Luciano Pavarotti Discusses His Influences

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  • Опубликовано: 12 апр 2011
  • 1992 documentary about Luciano Pavarotti. Here, in his home town of Modena, he discusses some of the Italian tenors who influenced him: Tito Schipa, Beniamino Gigli and Giuseppe Di Stefano.
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  • @Celon.
    @Celon. 7 лет назад +30

    7:45 Always gets me , the look in Luciano's eyes gives me chills.

  • @johnblasiak607
    @johnblasiak607 5 лет назад +32

    I love Pavarotti an artist knows an artist

  • @williammorris584
    @williammorris584 3 года назад +14

    I’m so glad this starts with Schipa, he is all but forgotten, but was magnificent.
    “It’s Gigli...”
    De Stefano gives me chills here. I appreciate him more and more. The “open” sound is thrilling. I am too big a scaredy cat not to cover my passagio.

    • @aliciarobertson4979
      @aliciarobertson4979 3 года назад

      *Di Stefano
      Sorry but it’s my family’s name too! He was my late husband’s cousin.

  • @francoisbessing
    @francoisbessing 7 лет назад +42

    The critic is nice but Di Stefano gave me chills and will be remembered for such a gorgeous voice. And not many can say that they inspired the great Luciano Pavarotti.

    • @imcavdb5465
      @imcavdb5465 4 года назад +6

      Maybe not, but very many can say they were inspired by Luciano Pavarotti....

    • @Baystreetboy1947
      @Baystreetboy1947 3 года назад +8

      Do Stefano was “It” for me and still is. It is sad beyond words how he met his end!

    • @alfredotrovato9725
      @alfredotrovato9725 2 года назад +2

      Concordo con Lei, il diminuendo nelle note alte del Di Stefano era musicalmente magico

    • @leonardoiglesias2394
      @leonardoiglesias2394 Год назад

      But the best was Jussi Björling. They are all amateurs in comparison.

  • @AUGUSTALLEN28
    @AUGUSTALLEN28 4 года назад +27

    That Stefano performance gave me chills. What a powerhouse.

    • @aliciarobertson4979
      @aliciarobertson4979 3 года назад

      * Di Stefano is the surname. Stefano alone is a first name.

    • @Domani02
      @Domani02 10 месяцев назад

      Di Stefano on reconnaît le passé du boxeur. Il avait toujours la capacité de nous saisir de manière si spéciale

  • @ronnieince4568
    @ronnieince4568 4 года назад +18

    He was right about Schipa-a single note produced instant recognition and his voice projection was matchless -not a big voice but you could hear him clearly even at the back of the largest opera house -simply Schipa .

  • @LloydRMaes
    @LloydRMaes 9 месяцев назад +3

    Gigli said we all bow down to Schipa's greatness!!

  • @sugarbist
    @sugarbist 5 лет назад +8

    Schipa's style is mesmerizing. Gigli sings an impeccable Cielo E Mar

  • @ER1CwC
    @ER1CwC Год назад +3

    Schipa’s diction is unbelievably clear.

  • @anya728
    @anya728 13 лет назад +19

    @Lejfieg Agreed. Leone Magiera may not think much of Stefano's technique, but most opera aficionados would disagree with him. It was Stefano's masterful use of open notes which gave his performances a unique and effective quality that set him apart from his contemporaries.

    • @numetutelare
      @numetutelare 3 года назад

      Magiera è un dsirettore/ accomagnatore che crede di essere anche un insegnante di lirica... anche se sposò la Freni questo non significa che sia in grado di valutare le voci nel loro reale valore... la tecnica, certo... Di Stefano non era perfetto ma proprio quella imperfezione dava libertà ad un timbro benedetto dal cielo di non costringersi nei limiti rigidi della tecnica. Le voce solari mal sopportano la tecnica estrema. Alcuni tenori dalla voce buona o accettabile, sono diventati grazie alla tecnica, nasali, striduli e poco espressivi...

  • @caninbar
    @caninbar 3 года назад +6

    Schipa had a very unique sound, besides being a great singer. The colour and timbre of one's voice make the real difference, because one remembers the individual sound more readily.

