Richard Tucker's performance is the best in my opinion. So much emotion. So much sincerity. Both of that paired with a beautiful voice and perfect facial expressions. Just amazing.
This piece was played on PBS in NYC when I was ~8 yrs old. It was the 1st aria I ever saw or heard. I was stuck to the TV like glue & was crying by the time Tucker was through singing. Needless to say, it made me a lifelong lover of opera; I'm now 62.
@@dee_dee_place Thank you so much for this. I love Pavarotti. He is a genuine guy, so down to earth and so not arrogant... biggest ambassador for operatic to the public. I trust the instinct of him. RIP💔💔💔
@@道-p2e If you haven't watched Pavarotti sing the duet of "It's A Man's World" with James Brown, please do. It is stunning. At the end of the performance, they asked Mr. Brown what it was like to sing with Mr. Pavarotti, & you could see the utter awe & admiration he (Brown) had for him (Pavarotti). When a master of one genre truly appreciates the talent of a master of another genre, it is truly heartwarming & heartfelt.
I got to sing in the chorus with Richard Tucker in Pagliacci at Expo 74 in Spokane. I was in 6th grade. I knew I was in the presence of genius. Once in a lifetime.
Excellent I knew him very well and saw him singing many times, he was a sincere gentleman and friend for many years, so you heard him less then a year before he died, on Jan. 8th 1975. glad you did!
@@shicoff1398 You know what I find fascinating? Tucker continued his duties as Cantor up until his death. There are recordings of Tucker's Religious pieces on Spotify. His training as a Cantor was evident in his Operatic pieces, especially Vesti la giubba. I just listened to Richard Tucker 1959 Gioconda, Cielo E Mar. You can hear his Cantorial background in this performance as well. I think that is the main factor that made him stand out amongst his peers. Cantorial singing is definitely filled with emotion that comes deep from the soul.
@@darklord220 Tucker had a fine quality of voice and was not nasal, singing close to 840 performances at the Met to mostly good reviews with only 2 cancellations. He retained his youthful sounding voice up to his death in 1975. None of the critics ever described Tucker as being nasal. I never saw Tucker live, but I'm told that he, like MDM were better in live performances than on recordings. He also had a successful stint at La Scala in 1969 to more than favorable reviews to an audience that preferred Italian tenors. Tucker shared the operatic stage and verismo roles at the Met for over 30 years with Corelli and Del Monaco. Yes, Pavarotti was a lyric tenor. Beauty of voice is subjective.
Good to know he did get mainstream acclaim. I assume there was petty rivalry between the dramatic tenors of his time but somehow I see Tucker just getting out there and selling the song- comparisons with others be damned.
@@abcdefgh-db1to don't know the term spinto (I was a piano performance major at USC which meant I had to sing in the opera chorus) . I used the term dramatic in the plebeian manner-
Yes, the majority of the professional critics agreed with that also and when he died in 1975 Newsweek magazine said in the Obit. "The greatest Tenor in the USA and probably the world" Don't forget he is 56 years old here, I saw him at least 20 times over many long years in the opera house and in many great concerts, he died in Jan. 1975, just five years after singing here on this TV show.-- Richard Tucker August 1913- January, 1975. RIP.
Tucker shared the limelight with Del Monaco and Corelli at the Met, but never took a back seat to either tenor, as they all thrived in the 50S 60s and 70S. I would love to have a time machine and go back to see their performances. Tucker was a GREAT Tenor.
stunning that Mr. Tucker gave this performance even at almost 1970's. Speaks volumes. And Mario is the other giant that I love to be on this role together with Tucker!
Yes and the new Lyric tenor in Lyric roles, Benjamin Bernheim on you tube ,made his USA debut in Chicago in 2018. Born in France he is a lyric tenor in his 30's now.
Richard -Tukcker . Mi innamorai di lui quando mio fratello di ritorno dalla Base Aerea Statunitense dove lavorava come radiotelegrafista , portò a casa diversi cofanetti di LP acquistati al PX per i militari . Ho ancora quest'opera e la custodisco gelosamente . Ogni volta che l'ascolto mi corre un brivido lungo la schiena . Richard , un INSUPERATO '' Canio '' , il protagonista centrale di questa straordinaria opera , voce , potenza , drammaticita', mimica facciale fanno di questo grande tenore il miglior '' Canio'' de i Pagliacci mai ascoltato !!!
