this is beautifull pianino.he had strong and high c but he enjoj soft singing.nobody like di stefano.
tears...
Di Stefano is the best.
♥️
Giuseppe di Stefano, fino al 1950, possedeva una splendida mezzavoce, poi volendo cantare ruoli sempre più pesanti per il suo tipo di vocalità perse il perfetto controllo del fiato e "scivolò" nel falsetto. Le incisioni del 1944 sono comunque SPLENDIDE . Il DIIMINUENDO nel Faust è eccezionale , pochissimi tenori sono stati in grado di eseguirlo (nemmeno Kraus ci riesce) .Bellssime anche le pagine della FAVORITA (1950 Mexico )La voce del Di Stefano giovane la definirei "calda e lunare" (hot, lunar, silvery) nello stesso tempo.
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WOOOOOOOOOW....JUST 😳
In the period of the late 1940's to the early 1960's all other tenors could only weep at trying to match him let alone eclipse him -God 'a finger brushed his throat at the moment of his birth -that can be the only possible explanation of his art .
5 idioti non riconoscono la immensità del grande Di Stefano,seguaci di Bocelli ed il volo,complimenti.
giuseppe cuscani hai dimentcato Pavarotti il capostipide dell'urlo non acuto ma urlo
giuseppe cuscani
spero che lei si ricorda ancora le parole di Giuseppe Di Stefano alla radio ...
Di Stefano parlava della sua vocalità ''immensa''...
questa intervista era se mi ricordo bene all'inizio degli anni 60 ...
dum spiro spero ...
ps.
Di Stefano era un grande Signore perché non aveva paura di dire quello che pensa di se stesso come attore ...
impossibile non commuoversi!!!!!!!!!!!!
A volte esistono i miracoli...
sono daccordo ,pippo e stato il piu grande in assoluto....
Giuseppe Cascani
ragazzo,parli sul serio ?!
mi fai paura con questo commento tuo !
è vero , tu non sai cosa pensava della sua voce e la sua tecnica lo stesso Giuseppe Di Stefano ...
tanto meglio per voi ragazzi ...
1:51 gorgeous messa di voce....
Abbiamo cinque utenti che dovrebbero fruire dei servizi di Amplifon....
진정 신이 내린 목소리..허나 그에게 성실함은 부여하지 않았느니..
Solo un incompetente può non riconoscre che Pippo rimane una il più grande di sempre!
hi DM!!!
Great for recording, such technique can be futile on scene, since the singing is quite quiet.
HammondDER the Faust high c was live at the met lmao
Yeah, forget those who heard him live... We're going to believe you, a RUclips expert.
@@Tkimba2 those who heard him live -- you maybe?
This here is not falsetto! It's real soft singing.
falseto totál
But is this audible in a theatre?
Yes sure... He has a big lyric voice...
Except Lanza sang 40 opera performances and diStefano sang 2000. Big, big difference. If Lanza had tried to sing that many performances, overusing his voice the way he did, he would have gotten to about 300.
infrantasi what equation did you use to come up with that
Lanza was a cinematographic tenor. He did no develop an operatic career. Lanza played another league.
Thats not headvoice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats perfect mixed voice or voce mista.
These are fruits of beeing young. Over the years he lost these abilities.
Gigli still had perfect head voice in his 60's it's not about being young. Btw the definition of headvoice is a mix of chest and falsetto, but a controled mix.
@@abcdefgh-db1to I understood these notes to be using his modal voice, not falsetto.
@@shodanart you mean Gigli or Di Stefano ? Gigli almost never used his "modal voice" it was always perfectly supported. Di Stefano did sometimes use modal voice but not a lot, most of the notes he produces here are head voice.
Btw what I mean by modal voice is a voice lacking full support. It's all a matter of definitions.
@@shodanart lol it's so hard to sing notes above passagio without falsetto.
아 도대체 어떻게하는거냐고오오오오오오
Alla faccia degli sproloqui di Rodolfo Celletti...
0:22
En muchos casos no son medias voces, recurre al falsete.
No es falsete, el falsete es distinto
Unico comentario discordante. Esto es belleza pura.. Unico.
and big singing was not the only reason for his decline. He stopped covering in the top and took big roles without using cover it destroyed the voice but even his farewell your recital with callas he sings better that any tenor in their prime today... Same for Callas
See the above... Cracking because the roles were too big and he wasn't covering as well
@@TheRoadLessChosen He lived for music, the way he know how it should be sung. We cannot judge a great artist by everyday standard
@@fokwingchau893 who’s judging? I said he’s better at his worst than any tenor in their prime today
@@fokwingchau893 Yeah. Young Di Stefano has the most beautiful quality i've ever heard.
... and the lot of sigars too...
Btw, falsetto isn't difficult for large voices!! Maybe for singers now because they constrict and use valsalva to sing. But almost every singer from late 1800's to 1970's
jonathon subia You are wrong...I'm a musician...This is Mezzavoce...not falsetto...if you cannot distinguish it please change channel....and about you sayng every singer of the past had mezzavoce...please come on...Del Monaco, Corelli didn't have any trace of the beautiful mezzavoce of Pippo....
Volker did too and he had a bigger voice than MDM and Corelli
+jonathon subia volker is on the level of caruso though. above corelli and mdm. same with rosvaenge
+js59695 your assuredness that you have conquered the technique makes me think you haven't.
+darklord220 yea... I was in school with a mezzo who said the same thing you did and then eventually she started study with my teacher and she can do it too. So yea. No one masters singing we both know this but some do it better than others and I guarantee I know it better than you. Believe what you want I could care less.
Torma
how the hell does he do it?!
Stone [石のドラム]....
zura iashvili Talent !!!
+Stone they all do this without reaching his results. His is gifted.
+Stone you do not understand. I am musician, I could walk to teachers 50 years, but I would never reach Gilmour or Moore, the sound of an e-guitar comes from the fingers, not from my practicing all day long. Got me ? LES
God given gift.