Di Stefano has a beautiful voice, the beauty to convey meaning of the text and the power of drama. I love this aria, and Di Stefano's interpretation molto bene!!! tres bien!....
Che timbro meraviglioso... si resta senza parole pensare che pochi anni dopo la sua voce era da rottamare monito per i giovani tenori. STUDIATE BENE! FATE LE GIUSTE SCELTE!
Essa é uma das áreas mais adequadas para as vozes líricas. Talvevez, por essa razão, tantos tenores cantam-na bem. Mas ninguém, NINGUÉM, passa com sua voz, o drama e o desespero que D. Jose estaria sentindo naquele momento, como o nosso Pippo. Fique com Deus, Pippo. Muito obrigado GermanOperaSinger.
Il cantare sulla parola di Giuseppe Di Stefano significa dare significato ad essa e alla musica dalla quale viene rivestita: i compositori dell'ottocento e del novecento desideravano sopra ogni cosa che l'interprete privilegiasse il significato del testo e l'interpretazione drammatica rispetto alla bella emissione e alla bella voce... Inutile riaffermare che Di Stefano aveva oltre la dizione e la bella parola una voce di diamante con gli armonici che mai più abbiamo ascoltato!
chi capisce ed ama la lirica non deve e non puo paragonare di stefano a nessun altro tenore del presente e del passato.peppino e unico nel bene e nel male.
Grande Giuseppe di Stefano. Mi fa tristezza che di Stefano fu aggredito in Kenia nel novembre del 2004, gravamente ferito al cranio. Ultimi anni trascorsi incapacitato in ospedale a Milano. Rest in peace, Giuseppe di Stefano, grande tenore italiano.
La fleur que tu m'avais jetée Dans ma prison, m'était restée Flétrie et sèche, cette fleur Gardait toujours sa douce odeur Et pendant des heures entières Sur mes yeux, fermant mes paupières De cette odeur je m'enivrais Et dans la nuit je te voyais Je me prenais à te maudire À te détester, à me dire Pourquoi faut-il que le destin L'ait mise là sur mon chemin Je m'accusais de blasphème Et je ne sentais rien moi-même Je ne sentais qu'un seul désir Un seul désir, un seul espoir Te revoir, ô Carmen, oui, te revoir Car tu n'avais eu qu'à paraître Qu'à jeter un regard sur moi Pour t'emparais de tout mon être Ô ma Carmen J'étais une chose à toi Carmen, je t'aime
@emtnz1569 Maestro Di Stefano gets the mood right. Don Jose, before Carmen, had the love of a woman who adored him. He had a prestigious career in the army, and he had confidence and self-respect. Carmen took all that away. She left him a completely broken man. Di Stefano conveys that despair, frustration, and shame like no other performer before or since.
Ancora oggi si rimpiange l'interpretazione di Di Stefano piena di fioritura di lodi per la sua voce, per li suo modo di cantare, per la sua interpretazione....
pippo makes me forget he is singing. I just enjoy the moment instead of thinking about his technique. Im no professional. In fact Im in law school but I do sing a bit and from what I can tell he gives 100% to the audience. This kind of heat burns out quick but while it is lit, what a glorious light it produces. Check out my recording of this aria on here if you are curious. I love comments.
Magna Grecia ha prodotto marmo, filosofia e PIPPO !!!! La voce piu diretta piu generosa e affascinante del dopoguerra. PS. Appoggiare una gola spalancata (veramente aperta) e una pronuncia sulla parola italiana non e facile. LUI cel'ha fatta per anni. Risultato che lascia suo nome e sua arte popolare segnati per sempre nel panorama lirico. UN GRANDE
Giuseppe Di Stefano, la única incomparable, maravilla voz que nadie más igualó. El color de su voz, sus inigualables interpretaciones. Hermoso, bellísimo timbre, y color de voz. Ni tan estridente como Corelli, y Pavatotti, ni tan bajo y obscuro como Kaufman. Con bellísimos afilados, pianissimos, o fortes legatos. La más Exquisita voz de Tenor-Spinto que jamás ha existido. ☘🌻🇲🇽
I don't understand how people compare Kaufmann to Di Stefano (or Wunderlich or Pavarotti). Di Stefano is the prototype for smooth, italian singing (with technical flaws, we all know). Kaufmann has a dark, in the middle register "cloudy" sounding voice with now real squillo. There is nothing "italian" in his voice.
DG6DA No. this guy has a fart for a voice, there’s nothing to do with darkness or stuff like that. Don’t defile the sacred name of Di Stefano mentioning shit.