Richard Tucker and Mario Del Monaco along with Mario Lanza, are my favorite tenors to listen to throughout the week. On this particular Aria, Tucker and MDM OWN THIS and deliver this with astonishing depth and emotion supported by superb technique. Robust, riveting and emotionally unnerving because both men thanks to their acting, put you right there into the inner turmoil this sad figure is enduring. It saddens you, moves you to compassion and STAYS with you. Their facial expressions along with their other worldly voices tells a very poignant story. Mr. Tucker, the Iron Man of the Opera, does not let us down here. Bravo 👏 👏 👏 ❤
@@johnkrammer3673 You haven't seen "The Untouchables" haven't you? The contrast b/w the opera singer sang the song in the presence of Al Capone, while at the same time his men were assassinating the Chief Detective (played by Sean Connery) was one of the most dramatic scene of the movie.
Where I think Tucker nails this one is in how he captures the irony of a clown bemoaning the sad fact that he is indeed just a clown. And, despite this seemingly cathartic admission, he still comes off as a clown masquerading as a clown...if that makes any sense. This is fabulous work.
To my shame I had never heard of him. A beautiful emotional voice singing my favourite aria. I will learn about Mr Richard Tucker and try to get his recordings. Beautiful voice!
@@Braglemaster123 Pavarotti appreciated and complimented many great tenors including Tucker, Lanza, Corelli, and Bjorling, but Pav's favorite tenor was Di Stefano
It's something very, very special. My wife who up to now had no appreciation of opera agreed to listen to this. She sat spellbound from start to finish and finally blurted out "unbelievable."
At 2:05 the conductor didn't anticipate a longer than usual held phrase. Some woodwinds snuck in before their cue. A tenor like Richard Tucker needs a sympathetic conductor- one who can anticipate the wonderful dramatic liberties Tucker takes.
@@michael69040 Yes, of course of course they did.I always use the word "liberties with the music", referring to running ahead of tempos, declamations, holding on to high notes, or not paying attention to 1/4 notes, Exam: like in the Pira as written or the laugh in Scerzo aria.
@@sugarbist Right and he took very few compared to many others but this was TV and a solo number, not a complete formal opera. Tucker was truer to the music then many tenors where.
Lo oí cantar varias veces en el Colón. Lo recuerdo en Un ballo in maschera, por ejemplo. El público lo aplaudió cinco, diez minutos. A él y a Cornel Mc Neill. Disculpas a todos, pero en el escenario jamás vi a un tenor como Tucker. Hacía temblar los decorados.
We are indebted to Shicoff 1 for sharing all his wonderful knowledge and experiences here on you tube with us. Thank you! Tucker to me is the greatest spinto I have ever heard on recordings. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to hear him live. What an amazing tenor he was far surpassing also his cousin Jan Pierce in opera.
Scary that the brother in law Pierce discourage Tucker to get into this profession early on. But in the end, Tucker persisted. Glorious that both were the preferred voices of Toscanini!!!
@@道-p2e Peerce was Tucker's brother in law, not his cousin--- Peerce was not Blood related, Tucker married Jan Peerce's younger sister Sara in 1936, so they where brother in laws by marriage, and yet so many make that mistake and also spell Peerce the wrong way! Take care my friend.
@@道-p2e Well he is wrong, Tucker was Jan Peerce's brother in law not his cousin and they where no blood related , Tucker married Sara Pearlmuth who was Jan Peerce's younger sister.
Thank you my friend, Jan Peerce was Tucker's brother in law, Tucker married Sara Pearlmuth , Jan's younger sister in 1936. His one and only wife till Tucker died in 1975 at age 61.
This is the type of voice that is suited well for I Pagliacci.Tucker does a few histrionics and takes some liberties with the music. He is vocally in command and gives more than an impressive performance of this dramatic aria.
Yes, as he was on TV , so it's alone for the TV public, not just opera folks who pay for the opera house show, some comments like one saying no emotion shows his ignorance, Franco Zeffirelli produced the Pag. run in the 1970's in NY and said I want only Tucker in it, nobody else--- the guy in a comment saying Tucker had no emotion is wrong 100% , every critic from Kolodin on said it was amazing, and Tucker was in his late 50's and sang it complete in many performance runs from 1970 on to 1974, last just six weeks before he died at age 61--- and in Italy in 1971 during that same time period as in NYC . The problem was these guys never heard him live, some lie and say they did but did not especially not in his 40's, and he sang the aria at least then itself, even in his late 30's, he did rec. it complete at age 38 on mono LP's Answering stupidity as those talking about his looks or wig is a waste of time, hair rugs back then where not as good anyhow and the man sings not the hair.
