Three great stars in their prime. Mary Costa is absolutely thrilling in what was one of her greatest roles and Richard Tucker and Jerome Hines are both sublime.
Costa, very beautiful here, and of course was the Musetta on the RCA 1961 Boheme Studio recording of Boheme ( with both Tucker and Merrill) I have a personally signed copy from her to me, with her very beautiful elegant hand writing, as we interviewed her at the radio station I worked at in California , she was a real Southern American beauty!
You interviewed her? Wow! Is the video or audio available anywhere? She’s my favorite actress! Was it recent or at the time the Boheme recording came out?
One of our announcers interviewed her and I had brought my recording for her to sign, it was about eight or nine years after the RCA recording was made in 1961, and I don't know of any available copies of it. @@VivlingLeigh
True, he was one of the well known and very successful American opera singers as was Warren, Merrill, Tucker, Peerce and Bass Tozzi in the 1940's and 1950's. Hines was also very tall and an imposing looking figure on stage.
Tucker had a very large spinto voice but sang the opera complete earlier in his more Lyric days at the Met here they place him in the back but his power carries anyhow
@@corneliuswhite5139 Yes, you are correct, and here perhaps because he was five foot seven in height ( I knew him, (Tucker) personally very well, and was in his company many times) and Hines was so Very tall, around Six foot five or taller , so they probably placed Tucker back stage and higher up so as not to notice as much the difference.
@@corneliuswhite5139 Tucker never wore lifted shoes, he felt they where not comfortable some other short tenors did, such as did Del Monaco as he was also Tucker's height and BTW both men knew each other as MDM was a favorite Dramatic tenor of Richard Tucker, and when Tucker would see MDM in a performance he would go back stage afterwards and the two men would each want to take the other one out for the best Steak dinner in town!
Interesting to compare Tucker here in 1963 at age 49 with his complete version live back in 1953 at age 39 in New Orleans with De Los Angeles when he was more Lyric .
Ouf course not. There were and are many american singers, that became famous at Germany. For instance Elsa Oehme-Förster, Helen Donath, Carol Malone...
@@Ярослав-х6щ2й Tucker originally had, and as his only teacher, the then well known operatic "Wagnerian tenor" Paul Althouse, he also taught some other famous singers back in the 1940's, like the famous American Soprano, Elanor Steber and others .
It is a dream to see my beloved Hines here on video
Three great stars in their prime. Mary Costa is absolutely thrilling in what was one of her greatest roles and Richard Tucker and Jerome Hines are both sublime.
Costa is new to me. WOW!
Costa, very beautiful here, and of course was the Musetta on the RCA 1961 Boheme Studio recording of Boheme ( with both Tucker and Merrill) I have a personally signed copy from her to me, with her very beautiful elegant hand writing, as we interviewed her at the radio station I worked at in California , she was a real Southern American beauty!
You interviewed her? Wow! Is the video or audio available anywhere? She’s my favorite actress! Was it recent or at the time the Boheme recording came out?
One of our announcers interviewed her and I had brought my recording for her to sign, it was about eight or nine years after the RCA recording was made in 1961, and I don't know of any available copies of it. @@VivlingLeigh
@@shicoff1398 I’d love to buy it or have a chance to hear it! If you find a way to access it, please let me know!
@@VivlingLeigh I at that time was working at the radio station, and so had time to talk with her, she was not only nice but a real Beauty!
A truly marvelous rendition of the FAUST trio by Costa, Tucker and Hines!!!
Agreed!
Il perfetto amalgama con l'orchestra e la personificazione del dramma! Tutta e sempre al servizio dell'arte.Unica Callas e sempre rimpiant!
The great basso Jerome Hines. And I never heard a soprano sing with such heft and cupo
Fun fact: Mary Costa is the singing voiceover for Aurora from Sleeping Beauty
Great to see Hines, he tends to be under represented on YT.
True, he was one of the well known and very successful American opera singers as was Warren, Merrill, Tucker, Peerce and Bass Tozzi in the 1940's and 1950's. Hines was also very tall and an imposing looking figure on stage.
Tucker had a very large spinto voice but sang the opera complete earlier in his more Lyric days at the Met here they place him in the back but his power carries anyhow
Yeah, I didn't get placing him in the back? But he can sing anywhere and be heard 😅
@@corneliuswhite5139 Yes, you are correct, and here perhaps because he was five foot seven in height ( I knew him, (Tucker) personally very well, and was in his company many times) and Hines was so Very tall, around Six foot five or taller , so they probably placed Tucker back stage and higher up so as not to notice as much the difference.
@@corneliuswhite5139 I looked it up, Hines was Six Foot Six inches tall.
@@corneliuswhite5139 Tucker never wore lifted shoes, he felt they where not comfortable some other short tenors did, such as did Del Monaco as he was also Tucker's height and BTW both men knew each other as MDM was a favorite Dramatic tenor of Richard Tucker, and when Tucker would see MDM in a performance he would go back stage afterwards and the two men would each want to take the other one out for the best Steak dinner in town!
Interesting to compare Tucker here in 1963 at age 49 with his complete version live back in 1953 at age 39 in New Orleans with De Los Angeles when he was more Lyric .
His voice was still full of power and had not lost any range!!
Correct. @@OperaMyWorld
Three great American singers. This goes to show you don’t have to be European to be a great singer.
А где и у кого они учились?
@@Ярослав-х6щ2й
They all got their training in the USA
Ouf course not. There were and are many american singers, that became famous at Germany. For instance Elsa Oehme-Förster, Helen Donath, Carol Malone...
@@Ярослав-х6щ2й Tucker originally had, and as his only teacher, the then well known operatic "Wagnerian tenor" Paul Althouse, he also taught some other famous singers back in the 1940's, like the famous American Soprano, Elanor Steber and others .
correct!