Giacomo Lauri-Volpi sings The Legend of Kleinzach (Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach) from Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) by Jacques Offenbach.
Emily is an "expert" in French ::grin:: She had a video on her chann singing in what passed for French to her... I had to listen twice to it until it dawned on me it might, just might, be French.
Sung here with the Met Orchestra and Chorus under Giulio Setti. Curiously enough, he never sand Hoffmann in house with the company, just in a handful of tour performances.
Un espanto. Inaceptable por donde se lo mire. Voz caprina, vibrato insoportable. Sin intención en el decir, desafinado, aliento corto, media voz blanca y monocorde. Lauri Volpi ha sido un bluff que apenas tenía algún que otro agudo resonante. Se dedicó a criticar a sus colegas y pontificar sobre el canto a la sombra de Gigli y Fleta (a quienes envidaba profundamente). Hoy sería un cantante del montón. Y en la historia del canto son miles los que lo superaron. Las alabanzas de Corelli y Bergonzi hacia su persona son comprensibles por el respeto hacia la figura del anciano que mantuvo una muy promocionada longevidad vocal totalmente sobrevalorada. Lo mismo que Rodolfo Celletti, un crítico muy discutible en sus conceptos bastante temerarios. Gracias por compartir esta grabación. Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
@@MarcTheLemurian Then you should go back to school. I have no difficulty understanding every single word. This is no perfectly idiomatic French but still quite good. For the time it was excellent, considering the Italians used to sing everything in Italian.
@@MarcTheLemurian Yt is full of people claiming whatever suits them under the convenient cover of anonymity. I very much doubt you are French if you can't understand this. Ditto not interested in your beliefs and your generalizations. If you have an axe to grind with Italians, or any other nation, grind it elsewhere, not with me.
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I had to come back to this, after hearing to Villason's version.
Liquid diamond, grand tenor with gorgeous taste. Thank You for posting this.
good french
Emily is an "expert" in French ::grin:: She had a video on her chann singing in what passed for French to her... I had to listen twice to it until it dawned on me it might, just might, be French.
@@arepo I was curious enough to go to her channel to listen to it. It's gone. These "experts"...
Sung here with the Met Orchestra and Chorus under Giulio Setti. Curiously enough, he never sand Hoffmann in house with the company, just in a handful of tour performances.
That's an interesting hairstyle...
EINER DER ALTEN MEISTER
Un espanto. Inaceptable por donde se lo mire. Voz caprina, vibrato insoportable. Sin intención en el decir, desafinado, aliento corto, media voz blanca y monocorde. Lauri Volpi ha sido un bluff que apenas tenía algún que otro agudo resonante. Se dedicó a criticar a sus colegas y pontificar sobre el canto a la sombra de Gigli y Fleta (a quienes envidaba profundamente). Hoy sería un cantante del montón. Y en la historia del canto son miles los que lo superaron. Las alabanzas de Corelli y Bergonzi hacia su persona son comprensibles por el respeto hacia la figura del anciano que mantuvo una muy promocionada longevidad vocal totalmente sobrevalorada. Lo mismo que Rodolfo Celletti, un crítico muy discutible en sus conceptos bastante temerarios.
Gracias por compartir esta grabación. Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
and now their is no stars
His French isn't very good..
Oh… was that French? I though he did the Romanian version or something… ;-)
@@MarcTheLemurian Then you should go back to school. I have no difficulty understanding every single word. This is no perfectly idiomatic French but still quite good. For the time it was excellent, considering the Italians used to sing everything in Italian.
@@MarcTheLemurian Yt is full of people claiming whatever suits them under the convenient cover of anonymity. I very much doubt you are French if you can't understand this. Ditto not interested in your beliefs and your generalizations. If you have an axe to grind with Italians, or any other nation, grind it elsewhere, not with me.