@@shicoff1398 Happy New Year! It is a total waste of time to argue with those people with shining stupidity printed all over.. Singing is what drives people into the Houses, let's face it, not hard, but it is a hard fact. Sadly it is trending sneaky downward to:" They assign singers according to their looks...generic opera shows... people leave the house cold..." Jerry Hadley. I assume you probably already saw this long ago but in case you missed this, here is Jerry's direct talk: ruclips.net/video/lGZpHC7uxIU/видео.html
@@Igorls8 Yes, in fact they gave him the Commendatore medal in Italy, their high cultural award and when he first sang there in 1947 in Gioconda (with Callas) most of the nights when he sang the big aria 'Cielo e Mar" he was asked to encore/ repeat the aria which he did, so consider in 1947 he wasn't near his prime which came in the mid 1950's, I suggest you listen to his live Met. brdcst of that Gioconda aria back in 1959, posted on you tube by German opera singer from the complete brdcst, "Richard Tucker 1959 Gioconda, Cielo E Mar" it's prime Tucker, BTW in 1962 he was the highest paid tenor in the world and in fact that year Tiime magazine said the "greatest tenor in the world" he was then age 47, so frankly yes, a Jewish Cantor from Brooklyn loved in both Italy and south America where he sang often, especially in BA at opera Colon in the 1960's and at both Scala in the late 1960's-- besides Rome, Florence, Parma and Verona, a Trovatore from 1971 is on you tub complete in Parma Italy. Yes he was our greatest Operatic tenor according to most top music critics at the time. When he died in 1975 Newsweek in the Obit. said "the greatest tenor in the U.S. and probably the world. By the way Ponselle said to Jim Drake, the writer, he was the greatest spinto tenor in his time anywhere, Maria Caniglia said in 1970 in Chicago after he sang in Lucia " the greatest tenor anywhere, we don't have even one tenor in Italy today to equal him, a beautiful voice, so saying he wasn't a great tenor and one of the best is not just made up by nobody's, these are true facts. Anyone can check on them.
As COLUMBIA records declared in their promo's, "The Greatest Italian tenor is Jewish: Richard Tucker. Saw him in person many times with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company.. He was fabulous! Dorothy Caruso said of him "No other tenor sounds so close to Enrico Caruso,"
Through Tucker one could even smell and taste Canio´s anguish and pain. Superb perfomance. Leaves listener heartbroken. The only thing missing, was face paint. That would have made the perfomance even more sad. if not grotesque.
He carries it well. So lush, so succinct. But I feel theres a lack of humanity in his rendition. Granted I am a Lanza fan boy. So do take what i say with a grain of salt.
Апплаудеро! Каков актер! Стопроцентное попадание в роль: маленький, жалкий, страшненький человечек, убитый горем, брошенный пассией, в которую вложил много труда и средств. И у него истерика) вот именно истерики немножечко не хватает всем здоровенным (и не здоровенным, но степенным) красавцам, исполняющим арию ревнивца-Канио. Надрыв подкупает в этой партии, и его всегда немало, но, судя по нижеследующему видео, всегда это немого не то) Маленькому человеку такое гибельное поражение вдвойне обидно. Рвать и метать. "Я растоптан! Радуйтесь! Апплаудеро!!!" - и с ожесточением хлопает ручками, и утвердительно кивает головой при этом, показывая, как именно нужно апплодировать. Вот никто так не делал) Как здорово играет, какое тотальное перевоплощение, какое глубокое погружение в роль, какое безумное море мельчайших подробностей мимики, жестикуляции, пластики, в конце концов, показывают нам, насколько бездонна та бездна горючего горя, в которое погружается живое существо. И это ведь даже ни разу не трогая замечательный по красоте голос, его великолепную артикуляцию, какая, наверное, может и быть-то только у родовитого итальянца (но он к ним близко не сидел)) Феномен! Апплаудеро! Да, испытайте садистское удовольствие
Sorry I don't recall where I read it, but Maria Callas was said to have thought very highly of him and wished she could have sung with Lanza (I presume after training), but she said he was too undisciplined. Lots on the internet to read about this unfortunate tenor - I am not saying opera tenor.
Your opinion of course but this is a Tucker post not Lanza who BTW Tucker admired greatly --Lanza had a great voice but was not by profession an opera singer of course, but it was an operatic tenor voice.
this is directed to gabriel heymans- jan peerce was not tuckers cousin i'm pretty sure they were brother in laws. i think richard tucker was married to jans sister. by the way i also like jan peerce. i never saw him in person but i did see tucker in person. anyway i also liked peerce.
Charles Henry Wo sind die Namen der Ingenieure, sie mit der Stimme von M. Lanza manipuliert haben ??? Du armer alter Typ, geben Sie die Namen, oder Sie als Lügner erkannt.