Anche se educato, corretto , puntuale, il suo canto dava sempre la sensazione di una spontaneità, di una splendida naturalezza; egli cantava guidato da un impulso che aveva dentro, quasi un bisogno fisico....
Ritengo che l'ARTE di Di Stefano possa spingere qualche giovane studente a interpetrare come il Maestro o per lo meno avvicinarsi al suo canto e ad abbandonare la comoda sicurezza di una corretta emissione per affrontare tutte le difficoltà della verità drammatica insita nel carattere del melodramma, con la consapevolezza storica e stilistica che è solo questo il modo di mettersi veramente al servizio del compositore e di realizzare le sue più intime intenzioni.
NINNO FLORIO. Mi agradecimiento a Dios ya que te brindó las facultades precisas para ser el mejor tenor del siglo XX, y nos permitió gozar de tu bel canto.
Serata in onore di GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO Teatro alla Scala, Milano - Ridotto dei Palchi Giovedì 8 Aprile 2010, ore 18:00 ingresso libero fino ad esaurimento posti
The conductor of this performance, by the way, is Max Rudolf. And the whole performance is very, very good! (Robert Merrill sang Escamillo, and Lucine Amara sang Micaela.) By the way: The Act III Don Jose-Escamillo duet (beginning with "Je suis Escamillo, torero de Granada") from this broadcast was spliced into a number of 1970s and 1980s LP releases of the Karajan 1955 performance of Carmen at La Scala (with Simionato, di Stefano, Roux and Carteri as the principals), including those on Bruno Walter Society (later Music and Arts) and on Turnabout/Vox. Most of those releases are, indeed, from that La Scala performance - except for the Prelude to Act I and the entr'actes at the beginning of Acts II, III and IV (those are clearly from Karajan's 1963 RCA Victor studio recording, with the unmistakable sound of the Vienna Philharmonic), and the aforementioned duet.
might be the same one who he told that he'd rather sing a short time but with this voice than a longer time with one that isn't his (more or less I read)
@SageFlores What you're saying is a given. Bjorling's health by that point was so far-gone that it wouldn't have made a difference had he performed or not.
People tend to dwell on the negative.My 1st attempt is to share information and not attempt to get lured in with who was the best.GDS A Non Credevi Tu and Addio Mignon could be the2most beautiful arias I ever heard.Many great tenors in their prime including Volpi Gigli MDM FC Cortis Lemeshev De Muro& JB to name a few, seemed unsurpassed in their prime and perhaps should be remembered thatway.When people make statements that I'm not familiar with,I ask questions that are often never answered
@A7madeus Absolutely, and I'd say he passed the torch to Josep Carreras. These two voices are similarly beautiful, these two are honest emotionally in their singing and acting, and both men were and are wonderful human beings. Thank you GermanOperaLover for this marvelous posting.
And of course Stevens finished the performance. Hell, Bjorling performed a few hours after a heart attack. Singers today would be calling their understudies with a hangnail.
I love Jussi Bjorling....but Di Stefano was superior even to Bjorling...not what concerns technique but overall speakind DI STEFNO was superior...By the way ,Byorling himself once sayd DI STEFANO was "the best of us all" ciao
@VinylToVideo. I think Bjoerling was 49 when he passed away. It also sounded like he had alot of good opera left. I think of three tenors who left us way too soon. Bjoerling, Mario Lanza, and Fritz Wunderlich. Had Di Stefano done some things even slightly differently, how much better could his career have been.
There's something interesting a tenor told me about him. A conductor that di Stefano sang under once asked him if he doesn't know how to cover. Di Stefano showed him that he can and knows how to but he prefers not covering :).
Certainly from the mid 1940s & into the mid 1950s one could say that Di Stefano had the most beautiful NATURAL LYRIC tenor voice of his time but even in his prime he could be inconsistent & faulty technique, pushing through the passaggio into a more open sound in his upper range, & adding a heavier repertoire had taken its toll on his instrument by around 1960 & shortly before even. His voice, gradually throughout the 1950s, lost the ultimate beauty that one hears in some of his recordings from the mid 1940s. That was the problem. When his natural instrument could not be reinforced by a solid technique the deterioration began. Di Stefano also indulged in an excessive life style & that with increasingly full spinto roles did his voice no favors. Musically even early on he could be careless as well which his live MET TRAVIATA with Steber a year or so after his debut demonstrates. What a sad tale! When I listen to his Italian songs from his very early career I believe they have yet to be surpassed, in beauty, for any lyric tenor, which was his true timbre, IMO. Only Corelli can equal & surpass him in many Italian songs but he was a full spinto. For the type of lyric voice Di Stefano had his chief competitors were perhaps Wunderlich & Pavarotti & the former sang a largely different repertoire in songs, anyway.