  • @imcavdb5465
    @imcavdb5465 4 года назад +2

    Luciano still was a young man back than. 🌸♥️🌸

  • @rosaprice
    @rosaprice 9 лет назад +26

    I recall Pavarotti in a documentary telling of the only time his father had hit him. Pavarotti told his father that he had heard a better voice than Gigli..his fathers favourite. His father responded by slapping him in the face! Distefano recording of " songs of naples" is still one of my favourite recordings of any tenor.

    • @joeyspinoza4636
      @joeyspinoza4636 9 лет назад +8

      rosa price
      I side with Fernando Pavarotti, I think Gigli was the most beautiful voice of all the tenor voices.

    • @rosaprice
      @rosaprice 9 лет назад +9

      joey spinoza Maybe Pavarotti, who unlike his father, had a career as a tenor, was thinking about technique? Personally, I think any tenor singing on any stage has merit. At Pavarotti, Gigli, DiStefano, Domingo, Carrere's level, it is a matter of personal choice as they all have magnificent voices!

    • @joeyspinoza4636
      @joeyspinoza4636 9 лет назад +10

      rosa price
      Gigli had the greatest technique and this was agreed upon by Herbert Caesari, one of the greatest minds in singing technique. Gigli was a perfectly natural singer, and I think Pavarotti would agree with this, even though, its not his favorite pick. Some found Gigli a little to emotional with sobs etc. So musical taste would be more the issue. Recall, Pavarotti said Gigli could sing 20 to 30 pieces on demand after a full Opera. This was peanuts for Gigli. He had diabetes and he sang with health issues that would have stopped any other person from singing at that level. The amount of Opera's Gigli could sing in a week is unbelievable, and he could do a double bill without a problem. This is why Pavarotti said "he is the elastic the most vocal of all the tenors"

    • @abcdefgh-db1to
      @abcdefgh-db1to 4 года назад +1

      @@rosaprice don't put domingo and Carreras near these 3. Even then I would put di Stefano and Gigli apart from Pavarotti. Di Stefano and Gigli truly are Gods.

    • @numetutelare
      @numetutelare 3 года назад

      @@abcdefgh-db1to Esatto al massimo il timbro di Aragall era confrontabile...

  • @sugarbist
    @sugarbist 5 лет назад +11

    A beautiful "E Lucevan Le Stelle by Di Stefano" who obtained instant fame when he first came on the operatic scene

  • @EndoftheTownProductions
    @EndoftheTownProductions 6 лет назад +5

    From 8:12 to 8:30...WOW...what a voice. Pippo lives!

    • @carolpaynter8181
      @carolpaynter8181 4 года назад +1

      Franco Corelli (apparently) had more stage fright than most singers before a performance. But when he was on stage his intensity and focus served him well

    • @gabi8197
      @gabi8197 3 года назад +3

      Luciano Pavarotti have a one Million Dollars Smile 🎵🎶🎼❤️

  • @pupulique
    @pupulique 10 лет назад +27

    Probably the critic said much more about Di Stefano but it didn't go to the film. He still said about his interpreting gift, it's quite enough. But i think it's not correct to call his technique as bad because he was genius and the people are still crazy about his "wrong" voice.

    • @nthdegree1269
      @nthdegree1269 10 лет назад +8

      Early Di Stefano is so beautifully vocally. Hearing him sing that way was an incredible thing to hear.

    • @matejknezevic6989
      @matejknezevic6989 6 лет назад +3

      piano forte
      How can be wrong voice.
      Di stefano is best lyric tenor of the past.
      If his voice is wrong I dont want to see what is good

    • @johndlabella
      @johndlabella 6 лет назад +1

      I think some of the comments made IN the video are perhaps out of context, or perhaps the speakers were not speaking with enough forethought. I think de Stefano's vocaly production was exemplary early o - and he DID test limits, but that is what great art is about! - but he changed ithe production trying for more, or else let his body go to seed - or maybe a combination of both, and that was what brought him down. Now the original production. Not every voice does the exact same things technically, despite what that voice teacher or expert in the video seems to imply. But I'm only hearing a few snippets of his, and don't know what was cut out of the interview.

  • @kevinclarke7353
    @kevinclarke7353 5 лет назад +1

    merci!