+ Tom Frøkjær Niemand klingt wie Mario Lanza, M.L.sang die Arie ergreifend, ohne übertriebene Gestik, ohne falsche Emotionen, seine angeborenen stimmlichen Qualitäten sind bis 2015 unerreicht ( ohne Ausnahme )
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Richard Tucker's performance is the best in my opinion. So much emotion. So much sincerity. Both of that paired with a beautiful voice and perfect facial expressions. Just amazing.
And this is just a few years before his pass, imagine what it be at his peak years!!!
This piece was played on PBS in NYC when I was ~8 yrs old. It was the 1st aria I ever saw or heard. I was stuck to the TV like glue & was crying by the time Tucker was through singing. Needless to say, it made me a lifelong lover of opera; I'm now 62.
Wow! Golden voice, imagine what his singing be at his peak days!!! This is just a few years before he quickly left us...
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I heard that when Luciano Pavarotti saw Tucker perform this in Italy he was sobbing & said, "no one sang this aria better".
@@dee_dee_place Thank you so much for this.
I love Pavarotti. He is a genuine guy, so down to earth and so not arrogant... biggest ambassador for operatic to the public. I trust the instinct of him.
RIP💔💔💔
@@道-p2e If you haven't watched Pavarotti sing the duet of "It's A Man's World" with James Brown, please do. It is stunning. At the end of the performance, they asked Mr. Brown what it was like to sing with Mr. Pavarotti, & you could see the utter awe & admiration he (Brown) had for him (Pavarotti). When a master of one genre truly appreciates the talent of a master of another genre, it is truly heartwarming & heartfelt.
@@dee_dee_place Legends...
ruclips.net/video/GaB9F3R9cIY/видео.html
I got to sing in the chorus with Richard Tucker in Pagliacci at Expo 74 in Spokane. I was in 6th grade. I knew I was in the presence of genius. Once in a lifetime.
You are one extremely lucky guy for that
I heard he had a tremendously powerful voice. Not just powerful, very resonant as well.
@@dantehernandez7839 Yes he is!
Excellent I knew him very well and saw him singing many times, he was a sincere gentleman and friend for many years, so you heard him less then a year before he died, on Jan. 8th 1975. glad you did!
@@shicoff1398 You know what I find fascinating? Tucker continued his duties as Cantor up until his death. There are recordings of Tucker's Religious pieces on Spotify. His training as a Cantor was evident in his Operatic pieces, especially Vesti la giubba. I just listened to Richard Tucker 1959 Gioconda, Cielo E Mar. You can hear his Cantorial background in this performance as well. I think that is the main factor that made him stand out amongst his peers. Cantorial singing is definitely filled with emotion that comes deep from the soul.
Further proof of how Richard Tucker is so underrated.
Underrated? He has a park named after him, near Lincoln Center.
@Bruno56 😂 yeah right. This guy is mediocre at best. Absolutely no comparison to Pavarotti.
@@mattbudesa3038 tucker had a less beautiful voice (and nasal at times) but he was a real spinto, pavarotti only pretended to be.
@@darklord220 Pavarotti pretended to be? He's known as one of the if not the best tenor of all time. Tucker isn't even in the same league.
@@darklord220 Tucker had a fine quality of voice and was not nasal, singing close to 840 performances at the Met to mostly good reviews with only 2 cancellations. He retained his youthful sounding voice up to his death in 1975. None of the critics ever described Tucker as being nasal. I never saw Tucker live, but I'm told that he, like MDM were better in live performances than on recordings. He also had a successful stint at La Scala in 1969 to more than favorable reviews to an audience that preferred Italian tenors. Tucker shared the operatic stage and verismo roles at the Met for over 30 years with Corelli and Del Monaco. Yes, Pavarotti was a lyric tenor. Beauty of voice is subjective.
That was fabulous. What really makes this performance is his acting and color that he inserts into the lyrics. Truly masterful.
The best performance ever. The most underrated Tenor of the 20th Century.
In the 20th century, good performers were many. And it's good.
Good to know he did get mainstream acclaim. I assume there was petty rivalry between the dramatic tenors of his time but somehow I see Tucker just getting out there and selling the song- comparisons with others be damned.
Giacomini and Bonisolli were so underrated too
@@michael69040 he was a spinto tenor not dramatic
@@abcdefgh-db1to don't know the term spinto (I was a piano performance major at USC which meant I had to sing in the opera chorus) . I used the term dramatic in the plebeian manner-
Richard Tucker, who in my opinion is the best tenor that the USA ever produced.