Kaufmann is NOT bel canto tenor, No maschera at all. I don't understand how can he sing only using just throat , I feel very uncomfortable and ugly ! too, sorry about that
The larynx is in the throat. Logic much? How can you sing in the mask? The mask has been scientifically proven to not be a resonator. Singing is pharyngeal. It is called the 'vocal tract' for a reason. This isn't the dark ages. We have education,knowledge and science now. Actually, if you read the early vocal pedagogues of the 17th and 18th century they never talk about the mask.
@ShawDAMAN Kaufmann's voice is so unique. It is a baritone quality in a tenor. It is the uniqueness of Marilyn Horne, a rich mezzo - but an amazing bel canto and yes sometimes even coloratura range. I do enjoy him very much. But Pippo and Josep are always the closest to my heart.
Heh. Kaufmann is no Di Stefano when it comes to beauty of voice; but technically speaking he is probably better suited to this role than Di Stefano and I for one am glad to have a tenor as good as him today.
@@pavarotti744 lol Sadly di Stefano's voice did indeed prove to be fragile likely due to questionable technique. He had a lovely voice and amazing musicality while he lasted
Pippo's voice is much much more beautiful than Kaufmann's there is no doubt but I think in this specific aria Kaufmann's voice and performance is more suitable than that of Pippo.
Di Stefano has a beautiful voice, the beauty to convey meaning of the text and the power of drama. I love this aria, and Di Stefano's interpretation molto bene!!! tres bien!....
Old man here saw Di Stefano in Wien in 1956 with Jean Madeira and George London in Carmen, You only live once.
would love to sit at a tea table with you sir im born on his birthday and im a tenor
Even Bjorling said Distefano had the most beautiful tenor voice.
How much energy did Pippo give every time he sang. Absolutely my favorite singer, for all time!
This is a truly remarkable voice and passion. I can never get enough of DiStefano.
Love him.Thank you for posting♪♫•*♫ •♫♪
Che timbro meraviglioso...
si resta senza parole
pensare che pochi anni dopo la sua voce era da rottamare
monito per i giovani tenori.
STUDIATE BENE! FATE LE GIUSTE SCELTE!
No wonder the audience was ecstatic.What a performance from the 2 very best opera singers ever.❤️❤️❤️❤️😁😁😁😁😁
Veramente una meraviglia; il miglior cantante di tutti i tempi. Per quelli che abbiano orecchi e sensibilitá.
Essa é uma das áreas mais adequadas para as vozes líricas. Talvevez, por essa razão, tantos tenores cantam-na bem. Mas ninguém, NINGUÉM, passa com sua voz, o drama e o desespero que D. Jose estaria sentindo naquele momento, como o nosso Pippo. Fique com Deus, Pippo. Muito obrigado GermanOperaSinger.
Il cantare sulla parola di Giuseppe Di Stefano significa dare significato ad essa e alla musica dalla quale viene rivestita: i compositori dell'ottocento e del novecento desideravano sopra ogni cosa che l'interprete privilegiasse il significato del testo e l'interpretazione drammatica rispetto alla bella emissione e alla bella voce... Inutile riaffermare che Di Stefano aveva oltre la dizione e la bella parola una voce di diamante con gli armonici che mai più abbiamo ascoltato!
Bravo maestro.
chi capisce ed ama la lirica non deve e non puo paragonare di stefano a nessun altro tenore del presente e del passato.peppino e unico nel bene e nel male.
Mi Maestro y amigo haciendo gala de facultades vocales e interpretación al 100
Ti ascolto SEMPRE tutti i giorni. GRAZIE GRANDE PIPPO, sei e sarai nel mio cuore e di MOLTi altri.
UNICO x SEMPRE NELLA SUA IMMENSA GRANDEZZA!!! PIPPO DI STEFANO INDIMENTICABILE....
Ogni volta è SEMPRE un BRIVIDO... CHE VOCE SUBLIME !!! PIPPO GRANDISSIMO.
La dove tutti gli altri tenori finiscono Di Stefano comincia proseguendo a l'infinito!!!!!