  • @johnblasiak607
    @johnblasiak607 5 лет назад +4

    Schipa was a God Gigli said I tip my hat to him
    He was a technician a genius he had less with such he did more
    Some pieces like this Unbeaten

  • @MomentumShadow
    @MomentumShadow 12 лет назад +33

    When Pavarotti gets chills, your argument is invalid.

  • @albertodiaz2865
    @albertodiaz2865 4 года назад +2

    I love opera beatifull the best the wold caruso

  • @theghost379
    @theghost379 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ok so Pavarotti is all of them together combined in perfection. Thats the end of the discussion. 😉

  • @annecytanovich4340
    @annecytanovich4340 4 года назад +1

    they were wonderful ones

  • @brendant19
    @brendant19 13 лет назад

    @Lejfieg You make a good point, but there is no denying that his voice was pretty shot later in life and it didn't have to be. That being said, he sang beautifully for the few years he was able to.

  • @Lejfieg
    @Lejfieg 13 лет назад +41

    Pavarotti's eyes when he hears E Lucevan Le Stelle by Di Sefano, they say a thousand words. Theres no doubt he respected Di Stefano. If you hear the critic about Di Stefano's technique, he says the reason his technique is "bad" is because it tires the voice. nothing about how well it sounded.

    • @Darksaga28
      @Darksaga28 5 лет назад +8

      That's what happens when you don't cover the voice at the passagio, and moreover, at the high notes. The larynx gets tired, the vocal chords get damaged, nice way to ruin your voice. Some people like Di Stefano make a good sound singing too open, but generally that is not the case, covering makes your voice richer, and like Pavarotti used to say, noble sound.

    • @Celon.
      @Celon. 4 года назад +2

      Those eyes tell such a heavy story . No words are needed .

  • @meirwise1107
    @meirwise1107 4 года назад +3

    I understand why Papa Pavarotti favored Gigli. He had a similar voice and technique as did his son! I preferred Caruso and Sirota.

  • @aidacabrera572
    @aidacabrera572 2 года назад +2

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @mogomarkas3187
    @mogomarkas3187 5 лет назад +2

    And as we can see Schipa also knew how to read music!

  • @Lejfieg
    @Lejfieg 12 лет назад +13

    @brendant19 Yes, he mistreated his voice. very true. Its always the reckless geniuses which shake the paradigm though. lol

  • @Celon.
    @Celon. 4 года назад +5

    Does anyone know the exact version of Di Stefano's E Lucevan Le Stelle or post a link. Ty

    • @abcdefgh-db1to
      @abcdefgh-db1to 4 года назад +1

      Try the 1952 live performance of this aria, the best in my opinion

    • @Sarah-jv9sx
      @Sarah-jv9sx 2 месяца назад

      Complete Decca Recordings...disc 3

  • @cantante534
    @cantante534 7 лет назад +9

    The teacher and most important positive influence on the singers of that period was Prof. Enrico Rosati, originally of Santa Cecillia, (before Gigli brought him to NY when he was engaged by Gatti Gassaza at the Met ! )
    Rosati was a hard taskmaster and absolute dictator, but his pupils adored him and those who stuck it out lost their bad habits and idiosyncracies and universally became fine interpretative "artists" with vocal ranges they never had before, without "forcing" ;
    employing "il terzo registro" which employs the natural "echo chamber" of the skull's frontal sinus !
    There has yet to be a teacher of his calibre and commitment to the art of "Bel Canto" !
    He taught in his studio at the Osborne House on 57th St. across from Carnegie Hall, well into his eighties and his pupil roster, who loved and respected him, was the creme de la creme of the operatic WORLD !
    Marina Thompson

  • @nathelondon3719
    @nathelondon3719 2 года назад +4

    Schipa, Gigli, De Stefano and Lanza were great, but Pavarotti surpassed them. Perhaps the only one who he didn’t was Caruso himself.

    • @aurelbarre95
      @aurelbarre95 2 года назад +2

      I strongly disagree, Pav is great but he never surpassed the greatest like Corelli Gigli Bjorling, he's mostly got a huge propaganda for him because he was arguably the greatest of his time, but if he was born earlier he would ve been one among many great tenors.

    • @Monnarchmonnarchy
      @Monnarchmonnarchy Год назад

      In what they are greatest!?? coreli, gigli, bjorling - they are baries, how they can be matched with tenor!?