Yes, the majority of the professional critics agreed with that also and when he died in 1975 Newsweek magazine said in the Obit. "The greatest Tenor in the USA and probably the world" Don't forget he is 56 years old here, I saw him at least 20 times over many long years in the opera house and in many great concerts, he died in Jan. 1975, just five years after singing here on this TV show.-- Richard Tucker August 1913- January, 1975. RIP.
Thank you for sharing your comments. I have always liked Richard Tucker's voice and with that I had been as lucky as you to see him so often.
Richard Tucker's version of Vesti la giubba is indeed my favorite of all time.
Tucker shared the limelight with Del Monaco and Corelli at the Met, but never took a back seat to either tenor, as they all thrived in the 50S 60s and 70S. I would love to have a time machine and go back to see their performances. Tucker was a GREAT Tenor.
stunning that Mr. Tucker gave this performance even at almost 1970's. Speaks volumes.
And Mario is the other giant that I love to be on this role together with Tucker!
Twelve years ago, when my dad died, I was looking for a cure for my soul, and opera grew at my heart. .........
Grand tenor, even at 12.1969, still delivers the finest. I enjoy MDM and Richard Tucker on this aria so so much! LOVE and deepest respect... Bravo!
Yes and the new Lyric tenor in Lyric roles, Benjamin Bernheim on you tube ,made his USA debut in Chicago in 2018. Born in France he is a lyric tenor in his 30's now.
What a fantastic sound AND superb acting!
🎼💓👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💓🎼 FANTASTIC !!!🚀🚀🚀
Richard -Tukcker . Mi innamorai di lui quando mio fratello di ritorno dalla Base Aerea Statunitense dove lavorava come radiotelegrafista , portò a casa diversi cofanetti di LP acquistati al PX per i militari . Ho ancora quest'opera e la custodisco gelosamente . Ogni volta che l'ascolto mi corre un brivido lungo la schiena . Richard , un INSUPERATO '' Canio '' , il protagonista centrale di questa straordinaria opera , voce , potenza , drammaticita', mimica facciale fanno di questo grande tenore il miglior '' Canio'' de i Pagliacci mai ascoltato !!!
Insuperable Maestro Tucker !!!!!
Interpretazione magistrale....da brividi
I've heard many tenors do this aria-This is without question may favorite
dumbass...miracle ear still on sale.
Dumb ass? Nice!
Difference of opinion results in vulgar response-WEAK!
Mine too
kurt doelle
This performer is great. But Alexey Steblyanko - the best of the best!
Rock solid and full of spirit. There aren't voices like this anymore.
Right before he died he performed in Italy. Pavarotti heard him and cried. Need to say anything else?
he sang many times in Italy, and in fact just 2 weeks before he died he sang at the opera house in Barcelona Spain .
Richard Tucker and Mario Del Monaco along with Mario Lanza, are my favorite tenors to listen to throughout the week. On this particular Aria, Tucker and MDM OWN THIS and deliver this with astonishing depth and emotion supported by superb technique. Robust, riveting and emotionally unnerving because both men thanks to their acting, put you right there into the inner turmoil this sad figure is enduring. It saddens you, moves you to compassion and STAYS with you. Their facial expressions along with their other worldly voices tells a very poignant story.
Mr. Tucker, the Iron Man of the Opera, does not let us down here. Bravo 👏 👏 👏 ❤
Agree with you 100% and I also saw them both in the opera house.
This song should've been included in Joker (2019).
LGranthamsHeir EXACTLY what I thought when the movie was over... Such a missed opportunity
They obviously took a scene with make up from the opera
Joker 2 might be coming!
Imagine a Joker from all of those guys singing this amist the destruction
@@johnkrammer3673 You haven't seen "The Untouchables" haven't you? The contrast b/w the opera singer sang the song in the presence of Al Capone, while at the same time his men were assassinating the Chief Detective (played by Sean Connery) was one of the most dramatic scene of the movie.
i cryied watching this...
This was actually from an appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1969.
Thank you for this comment. I probably saw this performance on Ed Sullivan when I was about 13. Thank you.
I thought this was on NYC PBS??? It was actually on Ed Sullivan? Regardless, it was the 1st aria I heard & made me a lifelong opera lover. Thanks
@@dee_dee_place Yes, it was Ed Sullivan.
Love that little clap he does at 1:31.
BRAVO! RICHARD TUCKER!
Where I think Tucker nails this one is in how he captures the irony of a clown bemoaning the sad fact that he is indeed just a clown. And, despite this seemingly cathartic admission, he still comes off as a clown masquerading as a clown...if that makes any sense. This is fabulous work.
Tucker is extraordinary, the power and beauty of his voice is on a par with any tenor in the role.
Agreed.
I think he's better than CARUSO in this aria!
Wow! Just discovered this guy. Now one of my new favourite tenors.