Grande Giuseppe di Stefano. Mi fa tristezza che di Stefano fu aggredito in Kenia nel novembre del 2004, gravamente ferito al cranio. Ultimi anni trascorsi incapacitato in ospedale a Milano. Rest in peace, Giuseppe di Stefano, grande tenore italiano.
Gran interpretación y potente voz. BRAVO GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO. Me agrada tanto como la del Gran Maestro Corelli
C'è poco da aggiungere,è la passione che diventa canto ,sublime !!!!!! ciao Pippo
The restaurant singer as you call him, had over 10 signature roles.That's more than LP,PD,&JC.
Fantástico . Grandíssimo di Stefano .
Excellent expression, the flame of love!
Absolutely gorgeous and beautiful ,
also very stylish performance! artistic interpretation. The best!
Unico,insuperabile!
Sorprendente!! Di Stefano nunca deja de sorprender. Qué maravilloso cantante.
La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
Dans ma prison, m'était restée
Flétrie et sèche, cette fleur
Gardait toujours sa douce odeur
Et pendant des heures entières
Sur mes yeux, fermant mes paupières
De cette odeur je m'enivrais
Et dans la nuit je te voyais
Je me prenais à te maudire
À te détester, à me dire
Pourquoi faut-il que le destin
L'ait mise là sur mon chemin
Je m'accusais de blasphème
Et je ne sentais rien moi-même
Je ne sentais qu'un seul désir
Un seul désir, un seul espoir
Te revoir, ô Carmen, oui, te revoir
Car tu n'avais eu qu'à paraître
Qu'à jeter un regard sur moi
Pour t'emparais de tout mon être
Ô ma Carmen
J'étais une chose à toi
Carmen, je t'aime
@emtnz1569 Maestro Di Stefano gets the mood right. Don Jose, before Carmen, had the love of a woman who adored him. He had a prestigious career in the army, and he had confidence and self-respect. Carmen took all that away. She left him a completely broken man. Di Stefano conveys that despair, frustration, and shame like no other performer before or since.
Ancora oggi si rimpiange l'interpretazione di Di Stefano piena di fioritura di lodi per la sua voce, per li suo modo di cantare, per la sua interpretazione....
Lo splendore vocale di Pippo!
Sul suo timbro oramai non ci sono più parole..ma in questa romanza preferisco CORELLI non me ne abbia a male..Pippo è sempre la voce degli angeli
bravo Pippo,indimenticabile.
Glorious gloriousGLORIOUS!!!
pippo makes me forget he is singing. I just enjoy the moment instead of thinking about his technique. Im no professional. In fact Im in law school but I do sing a bit and from what I can tell he gives 100% to the audience. This kind of heat burns out quick but while it is lit, what a glorious light it produces. Check out my recording of this aria on here if you are curious. I love comments.
Che voce,che voce . . . non mi stanchero' mai di dirlo.Lafca88.
Pippo, "tutto cuore"....
Magna Grecia ha prodotto marmo, filosofia e PIPPO !!!!
La voce piu diretta piu generosa e affascinante del dopoguerra.
PS. Appoggiare una gola spalancata (veramente aperta) e una pronuncia sulla parola italiana non e facile. LUI cel'ha fatta per anni. Risultato che lascia suo nome e sua arte popolare segnati per sempre nel panorama lirico. UN GRANDE
la voz del alma
pour moi la plus belle voix de ténor de tous les temps
Perfection!
Giuseppe Di Stefano, la única incomparable, maravilla voz que nadie más igualó. El color de su voz, sus inigualables interpretaciones. Hermoso, bellísimo timbre, y color de voz.
Ni tan estridente como Corelli, y Pavatotti, ni tan bajo y obscuro como Kaufman. Con bellísimos afilados, pianissimos, o fortes legatos. La más Exquisita voz de Tenor-Spinto que jamás ha existido. ☘🌻🇲🇽
Stupenda!!
I don't understand how people compare Kaufmann to Di Stefano (or Wunderlich or Pavarotti). Di Stefano is the prototype for smooth, italian singing (with technical flaws, we all know). Kaufmann has a dark, in the middle register "cloudy" sounding voice with now real squillo. There is nothing "italian" in his voice.
DG6DA No. this guy has a fart for a voice, there’s nothing to do with darkness or stuff like that. Don’t defile the sacred name of Di Stefano mentioning shit.
Not 10 years ago, not today. Kauffman always choking his throat
Kaufman has always been a joke a faux tenor really. The entire voice is a baritone. It was never tenorial.
E eu ensaiando essa Ária aqui no Sul do Brasil em março de 2024. Grazie.