    • @johnholmes912
      @johnholmes912 7 месяцев назад

      I was a great fan of Pav, but he was never in Gigli or Schipa's class

    • @nathelondon3719
      @nathelondon3719 7 месяцев назад

      @@johnholmes912 correct. He was in a class above them.

  • @Kursun_Asker
    @Kursun_Asker Год назад +2

    8:19 8:48

  • @DR-tx9mr
    @DR-tx9mr 6 лет назад +2

    Where can I see the rest of this documentary?

    • @brunoantony3218
      @brunoantony3218 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/NW4LgmxJfY8/видео.html

  • @paulgalbraith2862
    @paulgalbraith2862 5 лет назад +15

    I'm amazed in this and other discusssions the name BJORLING never comes up

    • @imcavdb5465
      @imcavdb5465 4 года назад

      Who is that?

    • @perhegg
      @perhegg 4 года назад

      Remember it was a different time with no internet and spotify. They of course listened to more local singers and Di Stefano, Schipa, Gigle were the great italian singers at that time for him to listen to. Björling was huge in Sweden and became huge in USA when he moved there.

    • @peejii8833
      @peejii8833 4 года назад

      Imca vdB 😂

    • @Musettina6
      @Musettina6 4 года назад +6

      Luciano admired Björling greatly, he has said in in several interviews. I think here he was only referring to the Italians that had influenced him.

    • @tehboz2912
      @tehboz2912 4 года назад +1

      believe thats because this is an extract from "Pavarotti and the italian tenor" so sweedish singers wouldnt be mentioned..

  • @johnblasiak607
    @johnblasiak607 5 лет назад +2

    No tenor would have the talent to change the voice like that in fact I know nobody

  • @7errafirma
    @7errafirma 3 года назад +2

    Does anyone know which recording of 'E lucevan estelle' by Di Stefano is? at 7:25, it says 1959, but I can't find the exact one.

    • @na-ey5ud
      @na-ey5ud 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/YMnKTzyqBEM/видео.html

    • @Sarah-jv9sx
      @Sarah-jv9sx 2 месяца назад +1

      You can find it on the complete Decca Recordings.

  • @robr3621
    @robr3621 5 месяцев назад

    di stefano, the greatest ever, as told by pavoratti himself.

  • @michaelhouston8336
    @michaelhouston8336 3 года назад +2

    What aria was beniamino singing?

  • @stich181991
    @stich181991 5 лет назад +1

    509 people know what good music is

  • @Kursun_Asker
    @Kursun_Asker Год назад

    Her zaman enrico caruso ve guiseppe hayranıydı..

  • @bernardlowe7191
    @bernardlowe7191 2 года назад +2

    Pavarotti is supposed to have said that Fritz Wunderlich was the most outstanding tenor in history.

  • @shyfruits
    @shyfruits 8 лет назад

    big spudsss

  • @kingpuppo5880
    @kingpuppo5880 9 месяцев назад +1

    Di Stefano....

  • @Luifernal6
    @Luifernal6 8 лет назад +1

    he was influence also for Alfredo Kraus, Sadel...

  • @mirai6464
    @mirai6464 4 года назад +2

    damn gigli sounds like Enrico Caruso

    • @abcdefgh-db1to
      @abcdefgh-db1to 4 года назад +2

      Basically lyric version of Caruso !

    • @abcdefgh-db1to
      @abcdefgh-db1to 3 года назад

      @@donjose8250 Caruso was definitely a spinto tenor, the colour, weight of his voice is like that of Masini, Corelli or Tucker

  • @marilynmichaels8358
    @marilynmichaels8358 Месяц назад

    DE STEPHANO IS SENSATIONAL!!... F..... THIS GUY

  • @annecytanovich4340
    @annecytanovich4340 5 лет назад +4

    YOUR THE BEST NO MATTER .....

  • @rogerengblom5061
    @rogerengblom5061 9 месяцев назад

    Everybody who understand opera hear where his ifluenses came from and thats clear from Jussi Bjorling and noone else but of cource he is not aloud to talk about that he need to follow the rules of the maffia.

  • @anmcdd4915
    @anmcdd4915 Год назад

    I honestly could never stand this guy. The one and only to have attempted to perform at ala Scala no less, lyp synching!!! Give it a rest.