Likewise to both
To my shame I had never heard of him. A beautiful emotional voice singing my favourite aria. I will learn about Mr Richard Tucker and try to get his recordings. Beautiful voice!
Pavarotti's Idol !!!!!!
+Richard B. Davis Pavarotti had a great voice but like actor...
@@Braglemaster123 Pavarotti appreciated and complimented many great tenors including Tucker, Lanza, Corelli, and Bjorling, but Pav's favorite tenor was Di Stefano
@@sugarbist Yes, you are 100% right! let them read his own book! I love how many get on here and say so and so is better! then listen to them.
Ive watched many of the greats, and by odins beard this chap puts so much of his soul into his singing, you can feel his pain
This is ART!
I mainly listen to pavoratti but when I heard this mans voice I literally was taken back. Amazing
Pavoratti's Idol
@@Braglemaster123 Pavarotti's good friend, not idol.
I still believe this the best version I have ever seen of this aria. Thank goodness Mr. Tucker understood Canio's pain! Bravo!!!
Exactly !!!! Perfect description.
It's something very, very special. My wife who up to now had no appreciation of opera agreed to listen to this. She sat spellbound from start to finish and finally blurted out "unbelievable."
I think you should see Plácido Domingo's version. Maybe you change your opinion...
@@ElJovenPorfirioDiaz Domingo is crap compared to Tucker, the only ones who can compete in this aria are Mario Del Monaco and Caruso
@@abcdefgh-db1to MDM, Tucker and EC all best as Canio.
სიგიჟემდის მიყვარს ეს უდიდესი ტენორი .მიყვარს მისი შეუდარებელი შესრულება❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
მეც ასევე❤
IL grande tenore. Richard Tucker!
What a brilliant interpretation! How it was meant to be performed.
Proud and exquisite! Ave master
The acting is over the top and he takes some liberties with the tempo but who cares. This is the perfect voice for I Pagliacci.
One of my new favorite tenors
უდიდესი ტენორი!ოხ როგორ მიყვარს !❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fascinating tenor ! I like it a lot. Thank you for posting.
At 2:05 the conductor didn't anticipate a longer than usual held phrase. Some woodwinds snuck in before their cue. A tenor like Richard Tucker needs a sympathetic conductor- one who can anticipate the wonderful dramatic liberties Tucker takes.
Every great tenor has taken liberties with the music
@@sugarbist Of course and that is why conductors should be prepared to anticipate on the spot liberties.
@@sugarbist And ALL of the not so great ones too! Liberties is the wrong word of course.
@@michael69040 Yes, of course of course they did.I always use the word "liberties with the music", referring to running ahead of tempos, declamations, holding on to high notes, or not paying attention to 1/4 notes, Exam: like in the Pira as written or the laugh in Scerzo aria.
@@sugarbist Right and he took very few compared to many others but this was TV and a solo number, not a complete formal opera. Tucker was truer to the music then many tenors where.
Lo oí cantar varias veces en el Colón. Lo recuerdo en Un ballo in maschera, por ejemplo. El público lo aplaudió cinco, diez minutos. A él y a Cornel Mc Neill. Disculpas a todos, pero en el escenario jamás vi a un tenor como Tucker. Hacía temblar los decorados.
Yes, he sang in BA many times at opera Colon, they loved him down there!
absolutely incredible
WOW, what a voice!
Now THIS is Pagliacci!!!! What others on RUclips - they do NOT COMPARE.
Great performance...deeply moving!
We are indebted to Shicoff 1 for sharing all his wonderful knowledge and experiences here on you tube with us. Thank you! Tucker to me is the greatest spinto I have ever heard on recordings. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to hear him live. What an amazing tenor he was far surpassing also his cousin Jan Pierce in opera.
Scary that the brother in law Pierce discourage Tucker to get into this profession early on. But in the end, Tucker persisted. Glorious that both were the preferred voices of Toscanini!!!
@@道-p2e Peerce was Tucker's brother in law, not his cousin--- Peerce was not Blood related, Tucker married Jan Peerce's younger sister Sara in 1936, so they where brother in laws by marriage, and yet so many make that mistake and also spell Peerce the wrong way! Take care my friend.
thank you, by the way " Peerce" is spelled this way --Jan was his brother in law not a cousin, not blood related but I do agree with you, thank you.
@@道-p2e Well he is wrong, Tucker was Jan Peerce's brother in law not his cousin and they where no blood related , Tucker married Sara Pearlmuth who was Jan Peerce's younger sister.
Thank you my friend, Jan Peerce was Tucker's brother in law, Tucker married Sara Pearlmuth , Jan's younger sister in 1936. His one and only wife till Tucker died in 1975 at age 61.