Merci d avoir existé !
Anche
se educato, corretto , puntuale, il suo canto dava sempre la sensazione di una
spontaneità, di una splendida naturalezza; egli
cantava guidato da un impulso che aveva dentro, quasi un bisogno fisico....
Ritengo che l'ARTE di Di Stefano possa spingere qualche giovane studente a interpetrare come il Maestro o per lo meno avvicinarsi al suo canto e ad abbandonare la comoda sicurezza di una corretta emissione per affrontare tutte le difficoltà della verità drammatica insita nel carattere del melodramma, con la consapevolezza storica e stilistica che è solo questo il modo di mettersi veramente al servizio del compositore e di realizzare le sue più intime intenzioni.
NINNO FLORIO. Mi agradecimiento a Dios ya que te brindó las facultades precisas para ser el mejor tenor del siglo XX, y nos permitió gozar de tu bel canto.
Ah pippo . Pour moi la plus belle voix de ténor de tous les temps . Dans cet Arian observe sa technique parfaite et ses aigus sont des soleils
I am a lifelong fan of di Stefano but I have never heard this wonderful recording. Is it available?
Best forever!
Serata in onore di GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO Teatro alla Scala, Milano - Ridotto dei Palchi Giovedì 8 Aprile 2010, ore 18:00 ingresso libero fino ad esaurimento posti
great
Gracias por darme oportunidad escuchar voz tan maravillosamente calida. No hay otra para mi.
To Michael Chung: I agree with your sensitive comments. Isn't this just gorgeous?
The conductor of this performance, by the way, is Max Rudolf. And the whole performance is very, very good! (Robert Merrill sang Escamillo, and Lucine Amara sang Micaela.)
By the way: The Act III Don Jose-Escamillo duet (beginning with "Je suis Escamillo, torero de Granada") from this broadcast was spliced into a number of 1970s and 1980s LP releases of the Karajan 1955 performance of Carmen at La Scala (with Simionato, di Stefano, Roux and Carteri as the principals), including those on Bruno Walter Society (later Music and Arts) and on Turnabout/Vox. Most of those releases are, indeed, from that La Scala performance - except for the Prelude to Act I and the entr'actes at the beginning of Acts II, III and IV (those are clearly from Karajan's 1963 RCA Victor studio recording, with the unmistakable sound of the Vienna Philharmonic), and the aforementioned duet.
might be the same one who he told that he'd rather sing a short time but with this voice than a longer time with one that isn't his (more or less I read)
@SageFlores What you're saying is a given. Bjorling's health by that point was so far-gone that it wouldn't have made a difference had he performed or not.
PIPPO=MAXIMO
You are right! DG6DA! !!!!
@A7madeus I am entirely with you.
Geniale
Molti dicono che chi ascolta Di Stefano non capisce niente di lirica...
Beh,io preferisco bearmi della mia ignoranza,allora!
@guanacadecorazon12 Yeah Pavarotti also said Di stefano was his all time favourite..
@guanacadecorazon12 Yes the best.
@richiedrr What do you mean by over-weighted?and over singing?Forget what did him in.
People tend to dwell on the negative.My 1st attempt is to share information and not attempt to get lured in with who was the best.GDS A Non Credevi Tu and Addio Mignon could be the2most beautiful arias I ever heard.Many great tenors in their prime including Volpi Gigli MDM FC Cortis Lemeshev De Muro& JB to name a few, seemed unsurpassed in their prime and perhaps should be remembered thatway.When people make statements that I'm not familiar with,I ask questions that are often never answered
astonished that Kaufmann is mentioned in the same volume let alone paragraph, let alone sentence, as the likes of Distefano, Pavarotti etc
Is this not the best version of this passionate aria? Any Carmen who rejects this Don Jose is just nuts. Out of this world.
Kaufmann is good , but no tenor can be compared to Pippo Di stefano the most beautiful voice ever
@A7madeus Absolutely, and I'd say he passed the torch to Josep Carreras. These
two voices are similarly beautiful, these two are honest emotionally in their singing and acting, and both men were and are wonderful human beings. Thank you GermanOperaLover for this marvelous posting.
One word: SEX.
La Klasika Kanto kaj unu kantis per la plej bonaj kantoristoj de la tuta mondo.
totally agree with u
And of course Stevens finished the performance. Hell, Bjorling performed a few hours after a heart attack. Singers today would be calling their understudies with a hangnail.
Wow,I just love this man’s voice,even though he was too open.
not Alagna! No one surpasses Di Stefano & Pavarotti!