Insuperable maestro Tucker !!!!
Yes
Fascinating!!!
Es la mejor interpretación de la historia
O M G... no words are sufficient to describe his heartbreaking performance
My eyes tear up
This is incredible!! thanks for the upload
You don't go to Richard Tucker for an understated performance; he swings for the fences.
I love that. Bravo!
1:50 wow !!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Absolutely superb, a huge bravo!!!!! The orchestra are superb also, especially, on that great pivotal moment (that we all know)
This is the type of voice that is suited well for I Pagliacci.Tucker does a few histrionics and takes some liberties with the music. He is vocally in command and gives more than an impressive performance of this dramatic aria.
Yes, as he was on TV , so it's alone for the TV public, not just opera folks who pay for the opera house show, some comments like one saying no emotion shows his ignorance, Franco Zeffirelli produced the Pag. run in the 1970's in NY and said I want only Tucker in it, nobody else--- the guy in a comment saying Tucker had no emotion is wrong 100% , every critic from Kolodin on said it was amazing, and Tucker was in his late 50's and sang it complete in many performance runs from 1970 on to 1974, last just six weeks before he died at age 61--- and in Italy in 1971 during that same time period as in NYC . The problem was these guys never heard him live, some lie and say they did but did not especially not in his 40's, and he sang the aria at least then itself, even in his late 30's, he did rec. it complete at age 38 on mono LP's Answering stupidity as those talking about his looks or wig
is a waste of time, hair rugs back then where not as good anyhow and the man sings not the hair.
@@shicoff1398
Happy New Year!
It is a total waste of time to argue with those people with shining stupidity printed all over.. Singing is what drives people into the Houses, let's face it, not hard, but it is a hard fact.
Sadly it is trending sneaky downward to:" They assign singers according to their looks...generic opera shows... people leave the house cold..." Jerry Hadley.
I assume you probably already saw this long ago but in case you missed this, here is Jerry's direct talk:
ruclips.net/video/lGZpHC7uxIU/видео.html
Thank you!
I know someone is good when my heart starts beating faster. It was racing here. Phew!
This is the best performance I have ever seen. To know the lyrics adds another level of beauty to this already amazing son
Yes, without a doubt. Tucker's voice is perfect for this, not only did he have the power but the emotion for this. Beautiful!
+SHICOFF1 Amazing !!!!!
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Splendid.
Wonderful
Bravissimo 🎉
Bravo
The Best !
Extraordinario!
Briljant actor, AND singer
Grande grande grande....
Qué decir? Extraordinario!
Bravo 🙌
Nonostante i tempi dilatati DA BRIVIDO. UN GIGANTE!!
That crack in "ridi del duol" is the most necessary crack ever... It's so painfull...!
SHICOFF1 no
Wot?
Grande !
The Best Ever !!!!!!!
Che emozione
BRAVO👏 👏 👏 BRAVİSSİMO !!!
Honestly, I was thinking "WTH?! Thats the largest voice I've heard ever! I thought I've heard the best of the best before..."
In house his voice always sounded larger then on his records, especially the top and he was favored in Italy, as the Italians really liked him a lot.
@@shicoff1398 that’s speaks a lot about the talent of an American Jew, considering the time, when he sang
@@Igorls8 Yes, in fact they gave him the Commendatore medal in Italy, their high cultural award and when he first sang there in 1947 in Gioconda (with Callas) most of the nights when he sang the big aria 'Cielo e Mar" he was asked to encore/ repeat the aria which he did, so consider in 1947 he wasn't near his prime which came in the mid 1950's, I suggest you listen to his live Met. brdcst of that Gioconda aria back in 1959, posted on you tube by German opera singer from the complete brdcst, "Richard Tucker 1959 Gioconda, Cielo E Mar" it's prime Tucker, BTW in 1962 he was the highest paid tenor in the world and in fact that year Tiime magazine said the "greatest tenor in the world" he was then age 47, so frankly yes, a Jewish Cantor from Brooklyn loved in both Italy and south America where he sang often, especially in BA at opera Colon in the 1960's and at both Scala in the late 1960's-- besides Rome, Florence, Parma and Verona, a Trovatore from 1971 is on you tub complete in Parma Italy. Yes he was our greatest Operatic tenor according to most top music critics at the time. When he died in 1975 Newsweek in the Obit. said "the greatest tenor in the U.S. and probably the world. By the way Ponselle said to Jim Drake, the writer, he was the greatest spinto tenor in his time anywhere, Maria Caniglia said in 1970 in Chicago after he sang in Lucia " the greatest tenor anywhere, we don't have even one tenor in Italy today to equal him, a beautiful voice, so saying he wasn't a great tenor and one of the best is not just made up by nobody's, these are true facts. Anyone can check on them.
@@Igorls8 Some of the comments here are negative but not about his singing at all or that great voice but about other not important things .
这是最有激情，最有力量的版本。理查塔克 伟大的男高音
Völlig unterbewertet.
Einer der besten und wichtigsten Tenöre des 20sten Jahrhunderts.
grande performance....
As COLUMBIA records declared in their promo's, "The Greatest Italian tenor is Jewish: Richard Tucker. Saw him in person many times with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company.. He was fabulous! Dorothy Caruso said of him "No other tenor sounds so close to Enrico Caruso,"
The Greatest
@@Braglemaster123 sensational tenor!
Through Tucker one could even smell and taste Canio´s anguish and pain. Superb perfomance. Leaves listener heartbroken.
The only thing missing, was face paint. That would have made the perfomance even more sad. if not grotesque.
He carries it well. So lush, so succinct. But I feel theres a lack of humanity in his rendition. Granted I am a Lanza fan boy. So do take what i say with a grain of salt.
BRAVISSIMO MAESTRO
🙏
Amazing
Tucker was the best .
The best
👏 bravo
THE BEST VESTILA I EVER HAVE HEARDi
Greatness.
Апплаудеро!
Каков актер! Стопроцентное попадание в роль: маленький, жалкий, страшненький человечек, убитый горем, брошенный пассией, в которую вложил много труда и средств.
И у него истерика)
вот именно истерики немножечко не хватает всем здоровенным (и не здоровенным, но степенным) красавцам, исполняющим арию ревнивца-Канио. Надрыв подкупает в этой партии, и его всегда немало, но, судя по нижеследующему видео, всегда это немого не то) Маленькому человеку такое гибельное поражение вдвойне обидно. Рвать и метать. "Я растоптан! Радуйтесь! Апплаудеро!!!" - и с ожесточением хлопает ручками, и утвердительно кивает головой при этом, показывая, как именно нужно апплодировать. Вот никто так не делал)
Как здорово играет, какое тотальное перевоплощение, какое глубокое погружение в роль, какое безумное море мельчайших подробностей мимики, жестикуляции, пластики, в конце концов, показывают нам, насколько бездонна та бездна горючего горя, в которое погружается живое существо. И это ведь даже ни разу не трогая замечательный по красоте голос, его великолепную артикуляцию, какая, наверное, может и быть-то только у родовитого итальянца (но он к ним близко не сидел)) Феномен! Апплаудеро! Да, испытайте садистское удовольствие
Bravoooooo!!!!
sorry Caruso Lanza Pavoratta this is the best version
if you count staged opera, which lanza rarely sang, he is the greatest american operatic tenor ever.
Sorry I don't recall where I read it, but Maria Callas was said to have thought very highly of him and wished she could have sung with Lanza (I presume after training), but she said he was too undisciplined. Lots on the internet to read about this unfortunate tenor - I am not saying opera tenor.
Your opinion of course but this is a Tucker post not Lanza who BTW Tucker admired greatly --Lanza had a great voice but was not by profession an opera singer of course, but it was an operatic tenor voice.
Che maschera ragazzi!!
One of the more amazing parts is he is doing this performance in New Balance kicks.
good job
this is directed to gabriel heymans- jan peerce was not tuckers cousin i'm pretty sure they were brother in laws. i think richard tucker was married to jans sister. by the way i also like jan peerce. i never saw him in person but i did see tucker in person. anyway i also liked peerce.
@@josephespratt Peerce and Merrill have no connection at all.
his Jewish parents come to USA from Bessarabia
Correct, he was born here of Jewish parents from there, then it was Romania.
Very nice performance, indeed. But doesn't he sound much like Lanza in this aria?
Tom Frøkjær No, he does not! He sounds like a real opera singer, not some over hyped, technically enhanced movie star, like lanza.
Charles Henry
Wo sind die Namen der Ingenieure, sie mit der Stimme von M. Lanza manipuliert haben ??? Du armer alter Typ, geben Sie die Namen, oder Sie als Lügner erkannt.
No, Tucker was better the Lanza !!!!!!
Richard B. Davis
You're a great expert on voices. But even better for dogs, but their clips are boring.
+ Tom Frøkjær
Niemand klingt wie Mario Lanza, M.L.sang die Arie ergreifend, ohne übertriebene Gestik, ohne falsche Emotionen, seine angeborenen stimmlichen Qualitäten sind bis 2015 unerreicht ( ohne Ausnahme )