Sung with feeling, a little sharp but it could be just the recording. I don't like the exaggerations after @2:00.
Kaufmann's voice IS throaty but I wouldn't call it "crap."
Pensar que un pseudo entendido dijo que el frances de Pippo era un desastre!
Pippo, you brute ... how do you break someone's arm in an opera?
I love Jussi Bjorling....but Di Stefano was superior even to Bjorling...not what concerns technique but overall speakind DI STEFNO was superior...By the way ,Byorling himself once sayd DI STEFANO was "the best of us all"
ciao
@VinylToVideo. I think Bjoerling was 49 when he passed away. It also sounded like he had alot of good opera left. I think of three tenors who left us way too soon. Bjoerling, Mario Lanza, and Fritz Wunderlich. Had Di Stefano done some things even slightly differently, how much better could his career have been.
There's something interesting a tenor told me about him. A conductor that di Stefano sang under once asked him if he doesn't know how to cover. Di Stefano showed him that he can and knows how to but he prefers not covering :).
Listen to Josep Carreras - not the same voice for sure but the phrasing is incredibly similar and the emotion, for me, better with Carreras...
Yes. Jose's voice is even wider and similar timber, also Neil Schicoff did fantastic job, all rare beauty of lyric tenor...
Certainly from the mid 1940s & into the mid 1950s one could say that Di Stefano had the most beautiful NATURAL LYRIC tenor voice of his time but even in his prime he could be inconsistent & faulty technique, pushing through the passaggio into a more open sound in his upper range, & adding a heavier repertoire had taken its toll on his instrument by around 1960 & shortly before even. His voice, gradually throughout the 1950s, lost the ultimate beauty that one hears in some of his recordings from the mid 1940s. That was the problem. When his natural instrument could not be reinforced by a solid technique the deterioration began. Di Stefano also indulged in an excessive life style & that with increasingly full spinto roles did his voice no favors. Musically even early on he could be careless as well which his live MET TRAVIATA with Steber a year or so after his debut demonstrates. What a sad tale! When I listen to his Italian songs from his very early career I believe they have yet to be surpassed, in beauty, for any lyric tenor, which was his true timbre, IMO. Only Corelli can equal & surpass him in many Italian songs but he was a full spinto. For the type of lyric voice Di Stefano had his chief competitors were perhaps Wunderlich & Pavarotti & the former sang a largely different repertoire in songs, anyway.
Si bravo ma in questo brano preferivo Carrerras.
Kaufmann is NOT bel canto tenor,
No maschera at all. I don't understand
how can he sing only using just throat
, I feel very uncomfortable and ugly !
too, sorry about that
Michael Chung you understand the arrt of singing
The larynx is in the throat. Logic much? How can you sing in the mask? The mask has been scientifically proven to not be a resonator. Singing is pharyngeal. It is called the 'vocal tract' for a reason. This isn't the dark ages. We have education,knowledge and science now. Actually, if you read the early vocal pedagogues of the 17th and 18th century they never talk about the mask.
Fuck’im. He’s just a dust on music history.
@ShawDAMAN Kaufmann's voice is so unique. It is a baritone quality in a tenor.
It is the uniqueness of Marilyn Horne, a rich mezzo - but an amazing bel canto and yes sometimes even coloratura range. I do enjoy him very much. But Pippo and Josep are always the closest to my heart.
Always in love with Di Stefano, but Kaufmann is, perhaps, the best tenor we have in our time out there.
God help us then
for me the best rendition of don jose is the one by nicolai gedda
Pavarotti said the same thing of the modern era, "Alagna is the best of us all"
Di Stefano resembles Prasido Domingo
The B flat is already over-weighted. It wasn't bad technique but oversinging (not the same) that did him in.
Heh. Kaufmann is no Di Stefano when it comes to beauty of voice; but technically speaking he is probably better suited to this role than Di Stefano and I for one am glad to have a tenor as good as him today.
WELL...Heh DAMAN..
Well, Ok, you enjoy the technique, we will enjoy the beauty.
@@ireneday6865 we enjoy both technique and beauty.
you are comparing a working boot with a glass slipper
@@pavarotti744 lol
Sadly di Stefano's voice did indeed prove to be fragile likely due to questionable technique. He had a lovely voice and amazing musicality while he lasted
Pippo's voice is much much more beautiful than Kaufmann's there is no doubt but I think in this specific aria Kaufmann's voice and performance is more suitable than that of Pippo.